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Ggggg wrote:
And then go back together, and even then it is enough for one man to still have it, and then you would have 2 and 4 and 8’and 16 and 32 and 64 and 128.....you digg how stupid and ignorant is the idea of isolating healthy people?
The big factor you don’t account for is that at some point (relatively early) the doubling can’t continue.
First person will get 2, those 2 could get 4, those 4 might only infect 7 because one person might have immunity already. Now those 7 might only infect 12 because even more are now immune and people are more likely to interact with the same vs new people... at some point (~ 50% infected) they would be more likely to infect fewer people eventually the infected people wouldn’t see any susceptible people.
This is when you hit ‘herd immunity.’ Depending how easily spread a disease is it could be very low or it could 95% plus. But minimizing interactions lowers the threshold for herd immunity.
That’s my point- isolating healthy people does damage. The true solution,like any flu, is herd immunity