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Re:Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank by ekianjo on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:19AM (#27570853)
> You don’t want a tiny piece of mRNA but you want the whole organism reproducing in your body?

Rather than injecting yourself with mRNA which will create long-term antibodies in your organism which will be reactivated any time something like COVID19 appears again in the nature, it's probably safer to rely on COVID19 treatments are are short lived (as in, metabolized) and reduce the viral load swiftly.

Re:Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank by electrondood on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:31AM (#27570990)
mRNA is short-lived, metabolized, etc. That's exactly how Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work.

> Once the instructions (mRNA) are inside the immune cells, the cells use them to make the protein piece. After the protein piece is made, the cell breaks down the instructions and gets rid of them. [0]

You seem to be arguing against the principle of vaccination in general.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...

Re:Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank by ekianjo on Sunday June 20, 2021 @12:25PM (#27571551)
mRNA are short-lived but the modified spike-specific T cells T-cells they create are not.
Re:Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank by jlokier on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:34PM (#27574773)
But that's just ordinary, natural human immunity. Your body naturally produces "thing-specific T-cells" for a large number of "not self" things it has encountered throughout your life, to defend you from them.

It's part of how your body's automatic anti-virus system works. It has a very clever system, where some cells learn to recognise foreign proteins.

There is no spike protein actually in these T cells. They are just trained to recognise spike protein, waiting to mobilise quickly to pretect you from it if it's detected in future.

Why would you not want that?

Do you have some evidence that your spike-specific T cells themselves cause harm, in a way that your other thing-specific T cells do not? (It's not impossible, but seems unlikely.)

Re:Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank by Majromax on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:48AM (#27571205)
> Rather than injecting yourself with mRNA which will create long-term antibodies in your organism which will be reactivated any time something like COVID19 appears again in the nature,

That's... supposed to be bad?

Re:Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank by vajrabum on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:35AM (#27571041)
What other viral diseases are easily treatable by medication as opposed to vaccination? Are there any?
Re:Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank by codezero on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:56AM (#27571295)
I’m sure most people would prefer vaccines, but herpes is a commonly medicated virus lacking in vaccination availability.
Re:Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank by nradov on Sunday June 20, 2021 @06:43PM (#27574519)
Hepatitis C can be cured in most patients with a course of sofosbuvir (Sovaldi).
Re:Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank by ekianjo on Sunday June 20, 2021 @12:13PM (#27571453)
HIV is effectively treated by tri-therapies.
Re:Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank by sterlind on Sunday June 20, 2021 @12:51PM (#27571782)
it took a long time for HAART to be developed though, and a lot of people died during the AZT-only era.

if I had the option of choosing an effective HIV vaccine (god if only!) and HAART, I'd definitely choose the vaccine. HAART is apparently really rough on people.. it ages you.