Comments by "Brandon M" (@brandonm949) on "Revealed: Trump 'Science' Advisor Demanded 'Herd Immunity'" video.

  1. The CDC has a comparison of total deaths from all causes, compared to the expected number of deaths in a normal year. We've had between 290,000 and 400,000 extra deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm The fourth dashboard on that page shows the estimated excess death count at the top. The third dashboard shows the weekly counts, and splits it off into fully reported deaths and estimated deaths. You can clearly see how the death trends follow the same pattern as the official COVID death trends. And our second COVID peak was in July. Almost no one dies of the flu in July.
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  2.  @vegahimsa3057  I don't think we've established that COVID wouldn't mutate and re-infect people. And when you say we've had herd immunity for millions of years, you left out the part where young people used to die way more often than they do now.
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  3. We've done a lot of things throughout mankind that aren't acceptable today. I'm gonna stick with the plan that doesn't kill millions of Americans.
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  4. Is killing millions of Americans considered "good common sense" now?
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  5. I think he's said in the past that it's a per capita graph. Though he is omitting countries like Spain, Italy, and Belgium that have had a rough time with COVID.
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  6. You act like we aren't already trying to protect the vulnerable. We are. But people interact with each other, and eventually COVID gets to the vulnerable people anyway. What you say sounds nice in theory but it's not possible in practice.
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  7. What numbers are you looking at? Because 200,000 new cases and 2,500 deaths every day is not herd immunity.
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  8.  @janvanruth3485  Are you suggesting we'd have fewer overall deaths if we did the herd immunity thing? The numbers show that what we did was bad. They say nothing about what the herd immunity strategy would've looked like.
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  9.  @janvanruth3485  We're already trying to keep old people safe. But people are all interacting with each other and it makes that really hard. Kids in school interact with their parents, adults interact with their elderly parents, non-elderly people work in nursing homes, etc. In theory, if we could infect the 200 million youngest people in the country, we would reduce deaths by 90%. But that isn't how real life works.
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