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> Doing it for ourselves doesn’t capture all the benefits - lots of fun stuff is still closed/cancelled - but it’s enough to go out, socialize, and generally enjoy life without worrying about COVID.

Yes, I look forward to having random people skirt the social distancing rules because they sniffed their own homemade vaccine over the weekend.




They spent a thousand bucks on this and many weeks and blood tests. I agree with your general point but do give them some credit.


No mention of blood test results in the post.


Yeah, the results aren't in yet.

> Consider this a pre-registration. I intend to share my test results here.

Of course, without checking/testing this would be a completely useless exercise. Or if you test in the wrong way, like a nose swab after doing nose spray vaccination. OP instead will do blood tests and does seem to have thought this through to an extent that I find reasonable.

However, henceforth considering yourself safe indefinitely and normalizing socializing during the pandemic and normalizing the homebrewing of vaccines... that's where I'm not certain about the conclusion (iff it proves effective in the first place - e.g. I also see no mention of false positive rates in the test they'll use).


He could use the anal test introduced in China


The author is testing for the presence of antibodies, not the disease itself.




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