Until we have better data on the immune response to this type of vaccine, I wouldn’t want to quit conventional vaccinations or try to fully replace them with radvac. I’d consider diy vaccines a likely improvement for supplementing traditional vaccines in the cases of respiratory infections that mutate too fast for commercial vaccines and respiratory infections that are too rare or localized for big manufacturers to bother making vaccines against them, though.
I would want to see more data on the safety of the process before using nasal peptides against non-respiratory infections, because my mental model of the immune system explains some of its malfunctions as the system freaking out over seeing something it’s acquainted with in an unusual context. These examples include the way that beekeepers can suddenly develop an anaphylactic reaction to being stung after years of being stung with no problems, and a model of childhood food allergy in which children exposed to an allergen by skin contact before they eat it are more likely to have a reaction when eating it.
It’s 2020 hindsight to suggest that it would have made sense to snort covid peptides as soon as its genome was sequenced, though. I recall a lot of early confusion about whether it would be possible to develop safe and effective vaccines for it, because some people were seeing patterns in the data that looked like the more severe symptoms might be caused by an immune response developed by earlier and milder exposure to the virus. I don’t think that possibility was truly ruled out until data from commercial vaccine trials became available. Given what was known at this time last year, for instance, I don’t think the expected benefits of snorting covid peptides would have necessarily outweighed the likely-looking drawbacks. Once the other vaccine data was out, though, there were far fewer reasons not to try to self-vaccinate.
Until we have better data on the immune response to this type of vaccine, I wouldn’t want to quit conventional vaccinations or try to fully replace them with radvac. I’d consider diy vaccines a likely improvement for supplementing traditional vaccines in the cases of respiratory infections that mutate too fast for commercial vaccines and respiratory infections that are too rare or localized for big manufacturers to bother making vaccines against them, though.
I would want to see more data on the safety of the process before using nasal peptides against non-respiratory infections, because my mental model of the immune system explains some of its malfunctions as the system freaking out over seeing something it’s acquainted with in an unusual context. These examples include the way that beekeepers can suddenly develop an anaphylactic reaction to being stung after years of being stung with no problems, and a model of childhood food allergy in which children exposed to an allergen by skin contact before they eat it are more likely to have a reaction when eating it.
It’s 2020 hindsight to suggest that it would have made sense to snort covid peptides as soon as its genome was sequenced, though. I recall a lot of early confusion about whether it would be possible to develop safe and effective vaccines for it, because some people were seeing patterns in the data that looked like the more severe symptoms might be caused by an immune response developed by earlier and milder exposure to the virus. I don’t think that possibility was truly ruled out until data from commercial vaccine trials became available. Given what was known at this time last year, for instance, I don’t think the expected benefits of snorting covid peptides would have necessarily outweighed the likely-looking drawbacks. Once the other vaccine data was out, though, there were far fewer reasons not to try to self-vaccinate.