You May Not Know You Have COVID, But You'll Know U Had Vax

It doesn't surprise me that one would experience symptoms (fever, chills, etc.) after a vaccine.  After all, you are trying to "trick" your body that it has been exposed to a virus to produce the antibodies and cell "memory" of these proteins so they can be recognized early when exposed to the "real" virus.  When "tricking" your body, it is going to ramp up the defense system which includes making the environment (your body) in-hospitable to viral replication.  Your body "thinks" it has been exposed and tries to fight it off, even though it is a fake.

Many vaccines invoke an autoimmune response, some don't depending on the type.  I think early vaccines invoke a response until they can be perfected like some of the long used ones (hep, TB, etc) that are known to not cause a response except in rare circumstances.

The thing that caught my eye was the "shortness of breath" symptoms.  This is why COVID predominately kills people, the so called cytokine storm (really, viral pneumonia) that fills the lungs with fluid, leading to a drop of oxygen in the lungs, and therefore impedes the bottom to continue fighting.  We all need oxygen for every body function, including fighting an infection.

It is concerning that the known symptom of the virus that is the predominate complicating factor shows up in the vaccine.  It would be like taking the polio vaccine and not being able to walk for a while.  Oh wait:

"In April 1955 more than 200 000 children in five Western and mid-Western USA states received a polio vaccine in which the process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective. Within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month the first mass vaccination programme against polio had to be abandoned"