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mRNA Technology: The Tragic Future of Immunization Resisters

2022-01-16T16:13:01.876Z


Many of today's worst diseases are related to viruses, including various types of cancer and multiple sclerosis. Paradoxically, this gives hope - unless you're afraid of mRNA drugs.


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Corona skeptics demo in Düsseldorf: The new vaccine technology is a central topic of current conspiracy stories

Photo: Michael Gstettenbauer / IMAGO

Apart from various psychoactive substances, MRNA vaccine technology is probably the first pharmacological innovation to carve out its own pop culture niche.

For example, there is now a small, largely unsuccessful but highly motivated scene that produces anti-mRNA music.

The protagonists partly come from a bizarre new subculture made up of rappers who have long slipped into the realm of paranoia, well-known right-wing extremists, followers of a radical Christian sect, conspiracy story entrepreneurs and, of course, Xavier Naidoo.

Meanwhile, a German DJ is producing anti-vaccination techno with supposedly revealing samples from politicians, virologists and Angela Merkel to the exclusion of the public.

Anti-mRNA rap as marching music

I won't name any other names here, because the audience has been tiny so far, and it should stay that way.

The fact is that, for example, rap tracks from this midget scene are used as marching music at corona skeptic demonstrations such as those in Hamburg.

The abbreviation "mRNA" comes up again and again, with rhymes like "the end is near" or "the conspiracy is now true."

The new vaccine technology is a central theme of all current conspiracy stories, regardless of whether it is supposedly about the extermination of large parts of humanity or the implantation of fictitious chips without which it will supposedly no longer be possible to shop in the future.

The cognitive defense mechanisms of the self-proclaimed "middle of society", which runs along with Nazis and conspiracy theorists at the demonstrations, have to run at full speed, because they are constantly bombarded with paranoid delusions.

permanent bad consequences

None of this is funny, and not just because of the inevitable prolongation of the pandemic and the many preventable deaths that refusal to vaccinate inevitably produces.

Rejection of mRNA vaccines by die-hard conspiracy believers or self-proclaimed vaccine experts from sports, entertainment and culture will also have lasting dire consequences.

For the rest of humanity, on the other hand, mRNA technology is excellent news.

And not just because it's our best tool in the fight against Covid, despite Omicron.

This new method of producing vaccines and tailor-made medicines is likely to lead to medical achievements that mankind has dreamed of for many decades.

Tens of thousands cases per year

Work is in progress on mRNA vaccines against pathogens such as the Zika virus or herpes zoster, which also causes shingles.

There is already an inactivated vaccine against herpes zoster, but Biontech and Pfizer believe they can develop an even better one using mRNA technology.

But now we are dealing with completely different diseases.

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The second leading cause of death in Germany is cancer.

Around 230,000 to 240,000 people fall victim to it in this country every year.

A whole series of tumors, including certain types of skin cancer and forms of leukemia, liver and lymphatic gland cancer, are demonstrably (co-)caused by viruses.

Estimates of what proportion of all cancer cases are related to viral infections range from 12 to 20 percent.

So that's tens of thousands of cases per year in Germany alone.

You can get vaccinated against cancer

For example, young people should definitely be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted papilloma virus, which is one of the main causes of cervical cancer. Thousands of women fall ill with it every year in Germany, and around 1,600 still die from it every year. 30 years ago there were twice as many. You can drastically reduce the risk with a vaccination – male teenagers should definitely also be vaccinated, because they too can get sick from the virus and of course infect others with it.

The papillomavirus vaccine is still a traditional dead vaccine, but the anti-cancer vaccines of the future will most likely be mRNA vaccines, some standard vaccines, others specialized ones tailored to the patient's genome.

Not all of these vaccinations relate to viruses, but all of them give hope that cancer, the scourge of humanity, will lose some of its terror in the years and decades to come.

The deadliest cancers make the list

The big mRNA research companies like BionTech, Moderna and Curevac are all working on various mRNA-based cancer vaccines, some of which are already being tested in clinical trials.

These include investigational drugs for colon, skin, lymphatic, ovarian, prostate and even lung cancer, the deadliest of all cancers.

Not all of these approaches will be successful, but even professionals who don't work for one of these companies consider the technology, which is actually no longer so new, to be promising and safe.

Cancers that are not caused by viruses should also be able to be combated in this way.

The role of viruses in other diseases that to this day largely elude modern medicine is still being deciphered.

A study appeared in Science this week that confirms a long-standing assumption: the Epstein-Barr virus, which belongs to the herpesvirus group, is obviously largely responsible for multiple sclerosis.

It was already known that the virus triggers glandular fever, which can sometimes have serious consequences, and is linked to various types of cancer.

From now on it will also be considered the MS virus.

A vaccination against multiple sclerosis?

Moderna is already conducting an early clinical trial of an mRNA-based Epstein-Barr vaccine in the US.

Interest in this and other vaccines against the virus is likely to skyrocket after the Science publication.

Several hundred thousand people are being treated for MS, a nagging autoimmune disease, in Germany alone.

With tens of millions of MS patients worldwide, any company that is the first to bring a working MS vaccine to market can expect tremendous success.

And for mankind, a cure for this disease, which very often affects young people, would be an unqualified blessing.

Other institutions, such as the German Center for Infection Research, are also working on an Epstein-Barr vaccine, albeit at an earlier stage and often using different methods.

Farewell to medical progress?

It doesn't matter who wins the race here, one thing can be said for sure: many diseases that cause a lot of fear, suffering and grief today will be considered manageable or completely eradicated in the future, thanks to vaccination.

Like smallpox or polio today.

MRNA technology, coupled with the tremendous advances in bioinformatics, is expected to play a key role.

And soon, because it allows extremely fast developments.

Perhaps humanity will then finally learn to say goodbye to the already absurd misperception "There's no glory in prevention".

The rapping, demonstrating, and talk-show-touring mRNA haters and phobics will then face a tough choice: stick to their gut instincts or conspiracy ideas — or join that part of humanity that is afflicted by many cancers, multiple sclerosis, and other horrific diseases diseases have lost their horror?

One of the conspiracy theory rappers whose tracks are used at the Coronademos implores the audience: "It's about your children".

That's true, but their future is endangered not least by delusional propagandists like himself. One day the mRNA skeptics and their children will be among the last to suffer and die from diseases that were actually conquered.

Source: spiegel

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