Died Suddenly or Confirmation Bias?
Lunatics have made it impossible to know.
My great uncle died suddenly of total heart failure at 45 years of age. Because this happened in the 1990’s, his death didn’t go viral on Twitter with people asking, WAS HE VACCINATED? A high school kid at a nearby school died during two-a-day football practice soon after. In the same era, a guy died during a street fight when he was kicked in the chest at the County Fair. My martial arts instructor flagged that as a reason you shouldn’t kick someone in the heart. The science supports this warning, albeit such deaths are rare.
These deaths were all pre-vaccine era, so the families were fortunate to not have their tragedies become fodder for social media.
Today local news stories from the smallest of towns can be amplified on a national platform, leading people to believe that “sudden deaths via heart failure” are becoming more common.
Is that true?
I wish we knew. Whether and to what extent the Covid-19 vaccination causes (or doesn’t cause) myocarditis and pericarditis is the most important public health question since asbestos. Because the vaccine was mandated, we would put people on trial for human rights violations if the Covid-19 vaccine is indeed the cause of sudden deaths.
If.
How can we know?
I can already see the responses, and it makes me dread posting this article. People are going to reply with charts from their favorite influencers, and they will insist their data is correct. However a recent error (if you want to call it that) casts doubt on everything you’re going to show me.
Dr. Peter McCullough, in a letter to a medical journal, claimed that there were only 1,101 sudden deaths of athletes occurred in 38 years. Furthermore, at least that many people died suddenly of heart failure in the past two years. Whoa!
The problem is that McCullough’s claim didn’t hold up to any scrutiny. The analysis he relied up on for the 1,101 number was not comprehensive. His mistake was obvious to anyone who had read the opening paragraphs of the meta-analysis he relied upon.
Moreover, the numbers McCullough used to make the shocking claim that more people had died in the past two years than in the past few decades was an open source blog full of factual errors.
McCullough’s claim was incorrect. This isn’t a matter of opinion. McCullough was verifiably wrong.
Others can speculate on motives. I can’t read minds. But I was extremely p*ssed off by McCullough’s letter and its quick debunking.
People who want to actually know the truth about the Covid-19 vaccine and heart attack risk are left without a boat to row.
Here’s what we do know.
Public health officials lied about the efficacy of masks. Initially Dr Fauci claimed masks were an ineffective way of stopping the spread of Covid-19. Then he claimed masks do work, he only initially lied as a way to prevent a run on masks.
Public health officials lied about the Covid-19’s vaccine’s ability to stop the transmission of Covid-19. They all said you had to get vaccinated to STOP THE SPREAD. Now they are claiming they never said the vaccine would stop transmission.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, to this day, is repeating this disinformation.
Public health officials lied when they said that outdoor events had to be banned to SLOW THE SPREAD, with the exception of the Summer 2020 riots. They are trying to pretend they didn’t lie to our faces
Public health officials abused public trust, and cannot be trusted.
On the other hand, what in the heck was McCullough thinking when he sent a factually-inaccurate letter to a medical journal?
Now what?
The only way to suss out the vaccine’s role in heart failure is to establish a baseline rate for “sudden deaths.”
Who is credible enough to do this?
As of now, no one is, and we are left wondering whether more people are dying suddenly, or if the deaths are a result of confirmation bias. We only started recently paying attention, and when you start paying attention, you “notice patterns.”
Thank you for this. Weinstein and Rogan talk about it at length in their recent podcast, reach pretty much the same conclusion, they wish there were some credible university research team out there attempting to establish a baseline. Weinstein's point, and mine, is that the very absence of any attempt to research this among mainstream academics is just about all you need to know about the matter. That is, they are afraid of what they'd find.
Maybe it would be easier to find a baseline of "cause of death unknown," to cover for all those deaths that public health officials might be afraid to link to vax status? I know in certain Canadian provinces, "unknown" has of late become the leading cause of death!
Big picture, as you rightly put it: credibility is dead. There is no one left to trust anymore. This entirely predictable, boy-crying-wolf result is why doctors like me were tearing our beautiful hair out at the beginning of all this, begging the public health authorities to stop lying and to stop memory-holing their lies. Remember when they kept silently editing the government's official covid vaccine "fact" page? Sigh...
There could be a silver lining though, my (and Solzhenitsyn's) case for it here:
https://gaty.substack.com/p/2023-preview-the-end-of-medicine
We know comparison against a placebo control group will never be permitted[1]. When transparency is aggressively avoided, assume the worst.
[1] https://a.co/18YCBQW