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A vaccine, a mask, and social distancing reduce the probability of getting sick. In particular, a vaccine does not make you immune, like some sort of cartoon su
by thechao 5y ago
A vaccine, a mask, and social distancing reduce the probability of getting sick. In particular, a vaccine does not make you immune, like some sort of cartoon superhero. Instead, a vaccine dramatically improves the response time of your immune system to infection. If you’re surrounded by the infected, you’re gonna get sick.
If we had high rates of vaccination plus dedicated masking & distancing we could kill this virus. Just like we eradicated smallpox.
- 13years 5y agoWe didn't have leaky vaccines for smallpox. These vaccines work substantially different than previous generation vaccines. How do you explain covid still spreading in Gibraltar which is 100% vaccinated? How do you explain Sweden which has had the least intervention and yet now has one of the best outcomes?
- thechao 5y agoI don’t know why you’re being downvoted; for sure, one issue that I see skipped over is what we called “competence” — HIV is incompetent, whereas flu is competent: regardless of transmissivity (Re), you can ask how easily a virus infects. HIV rarely infects; flu infects quite well. It might be that COVID is supercompetent. That might explain the “breakthroughs” you’re reading about.