WRONG. There was no “herd immunity” to Spanish Flu.
It faded away due to mitigation, without even a vaccine.
Did we go for “herd immunity” to smallpox? Polio?
Why not? THINK!
“It faded away due to mitigation, without even a vaccine.”
Mitigation does not cause pandemics to fade away. It delays the spread to a level at which the health care system can cope. It faded away due to herd immunity, just as the Black Death of the 1300s did. The Spanish Flu was not effectively mitigated. The health care systems were swamped in the middle of a war and the demobbing of huge armies at the end of it.
It was estimated that between 17,000,000 and 50,000,000 died of the Spanish Flu out of an estimated 500,000,000 cases world wide. There were efforts at mitigation, but claiming that it “faded away” because of them is popycock, like saying a hurricane ended because you turned on a fan in your living room. Ultimately, herd immunity kicked in and ended the pandemic, which has not recurred since 1920. Mitigation helped in developed countries such as the US and England, but could not even be practiced in the third-world crap holes that get touched by a global pandemic.
Did we go for “herd immunity” to smallpox? Polio?
Why not? THINK!
1. Uh...because there were vaccines that finally rid the earth of them.
2. Because Polio never was a pandemic, just a debilitating affliction that crippled its occasional victims and turned them into flaming leftards like FDR and Justice Douglas.