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Chris Maunder25-Nov-20 3:11
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A traditional vaccine introduces a neutralised version of the virus (or more typically the antigens - the bits of the virus that can trigger an immune response) into your system and then your body, through trial and error, creates antibodies to attack the cardboard cutouts of the enemy that have been introduced.

The RNA vaccine, by comparison, delivers the instructions on how to build the antigens instead of the antigens themselves. It's not the instructions for the full virus, just fragments (eg the spike protein) that will trigger the necessary antibodies to be created to tackle the antigens. What the cells create are just pieces of junk, really. The assumption is these bits are totally harmless inside the body.

It's like you throw a bunch of blue prints into the workshop that creates proteins and hope that someone in the workshop picks up the instructions and starts building. We can do better, however, by throwing the instructions into the planning room of the cell's factory, instead of the factory floor (so to speak) to give it a better chance that someone will actually start building these pieces.

Basically there's a serious lack of oversight, resource allocation, accountability and focus going on in our cells. The minute you give them an interesting distraction they grab it and run with it.

Kinda like software developers I guess.
cheers
Chris Maunder

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