DEL’S FOOTBALL ANALOGY GOES VIRAL
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 8 October 2023
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever play in any sports, soccer, football, hopefully this makes some sense to you. |
| 0:05.0 | But on our team, in our immune system, we have what are called nonspecific antibodies. |
| 0:12.0 | They have, he called it broad spectrum, it's broad spectrum, low affinity. |
| 0:18.0 | They don't care who is coming across. |
| 0:20.0 | In this case, let's look at the other team. |
| 0:22.1 | Let's say these are all variants of coronavirus. We got the A variant, F, T, R L, Y, X. Okay. Now it doesn't |
| 0:30.6 | matter who gets the ball in this case. When we have nonspecific, anyone that comes across, so let's |
| 0:37.0 | say X gets the ball, running back gets the ball, comes running over here. Boom, right here, nonspecific antibodies, boom, tackle, dead, not going anywhere. But let's say it's a different play. Let's say they decide they, you know, we're going to run Y. So they run Y with a roundabout coming through here. Boom, it doesn't matter. Non-specific, we see the Y too. It doesn't matter. We're going to go after |
| 0:59.6 | anything because it's non-specific. It's brilliant. These are brilliant antibodies you have as your |
| 1:05.2 | natural immune system. What if it's a trick play? What if they toss it to A and over here |
| 1:09.5 | tries to get through? Doesn't matter. |
| 1:11.4 | Bam, nonspecifics are going to go after the A variant too. |
| 1:15.0 | This is how your immune system works and it's fantastic. |
| 1:18.9 | Now let's talk about what happens when we're giving a vaccine. |
| 1:22.4 | All right. Here we go. |
| 1:24.5 | Let's go the next one. |
| 1:26.0 | So in this case, in this case, we're not going to move into |
| 1:31.0 | vaccine-induced antibodies. As he said, they're long-lived. They don't go away. This isn't a |
| 1:36.9 | drug that's going to wear off two days from now. We say, you know what? You had an allergic reaction. |
| 1:40.4 | We're not going to do that drug anymore. It is in you forever. There's no getting this thing out. And what did it just do? It created what he called specific antibodies. Specific antibodies is now what we're going to discuss. So now in this scenario playing football, essentially everyone on the team has been told you're looking for X. The antibody created, in this case, |
| 2:03.2 | for the spike protein, the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 that we first saw at the very beginning |
| 2:09.0 | before there's any variance, our vaccine is going to make you fight that really well. So how is it |
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