OT: Measles making a comeback

Nope, GMOs currently used are far, far less risky than RNA-based vaccines. Current GMO plants use proteins that occur naturally. For example, GMO feed corn are constructed to express a pesticide protein that is found in a common soil bacteria. This bacteria or the purified protein are used by organic farmers as a pesticide. Why people consider it okay to eat a protein sprayed on a vegetable but not the same protein made by the vegetable is beyond me. Google “bacillus thuringiensis” for more info if desired.

This is different from the RNA in an RNA-based vaccine. Humans have a very good system of defense such that naked foreign nucleic acids (DNAs and RNAs) get quickly destroyed when in the body. The RNA in RNA-based vaccines are chemically altered to be resistant to such breakdown. In addition, the RNA is protected by encapsulation with artificial lipid nanoparticles, which typically involve an association with polyethylene glycol to improve stability. Recent data indicate that RNA-lipid nanoparticle constructs persist in the blood and tissues much longer than expected.

Which do you think is potentially more dangerous?

Like most things in life one needs to consider cost vs benefit. IMO, Covid during the pandemic was sufficiently dangerous and contagious to easily justify the risk of a new RNA vaccine technology. I am not in a high risk group (other than being a senior), am healthy, and believe I have had sufficient social interactions to have been exposed and therefore developed some immunity to the common Covid variants. IMO, for me there is not enough justification to take the current Covid RNA-vaccine. YMMV

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