Thread by @ErrataRob

🧵The misinformation hellscape is exploding under @elonmusk. It's not just that #myocarditis is trending, it's that all the tweets that come up are crazy conspiracy theory and none debunking it.
For most people, "myocarditis" is a reason to get the vaccine, not to avoid it.

🧵The vaccine causes it in tiny amounts.
The covid causes it in huge amounts.
Everyone will contract the covid at some point.
The vaccine lessons the severity of the disease when you catch it by huge amounts.
QED: if you (most people) don't want the myocarditis, get the vaccine

🧵I don't know about kids and athletes. I suspect this is still true, even though they are dramatically less likely to get a symptomatic infections, and dramatically more likely to experience this side effect from the vaccine.

🧵I'm a centrist so I'm pretty much in agreement that our trusted health authorities haven't been trustworthy on this, exaggerating the benefits and pushing for mandates.
But the other side listens to crazies spewing misinformation.

🧵At this point, it doesn't matter. You've either gotten vaccinated against covid, caught covid, or aren't ever going to get the vaccine. So it's mostly harmless misinformation at this point.
Yet, it's still bad this Twitter hellsite promotes it.

🧵What bothers me is their self-confidence. Before, they knew their ideas were unsupported and fringe. Now they are acting like their ideas are mainstream consensus -- that it's the "media" who are denying what "everyone knows".
No, no, 2 years of data disprove the crazies.

BTW, there's a ton of data showing the effectiveness. I'm doubtful of Pfizer's numbers, but pretty much all the data points to vaccines resulting in less chance of hospitalization/death.
mcgill.ca/oss/article/co…