Banning mandates also means not subsidizing vaccines, which may make
them quite expensive. Then the fraction vaccinated will fall below the
herd-immunity threshold and we'll be back to closing public swimming
pools because of polio epidemics, like when I was a kid in Texas.
Brent
On 12/17/2024 7:33 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:
In Trump's press conference yesterday, he stated he wouldn't support a
outright ban on the polio vaccine, but he was strongly opposed to
vaccine "mandates". And RFK Jr. has recently disavoved his suport of a
ban on the polio vaccines. But mandates have been the method to
achieve Herd Immunity. While RFK Jr will continue to create foster
public mistrust of vaccines, and Trump will endorse a ban on mandates
as supporting the "freedom to choose", we are likely on the brink of
destroying Herd Immunity for these fatal diseases. I project there
exists a sufficient percent of devout MAFA supporters, who will
unwittingly follow their guru, leading to the demise of Herd Immunity.
And while it's true that the States are the primary administrators in
control of education where the mandates are enforced, the Federal
government strongly finances education in the various States, along
with other subsides, Trump has the power to coerse the States to ban
vaccine mandates. AG
https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/herd-immunity-lockdowns-and-covid-19
*The percentage of people who need to be immune in order to achieve
herd immunity varies with each disease. For example, herd immunity
against measles requires about 95% of a population to be vaccinated.
The remaining 5% will be protected by the fact that measles will not
spread among those who are vaccinated. For polio, the threshold is
about 80%. The proportion of the population that must be vaccinated
against COVID-19 to begin inducing herd immunity is not known. This is
an important area of research and will likely vary according to the
community, the vaccine, the populations prioritized for vaccination,
and other factors. *
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