I am not sure I would be that pessimistic. We now have a three shot vaccine for HPV cancer. Granted that is different than the RNA technology. But RNA based techniques have been touted as a potential cure for many life threatening things, including some cancers. Covid forced the government to allow this RNA based vaccine to be allowed on the entire populace instead of a sample of .0000000000000001 percent of the population.
A review of mRNA vaccine technology by ONCOLOGY® editorial board member Mehmet Sitki Copur, MD, FACP, explains the basis for progress in this field and reviews a number of new trials using this technology.
www.cancernetwork.com
Getting shots is no big deal as far as I am concerned. People get flu shots every year and Fido gets a rabies shot annually (although I think there may be a longer rabies shot available now). Like you, I don’t like the government telling me what I have to do, but I like it less when it tells me I can’t do what I want to do. The time it takes to get a drug or treatment to market is ridiculous, and the sample sizes fir experiments are way too small. It benefits the FDA to study something for 10-20 years in progressively larger studies. The FDA workers get paid the whole damn time.
No group has been more worthless throughout the process than the U.S. FDA. Even Fauci gave up on them. Maybe Covid will change things.