Good News on the Coronavirus Pandemic

American Thinker.com ^ | March 29, 2021 | Thomas B. Talbot, MD

[Kaslin]

It’s been hard to objectively assess where we are in the outlook. Nowadays, many people are following their personal feelings and use any available facts to justify those feelings while ignoring anything that goes against their preferred narrative. The left does this ad nauseum. Folks on the right are sometimes guilty as well. That’s too bad, because an objective look at the public health picture shows promise for good news soon that justifies a prompt return to normal life. In the next few months, you can expect conditions to get much better and you can expect the media and leftist politicians to grasp at progressively thinner excuses to spend money and extend control over your personal liberties.

Let’s start with a bold prediction: Herd immunity (the point where diseases find it hard to spread) is imminent in the next two months! This is far earlier than expected by medical pop stars like Dr. Anthony Fauci. We assume herd immunity when 70-80% or more are immune to a disease. This immunity can be from surviving an infection, or from a vaccination. According to the CDC, the U.S. is at 26% first dose received in the U.S. for COVID-19 vaccination. When more than 35-45% first dose coverage is achieved, I (and some others) predict herd immunity will kick in and this disease will collapse.

If you are interested in the math, we’re counting the first vaccine dose because it conveys most of the immunity in the shot series. To get above 70% population immunity, you add your vaccinated (35%) to your naturally infected (25% of US population estimated) and you get to 60% so far. Add in people who are partially immune due to cross immunity from prior non-COVID coronaviruses (20%+),

[9YearLurker]

This well meaning fella seems to actually believe Covid is about Covid.

[RomanSoldier19]

[who knows what evil?]

Yada, yada, yada...

[ballplayer]

You can start by telling the truth about the origin of this virus
Anthony Fauci while at the NIH was conducting Gain Of Function Research,that which by injecting Spike Proteins into animal viruses that would not affect humans because they were unable to penetrate human cells,the spike protein then allowed those animal viruses,Bat Virus,to then penetrate human cells and spread like wild fire.
Obama told Fauci and the NIH to stop the dangerous research,if leaked would cause a pandemic,Fauci continued the research until it was cracked down on.
Fauci undeterred went to a New York firm headed by Peter Daszak and with 3.7 million in funding went to the Wuhan lab in China to do the research, it did leak and now no one wants to ask Fauci about his research, just imagine you have been listening to the bastard that has caused the entire mess

[Sicon]

Even if there are still cases of illness, COVID deaths will be so uncommon as to undermine any remaining arguments for continuing assaults on our personal liberty in the name of public health. Of course, they will still try. I’m even more confident of that prediction.

It makes no difference how uncommon deaths become (or already are), the tyrants will just make up deaths or make up another COVID. This crap will NEVER end. The Karens and fearbro fools gave away our freedom, gave the tyrants more power than they ever imagined having, and the tyrants are not letting it go. This is more true now that the leftists control pretty much everything.

[Disambiguator]

I just noticed articles popping up that mention domestic cases of Ebola. Let’s see where that goes.

[DugwayDuke]

From the article: “If you are interested in the math, we’re counting the first vaccine dose because it conveys most of the immunity in the shot series. To get above 70% population immunity, you add your vaccinated (35%) to your naturally infected (25% of US population estimated) and you get to 60% so far. Add in people who are partially immune due to cross immunity from prior non-COVID coronaviruses (20%+),...”

While I like the authors direction, one cannot simply add those categories together since there is overlap between them.

[MAAG]

Not to be over until every one has this.

[griswold3]

You ain’t seen nothing yet. They’re monitoring 40 Ebola cases here in Ohio. Perfect timing. The panic from Covid has almost wore off.