By Selwyn Duke

One thing our media is quite adept at is portraying the status quo as an experiment and an experiment as the status quo. Consider COVID-19 policy. Herd-immunity strategy is characterized as some untried, dubious theory even though it’s the standard way of dealing with respiratory pandemics. In contrast, wide-scale lockdowns are treated as standard even though they’d never before been imposed and thus have no track record whatsoever. Given this, a new study’s findings are perhaps not surprising.

To wit: Closing schools has delayed herd immunity and, for this reason, could lead to more death.

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