You need to learn a little about the differences between RNA and DNA. The vaccines do exactly what vaccines have always done. They trick the immune system into producing antibodies against the real thing. Genes are not modified. It's just a different method of achieving the same result. I'm happy about that. The last flu shot I had was decades ago. It was a killed virus vaccine. I was as sick as if it were the real flu. It me months to decide to get the COVID jab. Side effects were minimal and I'm exactly the same person as I was before I had the jab.
"There is a crucial difference between mRNA and DNA.
DNA, which makes up our genetic code, is larger, double stranded and very long. The mRNA is a single stranded copy of a small part of the DNA, which is often released to send instructions to other parts of the cell.
DNA is stored in the protected centre of our cells – the nucleus. The mRNA is broken down quickly by the body. It never enters the nucleus, and cannot affect or combine with our DNA in any way to change our genetic code.
Instead, COVID-19 mRNA vaccines teach the cell how to make a protein that triggers an immune response specific to COVID-19. The vaccines work with the body’s natural defences to develop immunity to disease."
Source: Australian Government department of Health
Why do you care if someone gets vaccinated? You say these things do the exact same things that other vaccines do. Why is it that other vaccines take 12 years before getting full approval and this one doesn't?
The goal may appear the same but the path they take to achieve that goal is quite different.
With all other vaccines they had animal trials which were skipped for this vaccine that is different.
All other mRNA vaccines for corona viruses were stopped in clinical trials, that is another distinction between this and all other vaccines.
A vaccine used to be defined as making you immune to something, unable to catch it or transmit it. So they had to change the definition of a vaccine just for this one.
You make it seem like this vaccine is no different than all others when it is clearly quite different.
Generally we don't mandate a vaccine, especially to all people from children to the elderly, never before it has been fully approved after 12 years, and when we do it works. People who get vaccinated don't get sick and don't transmit the disease. So there are lots and lots of things about this that are different. Then consider the people who are hesitant to get it, among teachers I heard there are 10,000 teachers in NYC who still haven't been vaccinated even though today is the deadline. Every teacher was required to have certain shots before teaching so these are not "anti vaxxers", every teacher in NYC is required to have a Master's degree to be certified, so these are not uneducated people.
Why does someone in Australia care about whether or not someone in NYC gets a vaccine? I can see you wanting them vaccinated before coming to Australia but I am pretty sure none of them want to go to Australia, at least not right now. So why do you care?