First person receives COVID-19 vaccine in the UK

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6 hours ago, StopCallingMe said:

I don't want my DNA to be changed honestly... a little worried

DNA and RNA are completely different. RNA is a temporary thing, just an instruction that tells your cell to make a specific type of protein. This vaccine doesn’t alter your DNA.

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7 hours ago, xoxo Craig said:

Thats my worry with it. This vaccine works by attacking the protein of the virus rather than a typical multi-strain vaccine that we have for the flu. Its only 60% effective after the first jab, then the 2nd one takes you up to the 90-95%. And like you said, it doesn't stop you from getting it. But what this vaccine does it makes the symptoms a lot less severe so covid 19 becomes manageable. They don't know if it stops the spread of the virus though... 

My worry is that too many people will think this virus is the golden answer and will become complacent. They'll get the first jab and think they are 100% immune, and then possibly go out and spread the virus or catch it themselves. You also need to self-isolate after you've gotten the vaccine, which I doubt people will do

I really wouldn't worry about that too much, I mean we are all at 0% immune right now in the UK and out of 70 million people, 60k have died from it, make that 95% immune and the chance of getting it nevermind dying from it are reduced so much that normal life can begin again, and while there will still be cases, like any disease (apart from smallpox) it won't be anything like we have had this year. 

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14 hours ago, Chic said:

I wonder how it lessens the symptoms while simultaneously suppressing the virus? It seems like a tall and complicated order. Usually symptoms are the body’s reaction to a virus, so perhaps this is just slowly conditioning the body to it over time so the body’s response isn’t so severe?

Depends. There's a reason some ppl are asymptomatic. U don't have to have a reaction everytime u get a new virus or bacteria in you even if you had never been exposed to it before. If that was the case we'd spend half of our lives sick all the time

 

When ur body can successfully fight off a foreign infection before it multiples to a certain threshold u don't end up getting symptoms. In fact most of the time your immune system is constantly working fighting off things without u feeling sick

 

That's why eating healthy and exercise and resting helps u reduce the chances of "catching a cold" or "catching a flu". Those things don't literally prevent u from getting infected if someone sneezes or breathes on you. You would still be exposed to it just the same. But by keeping your immune system strong you increase the odds that you will manage to fight something off without needing to get symptoms and you could be exposed to colds or flus some winters and never even know it!

 

In the case of this vaccine it stimulates your immunity cells to basically get partial immunity by exposing them to RNA (I think that's what it was I'm not sure) from the virus. So you can still get infected but by your immune system responding faster to it it decreases your chances of getting the virus to multiply enough to actually get you feeling sick. However it appears it doesn't get u to fight it off fast enough or efficiently enough to prevent u from still spreading it as you still develop some viral load and so it's a partial immunity not full immunity this vaccine gives

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I was driving today and some guy was walking at stoplights between cars trying to give people a newspaper whose headline said "WE DONT WANT YOUR VACCINE."

bish who is we?????

Later in the day I saw he had the same big stack that I saw earlier. Guess he's the only one who doesn't want the vaccine around here. 

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13 hours ago, xoxo Craig said:

Thats my worry with it. This vaccine works by attacking the protein of the virus rather than a typical multi-strain vaccine that we have for the flu. Its only 60% effective after the first jab, then the 2nd one takes you up to the 90-95%. And like you said, it doesn't stop you from getting it. But what this vaccine does it makes the symptoms a lot less severe so covid 19 becomes manageable. They don't know if it stops the spread of the virus though... 

My worry is that too many people will think this virus is the golden answer and will become complacent. They'll get the first jab and think they are 100% immune, and then possibly go out and spread the virus or catch it themselves. You also need to self-isolate after you've gotten the vaccine, which I doubt people will do

Why do you need to self isolate again?

[Suuus 5,632]

1 hour ago, Economy said:

Depends. There's a reason some ppl are asymptomatic. U don't have to have a reaction everytime u get a new virus or bacteria in you even if you had never been exposed to it before. If that was the case we'd spend half of our lives sick all the time

 

When ur body can successfully fight off a foreign infection before it multiples to a certain threshold u don't end up getting symptoms. In fact most of the time your immune system is constantly working fighting off things without u feeling sick

 

That's why eating healthy and exercise and resting helps u reduce the chances of "catching a cold" or "catching a flu". Those things don't literally prevent u from getting infected if someone sneezes or breathes on you. You would still be exposed to it just the same. But by keeping your immune system strong you increase the odds that you will manage to fight something off without needing to get symptoms and you could be exposed to colds or flus some winters and never even know it!

 

In the case of this vaccine it stimulates your immunity cells to basically get partial immunity by exposing them to RNA (I think that's what it was I'm not sure) from the virus. So you can still get infected but by your immune system responding faster to it it decreases your chances of getting the virus to multiply enough to actually get you feeling sick. However it appears it doesn't get u to fight it off fast enough or efficiently enough to prevent u from still spreading it as you still develop some viral load and so it's a partial immunity not full immunity this vaccine gives

Im sorry but this vaccine doesnt sound very usefull to me

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Just now, Suuus said:

Im sorry but this vaccine doesnt sound very usefull to me

It is useful. It essentially makes most ppl become asymptomatic and the few who will still get symptoms will get it way more mildly

 

So it won't generally be any more harmful than a small cold and won't be killing a bunch of ppl

 

It's not the perfect full immunity vaccine many were hoping for but it will still essentially stop hospitalizations and severe cases and deaths

 

It will allow life to return to normal

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2 minutes ago, Suuus said:

Why do you need to self isolate again?

Because you get the symptoms of covid from the jag, and also it means that people can't infect you. The first jag gives you 60% immunity so if you caught covid, there's still a possibility that you could become ill from it and pass it on. That's what the advice is, get the jag and self isolate, then get the 2nd one and that'll be you. But still follow the guidance such as facemasks and social distancing since the vaccine doesn't eliminate spread of the virus

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4 minutes ago, Suuus said:

Im sorry but this vaccine doesnt sound very usefull to me

It stops a demographic who would otherwise likely be very ill, hospitalised and/or die from experiencing as severe symptoms, if any. Sounds useful to me.

But that leads me to ask, why the push for everyone else to get it if it doesn't stop the spread - young healthy people who would likely be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms? Perhaps because of the small number who would get very ill from it?

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1 minute ago, xoxo Craig said:

Because you get the symptoms of covid from the jag, and also it means that people can't infect you. The first jag gives you 60% immunity so if you caught covid, there's still a possibility that you could become ill from it and pass it on. That's what the advice is, get the jag and self isolate, then get the 2nd one and that'll be you. But still follow the guidance such as facemasks and social distancing since the vaccine doesn't eliminate spread of the virus

Wow this vaccine sound useless to me also how long do you have to self isolate?

[Suuus 5,632]

1 minute ago, dynamite said:

It stops a demographic who would otherwise likely be very ill, hospitalised and/or die from experiencing as severe symptoms, if any. Sounds useful to me.

But it doesnt stop you from spreading it 

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Just now, Suuus said:

But it doesnt stop you from spreading it 

But it stops you from dying from it or experiencing severe symptoms and overwhelming the hospitals... It sounds like you'd only have it mildly if anything

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Just now, dynamite said:

But it stops you from dying from it...

Well i would like a vaccine that stops me from spreading it thats more usefull to me than this bullshit 

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3 minutes ago, Suuus said:

Wow this vaccine sound useless to me also how long do you have to self isolate?

7 days or so. Its not useless, you just have to be aware that its not a ticket to be complacent about things or that you have 100% immunity... the Pfizer vaccine is the best one atm but you need both jags for it to be effective 

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2 minutes ago, Suuus said:

Well i would like a vaccine that stops me from spreading it thats more usefull to me than this bullshit 

It's hardly bullshit lol. The pandemic only started a year ago what do you expect? It's the best we have, vaccines usually take years to come out. Yes, it doesn't stop you from spreading it so it's not a miracle cure, but it will save lives and enable people to get back to normal. If enough people are vaccinated then we can start to live life again. You don't need to eradicate the virus, you need to bring it down to a level where millions are not dying from it anymore. We still get the flu and people still die from the flu, there is a flu vaccine, but it's effective enough that the numbers aren't pandemic level...