• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    Is it just because the Project 2025 authoritarian criminals are in control, or is there an actual issue with the vaccine?

    I’m not really getting an answer to that from the article, for now I have to assume the former.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      There are some very slight issues with the mRNA vaccines, but it’s not a health concern. The may be slightly less efficacious than a vaccine containing a weakend or inactive coronavirus because the mRNA vaccines work by having your cells produce a very specific protein on part of the virus instead of the whole outer shell (capsid) of the virus, which provides more proteins that your immune system can recognize. This could lead to a narrower “immunity envelope” as the virus evolves over time.

      I’ve had about 8 mRNA shots at this point. If there was a major issue, I’d probably know about it by now.

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        I’ve had about 8 mRNA shots at this point. If there was a major issue, I’d probably know about it by now.

        I’ve had 6 as well, but I was more worried about the effect on under 5 year olds :-)

        As I said though, as long as I hear nothing more concrete I have to assume the FDA is simply compromised.

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        mRNA vaccines are being used to in increasingly successful trials against cancer. There was a recent announcement that they were able to use mRNA technologies to customize a treatment to fight a patient’s specific cancer, which could be used to cure many types of cancer. The discovery is so big, that they think they could use it to create actual vaccines against some cancers.

        They want to ban the most promising cancer research.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      One of the goals of Project 2025 is to sow distrust in established government programs. Think about your building codes. You don’t think a lot about them unless you are building something. You may not give a fuck as to why outlets have to be at least a foot off the floor (or whatever it is) but let’s say some asshole comes around and says “Electricity doesn’t exist man! It’s just the Holy Spirit!”

      And then say that asshole is put in charge of electrical codes for your state.

      Are you going to trust any change he makes? Are you going to trust any revisions that are made in the future, even if they return back to what they were before?

      There is so much doubt in the system now that I am even worried about vaccine safety. Because you know ivermectin is about to be sold as some voodoo cure for cancer.

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      Talks of rolling back vaccines is directly tied to Maha and Republicans, just like cutting funding to mrna vaccines.

      The best bet though would be to look at other nations to see what they’re doing and keep in mind that RFK Jr pushes anti-science medical policy.

    • blargle@sh.itjust.works
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      The only legislation that the right does that is ‘rational’ involves the removal of regulations on buisiness and the upward transfer of of wealth.

      Everything else they do is A: Performative: designed to reinforce the narrative of their alternate-reality propaganda channels (If what Fox News has been talking about is really going on, these are the actions a responsible government would take in response.) B. Provoke a hostile reaction from the left, so that they can lie to the people in their propaganda bubble about why the left doesn’t want this; proving that they’re dangerous enemies.

      Or, some combination of A and B. It’s not just present-day Republicans who operate this way. It’s every right wing party around the world throughout history. They use lies to get into power and then use their power to make their lies the only truth.

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      That’s the scariest bit, you can’t know. When it’s over whether its in 4 or 40 years all science from the regime will be useless trash