Thanks again. One last question. If I understood, the vaccines are designed to get your cells to produce the COVID spike protein that the immune system then responds and creates antigens for. Makes sense, though I can see why its a bit creepy that we are teaching our cells to create the protein we dont want in our body. Is this where the fear porn is coming from? How long is the body supposed to continue this production of spike protein??? I presume that process is done with after a few days or weeks and the immune system is now ready for the spike protein attack from the real COVID virus??? Do some people have problems where the spike protein being made as a result of the vax has ‘run away’ with the process? Again, just trying to understand the ‘side effect’ reports like blood clotting, etc.
Point of correction; the spike protein is the antigen that the immune system creates antibodies for. An antigen is any foreign substance that provokes an immune response.
I think you are correct that many people fear a vaccine that essentially manipulates their cells into producing a foreign protein using genetic technology. A lot of people don’t like any genetic technology at all. The anti-GMO food activists have been working long and hard to create public rejection of genetic technologies in the agricultural industry for decades. Probably lots of spillover from that.
I think many of the side effects are caused by the mRNA traveling via the bloodstream to other tissues or organs before attaching to cells and starting to make spike proteins, so the immune reaction responds to those sites which would be problematic in your heart or liver. The assumption that the mRNA would mostly remain near the injection site and result mostly in muscle soreness was in error or at least wildly optimistic.
The mRNA is limited in amount plus it’s super fragile, so it doesn’t last long in the body. The proteins it induces last about 3 weeks max (as does most any other protein in your body). They did numerous animal studies in mice and monkeys that showed that the vaccine products stayed mostly at the injection site and nearby lymph node. But people aren’t caged lab animals so things don’t always work the same as in the studies.
But until researchers have time to really dig into the Vaers data there is no way to tell if there are any associations with severe events within or among subgroups or demographics. Although the myocarditis seems to be more in the younger more active age groups. Better and increased circulation from higher activity levels might increase the chances of mRNA transport away from the injection site thus increasing the likelihood of adverse events. That’s my speculation at least.
This is why I prefer the Novavax approach of direct injection of GMO produced spike protein antigens rather than the mRNA induced production of antigens in our own cells that provokes our immune system to destroy our own cells. Things that could go wrong for $100, Alex.