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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by wildpeaks on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:46PM (#30198568)
Vaccines are like seat belts: they don't prevent car crashes, but they help you survive them.
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by yetanotherath on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:51PM (#30199473)
Good one!

Here’s my version for pre-Covid vaccines:

Vaccines are like seat belts: they prevent car crashes.

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by headsoup on Thursday February 03, 2022 @05:04PM (#30199655)
No they're more like airbags. The don't stop the accident but they do make it immensely more survivable.

It's amazing how much we've forgotten about how vaccines and immunity work over the last couple of years.

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by cma on Thursday February 03, 2022 @05:18PM (#30199822)
Flu vaccines were always described as a pretty stochastic thing and not a guarantee, though that may have been more for uncertainty of which strain ended up dominant.
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by Izkata on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:21AM (#30207032)
Why is why they're colloquially referred to as "flu shots", not "flu vaccines".
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