No millions would not die.
We have been over this many times.
If you take Fauci's numbers, then 70% of the population would have to be infected in order to achieve 70%
And he used a 1% lethality figure.
So 1% of 231 million would be 2.3 million deaths.
But he knew that was
So where did Fauci go wrong, since clearly covid is not unusual, and yet no usual virus ever kills that many when ending with herd immunity?
His first mistake was assuming no one had immunity already inherently.
The vast number of asymptomatic means most people do already have some degree of inherent immunity.
In fact, more than half the population does, especially those under 18.
(There are people claiming kids do not have immunity but the numbers do not lie, and the total deaths in the US under 18, is 464.)
Between the beginning of January 2020 and June 14, 2023, of the 1,134,641 deaths caused by COVID-19 in the United States, around 307,169 had occurred among those aged 85 years and older.
www.statista.com
And then as long as we are going to differentiate by age, we can easily see that those under 40 have about a 400 times lower death rate than those who are dying the most, those over 70.
So if you only deliberately use variolation on those under 40, you reduce the death toll by a factor of 400.
So then Fauci's 2.3 million turns into only about 6,000.
It is actually far lower than that for various reasons, but there is no need to argue.
Clearly we should have encouraged variolation immediately last March, and used the initial spike to quickly end it.
We could not only have saved over half a million lives in the US alone, but we would have ended it forever, without any variant worries.