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by analyst74 2247 days ago
> those spreaders will still soon achieve herd immunity among themselves

that's not what herd immunity means, unless we isolate those spreaders so they don't get in touch with "non-spreaders"

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The non-spreaders are the people who are self isolating.

I think they're saying that people who go out and spread the disease will quickly catch it, recover, and be unable to catch it and spread it. That relatively small group of people who are refusing to self isolate, will gain herd immunity, causing the virus to die out in that group of people, preventing them from giving it to the non-spreaders that have been at home the whole time.

Whether or not it will work out that way, I don't know.