re: Some people don't want to accept the data that shows the Covid impact hasn't been too bad

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The worst part of it is that we have no fricking herd immunity because we have been sheltering in place, so when we go back to work, we’re going to see another spike.


Yep.

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Can't argue with that

I often wonder how "costly" herd immunity will be before it's actually effective.

Let's look at something that happened hundreds of years ago when westerners came to the Americas and the Colombian Exchange killed 2/3 of the indigenous people

Obviously modern medicine would stop that particular doomsday scenario from happening but we certainly would see a high death toll before achieving herd immunity.

It's pretty interesting how even after nearly 500 years of human evolution, mother nature still finds a way to kill us through the global exchange of regionally born diseases