Posted on 12/22/2020 2:35:28 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
For the duration of the pandemic, while hundreds of thousands died and the world economy was decimated by lockdowns, Moderna's highly effective vaccine was available.
Few people realize that the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19—which the FDA has finally declared "highly effective," and which is now being distributed to Americans—has actually been available for nearly a year.
But the government wouldn't let you take it.
The vaccine, a triumph of medical science known as mRNA-1273, was designed in a single weekend, just two days after Chinese researchers published the virus's genetic code on January 11, 2020.
For the entire duration of the pandemic, while hundreds of thousands died and the world economy was decimated by lockdowns, this highly effective vaccine has been available.
But you, and all the people who died, were prohibited by the government from taking it.
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Quick lesson in basic biology since you are unaware of what mRNA is. The genes in a human are found on the DNA, which is encapsulated in the nucleus of the cell. You, my friend, have no credibility as you do not know what genes are, where they are housed, what mRNA is, and the basics of cell biology. I am so terribly sorry you have shown yourself an ignoramus. But you truly have no idea what you are talking about and cannot defend the indefensible.
Good question. We know it does NOT prevent you from getting the bug. You can still get it and transmit it (asymptomatically), but, according to the Pfizer trials, your chances of getting hospitalized go from 9-in-21,600 to 1-in-21,600.
Preventing you from getting the bug at all was outside the scope of these studies, due to the timeframe.
Useless masks for years.
“FDA purposefully slow-walked the vaccine”
Slow walked?
We have it in 10 months, that’s amazing.
It had to have some testing, that was all expedited.
But it had not been tested on anything, still would have required months if not years for that. The vaccine is an illusion of safety and promise.
They didn't. But a team of researchers had already developed a way to test coronavirus vaccine candidates during the MERS epidemic. That technique combined with the ability to synthesize similar but safe chemicals that mimic the spike protein structures of COVID-19 allowed researchers to create a vaccine very quickly.
All of the time between then and now was used to ensure the safety and efficacy of the vaccine.
The author's main point, which is interesting, is how the cost in lives and economic suffering of the COVID-19 epidemic could have been dramatically less if people were free to try a possibly risky vaccine.
That theory is not supported by any evidence. Coronavirus vaccine research was well underway long before COVID-19. It started with the first serious coronavirus outbreaks, and continued for MERS, etc.
It wasn't developed in a single weekend. It was synthesized based on a lot of existing knowledge. Once the sequence of COVID-19 was published it was not difficult to modify the existing vaccine designs to match up with the now known structure of the COVID-19 virus.
The process is analogous to having an engine designed and built, sitting in your shop and then you are given the blueprint for the bolt pattern of a new transmission for the rest of the car. At that point you machine the new bell housing on Saturday, bolt it together on Sunday and you have an new car. But you wouldn't say you developed the car or the engine in a single weekend.
It has been tested on a combined 120,000 people between moderna and Pfizer. The scientific illiteracy on this board continues to increase
You misread my post. They may have invented it last January but it had
Not been tested at that time.
Thanks. This morning I heard a quote from her saying she wouldn't get it.
Talk's cheap.
"Not tested at that time" is a huge understatement. There was no actual "vaccine" to test, just a draft mRNA model on a computer. The full vaccine, including mRNA, adjutants, stabilizers and preservatives, not to mention mRNA modifications to dampen the innate immune system, had yet to be formulated. The VACCINE candidate didn't yet physically exist.
The speed at which the vaccine was developed is impressive, but it wasn't close to "2 days".
A) Mitochondria have DNA.
B) Neither the mtDNA nor the rRNR or tRNA encoded within it can be altered by mRNA.
This is pure fearmongering with zero evidence and about a century of biology and chemistry research and evidence stacked against it having any basis in reality. That’s just not what mRNA does. Because of chemistry; not because of some anthropomorphized “choice” on its part. mRNA is simply a ribose-phosphate backbone with nucleotides attached. It’s not the Magic School Bus driving around doing whatever it wants in the cell.
It requires transport mechanisms to get anywhere. The lipid shell of the mRNA vaccines enable it to get past the cell membrane and into the cytoplasm. There is no transport mechanism for it to get into the nucleus nor the mitochondria. There is no known enzyme or method for it unravel DNA, nor for it to make cuts or inserts or repairs to either DNA nor RNA.
What you’re describing has never been observed on Earth and everything we have observed tells us what you’re describing is impossible because of the nature of the chemistry involved.
The vaccine prevents you from getting sick with 95% confidence (better than most vaccines). It’s going to wipe out the disease. The people pushing for masks and social distancing after you have been vaccinated are being overly cautious because there hasn’t been specific testing about whether you could still spread COVID-19 after an exposure post-vaccination. The testing was whether the vaccines are safe and whether they prevent people from getting sick. They may also prevent people from spreading COVID-19 (which would be normal and expected), but it hasn’t been tested yet.
So take that whole “wear a mask and social distance after getting vaccinated” thing with a grain of salt. It’s unlikely that would be necessary and definitely not necessary at all once enough people are vaccinated that the disease is wiped out.
So to answer your question about what the vaccine is supposed to do: it’s supposed to wipe COVID-19 off the face of the Earth, same as we’ve done with smallpox, same as we’re doing with polio.
You most certainly did. You said mRNA can alter our genetic makeup in your post people are responding to. Our "genetic makeup" is DNA. That's pretty basic terminology to know when discussing genetics. mRNA also cannot alter our genetic makeup (DNA).
Your subsequent posts indicated you believe mRNA is mitochondrial RNA. That is not what mRNA stands for. mRNA stands for messenger RNA...a completely different thing.
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