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Spain, Italy, France and Germany seem to have flattened the curve. Let's hope no second wave and herd immunity is next.
- A study just released in Spain suggests around 5% of the population has antibodies, although varies greatly by region. That's a long way from herd immunity.yuekit
- how was this "study" conducted?Krassy
- was 100% of the population tested for antibodies and 5% have it? or was 6% of the population tested and 5% of those have it? ;-)Krassy
- I'm sure it was more like the second scenario...you can read about it hereyuekit
- https://www.reddit.c…yuekit
- We did a test here for 1000 random people, just around 2% have antibodies. We just stayed all in house...********
- herd immunity will take years :/********
- A lot of experts seem to think 70-90% required for herd immunity although this is debated.yuekit
- But if you take those numbers at face value Spain would have to go through the same epidemic/deaths 13-17 more times to get to immunity.yuekit
- no country will reach herd immunity, a vaccine will come before that (my opinion)Bennn
- @grafician did you, personally, get tested?Krassy
- Maybe before the vaccine, they will get so good treating it that the death rate goes down drastically.yuekit
- Herd immunity can’t happen until people start to herd together, againGnash
- @Krassy nope, it was just in the news, we're coming out of lockdown tomorrow and going into "Alert state" on Monday I think...********
- we're also opening barbershops, museums, no big gatherings tho' and limited travel between cities, but we can go anywhere in the city. 245 new cases...********
- in Spain the past 3 days the amount of deaths have been increasing again, not at an alarming rate but evidently due to the effect of relaxing the lockdownernexbcn
- we are allowed to go out for walks, exercise now and I did it just once and people just simply don't give a fuck, they don't avoid getting closeernexbcn
- I found it way too stressing going out and paying attention to who is coming close fuck this I will take a walk at midnighternexbcn
- Any increase recently can't be due to a change in behaviour three days ago, no?Nairn
- yes Ernesto, here in the Basque Country we're doing it with a bit more of discipline, but now and then, you can see some groups who still don't give a fuck...OBBTKN
- And again... the politicians are giving a sad show, i n c r e d i b l eOBBTKN
- I suspect it's better overall for people to be able to go outside in the sun *and still maintain social distancing* rather than couped up at home for weeksNairn
- The sad fact is, we should probably have everyone 55 and under out and about, and everyone over that incarcerated for the next year. Can't do that though.Nairn
- *fact = not fact; opinion of mine.
haha.Nairn - Not to get all Trump, but I think most people seriously underestimate the mountain of fuck that we're facing economically.Nairn
- Which is to say, I'd suggest there's a good reason to push for expansion of social and economic freedoms so that we push the herd immunity % up.Nairn
- My neighbour here in Madrid was tested, I wasn't though. We both had the virus.Chimp
- In Spain most people can only go out from 8pm which causes a mad rush. The parks in Madrid were also closed until recently.Chimp
- @Chimp hope you're well? is your immune system fighting it?Krassy
- @ernex, aunque en un escenario muy diferente, percibo una similar actitud en el gobierno de Uruguay. Me molesta MUCHO. Más aún pudiendo ver cifras de otros paísmaquito
- There is no such thing as herd immunity. This bug is a total question mark. It’s almost as if it’s goal is that everyone catches itmaquito
- If there's anything less than 100% mortality rate and antibodies stay for any amount of time, then there can be herd immunity. To what degree, is a diff. quest.Nairn
- At the moment it's looking like antibodies linger around for at least 3 months (which is all we can really tell at this stage, given the timeline)Nairn