Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Deceptive videos used to link athlete deaths to COVID shots
The Associated Press, Breitbart ^ | December, 17th, 2021 | ANGELO FICHERA and SOPHIA TULP

Posted on 12/26/2021 6:51:37 AM PST by David Chase

Jake West was a seemingly healthy 17-year-old when he collapsed during high school football practice in Indiana and died of sudden cardiac arrest. A video widely shared online falsely suggests COVID-19 vaccination is to blame, weaving headlines about him into a rapid-fire compilation of news coverage about athletes collapsing.

The vaccine played no role in West’s death — he died from an undiagnosed heart condition in 2013, seven years before the pandemic began.

“My tragedy of losing my son is always upsetting, and to think that somebody would use that for their gain is very upsetting,” she said. “It’s mind-boggling to me that there are people out there like that that want to spread or have their own agenda.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: americanpravda; angelofichera; apepee; associatedpravda; athlete; athletes; bagsgonewild; bitchute; chinavirusvaccine; deaths; misinformation; mortality; sophiatulp
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 301-308 next last
To: David Chase; BenLurkin; Jim W N; faucetman; skeeter; fireman15; Wallace T.; mewzilla
Looks like The Brandon Media is starting to get worried about the "collapsing athletes".

Time to lay down a barrage of "fact-checks", half-truths and more outright lies from American Pravda...

61 posted on 12/26/2021 7:56:21 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AppyPappy

“Soccer players falling out should count. They fall out if a butterfly gets to close to them”

Worst floppers in the world.
Worse than even the NBA and some NFL kickers/QB’s.
I saw a video of a soccer player who took a swing at another player behind the refs back. Really just a slap. The slapped player retaliated but missed by about a foot. The guy went down like he had been tagged on the chin by a PO’d Mike Tyson in his prime. Oscar worthy performance. Didn’t work though because the ref saw the punch had missed.


62 posted on 12/26/2021 8:01:56 AM PST by oldvirginian (So if a cow doesn’t produce milk, is it a milk dud or an udder failure?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: David Chase

“It’s starting to look a lot like genocide”, by Spacebusters, Jab Jiving Passouts

https://www.bitchute.com/video/JRmNvNlmpxtT/


63 posted on 12/26/2021 8:04:21 AM PST by COUNTrecount ("I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is." -- Donald Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: David Chase

Deceptive video dishonestly portray vaccines as vaccines


64 posted on 12/26/2021 8:04:50 AM PST by MrRelevant
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: skeeter

Well, again, who would know about deception any more than your not-so-friendly neighborhood lying All Propaganda press?


65 posted on 12/26/2021 8:06:18 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: David Chase
Get Vaccinated if you want, or don’t if you prefer.

I agree. Now get the government and the companies to stop ruining people's lives for refusing the ersatz vax. It's a two way street and right now the fascists are driving a truck down both lanes at us.

This athlete business is penny ante compared to the deliberate lies and totalitarian hammer with which the government is beating us. The government has mounted a highly organized campaign of disinformation and propaganda backed up with unconstitutional intimidation.

The government has changed the definition of a vaccine to match a gene therapy agent

The government has politically approved this gene therapy agent with NO long term testing. Against all previous policy and history.

When the playing field is level then I welcome a truly honest discourse.

66 posted on 12/26/2021 8:06:37 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kiryandil

The Mother’s Web-Site for her son that died in 2013 but was used in a montage of athletes that died as a result of Covid vaccines.
Her name is Julie West, her son’s name is Jake West.

https://playforjake.org/

Also, from the article:

“ An early version of the video showed clips of the University of Florida’s Keyontae Johnson collapsing during a basketball game, as did other compilations. But Johnson’s collapse was in December 2020, before vaccines were widely available. University officials confirmed to AP that he was not vaccinated at the time.

Others featured in the video were Florida teen Ryne Jacobs, who collapsed during tennis practice in January 2021, and Danish soccer player Christian Eriksen, who suffered cardiac arrest on the field this June during a match vs. Finland. Neither were vaccinated, according to Jacobs’ family and Eriksen’s club.

The video was updated weeks later after issues were raised with some of the stories it included. Johnson’s and Jacobs’ cases were removed after they were found to be “no longer relevant due to timing or newly disclosed medical records or statements,” Bigtree said in an emailed statement.

West’s story remains in the latest iteration, as do other disputed cases, such as that of Jack Alkhatib, a 17-year-old South Carolina student who died during football practice in August. His mother, Kelly Hewins Alkhatib, said an autopsy revealed he had a rare heart disease unrelated to vaccines.

Some of the other athletes had reportedly received the vaccine, though the status of many others isn’t clear. At least one, Dutch speed skater Kjeld Nuis, reportedly experienced pericarditis after being vaccinated, but he posted on Instagram soon after that he had recovered.”
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Half truths and outright lies??
Yep. I agree.


67 posted on 12/26/2021 8:07:13 AM PST by David Chase
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: David Chase

What is deceptive are missionaries and churches that are given $$$ to promote the vaccine. I heard one such pitch with my own ears in a church I attended.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/03/898753550/religious-groups-received-6-10-billion-in-covid-19-relief-funds-hope-for-more


68 posted on 12/26/2021 8:07:16 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (ui)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: David Chase

One isolated deception, but their is no doubt that soccer athletes are dropping dead in large numbers. And the NY Times just lost an editor one day after his booster shot. And Dr Gundry says vaccines raise heart attack risk in his patients by over 100%. The MSM is in bed with the vaccine fascists and will do anything to advance their agenda.


69 posted on 12/26/2021 8:10:46 AM PST by devere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BiglyCommentary

Yes but both the vaccine and Covid can cause heart issues.


70 posted on 12/26/2021 8:11:10 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: David Chase
I don't know how this years-ago death got mixed in with the recent deaths, but the article seems to be taking this one mistake and using it to debunk the scores of others that have actually happened. Yes, there are always a few deaths among young athletes with undiagnosed problems, but this year they've been off the charts.

And health agencies in several countries have actually warned about these heart issues, and no longer recommend at least one of the vaccines for young people. Pfizer is even running a PSA warning of them, but - of course - not in connection with their vaccine.
71 posted on 12/26/2021 8:11:12 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: stars & stripes forever

There are some Churches that allow Politicians speak during services.

I disagree with that.

I was raised very strict Catholic and we always maintained a separation between the World and Worshiping God.

One time, a nice young couple were invited to play their guitars and sing during Mass.

Half the Church almost fell out of their seats! LOL
They played very beautifully and respectful.


72 posted on 12/26/2021 8:13:25 AM PST by David Chase
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: David Chase

AP is using the tired old ploy of finding one mistake and then trying to discredit the entire issue. Yes, every year some young athletes die, but the numbers this year are unprecedented.


73 posted on 12/26/2021 8:14:06 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: David Chase; Lazamataz; BenLurkin; Jim W N; faucetman; skeeter; fireman15; Wallace T.; mewzilla
Rule By Anecdote, David.

The only reason Alinsky didn't include this little trick ("debunk" one, debunk all) in his Rules For Radicals is that he never expected his team to OWN the Media, lock, stock and barrel.

74 posted on 12/26/2021 8:16:55 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: Steve_Seattle; David Chase
AP is using the tired old ploy of finding one mistake and then trying to discredit the entire issue. Yes, every year some young athletes die, but the numbers this year are unprecedented.

Exactly. I said the same thing in my post #74.

75 posted on 12/26/2021 8:18:03 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: oldvirginian

Don’t equate soccer players actually collapsing and sometimes dying of heart issues with the kind of routine injury-exaggerating and flopping that occurs in games.


76 posted on 12/26/2021 8:18:42 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: BiglyCommentary

“The number of athletes having heart issues has skyrocketed.”

A big nope.

Soccer players have been dying from heart attacks for years. Back in 2018 the World Fed of Soccer commissioned a study to see why so many were dying on the field. Way before covid and the vaccines.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/08/more-young-footballers-dying-of-heart-problems-than-thought-fa-study-finds


77 posted on 12/26/2021 8:19:25 AM PST by setter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Steve_Seattle

Post #67……….there are more.

So who knows how many.
That’s why it’s important not to give false information at all.

Saw my Cardiologist in Sept.

I asked him about the cases they’ve been having.

This is the 4th best Cardiac Hospital in the Midwestern Region. Very busy place.

The Doc said they had 2 young men in the 20’s with post vaccine issues.
One had Pericarditis, one had Myocarditis, both treated from home with anti-inflammation meds and we’re fine

One women in her 50’s had Myocarditis also……..her’s was the result of Covid.

To me, the best facts are from people there, on the ground, or with intimate knowledge of any given situation.


78 posted on 12/26/2021 8:22:35 AM PST by David Chase
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: David Chase

Well, there would seem to be many angles to this. In fact, there are endless ones if one was to spend the time to create a logic flowchart that would allow a proper examination of the issue in any kind of objective manner. For starters, here are some of the questions that would get turned up for which there doesn’t seem to be any answers….

The narrative concerning the Jake West case is clearly flat out misinformation… but what was its origin? Was it one or a bunch of ‘antivaxxers’ who created this narrative and thought it could make their case for them that the EGT is dangerous? Is there evidence for that? Or was it the ‘antivaxxer’ who took the bait when presented with information by someone who wanted to make them look foolish? Is there evidence to support that position….. a Reichstag fire event if you will that allowed them to tar all questioners with the same brush as being complete loons? After all, is it agreed that someone lied… the ‘liar’ of the root lie just hasn’t yet been identified?

What about the broader questions that can be applied to other cases? What cases of the death of athletes actually were given a thorough examination….which ones had a comprehensive autopsy so that the causes of the deaths are irrefutable? In the case of some of the young athletes who have died, it seems that many of their deaths have been ‘explained away’ because it was found after they died that there were ‘undiagnosed or pre-existing heart problems’. Ok… but on what medical ethics principles is that a valid method for dismissal? If this is the case, on what grounds is ok to give a person the EGT without going through a full battery of checks to make sure that the individual receiving the EGT won’t develop a serious condition… of which death is just the worst outcome?

What I find so frustrating is how difficult it has become to get any facts that people ‘on both sides’ can actually agree on…. It seems that folks just want to dig their heels in on whatever position that they seem to like and refuse to even look at anything that might counter it. This all seems to have similarities to the era of tobacco…. Doctors hired by the tobacco companies who testified on their behalf for years that “smoking could not be proved to cause cancer….because there were endless other potential risk factors that the people who got cancer had been exposed to such as alcohol, diesel fumes, machinery fluid, salted fish, reflux of stomach acid, mouthwash and even urban living etc”…. .and by extension, they created doubt in the minds of the jurors as to the role of smoking in causing an individual’s cancer.

Remember this when thinking about the veracity of what is being heard BY ANYONE from the medical profession… “More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other Cigarette”. https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/blowing-smoke-vintage-ads-of-doctors-endorsing-tobacco/3/ Like any science, the practitioners of medicine are ‘standing on the shoulders’ of all those who came before… .and that includes all those who advocated for ‘the healing powers of snake oil’, all the ailments that ‘cocaine would cure’, the use of a vibrator ‘to get rid of the female condition known as hysteria’, the prescription of ‘Fen-Phen for shedding weight’, ‘curing a cough with heroin’, performing lobotomies ‘to relieve the stress of the mentally ill’, inserting rods into the urethras of men and flow electric current through them ‘to solve impotency problems… and then there is the practice of blood letting.

While we can now see how foolish much of this was (even while extolling all the fantastic things that medicine has done), the foregoing outlines some of the ‘shoulders that the doctors of today are standing on’ which yields this obvious question…. What will the medical practitioners of 100 years of now be thinking as they look back at the time and place where we are in at the end of 2021?


79 posted on 12/26/2021 8:24:14 AM PST by hecticskeptic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: devere

“but their is no doubt that soccer athletes are dropping dead in large numbers. “

Se my post #77 and it’s link.

Soccer players have been dying in droves for years from heart attacks.

Main reason is most are from poor backgrounds and or countries and they have undiagnosed congentital heart issues.


80 posted on 12/26/2021 8:24:35 AM PST by setter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 301-308 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson