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Since the hijacked cells expressing the spike protein are your own, presumably they still emit "friendly" signals to the immune system (eg: I am self, do not at
by gottebp 5y ago
Since the hijacked cells expressing the spike protein are your own, presumably they still emit "friendly" signals to the immune system (eg: I am self, do not attack). I am curious how the immune system would even recognize the spike proteins as bad in this case. If the vaccine has some mechanism to attract attention to the spike, is there a risk that antibodies could develop to the cells themselves for instance?
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- sgtnoodle 5y agoAs someone with sarcoidosis, that is my worry too. Also, for folk that already developed antibodies against those spike proteins, it seems like shotgunning a bunch of mRNA into their cells might lead to a rather severe inflammatory response, worse than re-exposure to the virus. Anecdotally, I have a very elderly acquaintance that reacted quite poorly to the vaccine, including developing "shingles" in her eye. A nurse taking care of her then accidentally exposed her to COVID, which she subsequently tested positive for but had no symptoms.
- nerdponx 5y agoI wonder if some of the people having fevers and other flu-like side effects are people who were asymptomatic Covid carriers at one point! I don't have a condition nearly as serious as sarcoidosis, but I also worry that I will be one of the unlucky ones with a more serious side effect.
- Izkata 5y ago> I wonder if some of the people having fevers and other flu-like side effects are people who were asymptomatic Covid carriers at one point! I saw a similar claim about a week ago, that the correlation is high between people who were actually sick and then also got side-effects from a vaccine. They didn't include a reference, but if I see it again I'll definitely be poking them for one.