Your innate immunity is very general and not specific to any particular type of invader. It’s a bit like when you meet an unknown person for the first time. You may be ready to respond to standard, common issues that you deal with all the time, such as a person not maintaining any eye contact, being a bit standoffish, or asking you if you are related to a famous martial artist for the 2,971st time, not that anyone would be counting.
At the same time, your adaptive immune system, otherwise known as your acquired immune system, will not yet be ready with a response. Your adaptive immune system is the part of your immune system that offers a more specialized and tailored response against an invader. But this part of your immune system needs to be exposed to the invader first and then learn how to respond, a bit like what Gloria Gaynor was singing about in the song “I Will Survive.
If you recall, the song begins with the line, “at first I was afraid, I was petrified.” Well, if your immune system has never seen the spike protein, your adaptive immune system probably doesn’t have a specific response to it. And the third and fourth lines of the song go, “but then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong. And I grew strong. And I learned how to get along.” In the case of your adaptive immune system, “so many nights” may be about 10 to 14 days.
That’s what your adaptive immune system can say when you get the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, the booster dose. This is supposed to remind your immune system about the spike protein by re-exposing your body to it. But if your adaptive immunity is already poised to act, more of a reaction may result. That’s why you may be more likely to get side effects following your second dose.
So you may want to adjust your schedule so that you aren’t doing any crucial work around the time you are getting either dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, especially the second dose. Don’t plan on doing brain surgery, rocket science, financial deals with squirrels, or anything similar in the several days after you will be getting the vaccine. You may find yourself feeling a bit crummy and unable to concentrate.
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