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Originally Posted by queasy27
This is the most critical point to me against herd immunity arguments.
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Like it or not, herd immunity is happening as we speak. On the attached Florida Dashboard web site shown as EXPERIENCE, you will see several black tabs along the bottom that say Florida Cases, Florida Testing, Cases by County, Case by zip code, etc. Click on Cases by County and then click on a specific county. Once the county loads, hoover your mouse over each age demographic bracket. You will see how many confirmed cases are in that county by age range. Now consider the fact that according to the experts, approximately 80% of people are asymptomatic meaning little to no symptoms are present. Using that information, you can imagine how many Floridians are exposed/infected and don't know they are infected. That my friend is herd immunity in the works. And one last comment to address your point. Even if the Coronavirus mutates, it's basic RNA makeup will remain fairly constant. Therefore, some immunity will be better than no immunity. Obviously a vaccine would be wonderful but with human testing, a vaccine will take to long for a useful solution this year and perhaps next year. At some point, herd immunity will be our only hope. The world cannot quarantine, social distance forever. The only outstanding question is: how long should we social distance to prevent overwhelming our healthcare system?
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