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14. Herd Immunity is a debunked theory that never could apply to humans.

It is a poorly defined theory with a lot of observational bias when applied to mammals. It depends upon the fairly short cycle of reproduction found in wild mammals and is an extension of the poorly named "survival of the fittest" school of evolution theory.

Its primary flaw is that this theory depends upon a segment of the population dying off, leaving those with some degree of resistance alive to reproduce the next generation of offspring. It is a formula for excusing genocide that once was applied by some to ideas for public policy response to AIDS and Ebola.

In NO way does it actually function to successfully immunize a human population as Sweden has demonstrated. It assumes all survival cases reacted successfully to a standard of medical response which is impossible to maintain across diverse communities of income, service delivery, population and physical distribution. It also assumes the resistance gained by survivors will last a significant time if not become permanent, neither of which conditions has occurred with COVID-19. It also assumes that survivors cannot be carriers which sadly hasn't been true enough.