Antivax Promoters Who Died Because of Their Stupidity

[K Graham]

Got my booster a few days ago. Had the chills for about a day and that was it.

[Chap]

A vaccine is like putting the immune system in boot camp.

That's not a bad analogy, but the kind of training given in boot camp is perhaps too general to make a precise analogy with vaccination against a specific disease.

Surely it is more like the situation where you have some infantry who have never before encountered tanks. You deal with that by equipping them with anti-tank weapons, and putting them through training exercises that are as realistic as possible, so that when they actually meet an enemy tank unit in battle the drills they have learned and practised repeatedly swing into action, and a lot of enemy tanks are taken out.

In the case of an mRNA vaccine, you say to the body "Hey! Here are the plans for making that protein on the enemy virus spikes. Make lots of it, and let your immune system learn how to home in on it." Your body makes the stuff, your immune system prepares itself for battle against viruses with that particular marker, and then when a real virus gets into your body, it very likely gets taken out.

Just saying "We have infantry" is not a good answer to a tank attack if your infantry has no anti-tank training. Just saying "I have an immune system" is not a good answer to a COVID virus attack if your immune system has never had the chance to train itself in anti-COVID combat. To do that, you have to get vaccinated.

Now. The challenge. How do you put what you wrote into a simple sentence or two that’d be relatable for people who don’t read or have had propaganda spoon fed to them via youtube?

Here we go:

"To win an Olympic event you have to train for the specific event you enter. The vaccine trains your immune system to win gold in the COVID competition - and that is a race you can't afford to lose ..."

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Here we go:

"To win an Olympic event you have to train for the specific event you enter. The vaccine trains your immune system to win gold in the COVID competition - and that is a race you can't afford to lose ..."

I like the effort. It feels a little too much of an intellectual exercise for the target demographic. I’m not being facetious when I say the target demographic lacks asymmetrical thinking, and needs more of a direct statement that pats them on the head for figuring it out while spoon feeding the thought directly into their mind.

If you don’t mind I’ll take a stab at your statement with them in mind.

Hrm.

“The vaccine is the coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team that beat the Russians.”

I dunno. They might buck against the absoluteness of that statement. :/

- Doc

[Some Schmo]

In the same way I won't stand in the way or call someone's bluff when they threaten suicide, I have no problem with anti-vaxxers dying of COVID. Let them have what they want, I say.

The more that die, the larger the percentage of vaccinated humans. It's a win for everyone (except for all the people who unfortunately have loved ones that damned dumb).