cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40537048
“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
If only there was another proven way of doing this without the risk of serious complications of getting sick.
The measle vaccine injects a very weakened version of the measle virus. The point is that the body doesn’t like these body-foreign entities and thus tries to destroy them, getting “trained” to do the same when a real measles virus enters your body.
Since the weakened measles virus most likely doesn’t reproduce, you don’t really have the measles (the disease).
Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor.
Well that is a matter of definition, I consider breaking a finger and breaking a leg to both mean that you have broken a bone.
Your body still fights the measle virus, you are still infected with it, even if it is a lesswr variant.
If someone threw the dead body of a robber into a store, would you also call that store being robbed?
I get what you mean, but if you read the comment I responded to, it mentions a weakened version of the virus, not a dead one.
Okay, different example. If a country dropped a couple of wounded soldiers without weapons over another country’s territory, would you call that an invasion?
I get what you mean, but yeah, if the soldiers are on duty and haven’t got permission from the other country to enter their land, technically it is an invasion.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/basics/explaining-how-vaccines-work.html
Under the current regime I am not sure that .gov can be trusted.
Now, I know the basics of vaccine theory, you expose a host to a weak strain of an infection, their immune response deals with it and learns how to fight the real thing.
That is a very simplistic way of explaining it, I know, but it is accurate for most people.
Anyway, this conversation has clearly devolved far away from the article and my, admittedly, bad, though not completely inaccurate joke.
I am sorry for the bad joke, yes, but the fact is that it is accurate enough for the common man.