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Old 03-20-2021, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by oneclickplus View Post
The ignorance around the shot (not a vaccine) is truly amazing to me. Getting the shot does nothing to "reduce the probability of being infected". Whenever you are exposed to the virus (any virus), you are infected. The only hope of any shot (not a vaccine) is to have your body properly defend against it.

Having taken the shot (not a vaccine) is not like "Scotty - shields up". It does nothing to prevent you from inhaling the virus or getting it while picking your nose after coming in contact with it.

Take note: Over time ... EVERYONE will become infected with the virus ... PERIOD. The only thing a shot (not a vaccine) or your innate immune system (my preference) can do is respond to that infection. That RESPONSE is what determines if you get "sick". Lack of getting sick does not mean you have not been "infected".

A quiet controlled response means you won't even know you got infected (i.e. you don't get sick). A wild out-of-control response means you get sick from the infection (and then recover ... or not).

But, don't harbor any illusion that you will never get the virus because you got the shot (not a vaccine). That is inevitable. Everyone will get infected ... EVERYONE.
I agree, the ignorance is amazing.

The issue is not whether you inhaled the virus, which you (and almost nobody else) consider "infected". The issue is whether you can take the virus into your cells where it can hijack your DNA to self-replicate and then spread it to others. If someone is successfully vaccinated, that can't happen. Period. And there has never been a pandemic where EVERYONE got infected, not even the Andromeda Strain