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Explain to me how it is preferable to get all the Covid mRNA from an infection instead of a tiny piece that codes for nothing that will kill you and primes your

Explain to me how it is preferable to get all the Covid mRNA from an infection instead of a tiny piece that codes for nothing that will kill you and primes your immune system. What long term side effect do you see from a tiny piece of foreign mRNA, something our bodies encounter continually throughout our lifetimes?

antibuddy 6y ago
I am supposed to know what nobody does. Nobody knows the long-term side effects of either vaccines against COVID and that is exactly my point. Btw: What was not tested at all was if this leads to sterile immunity. So vaccinated ppl could still be transmitting COVID.
- JohnJamesRambo 6y ago
  >So vaccinated ppl could still be transmitting COVID. What are you proposing as an alternative? Transmission to people without vaccination so everyone gets COVID and millions more die?
  - antibuddy 6y ago
    >What are you proposing as an alternative? Testing the vaccine and the new approaches properly. The average age of COVID deaths is around 82 years (at least in Germany), so I'd say many of these people would have died in the next few months anyway. Also COVID is not the only cause of death and act in panic might cause more deaths than not acting at all. With a lethality of around 0.4% and the average age of death, COVID is no reason to hurry a vaccine that might have abysmal side effects. You could maybe argue that the spanish flu was (at that time), but COVID is really several orders of magnitude less lethal and also not with as prevalent and severe side effects as the measles (especially among the young and otherwise healthy). We learned nothing of the Pandemrix fiasco.
gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> that codes for nothing that will kill you and primes your immune system Just because people apparently aren't immediately dying doesn't mean the mRNA vaccine can't introduce some unapparent immune system pathology. It seems like the vaccine is good, but I also don't need it as a younger person with a healthy immune system. I'd rather wait to see evidence of long-term safety...which doesn't happen until a vaccine is studied in many people who've taken it and observed after years.

antibuddy 6y ago

I am supposed to know what nobody does. Nobody knows the long-term side effects of either vaccines against COVID and that is exactly my point. Btw: What was not tested at all was if this leads to sterile immunity. So vaccinated ppl could still be transmitting COVID.

JohnJamesRambo 6y ago
>So vaccinated ppl could still be transmitting COVID. What are you proposing as an alternative? Transmission to people without vaccination so everyone gets COVID and millions more die?
- antibuddy 6y ago
  >What are you proposing as an alternative? Testing the vaccine and the new approaches properly. The average age of COVID deaths is around 82 years (at least in Germany), so I'd say many of these people would have died in the next few months anyway. Also COVID is not the only cause of death and act in panic might cause more deaths than not acting at all. With a lethality of around 0.4% and the average age of death, COVID is no reason to hurry a vaccine that might have abysmal side effects. You could maybe argue that the spanish flu was (at that time), but COVID is really several orders of magnitude less lethal and also not with as prevalent and severe side effects as the measles (especially among the young and otherwise healthy). We learned nothing of the Pandemrix fiasco.

gnusty_gnurc 6y ago

> that codes for nothing that will kill you and primes your immune system Just because people apparently aren't immediately dying doesn't mean the mRNA vaccine can't introduce some unapparent immune system pathology. It seems like the vaccine is good, but I also don't need it as a younger person with a healthy immune system. I'd rather wait to see evidence of long-term safety...which doesn't happen until a vaccine is studied in many people who've taken it and observed after years.