I don’t think there is any reason at this point to believe that the danger of what was discussed in the article (if there is indeed any danger) would be any less for the Moderna vaccine.
By the way, there has been a lot of talk about mRNA vaccines (I guess because they sound scary), but the virus vector vaccines (J&J, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V) also use mRNA to get the cells to produce spike protein. Actually, in some ways these vaccines are even more intrusive than the mRNA vaccines because they get the cell’s nucleus to produce the mRNA for the spike protein, while the mRNA just shuttle the mRNA into the cell without ever getting into the nucleus.
If you want to avoid mRNA for the spike protein then you’ve got your attenuated virus vaccines (CoronaVac — PRC, Covaxin — India) and your protein subunit vaccines (Novavax.) But none of these are available in the U. S. as far as I’m aware.
Honestly, I’m not terribly worried about mRNA versus non mRNA vaccines. Whenever you get infected by any virus all the machinery of your cells get hijacked. This happens to us every time we get a cold.
I got the Pfizer vaccine — the very last hold out in my family. Everybody in my family has gotten either Moderna or Pfizer. My 101 y/o grandmother got Pfizer and had no side effects. Same with my 82 y/o father. I had just a little body aches and a very slightly runny nose on the second dose of Pfizer, while my wife had no side effects. For the Moderna vaccine, members of my extended family generally felt sick with flu-like symptoms for about 24 hours after the second dose.
I’d hold off, Laz, your health conditions notwithstanding.
There are more and more real-world issues with these mRNA injections; the spike protein is the problem, as it has been shown experimentally to cause clotting even without the virus present.
Dr. McCullough - he and his team have an 85% success rate treating vulnerable patients with their medication protocol. He’s not the only one with successful treatment protocols. He and others know they will be attacked but put their futures on the line to save lives.
(He’s not a quack; he’s also testified before Congress.)
I don’t have time at the moment, but if you wait until this evening I’ll see if I can find the post from another FReeper whose husband (IIRC, diabetic, just came out of cardiac surgery) used the protocol, had the highest antibody counts for COVID-19 their nurse had ever seen, and didn’t require hospitalization for the COVID. (That post was yesterday.)
If the purpose of the vaccines is to cause your body to produce the spike protein to generate an immune response then why didn’t they just create and inject spike proteins as the vaccine? That seems like a much simpler solution.