Those who oppose the, admittedly, drastic strategy of social distancing have generally relied on the notion of 'herd' immunity. In the context of SARS-CoV-2, for which there is no vaccine at this time, what that means is: Going about business more or less as usual, treating the sick--whether through palliative care or perhaps with something like HCQ+ therapy--and assuming that as more and more of the population becomes infected and recovers they will develop an immunity to the virus and at a certain point the virus will begin failing to spread because there will be fewer and fewer non-immune victims left. For a virus like SARS-CoV-2 that point is generally calculated to be achievable when about 60% of the population has been infected. As for the necessary deaths entailed in this process, well, those would have been mostly "old" people--like, people over 60--or people with other health problems, or oddballs who refused to develop an immunity.
On Antibodies And Herd Immunity
On Antibodies And Herd Immunity
On Antibodies And Herd Immunity
Those who oppose the, admittedly, drastic strategy of social distancing have generally relied on the notion of 'herd' immunity. In the context of SARS-CoV-2, for which there is no vaccine at this time, what that means is: Going about business more or less as usual, treating the sick--whether through palliative care or perhaps with something like HCQ+ therapy--and assuming that as more and more of the population becomes infected and recovers they will develop an immunity to the virus and at a certain point the virus will begin failing to spread because there will be fewer and fewer non-immune victims left. For a virus like SARS-CoV-2 that point is generally calculated to be achievable when about 60% of the population has been infected. As for the necessary deaths entailed in this process, well, those would have been mostly "old" people--like, people over 60--or people with other health problems, or oddballs who refused to develop an immunity.