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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here: I finally came across something concrete that addresses my concern. Monica Gandhi posted a flurry of tweets just now about the t-cell response paper (the same one that I referenced in my PP). This is her distinction: you will get infected, but you will be protected against severe disease. So, I guess the working theory of the hope brigade is that although antibodies from current vaccines won't protect you against infection from two of the new variants, the t-cells that you produce in response to the vaccine or a wild strain infection will attack the covid variants after they begin to infect your cells. Also, the external spike that an antibody reacts to is more mutable (which is why mutations can evade antibodies with some frequency), whereas the internal proteins that a t-cell reacts to are less likely to mutate, making these t-cells more likely to protect against even future mutations.

I'm not sure why a single PP didn't just state this distinction in a response. There's just been a bunch of "I disagree" and "you're apocalyptic" instead. Slow clap for your communication and debate skills....

BUT....t-cell memory has been found to persist for "up to" 8 months after infection. Up. To. Eight. Months. So everyone who is getting vaccines in March of 2021 (teachers! staff!) may become susceptible to the variants in....drumroll....November of 2021. So....yeah....

Which brings me back to my PP about all those epidemiologists from around the world who said that they expect our current vaccines to need replacement in the near term due to variants. And I don't see a plan for that as a necessary contingency to the open schools now mandate this fall.

Also, I'm not moving the goalposts. Darwinism is moving the goalposts, and I'm not responsible for that - it preceded me by, like, eons.[/quote]

Monica Ghandi is a fervent advocate of kids being in school, so I don’t think she would agree with your assessment of her tweets. Also, can’t everyone just get vaccinated again if it really wears off that quickly?[/quote]

Hey OP, did you ask Gandhi about this? Because she just tweeted you an answer:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1377112653588353025[/twitter][/quote]

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