emunney wrote:M-C-G wrote:jschligs wrote:
I get my second Wednesday too. Work is allowing folks to take the next day off if needed and I’m planning to just lie in bed.
Can anyone that can explain to me like a 4 year old what mRNA vaccine is versus traditional? Traditional I think I get, they put tiny amount of the disease in you, your body builds up immunity to fight it. Ok, got it. But mRNA I still don't get, it talks to your DNA or something? Any other vax that have used this I may have gotten?
Ok, I'll hang up and listen to answers thanks!
Normal vaccines use weakened viruses to teach your body how to defend itself. The mRNA Covid vaccines use just the mRNA the virus uses to build the spike protein to teach your cells to create just that protein and thus defend against it.
You can think about it in terms of training... Traditional vaccines give Rocky a weakened Ivan Drago to fight, Rocky learns Drago's moves and how to defeat him. The mRNA vaccines are like giving Paulie a cheat sheet of Drago's most critical move, and Paulie teaches Rocky how to neutralize that move.
This is actually very helpful, thank you.