Canada is below the required immunity threshold to sustain elimination. How did we get here?

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That’s not how herd immunity works, once the population reaches a certain threshold it all goes to the toilet because not everybody can sustain the same immunity over long periods of time.

Herd immunity makes it hard for the virus to jump from person to person because the statistics dictate how likely it is for transmission to occur.

When a large amount of people are immunized it is less likely for it to jump from a newly vaccinated child to an adult that got vaccinated years ago because of the buffers that might exist in between those people.

When a less than useful amount of people are vaccinated it is more likely that it will just jump to all of the adults with weaker immunity.

So even if you’re immunized, sometimes that immunity goes away quickly as it did with the COVID vaccine.

Humanity is reaping what they sowed.

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Humanity is reaping what a handful of idiots sowed

FTFY

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Well if we’re so smart, then let’s figure out a way to defend ourselves that the idiots won’t just censor.

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We need life imprisonment for those who can be vaccinated, but refuse

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