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To: Red Badger

CRISPR is the technology behind the mRNA (COVID) shot.

IT IS NOT A VACCINE!


2 posted on 10/26/2023 8:27:00 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC

CRISPR has nothing to do with the mRNA technology used to create the Covid vaccines.

The plasmids that encode the modified spike protein mRNA were created using traditional gene engineering techniques that date back to the 1970s or earlier.

CRISPR has been touted as a game-changer when, in reality, it’s just another tool in our genetic-engineering toolbox.

Of course the Covid-19 vaccines are vaccines. The purpose of a vaccine is to show your immune system what a specific foreign protein (i.e. antigen) looks like so that the immune system can develop an antigen-specific T-cell, B-cell, and antibody response. Those T-cells, B-cells, and antibodies then circulate throughout your body looking for that antigen. When they see it, they immediately move to disable and destroy it.

In the specific case of Covid-19, the immune response induced by the vaccine specifically targets the spike protein. So when you are exposed to Covid viruses that are covered with spike protein, those T-cells, B-cells, and antibodies immediately go to work. If your immune response is good enough, they’ll destroy all of the invading virus particles without you ever knowing you were exposed. With a weaker immune response, you might still get sick but you have a head start in combating the disease before it can damage you. Your chance of long-term health impairments or death from Covid is significantly reduced if you have pre-trained your immune system with a vaccine.


7 posted on 10/26/2023 8:46:51 AM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: MeganC

I don’t trust anything big pharma comes out with since covid.
Since we have a lot of drug resistant bugs going around another treatment medium will have to be found.


15 posted on 10/26/2023 11:34:33 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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