the only herd immunity FauXi believes in is vaccine herd immunity. can’t allow people to develop it naturally before a vaccine is ready?
10 Jan 2020: Henry Ford Health System: Herd Immunity: Another Reason To Get A Flu Shot
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as many as 647,000 people were hospitalized and 61,000 died from flu complications during the 2018-2019 season. And this year’s flu season is already on track to be a severe one...
The good news: With a flu shot, people who are young, fit and healthy can help protect people in these high-risk groups from the flu through something called “herd immunity.” The more people are vaccinated, the less likely it is for the contagious disease to be transmitted to others. Ultimately, it decreases how common flu cases are among the population (aka our “herd”).
“If you give someone a vaccine, it not only helps prevent that person from getting the flu, but it also helps prevent them from giving the flu to someone else,” explains Andrea Smith, D.O., a family medicine specialist at Henry Ford Health System. “That’s herd immunity.”...
https://www.henryford.com/blog/2020/01/flu-vaccine-herd-immunity
15 Nov 2019: NBC: Flu season 2019 is here. Vaccinate to maintain herd immunity — and protect everyone
By Nicole E. Basta and Maria Sundaram
(Nicole E. Basta is an assistant professor in the division of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She is also a research associate in the NIH Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics program. Maria Sundaram is a postdoctoral fellow in vaccinology at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health)
Our best chance at keeping everyone healthy this winter season is to strengthen our community immunity — or herd immunity — by ensuring that as many people as possible are vaccinated...
Community immunity is strongest when nearly everyone is getting vaccinated...
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/flu-season-2019-here-vaccinate-maintain-herd-immunity-protect-everyone-ncna1082526
VIDEO: 2m20s: 19 Jun 2019: BBC: Vaccines and herd immunity explained
This is how vaccines work, why they’re important and what herd immunity actually means.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-48685464/vaccines-and-herd-immunity-explained
lengthy intro; Creighton begins about 4mins in. worth hearing every word he speaks:
VIDEO: 13m: 14 Jul: Sky News Australia: The ‘damage is not being told’ of political fear-mongering on coronavirus
Presenter: Alan Jones
If Australia has only dozens of people in hospital and in intensive care across the country due to coronavirus, “how the hell is this a pandemic” says Sky News host Alan Jones.
Mr Jones said there are “things government won’t tell” the Australia public on the issue of COVID-19.
“The one story we are not being told is what damage has been done and is being done by the fear-mongering of political leaders, whose first instinct is to frighten us,” he said.
“The second instinct is to exercise complete control over us, via shutdowns or lockdowns”.
He said political leaders only listen to the experts “which suit them” and not the others who warned of the implications of the social, economic and public health consequences of widespread lockdowns.
“Politicians are too arrogant to listen”.
Mr Jones spoke of the widespread economic ramifications of the government-imposed coronavirus lockdowns with the Australian’s economic editor Adam Creighton.
Mr Creighton said the “reality is this disease is far, far less dangerous than was first thought”.
“But ministers are not saying that”.
He also said elements of the media have not reported the deaths and cases “in context” which has subsequently “scared the daylights out of people”.
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6171492222001