Thanks for the clarification!

Ok, I’m not a doctor so I may indeed be misunderstanding what inflammation is. But everything I’ve read about myocarditis indicates that acute cases of mild inflammation resolve without permanent consequences for the heart. The risk of permanent damage to the heart from COVID is far higher than from a vaccine.

It’s not mild heart damage, it’s mild heart inflammation. In 11 out of 77 cases, it got better with no treatment. In 57 cases it got better with over the counter NSAIDS (e.g. Advil), and in 8 cases a second medication was added to the NSAIDS. Only 2 were admitted to the ICU, one for monitoring and 1 required surgery. Out of 1,650,000 doses administered. So that’s a rate of 46 cases of inflammation per dose, or 0.000046%.

Compare that to COVID, which has a rate of 450 cases per million among adolescent males age 12-19, which is the age most likely to have heart inflammation from the vaccine (<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8328065/>). That’s not counting all the other risks, like damage to lungs and other organs, permanent loss of taste and/or smell, or or developing debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome.

Vaccines are never without risk. Neither are over the counter medications. Hell you can spontaneously develop a peanut allergy at any point in your life, but people don’t avoid peanuts because of that tiny risk. The point is that it is safer to get the vaccine than the illness.

Also, there are 100s of types of cancers, and many have subtypes. Even if we find one “cure” it will only work in a small percentage of cancer patients.

A mix of all of the above. Sometimes areas were uninhabited when new people arrived, sometimes they displaced older groups, sometimes they mixed. Sometimes it was a combination where there was some mixing and some displacement. There is a lot of debate about how many waves there were.

Thanks for the correction!

Thanks for the correction!

Yes! An entire strain of flu (Influenza B/Yamagata) appears to have gone extinct due to COVID safety measures. It could come back if there are reservoirs of it somewhere, either in human populations that are not being tested or in non-human populations, but no one has reported a positive test for it since 2020.

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