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Investigation finds 300% increase in Worldwide Heart Attack Deaths among Soccer Players in 2021
dailyexpose.uk ^ | 1/22/2022 | THE EXPOSÉ

Posted on 01/22/2022 1:22:12 PM PST by ransomnote

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An investigation of available data shows that worldwide professional football / soccer match cardiovascular deaths in 2021 were 300% higher than the 12-year average, with the number of deaths occurring in December 2021 alone equalling the 2009-2020 average.

The following table details 36 known deaths of professional footballers to have occurred throughout 2021.

Note – a written version of this table has been presented at the end of this article that allows the links to be accessed.

We restricted the wikipedia table to include only male professional footballers (over 16 years old) who were members of a football club in FIFA countries who died of a cardiovascular problem during a match (training or competitive) or collapsed due to a cardiovascular problem on the pitch or immediately after the game and then died later (did not recover).

But we found another 15 in addition to the 21 presently (2022January12) listed –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing

The following table shows the total number of listed Fifa football match deaths and male cardiovascular football match deaths to have occurred every year since 2009.

The data within the table was obtained from the following –

Pro footballers died of cardiovascular problems during games (match or training) at 4 times (31/7.8) the average rate of cardiovascular deaths from 2009 to 2020.

There were more than 15x as many deaths from heart attacks and strokes in 2021 than there were in 2020.

There were 3.5 times as many deaths in December 2021 than there were in the whole of 2020.

There were almost as many deaths in December 2021 (7) as the annual average rate over the last 12 years (7.8 per year).

This does not mean that sporting people are all now 4x more likely to suffer a heart attack. It means that vaccinated sporting people are somewhere around 6 or 7 times more likely to suffer a heart attack than unvaccinated sporting people because only around two thirds of pro footballers are vaccinated, and these are the ones that will be suffering death and making up the numbers.

If you are not particularly athletic then hopefully your chances of getting a heart attack have not increased quite so much.

But that is only a small part of the bad news. The real problem is this…

That is a straight up exponential rise Quarter on Quarter. 

Cardio vascular football deaths are doubling every quarter. So by the end of 2022 they will have risen to 320 per quarter (40, 80, 160, 320). The advice given to footballers who collapse but survive is that they should cease all strenuous activity for 3 months. These figures reveal that all athletes who are vaxxed should do the same thing. 

All pro footballers and all professional athletes therefore have two choices. Either stop taking vaccines or stop doing sports. If these vaccinations continue we are at risk of becoming a non athletic species.

8.9 million out of 55.4 million deaths worldwide in 2019 were from heart disease. This is 16% of all deaths. So if heart disease deaths went up by a factor of 4 times in all age groups in all activity classes worldwide, then overall deaths (excess mortality) would go up by 48%. Well, interestingly OneAmerica life insurance found that the risk of death for 18-64 years olds in Q4 had gone up by 40% above the 5 year rate. And the age range of 18-64 year olds would contain all the athletes of course.

OneAmerica data is saying that it is not just athletes who are dropping dead of Cardiovascular failure (or other terminal conditions) at 4 times the normal rate due to these vaccines. 

Worse still we can expect mortality rates to increase exponentially over the next year, doubling each and every quarter. 

We all have the same heart muscle, athletes and couch potatoes alike. It is just that more sedentary people do not use all their heart muscle and so do not hit a brick wall and keel over so quickly. The high intensity cardio athletes are the canaries in the coalmine for us coach potatoes.

What is happening to them very quickly will be happening to us more slowly. They are dying today at 400% of the normal rate. We shall die tomorrow at 400% the normal rate. Because heart muscle does not recover after it is damaged. If a vaccine kills an athlete in a few months it will surely kill a couch potato in a few quarters. Especially if said sofa spud continues to mash himself up with more booster shots. 

The media cannot hide the death of a pro footballer during a game and neither can a corrupt government statistics department resurrect him. These deaths are the most accurate and open data set we have. So we should pay them very close attention. They are visible tip of the iceberg of vaccine mortality. Athletes ask as much as it is possible to ask from their hearts. So the day when their hearts cannot answer comes much sooner to them than it does to us. 

But vaccines behave in precisely the same way in all heart muscle. They infect heart muscle cells and turn them into spike protein factories having previously trained our immune system to kill spike proteins. So our killer T cells do as they have been programmed to do by the vaccines and kill every vaccinated heart muscle cell (since they recognise it as an spike protein production facility). So the vaccines just destroy our own hearts. In fact they destroy every cell they infect. They are a true cellular poisons.

The recent American Heart Association Paper given in a speech by Dr Steven Gundry to the American Heart Association in Boston on November 12-14 found  that mRNA vaccines more than double your 5 year chances of getting a heart attack as measured by various inflammatory markers  The expose covered this in their article on football deaths of December8. But that data is already out of date since the heart attack risk doubles every quarter in the vaccinated which these FIFA results are declaring.

But Cardiovascular problems are not the only damage that genetic vaccines do to our bodies. Equally dangerous – although quite not so widely publicised is the immune system degradation that they cause which is deliberately misrepresented as vaxines waning in efficiency.

Vaccines are not waning. Vaxxed immune systems are waning

Vaccines cannot wane. They are digital. They show your immune system the spike protein antigen and they simulate a systemic attack to convince your immune system to take that spike protein seriously. Then there is NOTHING more for a true vaccine to do. They operate for 2-3 weeks, the normal length of a viral infection. Then they are supposed to leave your body. So they do not, they cannot, wane in the 2nd or 3rd or 4th or 5th month in efficiency because they have nothing to do in those months. 

By a concerned reader

But genetic vaccines continue to produce spike proteins incessantly. They damage your immune system. It is your immune system therefore that wanes. In the UK they have damaged our immune systems so much that vaccines now have enormous negative efficiencies up to -60% in the latest UKHSA data for the end of 2021 (Vaccine Surveillance Report Week 1). The trouble with the genetic vaccines that NOBODY talks about is that they do not stop producing spike proteins. They continue producing more and more of them. I asked AstraZeneca for how long after vaccination would my cells produce spikes? They said we do not know we are still researching that. I do know because I did cell biology at Cambridge. Every vaccinated cell will continue producing spike proteins until it dies or is killed by your killer T cells. 

Vaccination informs your immune system that spike proteins are very dangerous antigens (by simulating a systemic infection coincident with the presentation of the spike protein antigen). So it kills the spike proteins and kills every cell in your body that has been vaccinated because all of those cells are genetically reprogrammed by the vaccine to make spike proteins.

So your body goes into a perpetual civil war in which more and more of your immune resources are spent killing vaccinated cells. Pfizer contains 14.4 trillion 1273 Amino Acid spike protein mRNA copies and Moderna contains 48 trillion – see here. You only have between 6 and 36 trillion cells in your body (depending upon how you count them). Some of these cells such as heart muscle cells and brain cells do not get replaced. If they become vaccinated, you will lose them indefinitely. Myocarditis is caused by Killer T cells removing vaccinated heart cells.

This gets worse at the 2nd jab and worse still at the 3rd. You may think that vaccines are safe but your immune system would beg to differ since it kills every vaccinated cell it can find. In deed it is the vaccine which trains it to do that. It is this civil war which causes the vaccine efficiency to look like it is decreasing. It is not, your immune system response is decreasing. You are developing VAIDS, Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

The genetic vaccines are 3 years out of date

This years flu shot is a combination of last year’s flu virus and as many as possible of the viruses from the years before that. They are inactivated and shown to your immune system by the vaccination. The reason flu shots are not very effective is that 
influenza is programmed to produce variants faster than mankind can produce and get approval for new flu shots. So every flu shot is out of date before it is administered. The situation is worse with Covid-19 shots. We are now is 2022. What use is a shot against a spike protein from a virus identified in 2019? It is 3 years out of date. That is why it has almost zero effectiveness against Omicron at first and absolutely zero effectiveness after a few weeks and progressively increasing negative effectiveness after that.

The idea that you should lose your job because you fail to take an immuno destructive, 3 year out of date vaccine for a variant of Covid that no longer exists is beyond absurd.

The wrong vaccine and the right vaccine

The Covid spike protein has 1/8th of the proteins in the entire virus. The Immune system cuts up viruses and makes antibodies for each resulting protein segment. The most pathogenic part of the Covid-19 virus is the spike protein. It is therefore absolutely the wrong part of the virus to use in a vaccination. Dr Richard Flemming has revealed that researchers have already shown that the nucleocapsid part of the virus (the case for the nucleus) produces a more effective vaccination which is not pathogenic. The correct vaccine would actually use segments of all the known variants of Covid and deliberately exclude their spike proteins which are known pathogens. The type of vaccination should be standard (like Sputnik) not genetic. 

So in summary the Pfizer and Moderna shots use the wrong part of the wrong variant in the wrong type of vaccination method. They should be using the non spike parts of all the variants in a non genetic vaccine. That would be safe and that would be effective BECAUSE all a vaccination is, is a way of convincing the body that it has had the infection. Then you get, through the vaccine, a poor copy of what you would have got through natural infection. A vaccination can never be as effective as the thing it is trying to simulate or mimic. I mean is an Elvis impersonator ever as good as the king? 

“Not only do these vaccines not work if you look at the Emergency Use Authorisations. But the data clearly shows that they are suppressing our immune system. They are suppressing our production of interferon. They are depressing our production of key helper T cells. When people are given Moderna and Pfizer vaccines and then given an influenza vaccine they are not mounting an influenza immune response. It is blunted. 

We know that the T cells, the critical cells in the innate system go down after the first Pfizer vaccine shot. We know that natural immunity, person to person immunity, is long lasting provides memory cells up front, it provides not only IgM (Immunoglobulin Mu antibodies) and IgG (Immunoglobulin Gamma antibodies) but it provides the critical IgA antibody for our lungs and our Gastro Intestinal tract.

We know that if you’ve been exposed to influzenza or cytomegalovirus you probably already have some natural immunity. And what we now know most recently is that I have told people these vaccines only picked out the spike protein of the SARS CoV Wuhan HU1 variant (Wuhan alpha) and so the further away we have gotten from that the more we have put a pressure selection on the delta variant and the mu and the lambda variants but here is the thing…

ransomnote: video available on DailyExpose article webpage or at the link https://www.lordswitnesses.net/downloads/Flemming1.mp4

Natural Immunity lasts indefinitely and is 8x more broad based than vaccine immunity

In a natural infection the immune system indeed chops up the entire virus into segments and makes different antibodies for each segment. Natural immunity therefore results in 8x more types of antibody than vaccination which only presents 1/8th of the viral proteins to your immune system. Furthermore the immune system does not have Alzheimer’s. It does not forget what it has learned from a real infection. If it did we would all be dropping dead of measles. Vaccine Passport schemes are a denial of Natural Immunity. They are no different from Ayatollah Knomeini’s abolition of Newton’s laws during the Iranian Revolution and no less futile. Vaccinated people have damaged immune systems and therefore have higher viral loads for Omicron than unvaxxed people and higher infection rates and are more likely to spread Covid than the unvaxxed, many of whom have natural immunity which has not been compromised by VAIDS.

Why are the Government so desperate to vaccinate us all?

1. The economic answer is that the Health Service has now been 100% corrupted by the Pharmaceutical Industry with a lot of help from Fauci Gates Collins etc. A doctor with 10 years of training and 20 years of full on clinical experience is no longer permitted to decide how to treat their patients based upon that training and experience. No. Instead they must follow the treatment protocol prescribed by the relevant regulatory agency, which agency is funded by assorted Billionaires acting as agents for Big Pharma. This becomes the perfect business model for the drugs companies. The perfect customer for Big Pharma has absolutely no immune system at all. I mean what does the human immune system do? Really what does it do? IT REDUCES THE PROFITS  OF BIG PHARMA.

So the more successful drugs companies, having won the battle against the less successful ones, realised that their true enemy was now your immune system. If they could destroy that then you would have absolutely no choice but to be a very regular and very lucrative customer of theirs. Hence the vaccines destroy your immune system with a new form of VAIDS. They are a man made disease sold as a cure for a man made disease. 

2. Politicians are not interested in your health. The Lords Witnesses run an orphanage in Africa and one of the kids their was left at our gates suffering from AIDS (his mother having died of HIV). We have to pay for HIV drugs for him. They are not free. If we fail to give Moses the AIDS medication he dies. But nobody has made AIDS medication compulsory. There is no HIV medication mandate. There are no HIV Passports and HIV has killed way more people the Covid will ever kill. The government does not care if you live or die from AIDS which kills so many young people but we are to believe that they do care if you live of die from a far less lethal souped up flu that mainly takes out people at the end of their life who are obese or suffer from comorbidities? And if they really cared about your health or about the NHS would they be sacking highly qualified medical specialists who know more about immunology and virology than any politician ever will and are perhaps the only people in the entire country in a position to give or to refuse an informed consent for a 3 year out of date vaccine with a negative effectiveness? Would they be sacking them in circumstances where the NHS has a huge backlog of cancer and cardiovascular cases?

Rather than sacking Doctors who have made an informed decision to refuse vaccination knowing the risk to their employment future, we should be interviewing them and learning from their expertise and following their example until a full public debate has been heard.

Politicians do not beg you to fix your health. They beg you for your vote. Your vote is what they are interested and it is all that they are interested in. Every vaccination is a vote for the global 4th Reich.

3.  Every castle has several walls for defence and the castle of the demons is no different. Every wall is a deception which people cannot get their minds over. So here is the inner wall of the castle of the demons and may God give your mind the power to scale it. Come on Neo take the Red pill. Escape from the final prison for your mind and body.

Here is the Key question: Why did every single one of the vaccine companies make a vaccine from the spike protein (1/8th of the virus)? Why did nobody make one from the other 87.5% of the pathogen? What are the chances of half a dozen companies choosing the same 12.5% of the virus from which to make a vaccine? If the process was random the chances would be 1 in 8x8x8x8x8x8 = 1 in 262,144. But it was not random. The WHO provided the 1273 Amino acid spike protein and they all used that. But WHY? Well the largest funder of the WHO is a certain Software Billionaire. Here is the WHO funding for 2018-2019

D. J. Trump pulled out in 2020 leaving Bill Gates controlling  9.4% and 6.6% of their funding.

“Second only to the USA, the BMGF is one of the largest donors to the World Health Organization (WHO) and paid it more than $200 million in 2018 – more than Germany, France and Sweden combined in the same period. But this is not the only way in which the WHO is financed by Gates. GAVI, formerly known as the “Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization”, provided the WHO with an additional $150 million in 2018. One of GAVI’s main donors is again the BMGF, with $1.5 billion in 2016, for example.”

“It can therefore be said that the BMGF and thus the Gates family and Warren Buffett are the main source of income for the WHO through direct and indirect channels, which raises questions about its independence from these sources of finance. In addition, the BMGF also provided funding for the establishment of the “Coalition for Epidemic Prevention Innovation” (CEPI), which is concerned with the research and development of vaccines, amounting to around $100 million in 2017.”

“In addition, the Foundation regularly supports non-governmental organizations such as PATH, which are involved in the development of vaccination technologies, with millions of dollars in funding. The list of BMGF’s beneficiaries also includes the largest global pharmaceutical companies, such as Pfizer, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Aventis. The comprehensive influence of the BMGF in the vaccination sector is therefore obvious.”

“In the Corona crisis, it is striking that institutions that currently play an important role are likewise supported by the BMGF. For example, Johns Hopkins University which maintains the worldwide corona statistics that are disseminated in all media, regularly receives large donations. In the last ten years only, more than $200 million have been transferred to the university by the Gates Foundation. The purpose of the donations was family planning programs.” –  https://www.weblyf.com/2020/05/how-bill-gates-funds-the-who-and-other-organizations/ 

So a decision was made through the WHO to make a vaccine from the most pathogenic part of the virus, the protein spike. This decision was not made on health grounds quite obviously. One reason for this decision was immune destruction as we have discussed above.

But there is another reason which is far more lethal and far more insidious than immune system destruction. You may have noticed that governments are acting as if they OWN your body. They are denying you the right to decide what to do with it. They wish to prescribe for you whom you can socialise with.

They wish to be the ones who determine whether you visit your parents or your grand parents when they are sick and in need. They wish to decide who can see your face and whose face you are permitted to see. They wish decide what medical treatments you should have and what pharmaceutical products should be put into your body. Your body – their body is the position they are taking worldwide. 

Now if they take that position in legislation, do you think they are not trying to take it in genetics as well?



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1 posted on 01/22/2022 1:22:12 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: SecAmndmt; datura; Fractal Trader; bagster; grey_whiskers; metmom; Jane Long; tatown; ...

PING


2 posted on 01/22/2022 1:22:40 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

Ban Soccer. It’s killing people!

/joking


3 posted on 01/22/2022 1:27:24 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: ransomnote

“Rare” covid shot side effects


4 posted on 01/22/2022 1:28:22 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: ransomnote

well ain’t that a kick in the balls...


5 posted on 01/22/2022 1:29:55 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: V_TWIN

I heard once that pro soccer players run an average of 11 miles a game....these guys probly have some of the best cardio in the world and now all of a sudden there’s a massive number of heart attacks???


6 posted on 01/22/2022 1:31:32 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: ransomnote

Oh noes.
A soccer player died.
None of them ever died before.

It’s the subterranian peddyfiles what killed him,
those rotten buggers.


7 posted on 01/22/2022 1:33:39 PM PST by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: ransomnote

hmm. wonder why.


8 posted on 01/22/2022 1:37:35 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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From the article: "We restricted the wikipedia table to include only male professional footballers ...

From table: Sept 4, 2021, Jens De Smet 27, amateur player collapses and dies.

9 posted on 01/22/2022 1:40:57 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ransomnote

It’s global warming.


10 posted on 01/22/2022 1:47:59 PM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: ransomnote

Such a small price to pay for the perceived safety of the Branch Covidians.


11 posted on 01/22/2022 1:57:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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"Investigation finds 300% increase in Worldwide Heart Attack Deaths among Soccer Players in 2021.

Ummm... What caused their coronary problems? Did they all eat carrots or something? Just asking...

12 posted on 01/22/2022 1:58:36 PM PST by Desron13 (You may choose to ignore reality but you can't force reality to ignore you.)
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One unique aspect of the covid spike proteins is that they attack and destroy cardiac tissue in a lightly distributed fashion, unlike a hear attack were the damage is usually more heavy and localized . This results in general loss of cardiac capacity that only becomes critical when the cardio vascular system is stressed to the limit. Many non athletes may have the same type of damage but they are unaware of it due to lack of symptoms due to inactivity.
13 posted on 01/22/2022 2:05:38 PM PST by rdcbn1
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What caused their coronary problems?

IDK. What does the article say? I didn't read it.

14 posted on 01/22/2022 2:06:04 PM PST by DannyTN
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@ V_TWIN

At first the graphene hydroxide “razor blades” in the vaccine
sounds like conspiracy theory but now it may be a possibility. These athletes are active. The razor blades get carried by blood in their blood vessels and cut up their blood vessels....boom...drop dead without notice.


15 posted on 01/22/2022 2:09:48 PM PST by uzumaki_naruto
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I'm sure it is just a coincidence that this coincides with the vaccinations. :-/

Besides, statistics are racist.

16 posted on 01/22/2022 2:11:51 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Vaccine mandates: they are not about health, they are about obedience.)
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DannyTN,

I'm not sure. This is one of those posts where you suspect the BS wall is coming at you at supersonic speeds but you don't know from where. Typically when you see something like a 300% increase in death rate year over year you can bet that there's been a minor nuclear exchange of said BS.

17 posted on 01/22/2022 2:19:30 PM PST by Desron13 (You may choose to ignore reality but you can't force reality to ignore you.)
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To: ransomnote

They are under a lot of stress these days.


18 posted on 01/22/2022 2:22:15 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (If It Aint Woke Don't Fix It.)
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To: ransomnote

Pfizer, Moderna etc. have legal immunity for vaccine induced harm. However, if they hid data and manipulated data to get the EUA “emergency use authorization” they are totally libel.

I look forward to Pfizer selling off their profitable drug line to an ethical drug company and then watch them go bankrupt due to lawsuits. I look forward to criminal prosecution.

This will happen.


19 posted on 01/22/2022 2:28:17 PM PST by cpdiii (CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST )
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https://www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/general-cardiology/heart-inflammation-after-covid-19-infection-in-athletes/

Adding to the growing list of the multisystem effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, a significant number of cases of post-COVID-19 myocarditis have been reported. According to a 2020 review, approximately 5%-25% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 have hqad evidence of myocardial injury.

This may pose an especially high risk to competitive athletes, in whom myocarditis is a top cause of sudden death. In light of this development, the Big Ten Conference now requires comprehensive cardiac testing for student athletes before they can return to play after COVID-19 infection.

In a study published online in May 2021 in JAMA Cardiology, Daniels et al investigated rates of COVID-19 myocarditis among 1,597 athletes from 13 of the 14 Big Ten universities. They observed an overall prevalence of 2.3%, with 9 cases of clinical myocarditis and 28 cases of subclinical myocarditis, categorized based on the presence of cardiac symptoms and findings on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR).2

20 posted on 01/22/2022 2:32:35 PM PST by Kazan
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