When clusters of young gay men started suddenly falling ill with rare infections in California in the early 80s, it took less than two years for the culprit to be identified. That was 80s meditech. When a mystery illness broke out in Wuhan in late 2019, despite the obfuscation of Chinese authorities, the virus responsible was identified within weeks.
So, when social media users began noticing that healthy young people, particularly sports players, suddenly seemed to be dropping like flies, we might have expected public health bodies to move with alacrity to, first, identify if something unusual really was happening; secondly, to find the cause.
But that’s to reckon without the extraordinary politicisation of public health in the Covid era. Public health bureaucrats and their media allies have taken it upon themselves to behave like mediaeval inquisitors. With something like papal infallibility, governments and bureaucrats have declared themselves our “sole source of truth”. Any deviation from the official dogma is nothing short of heresy — with the heretics defrocked and banished.
Because it was the heretics — sceptical social media users and independent media — who first noticed the apparent wave of deaths and worse, because they linked it to the holy vaccines, public health officialdom has ignored the issue for as long as they could. But, as the bodies have piled up, even they have had to admit that something is going on.
So, after a year’s delay, we abruptly have Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS).
Like the long-known SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), it kills healthy young adults, often in their sleep.
Essentially, people are dying without displaying any prior sign of illness. They simply do not wake up after going to bed, or collapse during the day.
When social and independent media began highlighting sudden deaths in sportspeople, it was difficult to know if anything really was going on. There was a distinct possibility of “Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon”, also known as the “Frequency Illusion”: mistakenly believing something is suddenly more common merely because you’ve only just begun to notice it.
In actual fact, it is almost certain now that something is going on.
Reports of SADS have been increasing in recent weeks. A news.com web piece explains that, ‘Sudden Adult Death Syndrome … is an umbrella term to describe unexpected deaths in young people, usually under 40, when a post-mortem can find no obvious cause of death.’
The Melbourne-based Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute hopes to roll out a nation-wide registry to track cases.
‘In our registry, there are approximately 750 cases per year of people aged under 50 in Victoria suddenly having their heart stop (a cardiac arrest). Of these, approximately 100 young people per year will have no cause found even after extensive investigations such as a full autopsy (the SADS phenomenon).’
Apparently, SADS is now so common that the medical authorities must quickly develop a national registry to track SADS cases.
When critics of Covid vaccines and their rapid roll-out linked what is now called SADS to heart conditions possibly brought on by the vaccines, the Covid Inquisitors were apoplectic. “Anti-vaxxers!” they screeched.
Except…
A Health Desk article published on June 7 notes that, ‘Most scientists think SADS is caused by a heart condition that interferes with the heart’s electrical system.’
Ah, so it’s a heart condition. Interesting.
Still, it is reasonable to challenge the immediate jump to link SADS to the vaccines, however tempting that might be. Correlation, after all, does not mean causation.
But there is in fact reason enough to suspect that there might indeed be a link.
These vaccines are officially – according to vaccine safety regulators, manufacturers, and investigations conducted between 2020-22 – connected to a rise in cardiac problems such as myocarditis and pericarditis, along with a range of other health issues including neurological disorders and sometimes death.
The New York Times previously published an article discussing the link:
Federal officials are reviewing nearly 800 cases of rare heart problems following immunization with the coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, according to data presented at a vaccine safety meeting on Thursday.
Not all of the cases are likely to be verified or related to vaccines, and experts believe the benefits of immunization far outweigh the risk of these rare complications. But the reports have worried some researchers. More than half of the heart problems were reported in people ages 12 to 24, while the same age group accounted for only 9 percent of the millions of doses administered.
Normally, then, one would expect the beloved “precautionary principle” to kick in: surely it would prudent to pause the vaccine roll-out until any link can be confirmed or dismissed?
If we were approaching science objectively and rationally, it would be permissible to ask questions of vaccine manufacturers – even if only to rule them out, once and for all, as the culprit.
However, these are not solely questions of science, but also of money, business, and political reputation.
Australian healthcare providers were instructed by bureaucrats that “undermining” the vaccine rollout would cost them their medical licenses. Doctors in NZ have likewise been punished for “misinformation”. Public health bodies are keen to protect their reputations.
Instead, we are being told to accept the sudden rise in SADS and the deaths of young people without investigation. After all, no one wants to be called a conspiracy theorist or an anti-vaxxer.
Spectator Australia
And with that wave of the wand of bureaucratic infallibility, heresy is silenced.
And young people continue to die, suddenly and maybe not so mysteriously.
