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by amanaplanacanal 1741 days ago
Since the vaccine only does a small subset of what the live virus does, why would you think it is safer getting the virus rather than taking the vaccine?
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Is modifying DNA safer than letting natural immunity do what it does? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33330870/
The proteins generated by the mRNA vaccines are shown to spread throughout the body, compared to the virus, which is mostly respitory and vascular.
Your vascular system goes all over your body...
Yeah, as the other commenter mentioned—it's not a subset of the virus. They've already proven the vaccine doesn't stay local. That alone is concerning. Besides, I've already gotten COVID. Way before any vaccines were available. So I'll trust in my own natural immunity, and I should have the freedom to do that.
Where do you live that you don't have the freedom to do that? I'm trying to get a read on what mandates various people are seeing in various locations.
I do have the freedom to do that. For now.

I’m worried about the precedent of “safety” undermining human rights because “we’re in this together”.