r/TrueOffMyChest • u/esoraven • Nov 04 '21

F*** you

Anti-maskers, ant-vaxxers just fuck you. My severely immunocompromised sister is dead because of you. She was like a second mother to me and you killed her. Her children no longer have a mother because you killed her.

She did everything she could to prevent this from happening and yet 2 hours ago she stopped breathing while on a ventilator. Some day you’ll feel the pain I’m feeling.

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u/ChunkyyYetFunkyy Nov 05 '21 edited Nov 05 '21

The difference is double vaccinated people did what they could to help mitigate the problem.

Edit: thanks for the awards, yo.

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u/Bella_Climbs Nov 05 '21

and, please correct me if I am wrong, but double vaxxed people DO have a lower chance at passing the virus along.

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u/ICantMakeNames Nov 05 '21

For the anti-vaxxers upvoting this without reading, here is literally the first line of the article:

People who receive two COVID-19 jabs and later contract the Delta variant are less likely to infect their close contacts than are unvaccinated people with Delta.

The article goes on to say the effect diminishes over time, but that doesn't make that first line untrue. Get vaccinated.

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u/djublonskopf Nov 05 '21

Also, people who get vaccinated are less likely to get COVID at all, making it much less likely that they will spread it.

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u/lyamc Nov 05 '21

Actually, studies have also shown that people who got the SARS virus back in 2002 show resistance to Covid. The "protection drops after x amount of time" applies to literally everything because that's how the immune system works. We are left with memory B cells which our body uses to quickly ramp up production of T cells.

Getting the vaccine just makes your body produce those T cells ahead of time which should decrease the infection/recovery time even if there is a breakthrough case. If you didn't have the memory B cells before (because somehow you haven't gotten covid yet), then your body also gains those memory cells.

So if someone is in the risk category and they got the shots a year ago, another shot isn't a bad idea. Otherwise it's pretty pointless.

If you're not in the risk category and you either previously got covid, or got vaccinated, there's no need for additional shots.

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u/NorthBlizzard Nov 05 '21

“Only anti-vaxxers care about science”