IMO vaccines are like 'exposures' triggering the body's immune responses. (nothing like statins or steroides, not 'drugs') I suggest that there are three possible/likely such 'exposures', say up to one contact and two shots in either order. I also suggest that a difficult reaction to any of them are signs of of them challenging (hopefully bolstering) one's ability to cope with the others.
We're not all the same age, in the same state of health, or have the same genetics. That's where 'statistics' (however precise or not) take a 'bigger picture'. btw, AIDS, Zike, and Ebola weren't hoaxes and nobody is known to have been injected ith a microchip but Bigfoot. (It's how he eludes our scrutiny.
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It is simulating exposure. You run a fever, get chills, sweat, and feel like crap not because of hte virus, but because of the immune response. You get hot to cook the virus, you expel mucus through every orifice to get it out of your body, and your immune system gets rid of hte rest. So given a dead virus or something that looks like a virus, your body recognizes it as a threat without there being an actual threat. Then it triggers an immune response and you generally feel like crap. 7 hours after the shot, I spiked a 101 fever, had chills and couldn't get warm enough, nose running, congested, I was a mess. but 8 hours after that, it completely went away like I was never sick. It was like flicking a switch because my body had fought against an enemy that was just a cardboard cutout of the enemy.
Now my body has the knowledge to fight the virus off so if I get it, I can stamp it out quick before it replicates and overwhelms my immune system. The tricky part with this virus is you're contagious before you're symptomatic, and that's not a characteristic found in the flu or the common cold. You have to be exhibiting symptoms to spread those around. Covid is special. You can have it, spread it and pass it on to others unknowingly, and never actually know that YOU have it or have had it. That's the whole premise behind these crappy masks thing. You keep your germs to yourself, as does everyone else. It greatly reduces the spread of the air that you breathe out's transmissibility.
The big mistake was making this political, then people will choose sides. Nothing about this is political, and now, it's still somehow political. CDC, faucci, everyone. But it's also a bit what is the end goal. Eradication? Just enough so we don't overwhelm the healthcare system? Enough so we don't ruin the economy? It's hard to determine the answer if you don't know or understand the question. People keep saying many wild claims against left or right. If the goal is eradication, it's simple. Everyone wearing a mask in public settings, it'll completely die off in a matter of months. But everyone has to do it because most people doing it are protecting others from spread, but not themselves. So the few can spread it unknowingly in an hour long costco trip or church service by not wearing a mask. Wearing a mask doesn't make you a sheep, it doesn't mean the big government has won, and it is mildly annoying and I can't wait until the threat is over.
But the threat will likely never be over. At least not in the near future. India over there is doing 400k cases a day, which is producing all sorts of variants, and eventually it'll render the vaccine ineffective. So where does that leave us? The answer is I don't know. People complain about hte science always changing, but that's how science works. You form a hypothesis based on the information available. If new information becomes available, the hypothesis must be reevaluated and may change. That being said, in the early days where they said no mask is necessary, it was a political move. They were trying to prevent chaos, and let the hospitals and doctors get the proper protective masks they needed, because they would bear the brunt of it. Then they said double masks would protect you better. Which is 100% accurate, taken in context. 2 air filters is better than 1. Something that makes it through the first may get caught in the second. Being that n95 filters down to about 90nm, but covid ranges from 50-150nm, some may pass through, but get caught in the second mask. But hey, that's common sense. If you had double the thread, would you get more traction?
The science of it is not super hard, people could figure it out if they took the time and stopped paying attention to the media or white house. We're americans, we can think for ourselves. Make our own decisions. But like science and hypothesis you need the most correct, accurate information to make these decisions. And that information is changing all the time. So you have to keep reading, and researching, and learning.
