I've formulated a tentative hypothesis as to what is happening, and if it is true, then we're facing a much worse mess than most people realize, even the vaccine skeptics, because the scale of how much the mRNA vaccines affect people is a lot worse. It requires two things exist, which, well admittedly speculative, are plausible: first, is that the immune systems of people can communicate; the second is that the alterations caused by the mRNA injections alter this process in some fashion.
This first point is plausible, given we are social animals; it makes sense for us to have evolved ways to signal to each other what infections we have, what responses our immune systems have worked out, and the like. Given how little we know of how the immune system works, it's quite likely that if such mechanisms exist, they are either unknown entirely or seriously understudied. This would also provide a mechanism for something otherwise bizarre: namely, the immune pathologies witnessed in social isolation, since it's plausible that the immune system requires these signals to function normally. My guess is that this would likely be transmitted by pheromones; we know humans create them, and that some of them play a role in our behaviour; but how, and what other effects they might have, is unknown. Further, a lot of people (myself included) find a weird smell from the recently vaccinated; for me, it's just at the edge of conscious awareness, at about the same level as "hmm, I like how that woman smells".
All this process needs to do in order to trigger some nasty responses in the unvaccinated is alarm our immune systems. Since anything which surprises the immune system likely indicates trouble, the fact that a huge number of immune systems are in a state which, as far as I know, has never been seen before, creating utterly novel responses to a respiratory pathogen, this would be the sort of thing that our immune systems would be on the look out for. Since an excellent survival strategy for any pathogen is to suppress the host immune system, it's possible the unvaccinated immune systems are being thrown into overdrive: here's what looks to our immune systems like a pathogen that has successfully fooled tons of other immune systems into tolerating it.
Given how disastrous that would be (tolerance of a pathogen is quite often a death sentence if it persists long enough), our immune systems react by trying to avoid this, and the result is a constellation of symptoms which match the activation of the immune system as it tries to root out this potential pathogen.
It fits all the facts I know, and strikes me as biologically plausible. Further, since it postulates the existence of a system which scientists have not discovered yet, or not disseminated widely, it also explains why there is no known mechanism which explains the effects.
Re: On spike shedding
This first point is plausible, given we are social animals; it makes sense for us to have evolved ways to signal to each other what infections we have, what responses our immune systems have worked out, and the like. Given how little we know of how the immune system works, it's quite likely that if such mechanisms exist, they are either unknown entirely or seriously understudied. This would also provide a mechanism for something otherwise bizarre: namely, the immune pathologies witnessed in social isolation, since it's plausible that the immune system requires these signals to function normally. My guess is that this would likely be transmitted by pheromones; we know humans create them, and that some of them play a role in our behaviour; but how, and what other effects they might have, is unknown. Further, a lot of people (myself included) find a weird smell from the recently vaccinated; for me, it's just at the edge of conscious awareness, at about the same level as "hmm, I like how that woman smells".
All this process needs to do in order to trigger some nasty responses in the unvaccinated is alarm our immune systems. Since anything which surprises the immune system likely indicates trouble, the fact that a huge number of immune systems are in a state which, as far as I know, has never been seen before, creating utterly novel responses to a respiratory pathogen, this would be the sort of thing that our immune systems would be on the look out for. Since an excellent survival strategy for any pathogen is to suppress the host immune system, it's possible the unvaccinated immune systems are being thrown into overdrive: here's what looks to our immune systems like a pathogen that has successfully fooled tons of other immune systems into tolerating it.
Given how disastrous that would be (tolerance of a pathogen is quite often a death sentence if it persists long enough), our immune systems react by trying to avoid this, and the result is a constellation of symptoms which match the activation of the immune system as it tries to root out this potential pathogen.
It fits all the facts I know, and strikes me as biologically plausible. Further, since it postulates the existence of a system which scientists have not discovered yet, or not disseminated widely, it also explains why there is no known mechanism which explains the effects.