[hatenberg]

Dozens of reasons. Biology rarely ever is so simple.

- Mutation/Infectiousness changes - Behavioral changes - Testing changes (more/less/precision) - Reporting Changes (like changing all reporting from CDC) - Political interference/ Wishful thinking - Non-linearity (the virus has tagged the easier victims and is now moving slower into the more distanced population) - Seasonal patterns - Any combination of the above.

Frankly, its insanity to assume herd immunity at this point in time, especially with uncertainty about length of immune protection from primary and t-cell response.

Its a virus, it writes the rules and we barely have managed to decipher some of them, this article reads like a perverted Mission Accomplished on an aircraft carrier.

[gloriosoc]

So I think we have ruled out those reasons. I could go into each one of them but that would take a while. That is with the exception of data corruption by politicians-- I am concerned about that and planning to look further into it. "It writes the rules and we barely have managed to decipher some of them"- this I strongly disagree with. The media has portrayed it that way. But from the science community perspective, it hasn't been mysterious at all. It's just that the media and the politicians are translating to the public- and those translations are highly corrupt and motivated by money.