In this episode I discuss some of the ethical implications of embracing the idea of “herd immunity” and my disgust at its endorsement by Trump officials. This to me just signals the mass concession that the virus has won, and since the prospect of an effective, safe, and mass distributed vaccine is still almost certainly months away at best, some have decided to “throw in the towel” and quit on trying to limit Covid 19’s spread because of a commitment to money, economics, and selfishness over human lives. The problem is, according to health experts, we are nowhere even close to achieving “herd immunity” if it even exists at all, and the other problem is, it is unknown whether there is even such a thing as “long term immunity” with COVID-19 in the first place. The idea of herd immunity with respect to Covid-19 is based on many such flawed and not necessarily correct assumptions as I discuss in this episode.

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