3 ms·

Vaccines don’t prevent infection. Your immune system always takes a while to spin up the adaptive immune system. What vaccines do is dramatically shorten the t

by Retric 2y ago

Vaccines don’t prevent infection. Your immune system always takes a while to spin up the adaptive immune system. What vaccines do is dramatically shorten the time needed for a strong immune response because your body built infrastructure to help fight that specific disease. This tends to dramatically alter what happens afterwards. To the point you may not notice the symptoms or have significant symptoms instead of a hospitalization etc. Edit: To be more specific B-Memory cells live in bone marrow. So when a virus starts reproducing in your lungs or a cut etc there’s communication lag before those T-Memory cells can do anything during which the virus is reproducing. In the very short term after vaccination the body is tricked into acting like an active infection is going on which causes various symptoms, but even here it’s unlikely to prevent initial infection.

rvnx 2y ago
Such claims of protection, reminds me of this Simpsons episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw It's true that the COVID-19 initial variants were very dangerous, and that the vaccines worked against these variants. However, the virus in 2024 is different from the one in 2019, but the side-effects, you are "guaranteed" to pay them. You really have to think twice.
- Retric 2y ago
  Except there’s a great deal of evidence vaccination is directly helpful. Just look at which states have the most deaths from COVID after mid 2021 vs their vacation rates. WV vaccination rate was 59% single 52% double vs MD at 90% S 78% D. Prior to July 2021 they had similar numbers after WV was far worse. https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/ https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st... Also, it’s likely if the 2024 virus was transported back to 2018 it would be far more deadly. At this point basically everyone has had prior infection or a vaccine for a closely related strain and there’s much better treatment for the infected. Thus the odds of anyone dying drops in ways that have nothing to do with the virus itself and a great deal to do with what happened over the last 5 years.

by Retric 2y ago

rvnx 2y ago

Such claims of protection, reminds me of this Simpsons episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw It's true that the COVID-19 initial variants were very dangerous, and that the vaccines worked against these variants. However, the virus in 2024 is different from the one in 2019, but the side-effects, you are "guaranteed" to pay them. You really have to think twice.

Retric 2y ago
Except there’s a great deal of evidence vaccination is directly helpful. Just look at which states have the most deaths from COVID after mid 2021 vs their vacation rates. WV vaccination rate was 59% single 52% double vs MD at 90% S 78% D. Prior to July 2021 they had similar numbers after WV was far worse. https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/ https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st... Also, it’s likely if the 2024 virus was transported back to 2018 it would be far more deadly. At this point basically everyone has had prior infection or a vaccine for a closely related strain and there’s much better treatment for the infected. Thus the odds of anyone dying drops in ways that have nothing to do with the virus itself and a great deal to do with what happened over the last 5 years.