Wellness

[Kachina624]

Does anyone else dislike this term as much as I?  Everytime I hear it, I feel scientists think of us as a herd of cattle or some kind of animals.  Why couldn't they just call it "group immunity".  Herd immunity doesn't sound very professional or official IMO.

[Jersey Born]

@Kachina624 - I could not agree with you more.  I cannot stand the term "herd immunity".  

[rms1954]

Because that's how they look at us and that's how we act.  We let ourselves be treated as animals ... we do as we are told (unless, of course, we think for ourselves and react independently.)

We are not treated as independent individuals who can think for ourselves.

[on the bay]

@Kachina624 -

That's the first thing I think of too! Cows!

[Kachina624]

@rms1954.  I don't think our behavior has anything to do with it.

[froggy]

I don't dislike that term as much as "social distancing". 

[Goodie2shoes]

I'd rather they call it something like population immunity, at least we wouldn't feel like we were more like  animals (although some people do act that way now !)

[Kachina624]

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@froggy wrote:

I don't dislike that term as much as "social distancing". 

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@froggy. Yep, if you're distancing you're not being social.  It ought to be antisocial distancing.  How about just "distancing"?

[Trinity11]

It does not bother me as I see it as a positive. It will be music to my ears when Dr. Fauci has a news conference claiming that we finally have herd immunity...

[mspatmac]

Herd immunity occurs when enough people become immune to a disease to make its spread unlikely. As a result, the entire community is protected, even those who are not themselves immune. Herd immunity is usually achieved through vaccination, but it can also occur through natural infection.

I don't care what they call it as long as it's achieved.