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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: mungofitch 🐝🐝🐝 GOLD
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Subject: Re: Big data: shingles vaccine lowers dementia risk
Date: 06/25/26 8:28 PM
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Because she used actual data from my body that indicated I should not take an mRNA?

Yup, without a doubt! Is there any question about it? Science, not narrative.

Your body is absolutely chock full of mRNA, just like everyone else's.

The three main sources might be
* Your own cells telling proteins what to do, which, you know, keeps you alive.
* Viruses you inhale every day and try to make a home, which have been carefully designed by evolution over aeons, usually to do bad things to you
* Maybe mRNA vaccines, which have been carefully designed to do good things for you.

To generalize that mRNA vaccines are "bad" for a particular person because they contain mRNA is something a fool would say, like that you should avoid calcium because you're "special" and felt bad after eating tofu, so your cells work differently from everyone else's and calcium is poison for you. It has no foundation in reality. You're full of mRNA anyway. Some might be beneficial and some might be deleterious, but the fact that it's mRNA, per se, doesn't say anything about that either way.

Take it or don't, but don't let your doctor invent (or spread!) a new nonsensical dogma based on the notion that mRNA, merely because it's mRNA, is bad for some people. 'Taint so.

If the advice were slightly different--you have unusually bad reactions to this vaccine and its variants, so it's risky to take it again--sounds like actual reasoning. But characterizing that as "keep away from mRNA" is no better than saying "keep away from vaccines in blue bottles".

Jim
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