I said because they got the vax they were going to keep getting Covid over and over until it killed them but people with natural immunity are done with it. They said prove it show me the science and I said no, you prove me wrong. They broke out their phone and all they could find were reports of people who are vaxxed getting Covid multiple times while not finding anything at all reported about people with antibodies. Their response after about 3 minutes of searching was “if you’re fucking right that’s fucked up” they woke up when they had to do the research.
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Some infectious agents mutate. When this happens, the original vaccine may not be good enough. This will be more common in widespread diseases that are crashing through a lot of different people quickly.
COVID and influenza are far more widespread, as they mutate, the original vaccines become less reliable and the immune system needs to be given an updated, aged-up photo of what the virus currently looks like. It’s out there in the wild mutating.
As opposed to smallpox, which has been sitting in prison for a while now, isn’t infecting people, isn’t mutating, and therefore, one vaccine is usually sufficient.
It is simply wrong that a booster disqualifies a vaccine from being called a vaccine. The permanency of a vaccine effect depends on the disease it’s protecting against.
Http://www.livescience.com/amp/why-lifelong-immunity.html
The boosters are developed to deal with whatever is currently out there, not what was out there in the time of the original vaccine.
It’s like asking why you should bring an umbrella out into the rain today, if it was perfectly sunny yesterday.
I don’t think they “changed” the definition of the vaccine. I think they changed the way they describe vaccines so that laypeople who were rarely paying attention pre-pandemic don’t get confused about what “immune” means in immunological talk.
You are wrong that vaccines made you immune in 2019 as a rule. In 2019, we had no widespread, mutating diseases going around developed countries that required a vaccine that would require updates and boosters. Except influenza. We get vaccinated against stuff like polio and smallpox that we generally never even encounter in our lives and that are so rare in the developed world that boosters aren’t necessary because they aren’t mutating from the original vaccine.
And don’t forget that it IS “you” pushing the vaccine, or at least your side of the aisle. This thing came out under Trump. It was Warp Speed. He’s taking credit for it. But I don’t base my beliefs about science on what politicians tell me.