How would you know? Remember, Rigby.....you don't have the slightest clue how any of this works. Not herd immunity, not vaccines, nothing you're discussing. Nor are you citing anyone who does. Your 'we now need 100% immunity' is a made up number, pulled sideways out of your ass, based on absolutely nothing.
You simply don't know what you're talking about. And then bizarrely expecting us to ignore ACTUAL immunologists with collective centuries of relevant experience for your uninformed opinion.
Why would we ever, ever do this?
Your proposal is simply stupid. As it would have pushed already straining medical systems to the breaking point, resulted in massive numbers of additional dead, and long before we could have developed a vaccine to protect ourselves from the worst effects of serious illness.
No thank you.
Wrong.
I know exactly how herd immunity, vaccines, and everything we are discussing, works.
Its not hard.
Any one who has a basic reading level can access and understand all there is on the subjects.
The point of now needing much higher number than originally has to do with what is called "circles of contact".
Most people do not just randomly contact other people, but instead have a small circle of constant contact.
Like a tribe.
Herd immunity initially requires a small % because you only have to prevent transference from one circle of contact to another.
But if you wait too long, then all the circles of contact eventually get at least one contaminated member over time.
In which case then no one is isolated and safe from the infection any more.
And no, you are totally wrong.
I propose NOTHING.
I am just telling you what historically ALL the experts have always done.
And I illustrated it by showing how General Washington ended the smallpox epidemic by deliberate infection of the entire Continental Army.
We clearly were never had our medical facilities over loaded, and early on when deliberate infection would have been ideal, there was almost NO ONE in hospitals for covid at all. Early on deliberate infection, would have prevented the hospitals from EVER becoming over loaded.
Clearly the mRNA injections do not at all work as a vaccine, so there was never any real choice.
We always should have gone with deliberate infection right away.
That would have saved over 800,000 lives.