>>myocarditis is also a symptom of COVID infection in children at rates far higher than vaccine reaction.

Published 17 December: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf and already with a pre-print revision, because original data merged higher-risk male and female data:

- For males < 40y, *any* dose of Moderna and second or booster Pfizer dose has HIGHER risk of myocarditis than C19 infection.

- Myocarditis risk after infection is higher as you get older; whereas myocarditis risk after jab is higher the younger you are.

Therefore, if (when) the risk is further stratified to (say) 16-24-year-old males or eventually 12-16y old males, the jab relative risk will be even worse.

If (when) the risk is calculated for boys aged 2-12y, I suspect that authorities making the above claim should anticipate regular dealings with lawyers for decades to come.

Is this a complete picture? No, because myocarditis is not the only risk of C19 infection; but it is a direct response to the myocarditis allegation. My concern would be that you (and I) should be able to trust these sorts of assertions made by authorities, but clearly we cannot. If this results in general downgrade in trust of scientific expertise or institutions, that's actually bad for society because as history shows repeatedly, the things that rush to fill the vacuum tend to be far worse.