This has been on my mind a lot. My partner showed me this really elegant way to explain vaccinations, COIVD, how it works, and what's going on using a forest fire as an analogy. All credit goes to her for showing me and the original author of the metaphor. Just running with it.1/ So we're having a forest fire — that's COVID right now. It's running out of control so we dampen the woods, get them good and soaked— that's the vaccines. Now the dry wood goes up like matchsticks the moment the wildfire touches it — that's the unvaccinated.2/