Rigby5
Diamond Member
Hmm, what promotes more natural selection and evolution than many, many, many infections?By infecting massive swaths of the population, you generate more viral mutations and therefore much higher likelihood of generating variants that people aren’t immune to.So we could have easily have achieved herd immunity and wiped out the virus last March if we had wanted to.
Wrong.
First of all, they are not mutations, because mutations mean random damage, like from radiation.
Variants already exist, but are merely changing in % due to natural selection of evolution.
And the whole point of why "fattening the curve" is such a bad idea is that it deliberately gives the virus more TIME.
And it is TIME that caused more variations to become more deadly or resistant to antibodies.
The faster you get any epidemic over, the less likely it will have a chance to evolve into a worse strain, and the fewer total deaths you will have.
Wrong.
If you deliberately infect, then YOU get to decide which variant to infect with, so there is absolutely no natural selection or evolution involved, at all.
Natural selection and evolution do not at all get effected by the number of infections, but only by the length of time the infection process is allowed to run its course.
The quicker you achieve the herd immunity rate of 70%, then less natural selection and evolution.
And by the way, the Amish in Ohio and Pennsylvania have proven Fauci wrong, and have achieved herd immunity with the high death total he predicted.
Has This Amish Group Reached Herd Immunity?
About 90% of families in the community reportedly had family members infected with COVID-19.
www.ibtimes.com
health official estimated that about 90% of the families in an Amish community in Pennsylvania had been affected by the coronavirus. Does this mean they have already reached the coveted herd immunity?
In the race towards achieving herd immunity as COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out globally, an Amish community in Lancaster County's New Holland Borough reportedly had already crossed the mark. Allen Hoover, the administrator for the medical clinic that serves the community claimed so as at least one family member or 90% of the families is infected, according to the Associated Press (AP)
If true, this makes them the first community to achieve herd immunity in the U.S. ...}