A lot of the discussion on vaccine merit here seems to be exclusively around the relative risks of getting myocarditis for vaccinated, unvaccinated+covid, and vaccinated+covid. I've seen a few different studies linked that point to different results. Some indicate higher risk for unvaccinated+covid than vaccinated for all groups, some indicate the risk of myocarditis in young males (my demographic, fwiw) is higher from vaccines than from covid.

I don't really understand why so much focus is put on myocarditis though when it seems to be incredibly rare for all groups. This was a covid vaccine, not a myocarditis vaccine. Given the other negative effects of covid that are well documented, and especially the possibility of long-term debilitation from covid, I'd have felt secure in getting the vaccine even if I'd known at the time of getting it that it increased the risk of myocarditis by say a whole order of magnitude (which as far as I can tell isn't the case). That said, I don't think it should have been mandated and my gut feeling is that more people would have been convinced of its efficacy had it not been.