Who would have thought giving the virus more opportunities to mutate was a bad idea?
Another further nail in the coffin for the achieving herd immunity through widespread transmission brigade. I suppose we are long past nailing the coffin and now lowering it into the pits of the earth.
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Originally Posted by jfman
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You still don't get it.
Herd immunity is nature. It will arise when the virus has infected the vast majority of people, and once that has happened, the virus will have run its course.
These lockdowns are simply delaying our acquisition of herd immunity, and risking mutation. Not only that, but by delaying the spread of Covid 19, it is even possible that it will remain a threat as some may lose the immunity they developed from the virus in the first place.
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Play with nature like this and you play with fire.
Is that the immunity a mere few posts ago you were unconvinced by?
I think you should take the next lockdown as an opportunity to take a few weeks away from the thread and think about what valid contributions you actually want to make to it. Thus far it's just been contradiction after contradiction.
The only consistent point you've made throughout it is that you care more about reopening the economy than you do public health. Your hypothetical decision to let the virus rip throughout the world at the cost of millions of lives, tens of millions of people developing debilitating contditions - it'd have to be the world or else we'd simply re-import these hypothetical mutated strains - is to give the virus billions of opportunities to mutate. Another contradiction.
The sum total of human existence to date has been to try and fight against nature. Take your "play with fire" rhetoric elsewhere |