Schiff wrote: ↑18 Oct 2020, 23:13
Each year's flu vaccine is unique. It is quickly rolled out to a large segment of the population. Every year many people experience side effects from the vaccine. Sometimes those side effects are so serious that people feel the need to take a couple of paracetemol. Every year the flu vaccine saves thousands of lives and prevents thousands more hospitalisations.
I will happily have a Covid vaccine that has undergone clinical trials. It will protect me, allowing me to go back to living a normal life. More importantly, my having the vaccine will also help to protect those around me.
The reason why vaccinations may make you feel unwell is because in order for them to work they require an immune response from your body.
How the immune system responds is unique to each individual. Most people may not notice anything, others may have a strong immune response and so may feel like crap for a few days.
If you think about auto immune conditions such as eczema; the immune system is so ramped up in those individuals that it attacks healthy cells in the body. There's more to it than that, but you get the idea. This is how powerful the immune system is. So feeling ill after a vaccination is normal, a sign that it is effective, and is nothing in comparison to what the immune system is actually capable of.
Plus if you didn't have an immune system you would probably never feel ill, but you'd drop dead pretty quickly. The majority of symptoms of a virus aren't actually produced by the virus, it's the immune response of your body in an effort to kill the virus. That's why viruses that are different but affect the same specific systems within the body share the same symptoms.