jabberwockypie:punkrorschach:mothric:pickledpoologs:systlin:rosslynpaladin:thestoryofaslut:This. AND
jabberwockypie:punkrorschach:mothric:pickledpoologs:systlin:rosslynpaladin:thestoryofaslut:This. AND I CAN”T WAIT TO DO IT!!! My arms are READY and WAITING for that sweet sweet vaccine shot! you see. im dubious about this.a vaccine HAS THE VIRUS IN IT.with my luck, i will contract the virus after getting the shot. and with my health the way it is, im much more vulnerable to that. please, I beg of you, do a minute’s worth of research on the covid vaccine. it will not have the virus in it. it will contain antibodies that fight the virus. which is exactly why people need to wait and get a booster shot and wait some more, to give those antibodies time to build up in the body. also, vaccines that *do* contain a tiny amount of a virus in them contain a *weakened* virus, in such a *miniscule* amount that it triggers the body to create antibodies, without making the person sick with that virus (unless that person has an autoimmune disease that would compromise the process, or is an infant whose body can’t do that yet, or a very old person whose body can’t do it anymore. the reason it’s so important for as many people as possible to get vaccinated is to protect exactly those people who *can’t* get vaccinated).that is how vaccines work. that is why you don’t have measles, mumps, or rubella. this is why polio stopped being a thing. please. do your research. this is very easily accessible information. UNLESS YOU HAVE A DAMAGED OR COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEM, YOU CANNOT GET A DISEASE FROM A VACCINE. FULL STOP. It’s not just “weakened” in inactivated vaccines, (flu shots, polio, hep a, rabies etc) it’s essentially dead. As in It Can Not Get You Sick. “Live” vaccines or attenuated vaccines (yellow fever, mumps, rubella) have attenuated viruses (hence the name) which means the viruses are COMPLETELY incapacitated. If your immune system functions, you will not get the virus from the vaccine. It’s not a matter of “amount” it’s a matter of functionality. None of the covid vaccines being developed in the US are using attenuated viruses. This is a good thing! We want people with immune issues to be able to get them! When the vaccine comes out, unless your doctor has specifically told you that you cannot get it (if you’re unsure, fkin ask) GET THE VACCINE. All of this info is avalible on the CDC and WHO websites. I’d put a link here but tmblr hates that apparently. Technically speaking - again, which this NOT the kind of vaccine they’re using with the COVID vaccines - some attenuated vaccines do mutate back. With polio, for example, it’s something like 1 out of 2,400,000 people. And you know, I agree, that sounds scary. (For comparison: The risk of being struck by lightning in your lifetime is about 1 in 3000.)You know what has a WAY higher risk of causing polio? Not being vaccinated and being exposed to polio.My maternal grandmother and her younger sister got polio within two weeks of each other during an outbreak in Detroit in the 1940s, when they were teenagers.It ruined their lives.Grandma Mary and Great-Aunt Cecilia both had severe paralysis, and both spent over a year in an iron lung.They both married men who were just utter garbage because - especially at the time - they didn’t think anyone else would want them.It was all incredibly traumatic. They both developed alcoholism, in large part because being disabled in the US, with no legal protections and with no access to mental health treatment really sucked, as did being married to the aforementioned awful men.My great-aunt died of cirrhosis - because of the aforementioned alcoholism - before she turned 50.My grandma developed Post-Polio syndrome c. 1980, where the polio virus comes back decades later and causes more paralysis (and sometimes death). She was on a ventilator for more than a year, and while she did eventually get off of it, it was with even further reduced lung capacity, and she went from being able to walk short distances to being unable to walk at all.When I was a little girl, my grandma developed a form of cancer that was VERY TREATABLE… . in otherwise fairly healthy people.The heart and lung damage she had from the aforementioned polio - fifty years earlier - meant instead she died when I was 8.So yes, some vaccines do carry a SMALL risk. (And, again, I want to re-iterate that the attenuated polio vaccine isn’t used in the US anymore.)You are weighing the risks of the vaccine against the risks of actually getting the virus.Please get ALL of your vaccinations unless your doctor tells you you can’t do so safely.We don’t know what longterm health effects COVID will cause in a few decades, but with all the people suffering from longhaul COVID, it looks bad. Is it worth the risk of permanent organ damage? Please talk to your doctor about it if you have health concerns, instead of just panicking and reading scare-mongering stuff on the internet. -- source link