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I'm surprised this sort of post is even allowed to be discussed

dontwearitout 4y ago
I agree, it'll probably be scrubbed from the frontpage shortly. It's sad that this is the case, especially since it's published in a scientific journal.
- dang 4y ago
  The thread spent 11 hours on HN's front page.
whatshisface 4y ago
Myocarditis is rare and has been a part of the discussion from even before the vaccines were released, or at least the professional discussion. They were why the vaccines were not recommended for all ages to begin with.
- gfodor 4y ago
  The vaccines were and still are mandated for people not at risk of severe disease, and myocarditis has been framed as a side effect not worth worrying about despite the fact that it literally can kill you. Not to mention without understanding the mechanism of action, we cannot estimate the number of true deaths that occurred without a myocarditis diagnosis.
  - littlestymaar 4y ago
    > about despite the fact that it literally can kill you. There are many many things that can literally kill you. Heck, even anosmia can literally kill you under the right circumstances. What matters is the total number of vaccine-related myocarditis cases, and the total number of vaccine-related myocarditis death balanced with the number of covid related-death (including Covid-induced fatal myocarditis, because the virus itself has this effect), that's how you get a cost-benefit analysis.
    - gfodor 4y ago
      False, the idea that pure net deaths is the only way to think about all that happened is the common thread that people have been clinging to for far too long. It is time to wake up, and remember principles of bioethics, the risk of authoritarian coercive forces, and the nature of dehumanization campaigns. You do not mandate rapidly formulated, under-tested, frontier technology emergency drugs for all humans to work and live especially once there is evidence they may have a consistent mechanism of action that can cause sudden death, and especially once you learn the risk from the disease is highly dependent upon demographics and other comorbitities in a way risk from this side effect isn’t.
      - littlestymaar 4y ago
        Sorry to annoy you with the basics of public health policy. And the cost-benefit analysis being different for different age classes and comorbidity is exactly the reason why the vaccines was slowly expanded to larger demographics after starting with the most vulnerable people. In fact, the side effects of the vaccine have been much more thoroughly tracked than many pollutants that are routinely introduced in everybody's life and which somehow never trigger such a reaction from you others who care so much about all this when it comes to vaccines. The amount of hazardous material that are being put in everything from food to cosmetics or kids' toys is appalling, but all you guys have to complain about is vaccines… You claim to care about under-tested frontier technology, but somehow aren't bothered with sunscreen or bisphenol S, why is that?
        gfodor 4y ago
        I'm not part of any "guys", I'm not part of a tribe that you are imagining. I'm just someone who is vaccinated and thinks the mandates violate all traditional bioethical norms given what we have known for a while: the drug is experimental, under studied (no long term phase IV data), does not lead to herd immunity, has a novel mechanism, has a known serious side effect in 1 in 5k or so young men, and the risk of COVID is low in children, and there is a very real danger we are causing large scale subclinical heart damage to children by administering this drug so widely. In other words, it should not be mandatory. Public health policy is not entirely about risk vs reward - it's also a branch of medicine, and people who practice medicine have a code of ethics. Everyone acknowledges the risk vs reward choice is in favor of getting vaccinated for almost everyone. But it's a canard at this point, and is being used to gloss over an immense amount of truly horrible stuff that happened during the vaccination campaign of 2021.
  - manwe150 4y ago
    We can estimate from excess death statistics that this is basically a non-risk for most people. Unlike getting ill with COVID, which we can also estimate from excess death statistics is a notable risk factor for most people.
    - colechristensen 4y ago
      Young people were at extremely low risk from covid. It is entirely possible that the vaccine killed more people than it saved under a certain age. It is not certain but it is plausible as the covid deaths for young people were so low.
    - gfodor 4y ago
      I agree with my sibling here is that your confidence is misplaced that we did not kill many teenagers unnecessarily.
  - whatshisface 4y ago
    Anything that gets your immune system going can trigger an autoimmune crisis, including, you guessed it viruses - which also use RNA to cause your cells to produce spike proteins, by the way.
    - jgalt212 4y ago
      Very true. And it's probably impossible to get an accurate count of the young people who fall into the following groups. unvaccinated and got COVID-induced myocarditis vaccinated and got COVID-induced myocarditis vaccinated and got vaccine-induced myocarditis vaccinated and no myocarditis unvaccinated and no myocarditis Am I missing any groups?
  - SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
    > Besides pneumonia, myocarditis is another manifestation reported during SARS-CoV-2-infection [24]. I mean, your point only makes sense if you ignore that COVID causes the same myocarditis and ignore that the vaccine has been proven to reduce severity and duration of symptoms. This study was of 5 autopsies, unless you can prove this was incredibly widespread concern I don't understand why you think it would be better people get COVID. On a slightly different note I find it incredibly funny how the refrain was "they died with COVID, not from", but now it's "they died because of the vaccine, not with".
    - gfodor 4y ago
      The data on myocarditis has been clear and significant for quite some time: 1 in approximately 5000 young men under 40 by shot two. Without a full understanding of the underlying mechanism of action, we can’t be that confident of number of deaths due to the vaccine, but given the size of the deployed population and the recurrent nature of the shots it’s not unreasonable to think we killed tens of thousands of people with them.
      - SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
        > it’s not unreasonable to think we killed tens of thousands of people with them. It's not unreasonable to think otherwise as well given that it was a rare occurrence and typically mild. Also, there were no young men in this study. "Median age at death was 58 years (range 46–75 years)", so you're drawing your own conclusions without data here.
        gfodor 4y ago
        I’m not drawing conclusions - you invented that claim. The data I’m referring to is available in several other studies, with regards to estimated myocarditis rates in young men. But if you agree with me that it’s not unreasonable to think that is the scope of fatalities, I would urge you to integrate that new prior into things like the ethics of mandating this drug for college.
  - chomp 4y ago
    I know of a few people who have opted to not get the vaccine. One lost his wife. Still not vaccinated. You might need some more qualifiers for the word "mandated." Myocarditis is a side effect not worrying about because you have the same or greater chance of getting it if you get infected with COVID: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.059970 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.... It's also really really rare in both cases.
    - gfodor 4y ago
      The US executive branch attempted to make it so that your unvaccinated friend had to choose between taking the vaccine or being able to work at most companies.
- devmunchies 4y ago
  > Myocarditis is rare In absolute terms, yes. But relative to other vaccines, it's much more common. I also read that the chances are like 1 in a million per dose (not the right number, you get the point) but since its per dose your chances are actually like 1 in 40,000 after 3-4 doses.
Mountain_Skies 4y ago
Eventually there aren't enough fingers to plug all the holes in the dike.
XiraceFulufuke 4y ago
That's because we're at the Big Unmasking Eve right now. So many comments I see here today would be instantly [flagged] back in 2020/2021. Clearly HN and its moderators are dancing to the tune of the global agenda.

I agree, it'll probably be scrubbed from the frontpage shortly. It's sad that this is the case, especially since it's published in a scientific journal.

dang 4y ago
The thread spent 11 hours on HN's front page.

whatshisface 4y ago

Myocarditis is rare and has been a part of the discussion from even before the vaccines were released, or at least the professional discussion. They were why the vaccines were not recommended for all ages to begin with.

gfodor 4y ago
The vaccines were and still are mandated for people not at risk of severe disease, and myocarditis has been framed as a side effect not worth worrying about despite the fact that it literally can kill you. Not to mention without understanding the mechanism of action, we cannot estimate the number of true deaths that occurred without a myocarditis diagnosis.
- littlestymaar 4y ago
  > about despite the fact that it literally can kill you. There are many many things that can literally kill you. Heck, even anosmia can literally kill you under the right circumstances. What matters is the total number of vaccine-related myocarditis cases, and the total number of vaccine-related myocarditis death balanced with the number of covid related-death (including Covid-induced fatal myocarditis, because the virus itself has this effect), that's how you get a cost-benefit analysis.
  - gfodor 4y ago
    False, the idea that pure net deaths is the only way to think about all that happened is the common thread that people have been clinging to for far too long. It is time to wake up, and remember principles of bioethics, the risk of authoritarian coercive forces, and the nature of dehumanization campaigns. You do not mandate rapidly formulated, under-tested, frontier technology emergency drugs for all humans to work and live especially once there is evidence they may have a consistent mechanism of action that can cause sudden death, and especially once you learn the risk from the disease is highly dependent upon demographics and other comorbitities in a way risk from this side effect isn’t.
    - littlestymaar 4y ago
      Sorry to annoy you with the basics of public health policy. And the cost-benefit analysis being different for different age classes and comorbidity is exactly the reason why the vaccines was slowly expanded to larger demographics after starting with the most vulnerable people. In fact, the side effects of the vaccine have been much more thoroughly tracked than many pollutants that are routinely introduced in everybody's life and which somehow never trigger such a reaction from you others who care so much about all this when it comes to vaccines. The amount of hazardous material that are being put in everything from food to cosmetics or kids' toys is appalling, but all you guys have to complain about is vaccines… You claim to care about under-tested frontier technology, but somehow aren't bothered with sunscreen or bisphenol S, why is that?
      - gfodor 4y ago
        I'm not part of any "guys", I'm not part of a tribe that you are imagining. I'm just someone who is vaccinated and thinks the mandates violate all traditional bioethical norms given what we have known for a while: the drug is experimental, under studied (no long term phase IV data), does not lead to herd immunity, has a novel mechanism, has a known serious side effect in 1 in 5k or so young men, and the risk of COVID is low in children, and there is a very real danger we are causing large scale subclinical heart damage to children by administering this drug so widely. In other words, it should not be mandatory. Public health policy is not entirely about risk vs reward - it's also a branch of medicine, and people who practice medicine have a code of ethics. Everyone acknowledges the risk vs reward choice is in favor of getting vaccinated for almost everyone. But it's a canard at this point, and is being used to gloss over an immense amount of truly horrible stuff that happened during the vaccination campaign of 2021.
- manwe150 4y ago
  We can estimate from excess death statistics that this is basically a non-risk for most people. Unlike getting ill with COVID, which we can also estimate from excess death statistics is a notable risk factor for most people.
  - colechristensen 4y ago
    Young people were at extremely low risk from covid. It is entirely possible that the vaccine killed more people than it saved under a certain age. It is not certain but it is plausible as the covid deaths for young people were so low.
  - gfodor 4y ago
    I agree with my sibling here is that your confidence is misplaced that we did not kill many teenagers unnecessarily.
- whatshisface 4y ago
  Anything that gets your immune system going can trigger an autoimmune crisis, including, you guessed it viruses - which also use RNA to cause your cells to produce spike proteins, by the way.
  - jgalt212 4y ago
    Very true. And it's probably impossible to get an accurate count of the young people who fall into the following groups. unvaccinated and got COVID-induced myocarditis vaccinated and got COVID-induced myocarditis vaccinated and got vaccine-induced myocarditis vaccinated and no myocarditis unvaccinated and no myocarditis Am I missing any groups?
- SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
  > Besides pneumonia, myocarditis is another manifestation reported during SARS-CoV-2-infection [24]. I mean, your point only makes sense if you ignore that COVID causes the same myocarditis and ignore that the vaccine has been proven to reduce severity and duration of symptoms. This study was of 5 autopsies, unless you can prove this was incredibly widespread concern I don't understand why you think it would be better people get COVID. On a slightly different note I find it incredibly funny how the refrain was "they died with COVID, not from", but now it's "they died because of the vaccine, not with".
  - gfodor 4y ago
    The data on myocarditis has been clear and significant for quite some time: 1 in approximately 5000 young men under 40 by shot two. Without a full understanding of the underlying mechanism of action, we can’t be that confident of number of deaths due to the vaccine, but given the size of the deployed population and the recurrent nature of the shots it’s not unreasonable to think we killed tens of thousands of people with them.
    - SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
      > it’s not unreasonable to think we killed tens of thousands of people with them. It's not unreasonable to think otherwise as well given that it was a rare occurrence and typically mild. Also, there were no young men in this study. "Median age at death was 58 years (range 46–75 years)", so you're drawing your own conclusions without data here.
      - gfodor 4y ago
        I’m not drawing conclusions - you invented that claim. The data I’m referring to is available in several other studies, with regards to estimated myocarditis rates in young men. But if you agree with me that it’s not unreasonable to think that is the scope of fatalities, I would urge you to integrate that new prior into things like the ethics of mandating this drug for college.
- chomp 4y ago
  I know of a few people who have opted to not get the vaccine. One lost his wife. Still not vaccinated. You might need some more qualifiers for the word "mandated." Myocarditis is a side effect not worrying about because you have the same or greater chance of getting it if you get infected with COVID: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.059970 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.... It's also really really rare in both cases.
  - gfodor 4y ago
    The US executive branch attempted to make it so that your unvaccinated friend had to choose between taking the vaccine or being able to work at most companies.
devmunchies 4y ago
> Myocarditis is rare In absolute terms, yes. But relative to other vaccines, it's much more common. I also read that the chances are like 1 in a million per dose (not the right number, you get the point) but since its per dose your chances are actually like 1 in 40,000 after 3-4 doses.

Mountain_Skies 4y ago

Eventually there aren't enough fingers to plug all the holes in the dike.

XiraceFulufuke 4y ago

That's because we're at the Big Unmasking Eve right now. So many comments I see here today would be instantly [flagged] back in 2020/2021. Clearly HN and its moderators are dancing to the tune of the global agenda.