While Canadians raced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 early in the pandemic, only 15 per cent of the population had their updated shot this fall. But the virus is still spreading.
Tell me you vote conservative without saying “F🍁ck Trudeau.”
Can you explain the difference between the small pox vaccine, a flu shot and an mrna vaccine?
edit: a typo
The smallpox vaccine was an active infection of cowpox that left you immune to both diseases. Seasonal flu shots use active flu virus, cultured in eggs, then inactivated and concentrated. Mrna vaccines are a set of rna instructions that tell your cells to make a bunch of unique proteins that a virus uses to enter your cells, this triggers your immune system to recognize that protein.
There is no related infection like cowpox and covid mutates too quickly to wait for literally a billion eggs to be laid. Mrna vaccines can be designed in days and manufactured in less than a month . The mortality rate of vaccinated people was a fraction of those who were not vaccinated, the vaccine does not stop you from getting all covid forever, it stops you from becoming severely ill from one particular strain. But every time it mutates a new vaccine has to be developed to match, the same as seasonal flu but 5x faster.
COVID ? What COVID ? Oh yeah, totally forgot about this.
I’ve had covid several times and it’s always been mild so i just plainly didn’t bother
It’s sooooo frustrating that we’re in the tail end of a global pandemic and people still don’t understand how community immunity works.
End of the pandemic. Which in this case means we have an effective vaccine, and as long as people get the damn thing COVID seems to stop killing people at such a high rate.
What would you say to someone who has no concerns about getting sick as all of humanity will forever get sick in the future, some will die, some will live, but life will always continue on regardless of a 100% guarantee of death for every new creation that is born? Every life will end, but life itself will never stop and will never end.
Here in Australia, official advice is to stop at 4. Which many people have already had
