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A. Close Their Eyes, Click Their Heels Together, and Wait 0
Q. What is the Trump administration’s strategy for dealing with the pandemic?
The Epidemiologist and Human Sacrifice 0
Dr. Mario Molina takes a look at the “herd immunity” snake oil being embraced by the Trump administration and does the math. A snippet (emphasis added):
Moreover, to achieve herd immunity, 70-90% of the community must be infected and develop resistance to the disease. In the United States that would mean over 200 million Americans would have to be infected with the virus. With a 1% mortality rate, which is optimistic (some researchers peg the mortality rate closer to 3%), that means that over 2 million people would die . . . .
Maskless Marauders 0
A physician and professor of medicine who lost his own father to COVID-19 before it was recognized for what it is struggles to understand the maskless marauders. A snippet:
Maskless Marauders 2
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times finds a succinct and briefly stated analogy with which to convey his request to the reading public without need of excess and superfluous verbiage.
Maskless Marauders 0
In related news, Susan A. Nolan and Michael Kimball, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, try to understand the maskless.
