The blithe reference to “herd immunity” (or, as #45 put it, “herd mentality”) is just another way to say “ignore it and it will go away.” In plain fact, herd immunity is ONLY developed in one of two ways:
1. A critical mass of people – 80%, give or take, more for some diseases – get vaccines which immunize them
2. A critical mass of people survive the virus because they managed to develop immunity in the course of being exposed to the virus, and everyone else dies.
Since we have no vaccine – and, make no mistake, we are very, very unlikely to have one before 2021, if we ever do – the administration’s official stance is therefore: “let ’em die. The survivors will be immune.”
But the facts are even worse than that. It is not yet clear whether having developed immunity, it will stick! There has been a documented case of someone getting COVID-19 twice. If you cannot get and sustain immunity in a critical mass of people, herd immunity is impossible.
This is just one more example of a phrase or theory that Dum-Dum heard and passed along without any knowledge of what it actually means. This turd bucket with legs has to go!!!!
There was no attempt to stop COVID-19: ‘The federal government is not going to lead this response’
With COVID-19 blazing through the nation and no federal response in sight, Donald Trump temporarily affixed Mike Pence’s name on a Coronavirus Task Force before deciding that group was more useful to leverage news coverage for his own benefit. Behind the scenes, both Pence and medical experts were sidelined. As Trump turned the task force into a daily mini-rally, it was actually Jared Kushner who was left to manage development of a national testing plan, a national case tracing plan, and the distribution of protective gear and medical supplies. And what happened then wasn’t simply that Kushner didn’t fail to plan. He actually planned to fail.
In July, Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban reported on how a national testing strategy had been ready to go in April, but rather than rolling that plan out to the public, it was scrapped because Trump believed the disease would mostly kill people in blue states. Now Eban has followed up by looking at not just how Kushner developed that plan along with his college roommate and real estate buddies, but how he ran many other aspects of the COVID-19 response.
The answer is he didn’t. Because Kushner and Trump’s twisted view was that it “wasn’t government’s job” to step in for a nation in crisis. The shortages, the scrambling over supplies at an ever higher price, the nurses who were forced to wear garbage bags and the patients who were turned away by overtaxed hospitals … that was the plan. Infection and death didn’t happen by accident, and it didn’t happen because Trump and Kushner weren’t warned against the consequences of inaction. Suffering was by design.
Even the Chik-fil-A cows know the difference between herd mentality and herd immunity. And they can spell better than the tangerine treason weasel too.
That may be true Motivemagus. But I think it’s like alcoholism. People who have chronic relapses is because they do not the proper things like stay away from people, places and things.
Motivemagus over 3 years ago
The blithe reference to “herd immunity” (or, as #45 put it, “herd mentality”) is just another way to say “ignore it and it will go away.” In plain fact, herd immunity is ONLY developed in one of two ways:
1. A critical mass of people – 80%, give or take, more for some diseases – get vaccines which immunize them
2. A critical mass of people survive the virus because they managed to develop immunity in the course of being exposed to the virus, and everyone else dies.
Since we have no vaccine – and, make no mistake, we are very, very unlikely to have one before 2021, if we ever do – the administration’s official stance is therefore: “let ’em die. The survivors will be immune.”
But the facts are even worse than that. It is not yet clear whether having developed immunity, it will stick! There has been a documented case of someone getting COVID-19 twice. If you cannot get and sustain immunity in a critical mass of people, herd immunity is impossible.
IT Sauzeech over 3 years ago
This is just one more example of a phrase or theory that Dum-Dum heard and passed along without any knowledge of what it actually means. This turd bucket with legs has to go!!!!
Babs Maloney Premium Member over 3 years ago
Wise words from a real herd!
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 3 years ago
The Chik-fil-A cows are moonlighting.
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
There was no attempt to stop COVID-19: ‘The federal government is not going to lead this response’
With COVID-19 blazing through the nation and no federal response in sight, Donald Trump temporarily affixed Mike Pence’s name on a Coronavirus Task Force before deciding that group was more useful to leverage news coverage for his own benefit. Behind the scenes, both Pence and medical experts were sidelined. As Trump turned the task force into a daily mini-rally, it was actually Jared Kushner who was left to manage development of a national testing plan, a national case tracing plan, and the distribution of protective gear and medical supplies. And what happened then wasn’t simply that Kushner didn’t fail to plan. He actually planned to fail.
In July, Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban reported on how a national testing strategy had been ready to go in April, but rather than rolling that plan out to the public, it was scrapped because Trump believed the disease would mostly kill people in blue states. Now Eban has followed up by looking at not just how Kushner developed that plan along with his college roommate and real estate buddies, but how he ran many other aspects of the COVID-19 response.
The answer is he didn’t. Because Kushner and Trump’s twisted view was that it “wasn’t government’s job” to step in for a nation in crisis. The shortages, the scrambling over supplies at an ever higher price, the nurses who were forced to wear garbage bags and the patients who were turned away by overtaxed hospitals … that was the plan. Infection and death didn’t happen by accident, and it didn’t happen because Trump and Kushner weren’t warned against the consequences of inaction. Suffering was by design.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/18/1978383/-There-was-no-attempt-to-stop-COVID-19-The-federal-government-is-not-going-to-lead-this-response?utm_campaign=recent
Michael G. over 3 years ago
The Republikkklans want you to quit beefing about nonsensical things like disease and rising sea levels.
Monchoxyz over 3 years ago
Is herd mentality contagious and is reading go-comics a possible cure?
brwydave Premium Member over 3 years ago
Moo!
mwksix over 3 years ago
“Try” “Flock” “Immunity”
crgigoux over 3 years ago
Even the Chik-fil-A cows know the difference between herd mentality and herd immunity. And they can spell better than the tangerine treason weasel too.
JohnHarry Premium Member over 3 years ago
Hmmmm – homophobic cows telling us about herd immunity – maybe herd mentality?
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 3 years ago
But remember “Herd Mentality.” It’s all the Oaf of Office and his six-toed, inbred, sister-loving base have.
bakana over 3 years ago
Trumplethinskin Loves a nice dose of “Herd Mentality”.
It’s what keeps his Followers following.
djtenltd over 3 years ago
That may be true Motivemagus. But I think it’s like alcoholism. People who have chronic relapses is because they do not the proper things like stay away from people, places and things.