Fact-checking COVID-19 vaccine claims

Anti-vaxxers are out in force with more false claims about the COVID-19 vaccine. I'm mystified about what their endgame is - no vaccines, no masks, no technology, no medicine, cowering in caves like Stone Age humanity?

Anyway, today's false claim is that COVID-19 vaccines can cause heart attacks due to potassium chloride. The truth is, potassium chloride is an essential electrolyte, in every food we eat and every drink we drink. It is recommended that we take in 2000mg of potassium per day, which is about 4000mg of potassium chloride. So how much potassium chloride is in the COVID-19 vaccine? 0.01mg. Yep, that is what the anti-vaxxers want you to be petrified of.

0.01mg is about 1% of the amount of potassium chloride present in a glass of tap water. It is about 50,000 times less than the amount of potassium chloride present in a glass of milk or a banana. It is about the same amount of potassium chloride present in the solitary tear that I wept thinking of those poor anti-vaxxers being given the option to have a life-saving vaccine developed at incredible speed.

The fake excuse anti-vaxxers give for their pseudo-concern is that potassium chloride is used in lethal injections. Yes, at one million times the vaccine dose, and without the balancing sodium that is present in alls foods and vaccines. A small amount of sodium and potassium mixed together in a balanced ratio is good. A vast amount of potassium injected straight into the bloodstream is bad. Pretty simple difference, and I'm not giving anti-vaxxers the benefit of the doubt by assuming they are just ignorant. They are evil, deliberately spreading things they know to be false, resulting in people not taking life-saving medication.