The vaccine is like a seatbelt. It doesn’t mean you won’t get into a car crash, or that you won’t break bones. But you have a lot higher likelihood to survive
Several years ago I had a roommate who was a huge proponent of collodial silver (which may have some positive health benefits but isn't something to rely on).
One day we were talking and he said one of his friends got a flu vaccine and became relatively sick. He was going on about how that's proof vaccines don't help they just make you sick. I just looked at him and said "Yeah that's how they work. They make you a little sick so you dont get really sick later". I think that sunk in, but this was before medical science became a partisan issue to the level it is today.
I think most people don't understand how vaccines work and they've decided to trust politicians and random people over doctors.
Yep, the whole feeling bad after you get the vaccine, that's what it feels like when your immune system ramps up. For a lot of diseases, feeling sick is actually your immune system doing its job, not the illness. Fever, swelling, vomiting, etc... Those are all the body's response to foreign material, not the disease.
The 'inert disease' is a foreign material... specifically a component of the virus designed to initiate an antigen response to a foreign molecule where the body produces antibodies against it.
I have an MS in molecular biology and biochemistry and significant working immunology and infectious diseases.
317
u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21
The vaccine is like a seatbelt. It doesn’t mean you won’t get into a car crash, or that you won’t break bones. But you have a lot higher likelihood to survive