What is "Heard Immunity"?

[Lissa]

A big difference with other pandemic is that Covid 19 affects a certain group (high age an/or underlying diseases) while for example the spanish flue was most harsh on young adults. I find that a big difference. I know Covid 19 can in some cases also cause rampaging immune systems becoming very dangerous without notice, but in general it is a weakening conditions which gives people the last push. So if that was it I would be fine fine with all these lockdown measures (which I obide to by the way) but it causes an enormous amount of suffering among others. And I don't mean wearing a mask and not being able to go on holiday but I mean pshychological distress leading to higher suicide rates, a general eduction lag, social problems etc. on top of that the amount of people with too late cancer diagnoses because they don't go to a dokter to have themselves checked.  Making good calculations is difficult but the loss of healthy years might be on the same level or bigger than that because of the diseases itsself. And the difference is that these problems I mentioned are suffered by kids and young adults. And not just that, it is felt harder by the lower socio-economic classes. Having to stay at home is easy if you have a nice big garden in a good neaighbourhood but not so much if you live with a family of 6 in a 60m2 mould infested appartment.

The bit I'm highlighting here is simply wrong.  COVID-19 has attacked all age groups and all underlying conditions.  Has it affected certain groups more, yes.  Has it killed people that were perfectly healthy and had no underlying conditions, YES.  To say that simply going after those underlying conditions does not show that it would stop all cases.  Right now in the US, the most affected age group is...*drumroll*  Children between the ages of 5 and 12.  While other ages groups are still getting infected, the most hospitalized age group right now is children and from statistics I have seen, about 4000 kids between 5 and 12 are presently in various hospitals around the US right now.

I'd really like people to sit down and do some research and actually confirm things with firm statics before starting to think they've got the full picture as I just showed in this case that what is thought is the actual situation is completely not the situation.  Until everyone is immunized, COVID-19 is going to stick around in some level of pandemic effect (hell, TB and HIV are still pandemics depending on where you are in the world, typically low economy nations).