I came up with an analogy for vaccines that I'm thinking might actually penetrate the think skulls of some of these motherfuckers. If you agree, please feel free to use it... It goes like this:

When soldiers are preparing for their life in the service, what do they do? Stand around with their thumbs in their asses waiting for an enemy to attack? No. They train. They train day and night. They train until they have all of the maneuvers and tactics burned into their brains.

They use guns and tanks to defend.

So for defense, most would agree that the soldiers doing the fighting need two main things: training and equipment.

This is the same for your immune system. The equipment that your body needs to mount a good defence comes in the form of vitamins, minerals, and most importantly, calories to keep everything operating as good as it can.

Vaccines are the other side of that equation. They're the training regimen for your immune system. It's the practice run before going into a live-fire situation.

Vaccines, in and of themselves, can't do shit to stop you from getting an infection, or a disease. That's not what vaccines do. They only train the soldiers of your immune system to recognize and effectively attack the enemy. Without them, your immune system soldiers will take longer to react to a threat because it will simply take longer to recognise it and attack/eliminate it.

That's it.