That’s what Marty Makary, professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine thinks. From his recent Wall Street Journal article:
“Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted?
In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity.”
The plain truth that nothing that our government has done to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 has actually worked, and that it has all been in vain, is too painful for many to accept. The tens of millions thrown out of work, the physical and psychological toll inflicted upon children, the decimation of the small business economy, the destruction of the arts, all for nothing. The virus has spread regardless of the measures taken, and it has just about run its course. Maybe by April, all that will be left is the harrowing memory of a year flushed down the crapper in a vain attempt to stop a virus that ended up not being all that bad. Unlike COVID-19, we’ll be feeling the pain from the response to the virus for years.
