I am not sure this article is entirely accurate.
Regardless, using the OS analogy I have not heard how you can roll back the changes if they turn out to be buggy.
I have said that this technology has the potential to revolutionize medicine, but we don’t have enough data either way. Maybe in 10 years we will know.
lets inject this stuff into infants asap.
Just a few years ago it was discovered that viruses invading a cell CAN cause changes to the cell’s DNA. Evidently most such changes are random changes without consequence to the affected organism.
Infrequently, however, it is the sex cells of the organism that get their DNA modified and the changed DNA gets passed on to future generations. If the modifications are not harmful, then the genome of the entire species might include this harmless sequence of genetic coding.
It is worth noting that these genetic changes are not beneficial to the viruses that cause them. The changes are essentially just random.
The concern with mRNA vaccines is not that they intentionally modify DNA. Rather, the concern is that they UNINTENTIONALLY modify DNA.
If viruses can occasionally modify a cell’s DNA despite getting no benefit from such modification, how can we rule out the possibility that mRNA vaccines might modify DNA? Perhaps only time will tell.
Until we know better I will hope that I benefit from my vaccine and eventually die from one of the several other causes that are sneaking up on me.