• Coach@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Ain’t that a bitch. One virus took his body. Another took his life.

    Both are preventable through safe, effective, and widely available vaccines. Vaccinate yourselves and your children, friends.

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      8 months ago

      Currently COVID-19 is not preventable through vaccination on its own, especially not at the currently recommended once-per-year schedule, because they don’t last anywhere near that long.

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        8 months ago

        It is not preventable to get down with it, but the vaccines reduce its effects so much that even people with chronic breathing illnesses or organ transplants can handle it like a moderate flu. Mileage will vary from person to person, of course.

        Your direct point stands, but it is still a huge win for pro-vaccination.

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      8 months ago

      The COVID vaccine doesn’t prevent you from getting COVID. It just mitigates the symptoms. You can still get it and spread it.

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          8 months ago

          If anybody wonders how, it’s because vaccination means the immune system reduces viral load, so you spread much less virus and thus others exposed have a better chance of avoiding infection.

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        8 months ago

        In other words, it does exactly the same as any other vaccine…

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        8 months ago

        And what do you think people die from? The symptoms, knucklehead.

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          8 months ago

          Wow, did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning ?

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            8 months ago

            Just tired of the “well, actually…” comments that make no sense.

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          8 months ago

          I’m aware of that but the comment I replied to says the virus is preventable. You really think I understand how the vaccine works but not what people die from or did you just need to make a degrading comment?