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by dogma1138 1753 days ago
That’s not how mRNA vaccines work.

mRNA isn’t gene therapy, it induces cells primarily the dendritic cells of your immune system to produce antigens and their antibodies.

Dendritic cells are essentially your body’s CSI they roam around Hoovering stuff that is floating in your body and analyzing it.

The mRNA is picked up through phagocytosis, is decoded by the ribosome and the cell begins to produce antigens.

The cells in your body then attack the antigens with proteasomes, once the antigens are broken down they’ll be presented in the cell membrane of the dendritic cells for other immune cells to sample and produce antibodies for.

This is really not that different than how deactivated virus or protein based vaccines work, dendritic cells swallow them up analyze them, break down the antigens and present the evidence to the “cops” that then go and hunt down the baddies…

The mRNA vaccine doesn’t hijacks the cells of your body in the same way as viruses do, it doesn’t interact with your DNA or nucleus the same way that retroviruses or well actual gene therapy do.

I really don’t understand why you are spreading this misinformation.