Also worth noting is that this would be the first RNA vaccine ever approved for use.
I’m big on molecular biology as a potential for therapeutics (spent quite some time working in MB doing just this for a major pharm), but I’m a bit concerned about a fast tracked RNA vaccine. They may prove awesome, but it’s a new way of fortifying immunity.
This is how the CDC describes it, but I'm not sure what this is worth:
Principles of Epidemiology | Lesson 3 - Section 6
If you believe that covid is as harmless as a cold and has been over-hyped by media, then you could say that if a vaccine is advertised as "90% effective" but in reality is only "0-5% effective", it will be easy to fool people that this vaccine is "90% effective".... just modify the media story on covid -- which is exactly what we all expected after a Biden win. That 10% is probably the reality of the numbers we are seeing as serious illness, so it all plays out nicely for the media/democrat narrative, ie, 80-90% of people that get it are fine, the rest have some trouble..which matches up nicely with the "effectiveness" of the vaccine.
The US is also likely to see a huge economic boom once the vaccine "works" (ie, the media changes it's story). And guess who will get all the credit for the US economy and saving the world?
Coronavirus was a weapon to get Trump out of office, and it looks like he's been checkmated. Hopefully real Americans won't let themselves lose.
I think that if US elections are this easily rigged, and that if the fraud is this readily swallowed, Trump is the most insignificant casualty. If the votes needed to defeat the candidate of choice can be fabricated during the night after the election, why would anyone waste their time by voting? Things just are not as simple as sucking it up and getting on with the day.
This seems unlikely as the rationale behind RNA vaccines makes sense on paper. However, programming a cell to surface an antigen is pretty complex (specificity in receptor interactions are complex in general). That being said, we just don’t quite know yet as mutations and inheritance usually takes generations to assess. And funky things can happen.
Full disclosure: I do think there’s tremendous potential in RNA vaccines (but I’m a nobody who happens to have some experience) and I invested in a biotech company a while back that is also working on a RNA vaccine (not Pfizer.) It’s not the RNA technology itself that gives me pause as much as the fast tracking of this novel way of providing immunity. Again, it may be great...
I hope that makes sense.
Oh and masks don’t work.
They’re delivering more complexity with minimal testing, merely at the “effectiveness” level. They’re messing with genetics, so can’y possibly claim no serious /long-term/ side effects. Complexity often means “if it can happen, it will”.
I don’t know much. But I don’t like it. Too many notes.