Vaccines, Cardiovascular Health, and Alzheimer’s

Remember when the right-wing nuts went crazy about vaccines, claiming they killed randomly with heart attacks, myocarditis, “turbo cancer”, and such? Well… some time has passed, and we now have some big studies with long baseline data on that. Guess which way it comes out. I dare you. COVID-19 Vaccines vs Cardiovascular Health Right-wingers have all sorts of fears about COVID-19 vaccines (indeed, fear seems to be one of the indicators of right-wing & authoritarian follower personality [1]). For example, there was a time when they worried extremely loudly about the possibility of myocarditis post-vaccination, especially in young men. This turns out to be a real, but very low probability event, which in any case leads to mild cases that normalize quickly when treated. But you know what else gives you myocarditis, with higher probability and deeper severity? Getting COVID-19! So you’re still way better off with the vaccine, even if you think this rare risk applies to you for some reason.…