SketchyMagpie
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Have done some interesting reading into the "gene therapy" thing over the last few days. The link gilbert shared declaring that the government had "admitted the vaccine is gene therapy" essentially seems to be nothing more than reading into a clumsily-worded bullet point summary on a random press release. The summary reads "lipids are an essential component in COVID vaccines as well as other gene therapies" whereas the actual paragraph says that "mRNA... has the potential to play a transformational role beyond [covid vaccinations] in future, for products such as flu vaccines as well as other emerging technologies including gene therapies for cancer and heart disease." Much like when Biden said the words "New World Order" and the tin-foil hat brigade lost their shit, the person responsible for the formatting of that article was likely just unaware of how the shortened bullet-point version would read to the hard of thinking.
I do find it hilarious that conspiracy theorists believe the "powers that be" would fake a pandemic in order to create a smokescreen for altering our DNA via a vaccine only then to blow their cover by casually mentioning it in a press release, though. That makes as much sense as believing that there's a global conspiracy that must be kept secret at all costs yet those responsible sprinkle clues of the conspiracy throughout popular culture.
In American medical publishing it actually does seem like the definition of "gene therapy" has been widened to include anything that involves genetic code (ie the vaccines that use the genetic code of the virus) which is..... unhelpful, but nevertheless is clearly not what gilbert and his ilk mean when they talk about "gene therapy". This will and obviously has lead to some semantic issues when talking about the vaccines being "gene therapy" by the anti-vaxxers definitions but it doesn't change the fact that they do not enter the cell nucleus or interact with the DNA at all.
I do find it hilarious that conspiracy theorists believe the "powers that be" would fake a pandemic in order to create a smokescreen for altering our DNA via a vaccine only then to blow their cover by casually mentioning it in a press release, though. That makes as much sense as believing that there's a global conspiracy that must be kept secret at all costs yet those responsible sprinkle clues of the conspiracy throughout popular culture.
In American medical publishing it actually does seem like the definition of "gene therapy" has been widened to include anything that involves genetic code (ie the vaccines that use the genetic code of the virus) which is..... unhelpful, but nevertheless is clearly not what gilbert and his ilk mean when they talk about "gene therapy". This will and obviously has lead to some semantic issues when talking about the vaccines being "gene therapy" by the anti-vaxxers definitions but it doesn't change the fact that they do not enter the cell nucleus or interact with the DNA at all.
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From a distance, of course.
but I have spent the last 5 days in very close contact with those that have had it, work bestie had it & felt ill for 4 days before resting posative.... Fingers crossed!