Oh, bless your heart—nothing says "wake up" like cherry-picking personal tragedies while ignoring mountains of actual data. Sorry about your friend; sudden losses suck, and it's human to hunt for a villain. But turning that into "vaccines are dropping athletes like flies" is peak internet detective work.
Young athletes collapsing from myocarditis or heart attacks post-vax? The studies tracking hundreds of cases in U.S. competitive athletes (high school through college) show zero spike during the vaccine rollout or pandemic years. Pre-2020 numbers basically match or even dip compared to 2020–2022. No surge. Myocarditis as the confirmed killer? A handful of cases total, same before and after shots.
NFL "couple" too? Classic. Those viral montages usually recycle old footage, mix in car crashes/commotio cordis (blunt chest trauma), or pre-pandemic deaths. Damar Hamlin? Hit to the chest, not the jab. No evidence vaccine caused any cluster.
The rare myocarditis link with mRNA shots (mostly young guys after dose 2) is real—but it's like 1 in 16k–30k in the highest-risk group, usually mild, and way less deadly than the actual COVID infection, which hits the heart 7–15+ times harder. Recent 2026 data? Vaccinated healthy young people had lower odds of sudden cardiac death, not higher.
VAERS reports and sob stories aren't causation—they're noise. Autopsies, death certificates, and big population studies (Oregon, Canada, NCAA data) keep finding no vaccine fingerprint on these events. Sudden cardiac issues in fit people have always happened; rates haven't magically exploded post-2021.
If every temporal coincidence was proof, we'd blame breakfast for afternoon heart attacks. Grief doesn't rewrite epidemiology. If you want to rage at real risks, fine—but the "wake up, they're killing athletes" script got debunked years ago and keeps getting reburied by fresh studies. What's your source for the "many of us" wave? Specific verified cases with autopsies tying it directly to the shot?
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