Thread by @contrarhetorics

Completely agree, @CapitalRojas. In reality, this virus is so extraordinarily clearcut in its at-risk demographics that developing a vaccine & applying it to the vulnerable reduces it as a threat to nearly nil. Full immunization does not need to occur to "go back to normal." 1/11

https://twitter.com/CapitalRojas/status/1317575616624033793

The stress here on the time needed to immunize everyone is taking The Experts©'s claim about the "open threat" the virus is as if it were true and showing how short-termist, incautious & ill-thought out actually - a reckless gamble on a "silver bullet" about the immanence... 2/11

...of a vaccine that doesn't actually exist - the drive for "covid free success" has been -- even if they *were*, indeed, correct about C19's general dangerousness. 3/11

It's also possible that the herd immunity threshold is less than 60% -- I absolutely agree. Or even that the virus is *already* on the wan globally due to its actually being *so* non-virulent in spite of its speed of transmission it is experiencing increasing entropy. 4/11

I deliberately opted for the 80% threshold since it's what the virusmongers use to cast a "strategy" of getting to herd immunity as ludicrious. 5/11

Using their own threshold here & applying it to the dull, concrete logistics of their holy grail of a vaccine is just about saying, "Ok, well, if that's true, here's the consequences of what you're claiming for *your* "plan" to cripple the world until a vaccine comes along." 6/11

Especially in the "successful" nations, the appearance of an endgame to all this resides in the prospect of a vaccine. It's key to the "rationality" of undergoing all the deprivations of the "response". It's what seems to make the sacrifice worth it at core. 7/11

Antilockdowners have made the absolute crucial point that a vaccine might not even eventuate. But since a vaccine probably will emerge, it's also crucial to draw out the realities entailed by its doing so, to illustrate ... 8/11

... the concrete timeframes that The Experts© and the Lifesavers® keep fogging with their perpetual emergency clamour & their manipulations about the consequences of "uncontrolled spread"... (as though they actually had a way, put in a global context, to control it.) 9/11

Especially because they so often prop up the wisdom of all the destructive paraphrenalia of lockdownism - border closures, social distancing, masking etc - by claiming it's a temporary abridgement *until* a vaccine arrives. 10/11

There's an enormous asterisk that comes with that and here's the quiet bit: it's not only about curtailing society for an unknown duration while waiting for a vaccine but also curtailing it for an unknown duration after. 11/11