[redis_mlc]

Those have been discredited as not measuring all immune components.

HN readers: there is no conclusive science behind anything reported about COVID-19.

[ntsplnkv2]

Thus proving the point that we can't expect herd immunity until there is valid evidence for it.

[Fjolsvith]

Then we should just treat it like a tough flu season.

[ntsplnkv2]

Except it's far worse than any flu season in recent history in the US, there aren't any treatment options or their immature, but yea...

[Fjolsvith]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they've never found a treatment for the flu, right? You get it, you tough it out. At least I've never been cured of a flu, despite many, many flu shots.

[redis_mlc]

Nope, the absence of evidence doesn't support anything that you say.

Also, lockdown just kicks the can down the road in the US. Even welding doors shut like in Wuhan just means the epidemic continues after the lockdown ends. Ad nauseum until herd immunity.

[ntsplnkv2]

That's not how absence of evidence works. You're the one making the claim of herd immunity - not me. And also disrupting that claim, with:

> HN readers: there is no conclusive science behind anything reported about COVID-19.