Subj : Re: good things come to those who wait?
To   : claw
From : Adept
Date : Mon Sep 12 2022 21:57:33

 cl> Yeah sorry to hear.  I really wish they wouldn't call them vaccines. 
 cl> They are immune boosters.  The difference is they don't always work. 

Hopefully this won't become political (COVID stuff has a tendency to go off
the rails, so I'm really hoping to tread lightly, here), but I'll point out
that none of the other vaccines always work, either.

Yeah, some work better than others, especially when the nasty thing doesn't
mutate too much, but vaccines basically provide weapons and training for
melee fighters in the human body.

It's not a ranged attack, keeping viruses from entering the body; it's a
trained fighting force ready for a given sort of attack.

If the body doesn't keep up the fighting force, or it's an overwhelming
attack, or it's a variation on that attack that the fighting force isn't
ready for...

But, yeah, things like the flu vaccines are oftentimes terrible on efficacy
-- way worse than something like polio. Which still has recorded instances of
breakthrough cases.

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