Virus replicates exponentially until constraints like inflammation, distance to uninfected cells, and killer T cells place an upper limit on how much it can replicate.
A constantly produced, low level of antibody like the mRNA vaccines produce just lowers the exponent a tiny bit and the virus reaches the same upper limit. The body has a little more time to react and there's tiny bit less spread throughout so you get slightly less chance of dying.
A real vaccine or being infected teaches the body to recognize the virus so when you get infected the body massively increases antibodies enough to lower the exponent below 1 and the virus can't spread from cell to cell at all. That's why you never get sick more than once from the same virus.
The viral load being the same is proof that the body is not recognizing the virus and making tons of antibodies. Normally when you recover the body keeps producing antibodies proactively for a while just to prevent reinfection from somebody you gave it to - this is all the vaccines do, provide this temporary mild protection against infection.
A real vaccination would amp up your immune response to the point that you no longer experience symptoms of infection by this virus, even if directly exposed to it.
Virus replicates exponentially until constraints like inflammation, distance to uninfected cells, and killer T cells place an upper limit on how much it can replicate.
A constantly produced, low level of antibody like the mRNA vaccines produce just lowers the exponent a tiny bit and the virus reaches the same upper limit. The body has a little more time to react and there's tiny bit less spread throughout so you get slightly less chance of dying.
A real vaccine or being infected teaches the body to recognize the virus so when you get infected the body massively increases antibodies enough to lower the exponent below 1 and the virus can't spread from cell to cell at all. That's why you never get sick more than once from the same virus.
The viral load being the same is proof that the body is not recognizing the virus and making tons of antibodies. Normally when you recover the body keeps producing antibodies proactively for a while just to prevent reinfection from somebody you gave it to - this is all the vaccines do, provide this temporary mild protection against infection.
A real vaccination would amp up your immune response to the point that you no longer experience symptoms of infection by this virus, even if directly exposed to it.