To be or not to be vaccinated, a cultural dysfunction?

I was talking with my daughter and we disagree about COVID-19 vaccinations.

I support a strategy of pushing vaccinations as a way to minimize the number of people who are hospitalized and/or die, we should focus our efforts on vaccinating residents 35 and older. They account for 97% of the hospitalizations and deaths.

My daughter was pointing out that the COVID-19 vaccines have caused heart problems. It turns out that she's correct, there have been cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccinations among people less than 30.  Here are three articles that address the issue:

• from Harvard Medical School publications
• from a website called Science Based Medicine
• from CNBC

For people less than 30, if they want a vaccination but are anxious about their heart, they should consider the J&J vaccine.

Our discussion mad me realize how disgruntled I am that that our 'culture' has politicized wearing masks and getting vaccines.  These health strategies were turned into symbols that, because of loyalty, cannot be disentangled. Our inability as a culture to address health is dysfunctional. 

Judging the last paragraph to be a rant, I decided to take a step back and look at our country's health via the death and mortality data for the US and the world. At first, based on comparing the causes of death in the US to the world, I thought I was ranting without merit. But then I noticed an aberration. The US has a higher mortality rate for cancer than other high income countries. 

Our cultural dysfunction has a physical manifestation: 

we are eating ourselves from the inside out.