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The Eternal War: Virus vs Immune System

The Eternal War: Virus vs Immune System
by D.O.C., OTD/C


In writing on this topic, I am completely aware of the controversy pertaining to the Coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine. I always believed that you could answer any health concern with facts. There has been a secret war going on between viruses and the human immune system for thousands of years. First, let's talk about our immune system:

Question: What is your immune system?

Answer: Your body’s defense against foreign invaders and healing process after injury. It is composed of white blood cells, produced by your lymphatic system, spleen and thymus gland.

Question: What are white blood cells?

Answer: White blood cells ARE your immune system. They consist of FIVE cells. These five are (pictured below):








·       Neutrophils - Neutrophils act as your body's first line of defense (second if you consider your skin). In charge of increasing your body’s temperature (fever) in an effort to kill the virus first (viruses don’t like heat). It also, with Paul Revere efficiency, alerts the other white blood cells that something bad is coming.

·       Eosinophils – In charge of fighting parasites like worms (ringworms).

·       Basophils – In charge of fighting allergies. For example: it may view peanuts as a threat and attack areas in your body where the peanut has been absorbed. That’s why people are allergic to peanuts. They are also the prime suspect of any autoimmune disease. In patients with multiple sclerosis, the basophils are responsible for attacking the myelin sheath. Same is true for the basophils in lupus or scleroderma. Basophils assume your own body is an “allergy”, thus, autoimmunity.

·       Monocytes – stops bleeding and covers wounds (platelets).

·       Lymphocytes

o   Memory B-Cells: Captures viruses, makes a copy and remembers it forever.

o   Killer T-Cells: Kills the virus once B-Cells captured it.

Now that we settled that, lets get down to what you REALLY want to know: how does it all work and are vaccines safe?








Question: What is mRNA?

Answer: Messenger RNA. It sends messages to the rRNA.


Question: What is tRNA?

Answer: Transportation RNA. Transports messages from mRNA to rRNA.


Question: What is rRNA?

Answer: Receiver RNA. It receives messages from the mRNA.


Question: Do viruses have mRNA?

Answer: Yes. Viruses’ mRNA purpose is to confuse your body's natural rRNA through malicious code.


Question: Why do viruses mutate to a different variant?

Answer: Viruses mRNA malicious codes change to outsmart the B-Cells memory (example: the omacron variant) if a community forms immunity (herd immunity).

 

Question: Is Covid-19 really just another version of the flu?

Answer: No. Influenza (flu) and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they are caused by different viruses. COVID-19 is caused by infection with a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) first identified in 2019. Flu is caused by infection with a flu virus (influenza viruses). Also, Covid-19 is more aggressive because it has spiky crowns that latch on to our cells, as opposed to the flu's smoother surface crowns (pictured below).



 




Question: Are vaccines safe?

Answer: Yes. Vaccines are biologically cultured products designed to sparks your immune response by imitating a virus. Vaccines contain weakened or inactive parts of a particular foreign organism (antigen) that triggers an immune response within the body. Newer vaccines like the Moderna of Pfizer produced Covid-19 vaccines contain the blueprint for producing antigens rather than the antigen itself. Regardless of whether the vaccine is made up of the antigen itself or the blueprint so that the body will produce the antigen, this weakened version will not cause the disease in the person receiving the vaccine, but it will prompt your neutrophils to respond much as it would have on its first reaction to the actual viral pathogen in raising your body temperature. Your neutrophils will then realize the vaccine is a "fake/false alarm". Your neutrophils will then lower the body's temperature after raising it and alert your other white blood cells to stand down. This is why most people only see fever like symptoms for 12 hours after the getting a Covid-19 vaccine shot. Pretty cool, right?!


Question: Why did flu numbers go down during Covid-19 pandemic?

Answer: Because the flu is less contagious than Covid-19, the precautions taken to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including wearing masks, mass hand washing and distancing, are likely the major reason for a steep decline of flu cases.


-D.O.C., OTD/C

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