Thread by @theonlywayisup

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Vaccines and the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV)
A new study has highlighted how patients with an impaired immune system may respond to the Covid vaccine, so I thought it was worth another thread for the hard of thinking who have spent the last year with their...

....head up Facebook's arse, getting their internet doctorate in Pretendy Medicine (Hons)

I recently read a post in which the author - a magnificently stupid specimen, I might add - dismissed the CEV with a "Well, they've had their jabs now, so they need to get back to fucking..

...work, like the rest of us"
Now obviously I can't be there in person to explain to this fool the error of their ways, or at least not until I get the injunction lifted, so I thought here was as good a place as any.

Having a vaccine is rather like buying a piece of flat-pack...

....furniture from IKEA. You are now, in theory, the proud owner of a new bookcase. It's just that the hard bit still lies ahead.
When you get your Covid jab, it's a bit like that. You are not being injected with immunity, as some of the Mumsnet Militia appear to think, you are..

....injected with the instructions to make your own.
Now - for most of us, this works. Our immune system says "Right, you bastards, I am cooking with gas now!" and sets about making the antibodies required to kill the virus. We've got the pieces, we've got the instructions; ...

.... in a few weeks we'll have the bookcase, to use the IKEA reference.
But this is where is gets really difficult for some of the CEV, especially those with compromised immunity. They have the instructions - check that box. But they don't have the parts. With the best will in ..

...the world, they are not going to be able to make that bookcase without the parts. Let's say you are someone with an auto-immune disease; you are being treated with drugs to suppress your immune response. It doesn't matter how many times I inject you with the vaccine, it's not

...going to work because the drugs you have to take to keep you going ensure that you don't have the ability to make the parts

Now - I don't know if you have ever assembled a piece of IKEA furniture, but it's hard enough with the instructions, and fucking impossible without.

Now imagine how hard it is without the parts, and you are where some of the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable are. Up Shit Creek, with the instructions for how to make a paddle, but with no wood.

And this is why the vaccine is so, so important for the CEV. The difference is, they really, really need YOU to take it.
If enough of us have the vaccine, it will greatly reduce the reservoir of Covid in the community, and in doing so provide some protection for those who can't..

...use the instructions within the vaccine to build their own immunity. All by the simple process of reducing the chances of them catching it.

So that in a nutshell is why you need to take the vaccine - you are protecting yourself and you are helping to protect others. If you are too brainwashed by the utter dicks who hang around anti-vaxx sites, then maybe you should find somewhere new to hang out?

For those who would like to read more, this article will explain
ukri.org/news/vaccine-r…

There is also a link to download the results.