MaximusDecimusMeridius
Well-Known Member
I am in healthcare and received my second dose this past Sunday of the Pfizer vaccine. First dose I just had injection site pain. Second dose kicked my ass starting about 12 hours after I got it for about 24 hours...but after 24 hours I am feeling great.
That being said the technology behind it is not "chemotherapy" as how it is defined today and anyone who says that it is doesn't know what they are talking about. The company who made it was actually researching ways to make therapies for people that have rare genetic disorders that involve the inability to make certain proteins. They went after the lowest hanging fruit by trying to fix conditions in which just a little bit of the correct protein would fix the condition. The reason why they did this is that they knew that it would be difficult to inject enough of the mRNA into the body to be therapeutic...because of the toxicity of the lipid shell they had to include to transport the mRNA into the cell. So far they have been unsuccessful in this endeavor...however, to make a successful vaccine it takes significantly less of a dose to elicit a strong immune response. (enough that it isn't toxic). Anyone who says that it doesn't prevent infection is wrong too...the studies show a clear preventative effect vs placebo...starting at day ~12 after the first dose it is significant. Sometime after the 2nd dose it is ~95% effective at preventing disease.
That being said I do have my personal reservations about it with how it works that I will not go into but decided the benefit outweighed the potential risks.
That being said the technology behind it is not "chemotherapy" as how it is defined today and anyone who says that it is doesn't know what they are talking about. The company who made it was actually researching ways to make therapies for people that have rare genetic disorders that involve the inability to make certain proteins. They went after the lowest hanging fruit by trying to fix conditions in which just a little bit of the correct protein would fix the condition. The reason why they did this is that they knew that it would be difficult to inject enough of the mRNA into the body to be therapeutic...because of the toxicity of the lipid shell they had to include to transport the mRNA into the cell. So far they have been unsuccessful in this endeavor...however, to make a successful vaccine it takes significantly less of a dose to elicit a strong immune response. (enough that it isn't toxic). Anyone who says that it doesn't prevent infection is wrong too...the studies show a clear preventative effect vs placebo...starting at day ~12 after the first dose it is significant. Sometime after the 2nd dose it is ~95% effective at preventing disease.
That being said I do have my personal reservations about it with how it works that I will not go into but decided the benefit outweighed the potential risks.
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