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Tessa Fights Robots

The New and Horrible Moderna Shot: How to Stay Sane

Betrayal? 5D chess? Either way, we are here to figure out OUR life

Tessa Lena
Jun 01, 2025
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Image: Moderna website

With the recent FDA approval of the new Moderna COVID shot during Bobby’s term as the Secretary of the HHS, a new wave of angst and confusion is making rounds.

Personally, I am not shocked that it happened. But because the angst is real, I would like to share how I personally deal with all this. I will briefly go over the product first, and then get to my main point, staying sane.

New Moderna “vaccine”

For those of you who like to read primary sources, here is information from the horse’s mouth: clinical trial design / detailed “prescribing” sheet), both look like crap by any account, no proper placebo controls, etc.

Here is also Sasha’s excellent analysis of the shot. I think I allow Bobby more breathing room to figure out how do his job well and actually do it—but even so, an awful shot is still an awful shot, and it needs to go.

A technical comment: the initial version of Sasha’s article said it was a self-amplifying mRNA. I am a little OCD when it comes to …

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