Maybe a stupid question, but do we need to vaccinate everyone? I remember reading that heard immunity is 70% or something - so could we get away with leaving the people out that it wasn’t tested on?
REALITY: Assuming 75-90% efficacy vaccine, vaccination is non-random and population is heterogeneous. You want to vaccinate everyone who agrees to take it. Just like with children diseases, there will be clusters of anti-vaxxers, or people just don't bother and they are often clumped together, travel around the world and spread the disease.
Obviously "herd immunity" is more of a gradient than a cut-off, and it's much easier to approach it if we can vaccinate everyone, but we can definitely speed up the process (including the months-long process to even get the vaccines to everyone) if we can start vaccinating some people early.
It varies by disease. Can anyone really say what the % is/would be for covid-19?
In addition, to question of "can anyone really say for covid-19", I suppose the answer is 'No, but I would trust that the consensus of the scientific community of infectious disease experts is the best estimation we can get.'
Look up “swiss cheese model covid-19”
Each extra person getting vaccinated adds protection, both for that person and the larger society.
i suspect you may already know the answer to your question; of course not everyone needs to be vaccinated - that's the job of any reasonably healthy immune system and this virus, which has not been properly isolated by the way, and that comes directly from the CDC, is not particularly dangerous, and that comes directly from the WHO
any thinking human being knows that masks are, at best, largely ineffective at preventing transmission, as is "social distancing" - the way governments are handling this "pandemic", which by definition is not a pandemic, is killing far more people and ruining far more lives that the virus ever will
the question then becomes, why? why are we being asked, and compelled in many case, to wear ineffective masks? why are being threatened and arrested in some cases for not distancing when there is no creditable scientific evidence to support that distancing works?
furthermore, the rt-PCR "test" that is used by many labs to diagnose COVID-19 is not a test - it is a procedure designed to amplify a tiny amount of RNA or DNA - it was never designed to test for this or any other virus and it does not produce a binary result, so in the end , we have NO idea how many cases there are, and it gets worse than that because apparently PCR is looking for any corona virus, alive or dead! that means that anyone that's ever had a cold can test positive (along with people that died in motorcycle accidents, fallen down stairs, or got shot in the face apparently)
the number of 'cases' is meaningless and the survival rate is exceedingly high, and if we make an adjustment for the radically inflated number of deaths, it becomes very questionable whether there even is a "novel" corona virus or whether it's the flu
lastly, even if one is not reasonably healthy, or just doesn't wish to spend a lot of time being sick, all that required is high-dose vitamin C along with D3 (and zinc wouldn't hurt) - what's a high dosage? 4 grams+ / hr. for an adult, not that it's critical because no one has ever died from vitamins (minerals is a different story)
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> any thinking human being knows that masks are, at best, largely ineffective at preventing transmission, as is "social distancing"
> it becomes very questionable whether there even is a "novel" corona virus or whether it's the flu
You know, I live in Adelaide, where we haven't had a single locally-acquired case in several months. I've been wondering how almost every other city on the planet has been screwing things up so badly when we've not really done all that much apart from having a quick reaction and social distancing appropriately.
My question is now answered: those cities have people like you, willing to spout even the most blatantly abject conspiratorial nonsense for the sake of advertising your own website.
Please show some responsibility for the lives of those around you.
I'm celebrating that following the science here has taken us from > 700 new cases per day, to our second consecutive day of zero (and lockdown ending less than 3 hours from now)