@CStamp I agree that entities like the Brownstone Institute and others who were proponents of the Great Barrington Declaration, as well as the politicians and other so-called experts who used them as cover for their eugenicist aims, deliberately misused the concept of herd immunity. However, WHO and CDC also incorrectly posited that herd immunity could be used to defeat SARS-CoV-2. The article I linked in the original post is from years before the current pandemic began and I doubt it's the first piece of literature on the subject as it relates to coronaviruses. The current Let It Rip policies that basically every country has resorted to regardless the leaning of their government are everything that the OG deniers -- those who called both COVID and vaccines a hoax from day one -- could have hoped for, eugenics and all. The only way out -- and imo the only ethical, moral choice -- is to individually and collectively do everything we can to stop those infected with SARS-CoV-2 from being able to transmit it to others, using all the layers in this graphic: