GaryClare said:

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Capitol Ag said:

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BigOil said:

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Sorry if dumb question but why get the shot if you already had it and the natural antibodies?

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Not a doctor. But have looked into this question.
B/c it's like a booster. While having had the virus does tend to result in antibodies, the questions are how long they last, if there are enough to keep you from being reinfected and if you have other things that might complicate things like being immunocompromised. In essence, they are encouraging all who have had the virus to still get the vaccine. I have seen it described as an extra booster.

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Antibodies never last. The ability to produce antibodies is programmed into your immune system memory B cells. Now with just about every other virus the ability to produce antibodies lasts for decades and most likely your entire life. The ability for the body to produce swine flu antibodies have lasted 50 years. But apparently this virus is different so your immunity from a vaccine or actually having the disease you can get sick again in 9 months - sarcasm intended.

Now if there is a mutation in the virus that does not correlate to the programming developed by the vaccine or the virus itself, the process starts again and you will need to contract the new variation or get an adjusted vaccine to have immunity from that specific virus strain. Cold and flu virus change and mutate all the time. Corona "cold" viruses are so varied and mutate so much a vaccine cannot be effectively produced.

The only reason an mRNA vaccine might be effective after actually having the disease, or having a vaccine with the dead or weakened virus, is that your body has learned to attack the specific virus. The mRNA vaccines that attack the protein spike have a different strategy - they don't kill the virus they just "eat it's arms and legs" and leave the rest of the virus to die on its own. So IF parts of the virus mutates and your body has to learned how to combat the old strain BUT the protein spike stays the same in the new strain, it is possible that mRNA protein spike vaccines can compliment the response a person developed from the original strain exposure.

Now, once you've had the disease you just might contract the disease again. But your body will just fight it and you might never know you "got" it again. For example, how many times have you been exposed to smallpox, measles, mumps, rubella, etc.? Who knows - your body has the program and takes care of it. If this is not some unorthodox virus and it's like every other corona virus you will be fine with this strain once you have recovered from it or received a vaccine.

This is all Biology 101. Remove the politics behind the COVID 19 name and just learn about the immune system and it will help in figuring it all out.

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