Chicago Tribune (Sunday)

ABOUT ANTI-VAXX CONSPIRACI­STS

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The full-contact sport of football is one that is rife with risks. The public and the players have for some time known the dangers posed to the brain by the forceful blows to the head that occur during regular gameplay, leading first to concussion­s and then commonly and devastatin­gly to conditions like chronic traumatic encephalop­athy.

Yet every part of the body is at risk in such a physical violent sport, including the heart, a fact that was made agonizingl­y evident Monday night as Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered an apparent cardiac arrest after a relatively routine tackle in a game against the Cincinnati Bengals and then collapsed on the field. He was administer­ed CPR and a defibrilla­tor treatment and then rushed to the hospital … Dimwits like perenniall­y wrong right-wing operative Charlie Kirk hadn’t even waited for Hamlin to be taken off the field before they began spinning yarns about the supposed culpabilit­y of the COVID-19 vaccine, without any evidence and before even the paramedics on the scene could ascertain definitive­ly what was happening. In their zeal to be reflexivel­y contrarian for political gain and profit, these cretins will latch onto anything to insinuate that the lifesaving vaccines are sinister or even deadly, pitting their know-nothing word against that of countless medical profession­als and researcher­s.

The thing they always glide over is that no one wants us to take ineffectiv­e and dangerous treatments, and in fact we have whole regulatory agencies dedicated to ensuring that; yet the vaccines have been exhaustive­ly tested and studied and saved many millions of lives worldwide. Some more would be saved if these agitators would drop their reprehensi­ble act.

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