Herd Immunity in Indonesia

Would you travel to Indonesia after they have accomplished herd immunity?

  • Yes

    Votes: 23 37.7%
  • No

    Votes: 38 62.3%

  • Total voters
    61

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Did not watch the video yet, but I don't think many people realize that herd immunity just means that transmission slows to uninfected people because there are less of them, but to get there means many already got the virus and given the scale, as lexvil pointed out, millions of people die to get there.

I think people tend to think long term cure when they hear vaccine, but as pointed out, vaccine can be short term like the flu shot or longer term like polio. If it's short term, it's still possible to get it and be subject to the coin toss of dying from it.

The Jakarta article link was enlightening as well as SeaWardens comments. As even our NIH director mentioned the other day, politicizing public health issues and lack of positive leadership is blocking effective treatment or handling. It's also clear that we are reaping the benefits of years of idiots chipping away at the confidence in everything so people don't know who to trust and are ready to believe any crazy thing. We thought most people knew they were nuts but obviously more people listened than we thought. Somebody's SIG on here says something like "Don't underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups."
 
Not to be off topic but I don’t think herd immunity is really the issue traveling to this part of the world. The main problem is, if you do end up with Covid in a remote location, you will have a difficult time getting to a quality medical care facility. What care you do get will be in a government facility which is never a good situation. With good hygiene the odds are in your favor, especially if herd immunity is reached. However, in the end it will end up a game of roulette......
 
Currently, we test all our workers on a regular basis, using PCR swab test. But the plan is to also test all the divers coming into the resort in case they caught it on the way
Not to be off topic but I don’t think herd immunity is really the issue traveling to this part of the world. The main problem is, if you do end up with Covid in a remote location, you will have a difficult time getting to a quality medical care facility. What care you do get will be in a government facility which is never a good situation. With good hygiene the odds are in your favor, especially if herd immunity is reached. However, in the end it will end up a game of roulette......


Currently, we test all our workers on a regular basis, using PCR swab test. But the plan is to also test all the divers coming into the resort in case they caught it on the way to the resort. If they caught it, it's better that we found it at the airport then a few days later when the symptoms appear on a remote island.

In case you were wondering, we don't pick people's nose, we just as them to spit into a glass.. using the yale protocol.
 
Currently there are about 12,000 test per day. About 3500 per day positive. That is 30% of the herd that has been infected. The spreading stops around 60%, that would mean around Feb 2021 next year that Indonesia will accomplish herd immunity.

Would you travel to Indonesia after they have accomplished herd immunity?

I think we are a lot closer to global herd immunity than we know it.
92% of the millions of covid infected in India are asymptomatic, in the UK 78% asymptomatic also. The emerging science is showing that some asymptomatic don't even produce any detectable covid antibodies. And in some studies show up to 90% asymptomatic people show a T-cell immune response.
All global pandemic planning to covid is based on covid-19 being a NOVEL VIRUS, with the assumption that it was impossible for anyone to have pre-existing immunity based on antibodies. But a general consensus is building amongst the top immunologists & virologists in the world that a large part of the population already have T-cell specific immune responses to fight covid from previous exposure to common cold & other coronaviruses. The SIGNIFICANCE of this?

In 2009 the WHO & CDC was forced to change its pandemic modelling for Swine Flu based on the evidence of leading Immunologist Alessandro Sette that people were coping better because of pre-existing T-cell exposure to other forms of that virus. Alessandro Sette has made similar findings in regards to covid-19.

The data forced a change in views at WHO and CDC, from an assumption before 2009 that most people “will have no immunity to the pandemic virus” 16 to one that acknowledged that “the vulnerability of a population to a pandemic virus is related in part to the level of pre-existing immunity to the virus.” 17 But by 2020 it seems that lesson had been forgotten.

Keeping in line with this thread, because I don't want to argue about covid on an Indonesian scuba forum. I think a vaccine may play a part in travel returning to Indonesia. But I think a shift in pandemic planning based on emerging science will be more significant in travel returning to normal much sooner than we know it

Is Covid’s end closer than we think? | Letters
 
80% of the millions of covid infected in India are asymptomatic, in the UK 78% asymptomatic also. The emerging science is showing that some asymptomatic don't even produce any detectable covid antibodies. And in some studies show up to 90% asymptomatic people show a T-cell immune response.

Scientists know for at least few months now that the vast majority of people infected are asymptomatic but what has this to do with herd immunity? Keep in mind that scientist also know that asymptomatic people do spread the disease.

Remember herd immunity (if there will be such thing for this virus) is not a hard limit - say before 80% the virus will spread free and once at 80.1% it will stop spreading. Herd immunity means that the more people develop immunity the more the spread of the virus will slow down. Slow down - not stop. It will continue spreading but with slower and slower pace.

Signs of slowing down will be apparent as we will be getting close to the herd immunity.
Do you see any signs of slowing down???
You might, but I don't (that's just yesterday):
Indonesia sees record single-day case spike of 4,168
 
Scientists know for at least few months now that the vast majority of people infected are asymptomatic but what has this to do with herd immunity? Keep in mind that scientist also know that asymptomatic people do spread the disease.

Remember herd immunity (if there will be such thing for this virus) is not a hard limit - say before 80% the virus will spread free and once at 80.1% it will stop spreading. Herd immunity means that the more people develop immunity the more the spread of the virus will slow down. Slow down - not stop. It will continue spreading but with slower and slower pace.

Signs of slowing down will be apparent as we will be getting close to the herd immunity.
Do you see any signs of slowing down???
You might, but I don't (that's just yesterday):
Indonesia sees record single-day case spike of 4,168

what has this to do with herd immunity?

Good point, I should of elaborated further. If the vast majority of people infected with covid show little to no symptoms, it means their bodies although infected, cope with the virus quite well. If the virus is still spreading but 92% of the infected don't require any medical treatment, as in India's case, surely a remodeling of the pandemic planning is in order, evidenced by the fact that covid does not present a serious or mortal danger to the greater public.

Immunity for covid-19 is only measured by antibodies being present, but all studies show covid-19 antibodies only last a few months at the very most.
If immunity is measured by the T-cell immune response to covid-19 which renders an infection to not produce symptoms, then this would be half the world's population at the very least with some form of protection
 
If the virus is still spreading but 92% of the infected don't require any medical treatment, as in India's case, surely a remodeling of the pandemic planning is in order,

The problem is not with the ones who don't need treatment. The problem is with the rest that need it. Even if 0.1% (figure came out of my mind - I think in practice this is higher) of those infected need hospitalization for countries like Indonesia or India figures get huge. Do the math.
I leave the discussion somewhere here. Time will tell and up to now it has been proven that things are going downhill - not as much as it was feared in the beginning but still this decease is in the increase as we speak.
Hope for the best
 
The problem is not with the ones who don't need treatment. The problem is with the rest that need it. Even if 0.1% (figure came out of my mind - I think in practice this is higher) of those infected need hospitalization for countries like Indonesia or India figures get huge. Do the math.
I leave the discussion somewhere here. Time will tell and up to now it has been proven that things are going downhill - not as much as it was feared in the beginning but still this decease is in the increase as we speak.
Hope for the best

The problem is with the rest that need it.

The World is at it's most technologically & scientifically advanced stage it's ever been, @ present. Surely there's a better way to protect the small percentage of vulnerable people than to stop the world
 
There are physical consequences other than death. These are being found even in those who were asymptomatic.
 
We're human beings, not cockroaches. We can't stop every disease or virus in the cycle of life, nor can we live with our heads cut off or survive a nuclear holocaust
 
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