Re:America is plummeting down the global vaccination league ...
by staticassertion on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:17PM
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I think a lot of the details will come down to who you're talking to. I wouldn't talk to a sensible but naive person the same way I would talk to a conspiracy theorist. My goal wasn't to be prescriptive, just to give an example of a simple explanation.
It's like trying to describe how safe a substance in a shot is by describing the needle. mRNA is HOW you deliver the spike protein. But the safety of the vaccine is related to WHAT the mRNA creates. If it were a human protein, we would all develop auto-immune diseases of some sort.
mRNA vaccines are the cleanest, and in a round-about way, simplest delivery mechanisms, (simple in that there arent as many precursor steps as something like a viral vector vaccine and simple in that its not a full attenuated virus) but its what they deliver that the conversation should be about.