“While social distancing is helping to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, it is also preventing the development of the ‘herd immunity’ needed by the public to resume their normal lives before a vaccine is developed,” cautions immunologist Dr. David Katz. He cites the example of Asian countries “who appeared to stop the spread with lockdown-style mitigation strategies, only to see an increase in cases once restrictions were relaxed.”
In Katz’s interview with journalist Mark Levin, herd immunity almost seems like something mothers have suspected all along, that kids have to be exposed to the public soup of germs to build up resistances. It is “essentially collective resistance to a virus built up by people moving about, becoming infected, and recovering — thereby naturally developing antibodies to inhibit further spreading the virus among the population.”
Sure, kids will get sick. Those with pre-existing congenital illness might even perish, but when all the microbial dust settles, society will be the stronger—not absolutely perfect, just relatively stronger.
Many of those in nursing homes are already close to death. That’s why they’re there. Death from old age is part of the way God set up life on Earth. It’s natural.
It doesn’t take much of a cause to tip the balance toward end of life. Even the common flu or cold can do it. Accordingly, nursing home residents nearest the end would most benefit from any direct social distancing–life in a bubble, restricting all visitors, even family, would be best. Enter Zoom.
The Wikipedia graphic above illustrates the same case as Dr. Katz: “If enough of the population were to develop antibodies and the process repeated itself exponentially,” then “it would create innumerable ‘dead ends’ that stop the virus from spreading” because “It finds it harder to get to a host where it can survive and it dies out.”
When the first Europeans arrived in America, native peoples undoubtedly had built up resistances to local contagions, but there were no social or historical defenses against new viruses that swept through the New World like wildfire. Luckily so, there seems to have been no contagion infecting Europeans in the reverse direction, though today’s new Global World Order may be just beginning to play itself out.
