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<blockquote data-quote="wawazat" data-source="post: 3545760" data-attributes="member: 35603"><p>I am definitely not trying to steer anyone to or away from this "vaccine", we each have to make that call based on our own comfort level and potential risks. I am glad my parents are getting it since they both have compromised lung capacity already. Same for my in laws falling into their own higher risk categories.</p><p></p><p>If you read the numbers, they never state it will reduce the number of people infected, only the number of people hospitalized. Don't get me wrong, I think this is great to get us back to whatever the new normal is. I do think it is being marketed very heavily though. The reason the CDC stated masks, social distancing, and travel restrictions are still suggested even after a completed vaccination cycle is that it does not prevent a person from contracting the virus nor passing it around. The mRNA vaccines at least do not operate the same way as traditional vaccines. They do a great job of keeping your body's immune system from reacting in an extreme manner resulting in symptoms that can end in being in the ICU for an extended period of time. The downside to that is that it isn't helping your body kill the virus, it is just effecting a less extreme response which reduces the severity of the symptoms.</p><p></p><p>Also, as a side note, this is not a unique scenario. A lot of the most catastrophic viruses that have affected the human population were ones that had recently jumped species. This means that humans had never been exposed to the virus before and were "ignorant" to the new virus from an immune response standpoint. The same thing can happen in the opposite direction as well. Herpes Simplex 1 gives us a blister, but if certain species of monkeys contract it, it is fatal.</p><p></p><p>I'm glad this scenario has given us incentive to look at fresh ways to develop vaccines and get them out into the public much quicker than ever before. I just disagree with the marketing spin they're putting on it. Maybe I am just optimistic on how logical a population as a whole can be though. I think a lot of the more skeptical folks, myself included, would've provided more buy in if they had just been honest and transparent from the beginning. Especially with the things they were overcautious about because they didn't have enough data yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wawazat, post: 3545760, member: 35603"] I am definitely not trying to steer anyone to or away from this "vaccine", we each have to make that call based on our own comfort level and potential risks. I am glad my parents are getting it since they both have compromised lung capacity already. Same for my in laws falling into their own higher risk categories. If you read the numbers, they never state it will reduce the number of people infected, only the number of people hospitalized. Don't get me wrong, I think this is great to get us back to whatever the new normal is. I do think it is being marketed very heavily though. The reason the CDC stated masks, social distancing, and travel restrictions are still suggested even after a completed vaccination cycle is that it does not prevent a person from contracting the virus nor passing it around. The mRNA vaccines at least do not operate the same way as traditional vaccines. They do a great job of keeping your body's immune system from reacting in an extreme manner resulting in symptoms that can end in being in the ICU for an extended period of time. The downside to that is that it isn't helping your body kill the virus, it is just effecting a less extreme response which reduces the severity of the symptoms. Also, as a side note, this is not a unique scenario. A lot of the most catastrophic viruses that have affected the human population were ones that had recently jumped species. This means that humans had never been exposed to the virus before and were "ignorant" to the new virus from an immune response standpoint. The same thing can happen in the opposite direction as well. Herpes Simplex 1 gives us a blister, but if certain species of monkeys contract it, it is fatal. I'm glad this scenario has given us incentive to look at fresh ways to develop vaccines and get them out into the public much quicker than ever before. I just disagree with the marketing spin they're putting on it. Maybe I am just optimistic on how logical a population as a whole can be though. I think a lot of the more skeptical folks, myself included, would've provided more buy in if they had just been honest and transparent from the beginning. Especially with the things they were overcautious about because they didn't have enough data yet. [/QUOTE]
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