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> If there is a mechanism that will cause side effects on mRNA vaccines, then such mechanism will also be presented in the virus.

You're forgetting about the lipids the vaccine mRNA is put into.

One big reason it took so long to create mRNA vaccines was finding a suitable lipid mix. They need to have a specific property, they need to be electrically charged in a certain way, and pretty much all lipids with that property are extremely toxic.

The equivalent lipids in the virus don't have this problem because they come from the human cell membrane and they use the spike protein to fuse. Since the vaccine doesn't have a spike protein, it needs that special charge property to be able to spill it's mRNA.

The question now is, if it took sooo long to find those lipids, just what the safety margin on them is?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27433582/

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-delivery/Without-li...




Just for reference, for those that won't read the articles you link to:

The conclusion of the article is that these lipids are safe, with a recommendation for further study. The article is from 2016, no ill effects were found since then


Consider how little is actually injected into the human body (sub milligram dose mixed with saline solution), even if it was toxic, I doubt it would have any effect at this scale.

And btw, there is no difference between lipids we can make and lipids that our cells make. It's the same chemical composition.


While medicine doesn’t work like this, but what is the proposed mechanism from any sort of side effect from the minuscule amount of lipids, probably largely derived from already known substances?




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