Thread by @theonlywayisup

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I have read so much utter tosh online about vaccines, I thought it might be useful to have a very simple guide for those who have been Facebooked into stupidity. Please critique to your heart’s content, but I want to keep this very basic.

So, when we are exposed to a specific virus for the first time, our immune system basically says “Oooh, ya fucker!” and sets about making antibodies to destroy the invader, hopefully before the invader, ie the virus, wins. The thing is, this takes a while - the body has no

memory of this particular virus, no blueprint, so it is starting from scratch. This is particularly challenging for some of us who have other illnesses or a weakened immune response.
What vaccines do, in simple terms, is cause us to produce those antibodies so that we WILL have

that memory. That means that when we first encounter the virus as a vaccinated person, our immune system already knows what to do, and can produce the necessary antibodies much more rapidly.
Does this mean we won’t get the disease? Not necessarily. But it does mean that if we

do get it, our immune systems are already primed to deal with it, and we are likely to be less ill and recover more rapidly. It is the biological equivalent of having fully comp insurance - yes, there will be an excess to pay, but at least we have minimised our losses.

Again and again I have seen arseflaps tweeting about people who have caught Covid despite being double jabbed, and they clearly can’t grasp the fact that this is completely normal, especially when there are so many tossers wandering about, unjabbed and unmasked. They are keeping

the virus circulating in the community, putting not just themselves at risk, but especially risking the lives of those for whom the vaccine can only do so much, like cancer patients, for example, whose immune response is absolutely buggered. If enough people are jabbed, we can

reduce the risk for those highly vulnerable individuals, but not if people listen to balding has-beens, wittering on about 5G and freedom, like a very stupid version of William Wallace in a vest.
Covid is like a boss level on a game - you can either go in with just the shitty

pistols you started the game with, in which case you will get your arse royally kicked, or you can go in tooled up to the eyeballs and with half a dozen medipacks. You’ll still get your arse kicked, but at least you won’t be leaving in a box. That’s what a vaccine does.