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> The immune system will continue to deal with the viruses as it normally does. Even if you know nothing about medicine, just from the fact that the COVID vacc
by dna_polymerase 5y ago
> The immune system will continue to deal with the viruses as it normally does.
Even if you know nothing about medicine, just from the fact that the COVID vaccines need booster shots you should be able to induce that the immune system in fact has a time component to it, and therefor any timeframe has an impact on it's ability. With a little more knowledge on the topic you can see that a single year of basically blocking everyhing off from your immune system makes it less powerful. The flu season will be devastating, and the long term effects of blocking kids from training their immune systems will be even worse.
- RandomLensman 5y agoI don't think a booster shot is a good example, lots of other vaccinations are administered in 3 shots. On others, the current view is that one is enough for life. If there is really a degradation in immune capability, is there any evidence of that from other vaccinations not working as well as in the past? How far the immune system is actually depressed from the lockdowns etc., we will find out. Could also be the other way around, i.e. overreaction. What I have not observed since things are getting back to normal in my part of Europe is that everyone gets a cold etc. as soon as they meet more people.
- blub 5y agoYour premise that everything was "blocked off" from people's immune systems is wrong and the whole argument falls apart. This is incidentally also addressed explicitly in the article.