It’s a new year. The pandemic is becoming endemic. Mask mandates are ending even in the bluest of states and cities. Inflation worries are beginning to drive the government to put the US economy back on track. Politicians begin to prepare for the summer campaign season is to get underway.
Official government policy remains that the public good is best served by a herd immunity percentage of the US population having current vaccinations, including boosters, as an endemic phase control mechanism to contain the risk of future mutations of the virus.
In this regard, the US pursues a vaccinate-first policy that science now says is not necessarily the best way to protect a population. Data continuing to emerge from the experience with Omicron indicates that third world countries with lower vaccinations rates and higher infection rates from the Delta variant of the virus had herd resistance experiences with Omicron superior to the vaccine technology intensive approach of the first world nations…