Aspie1 wrote:
I've had both of my original shots and the booster. Which is ironic, considering how I joined QAnon last year, in response to the Democrats shutting things down and my liberal friends falling for the their agenda like sheep. Even now, with the Omicron variant going around, it's exactly what Conservatives said all along. It's basically a cold virus: very easily spread but also mostly harmless for people who are otherwise healthy.
Vaccines are safe; I speak as a recipient. They won't make your autism more severe. They won't give you the actual Biden-19 disease. They won't damage your organs. And they're easily available. Just get it! At the minimum, you'll be able to rub into smug liberals' faces that you got vaccinated.
Sorry chap,but a two to five percent case fatality ration is not a cold virus. Combined with being both very infectious, and being infectious without feeling sick sets matters up to end badly if left to their own devices.
But with the good immunity from vaccination, the adaptive immune response reduces the severity to something approaching the common cold, starting off feeling crap, but within three days or so adaptive immune responses ( T cells and antibodies) Wade in to resolve the infection before it becomes serious illness, hospital visits or days out with the undertaker.
Plus the bonus, one is generally infectious for a shorter time and producing fewer infectious virus particles, so a crimp gets put on spread.
Plus the third bonus, immune memory cells undergo a maturation and mutation process, broadening their response, so when meeting the virus again, it stirs up a whole swarm of antibodies etc, all slightly different, and unfortunately for any variant virus, there is most likely several mutantantibodies in that swarm which fit that variant like a glove.
It's unfortunate that there is not yet a complete understanding of adaptive immunity out there, and I observe last year irresponsible and willful lack of action on cases, and the possibility that actions this year may come to be seen as over reactions.
However, for the best understanding it is better to go to the science rather than others who seem just to have chips on their shoulders against one or other of a country's major political parties.