Author:

• Roberto Briceño-León - Briceño-León, R. - <roberto.bricenoleon@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8882-7787

Abstract:

Although communicable diseases affect our bodies, they occur in a society that interprets and gives them meaning. Herd immunity allows the body to achieve protection, however, for its sustainability, it requires changes in the way people interpret and respond to disease, cultural transformations that allow the development of knowledge, habits and skills that make herd immunity feasible and sustainable. Herd culture allows individuals to protect themselves and restrict their freedom in order to protect others; it is a form of exercising positive freedom and the necessary complement to herd immunity in democratic society

Keywords:

Herd immunity, herd culture, covid-19, freedom, cultural changes.

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