Magic Monday

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It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. (Any question received after then will not get an answer, and will likely just be deleted.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here.

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Comments

Re: Mundane Astrology/Lunar Eclipse

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP, but the problem is that the vaccines only provide partial immunity. In much the same way that bacteria evolve to resist antibiotics which are overused, an emphasis on immunity to a single protein will encourage the virus to evolve to find ways around that. Most people's immune responses are not based on a single protein, but on plenty of them, with some idiosyncratic variation thrown in just for fun as well. This makes it harder for the virus to get around the immune response than just using a vaccine.

Re: Mundane Astrology/Lunar Eclipse

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not convinced by that argument. Mutations, like copying errors, are random. Most vaccinated people aren't going to get infected, so those who do will generate some variants, but fewer of them than if ten times as many people got infected and produced copies. If variant B is much more able to infect vaccinated people than variant A, then in a heavily vaccinated population variant B, and variants based on it, will become dominant. But how is that any worse than not vaccinating, and having everyone get sick with variant A? (It could be worse if variant B is also more virulent, but the opposite could just as easily be true.)

Second, all the emphasis is on production of antibodies to the protein because - or so I get the impression - that's what it's cheapest to test for, but the immune response to vaccines, like infections, apparently does also include production of T cells, which may go after cells that are infected even with variants that the antibodies don't recognize well.