Posted on 01/23/2023 2:29:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
Mis- and disinformation have been prevalent throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but in recent months anti-vax activists and conspiracy theorists have latched on to a new phrase to help their cause: “died suddenly.” Anti-vaxxers hoping to convince people that COVID vaccines are linked to sudden deaths among younger people have invoked the term while trying to exploit tragic events like the death of soccer journalist Grant Wahl, or Damar Hamlin suffering a cardiac arrest during an NFL game. Though that theory has no scientific evidence to support it, the “died suddenly” rhetoric has gained a lot of traction on social media. What makes COVID misinformation so spreadable, and how can public health officials combat the rumors?
On Friday’s episode of What Next: TBD, I spoke with Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and data scientist, about the rise of the viral dog whistle “died suddenly.” Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Lizzie O’Leary: In your latest newsletter, you had a heading that said “Deaths by Vaccination Status: It’s not even close.” What does the data show?
Katelyn Jetelina: Underlying all these rumors is the belief that COVID-19 vaccines are harmful, in an intention to possibly depopulate the planet. If that had any merit, we would expect that those who are vaccinated are more likely to die than those are unvaccinated. And we are clearly seeing the opposite. The U.K. CDC released data evaluating all deaths—car accidents, strokes, COVID-19—by vaccination status. And when you visually display that on a graph, there is a clear distinction between the unvaccinated dying (of whatever cause) much higher than the vaccinated, leading to confirm that vaccines continue to save lives.
How big a data set are we talking about?
We have more evidence than any other vaccine or any other disease in the history of
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that theory has no scientific evidence to support it
Thanks!
Lizzie (the writer of this article) didn’t get the memo that the term “conspiracy theorists” was wore out and over used by lefty/marxists.
As a result, the term has no meaning anymore.
Occasionally.
Just as we heard of healthy people dying of the flu or of athletes dropping dead on the field.
But it did not happen that often.
And that is the point.
Not that it never happened before in the history of the world but that it went from really rare to rare to almost daily.
When you see an up tick then something has changed and you should be curious as to what it is.
The counting on that side isn’t accurate.
Before I retired recently, a friend of mine in my former job did develop a heart condition and now needs medication. 1+ year so far.
He’s only 40, developed the problem about 1 month after the vaccine, but our employer did ZERO to collect that metric and not even VAERS or whatever that BS is catches that statistic because they simply do not correlate a 40 year old developing a sudden heart condition 1 month after the vaccine as being caused by that vaccine.
It’s all in how you want to count things.
Just like the number of Covid deaths were greatly inflated early on when anyone that sneezed was counted (before the test all you needed to be counted were Covid symptoms, which of course could also be the flu, a cold...)... Or anyone that died of nearly any cause but had Covid symptoms was counted as a Covid death, creating these ridiculous high mortality rates.
But it’s all science!
Not going to go to "Slate" to find out how they gin up that chart, but what's interesting is the qualifying phrase "(of whatever cause)". Whatever their data arises from, to get the result they want they probably can't focus on susceptibility to Covid or adverse reactions to the jab. They have to bring in "whatever" to make their case.
no... UNEXPECTEDLY comes up a LOT tooo...
Most of those who actually died of COVID had serious underlying health conditions.
Most of those who ‘died suddenly’ were young or middle age, jabbed once or more, and didn’t seem to have any serious underlying health conditions.
In 2020 there were 3.4 million US deaths. Total. All ages.
A few hundred thousand at younger age is normal. The majority of deaths is 65+, but it’s not overwhelming, like 95% or something.
Methinks Lizzie O’Leary is a mid-wit.
is Suddenly deadlier because it’s so sudden?
Or is the dreaded Unexpectedly worse???
I like using the phrase “safe and effective” more.
You may disbelieve everything, but your average voter believes charts. I tried to warn Ya’ll the media was showing more deaths, listing them as sudden or unexpected (when a bit of research showed they weren’t). They let you run and now they’ll beat you with it. For such smart folks, it seems Ya’ll walk into every trap they set. Santos is another set up. Carry on. I’ll be prepping for another 4 years of dem rule, Yay /s
https://airtable.com/shrbaT4x8LG8EbvVG/tbl7xKsSUIOPAa7Mx
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=student+dies+suddenly+cardiac
The repeated, seemingly enthusiastic or intentional use of the phrase in major media reports, followed by articles like this, is an especially in-your-face form of public gaslighting.
Actually the media are the ones using the “died suddenly” phrase
Not favorite, but accurate.
I am pretty certain Sudden Adult Death Syndrome has been featured more in the recent medical lexicon.
The favorite phrase of the jabbed is becoming
THUD.
And on statistics and how they may be manipulated to show desired conclusions.
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