Herd Immunity is Mass Murder
During an interview with a WENY reporter, Bradford County (PA) commissioner Doug McLinko said the recent spike of covid-19 cases in the county is taking its "natural course" and that we shouldn't "live in fear", but to not "put yourself in harm's way." He also said that he would not take part in any discussions to shut down the county and, "we just have to be vigilant and tough and get through it." McLinko has adopted the herd immunity plan of Donald Trump and his non-epidemiologist medical advisor Dr. Scott Atlas. The plan is to allow the virus to spread among younger and healthier people who have a higher chance of survival until enough people have developed immunity (the herd level) to stop the spread of further infection. There are several problems: First, immunity after an infection hasn't yet been proven. Second, it will be next to impossible to protect vulnerable people if ten of thousands in the county are infected. And third