What have we learned that’s changed this at all?
I remember seeing that too. It wasn’t even wrong, it was sideways. The abuse of math and the sociopathy required in the thinking was breath taking. I cannot find it either.
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With a mean incubation period of 5-days, we’re just beginning to see the new cases from the lifted restrictions. By this time next week we should a very good idea how many new cases Governor Abbot encouraged.
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And by “healthy” he means “people who look like me, think like me”.
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Really? It seems consistent with the mindset to me.
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I notice that instead of doing that podcast from a Fox Studio where he might be exposed, he appears to be doing that podcast from a home office in quarantine isolation.
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“go out and get coronavirus”
You first, fucko.
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Agreed. Herd immunity is a preventative; it won’t do anything about an ongoing pandemic, it just reduces the chances that a small pocket of infection will spread. The ship has sailed on herd immunity.
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At what point do the class-action wrongful death lawsuits against Fox News start?
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I see an Indiego/Kickstarter opportunity to fund a small team of activists who spray live Coronavirus at the homes of these fuckwits. We’d quickly see just how much they really believed this “let’s all get it” nonsense.
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That doesn’t take limited capacity of healthcare system into account. If the disease will spread faster, death toll will be way higher.
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Maybe this one?
More Sex is Safer Sex
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There is no guarantee we will develop long-lasting herd immunity to this coronavirus.
I understand that the talking heads are desperate to seize upon the idea of herd immunity as a shining light at the end of a scary tunnel, but the focus on attaining herd immunity–especially when we have seen immunity lasting <2 months for other coronaviruses–is deeply misleading. We’re going to find out one way or another and it is also worth noting, in terms of optimism, that there has been documented effective immunity against SARS and MERS for >12 months. Nonetheless, that has to be tempered with sanguine realization that despite them ravaging humanity for centuries, we never developed herd immunity to measles, whooping cough, smallpox, and many other conditions.
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This guy is a patent asshole who should not be listened to, and abandoning quarantine measures – let alone deliberately sabotaging them – would kill a whole bunch of people.
BUT it would also be a mistake to pretend that maintaining blanket quarantine measures until a vaccine arrives is a responsible strategy. Not least because there is a very strong possibility that there will never be a vaccine.
Just because some people seize on an idea for evil ends doesn’t mean the idea itself is evil. In particular, if we allowed ourselves to consider different levels of isolation for different populations, then there may be routes to herd immunity without killing 1% of people or immiserating a different 30%.
IMO job one is to exclude people like this guy and Turmp from the conversation entirely. They have nothing to contribute; we shouldn’t be looking to them for guidance, even on what not to consider.
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Could be!
THIS!!!
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But that’s true of 99% of people who willingly appear on Fox News
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There’s been a lot written about what needs to happen to exit lockdowns (which in the US were spotty and inconsistent at best), and the US isn’t doing any of them. So I can understand conservatives going straight for “Let’s all get infected” because it absolves the state of any further responsibility to be competent, having failed so far.
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… and radio show.
The CDC projection for “vaccine-less” herd immunity is 70% infected population and 500,000 deaths.
My math sucks - edited for being an idiot.
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