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> ...taking the vaccine AND then getting covid... Your immune system does not generally prevent you from catching anything; it allows your body to fight the in
by danparsonson 2y ago
> ...taking the vaccine AND then getting covid...
Your immune system does not generally prevent you from catching anything; it allows your body to fight the infection more effectively the next time you catch it, thereby reducing or eliminating the symptoms. In your lifetime you will likely have caught some illnesses that you are vaccinated against without realising it, because you successfully fought the infection before it became serious. The COVID vaccine in particular never claimed to eliminate the symptoms altogether but reduces the severity so that rather than breathing through a tube for three weeks, you get a nasty cold. Long COVID is still a possibility and yes, very much a real thing albeit not well understood yet; I know at least one person who is recovering from it now.
- richrichie 2y ago> In your lifetime you will likely have caught some illnesses that you are vaccinated against without realising it, because you successfully fought the infection before it became serious. >The COVID vaccine in particular never claimed to eliminate the symptoms altogether but reduces the severity so that rather than breathing through a tube for three weeks, you get a nasty cold. Good examples of propositions that cannot be falsified.
- danparsonson 2y agoIndeed, and you cannot prove that a specific car crash would have been worse for the passengers without seatbelts, however a proper understanding of how seatbelts work makes the conclusion nonetheless fairly obvious. Also, statistics are a thing; propositions like 'vaccination reduces severity of illness' can in fact be proven or falsified by studying a sufficiently large cohort, such as is readily available during, say, a pandemic.