• mycelium underground
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    3 months ago

    Unless they can’t, some people are immunocompromised. The world is more complicated than you think, so try thinking instead of reacting.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      Well, I get that. And at this point, I’m sicking of trying to keep people from setting the house on fire, while they are dousing themselves with gasoline.

        • Flying Squid
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          13 months ago

          Don’t even bother. They think you can vaccinate against bacteria. And they’ve doubled down on it three times now.

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            13 months ago

            Several vaccines against extracellular bacteria have been developed in the past and are still used successfully today, e.g., vaccines against tetanus, pertussis, and diphtheria. However, while induction of antibody production is usually sufficient for protection against extracellular bacteria, vaccination against intracellular bacteria is much more difficult because effective defense against these pathogens requires T cell-mediated responses, particularly the activation of cytotoxic CD8+ T cells. These responses are usually not efficiently elicited by immunization with non-living whole cell antigens or subunit vaccines, so that other antigen delivery strategies are required.

            https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9144739/