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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4677337" data-attributes="member: 63706">This was in response to [USER=76199]@charm299[/USER] saying that lock downs should never have happened. The implication of what you wrote was that if not lock downs, then the only solution you can come up with was letting the virus run rampant. Then you strawmanned that into being the belief held by anyone who is against lock downs. Then you tried to deny ever saying it. As for your article. That guy is literally making up stuff. The lower thresholds are based on variability in susceptibility, which have been demonstrated throughout many populations. Individuals as superspreaders is an imaginary concept. Superspreaders are, in reality, events in which large numbers of people become infected. Also, herd immunity threshold is the point at which cases begin to decline until herd immunity is reached. 10-20% is the threshold, with herd immunity being reached by 40 to 50% in many models.The point of vaccination is to help reach herd immunity while mitigating the damage from a disease. It&#039;s not either herd immunity or vaccination, herd immunity is inevitable, regardless of how it is reached.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4677337, member: 63706"] This was in response to [USER=76199]@charm299[/USER] saying that lock downs should never have happened. The implication of what you wrote was that if not lock downs, then the only solution you can come up with was letting the virus run rampant. Then you strawmanned that into being the belief held by anyone who is against lock downs. Then you tried to deny ever saying it. As for your article. That guy is literally making up stuff. The lower thresholds are based on variability in susceptibility, which have been demonstrated throughout many populations. Individuals as superspreaders is an imaginary concept. Superspreaders are, in reality, events in which large numbers of people become infected. Also, herd immunity threshold is the point at which cases begin to decline until herd immunity is reached. 10-20% is the threshold, with herd immunity being reached by 40 to 50% in many models. The point of vaccination is to help reach herd immunity while mitigating the damage from a disease. It's not either herd immunity or vaccination, herd immunity is inevitable, regardless of how it is reached. [/QUOTE]

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