1. Immunized people are driving escape. Natural herd immunity is the only
    leslie landberg leslie landberg United States says:
    November 6, 2022 at 8:23 AM

    Immunized people are driving escape.  Natural herd immunity is the only robust and lasting approach.  If we stopped trying to partially immunize, we wouldn't see resistant strains emerging.  Lastly, stop analyzing antibodies as if they were the sole defining markers of immunological resistance.  That isn't good science.

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    • I'm not clear how one can make these conclusions from the study above?? It
      I Broom I Broom Canada says:
      November 7, 2022 at 2:48 PM

      I'm not clear how one can make these conclusions from the study above??
      It appears that infection based antibody production is no better than vaccine based antibodies. The real difference of course, is that infection based immunity still has a significant associated morbidity and mortality.

      Herd immunity would seem to be unattainable, given the short lived antibody responses to infection, the constant mutations, which are arguably unrelated to immunizations, and the unwillingness of certain demographics to follow simple public health measures.

      Rather than herd immunity, we need to think of mitigation. Better vaccines makes more sense than widespread infection. We've tried both and infection didn't work out well. There's NO reason to believe mutation will stop, irrespective of vaccines. And no reason to believe that virulence will go down v up, in the future.

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