I haven’t been vaccinated, as I had the original Covid variant early in the game (no fun, but no hospital, either). So I suppose I’ve had “gene therapy” if you want to call it that:
“SARS-CoV-2 is a novel positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus”*
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35229157/
“Positive or plus (+)-strand RNA viruses have genomes that are functional mRNAs”*
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7173417/
I’ve since had a little bout of Omicron, no biggie, so got my “booster gene therapy”, too, I guess.
Again, I am staunchly against mandates. Whether to get these vaccines should be a personal and private matter. Now that Covid is no worse than the common cold, why worry over vaccines? The vaccine question has become moot — and most tiresome.
*h/t Pelham
“Now that Covid is no worse than the common cold,”
Mostly it seems, but not always. A couple I know caught it last month and she still has bad symptoms. He was fine in just a few days.
“My point is that there is no vaccine. The products that have been peddled as “vaccines” are better described as gene therapy.”
A vaccine is something that gets your body to produce antibodies. That’s been true since Edward Jenner used to cowpox pustules to inoculate people against smallpox. All of the covid vaccines train your immune system to make antibodies, and to develop T cell immunity which lasts longer.
“Gene therapy” would require the alteration of DNA. The Covid virus can’t alter your genetic code and neither can the vaccines. If gene therapy was easy to do we could cure hereditary diseases.
The “gene therapy” claim is foolishness that constantly gets repeated around here to the point that people think it must be true. Some use it to scare people. Others simply don’t know any better.