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mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less

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Re: mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less

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> Anti-vaxxers predate Covid.

Every idea exists, the question is how prevalent. I knew many people who did not take it due to mandates, or took it and resisted the mandates (never showed card etc).

In retrospect the alarmism you’re still using was totally wrong. I believe the official story now is that Covid vaccines mildy reduce symptoms and more effectively reduce transmission?

Re: mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t this also basically what happens to countless of our cells every day through natural exposure to viruses?

Maybe? Although viruses that we are naturally exposed to on a daily basis don't routinely bypass the mucous membrane barrier, and do not roam freely throughout our bodies. And they normally do have a targeting mechanism that allows them to selectively infect certain types of cells. And in any case, viruses are supposed to be bad for the organism; so I am not sure how this consideration helps.

I mean viruses target everything and nothing, and mutate insanely rapidly. I imagine the majority that enter our bodies aren’t able to perform any function, and then the ones that can will opportunistically infect anything without regard for the consequences.

As for whether or not viruses are bad for us, I mean I don’t think we have any choice in the matter anyway, they’re even more numerous than bacteria, and absolutely everywhere.

I wonder how many viruses infect our cells every day vs how many “lipid viruses” are in a standard Moderna Covid shot.

Re: mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less

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It's a shame mRNA vaccines don't work like traditional vaccines. The problem with mRNA vaccines is that they cause the immune system to attack healthy cells throughout the body, when the injected mRNA causes those cells to emit foreign proteins. For most parts of the body, that's fine, because it's okay to gain some muscle scar tissue in the arm. But muscle scar tissue in the heart will measurably shorten one's life expectancy.

mRNA injections are meant to be intramuscular, but some will become accidentally intravenous if the needle accidently enters (or nicks) a blood vessel. And then the substance will enter the heart and lungs where healthy heart and lung cells will begin expressing the Covid spike protein, causing those heart and lung cells to be killed by cytotoxic T cells and NK (natural killer) cells.

We used to protect against accidental intravenous injection by a technique called "aspiration", where the plunger of the syringe is withdrawn slightly prior to injection, to check for blood. However, aspiration was stopped around 2010 as it was feared the slight increase in injection pain might put people off getting routine vaccinations.

Re: mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less

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> RNA is fragile. So, like in the COVID mRNA vaccines, these instructions can be delivered in a protective fatty bubble called a “lipid nanoparticle.” Think of it like a balloon made of fatty acids, with the instructions nestled inside. Once injected, these lipid nanoparticles take the mRNA instructions into cells, where the fatty bubble degrades, mRNA instructions are released, and the cell’s machinery start to prod…

Similarly, my question is if we trick random cells around the body into producing these spike proteins, and they presumably don't stop for a while (no idea on how long), does this not also create an undo burdon on the immune system until the cells artificially producing the protein die? And if there's loose RNA floating around, after these cells die can another cell _also_ start reproducing the protein?
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