THE COVID-19 "JAB" - WHAT'S IN IT?

 7 Tevet 5781

Even among informed people, there is still a lot of misunderstanding about what is in the COVID-19 injection and how it works.  Take, for example this comment by an "Unknown" person self-identifying as a nurse...

"MRNA works specifically, on the bit of covid protein fragment that is being injected" ...

In fact, although we are not told exactly what IS being injected, we know it is not "bits of covid protein fragments" because we are informed by the following article from the CDC that whatever they ARE injecting into people is meant to teach the body's own cells how to replicate this viral protein which is then supposed to provoke an immune response similar to what a traditional vaccine would normally do.

New Approach to Vaccines

mRNA vaccines are a new type of vaccine to protect against infectious diseases. To trigger an immune response, many vaccines put a weakened or inactivated germ into our bodies. Not mRNA vaccines. Instead, they teach our cells how to make a protein—or even just a piece of a protein—that triggers an immune response inside our bodies. That immune response, which produces antibodies, is what protects us from getting infected if the real virus enters our bodies.

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines give instructions for our cells to make a harmless piece of what is called the “spike protein.” The spike protein is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19.

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are given in the upper arm muscle. Once the instructions (mRNA) are inside the immune cells, the cells use them to make the protein piece. After the protein piece is made, the cell breaks down the instructions and gets rid of them. [Let's hope, anyway.]

Next, the cell displays the protein piece on its surface. Our immune systems recognize that the protein doesn’t belong there and begin building an immune response and making antibodies, like what happens in natural infection against COVID-19.

When I searched the internet by asking what is inside the mRNA vaccine, the answer I got was "snippets of genetic code."  I'm guessing that would be the copy of the code taken from the virus's own DNA which produces this particular protein.  That's where the (m)essenger RNA comes in, it somehow delivers this information to the chosen cells in the human body which for a designated space of time turns them into viral protein production facilities.

The genes in DNA encode protein molecules, which are the "workhorses" of the cell, carrying out all the functions necessary for life. For example, enzymes, including those that metabolize nutrients and synthesize new cellular constituents, as well as DNA polymerases and other enzymes that make copies of DNA during cell division, are all proteins.

In the simplest sense, expressing a gene means manufacturing its corresponding protein, and this multilayered process has two major steps. In the first step, the information in DNA is transferred to a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule by way of a process called transcription. During transcription, the DNA of a gene serves as a template for complementary base-pairing, and an enzyme called RNA polymerase II catalyzes the formation of a pre-mRNA molecule, which is then processed to form mature mRNA (Figure 1). The resulting mRNA is a single-stranded copy of the gene, which next must be translated into a protein molecule. (Source)

Another component of the injection is apparently aborted fetal tissue cells, as otherwise, why would the Pope see fit to rule on its admissibility? 

Vatican says use of Covid vaccines made from aborted fetal tissue is ethical

VATICAN CITY, Dec 21 (Reuters) - The Vatican told Roman Catholics on Monday that it was morally acceptable for them to use COVID-19 vaccines, even if their production employed cell lines drawn from tissues of aborted fetuses.

A note from the Vatican's doctrinal congregation, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the use of such vaccines was permitted as long as there were no alternatives.

Finally, we have to wonder if nanotechnology plays any part in all this.  As it happens, COVID-19 has put medical nanotechnology "on the map."

Nanomedicine and the COVID-19 vaccines

Two nanoparticle-based vaccines close to obtaining approval by the US Food and Drug Administration could represent a giant step in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. [BioNtech, Pfizer and Moderna]

...This new class of DNA- and RNA-based vaccines deliver the genetic sequence of specific viral proteins to the host cells using nanotechnology platforms.

...these vaccines are a huge achievement for molecular medicine and biotechnology. They also represent a big milestone for nanomedicine, which has struggled to gain mainstream recognition so far due to translation challenges. They are a success for all those scientists who have worked to optimize nanoformulations for the efficient packaging and safe delivery of genetic material.

To get a look at the possible downside of these injectibles (I still don't want to call them "vaccines"), we have to look back at a 2012 article which looks at what a UK Parliamentary investigative committee determined.

Nanotechnology In Medicine: Huge Potential, But What Are The Risks?

Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular scale to create materials with remarkably varied and new properties, is a rapidly expanding area of research with huge potential in many sectors, ranging from healthcare to construction and electronics. In medicine, it promises to revolutionize drug delivery, gene therapy, diagnostics, and many areas of research, development and clinical application. [Think $$$$$.]

...there are also concerned parties, who highlight that while the pace of research quickens, and the market for nanomaterials expands, it appears not enough is being done to discover their toxicological consequences.

This was the view of a science and technology committee of the House of Lords of the British Parliament, who in a recent report on nanotechnology and food, raise several concerns about nanomaterials and human health, particularly the risk posed by ingested nanomaterials.

For instance, one area that concerns the committee is the size and exceptional mobility of nanoparticles: they are small enough, if ingested, to penetrate cell membranes of the lining of the gut, with the potential to access the brain and other parts of the body, and even inside the nuclei of cells.

Another is the solubility and persistence of nanomaterials. What happens, for instance, to insoluble nanoparticles? If they can’t be broken down and digested or degraded, is there a danger they will accumulate and damage organs? Nanomaterials comprising inorganic metal oxides and metals are thought to be the ones most likely to pose a risk in this area.

Also, because of their high surface area to mass ratio, nanoparticles are highly reactive, and may for instance, trigger as yet unknown chemical reactions, or by bonding with toxins, allow them to enter cells that they would otherwise have no access to.

For instance, with their large surface area, reactivity and electrical charge, nanomaterials create the conditions for what is described as “particle aggregation” due to physical forces and “particle agglomoration” due to chemical forces, so that individual nanoparticles come together to form larger ones. This may lead not only to dramatically larger particles, for instance in the gut and inside cells, but could also result in disaggregation of clumps of nanoparticles, which could radically alter their physicochemical properties and chemical reactivity.

“Such reversible phenomena add to the difficulty in understanding the behaviour and toxicology of nanomaterials,” says the committee, whose overall conclusion is that neither Government nor the Research Councils are giving enough priority to researching the safety of nanotechnology, especially “considering the timescale within which products containing nanomaterials may be developed”.

They recommend much more research is needed to “ensure that regulatory agencies can effectively assess the safety of products before they are allowed onto the market”.

How fantastically convenient that this crisis came along which has allowed the "industry" to prove its worth without the bother with regulatory agencies' demands.

Now, who is going to go and explain it to the rabbis?  And remind them that only 0.1% of the population is actually at risk. [Even with inflated numbers!]  7 million deaths out of 7 billion population worldwide over the course of a year.  You do the math!

This is what all the rabbonim should be saying - at the very least.  This psak din from Bnei Braq basically says (if I am understanding it correctly) that not enough is presently known to rule for or against, but comes down on the side of not taking it until things are clearer.

(H/T SR)