What Runners Should Know About the COVID-19 Vaccines

Runner's World ^ | February 4, 2021 | Becky Wade

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

More than a year after COVID-19 surfaced in the United States, the pandemic rages on, with 433,000 deaths and counting in the United States as of early February. While the situation remains dire—we can only hope the virus is past its peak—there’s finally a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel.

Two vaccines, produced by Pfizer and Moderna and both in the form of a double dose, were authorized and recommended to prevent COVID in December. While the rollout is moving slower than expected—as of the end of January, about 25 million people had received at least one dose of a vaccine, almost a month behind the projected timeline—there’s reason to believe that the dissemination is gaining momentum. Three more vaccines are in the midst of large-scale clinical trials, and the President Joe Biden’s administration has named combating the coronavirus its highest priority.

For the latest vaccine information and recommendations, bookmark the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site and check it often. But since you likely won’t find any running-related answers there, we turned to three experts—all medical professionals and runners—to help fill in the gaps. Keep in mind that the virus and vaccine are both rapidly evolving situations, and that the information offered below is meant to supplement rather than replace personal advice from your physician.

What Symptoms Can I Expect From the Vaccine?

As with any shot, reactions to the COVID vaccines vary from one person to the next. Christine Firth, M.D., an internal medicine specialist in Phoenix, says that symptoms are generally not severe, and that some people don’t experience any. Firth says common side effects include pain and/or achiness at the injection site (possibly more severe than that of the influenza vaccine), general malaise/fatigue, body aches, headache, chills, fever, and joint pains...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Thanks.

[RC one]

ALL PREVIOUS mRNA “vaccines” have FAILED in ANIMAL TRIALS.

The mRNA elicited an immediate immune response before it could enter the animal's (mouse) cells where it was supposed to initiate transcription of the viral antigen. Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Diseases in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, and Katalin Karikó, PhD, an adjunct associate professor at Penn and a senior vice president at BioNTech, together discovered that exchanging one of the four building blocks of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) molecules could overcome this. The modified nucleoside ( pseudouridine or 5-methylcytidine) allowed the mRNA strand to avoid the immediate immune attack and; thereby, sneak into the host cell where it could produce the viral antigen protein (in this case, the Covid spike).

This modified nucleoside trick is the game changer that makes this technology work as well as it does.

We understand there are concerns the vaccine was developed quickly, but Kati (Karikó) and I developed our enabling technology fifteen years ago, and we and other scientists have been working on how to use it to develop mRNA ever since,” Weissman said. “This isn’t brand new—scientists have been studying vaccines using this mRNA platform for at least six or seven years. Based on all of the data available to date, these mRNA vaccines have shown a good safety profile. Clinicians always consider risk–benefit scenarios whenever we recommend a new treatment or a new vaccine to patients and to the public, and with this vaccine there’s no comparison—the benefit is huge and there’s really little to no risk.”

It is important to remember that these are EXPERIMENTAL “vaccines” and the only mRNA “vaccines” to receive an “emergence” approval as “safe”

what specific safety concerns do you have?

[BipolarBob]

According to the government...
If I get vaccinated:
1.- Can I stop wearing the mask?
Government Response - No
2.- Can they reopen restaurants, pubs, bars etc and everyone work normally?
Government Response - No
3.- Will I be resistant to covid?
Government Response - Maybe, but we don’t know exactly, it probably won’t stop you getting it
4.- At least I won’t be contagious to others anymore?
Government Response - No you can still pass it on, possibly, nobody knows.
5.- If we vaccinate all children, will school resume normally?
Government Response - No
6.- If I am vaccinated, can I stop social distancing?
Government Response - No
7.- If I am vaccinated, can I stop disinfecting my hands?
Government Response - No
8.- If I vaccinate myself and my grandfather, can we hug each other?
Government Response - No
9.- Will cinemas, theatres and stadiums be reopened thanks to vaccines?
Government Response - No
10.- Will the vaccinated be able to gather?
Government Response - No
11.- What is the real benefit of vaccination?
Government Response - The virus won’t kill you.
12.- Are you sure it won’t kill me?
Government Response - No
13.- If statistically the virus won’t kill me anyway ... Why would I get vaccinated?”
Government Response - To protect others.
14.- So if I get vaccinated, the others are 100% sure I’m not infecting them?
Government Response - No
So to summarize, the Covid19 vaccine...
Does not give immunity.
Does not eliminate the virus.
Does not prevent death.
Does not guarantee you won’t get it.
Does not prevent you from getting it.
Does not stop you passing it on
Does not eliminate the need for travel bans.
Does not eliminate the need for business closures.
Does not eliminate the need for lockdowns.
Does not eliminate the need for masking.
So...what is it actually doing?

[Ragnar54]

"Two vaccines, produced by Pfizer and Moderna"

These should be called "the Trump vaccines" in honor of the President who actually did something about the Chinese Virus. I had the Trump-Moderna vaccine, my wife had the Trump-Pfizer vaccine. In both cases, the only side effect was a sore arm for a couple of days after the second shot. Of course, we are both taking 10,000 IU of Vitamin D every day, and that moderates the immune response to the shot (as it would the response to the virus itself).

I had considered not taking the shot (and depending on Vitamin D instead), but I eventually decided that the CCP had done too good a job engineering the bioweapon.

If you are a Trump supporter, you should definitely take the one of the Trump Vaccines. If you are not, you should stay away from these dangerous experimental drugs.

[waredbird]

Right on! I’m 77. Outside of chicken pox, at age 26, I’ve never been sick. Received lots of vaccines during a 21yr military career but have only taken the hepatitis series since retiring in 1987. And that was because I was living in South America a lot. I’m not taking these experimental injections. I still trust my immune system and don’t want to screw it up. I am not hiding, I go out to eat, shop and I don’t wear masks. If I catch it I’ll go to the therapeutics. If I die, I die, had a good life.

[miserare]

That just about sums it all up.

[RC one]

The mRNA is not stable enough to persist for a few months or years down the road and the vaccine prevents the virus from ever developing a presence in your body sufficient to A.) cause disease and B.) transmit disease. It kills the invader as soon as it lands on the beach. It never has a chance to develop a beachhead.

DNA vaccines carried the risk of altering the genome. mRNA does not affect the host genome.

Although promising and with shown safety, well-tolerability and immunogenicity, DNA vaccines were characterized by suboptimal potency in early clinical trials (11). Enhanced delivery technologies, such as electroporation, have increased the efficacy of DNA vaccines in humans (12), but have not reduced the potential risk of integration of exogenous DNA into the host genome, which may cause severe mutagenesis and induced new diseases... Additionally, both conventional mRNA and self-amplifying mRNAs cannot potentially integrate into the host genome and will be degraded naturally during the process of antigen expression. These characteristics indicate that mRNA vaccines have the potential to be much safer than other vaccines and are a promising vaccine platform.

[Grampa Dave]

We live in California and are Kaiser patients over age 80.

Decoding their lawyer inspired Covid Letter, somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000 of us got our first Pfizer shot in the past week.

We arrived about 25 minutes early and were escorted into a large inoculation area in our clinic. 5 minutes later and post injection, we walking down a corridor/hallway to wait for 15 minutes in case of any reactions.

No one had any. We had to wait an extra 15 minutes as my wife’s medical record needed updating. She had seen her Primary Care Doc the week before and the data had not been confirmed yet and needed a Doctor to confirm everything.

We were about halfway home and stopped at a stoplight, and my wife said that it was the scheduled time for my shot.

Absolutely amazing.

A week later, we are still alive and so are over a dozen friends locally and more across the country post injection.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Sorry I don’t believe that and no one yet knows the truth on these things.

So if you believe then you get the vaccine, I will not. At least until I see a lot more Data to think on.

[Night Hides Not]

I'm with you, FRiend. I'm a few months from 67, and just received a messaage from my doctor to schedule my first vaccine. They aren't going to like it when I say thanks, but no thanks.

I can wait for several months.

[walkingdead]

Im with you captain. I have not seen one animal trial, using mRNA, where the animal did well when challenged with the natural virus. Most died of organ failure once challenged due to immune overreaction.

The problems with mRNA surface when challenged with the natural virus, not after injection.

[NotSoFreeStater]

This is exactly my approach as well.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Now they are talking about booster shots for the variants:

Johnson & Johnson vaccine records 66% efficacy rate in global trial

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6227899605001#sp=show-clips

[SubMareener]

They SKIPPED ANIMAL TRIALS. We don’t know if this alleged “new” mRNA technology will have the same adverse effects as the other mRNA “vaccines” which made the animals hyper-sensitive to future similar viral infections. Given the extremely low death rate from the virus itself, and the effectiveness of the anti-viral/anti-parasitical drugs, there was no scientific, medical or public health reason to try to make a “vaccine.”

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Apparently, Moderna and Pfizer have efficacy rates up to 91 percent for their FIRST SHOTS, so I think I’ll skip J&J.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I plan to. :-)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

When I get both shots, if a public venue sees me inside without a mask, and they ask me to wear one, I’ll just show them my vax card or my drunken checkerboard code on my phone. If that doesn’t satisfy them, that’s the last they’ll see of any business from me.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Do you happen to know the rate at which animals experienced this immune overreaction when administered an mRNA vaccine?

[heavy metal]

apparently they aren’t running fast enough to outrun it...

[Sun]

You said: “..than take some mRNA gene therapy ..”. I don’t know what you mean by that, but read this, please:

“....mRNA vaccines train our bodies to trigger an immune response to the disease, and don’t affect or interact with our DNA in any way....”

more info at:
https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine?cid=redir-covidvaccine#statetool

I do agree that no one should be forced to take the vaccine, but we need to know all of the FACTS before making our decision.