As a recent medical grad, I think asymptomatic spread is complete bullshit. When you are asymptomatic, it means that your viral load is low and having a high viral load is what makes you infectious.
Think HIV, where the viral load is measured regularly to see if your HIV is under control. With an undetectable viral load, your ability to infect someone else is far under 1%. Coronavirus is still a virus and thus still operates by the standard framework of virology and medicine, so it would still follow these basic principles.
isn't the whole basis for these vaccines is that they suppress the symptoms?
I don't know what to trust anymore - some doctors saying the vaccines are supposed to be priming your body's immunity system to respond to the infection.
Okay, if that's so than your body shouldn't be tolerating any significant viral load without triggering an immune response.
So in theory the "inactivated" spike protein in the vaccines is what primes your body to create antibodies to it, leading to some type of immunity.
The main issue I have is that increased blood clots, myocarditis, etc - the biggest adverse effects of the vaccines so far seem to be things that are related to the spike protein itself. So completely inactivated? - doesn't look like it at all. Another scary thing is that there is evidence the spike protein can cross the blood brain barrier. It should not be doing that and could be contributing to things like cerebral venous thrombosis, strokes and covid/vaccine "brain fog".
but if that was the case, you shouldn't be seeing vaccinated people with any significant viral loads right? I mean if the immune system is primed to recognize the infection, it should be yeeting the virus immediately and not allowing any build up - or am I misunderstanding this?
As a recent medical grad, I think asymptomatic spread is complete bullshit. When you are asymptomatic, it means that your viral load is low and having a high viral load is what makes you infectious.
Think HIV, where the viral load is measured regularly to see if your HIV is under control. With an undetectable viral load, your ability to infect someone else is far under 1%. Coronavirus is still a virus and thus still operates by the standard framework of virology and medicine, so it would still follow these basic principles.
isn't the whole basis for these vaccines is that they suppress the symptoms?
I don't know what to trust anymore - some doctors saying the vaccines are supposed to be priming your body's immunity system to respond to the infection.
Okay, if that's so than your body shouldn't be tolerating any significant viral load without triggering an immune response.
So in theory the "inactivated" spike protein in the vaccines is what primes your body to create antibodies to it, leading to some type of immunity.
The main issue I have is that increased blood clots, myocarditis, etc - the biggest adverse effects of the vaccines so far seem to be things that are related to the spike protein itself. So completely inactivated? - doesn't look like it at all. Another scary thing is that there is evidence the spike protein can cross the blood brain barrier. It should not be doing that and could be contributing to things like cerebral venous thrombosis, strokes and covid/vaccine "brain fog".
but if that was the case, you shouldn't be seeing vaccinated people with any significant viral loads right? I mean if the immune system is primed to recognize the infection, it should be yeeting the virus immediately and not allowing any build up - or am I misunderstanding this?