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Originally Posted by Brian mike
You seem very very intelligent and this helps me to understand a little more.
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Thank you
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Originally Posted by Brian mike
BUT I STILL DON'T WANT IT IN MY BODY  ... |
I'm not going to argue; I now feel that vaccines are more about protecting the individual than the community, so your body your choice.
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Originally Posted by Brian mike
One thing I don't understand, At the beginning of the pandemic we were seeing ads on tv and on the radio saying stuff like this :
If you have contracted covid and did recover from it WE NEED YOUR BLOOD to help to create a vaccine .... Something like that. I'm pretty sure you hear it or saw it.
Why now Natural immunity is so BAD BAD BAD but they were in need of the blood or whatever they need from the people that did recover from covid.
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Yes, I saw that. The request for blood was so that the labs could extract the convalescent plasma. What that is is blood plasma from someone who has recovered which contains the antibodies that fought off the disease. These antibodies were then used in IV's that put them directly into the bloodstream of very sick Covid patients. The antibodies from the recovered person helped the sick person fight the illness.
Since those early days, scientists have been able to create antibodies that serve the same purpose. These are what you may have heard being called "Monoclonal antibodies." Basically "clones" of the antibodies that would have been in the convalescent plasma. This is still a treatment for very ill Covid patients; but since these now exist, there is no longer a need to extract blood plasma from recovered people.
That said, natural immunity is good immunity. It has been shown to keep a person from becoming seriously ill from Covid for at least a few months and, for some variants, even longer. Natural immunity can be thought of as a single dose of mRNA vaccine. Probably even better than a single dose, but probably not as strong as having two doses. Natural immunity does go away quickly - but then again, so does the protection from vaccines. So in the end, I personally would feel pretty safe from catching a bad case of Covid for at least a few months after I'd recovered, but I personally would still take a shot no longer than 3-4 months post-recovery.
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AGAIN These leaders have wrongly handled the crisis in my opinion, hence why there is so much resistance to this experimental drug or whatever we want to call it.
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The "leadership" on Covid has been a total disaster. The messaging was wrong, the actions were wrong and misguided and on this point we are in complete agreement
