Immunity and Covid

theatlantic.com/science/arc...

Interesting article on Immunity

[Eucalyptus22]

Excellent article explaining to us the intricacies of the workings of our immune system. I read it with a mix of wonder, sadness and hope. Wonder that our bodies are just so darn clever, sadness that I have no B cells due to being on Acalabrutinib and hope that I have some functioning T cells and some semblance of innate immunity to battle any covid I might get.

The second article on the 2nd vaccine and the bodies' response is interesting in that hopefully it will remember the first vaccine and mount a response. Certainly explains why people seem to be reporting a greater response with the 2nd vaccine. I will look forward (hopefully) to what my body has to say about the 2nd vaccine!

[LeoPa]

Fighting covid should be a teamwork. Our immune systems and us, the entity that inhabits the body working together. But that is often not the case. The emperor is too lazy or soft willed to make sure the number of attackers is reduced to the bare minimum given his specific circumstances and leaves his army open to assault by unlimited numbers of invaders. Then when his army loses the fight he wails for sympathy and isn't prepared to leave his habitat. I'd say we need to cherish what we have and appreciate the dwelling, the army and all before it's too late and we get kicked out of the castle. Our advantage is our capacity to plan and to execute a strategy to prevail in the fight. Yet many refuse to do anything. Oh, it's so hard to social distance, to wear a mask, to give up life's pleasures for a while that they'd rather just leave it to someone else to fight their fight. That's NOT how a good commander behaves. Those who do deserve to be defeated.