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Originally Posted by Bonnevie
what a nice thought...all you have to do is get the right vitamins. like no one who takes all those things have caught the virus. it's not just your immune system...it's viral load and how infectious the disease is, too and the new variant is much more contagious. I'll take my chances with the vaccine.
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My understanding is that by the time the immune system recognizes the new virus as an invader, the immune system may overreact producing too many cytokines (the cytokine storm), which result in serious consequences including death. The purpose of the vaccine is to "prime the pump," so to speak, so that the immune system will quickly recognize the virus as a foreign invader and dispatch it quickly without overreacting.