I wrote this during the height of the pandemic, but never felt the need to publish it. However, Dr. Fauci's recently testifying has apparently whipped the Trumpanzees back into an anti vax frenzy, fueled by (big surprise) falsehoods in right wing media.
Yes, this is another 'today with the right wingers' post, but this one's a lot less controversial than most (my debunking didn't get me called a cocksucker). Call it an observation and identification of weaponized facts that lack context. It piqued my interest, so I did a smidge of investigation.
One of the assertions from the hard right is that the vaccines have caused a massive spike in cardiomyopathy among the younger of those who've received the vaccine. "Children are dying because of the shot!" , along with a picture (that I neglected to attach) of literally every person resembling an athlete who died recently they could find.
A quick survey of a few of the names confirmed they'd all passed recently, although none of the ones I looked at had any sort of COD identified. But for the purpose of playing along with the intent of the post to shock readers and lead lead them to a certain conclusion, I'll pretend all died of cardiac failure. Surely, that many of them dying in the same way isn't normal. Except when it is normal.
One article from July of 2010 (pre-pandemic) article I found said: The American Academy of Pediatrics estimates that approximately 2,000 people under the age of 25 die from sudden cardiac arrest in the U.S. each year. It is the leading cause of death in young athletes in the United States – resulting in 1 death in a high school student every 3 days, according to some experts.
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