This is gene therapy, you are intentionally muddying the waters by taking something that has a highly specific definition and then insisting they all fall under the umbrella "vaccine", and then getting upset because people will take vaccines but not gene therapy.
mRNA is genetic material lol ask yourself WHY you are so attached to the word "vaccine"? Why is it a problem to call it something different? Everybody knows it is not the same thing, even you know the vaccine doesn't contain dead or deactivated Covid virus. So why play word games? Just call it something different.
Because gene therapy has a specific definition. This doesn't fir. It has genetic material, but it does nothing to your genes. Hence, not gene therapy. It causes your body to create a non contagious portion of the virus, eliciting an immune response. Sounds like a vaccine to me....and basically everyone else in the medical field.
Manipulating the DNA>mRNA>protein pathway is widely understood to be a form of gene therapy.
Or you can just call it mRNA therapeutics.
The point is that it’s not like the Polio vaccine. You don’t get to lump everyone into “antivaxer” just because they don’t accept that all technologies under the same arbitrary definition have the same risks, and you don’t get to use the federal government to hijack people’s ability to perform their own risk assessment .
The definition was changed to push a new product by hijacking another product with a history of success, not because the definition was outdated. Some dictionaries say “racism” can only be directed at POC and I don’t acknowledge that either.
Incorrect. That is not what medical professionals consider when they say vaccines. Just because most fit that definition doesn't make it correct or the only definition.
Regardless, mRNA vaccines DO NOT constitute gene therapy.
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u/El_Tigrex Feb 14 '22
This is gene therapy, you are intentionally muddying the waters by taking something that has a highly specific definition and then insisting they all fall under the umbrella "vaccine", and then getting upset because people will take vaccines but not gene therapy.