{"id":2439,"date":"2020-08-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2020-08-12T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T11:02:10","slug":"buried-lede-given-the-current-state-of-segregation-in-the-u-s-it-may-not-be-possible-for-us-to-ever-naturally-reach-herd-immunity-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2020\/08\/buried-lede-given-the-current-state-of-segregation-in-the-u-s-it-may-not-be-possible-for-us-to-ever-naturally-reach-herd-immunity-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"BURIED LEDE: Given the current state of segregation in the U.S., it may not be possible for us to ever naturally reach “herd immunity” to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This simulation is extremely<\/em> worth your time\u2014even if you think you understand the challenges we’re facing with coronavirus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/em>: A vaccine, or a spike in deaths: How America can build herd immunity to the coronavirus<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sadly neglected here: They do not mention that the previous world record for developing an effective vaccine is four years<\/em>\u2014not the ~9 months the PotUS keeps insisting is possible, or the “Idunno; maybe about a year?” the rest of us keep saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four years<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s the fastest humanity has ever developed a vaccine. The average is more like two decades<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s totally possible that the Russian vaccine<\/a> is safe, legit, and works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it’s unlikely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it’s likewise unlikely\u2014to the point of impossible\u2014that a nation like ours (where cities within miles of each other have massive racial\/economic differences, massively different experiences of this virus, and rarely commingle) will develop herd immunity soon (if ever).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, this virus is killing Americans 10x faster than guns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are doing things differently now than you did a year ago. The immediate future looks a lot more like last May than last Christmas. Prepare yourself for that<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This simulation is extremely worth your time\u2014even if you think you understand the challenges we’re facing with coronavirus: Washington Post: A vaccine, or a spike in deaths: How America can build herd immunity to the coronavirus Sadly neglected here: They do not mention that the previous world record for developing an effective vaccine is four … Continue reading “BURIED LEDE: Given the current state of segregation in the U.S., it may not be possible for us to ever naturally reach “herd immunity” to COVID-19″<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[471,468,470,77,213,53,79,155],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}