Why aren’t more “experts” talking about this and advising us accordingly?
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Let’s set the context…
Close confidants know that there has been something on my mind for awhile re: the vaccines.
Since I’m not a med-scientist and since I didn’t want to get tech-cancelled, I shied away from the topic.
But now, the left-leaning Atlantic has broached the subject, so I feel liberated to to touch what might be vaccines’ 3rd rail.
See Atlantic: “mRNA vaccines are extraordinary, NovaVax is better”
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Let’s start my story here…
I have been vaccinated! It was a matter of deliberative choice, not mandate.
I concluded that the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer & Moderna) were effective and safe … at least in the short-term.
Note that I didn’t mention J&J … more on that later.
I’m age-vulnerable to covid, so I weighed the short-term benefits & risks more heavily than the potential long-term risks.
But, I had (and still have) nagging reservations about the long-term risks.
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My anxieties were prompted by one of my summer reading books … a bio-pic about Jennifer Douda — a bio-researcher who won a Nobel Prize for developing CRISPR — the foundational technology for mRNA vaccines.
The book: “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race” by Walter Isaacson
Specifically, this clear, declarative warning in the book resonated with me:
“Unexpected things happen when you start fiddling with the innards of living cells.”
Hmm.
I asked my most trusted bio-science sources whether that warning was relevant to the covid vaccines.
Their answer: You bet it is!
So, I did some digging to learn more about how the vaccines work.
Cutting to the chase: both the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer & Moderna) and the viral vector vaccines (J&J and AstraZenaca) “fiddle with the innards of living cells”.
See “Which vaccine to choose?” for a summary and links to source articles”
Which begs the question: What constitutes their “fiddling” and what might be the ”unexpected results” ?
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To be continued…
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DISCLAIMER: I’m not a medical professional or scientist — just a curious, self-interested guy. So, don’t take anything that I say or write as medical advice. Get that from your doctor!
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