Johns Hopkins Doctor Thinks COVID Will
Be Largely Gone By April, Half of U.S. Has
Herd Immunity
Newsweek,
by
Katherine Fung
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
2/20/2021 12:04:38 AM
Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, believes that the coronavirus will be "mostly gone" by April.
In an op-ed published by The Wall Street Journal on Friday, Makary argued that half of the U.S. has already reached herd immunity because there are more coronavirus cases in the country, possibly 6.5 times as many, than the 28 million that have been reported.
Combined with the 15 percent of Americans who have already begun receiving the vaccine, the doctor argued that normal life will return by the spring.
"There is reason to think the country is racing
Reply 1 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 2/20/2021 12:17:47 AM (No. 702352)
Amen! How about gone BEFORE spring?!
Gaslighting: Covid, 2020 Election
https://rumble.com/vdxo2p-interview-with-marshall-sylver.html
KAG
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 2/20/2021 12:26:13 AM (No. 702358)
oops, forgot to add, Daughter #2 is a gifted [classical education undergrad, valedictorian] and JHU grad... just before reason and character were dismissed. Her JHU ethics prof from Italy was a gift from God.
KAG
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jalo1951 2/20/2021 12:27:28 AM (No. 702359)
The dems will not be happy with this news. They are not planning on letting their power grip on America slip through their fingers. Now it's two masks, letting some teacher's unions pull punches, Bill Gates suggesting we actually need 3 shoots (don't know where he got his MD from) before we can approach some semblance of normal, biden suggesting we might be okay by Christmas but then again maybe not. They have every intention of keeping their boot on our neck and if they have to move the goalposts every few weeks then so be in. Herd immunity be damned.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 2/20/2021 12:43:01 AM (No. 702363)
We as a family had it at the beginning of January. Gen X mom and dad + kids. First sign was no smell and taste, super weird! Then just a bad sinus infection with on and off fatigue for like 3 weeks. We are cool now. Life goes on. Grandparents are all good which is the important part. For youngins, statistically its like a bad flu at worst. Keep the seniors safe. We will be okay. President Trump was right!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/20/2021 1:11:01 AM (No. 702385)
The emergency powers will remain, and you will still be advised to wear 2 masks. Going into a store will require a mask from now on.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SALady 2/20/2021 1:18:24 AM (No. 702389)
This was never about public safety!!! If it had been, the BLM riots would have been shut down on night #1.
No, this was about evil dictator-wanna-be government officials seeing just how far they can control the masses of peasants using "health issues" as their weapon. And sadly, they succeeded far beyond their wildest imaginations!!! So, no, they are not going to ever allow us to stop wearing masks -- and all the other things they are doing to control the peasants -- until we finally get fed up and push back!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 2/20/2021 2:07:30 AM (No. 702402)
But the totalitarian control will not end, just watch.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Vesicant 2/20/2021 2:07:47 AM (No. 702403)
We would have had herd immunity a year ago if it weren't for masks and the Democrats weaponizing the situation to get Trump. No virus infected your bank accounts -- it was some moron Chinacrat.
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In May SloJoe will declare himself a genius and qualify for the Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe it has something to do with fake positive tests.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
KatieJo 2/20/2021 4:59:34 AM (No. 702442)
Doesn't matter, they will not acknowledge it. We know people who stood in line for testing, but left. They were not even tested but were notified by mail that they tested positive. Why on earth would reality matter now?They will just create fake data and numbers.
38 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Marcus 2/20/2021 5:24:46 AM (No. 702444)
Hey, if this is true, maybe i won't have to get the vaccine after all! I'm in the approved age group, so have been phoning and going online regularly for the past 4 weeks in an attempt to get a vaccine appointment, which is incredibly hard. It's almost a full time job.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rather Read 2/20/2021 5:26:58 AM (No. 702445)
There will still be people who are scared to death. I know a couple of them. They've had the shots, but remain so scared they won't go out. As long as the covid is around, they are scared they'll get it. It's sad.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 2/20/2021 5:50:07 AM (No. 702463)
April???? It's gone now.
32 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 2/20/2021 5:58:44 AM (No. 702468)
This really isn't news. It's the "turn the ship of perception around and declare victory for joe" phase of the propaganda wing of the incompetent and/or Marxist regime. A corrupt washington continues to feed the sheeple bread and circuses to keep the populace distracted as they exert more power over you.
Face it folks, you didn't vote for nor is this mess of a government representative of the America we know.
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If Trump were still in office, this article would have never been published.
The stolen election was a powerful event.
NOW covid is over.
NOW the republicans want election integrity.
Can Texas have their power plans approved by the feds now?
Can we see the evidence from Epstein's island now?
Can we walk around without a face diaper on now?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 2/20/2021 7:25:17 AM (No. 702498)
Normal life will not return unless the citizens demand it. I'm afraid too many citizens have bought the government's lie by hook, line, and sinker. The tyrants like their control too much. Control was always the goal.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
franq 2/20/2021 7:37:51 AM (No. 702511)
ENNNNGGGH! Wrong answer, Hans. There will be mutations of the virus and edicts keeping us in bondage until Kingdom come. I wish I could believe otherwise.
12 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
franq 2/20/2021 7:43:08 AM (No. 702520)
And just try going in Wally World without a mask. My wife doesn't. So we were shopping last Saturday... I saw a black guy with his pulled down, then a white teen with no mask. I took mine off. Less than five minutes went by and I was accosted by an employee, reminding me there was a mask mandate. We were in the back of the store, so I believe were probably tracked down by the overhead cameras. I told her my blood O2 saturation drops to perilous levels when I wear a mask. I pointed to my wife and said "She's in the same boat." The robot was distracted by another employee, then walked away. But I thought to myself, "It's not worth the hassle." WalMart is not going to change due to a few rogue customers.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 2/20/2021 8:27:17 AM (No. 702560)
As a quite senior citizen physician, I don’t plan on having a vaccine. If the Chinese developers of the vaccine can program part of the virus into the M-RNA, what other stealth nucleotide time bombs sequences can they slip in?
29 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
The Remnants 2/20/2021 8:41:35 AM (No. 702578)
Pretty sure I read someplace that Bill Gates is a big donor to Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins was also was the place to go to to learn that the number of covid cases were going up up up - before the vaccines, that is.
I am happy to be corrected if I got info wrong about Gates' donations to Johns Hopkins.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LLAMA 2/20/2021 8:46:31 AM (No. 702587)
The bank robbers will be delighted to know that mask wearing will be required forever.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 2/20/2021 9:11:14 AM (No. 702631)
I kept a spreadsheet until September because it was not surprising that hospitalizations had flatlined. And when I quit I didn't have the data (because the CDC kept it secret) that the 400,000 influenza cases normally recorded were not reported.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/20/2021 9:14:51 AM (No. 702638)
COVID gone by Spring. Why not? As Biden said all during the presidential campaign that he had a plan to stop COVID and if you believe this report he will have that job done by the Springtime. Biden claims that Trump who did not stop COVID is directly responsible for all the COVID deaths in the USA. Now we can see from this media report that it took a previously undistinguished professional politician with over 45 years in DC to stop COVID by April for which the country will be pleased as punch. After being told that by the so-called mainstream media unfortunately about half the country will believe that propaganda.
9 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/20/2021 9:28:34 AM (No. 702653)
All I know is that, after a full year of this panic porn, I still don’t personally know a single person who has had the virus.
Here in South Carolina we have been pretty much open since May. In the Charleston area, by order of the leftist mayor, we have to wear masks in public buildings but that’s it. Since August I have been getting together with about a dozen friends each week to pursue our hobby. We don’t wear masks and we don’t do the distance thing. In fact, we are constantly leaning over each other’s shoulders to see what everyone is doing. We eat lunch together. For the rest of the week we go about our lives as usual. And guess what? After 7 months of this, not one of us has gotten the dread virus.
That’s just one small group of people in one bit of anecdotal evidence but I would bet that my story can multiplied by thousands.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 2/20/2021 9:39:33 AM (No. 702675)
From #6: "this was about evil dictator-wanna-be government officials seeing just how far they can control the masses of peasants using "health issues" as their weapon. And sadly, they succeeded far beyond their wildest imaginations!!!"
Actually, the dems have used not just "health issues," but any completely unwarranted issue they can get the MSM to trumpet in hopes it would damage Trump...impeachment X2, Russian Collusion delusion, Trump's tax returns, fictional systemic racism, fake deaths and 'armed insurrection' on Jan 6, Nat'l Guard troops w/razor wire ever since...heck, even Barron's choice of hair cut!
They wanted power, no matter the cost or collateral damage.
And they won, at least for now.
10 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Kate318 2/20/2021 9:39:42 AM (No. 702676)
Covid will be over when one of two things happen: 1) It is no longer a useful tool to achieve the objectives of the left, or 2) When the people say it is over and take back their lives. I don’t see signs of either of those two things happening. My state is in the death grip of UNMC, and our city council has just extended our mask mandate from last August to this May. Our “numbers” are down substantially, and our governor has restored the state to full capacity crowds (with distancing, of course) yet the vast majority of the population still hides behind a mask and cowers in their homes. I fear many in the population have achieved a state of cognitive dissonance, and are no longer able to process information that counters their narrative.
15 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 2/20/2021 9:48:53 AM (No. 702690)
Is Dr. Makary still on staff as of this morning? How many of us already had crossover immunity from COVIDs 1-18 over the course of our lives?
9 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 2/20/2021 10:23:14 AM (No. 702744)
The general population Vitamin D levels naturally rise in spring due to increased sunshine. Get out with some bare skin showing and you will increase your Vitamin D, improving your immune system's ability to throw this stuff off before it gets a serious hold on you.
Or take a Vitamin D3 supplement daily.
Take a bit of time to educate yourself on Vitamin D, it will be worthwhile.
12 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
red1066 2/20/2021 10:37:26 AM (No. 702769)
My company has put out new travel requirements that include even after getting the two vaccine shots, after 90 days, one STILL has to be tested before traveling. BS, I'm done testing, and I'm done with the company. Retirement is April 2nd. Test this.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/20/2021 10:40:11 AM (No. 702772)
Here's another example of science fighting science....it comes down to this... each person must evaluate the information and act accordingly...here's my thought ... for me... I'm an older citizen... I'm retired and live comfortably in a private residence...as a widow... I don't entertain and go out to eat... I love to cook and bake... shhh... I'm really a great cook...I visit my Piggly Wiggly each week for groceries and drive my truck around listening to Rush Limbaugh's memory tapes... it's wonderful hearing his voice each day...so you see my friends... I've made peace with this china virus and with the election fraud...if God chooses to take me home... I will see my darling husband again...hope he made it!!
22 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/20/2021 11:01:30 AM (No. 702808)
I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on TV but I've declared this nonsensical Bat Flu gone from my life. Future archaelogists could find that this era nearly died by shutting itself down and that wouldn't say much for us. At least the dinosaurs had a big meteor on which to blame their demise.
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Shouldn't this doctor be locked up for his heresy?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/20/2021 11:31:38 AM (No. 702847)
I glean enough from reading the post and the replies without having to give Newsweak a click. Thanks all.
( are the 15 days to flatten the curve over yet?)
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
joew9 2/20/2021 11:35:50 AM (No. 702853)
Covid will keep going until the news media decides to report that it's stopped. It's unlikely to do that until it's a political advantage for the Democrats to say it's over. Otherwise it will go on forever.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
crashnburn 2/20/2021 11:41:22 AM (No. 702864)
Only 35K died from CoVid. The rest died with it. I’d say we can open the economy up now. The CommieDemoniKKKRats have a vested interest in opening up the economy so they’ll have a chance in November 2022.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/20/2021 11:42:59 AM (No. 702867)
Well, Doc...follow the politics on this instead of the science. They have the American public by the nose...and there's always another variant in the air.
4 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
Italiano 2/20/2021 12:12:17 PM (No. 702904)
In just three short months, Joe Biden waved his oatmeal spoon and made it all go away.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
AltaD 2/20/2021 12:45:00 PM (No. 702945)
I posted Makary's piece from the WSJ on facebook yesterday, both to share it with friends and to see how quickly they'd censor it. So far the censor bots have ignored it. Maybe the tech lords have decided "herd immunity" is no longer verboten on social media (or the bots haven't spotted it yet).
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/20/2021 5:56:19 PM (No. 703183)
I'll be dog goned, Makary. I'll be dipped. Surprise, surprise. Just, two and a half months after the November 3rd presidential election, and magically, covid will disappear. Makary, did you vote for biden the cheater?
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