What does your "vaxxed friends" have to do with it? Even if we assume this article is true:
However, the VIRUS ITSELF does not activate the autoreactive B and T cells. The PROTEINS in the virus activate the autoreactive B and T cells. Complete virus is not found in those with Long COVID. The Spike Protein IS. The spike has also been proven to travel via nanotubes from cell to cell, evading the immune system – yet “planting” itself in ever more cells. So this article, if we take it at face value, doesn't support your argument.
Did you read the Frist sentence?
Spike Protein is a designed viral fragment that has been attached to a coronavirus as a delivery mechanism
“designed”
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