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Showing Original Post only (View all)If "herd immunity" is the GOP plan, plan on 3 million dead by [View all]
this time next year. It's a bad plan.
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Yes it is, but it is being sold by the GOP and Fox so we should prepare.
redstatebluegirl
Apr 2020
#1
The plan is what you said, with an added gloss of other strategies to make it less obvious.
Girard442
Apr 2020
#3
Herd immunity would require at least 60% of us being infected, probably 70% or more.
dawg
Apr 2020
#4
My point was to show how bad a "best" case scenario would be, using a 0.1% death rate similar ...
dawg
Apr 2020
#17
The only thing fixed in that equation is the U.S. population the infection rate and the mortality...
Botany
Apr 2020
#21
Exactly. We just don't know. But we do know enough to be fairly certain it would be terrible.
dawg
Apr 2020
#24
It would be optimistic to believe herd immunity could be established with fewer than 196,000,000 ...
dawg
Apr 2020
#22
We're also unsure how long antibodies last. A good vaccine is the ultimate goal.
Pobeka
Apr 2020
#30
👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽THIS !!!👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽 We need a "Want A Test Get A Test" quick turn around like in China
uponit7771
Apr 2020
#32
We can keep just a few NPI measures in place, have contact tracing and wait for a vaccine.
Pobeka
Apr 2020
#29
There are 10's of millions who are out of work for years in your scenario.
Ace Rothstein
Apr 2020
#31