I find it depressing that so many people lack a basic understanding of how vaccines work.
When you got your Covid vaccine, your body didn't start to produce an invisible force field that repelled any Covid viruses that happened to waft your way on the beer-breath belched by some MAGA hat wearing idiot. If your immune system responded in the normal way (which doesn't always happen), it recognised the vaccine as something that did not belong in your bloodstream, began to produce antibodies, and stored the memory of what the invading particles "looked" like so it would be quickly noticed and promptly attacked from all sides if it appeared again.
This means that it is entirely possible to catch Covid even if you've been fully vaccinated. Some people's immune system responds so aggressively that the viruses never replicate to the point where they notice the symptoms. With other people - and particularly with variants forms - the virus is able to sneak under the radar for a while before the immune system notices what's going on and attacks.
What the statistics make absolutely clear is that, as a rule, the effect of the virus on those who have been double vaccinated is much less severe than it is for those who have not been vaccinated. In the UK at the moment, virtually everyone who's receiving ICU care due to Covid is either unvaccinated or vaccinated but also elderly or was suffering from serious health issues before they caught the virus.
If the virus made you feel pretty shitty, you can be sure that you would have felt much worse if you hadn't primed your immune system to deal with it by getting the vaccine. And, as haunted mentions in their response, there's good evidence suggesting that you being vaccinated reduces the chances of you having to deal with the long-term problems that Covid is causing for very many people.
Of course, you can't replay the last couple of years, refuse the vaccine and find out by experiment how bad you would have got when you caught the virus. And it's human nature to think that something that doesn't work perfectly is really pretty crap and worthless. But the fact is that it's entirely possible that if you hadn't been vaccinated, you could have ended up very seriously ill.
IIN That I got covid-19, despite being fully vaccinated?
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I find it depressing that so many people lack a basic understanding of how vaccines work.
When you got your Covid vaccine, your body didn't start to produce an invisible force field that repelled any Covid viruses that happened to waft your way on the beer-breath belched by some MAGA hat wearing idiot. If your immune system responded in the normal way (which doesn't always happen), it recognised the vaccine as something that did not belong in your bloodstream, began to produce antibodies, and stored the memory of what the invading particles "looked" like so it would be quickly noticed and promptly attacked from all sides if it appeared again.
This means that it is entirely possible to catch Covid even if you've been fully vaccinated. Some people's immune system responds so aggressively that the viruses never replicate to the point where they notice the symptoms. With other people - and particularly with variants forms - the virus is able to sneak under the radar for a while before the immune system notices what's going on and attacks.
What the statistics make absolutely clear is that, as a rule, the effect of the virus on those who have been double vaccinated is much less severe than it is for those who have not been vaccinated. In the UK at the moment, virtually everyone who's receiving ICU care due to Covid is either unvaccinated or vaccinated but also elderly or was suffering from serious health issues before they caught the virus.
If the virus made you feel pretty shitty, you can be sure that you would have felt much worse if you hadn't primed your immune system to deal with it by getting the vaccine. And, as haunted mentions in their response, there's good evidence suggesting that you being vaccinated reduces the chances of you having to deal with the long-term problems that Covid is causing for very many people.
Of course, you can't replay the last couple of years, refuse the vaccine and find out by experiment how bad you would have got when you caught the virus. And it's human nature to think that something that doesn't work perfectly is really pretty crap and worthless. But the fact is that it's entirely possible that if you hadn't been vaccinated, you could have ended up very seriously ill.