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Anyone else getting the uneasy feeling we're pushing directly towards "I am Legend" territory where the cure will end up being worse than the disease?

• add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
  Maybe unhinged people on Twitter for whom the terms "vaccine" and "mRNA" have been weaponized to mobilize them in whatever's the current culture war. Is there a substantive reason to be afraid more so than with any other medical advancement?
  • em1sar 2y ago
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  • mikrotikker 2y ago
    Well if you look at Gene Therapy and DNA vaccines they've been in research and human testing for /decades/ and not yet implemented. But mRNA vaccines, that were only used in bovines until 2021, went straight onto the market and injected into large swathes of the population. We have test and UAT for a reason, but Pfizer and AZ pretty much deployed mRNA vaccines direct to prod, with the latter recently pulling their product from market after that publicised court case on side effects. In some ways its good that we're moving faster, but now that we find that the spike proteins aren't being deleted from the body and are in fact contagious, despite Pfizer telling us the opposite, maybe there's a reason we move slowly. Move fast and break things is only good for tech, not medical treatments.