03-11-2023, 10:28 PM
(03-11-2023, 10:14 PM)BIGDADDYFROMCINCINNATI Wrote: You are 100% correct! Vaccines do work and masks do help prevent transmission/ spread. Think of a vaccine as a raincoat in a storm, you're still going to get wet but you're not going to get soaked. Your body says, "Hey we've seen this guy before and we know how to kick his ass." So yes as in any fight, you may get a bit roughed up but at the end of the day, you're still going to win the fight. Never in the history of vaccines has anyone said you'd never get the virus or a little bit sick, you're body's antibodies have already built a defense to counter it so it doesn't make you really sick or kill you.
As far as masks go, there's a reason why your doctor wears them-- it's so if they sneeze or cough it stops the spray/droplets from infecting everything around them.
I think the issue with the masks is that most people were wearing the wrong ones. The N95s were largely unavailable and rationed (correctly) to medical personnel. People just slapped whatever peice of fabric they could find over their pie holes and people, for the most part, thought that was effective. It wasn't quite that simple.
The vaccines we had here were significantly more effective. The Chinese vaccine was junk, and they are currently suffering for it. The Russian vaccine was practically useless.
The stuff we had here did a decent job of containing symptomatic covid. Like the flu vaccines, it wasn't perfect. Every year it's a crapshoot. That's kind of what vaccines are.
