“I think what we have is a universal vaccine against diverse respiratory threats,” Pulendran said.

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    Headline “protects against”.

    Lede paragraph: “could one day protect against”.

    Article: “in mice”

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    With three doses, the mice remained protected from SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses for at least three months.

    Big pharma whips out their calculator, their eyes grow larger and larger as they excitedly do the math.

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      Doesn’t it make more sense to view this as something you’d only apply to yourself in the winter months and whenever there’s a sporadic uptick in respiratory diseases in your area, though?

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      Intentionally spread a new variant of a virus to create demand for a new vaccine because nobody cares about COVID anymore? I’d believe it.

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        Evolution will happen whether we want it or not and new strains will appear from time to time, just like we’ve seen with every virus ever known.

        But if you still think that’s what happened, we’d love to see your evidence of this new strain being man-made.

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          Exactly. Our immune system is excellent but its immune cell exploration space is on the order of 10^11 potential receptors.

          So since RNA viruses in particular can mutate so rapidly, we just use our brains to reduce that by 10+ orders of magnitude and target the antigens we want directly. The end result is the same, biotech is just smarter.

          “Know your enemy and know yourself and you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” ~biotech

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    Stanford has a constant habit of lying in press releases. Don’t bother reading what they publish until someone else reproduces their work.

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    Conspiracy theory that it turns you gay/gives you cancer/makes you a pod person coming in 3, 2, 1…

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      I’m withholding any opinion until I hear from the head of the FDA who has surely been using the US government’s teams of hundreds of scientists to get the best Gold standard science on this technology

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      Oddly enough, I have a strong feeling this will get marginally more support and a warmer reception than injectable vaccines.

      Source: I’ve argued with dozens of people about vaccines in real life, and 90% of them were JUST scared of needles and injections and just built giant palaces of rationalization that consumed their whole lives to validate that fear. You know who doesn’t give a shit about vaccines even if they’re conservative? Diabetics who have to inject insulin every day.

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        I am afraid of needles too but that didn’t stop me from getting the vaccine because I’m more afraid of fucking dying.

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        It drove me nuts in the early days of the COVID vaccine and some study came out showing that a lot of the people against the vaccine were really just afraid of needles, but had a good chance to get their courage up if the news media would just stop plastering pictures of needles in every story about the vaccine. So, what did the news media do? They just kept right on throwing pictures of needles on every story.

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      Wait, really? I need something to fortify my homosexuality. Wanna make sure I’m not catching feelings for men.

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    crazy shit man.

    i just heard about a nasal spray technology that was recently developed for a BCI (body computer interface) using conductive nano particles that can pass the blood brain barrier.

    not sure how it works, but just that it apparantly exists.

    like nasal spray neuralink.

    not saying this is related or anything, besides having the same delivery system.

    crazy times we live in.

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    the nasal spray vaccine supercharges the lungs’ own immune defenses, keeping them on high alert for months

    I can see this working against bacteria and viruses but how does it block allergens? Isn’t an overly strong immune reaction how they start to begin with?

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        This! Went from so hopeful to devastated so fast — covid gave me autoimmune nightmare syndromes, and immunosuppressants are one of very few things to have actually helped me gain a tiny bit of my life back. Boosting immune system? Nooo thank you.

        If it stops transmission, then that’s still good for those of us who can’t get it, but plenty of vaccines don’t unfortunately. They’re still very worth getting and keeping up to date with boosters if you can

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    Needles put a lot off people off and it‘s especially confronting to parents with babies and toddlers. Very hopeful.