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It's not 25%. 0.5% versus 0.13% is not the only issue here in terms of how much worse it is. It's the long time in the ICU. The flu kills you fairly quickly or you get better fairly quickly, so you don't take up hospital capacity so long. Herd "immunity" does not require 100%, but that's a decent approximation. Sure, I'll grant that it "starts" to show an effect around 65%, but the effect is not so strong. 70%, much stronger. 80% very strong. Heck, you could probably do containment by then without waiting to get to 100%. Because inadvertent spreading would be so low.


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