The Vaccine Is a Virus

The structural, functional, and pathogenic similarities of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to SARS-CoV-2.

A virus is a sequence of genetic code wrapped in an envelope.  Viruses are classified by their envelope and genetic code configurations.  Since they do not possess independent means of reproduction, viruses are not technically alive, yet they yield to the primal force of life—the urge to propagate their genes.  To do this, each virus seeks a host, hijacking its means of reproduction to pump out as many copies of the virus as possible.  Each copy seeks its own host to infect, and the cycle repeats.  In this way, the virus and its genes live without being alive.

An mRNA vaccine is a sequence of genetic code wrapped in an envelope.  The genetic code is messenger RNA and the envelope is a lipid nanoparticle, but that does not change the similarity to a virus.  Like a virus, each mRNA vaccine particle infects a host cell, hijacks the cell’s means of production, and pumps out copies of the encoded spike protein. 

Both virus and vaccine introduce spike protein into the body.  When virus enters through the nose and upper airways, the spike protein on the virus causes an immune response and spike antibodies are formed.  A successful immune response clears the virus, but the immune memory lingers, spike antibodies and all.  Inoculation by mRNA vaccine is also an infection, except this infection occurs in the arm. 

We were told—and I wrote in this blog—that vaccine mRNA stays in the cells of the arm muscle and is broken down quickly, but that is not true.  Studies published this year have demonstrated vaccine mRNA in breast milk, blood, lymph nodes, liver, and skin.  Unlike spike protein from a mild infection, vaccine induced spike protein can be detected in blood up to four months after vaccination; from there, it can distribute widely throughout the body.  Clearly, the mRNA does not stay in the arm and is not broken down quickly.  Compared to natural infection, genetic COVID-19 vaccines are more likely to spread spike protein throughout the body. 

This wide distribution of vaccine is significant.  Every cell that ingests a lipid nanoparticle will express spike protein, marking the cell as an immune target.  As a result, the cell will die.  This process is a direct mechanism for adverse effects like vaccine-induced myocarditis.  When a heart muscle cell absorbs vaccine, the spike proteins generated incite inflammation that kills the cell.  If this happens to enough heart cells, the person will die—suddenly and unexpectedly.

Yet this mechanism may not explain all the adverse effects of vaccines.  Serious conditions such as acute myocardial infarction, Bell’s palsy, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, Guillain–Barré syndrome, myocarditis, pericarditis, pulmonary embolism, stroke, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, appendicitis, herpes zoster reactivation, neurological complications, autoimmune hepatitis, and autoimmune peripheral neuropathies have been reported.

Since these conditions have also been observed after SARS-CoV-2 infection, a common autoimmune pathway is proposed.  Whether introduced by virus or vaccine, spike protein shares features with molecules naturally found in the body.  There are enough similarities that antibodies to spike protein may cause disease.  The antibodies that remain after infection or inoculation are unable to distinguish between the harmless molecules of the body and viral spike protein.  The result is an attack on one or more parts of the body by the body’s own immune system.

SARS-CoV-2 virus and mRNA COVID-19 vaccines share structural features and pathogenic effects.  Both consist of genetic material within a lipid envelope.  Both introduce spike protein to the body, and both stimulate antibodies against spike proteins and their lookalikes, which may damage one or more organs.  The adverse effects of vaccine can look like long COVID.

The vaccine is a virus, with one important difference. The virus, you catch. The vaccine, you take.