To anyone who doesn’t know how a vaccine works and would like to, this is how! (But oversimplified)
The vaccine basically contains a fake virus (or a disarmed virus), but your body thinks it’s the real virus. When it is injected into your body, your body will think it’s the real thing despite it actually only being a fake virus. Because it thinks it’s the real virus it fights it like it would any other sickness and creates antibodies. These antibodies are what fight and kill the virus. Antibodies continue to live in your body after they kill the virus. (This is why you have an imunity to sicknesses after you get over it). Anyway, now that your body has fought off the fake virus, you have the antibodies to kill the real virus!! So, if you are vaccinated, you will be resistant to the virus if you catch it because you already have the antibodies to fight it off!
The disarmed virus in the vaccine does not effect you in anyway except to promote the creation of antibodies. It will not make you sick like the actual virus.
Do wanna know why us spoonie have trouble telling people we’re sick?
Because we were raised by parents who were angry and who doubted us when we wanted to stay home from school cuz we were sick. We were surrounded by nurses and doctors who told us we were overdramatic or crying too much. We had elderly people tell us how happy we should be that we aren’t in pain and should treasure our youth. We had family and teachers look down on us for spending any extended time in bed or on the couch. We had TV shows shame people who weren’t healthy.
We live in a society where being ill is seen as being about how the person who is sick just isn’t doing enough. Unless you have cancer, it’s your fault somehow. You could eat better, exercise, or see better doctors. It is impossible for them to see illness as inevitable.
And it sucks that no one understands or sees what we go through. But society is broken and flawed and has no compassion for us poor spoonies.
(1) Hello everyone. I’m from Ukraine. Please help spread the information about African and Nigerian students in Ukraine. #AfricansinUkraine
I read from @ nzekiev on twitter that the day before yesterday it was very hard for Africans to get on any train in Kyiv, they were letting them in the last, many managed to get in only coz they started pushing African women into the train so they had to allow everyone in. Before that if they managed to get on the train they were sent back outside with the phrase “Ukrainians first”, but nobody was checking anyone’s passports.
Today, February 27, he says the Ukrainian soldiers at the Polish border were holding them at gunpoint if they crossed the border before Ukrainians. These are students, they can’t be fighting this war!!! A Nigerian medical student told @ stephheharty they were told Ukrainians go first and were sent to the back of the queue by Ukrainian soldiers on Polish border.
We must help. They can’t be denied shelter while every other white Ukrainian gets to cross the border right before their eyes. @ chylady and @ Damilare_arah share all the important information for Africans and Nigerians on where to find help and also donations.
@ korrinesky is actively sharing all the information. This thread increases to this day and time:
They also have a Telegram chat for African and Caribbean students who are in Lviv but I can’t seem to be able to copy the link directly so I’m sending the link to the tweet:
Use the hashtag #AfricansinUkraine and mentions @UN @RedCross @UNESCO @wateraid @amnesty @gatesfoundation @FordFoundation @ActionAid @Oxfam on twitter.
