70-80 % of people have to get the Coronavirus for herd immunity to be effective, right? That means that there are going to be a massive increase in the amount of hospitalizations, infections, deaths, and so on and so forth.
CDC estimated 40 percent to 70 percent required to reach herd immunity. If you recall the protests on George Floyd/BLM, some areas didn't see increases in COVID-19. In NYC, an antibody study revealed that some communities, primarily communities with POC, had some instances where 68 percent of people tested who were from these communities had antibodies. This helped to paint a picture on why close proximity protests didn't create massive spikes in cases in NY. Herd immunity was the reason. Another hispanic community had a 35 percent positivity rate for antibodies in Brooklyn.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-antibodies.html
We're closer to herd immunity in some places than people think.
what you actually find is that in 'white privilege' areas the number was 13%. they said overall the populous was ~26% in the epicenter area. (NYCity.. not NY state,.. NOT USA overall)
again in the city of the high epicentre of the epidemic..
other states had far far far lower numbers than 26%
so dont even try to make a small case study of 68% and 56% in certain area's to assume that its near that number overall everywhere
also the POC protesting george floyd did actually socially distance and stay home if sick during protests.
however if you look at the area's in like ohio. which were stupid. the case number went up
heck NY even done some 'bicycle' protests which is even safer.. yet other states done vandalism moshpit style protests
the places that did not do peaceful protests. and did not do it responsibly, going out even when they sick. got affected more
the only times NY done aggressive cluster protests they did not keep going out every day for a month.
yet other states were out most days for a month and using the protests for socialising upclose while trying to argue about their civil liberties are being quashed
kinda funny how your not showing places like ohio case increase knowing all the news of ohio stupid protest methods
I'm not saying that 68% or 56% is representative of the entire U.S. There is a reason why NY is not getting ravaged by coronavirus during the second wave, and that's because nearly everyone has already been exposed to coronavirus enough to the point that herd immunity can take effect. They had 30k deaths for a 9 million population, which out matches most countries in death per capita.