@roamer_1 A little number crunching.
US population data from the Census Bureau for 2018.
Children 0-18 75,877,700
Adults 19-25 28,020,700
Adults 26-34 39,590,700
Adults 35-54 81,990,600
Adults 55-64 41,897,600
65+ 51,121,200
Total 318,498,500
The total of people aged 0 – 54 is 225,479,700
An estimated 60 percent of all Americans have at least one chronic health condition, and 40 percent have more than one but that data includes the elderly.
High blood pressure affects nearly one in three adults in the United States, including one-third of adults in their 40s and 50s. More than one in 10 adults have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, including 17 percent of adults aged 45 to 64. At least 16 million Americans struggle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Obesity and asthma are also health conditions that factor into an increased risk for mortality from COVID-19.
But let’s say optimistically and factoring in the youngest age ranges that trend healthier, that among that group of 225,479,700 aged 0 -54 - 80% have no underlying health conditions, that would mean 180,383,790 people would have to “voluntarily†enroll in the CVI program at home or at a designated “safe infection†site to be tested, purposely infected, medically monitored and re-tested perhaps multiple times in order to certify their immunity and get their “certificate†under this dermatologist’s cunning plan, and all at the same time in order to expedite his program of attaining herd immunity. And as already pointed out, we are already seeing critical shortages of PPE and medical personnel and are still way short in testing capabilities.
Of course the mortality rate skews higher for the elderly but if we take the lower end estimate of COVID mortality and put it in the range of season flu at .1% (0.001) that would result in 180,384 deaths among those 180,383,790 people voluntarily enrolling in the CVI. At a CFR of only .05% that is still 90,192 deaths. At the high end of an overall CFR of 1% (0.01) it would be 1,803,838 deaths. So somewhere between 90k to 1m people could die in a matter of weeks if we purposely infect 80% of those age 0 – 54 - all at the same time.
Add to that worldwide, some 5% of all cases are serious/critical and in the US the CDC estimates that around 38% of those between the age 20 – 54 require hospitalization. 38% of the 80% of those age 20 -54 is around 45,479,008 people requiring hospitalization – again, all at the same time.
Here is another thing to consider. My niece is in a household of 8 - 4 children ages 12-13 (the 12 year olds are triplets) a husband and a young adult step son living in her household. But one of her children has asthma and severe allergies and her young adult step son has a congenital heart condition. So they could not do a CVI at home, but if 6 of them were put into a ““safe infection site†in a hotel or cruise ship, who would take care of and provide for the 2 remaining at home? Not to mention her parents, my brother and SIL are in their mid-70’s and have several underlying health conditions so my niece is going to the store and pharmacy for them so they don’t have to expose themselves.
One final thought. We do not yet know enough about the SARS-CoVid-19 virus yet to know for certain if prior infection imparts a lifetime immunity.
One final - final thought – Dr. Douglas A. Perednia is an idiot.