Alabama state Sen. Del Marsh (R), who serves as the Senate’s President Pro Tempore, tried to make the claim on Thursday that the astounding increase in COVID-19 cases rippling across the state is actually a good thing.
The number of hospitalizations in Alabama skyrocketed by 40 percent within 24 hours on Wednesday.
And on Thursday, 2,164 cases emerged in the state, marking its highest single-day caseload thus far.
Yet Marsh told reporters that day that he was “not as concerned” about the staggering caseload, per a video posted by WSFA 12 News reporter Lydia Nusbaum.
“In fact, quite honestly, I want to see more people [test positive] because we start reaching an immunity if more people have it and get through it,” he said.
However, health experts said that trying to combat COVID-19 with a “herd immunity” through natural infection, which would require hundreds of millions of people to catch the virus, is incredibly risky and could in fact worsen the pandemic.
The Mayo Clinic warns that there are “some major problems with relying on community infection,” as there is not any straight forward proof yet that someone who recovers from the virus won’t get infected again.
“Further research is needed to determine the protective effect of antibodies to the virus in those who have been infected,” the clinic states in its information page on herd immunities.
Does AL have the capacity to treat Covid’s mortality rate of 4.4% if they reach herd immunity?
Moreover, there are reasons why herd immunity does not work for Covid:
Germ-Over-People Party…STOP acting like a Mini-Trump or kissing Trump’s ass because you are killing your constituents…especially those that are maskless and do not SD!
if it’s so important, then he should display leadership by taking his immediate family to a COVID ward and try to infect himself.
The other question is does AL have the capacity to treat the long term effects that survivors will be dealing with going forward?
It is one awful thing to be anti-science but it is another level to make things up as you go. Did any reporter ask him who specifically told him that?
The Mayo Clinic warns…
C’mon what do they know! Peckerwood here’s got all the medical experience he needs.