Those diseases impact everyone equally. Have you heard of people contracting smallpox and not displaying symptoms at all? Everyone is technically at risk for polio, regardless of age or health status. The same isn't true for covid. Or shingles, whose vaccine isn't recommended for those younger than 50 since they can usually fight it off easily. Same with HPV, isn't very common among men and doesn't usually lead to serious problems.supranihilest wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 9:58 amIsn't it curious that the media and government are not focused on therapeutics for smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, HPV, etc.?
Wait, not it's not, because achieving herd immunity through vaccination is better than endlessly treating outbreaks with therapeutics.
According to experts, including Fauci, this virus is unlikely to go away. We will never have complete herd immunity coz the immunity given by the vaccine is temporary as we know today. So unless we manage to keep forcing people, regardless of age and health status to forever get boosters, herd immunity is unlikely. For instance, how many people get Tetanus booster every 10years? Similar to covid, young and healthy people can fight it off, but others can't.