| > The "natural phenomenon" you refer to does not occur in all cases for all diseases. What's an example of an infectious disease that the body can fight off that does not result in herd immunity? (so, herpes and aids don't count because the body doesn't fight them off whereas we KNOW that the body fights off SARS-like diseases) As far as reinfection is concerned, T-cells are more relevant. I am aware that antibody response fades sooner for SARS-CoV-2. ("SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls")[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z] - Published: 15 July 2020 * Here, we first studied T cell responses to structural (nucleocapsid protein, NP) and non-structural (NSP-7 and NSP13 of ORF1) regions of SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 convalescents (n=36). In all of them we demonstrated the presence of CD4 and CD8 T cells recognizing multiple regions of the NP protein. We then showed that SARS-recovered patients (n=23) still possess long-lasting memory T cells reactive to SARS-NP 17 years after the 2003 outbreak, which displayed robust cross-reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 NP. * Surprisingly, we also frequently detected SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells in individuals with no history of SARS, COVID-19 or contact with SARS/COVID-19 patients (n=37) > It's not callousness unless you're explicitly denying that reality and justifying excess death and illness on a dynamic which may not even be in play. Again, the excess death is the deaths caused by lockdown, not the deaths caused by a highly infectious respiratory virus. All highly infectious respiratory viruses are dealt with the same way: acquiring population immunity. Vaccines are just a way to achieve that more cheaply, but because we do not currently have a vaccine it does not make sense to try to "stop, drop and roll" until we have one. Especially because, speaking for the US, we are on track to hit population immunity before we ever get one. |
At the point that you're making blatantly counterfactual statements like this, it's hard to take anything else you say seriously. Some estimates put excess deaths from things besides COVID during lockdowns at about 35% to the total, but they in no way exceed the excess COVID deaths themselves, especially given the likelihood of COVID death undercounts.
You also obviously don't understand how the thresholds for herd immunity work are dependent on duration of immunity and social dynamics of populations. All of humanity doesn't just get together and say "let's get together, right now, and see which of us dies," as much as you would seemingly like to argue that they should. We don't have herd immunity to any number of diseases (e.g. cholera) because we quash their spread through other means, like sanitation, quarantines, using masks. I don’t know why you cite SARS over and over again without acknowledging that we don’t have herd immunity or a vaccine for it.