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You are literally telling your ribosomes what protein to make. The problem that I have with this is that the process is called translation.
The mechanism of the vaccine is to introduce the spike protein instructions for your cells to get "hijacked" and produce spike proteins of covid. Your body then catches it and creates antibodies that mark it and then are stored in the B cell.
During the process of reading the instructions, what is called a "frameshift mutation" can occur. Your ribosomes read mRNA in series of 3 and produce a codon that then makes a tRNA grab an amino acid and make a chain. The problem is that you can miss the first of a series of 3 and essentially shift THE ENTIRE CODE creating a completely different protein. You can possible make proteins that can cause disease.
Now you can argue that this error can happen during our own translation process, which it does, but I am not trustworthy and confident enough that we are actually able to consistently create viable mRNA without error that our body wouldn't misread. I am much more trusting of a attenuated or part of a virus be injected and my body create its response off of that rather than my cells get hijacked to create proteins.
Every time I see hesitation towards the vaccine, it is due to confirmation bias.
Talk to someone outside of GA's ecosphere. I spoke with a friend I have in the medical world, she routinely deals with Covid patients and has had Covid herself. She was able to answer any concerns I had, like the ones you have.
It could very well be confirmation bias, but I took biology in college and I have not seen anyone mention frameshift mutation not once.
I also work and healthcare and spoke with the health department on the requirements needed to store and administer the vaccine. It is pretty complicated.
Most people are thinking it modifies DNA, which it doesn't. We have had a really hard time creating a stable mRNA and given human error, I just don't trust it.
Do you trust that the lithium battery in your phone won't explode? Or that your seatbelt will work effectively? Or that your airplane pilot will land the plane? This is why we have things like government and regulation, for testing.
Vaccines are rigorously tested in the same manner, thousands and thousands of times. Are there random anomalies? Sure, but you need to understand that the cards are heavily stacked in your favor.
Your one experience in college biology does not discount decades of experience by professional epidemiologists and virologists. I mean c'mon, that's like me taking Japanese in college (which I did) and then claiming I'm just as good as a career translator.
You are using false dichotomy to justify the safety of a brand new vaccine.
Me trusting a pilot, seat belt or battery doesn't exactly correlate with my trust of a vaccine. If you really want to go there, these mechanisms have been around for DECADES of trial and error.
I never claimed that I am more qualified than a geneticist or virologist. I simply mentioned that your ribosomes are prone to something that I have not seen any literature address my concerns about and I have talked to a few doctors and they don't know what to think.
I can't find any studies or articles that discuss frameshift mutation and mRNA vaccines. If you can find one, provide it. I rather be safe than sory.
Vaccines take 10-15 years of complex and rigorous studies and trials to approve. This one is no more than a year old.