re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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What do y’all think about the idea that we should just try to get close to covid19 herd immunity now since we are out of flu season, so next Fall/winter won’t be so bad with Covid+flu?

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Best option.

If we don’t do this now, when we have less to worry about, it will bite us in the arse later.

But that course of action requires people to come out from under their rocks and actually interact with others, which doesn’t seem likely considering their response to only one virus floating around.

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What do y’all think about the idea that we should just try to get close to covid19 herd immunity now since we are out of flu season, so next Fall/winter won’t be so bad with Covid+flu?

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I've posted recently about how we have a lot of immunity already. The people who contracted COVID-19 this time are obviously those who would still be most vulnerable in a 2nd wave. They are in places such as NYC, a transport hub and a densely packed city where everyone uses public transport. They are those whose jobs require close interaction with the public or each other (like the workers at the meat plants).

Next fall, we'll have massive testing (Congress just passed a bill authorizing $25 billion in testing). We'll use a massive push in flu vaccines to remove the "noise" that the flu caused this time, meaning that we'll actually need to test fewer symptomatic people. We'll likely have solid treatment options in place, so that mortality will be a lot lower.

I'm not worried about a 2nd wave.

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I’m confused, how do they get immunity if not by catching the virus? I’m just confused bc you say that those who have had it will be most vulnerable in a second wave but wouldn’t they be the ones most likely to be immune?

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He's not worried about a second wave because our most vulnerable population is dealing with it now.

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What do y’all think about the idea that we should just try to get close to covid19 herd immunity now since we are out of flu season, so next Fall/winter won’t be so bad with Covid+flu?

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I am beginning to think this is the only viable option. There was an opinion piece in this morning's WSJ to this effect. Essentially saying that we and almost every other country have made the wrong choice.

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Amazing how this is now becoming the more popular position

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Don't hold your breath waiting for any shutdown politicians to admit that.

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There was an opinion piece in this morning's WSJ to this effect. Essentially saying that we and almost every other country have made the wrong choice.

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Can you link it?

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Link to article discussing herd immunity is above.

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What I meant (apologies for my lack of clarity) is that a lot of the people who have contracted COVID-19 and now have antibodies are obviously frontline people who, if they didn't have antibodies, would be most at-risk in a 2nd wave.

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Gotcha, that makes sense

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Amazing how this is now becoming the more popular position.

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But those that said this from the start just wanted people to die

More antibody testing coming in...

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About 6 percent of Miami-Dade’s population — about 165,000 residents — have antibodies indicating a past infection by the novel coronavirus, dwarfing the state health department’s tally of about 10,600 cases, according to preliminary study results announced by University of Miami researchers Friday.

The study, spurred by Miami-Dade County officials, will be an ongoing weekly survey based on antibody testing — randomly selecting county residents to volunteer pinpricks of their blood to be screened for signs of a past COVID-19 infection, whether they had tested positive for the virus in the past or not. The goal is to measure the extent of infection in the community.

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