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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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Hackers love to question the truth but refuse to countenance bullshit. The downvotes here seem to be catching bullshit quite well!

If it’s low quality/troll posts then I agree.

But ignoring high quality criticism is not going to lead you to truth.

I’m afraid on this topic people feel justified in disregarding or it makes them uncomfortable to scrutinize what they did or said.

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

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> What makes an mRNA vaccine more appealing than a protein-based one? Having worked on the same targeting mechanisms for protein based vaccines meant to be personalized cancer therapies, and having followed the mRNA vaccines with envy, the benefits are absolutely massive. But there's not a single alternative. In comparison to each type: Short peptides injection are worse because: minimal immune stimulation, less of a…

> Short peptides injection are worse because: minimal immune stimulation, less of a mechanism to train the immune system on the peptide targets, have not been effective. If the problem of peptide vaccines is weak immune stimulation, then wouldn't the problem of mRNA vaccines be autoimmunity?

No, why would that be? Auto-immunity comes from immune cells targeting healthy cells, and the mRNA peptide translations do not correspond to healthy cells.

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

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> Why are mRNA vaccines the future? This may well be true, but I’ll be far more likely to believe it when there’s an mRNA vaccine that’s anywhere near as effective as the best old boring vaccines. (I admit that my personal favorite, not-mRNA, HSV vaccine candidate is from a company, X-vax, that appears to have forgotten to renew its domain.) I’m also not entirely clear about the path by which mRNA technology might el…

The covid mRNA vaccines were wildly effective at the original covid strain—95%. But respiratory viruses mutate like crazy.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hackers love to question the truth but refuse to countenance bullshit. The downvotes here seem to be catching bullshit quite well!

If it’s low quality/troll posts then I agree. But ignoring high quality criticism is not going to lead you to truth. I’m afraid on this topic people feel justified in disregarding or it makes them uncomfortable to scrutinize what they did or said.

The bulk of the downvoted comments are literally saying mRNA vaccines cause cancer, claiming there to be mountains of evidence yet not providing any references themselves. That's not "high quality criticism" but dull and uninformed nonsense.

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

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post #59

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The covid mRNA vaccines were wildly effective at the original covid strain—95%. But respiratory viruses mutate like crazy.

They were wildly effective for a few months after being given. We don’t know how well they would continue to work in the absence of mutation. But it’s worse than that: the revised vaccines appear to be nowhere near as effective even against strains closely related to those which they target. As a somewhat plausible mechanism, repeated doses have been shown to induce IgG4 production, which non-mRNA vaccines don’t seem…

Measles and chickenpox are both respiratory and airborne. The serial interval is longer though, gives the vaccines more time to work to prevent transmission. Though, the chickenpox vaccine is more of a "parental time off work harm reduction" thing, however the newer shingles vaccines make that somewhat less so, as the combined vaccines do probably have a RRR on getting symptoms for your whole life.

Edit: not to say there's no "positive" effect on the total death rate (i.e. the vaccine causes there to be less deaths overall), it's just not a cost effective positive effect considered in isolation.

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

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This is Jake Seliger ('jseliger)'s partner, if you're wondering.

https://substack.com/@bessstillman

  I'm an ER doctor, writer, and wife to Jake Seliger (JakeSeliger.com)
  who is dying of squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue
It's very sad that Jake has terminal cancer.

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

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This comment section is being heavily censored even for very mild criticisms.

Scary to see this censorship still goes on, even now, at this latter stage, where the studies on myocarditis are numerous and no longer debunked. The censorship was even worse during the initial rollout of mRNA technology, blocking fair scrutiny of a widespread rollout. Proper scientific scrutiny and debate is vital around novel technologies. Particularly novel MEDICAL technologies. And particularly where governments…

I think the world will be just fine if a few mediocre coders have their medical hot takes downvoted on an online forum.

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

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post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The covid mRNA vaccines were wildly effective at the original covid strain—95%. But respiratory viruses mutate like crazy.

They were wildly effective for a few months after being given. We don’t know how well they would continue to work in the absence of mutation. But it’s worse than that: the revised vaccines appear to be nowhere near as effective even against strains closely related to those which they target. As a somewhat plausible mechanism, repeated doses have been shown to induce IgG4 production, which non-mRNA vaccines don’t seem…

Coronavirus were thought to be non-vaccinable, even worse than the flu. They are behind a lot of winter colds, and they are a great pain in veterinary. Veterinaries are the ones that were pessimistic before mRna vaccines, because they were trying vaccines for decades to no avail.

Measless and chickenpox are very stable, and even the body gains inmunity for life just being exposed to it in the childhood.

All of them are virus the same way an ant and a elephant are animals. You might kill the ant with a magnifying glass, but good luck trying with th elephant.

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

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scary to see this censorship still goes on, even now, at this latter stage, where the studies on myocarditis are numerous and no longer debunked. The censorship was even worse during the initial rollout of mRNA technology, blocking fair scrutiny of a widespread rollout. Proper scientific scrutiny and debate is vital around novel technologies. Particularly novel MEDICAL technologies. And particularly where governments…

I think the world will be just fine if a few mediocre coders have their medical hot takes downvoted on an online forum.

If it doesn’t matter then it also doesn’t hurt to leave the posts up. Thanks.

Unfortunately you can’t see how mild these “hot takes” are.

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