When Will The U.S. Be Released From COVID Prison? Issues & Insights
Japan announced Tuesday that it was lifting its coronavirus state of emergency. The country joins Norway, Sweden, and Denmark in returning to normal. America, however, will continue to be largely under the boot of politicians, bureaucrats, and meddlesome public health officials. Even convicts have release dates. But we have no idea when we ll be liberated because there are no objective standards, only political whim.
When asked Monday how many Americans need to be vaccinated for us to go back to normal, President Joe Biden replied: I think we get the vast majority & 96, 97, 98 percent.
First of all, that s unrealistic. There is no single activity that more than 95% of the population, any population, will agree to participate in. Even if Biden said that Washington was going to hand out $1 million to every American next week, there would be holdouts. So the president s benchmark is never going to be met. Which might very well be by design.
Second, herd immunity can be achieved when as little as 70% of the population more than 200 million people have recovered from COVID-19, says the Mayo Clinic, which also acknowledges that reaching herd immunity through vaccination against COVID-19 might be difficult for many reasons.
Of course a combination of those who have recovered and those who ve taken the shot(s) could provide herd immunity.
Opinions, of course, vary. Others say the threshold is higher. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose credibility is suspect at best, said at one time that herd immunity could be reached at a 60% to 70% vaccination rate. He then changed it to 70% to 75%, then to 80% to 85%, even suggesting but not claiming that the minimum is 90%, while also admitting that he s basing his estimates on a gut feeling.
Seems obvious where Biden is getting his science from.
Incidentally, the full-vaccination rate is 59% in Japan, 64% in Sweden, and 68% in Norway, all higher than the U.S. rate of 56%, but nowhere near the impossible rates that Fauci and Biden are demanding. Even Denmark, where the rate is 75%, falls short of the ruling class minimum.
While some red state governors have restored basic freedoms, Biden and blue state governors seem they d rather follow the uncompromising models of Australia, which has suffered from a mad rush into totalitarianism, and New Zealand, also a prison nation. The Democrats and media are deeply invested in both stoking fear and putting as much of the country under their control as is possible.
Yes, I’m starting to wonder about this as well.