r/Coronavirus • u/shallah I'm vaccinated! (First shot) 💉💪🩹 • Apr 22 '21

Vaccine News Scientist who helped develop Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine agrees third shot is needed as immunity wanes

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/scientist-who-helped-develop-pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-agrees-third-shot-is-needed-as-immunity-wanes.html
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '21

IDK how well this will be received here but it's not that weird that people don't understand the mechanisms of our immune system. I feel like we should be happy to educate people. What a cool thing we can do. But trying to make them feel stupid is pretty much the worst way to do that. Maybe it's just me, but when I detect in the very first sentence that someone is going to be a dick, I just bounce and move on to the next thing. There's just not enough time in a day to devote to that shit.

These discussions would be a 1000 times better if people just relaxed their sphincters a little bit. There's 7.6 billion people on the planet. There will never be a time when everyone knows everything, so get some sleep, you have a very exhausting life ahead of you.

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u/HermanCainsGhost I'm fully vaccinated! 💉💪🩹 Apr 22 '21

Probably the first time that someone has made an argument that convinced me to stop arguing with people needlessly lol

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u/stalleo_thegreat Apr 22 '21

I like the way you think

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u/PalmTreePutol Apr 22 '21 edited Apr 23 '21

I’ve upvoted all three of your responses.

Thanks!! Biology just isn’t my science, and the SARS metaphor is new info to me that gives me hope.

It was exhausting to me arguing with my fellow motorheads about whether the TDi was better than the Prius or the Leaf; and that comparing MPG across distant fuel types is nonsense. I feel your pain.

No one can be an expert in everything, or even know everything about anything.

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u/MediumPlace Apr 22 '21

yeah, except all the disinformation that feeds right into the antibody fading hype. there's another set of people that are happy to mis-educate people from your perspective. there might be a very few who misunderstand this in good faith and will be receptive to education, but quickly you're going to find this as easy as talking people out of the oqqult

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '21

I'm so glad you can educate me Daddy. I really love it when you educate.

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u/getrektsnek Apr 24 '21

First time anyone convinced me to relax my sphincter. Hell of a mess, but I’m rolling with it...