Comments on: Achieving Herd Immunity, The Easy Way Versus The Hard Way

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 06:04:00 +0000

I listened to the WHO's virtual press conference today and they are very worried. So am I.

So many countries have not even vaccinatied their healthcare workers and most vulnerable yet and rich countries like the US and Canada are talking about a third booster shot!!!

God help us all!

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 05:19:19 +0000

I did. :)

By: nypoet22

nypoet22 — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:29:08 +0000

@liz,

you should have clicked the link.

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:53:22 +0000

CRS,

It's so nice to know that you read my posts right to the end! :)

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:31:36 +0000

John,

Isn't it ironic ...

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:30:27 +0000

Why is the "worldview" of Americans so restricted to their own country? In the world we live in now, this is a very dangerous way of thinking.

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:28:25 +0000

CRS,

Yes, you are correct about where vaccines are being produced and there are efforts currently underway to ensure that vaccines can be produced in more places and that will certainly help in a more equitable distribution of vaccines in the future.

But, we need more equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines NOW or we will all be in a world of hurt, no matter where we live. This is what most Americans seem incapable of understanding.

By: nypoet22

nypoet22 — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:28:10 +0000

@crs, i think it's a joke sir. JL

By: C. R. Stucki

C. R. Stucki — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:00:52 +0000

Liz M. It's not the distribution of vaccines that is "inequitous", it's the production that's "inequitous". Some of your posts are 'illiteratous'.

By: John M

John M — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 07:54:35 +0000

The biggest consequence is not going to be between red and blue states (That will take until at least the next census another 10 years from now, as the country continues to change demographically.), but within the red states themselves. That's where the impact will be most immediately felt politically. Since more Republicans will resist vaccination than Democrats, and most of them will be the most hardline Trump Republicans, they are also the ones who will die in the larger numbers, thereby skewing their states more Democratic politically more faster as their numbers decline at a faster rate. Their elections will get steadily closer, just the opposite of what they intend.

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:19:37 +0000

Chris, But what I've been wondering from the start is how America will achieve the "herd immunity" level where the virus begins to just die out for want of unprotected victims. Note I said "how" there, not "if." We will get to herd immunity eventually, but it's looking like the last stretch might have to be done the hard way instead of the easy way. I don't understand what makes you so confident about achieving herd immunity in the US. The experts I listen to are not so confident. But, then, they are thinking in terms of the global herd, not just the herd in America. And, they understand the real dangers of the inequitable distribution of vaccines around the world, particularly the emergence of more infectious and deadly COVID-19 variants that will be resistant to the vaccines we currently have. After all, America is not an island and it won't be able to stop its herd-immunized population from mixing with non-herd-immunized populations infected with dangerous variants, of which there will be many if the inequitous distribution of vaccines continues.