All this talk of herd immunity is not terribly helpful because we don’t know what “immunity” means in practical terms.
The duration of immunity for other corinaviruses varies quite a bit, the disease has the potential to cause permanent respiratory damage, with uncertain consequences for the possibility of reinfection, and we’re still seeing novel symptoms arise as in the case of the children with Kawasaki-like inflammation in NYC.
I get the strong desire to return to a normal state of affairs, but paving over reality with scientific notions, deployed pseudoscientifically, does very little to get us there.
The duration of immunity for other corinaviruses varies quite a bit, the disease has the potential to cause permanent respiratory damage, with uncertain consequences for the possibility of reinfection, and we’re still seeing novel symptoms arise as in the case of the children with Kawasaki-like inflammation in NYC.
I get the strong desire to return to a normal state of affairs, but paving over reality with scientific notions, deployed pseudoscientifically, does very little to get us there.