Editing Talk:2491: Immune Factory

<!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.-->
I don't feel qualified to start this description, but this page has relevant info to explain the pun in the last panel: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikebreaker Strikebreaker - Wikipedia] - [[User:Vaedez|Vaedez]] ([[User talk:Vaedez|talk]]) 03:36, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
:I've yet to visit your link, but I suspect I would have explained that self-same thing. Plus the "IMMUNION" thing being a parody of something I know happened in the UK (don't know about the US, but why not?) where the Bottle Washers And Associated Kitchen Trades Union stops being known by its proud old acronym of BWAAKTU and 'rebrands' as something that sounds like a team name from The Apprentice, becoming "Sinceriton" or "Dynamotion" or something that looks like it ''should'' be an aptonym with a valid backronym like "SINKU". [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.48|162.158.159.48]] 04:58, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

When I read the comic, I inferred that this was his ''second'' dose - the first dose made his body build up defenses, in contrast with ''now'', when it's ramping up production and making him feel really bad. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.248|108.162.245.248]] 05:40, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
:I agree, I think the comic displays Hairy suffering the reactions to his second shot rather than the first. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 07:00, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
::Also agree so I will change. Most have had first dose anyway. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:05, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

When Cueball replies "common side effect" to Hairy remarking that his immune cells have "unionized", what side effect is that referring to exactly? The current text of this explanation page says "It is not clear whether [Hairy's statement of immune-cell unionization] corresponds to any actual part of the immune response", but Cueball's reply seems to imply that there ''is'' a correspondence. - [[User:Vaedez|Vaedez]] ([[User talk:Vaedez|talk]]) 09:34, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

I believe the "unionisation" and refering to it as a common side effect refers to fever. Fever being a reaction of the immune system to a threat, as well as a common side effect of many vaccines. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.200|108.162.229.200]] 23:02, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

I remember there's actually a few parodies of the immune factory, other then this. Should they be mentioned/a new category created? 2425 is one
[[User:Eelitee|Eelitee]] ([[User talk:Eelitee|talk]]) 23:15, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 When I read the comic, I inferred that this was his ''second'' dose - the first dose made his body build up defenses, in contrast with ''now'', when it's ramping up production and making him feel really bad. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.248|108.162.245.248]] 05:40, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 :I agree, I think the comic displays Hairy suffering the reactions to his second shot rather than the first. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 07:00, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
-::Personally, my first dose (of AZ/Oxford, for reference) crept up on me and, after several hours, gave me a totally unanticipated (the way one thinks one is immortal, clearly going to be taking such stuff in one's stride, right?) whole-body set of muscular aches and pains and day or two of general dreadfulness, the depths of which seem to be reflected in Hairy's depiction almost to a tee.
+::Also agree so I will change. Most have had first dose anyway. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:05, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
-::The second dose (when I was more prepared for the reaction/repurcussions, and now knew where I'd find an almost-expired pack of flu-tablets that I wish I remembered I'd had the first time when I didn't even want to crawl out of bed much, but had never even opened) was therefore pessimistically anticipated to be just as bad but actually only ''half'' my body seemed to ache for the duration (still worse than any winter cold/flu I could quantify from recent memory) and I bounced back much quicker. (This time having ''deliberately'' resisted taking the newly rediscovered standard medicine-aisle anti-inflammatories, painkillers and/or whatever that I only ever bought in 'just in case' long before Covid or its vaccines were ever an immediate issue.)
-::Anecdotal, I know. And I post my inability to/restraint from self-medication just to frame the relative degree of effects felt (I ''would'' have popped the pills the first time round, if I knew I could have, and that's something I just don't like doing on principle, as I (over?)trust my body to get through most circumstances, short of those important enough to require such a vaccination). I'm not a masochist, just a bit more inclined to wait and see.
-::Plus given it's assumed to be in the US it's probably going to be Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna (not the same mechanism as AZ's primer). Or ''maybe'' Janssen (which is more so). That greatly adds uncertainty to the usual mix of everyone having their own individual response to nominally identical treatment. But this is my own personal datum point, lacking any others. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.122|141.101.98.122]] 10:37, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 When Cueball replies "common side effect" to Hairy remarking that his immune cells have "unionized", what side effect is that referring to exactly? The current text of this explanation page says "It is not clear whether [Hairy's statement of immune-cell unionization] corresponds to any actual part of the immune response", but Cueball's reply seems to imply that there ''is'' a correspondence. - [[User:Vaedez|Vaedez]] ([[User talk:Vaedez|talk]]) 09:34, 20 July 2021 (UTC)