Posted on 03/17/2023 3:11:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The family of Theo Emm, aged three, have said they had only just welcomed baby brother Oliver into the world days before the tragedy
A family of a three-year-old boy have told how he wanted to watch cartoons before suddenly collapsing and dying of Strep A without having shown symptoms.
Theo Emm died at his home after falling seriously ill with the "silent killer", on February 18, having shown hardly any signs of illness.
He had been a "bit lethargic" the night before but was feeling better by the time he went to bed.
The family from Westbury, Wiltshire, had only just welcomed Theo's baby brother Oliver into the world days beforehand when the tragedy struck.
Parents Billy and Jody Emm are still too distraught to speak, but want to raise awareness of the illness, said Billy's brother, Chris Emm.
"I've spoken to my brother and Jody and they said they didn't feel they were able to talk about this as it's still too raw for them," he said.
"Usually they would be okay about talking, but they just didn't feel they could. They did say to me that they wanted more than anything to raise awareness and not for people to think it is a sob story to take pity on them.
"This kind of condition in children is often called a 'silent killer' and it is very rare for children to die from it. In Theo's case, there were no symptoms. He just collapsed on the Saturday morning and died."
Chris, who works as a nurse in the accident and emergency department at Salisbury District Hospital added: "When he woke up on Saturday morning he wanted to watch the cartoons on TV so he was carried downstairs.
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So sad. đĽ
Maybe he got the vaccine and is embarrassed.
If someone wants to mock people who ask if someone got the vaccine, he obviously doesn’t want anyone to ask if a person got the vaccine.
It’s idiotic, like the spam post and the ping list.
Why do you have a problem with people who post that the vaccine could have killed someone, NickCarraway?
You’re the one posting âDied Suddenlyâ threads.
Get over yourself.
See the not-so-subtle difference?
By the way, my 1st cousin died three days after getting his first COVID shot.
The hospital wrote that he died of COVID. He didnât have COVID when he got the shot, and was in the hospital just over 12 hours later.
He died of the vaccine, obviously.
I have told this many times before.
I didn't say I did. It may not always be accurate, but I understand their lack of trust.
Like what? I like your threads, I don't know where this animosity comes from.
Re: 20 - How many threads do people âjustâ ask if the person dying was vaccinated? And leave it at that?
No, so many of these threads devolve into âitâs the vaxx unless proven otherwiseâ, which is mantra of several intellectual giants.
These threads are red meat to the âitâs the vaxx unless proven otherwiseâ tribe. The person who died is just a means to an end to push that narrative.
I am sorry. No one close to me died of the vaccine. I had one friend have a severe reaction, but no one worse than that.
I understand. I don’t think, âitâs the vaxx unless proven otherwise.” But unfortunately, when people feel their is a lack of trust, they react to it.
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Strep AâŚdeaths do happen in such a way. And no, Iâm not vaxxed.
Thank you.
My ping list follows died suddenly threads in which the cause is not known, with the expectation FReepers may connote the COVID-19 vaccine was responsible. We post a whole lot of died suddenly threads of people no one may know, and I want to make sure they are noticed, as the original thread poster does, too. Otherwise they wouldn't have been posted, correct?
Could also mean the vaxx killed the immune system:
â The new report from March provides more specific data. It noted that from Oct. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022, specific surveillance sites in Colorado and Minnesota saw 34 cases of invasive strep A. For comparison, in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, there were 11 cases over the same three-month period. In 2020 and 2021, there were four.â
Understand.
Obviously itâs not your fault that people post what they do.
But itâs not just lack of trust. Iâve busted one FReeper several times that has posted -clearly- false information about an issue related to COVID-19. Their reaction? Just ignore what they posted.
And in some cases, itâs just a conspiracy theorist at work. When someone posts that President Trump may be trying to send us messages based on how he holds a glass of water to drink, thatâs way, way more than a trust issue.
autopsy should be interesting...
2021-2022 was a tough period for freedom-loving Deplorables. Between Bidet residing in the WH, getting ridiculed (or fired..) etc if they didn't take the shots, and Big Media banning, it was a dark time.
The most frustrating dimension of this siege, was that incredible amounts of misinformation was thrown at Deplorables. For example, the shots obtained EUA only on the basis of PREVENTION. Not reduced symptoms. Not keeping you out of the hospital. PREVENTION. Yet, when the efficacy started waning, the narrative moved AWAY from prevention. Anyone pointing out the truth, was banned and marginalized.
However, a funny thing happened toward the end of 2022. Twitter went down, parents started fighting back, "died suddenly" was getting under leftists' skin, and the pendulum started swinging back.
Now it is the RIGHT getting the upper-hand...on SVB dying due to wokism, lab leak not being "misinformation," maybe the shots aren't safe and effective, and others.
Some of these "wins," however, are flimsy, like SVB. But normally respectable, truth reigns supreme-like Deplorables, are giving no quarter and are doubling down on the flimsy because.,.well...it's winning and "it's our turn."
A minority of FReepers are not comfortable with these "wins" because they're cheap shots. The shots being THE cause of every sudden or premature death, to me, and the Ping List, is partially tongue-in-cheek.
But most others love it, because we KNOW the left loses their mind when we gaslight them with "death due to coincidence," just like the left wants to retire "woke." It's now THEIR turn, to be under seige.
And round and round we will go.
Good points.
Why would anyone trust what FedGov says without verifying? Thatâs always been sound advice. Red flags should have gone off when Fauci did his mask reversal. Then wear his two masks reversal, etc, etc.
But as noted in my previous post, that was lots of disinformation. Spoons sticking to injection sites anyone? Donât handle your mail for days or spray with bleach or disinfectant, anyone? And that was AFTER there was research showing that in lab conditions that there was negligible risk of being infected from mail.
I understand it being tongue-in-cheek for some, but for others - the comments in many threads demonstrate an anger and contempt for people that die and do not have taped on their forehead âI was not vaccinatedâ. I canât think of a better way to grow Free Republic than for someone visiting the website and seeing comments mocking someone that dies and was vaccinated, and that includes teenagers.
Which vaccine?
CoupFlu vaxxes aren’t the only vaxxes that can injure or kill.
To be fair, FRiend, there was an awful MSM- and DNC-approved celebratory sentiment when an unvaxxed person died of covid in 2021. This accompanies blatant hostility directed at anyone who questioned the efficacy of the shots (which, btw, never underwent the typical clinical trial process that at median runs 9 years and has a count toss-like success rate).
You're now seeing the flip side - many heretofore oppressed people moved to a permanent "I don't care anymore" level of anger.
Again, some of this is fabricated. The left has no sense of humor. They've been saying for a while "safe and effective" and when you see the AP et al publishing "FACT CHECK: " 'died suddenly' isn't due to the shots" you know you've hit a nerve. Many people delight in salting that wound - its payback.
For me, the latest sucker punch that resulted in a standing 8-count was "SVB's failure was due to wokeness." They clearly could not manage their asset-liability risks, and they were wokey (though not excessively more than other firms). Sloppy reporting. (and perhaps ignorance) leading to confusion over their (MIA) chief risk officer and a woke UK risk employee. That was the bedrock for the woke=failure narrative. I'm not saying it's not a contributing factor, but it's not THE driving force. I also think it's intellectually dishonest. Nonetheless, that talking point gained traction to the annoyance of the left, which basically guaranteed that the right would turn up that heat.
There's a new right wing breed of smash mouth armchair political observers who love the concept of growing liberty and freedom by shrinking our fan base to glory. The left does it too - their nutjob left wing sector is hell bent on burning down the house by calling opponents Nazis, pushing trans everything, and nullifying parental rights. At both sectors' cores stand looter mentality - "we're in the end times of society anyway so I may as well get my fair share before the other guy" and a loss of humanity.
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