re: #257 Charles Johnson

And we don’t even know yet if herd immunity works with this virus. It has not been established that people can’t be reinfected after recovering once.

And if exposure to diseases conferred herd immunity, we wouldn’t have diseases.

Measles infected nearly everyone, yet measles still exists. It was nearly wiped out until the anti-vaxxers helped bring it back.

Mumps was the same way. Thanks to the anti-vaxxer who almost killed me in 2012.

Chickenpox never was wiped out either until a vaccine came along.

Smallpox was around for thousands of years until a vaccine programme wiped it out.

Tuberculosis is still around today and its been around for thousands of years.

Diseases do not confer herd immunity. Vaccines do. Herd immunity depends on the particular disease. We will not have herd immunity from Covid-19 until we have a vaccine; this is the new normal.