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https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-97b

A Furman football player died two days after suffering a medical emergency at a workout. Bryce Stanfield, a defensive end and tackle, collapsed during a practice at Paladin Stadium in Greenville, South Carolina, and after going on life support at a local hospital, he passed away. He was 21 years old. According to Fox Carolina, Stanfield had dealt with a back issue that limited what he could do before the workouts started, but he was going through rehab for that, and the coaching staff was not aware of any other medical issues he had.

No cause of death reported.

Furman’s “vaccination” policy:

Furman encourages faculty, staff and students to be immunized against COVID-19 and to receive booster vaccinations when eligible.

https://www.furman.edu/offices-services/student-health-center/covid-19-guidelines-protocols/

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-97b

Lawrence Pasternack, professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University, has died

Pasternack joined the faculty at Oklahoma State in 1998. He earned his PhD from Boston University, his MA in philosophy and religious studies at Yale Divinity School, and his undergraduate degree at York University. He died unexpectedly on January 30th. Professor Pasternack was known for his work on Kant’s philosophy of religion. He is the author of Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: an Interpretation and Defense (2014) and the Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant on Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (2014), among other works.

No age or cause of death reported.

Oklahoma States’ “vaccination” mandate:
http://tinyurl.com/vv9z7je9

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22010283

Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were associated with an excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest of 10.1 and 15.1 per 10,000 vaccinated over placebo baselines...

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/sudden-deaths-of-vaxxed-athletes-students-pilots-military-but-why-no-politicians/

Sudden Deaths of Vaxxed Athletes, Students, Pilots, Military, but Why No Politicians?
Members of the California Assembly and Senate were exempted from COVID vaccine mandates – so was Congress and Biden’s Executive Branch

By Katy Grimes, February 14, 2024 2:55 am

Isn’t it extraordinary that we see daily reports of young athletes, high school and college students, college athletes, pilots, members of the military and others dropping dead suddenly? Yet we aren’t seeing this same “died suddenly” phenomenon, as it is now called, in elected politicians – members of Congress, Governors, or State Legislatures.

My husband and I have at least 5 friends who dropped dead after receiving their 118th COVID booster, and one turbo cancer victim who died within months of being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Many more vaccinated friends have developed weird illnesses, or are sick all of the time, or have had heart attacks they miraculously survived – and all were previously very healthy people.

This is anecdotal, but I talk to people every day who report similar stories of friends dying. It seems that everyone knows someone who died right after a COVID vaccine or booster.

Two of my husband’s tennis buddies dropped dead recently in front of friends immediately following boosters – one while fishing with buddies, and the other at home in front of his wife.

While the mainstream media is loath to report on this horror, there are plenty of medical experts and honest writers who are addressing this.

Catherine Salgado at “Pro Deo et Libertate” substack (for God and freedom) recently updated her reports on these sudden deaths:

There were seven sudden deaths—4 coaches, two players, and one referee—related to basketball just within a two-week span. This is not normal, it’s terrifying. And the medical community, if it had the integrity and interest in saving lives that it pretends to have, would be scrambling to determine the cause, which is likely tied to the deadly COVID-19 vaccine.

I reported back in April 2022: “769 Athletes Collapse from Cardiac Arrest Since Covid Vax Rollout.” The average age of the players was 23 years’ old. Sadly, the sudden athlete deaths haven’t stopped, and there’s now strong evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines drive up the risk of cardiac issues.

Of those 769 athletes who dropped dead suddenly, the average age was 23.

Who are the monsters who ordered, and mandated that college students, military, government employees, and school children take a vaccine they did not need? And why?

This was never about health – it was only about power.

The Globe reported in February 2022 that members of the California Assembly and Senate were exempted from COVID vaccine mandates (Did they exempt themselves?), but their own Capitol staffers were not exempted, and were forced to take the shot by a March 2022 deadline, or lose their jobs:

The Globe has been told by State Capitol staffers that members of the Assembly and Senate are exempted from COVID vaccine mandates, but Capitol staffers are not, and in fact are required to receive a booster by March 1st.

How does mandating COVID vaccines and boosters for one group of Capitol employees, and exempting their bosses make any scientific sense? Where are the lawyers?

I had a very interesting talk with a casual friend of mine last night ...

During our conversation, he made a statement to the effect that the country is in an incredible mess. Somehow, that led to the subject of the 'vaccines.' He told me that although he got the 'shot,' in no way will he ever take a booster. He went on to tell me about a friend of his that got the jab 2 years ago and within 3 days was rushed to the hospital, where it was found that he had 'multiple blood clots.' He still suffers from blood clots and that his life is ruined.

I relayed to him that I had two friends, one 52 the other 57 that worked where mandates were forced upon them. Both perfectly fit and healthy and both died unexpectedly of 'sudden' heart attacks. The 52 year old's wife, also jabbed, suffered from a brain aneurism, a 'side effect' that is listed in small print. The other was my first cousin's only child, a 36 year old former college football player in great physical condition, also worked where jabs were mandated. He 'died suddenly' as well. As I relayed this all to my friend didn't seem to be the slightest surprised.

I'm finding more and more people are waking up, including those that have been jabbed, which is a good sign. But it makes me wonder what's next and what kind of draconian measures will the depopulationists force upon us after the next plandemic is rolled out?

About two years ago, I talked with one of my Santa Cruz neighbors who was wondering about the vaccines. I told him it was a hoax and a psyop, and that he should not get the vaccine. He is a conservative and he agreed something was funny, but I thought he was a little skeptical about my position.
Talked with him this evening as we passed during our walk. He said his vaxxed friends all have cancer or have died after taking the vax. I asked him if he ever got it and he said no. He may have been the only person I know of who I persuaded not to take it. He said that the first vax casualty in our hood was identified by his son as having gotten sick from the vax, then more or less executed in the hospital and listed as Covid death for the reimbursements.
It's a lot worse than any of the doctored stats are saying. The vaxxed are dying a lot out there, or having their lives ruined with fluctuating bad health.

Even the corporate-leftist articles admit she developed an auto-immune disorder.

Hmmm.

It's strange in Santa Cruz. I have heard a lady, herself vaxxed with a recurrent breast cancer, who talked about doctor's waiting rooms full of women with breast cancer all of the sudden, including many she knows, or men with friends and acquaintances dead or with cancer that they don't understand why so many are dropping. They often STILL do not see the correlation with the vaxicides, they hold onto that denial with dear life.

No wonder the Globalists (fashioned on the Nazis) used the psychologic warfare of contagion to foist their murderous democide.

Mocking the victims.

Legal avalanche pending? Doctors better bury their assets in chains of shell corporations before the process servers arrive at their doors.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/02/16/hearing-on-covid-vax-n2635349

CDC: Just 39% of children have at least one dose of HPV vaccine

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report today notes that 38.6% of children age 9 to 17 had received at least one dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in 2022, with rates rising with age from 7% in the youngest kids to 57% in the oldest.

HPV vaccination has been recommended in the United States since 2006 for girls and 2011 for boys. The multiple-dose vaccine, targeted to be initiated for children ages 11 to 12 years, may be started as young as age 9 and prevents against the most common cancer-causing HPV strains.

Overall, girls (42.9%) were more likely than boys (34.6%) to have received one or more HPV vaccine doses.

Children with private insurance were more likely to have received at least one dose of HPV vaccine (41.5%) compared to children without insurance (20.7%) or those on Medicaid (37.0%).

Coverage also increased with parental education levels: 42.1% of children whose parents had a bachelor's degree or higher had received at least one dose, compared to 31.1% of children whose parents had a high school degree.

"The percentage of children who have received one or more HPV vaccine doses was higher for those living in large central metropolitan areas (39.4%), large fringe metropolitan areas (41.1%), and medium and small metropolitan areas (39.4%) compared with those living in nonmetropolitan areas (30.0%)," the CDC said.

Hispanic children (34.4%) were less likely than White children (39.9%) to have received at least one HPV vaccine dose. There were no significant differences among Black, Asian, and White children.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papillomavirus-hpv/cdc-just-39-children-have-least-one-dose-hpv-vaccine

HeadSet says

Patrick says

Two years ago, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spearheaded the military’s vaccine mandate. Now, coincidentally, he’s plagued with weird, atypical cancers, infections, complications, and uncertainties.

It is unlikely Austin subjected himself to the jab. Still, lots of issues for a 70 year old.

not sure he was smart enough to avoid. not everyone up there is an evil genius. Many are just morons who drink their own kool aid.

https://patrick.net/post/1380942/2024-02-17-the-national-security-state-is-the

Scoops McGoo
@sco0psmcgoo
BREAKING: the New Zealand government today released gross mortality statistics by covid vax dose (including unvaccinated) under Official Information Act request

Combined with @BarryYoungNZ's leaked data, we now see mortality in each dose group (including 0 doses)

#StoptheShots!

Damn, that's like 60x excess mortality for people who took the first jab, and ZERO for people who avoided it entirely.

More: https://supersally.substack.com/p/new-zealand-data-foi-release-shows

https://www.globalresearch.ca/turbo-brain-cancer-due-university-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-united-states/5849675

Ceffer says

Legal avalanche pending? Doctors better bury their assets in chains of shell corporations before the process servers arrive at their doors.

All this means is that the vaxx injured can make workmen's comp claims.

https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/17/uc-berkeley-student-dead-youtube-ceo-son/

A student who was found dead inside a UC Berkeley dorm has been identified by family members as the son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.

The student, identified as 19-year-old Marco Troper, was found at 4:23 p.m. on Feb. 13 in a dorm at the university’s Clark Kerr Campus, UCPD said in a statement. First responders attempted life-saving measures, but the student was ultimately pronounced dead at the scene.

Some people are speculating that he actually died from the vaxx, and the OD story is a coverup.

Patrick says

That nurse will never see the connection between the vaxx and the sudden cancers in her husband and son. Admitting that connection would make her realize she was complicit.

Patrick says

Some people are speculating that he actually died from the vaxx, and the OD story is a coverup.

Children of the elites do die like flies from chemical dependency, so it could be a toss up. However, I would vote for vax, too. We'll never know though, will we? He's in the rear view mirror now.

In the olden days, high schools had Vietnam memorials. Beverly Hills High had a Rehab memorial.

Another poor bastard got the 'vax axe'. When will doctors pleading ignorance become doctors pleading the Fifth Amendment?

https://twitter.com/canindependent/status/1758485570446143653

Kayla Pollock is a 37-year-old mother from Ontario whose life took a drastic turn after receiving a Moderna Covid-19 booster shot. She experienced paralysis from the neck down and has been enduring a challenging ordeal ever since. ...

Kayla then decided to take a booster, but this time it was a Moderna booster shot. She recounts going to a vaccination drive and the police being there. She found that odd and questioned why the police were present. According to Kayla, people were upset that Moderna was being given out instead of Pfizer, and that was the reason for the police presence. Kayla says that something didn’t sit right in her gut, but she went ahead with the Moderna booster shot anyway. She explains her reasoning for getting the third shot was because she felt like a third one would be mandated at some point to get access into her dads long term care home. She received the Moderna booster shot on January 11, 2022.

Four days later, Kayla described a situation where her legs just gave out, and she collapsed, but all seemed fine a short time later. Then, nine days later, she experienced a similar event, and at that time, she called her doctor, asking to see a neurologist because she suspected something wasn’t right.

On the morning of February 22, 2022, Kayla's life took an irreversible turn. As she awoke, opened her eyes, a sudden realization struck her – she couldn't move her body. Despite the shock, she says she remained calm and started yelling for help. Fortunately, her boyfriend who spent the night, was in the driveway preparing to leave for work, and heard her cries for help. Her boyfriend called 911 and Kayla was transported to Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ontario. ...

Eventually, an MRI was conducted, revealing that Kayla had a very large lesion on her spinal cord. A neurologist followed up with Kayla and recommended a course of steroids in an attempt to decrease the size of the lesion.

Kayla questioned the neurologist and asked if the lesion could be a tumor. In an audio recording taken by Kayla’s boyfriend, the neurologist responds, saying, “it's less likely a tumor” and that it is his “gut impression it was caused by the vaccine.” When Kayla questions the doctor as to whether many people have had something similar happen to them, the doctor responds, saying “many people have had it.”

Later, Kayla would learn that she had developed transverse myelitis, a condition that interrupts the transmission of messages along the spinal cord nerves throughout the body. She would go on to spend several months in the hospital, where she says she was offered medical assistance in dying (MAID) on two occasions but rejected the offer.

A short video clip from a doctor who did the removal. You decide for yourself. 😬

https://x.com/r_hirschman/status/1759337235042758748?s=46&t=5lEEPaezr6Ic-W4Z6huZ5Q

https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/111963.html

Sure, Tess. Thanks for having me. So as you know, I'm a nurse practitioner based in New York City and I received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine early on as a medical health professional. I had a reaction almost immediately on my right side in my injected arm that went up into my face, my eye, and my ear. And I was ill-advised to proceed with the second dose and against my own better medical judgement, but because the employer was mandating the vaccine, I had to proceed or lose my job, so I got my second dose in my left arm. It sparked all the paresthesias in my right side and then things just progressed rapidly to severe tinnitus, facial neuropathies that went on to full body neuropathies. I had autonomic dysfunction which involved positional tachycardia, severe insomnia. I have the muscle fasciculations. I had internal tremors and electrical zaps on various parts of my body. And then I, my cardiac arrhythmias evolved now into atrial fibrillation.

So I'm 53 years old, prior I had no medical history, I was on no medications or supplements. I was at the height of my medical career. So this has turned my life upside down. I've been on disability for the past year and a half because of the severe debilitating nature of my symptoms. So that's a brief overview.

https://phillipaltman.substack.com/p/interview-with-a-myocarditis-victim

I had the great pleasure of meeting and talking to a number of people on Balmoral Beach (Sydney) this morning at the Forest of the Fallen installation organised by Rosie Marshall. Forest of the Fallen displays the individual previously suppressed and untold stories of the vaccine injured and vaccine dead.

One of the attendees was Connor - a lad who developed serious myocarditis shortly after receiving a COVID-19 “vaccine” injection.

Listen to what Connor says in the 5 minute video clip below.

Eman says

A short video clip from a doctor who did the removal. You decide for yourself. 😬

https://x.com/r_hirschman/status/1759337235042758748?s=46&t=5lEEPaezr6Ic-W4Z6huZ5Q

I saw a report elsewhere that the material was fiberous. Basically it was the same genetic material as what makes up tendons. By what mechanism the shot would make the body produce it in your bloodstream, I have no idea.

Spoke with an old friend and he informed me of another fellow we went to school with who has died. Beat cancer back when he was a kid, only to have it come back recently and kill him at 51. It didn't come back 10 years after he beat it, or 10 years ago. It got him shortly after these damned things were pushed on everyone.

Another vote for the jab speculation:

https://beckernews.com/ex-youtube-ceo-susan-wojcickis-son-dies-suddenly-at-19/

https://t.me/davidavocadowolfe/120564

https://rumble.com/v4e9ec9-entertainer-matt-cairns-issues-warning-about-adverse-reactions-following-tw.html




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Seriously. How dumb can you possibly be to get the 2nd. jab after what he experienced from the 1st.?

RayAmerica says

Seriously. How dumb can you possibly be to get the 2nd. jab after what he experienced from the 1st.?

Lots of examples of just that. I guess people just want to believe.

https://slaynews.com/news/covid-booster-shots-cause-heart-failure-young-adults-top-study-confirms/

Covid ‘Booster’ Shots Cause Heart Failure in Young Adults, Top Study Confirms

A new peer-reviewed study has confirmed that Covid mRNA “booster” shots are causing heart failure to soar in young adults and teenagers.

The study, published in the world-renowned European Heart Journal on February 15, found that a third dose of the Pfizer or Moderna injections is directly linked to the “increased incidence rate of myocarditis.”

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle (myocardium), according to the Mayo Clinic.

The inflammation can reduce the heart’s ability to pump blood, leading to blood clots, strokes, cardiac arrest, a potentially death.

Myocarditis is a known side effect of the Covid mRNA vaccines but most people are unaware that they have it, making it a potential ticking timebomb for sufferers.

The vaccine-induced heart injury is believed to be the leading cause of the recent spike in sudden and unexpected deaths.

The researchers said the spikes in myocarditis are more apparent in young adults and adolescents, particularly males.

https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/136690.html

SEVEN DAY CYCLE OF DEATH
Craig-Paardekooper, March 1, 2022

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: This is a slide show; Craig Paardekooper does not appear on camera. In December 2021 Paardekooper launched the website https://howbad.info/ See also https://www.howbadismybatch.com/

CRAIG PAARDEKOOPER:[1] Good morning. It's March the 1st and today we're going to be looking at the numbers of people vaccinated on different days of the week and how this affects the number dying as a result of those vaccinations.

So first I counted the number of people being vaccinated on each day of the week. And to do this I looked at the vaccination date column in the VAERS[2] data base in 2021 and I summed up, or counted the number of people who had been vaccinated on each day of the week, Monday to Sunday.

I found that the number of people vaccinated varies throughout the week in a repeating cycle, so that Sundays are the least, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday it increases progressively and peaks on Thursday. And then on Friday and Saturday it decreases back down to a minimum on Sunday.

And this kind of made sense because firstly during the weekdays that's when most vaccinations takes place so that the lowest period is going to be at the weekend. So we have a repeating cycle in the number of people vaccinated.

Now the next step was to find out if this cycle was reflected in the number of deaths caused by those vaccines.

So to do this I summed up the deaths resulting from vaccinations given on Monday, the deaths from resulting from vaccinations given on Tuesday, the deaths resulting from vaccinations given on Wednesday [what sounds like a cock crowing] and so on. So I obtained a list of deaths. And the correlation between the deaths and the numbers vaccinated on most days was very, very high. It was 0.99, so it formed a straight line.

In other words, the more people who were vaccinated on a particular day, the more, the greater the number of people who would eventually die as a result of those vaccinations given on that day. So the number of deaths is proportional to number vaccinated, and rises and falls with the number of vaccinated. And the correlation's .99 and the probability is 0.046.

A colleague of mine, Jason Morphett, counted the number of deaths associated with each vaccination date for the whole of 2021, resulting in the graph that's shown here. As you can see, the number of deaths associated with a particular vaccination date follows a very cyclical pattern which repeats every seven days.

The first low is on January the 3rd which happened to be a Sunday, then January the 10th, then January the 17th, then January the 24th, then January 31st, all of which are Sundays. Then February the 7th, February the 14th, February the 21st, and February the 28th, which are also all Sundays.

So in this, in this chart, the x-axis is actually the date of vaccinations. Not the date of death, death, the deaths can be spread out over a number of days after the vaccination, it's simply the date of vaccination.

And the y-axis is the number of deaths produced by those vaccinations given on that particular day.

And this pattern extends throughout the whole of 2021. It's quite a remarkable pattern.

So the question is, why do more deaths result from vaccines given on Thursday? Why do vaccinations given on Sunday produce the fewest deaths? The answer is very simple. It's because the number of deaths is proportional to the number vaccinated on a particular day. Thursday is the busiest day for vaccinations and Sunday's the quietest.

So this is a very strong indicator that the deaths are caused by the vaccinations. Why else would deaths rise when vaccinations rise, and deaths fall when the number being vaccinated falls? It's a pattern repeated across every week of 2021.

Perhaps we should ask a question. If the vaccine is meant to reduce mortality and protect our health, then why do deaths rise as the number of vaccinated rises, and fall as the number of vaccinated falls, in a weekly cycle that repeats over and over again?

"Craig Paardekooper [is] a pharmaceutical sciences student at Kingston University. He is a member of NHS Staff for Choice - a group of 2400 doctors, nurses and research staff who believe that vaccination should be by consent, and there should be no restrictions imposed on those who refuse it." — Source: https://craigpkooper.wixsite.com/vaccine

[2] VAERS is the official US government Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html
(Note: https://openvaers.com/ provides VAERS data in a more reader-friendly presentation)

https://www.globalresearch.ca/ucsf-chair-medicine-dr-bob-wachter-6x-covid-19-vaccinated-collapsed-shower-broke-neck-july-2023/5849746

UCSF Chair of Medicine Dr. Bob Wachter (6x COVID-19 Vaccinated) Collapsed in the Shower

Also has:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/immunity-monday-february-19-2024

Behold this Cassandric headline from yesterday’s Daily Mail UK, which unintentionally revealed the scale of a tidal wave of novel jab injuries in a whole new category. This story connects some dots that will blow your mind.

We begin with Gina’s SADS story. Pay special attention to the highlighted phrase:




Gina’s tragic bad luck isn’t our point, but let’s still pause to pay our respects. Her story sounds all too maddeningly familiar: Gina had some difficult flu symptoms, drove to the ER, doctors said it was just a virus, go home and sleep it off, she went home and climbed into bed, went septic while sleeping, this time ambulanced back to the ER, where she had an ultra-rare complication, stroked out and died, that fast, less than a day, the end.

Gina’s twin-like sister Maria described Gina as “young, fit, and healthy.” We don’t know Gina’s jab status for sure, but in March 2022, the BBC reported that a whopping 92% of British adults had scored at least one jab, with 85% more having already passed second jab going around 85mph and rapidly homing in on third. Given those odds, plus her atypical, young, sudden adult death that a few short years ago would have triggered a major inquest, I will presume Gina was jabbed until offered credible proof she wasn’t.

Gina’s was an awful story, and our hearts break for Maria and for Gina’s other loved ones. But please. What was the reporter doing? Burying the lede.

Let me ask you a hypothetical question. Pretend I am a journalism professor and you are a budding young wannabe reporter, having just submitted Gina’s story as an assignment. I skim it. “It’s a nice start,” I begin encouragingly, “but let me ask you something. Do you think your readers — the general public — will be more interested in Gina’s untimely death or in the worrying rise in sepsis cases?”

Then you answer, “well, Gina’s attractive and relatable and I have this great picture of her…” And I say, “Come on. People should be worried whether it’s going to happen to them. Go rewrite this, make the sepsis outbreak the lede, and use Gina as a two-paragraph human interest hook.”

These student writers!

The bigger story is in there. The Mail did report the sepsis outbreak, but just buried it, a mere side-issue, under a lot of distracting mental junk food. If the sepsis outbreak was the fries, Gina’s story loaded on the cheese sauce, bacon bits, onion straws, shredded lettuce, and ranch dressing. You can’t even see those fries.

Here are the relevant sentences, the facts the Mail actually reported (when you unload Gina’s tragic story):

"Sepsis now causes more deaths than breast, prostate and bowel cancer combined. (While sepsis) is most common in the elderly … studies suggest that just under half of all sepsis cases occur in working-age adults."

Sepsis should not be happening in working-age adults in any large numbers.

Sepsis is a sudden bacterial infection that can kill someone in hours. It normally strikes immune compromised people, like the elderly, very young, the chronically-ill, and unfortunate folks hooked up to invasive medical devices for long periods of time. It should not surprise you that sepsis is sort of baffling and mysterious and poorly-understood. It’s not even really a specific disease or condition. It’s a syndrome or process, the body’s overreaction to any type infection — viral, bacterial, or even fungal. It’s a catastrophic failure of the immune system.

Try to follow me here.

Sepsis, as a diagnosis, has several strongly suggestive qualities in light of the recent jabby unpleasantness. First, there’s no test for it, so doctors can diagnose it based on their subjective analysis of symptoms, which could be useful if you wanted to conceal certain death statistics. Second, the most common mechanism of ultimate septic death is blood clots and leaky blood vessels. So. Third, historically speaking, the most rapidly-progressing cases are always seen in the most immunocompromised patients, like elderly folks already in the hospital for some other condition.

Rapid sepsis isn’t normal in young, healthy, 30-year old women like Gina. In fact, it’s super, super rare. Young people need to have really, really bad luck to encounter the disastrous syndrome. ...

If sepsis is ultra-rare in healthy young people, why should busy ER doctors waste time screening every patient with a sniffle for sepsis, especially considering there’s no test for it? And, if young people normally have less severe cases even when they do get septic, what’s the urgency?

Well, you know the answer. It’s the thing they don’t want to say.

There does seem to be some kind of new epidemic. Just one day before, the Daily Mail ran another sepsis death story, oddly also involving another young woman, aged 29, and also a sister:




The story explained that the young lady died about two weeks ago from “sepsis caused by a rare cancer.” So. A jabby two-fer.

Another story from Sky News on January 20 was headlined “Emily In Paris actress Ashley Park reveals sepsis battle and thanks co-star boyfriend Paul Forman for being at her bedside.” Ashley, 32, got tonsilitis and wound up in the hospital with “several of my organs affected,” and spent “a week in the ICU.” And let’s not forget bizarre pop superstar Madonna, who was hospitalized with sepsis-like symptoms last summer.

I’m going to suggest that it’s not an epidemic of sepsis. Anyway, sepsis is a syndrome and not a condition. But I’ll tell you what corporate media is afraid to tell us. They are afraid to remind us that, back in the 1980’s, people were dying from AIDS, except they weren’t dying from AIDS, so much. AIDS patients were dying in septic shock after otherwise mild infections like flu and tonsillitis and stuff.

The worrying rise in sepsis deaths was just what doctors saw in the 1980’s as the AIDS epidemic took off. That’s what they don’t want to say.

So whenever you read a sepsis headline, especially in a working-age person, think AIDS. Or … VAIDS.