{"id":68543,"date":"2021-06-10T14:35:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=68543"},"modified":"2021-06-10T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T18:35:48","slug":"herd-immunity-the-real-secret-to-success-of-terminating-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=68543","title":{"rendered":"HERD IMMUNITY: The Real Secret to Success of Terminating the ‘Pandemic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow the Science or Follow the Herd (Immunity)<\/h1>\n

By Brian C. Joondeph, MD
\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n

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Throughout the past 16 months of COVID, we have been told to follow the science.<\/p>\n

How has that worked out? We have heeded each word of the guru of science, Dr. Anthony\u00a0Fauci, the Pied Piper of the Chinese coronavirus, who has graced magazine covers and spend more time being interviewed on cable news shows and emailing social media titans than researching the pandemic he has been managing. It turns out he has been leading the world down a pathway of deceit, deception, and ruin.<\/p>\n

Mask science doesn\u2019t add up. Neither does six\u00a0feet of social distancing, quarantining the healthy, closing schools and businesses, allowing massive social justice protests but stopping a small family wedding or funeral. Medicines that have been safely taken for\u00a060 years\u00a0are suddenly going to kill anyone who dares take them, but experimental, non-FDA-approved vaccines are safe for everyone, even young children. What science are we following? Medical science, political science, or Chinese propaganda?<\/p>\n

Herd immunity is another bit of science that is suddenly on par with the Earth being flat. It\u2019s \u201cmagical thinking\u201d\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to the \u201cfollow the science\u201d left because it can be \u201cachieved only through the use of vaccines.\u201d Why then before vaccines were invented, wasn\u2019t every viral pandemic a human extinction event? Mayo Clinic\u00a0explains herd immunity<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Herd immunity occurs when a large portion of a community (the herd) becomes immune to a disease, making the spread of disease from person to person unlikely. As a result, the whole community becomes protected \u2014 not just those who are immune.Herd immunity is achieved in one of two ways, through natural infection or vaccination. Once a sufficient percent of the population has immunity, the infection has difficulty finding new victims and burns itself out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The percentage of the population needing to be immune can vary from 50 to 90 percent, depending on how contagious the virus is. Once common viral infections like mumps, polio, and chickenpox are rare now due to herd immunity.<\/p>\n

What is the herd immunity threshold for COVID? It depends on who you ask and when. Dr Flip-Flop Fauci has been as imprecise regarding herd immunity as he has been on how many masks, if any, we need to wear.\u00a0According to \u201cfollow the science\u201d New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Recently, a figure to whom millions of Americans look for guidance \u2014 Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, an adviser to both the Trump administration and the incoming Biden administration \u2014 has begun incrementally raising his herd-immunity estimate.<\/p>\n

In the pandemic\u2019s early days,\u00a0Dr. Fauci<\/a>\u00a0tended to cite the same\u00a060 to 70 percent estimate<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0most experts<\/a>\u00a0did. About a month ago, he began saying \u201c70, 75 percent\u201d in television interviews. And last week, in an\u00a0interview with CNBC News<\/a>, he said \u201c75, 80, 85 percent\u201d and \u201c75 to 80-plus percent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pretty soon it will be 90 or 100 percent, or even more. Let\u2019s keep our masks, distancing, and restrictions until the entire world is vaccinated, perhaps sometime in the next decade. Is Dr. Fauci following the real science or the\u00a0political science<\/a>\u00a0of his deep state masters?<\/p>\n

In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems Dr. Fauci has been moving more than herd immunity goalposts. He is juggling COVID origin stories as deftly as he juggles appearances on CNN and MSNBC, where he should be asked about an unnatural COVID\u00a0genome sequencing<\/a>\u00a0highly suggestive of lab creation rather than typical media hard-hitting questions about his\u00a0childhood bicycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a binary choice of allowing people to become infected versus vaccinated. Instead, it\u2019s both. If schools remained open, the virus would have spread through children, few if any becoming seriously ill. This is not to advocate harming children.<\/p>\n

Only\u00a0300 children<\/a>, age 0-17 have died of or with COVID, and it’s unknown how many were immunocompromised or with medical comorbidities. Compare that to\u00a0477 influenza deaths<\/a>\u00a0in the same age group during the 2018-19 flu season, without any push to close schools. Also add in\u00a0children suicide attempts,<\/a>\u00a0on the rise, for which Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado declared a state of emergency as one example<\/p>\n

Vaccinations<\/a>\u00a0are well underway in the U.S. with 51% partially and 41% fully vaccinated. The CDC\u00a0estimates<\/a>\u00a0a third of Americans have been infected with COVID, meaning we are much closer to herd immunity than naysayers choose to admit. Over the upcoming months, more will be vaccinated or infected, leaving fewer and fewer individuals for the virus to infect.<\/p>\n

Other countries are\u00a0not there yet<\/a>. Island nations of New Zealand and Australia are only 5% and 2%, respectively, vaccinated, with very few natural cases due to\u00a0frequent lockdowns<\/a>\u00a0and long quarantine periods for visitors, meaning their herd immunity is a ways off, and a few cases making it past their safety measures could devastate their populations.<\/p>\n

As vaccines in the U.S. have been readily available for months, most who want or plan to get the jab have done so already. Further efforts at this point, including celebrities and athletes shaming the unvaccinated, are not likely to yield further vaccinations.<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be a good time for some thoughtful scientific discussion of herd immunity and where we are? Rather than the constant fear porn and\u00a0continued<\/a>\u00a0emergency orders for lockdowns as seen in California. How about some optimism after over a year of doom and gloom?<\/p>\n

If we are at or close to herd immunity, the push to vaccinate young children, at extremely low risk of getting sick from COVID, with an experimental vaccine, can and should end.<\/p>\n

Unless fear is a good distraction from what the media and deep state would prefer to remain buried. Like the origins of the virus and what role Dr. Fauci and U.S. intelligence\u00a0agencies played in the creation of a bioweapon ultimately used against America and the world. All to benefit China and destroy President Trump. Was that the plan all along?<\/p>\n

Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a physician and writer. He is on sabbatical from social media.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To comment, you can find the MeWe post for this article\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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