Fact Check: No Evidence To Suggest Foo Fighters Drummer Died of Vaccine
A viral social media post insinuates he died of myocarditis.
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On March 27, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died in Bogotá, Colombia. Shortly after, rumors began circulating online that Hawkins’ death was connected to the COVID-19 vaccine. One viral Facebook post claims that “Taylor Hawkins died from the jab.”
The post is accompanied by a screenshot of a New York Post article from March 27 with a headline reading “Taylor Hawkins’ heart weighed double that of an average man: report,” alongside a screenshot from the myocarditis foundation, highlighting the word “enlarges.”
Myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart muscle, is also a side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine in some young adults. In placing the two screenshots side by side, the post insinuates that the size of Hawkins’ heart was due to myocarditis from the COVID-19 vaccine.
But there is no evidence to suggest that.
The cause of Hawkins’ death has not yet been determined, but the office of the Attorney General of Colombia tweeted on Saturday that a toxicology report on Hawkins found 10 substances, including THC, tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and opioids.
The investigation into the exact cause of his death is still ongoing.
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Any honest person would have to admit that when you ask why a rockstar was going to Columbia, the first answer that comes to mind is vaccines.
Nothing is more depressing than reading comments on posts like this (on Facebook, not here at The Dispatch, which may be the asylum for mankind that Thomas Paine was talking about).
A number of years ago, my IT team pushed out a new desktop background to the entire company (this was pretty new stuff back in the early 2000’s).
Let me tell you. Every freaking issue for the next week was because of the desktop background.
“You changed my background and now I can’t get to my email!”
“My background changed and now my badge access to the building doesn’t work!”
“Since you pushed the background to my desktop, my computer boots up too slowly!”
Ad Infinitum. It was ridiculous but there’s no talking to such people. They were positive we broke their stuff and some even demanded we put the old background back to fix it.
And just look at those comments! Anyone who died after the vaccine died because of it. Maybe the best part is that this is the same strain of thinking that declares the government is nefariously forcing doctors and coroners to assign COVID as the cause of death even when it wasn’t.
You can’t reason with this type of ignorance. It’s a plague on humanity.