I took the pfizer vaccine and I found the section explaining how the mRNA vaccine works both illuminating and disturbing. Getting cells to generate and display the spike element of the virus, causing inflammation—and potentially cell death is perhaps all fine in the muscle tissue of the shoulder, but what happens if the mRNA travels further to different tissue like the heart? Upon reading how the vaccine actually works I have become a lot more suspicious of potential bad effects of the vaccine—previously I was under the naive impression that the vaccine is more like putting some inactive element on the body for the immune system to recognize.
The analogy of mRNA behaving like root access to cells using their machinery to create proteins—is powerful . I am now a lot more sceptical of the vaccine work, because now I have a better understanding of just how innovative crazy the science is.
Man, if you think the vaccine is scary just wait until you hear about what COVID does.
In all seriousness, you shouldn’t find mRNA vaccines any scarier than the J&J vaccine or the Novavax vaccine. J&J puts DNA for the spike protein in a modified adenovirus, which then enters your muscle cells, breaks out into the cytoplasm, and injects the DNA payload into the nucleus. Then RNA transcriptase makes mRNA out of that DNA, which is exported from the nucleus into the cytoplasm where it is turned into the spike protein.
Novavax just skips the entire manufacturing process; they just inject the spike protein directly into your body.
I’m not an expert on COVID vaccines, but from everything I have read, the rare dangerous side-effects like myocarditis seem to come from the spike protein itself triggering a dangerous immune response in some very small percentage of people.
But like… you can’t avoid that with any vaccine. And the incident of getting myocarditis or a worse condition from COVID itself (especially if you’re unvaccinated) are way, way higher than getting it from the vaccine.
Vaccines are mostly just a cost-benefit analysis; if your odds of damage are higher from the virus (adjusting for the probability of infection) compared to the vaccine, you’re better off getting vaccinated. That will be the case for virtually everyone. Maybe there’s some case for young children to not get the vaccine because the virus itself is so much less dangerous for them. But that’s about it.
I mean this is all kind of a moot point now because everyone has either been infected or vaccinated already, but if your main takeaway from this post was that mRNA vaccines are dangerous I would be pretty disappointed.
I took the pfizer vaccine and I found the section explaining how the mRNA vaccine works both illuminating and disturbing. Getting cells to generate and display the spike element of the virus, causing inflammation—and potentially cell death is perhaps all fine in the muscle tissue of the shoulder, but what happens if the mRNA travels further to different tissue like the heart? Upon reading how the vaccine actually works I have become a lot more suspicious of potential bad effects of the vaccine—previously I was under the naive impression that the vaccine is more like putting some inactive element on the body for the immune system to recognize.
The analogy of mRNA behaving like root access to cells using their machinery to create proteins—is powerful . I am now a lot more sceptical of the vaccine work, because now I have a better understanding of just how innovative crazy the science is.
Man, if you think the vaccine is scary just wait until you hear about what COVID does.
In all seriousness, you shouldn’t find mRNA vaccines any scarier than the J&J vaccine or the Novavax vaccine. J&J puts DNA for the spike protein in a modified adenovirus, which then enters your muscle cells, breaks out into the cytoplasm, and injects the DNA payload into the nucleus. Then RNA transcriptase makes mRNA out of that DNA, which is exported from the nucleus into the cytoplasm where it is turned into the spike protein.
Novavax just skips the entire manufacturing process; they just inject the spike protein directly into your body.
I’m not an expert on COVID vaccines, but from everything I have read, the rare dangerous side-effects like myocarditis seem to come from the spike protein itself triggering a dangerous immune response in some very small percentage of people.
But like… you can’t avoid that with any vaccine. And the incident of getting myocarditis or a worse condition from COVID itself (especially if you’re unvaccinated) are way, way higher than getting it from the vaccine.
Vaccines are mostly just a cost-benefit analysis; if your odds of damage are higher from the virus (adjusting for the probability of infection) compared to the vaccine, you’re better off getting vaccinated. That will be the case for virtually everyone. Maybe there’s some case for young children to not get the vaccine because the virus itself is so much less dangerous for them. But that’s about it.
I mean this is all kind of a moot point now because everyone has either been infected or vaccinated already, but if your main takeaway from this post was that mRNA vaccines are dangerous I would be pretty disappointed.