3. Researchers have found that that making vaccination a requirement for work, atte...

Researchers have found that that making vaccination a requirement for work, attending school, or travelling is likely to be successful in promoting vaccination, more so than either giving people freedom to choose or reminding them of the freedom the vaccine might confer.

Just to be clear, the risk of myocarditis is much higher for COVID patients than it is for vaccinated people. So if myocarditis in children concerns you, then COVID infection should concern you a lot more than vaccination.

But FAR more importantly, the risk of severe COVID infection for children makes myocarditis and blood clots look like small potatoes in comparison. In the UK hospital system pre-Delta (ie, prior to March'21), among children aged 0-17, there was approximately a 1.3% hospitalization rate for those with COVID infections. In absolute numbers, it was about 6,000 hospitalizations of children. Even after giving generous consideration for the fact that most children infected with SARS-CoV-2 do not develop symptoms, this hospitalization rate for all infected children should be orders of magnitude greater than the myocarditis risk elevation from vaccination (or COVID infection, for that matter). These numbers are not even in the same ballpark.

If these are things you truly care about, then I don't see how you can possibly conclude that infection is a better course of action for children than vaccination is.

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