Comments by "Spring Bloom" (@springbloom5940) on "WHO, vaccine makers move quickly against new omicron Covid variant" video.
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@doodlebob3374
They do work and nothing is 100% safe; thats a disingenuous and absurd standard. You do realize that when this started, most people thought any kind of coronavirus vaccination was an impossibility, specifically because of the way it mutates. The fact that we have a vaccine that works as well as it does, is astonishing.
The problem with the vaccines is A) people's understanding of immunization, B) how the mRNA vax works and C) how its administered
A) Vaccination and immunization is not a forcefield and never has been. It does not prevent infection. Think about it, your immune system can't attack it, unless you are infected. What it does, is give your system a BOLO, so that when its detected, it already knows what to do and can fight it off, before it takes root and causes illness. Most symptoms of viral infection, are from your system carpet bombing infected tissue. What immunization does, is give it a smartbomb that only attacks the virus. Most of the time, it can achieve this before the infection spreads beyond its initial site and sometimes not. Thus, why you can have invisible, or 'asymptomatic' infections. Occasionally, your system doesn't fight it off fast enough, or its in a place that allows it to evade your immune system, until its established. This is a so called 'breakthrough'. This is how every vaccine/immunization ever, has worked.
B) Conventional vaccines use complete virus, live or dead, to expose your system to a full inside and out '3D' example(why natural immunity is almost always better than vaccination) This is a very effective strategy, but it also limits the types of viruses you can safely immunize against. The mRNA vax is a completely different paradigm. It uses a synthesized mockup of a single surface feature of the coronavirus; the 'spike'. Its a fairly unique feature and provides an extremely efficient and precision targeted vax. But, itts like using a photo to fool a security camera. If that feature changes significantly, the vaccine doesnt work. The good part is that the mRNA tech enables rapid adaptation and mass production of the vaccine, like a 'security update'. The bad, is that it may require multiple or periodic updates. This is never a desirable outcome.
C) There is a stark difference in rate of effectiveness and side effects, dependant upon who administered the vax. The mass vaccination scheme, is designed to be as convenient and painless as possible. The reason it hurts when your Dr pokes you, is because they use a larger needle, go deeper into denser muscle and aspirate(draw to check for blood, to make sure its not in a blood vessel). If they hit a blood vessel, they have to move the needle and reaspirate. This is rather uncomfortable and time consuming and requires special training and a lot of experience to get right. The mass vax technique is just about opposite of this, using the finest needle, fatty injection site and no aspiration, for a poke thats so quick and painless, you didn't even realize it happened. The result is inconsistent administration when it goes into fat instead of muscle and side-ffects when it goes into a blood vessels and straight to organs.
All that said, the safety issue is not the 'spike protein', or anything thats in the vaccine, but rather how it works. The antibiotic resistant 'superbugs' everyone worries about, are not antibiotic resistant, as antibiotics don't attack the bacteria, your immune system does. The 'resistance' is in people's immune system, from overexposure to antibiotics, just like any other drug tolerance. The concern with the covid vax, is overexpose to '2 dimensional' synthetic pathogens, compromising the immune system's ability to detect and fight viruses. There needs to be very long-term study, before young healthy people start taking these vaccines, so that we don't find out in 20 years, that half the population is immunocompromised from them.
It all comes down to risk management and informed personal choice. Lies and misinformation cannot defeat lies and misinformation; and you have to weigh your immediate risk vs your future and manage your expectations. If you're at high risk of getting it and giving it, you should probably get vaxxed. If you're at high risk of developing severe illness, you should probably get vaxxed. If you're a young, healthy, average person, you probably shouldn't and you shouldn't let anyone even try to force you.
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