On Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 8:48:59 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote:
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 Yeah, I recall that when I was a kid in a place no one today knows of; Brooklyn, NY. AG 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. * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/98169462-fe46-4d70-ac2f-9043a4d82cd2n%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/98169462-fe46-4d70-ac2f-9043a4d82cd2n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/83487c36-a33f-4dde-93a6-e0fe72f77e1en%40googlegroups.com.
