that maths seems a bit simplistic

surely the point of herd immunity is for younger, healthier people to be exposed. While more vulnerable people are cut off as much as possible.

In which case severe and critical symptoms rate would be much lower than 20% or 5% respectively.

Posted By: Mecagoenti on March 13th 2020 at 12:13:54

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I'm still more concerned about the herd immunity theory tbh (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Mar 13, 11:49:20
- "the disease would need to infect approximately half of the UK population until we achieve (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 13, 12:07:54
  - But they expect up to 80% of our population to get it.they've accepted the disease is h (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Mar 13, 12:21:23
  - that maths seems a bit simplistic (General Chat) - Mecagoenti, Mar 13, 12:13:54
    - "While more vulnerable people are cut off as much as possible." (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 13, 12:20:51
      - I don't know - I'm not commenting on the political aspect (General Chat) - Mecagoenti, Mar 13, 12:24:14
        
        given the large amount of unknowns at this point - including whether you get immunity havi (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 13, 12:31:42
        
        agreed, it doesn't seem the right strategy to me either at the moment (General Chat) - Mecagoenti, Mar 13, 12:51:56
    - In practice, it’s very hard to totally isolate old / ill people (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Mar 13, 12:15:15
      - yeah, it would be almost impossible for many (General Chat) - Mecagoenti, Mar 13, 12:20:37
        
        Yeah, it's just not gonna happen is it? (General Chat) - duke of york, Mar 13, 12:35:32
  - Indeed. Very worrying (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Mar 13, 12:13:00
- Yeah it seems all other experts think it’s bollocks (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 11:53:00
  - And Cummings *is* interested in eugenics as we know (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Mar 13, 11:53:55
    - Cummings invented COVID in the same lab (General Chat) - KevinBond, Mar 13, 12:24:54
      - Hence the name - originally "govid" but the guy who made it caught it (General Chat) - Yurik Hunt, Mar 13, 12:33:40
        
        lol (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Mar 13, 12:35:46
    - Corbyn has probably sided with the virus (General Chat) - Ben, Mar 13, 11:58:44
      - ^^^ not a 'thing' capable of transcending political rivalries (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 13, 12:10:14
        
        ^^ I'm sorry, lets get back to comparing the Tories to Nazis (n/m) (General Chat) - Ben, Mar 13, 15:58:46
      - Interesting that the Daily Mail is not practicing what it or bj is preaching (General Chat) - Dracula, Mar 13, 12:08:55
      - And there it is! (n/m) (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Mar 13, 12:06:36
      - Probably (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Mar 13, 11:59:10
    - The only thing in their favour (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 11:56:38
      - This model of theirs (General Chat) - Yurik Hunt, Mar 13, 11:58:07
        
        No transparency whatsoever (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 11:59:47
- What’s the alternative? How do we stop everyone from getting this? (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Mar 13, 11:51:14
  - Not everyone but you limit with extreme measures (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 11:54:04
    - Agree. But humans who have antibodies before the vaccine is available makes some sense to (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Mar 13, 11:55:01
    - South Korea for eg, rate falling rapidly (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Mar 13, 11:54:40
- Thinning the herd... (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Mar 13, 11:49:56

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