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We know so little about DNA and RNA still, and yet we allow medical companies to make mRNA 'vaccines' that supposedly will working exactly as they say. How can that be possible when we don't even fully understand the system on which it is built?

It's like trying to repair a sinking ship at sea without understanding how the planks and caulking displace water. Sure you might patch it temporarily, and might even keep it afloat, but what other problems are you creating that you literally don't know anything about...

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Staying with the sinking ship analogy, by patching your sinking ship you will avoid sinking, which is a really big problem.

I know what I'd choose givin the option of avoiding sinking, and possibly dealing with unknown and probably minor consequences later; or dealing with a potentially deadly sinking now, and avoiding unknown (and probably minor) consequences later.

keeping it afloat is usually a good step towards limping back to dock! We're still trying to figure out where the dock is, but sinking in the meantime would not necessarily be an improvement.

We can test the safety of these things the same way we test the safety of other drugs.

Safety tests really are the lowest level of engineering understanding you can have with a product. You give it to a bunch of people and not to a bunch of other people and check to see if things seem to be working without too much divergence on side effects.

It leaves you with limited understanding of the mechanism, it's efficacy across different populations, the circumstances in which it fails, how bad those failures could get, or how to improve the product in any way whatsoever.

I mean you're getting the mRNA in your body one way or the other. One choice is to inhale someone else's cough droplets, then the self-replicating nano-machines inside the sputum drops take over the cells in your lungs, explode them and spread out of control until your immune system catches up and kills even more of your cells by just absolutely nuking everything around them. That's "natural immunity". You could also get a shot with a precisely controlled dose of one non-functional part of the virus that your immune system can then learn to recognize and destroy quickly. That's a vaccine. I know which I prefer.

verboten!

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