I'm not a geneticist, nor am I a virologist, but my understanding is that our DNA is constantly mutating as part of the natural entropic process of our biology. Not ideal, perhaps, but an eccentricity of this complex genetic mess we inhabit and observe. No? So sometimes a genetic mutation can result in an immune response, sometimes it will be entirely benign, sometimes it results in cellular metastasis. Right?
I acknowledge the truthiness to your statement. I don't believe it is incorrect, exactly, but maybe inaccurate or misleading. Note that I am not a geneticist either, and that I familiarized myself with the field's status quo about mid-2000s. Either way, according to the standard genetic status quo, nuclear DNA doesn't mutate much, if at all. Most mutations get repaired, and the others generally wipe themselves out as telomeres shrink into oblivion, or as the cell mutates into an immune-triggering situation and get themselves wiped out.
I've been a fan of the epigenetics concept ever since I've heard of it, back when geneticists described DNA as a specific blueprint, rather than a flexible toolbox. However, even with the epigenetics I know about so far, nuclear DNA isn't mutated, it is mostly various proteins suppressing/encouraging the expression of this or that gene, redirecting the molecular machinery around a segment of code or another. DNA is pretty consistent throughout your lifetime, correct me if I'm wrong.
Here's another presupposition I have. A virus can enter your system and start monkeying with your DNA or RNA or whathaveyou. Yes? Covid, for example, expresses its evolutionary fitness by co-opting a cell and rearranging RNA so that it can replicate itself. If you catch covid and your immune system adapts and fights it off, there's a chance your body will maintain that immunity. That would be taking place at the genetic level, yes? Viruses unwittingly train our genetics to resist them.
No. Of course, the epigenetic factor remains, it is plausible that some stress would be stored epigenetically, in the same way that mothers who underwent long periods of starvation still conceive underweight children after being well fed years later. But no, the virus does not mutate you at the genetic level. It tries to insert rogue code, the immune system wakes up, and it is immune cells - is it the memory t-cells? - which develop a kind of memory of the protein folding steps to replicate a specific antibody conformation. Aside from epigenetic stress, you genetically remain the same.
This is probably not an absolute, either. There's probably interesting genetic divergence tests that could be conducted by sequencing individuals over a couple decades. It's going to be hard to find a control group while mRNA therapies are threatening to become a significant modality of treatment...
So what I understand of the mRNA vaccine is that it goes in and does some kind of herky-jerky thing within the cell in order to produce a protein that triggers an immune response that, supposedly, will set in motion a process of immune system adaptation that, like natural immunity, will instruct the body to expect and counter the virus on contact.
Yes. And if that was all it did, that would already be risky and unproven enough, because the herky-jerky part is manipulating completely new genetic mechanisms that had never been (publicly) touched before.
One of the trademarks of slavery is a lack of consent. Right? Well, in all those scenarios that I just listed off, the only one a person has the ability to consent to - and forget for a moment that we can't predict the consequences - the only one of those scenarios where a person CAN consent is the vaccine scenario.
That's an interesting line of thought. I think lack of consent is necessary, but not sufficient. I don't think talking about enslavement to a non-sovereign object makes sense. The master imposing his sovereignty over the slave without consent, now that is closer to both necessary and sufficient. The virus is a mechanical attack. Maybe you could call it a 4d attack by proxy if you wanted to be really esoteric about it, but really, it's a mechanical, non-sovereign lower-D vehicle that is conducting the attack. Slavery seems inapplicable as a concept, then.
However, in the vaxx case, it is not a dumb virus. It is 3D+ tech precisely engineered to hack into your admin rights, on behalf of a superindividual institution, capable of metacognition and specifically seeking to exert sovereignty over you. You don't even have to get esoteric about it. The slavemaster is right there in front of you. That it currently still asks you for 'consent', or whatever's left of it, is the only reason it can't be regarded as slavery.
Yet.
That said, it isn't a form of slavery to have cells highjacked by cancer. It isn't slavery to contract a virus. Is it? Or to grow old? Is it slavery to grow up in a polluted city where industrial chemicals are constantly working their way into our bodies and messing with our genetics? What about smoking? Is lung cancer a form of slavery in your mind because cigarette companies used advertisements and addictive chemicals to functionally root-kit a human's biology?
What about alcohol, then? Or porn? are these also forms of slavery? They certainly get behind our heuristic approach to life and hijack certain bodily processes. What about videogames?
Re: Smoking, drinking, whatever, addiction to a non-sovereign object is not slavery to the object, it is a relationship where the self is both master and slave.