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the-garbanzo-annex-jr · 27 days

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by Moshe Phillips

But deep in the article, in paragraph 30 (out of 41), the text suddenly took a strange turn. “Hate crimes are challenging to prove in court,” Ali wrote. What made this case “even more tricky” was that the alleged shooter, Jason Eaton, said nothing out loud before, during or after the shooting.”

Usually, you know something was a hate crime because the perpetrator yelled a racist slogan or told the police he was motivated to attack the victim because of the victim’s race or religion. Sometimes, the attacker’s social-media accounts contain racist writings.

But in this case, according to author Rozina Ali, it was the exact opposite.

With regard to the Oct. 7 pogrom perpetrated by Hamas in southern Israel that killed 1,200 men, women and children, here’s what the “anti-Palestinian” Eaton wrote on X on Nov. 16: “What if someone occupied your country? Wouldn’t you fight them?”

Although Ali quoted only one of Eaton’s posts, there was at least one more in the same vein. This is what Eaton tweeted on Oct. 17 (which was quoted by the Vermont-based news agency Seven Days on Dec. 6): “The notion that Hamas is ‘evil’ for defending their state from occupation is absurd. They are owed a state. Pay up.”

That crashing sound you hear is the shattering of the myth that the Vermont shooting was Islamophobia. No wonder the police have not charged Eaton with a hate crime: his social-media accounts clearly indicate he is a supporter, not a hater, of the Palestinian Arabs. Ali and others have reported that Eaton has a long history of personal problems. That would seem to be what was behind this crime.

But that didn’t fit the narrative that Palestinian advocates prefer. So, as long as that critical information was confined to the local Vermont press, they could keep claiming that the shooting was “anti-Palestinian hate.” Now the jig is up. It has been acknowledged by The New York Times.

This matters because the fight for public opinion regarding Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip revolves around the question of sympathy. In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 mass murders, most of the public’s sympathy was with Israel. But after months of nonstop biased media reporting, some Americans’ sympathies have shifted.

The attention being paid to rising antisemitism creates sympathy for Jews and, by extension, for Israel. Supporters of the Palestinian Arabs want to reduce that sympathy, by claiming that they, too, are the victims of bigotry.

Statistics about hate crimes show that antisemitism is on the rampage, while Islamophobia is minuscule. That reality is bad for the Palestinian cause. So, advocates seize every opportunity to claim that some incident was anti-Arab or anti-Muslim.

Last November, an Ohio man named Hesham Ayyad claimed a driver yelled “Kill all Palestinians!” and “Long live Israel!” at him and then ran him over. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and similar groups yelled “Hate crime!” But security footage showed Ayyad and his brother got into a fistfight on that street corner, which is what caused his injuries. Ayyad has been charged with lying about the incident. CAIR still won’t admit that it was a hoax.

I doubt that CAIR will acknowledge the truth about the Vermont shooting, either. Extremists are reluctant to ever admit that they were wrong about anything. But reasonable people can no longer deny the reality of Jason Eaton’s pro-Hamas posts.

#palestinian #hate crime #hate crime hoax #anti-palestinian hate crime #islamophobia

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wineonmytshirt · 1 year

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"Now the sun burns my heart and the sand hurts my feelings."

Jen's 1K Celebration!!! For @eclipsedsuns

☀️☀️ hoax // last kiss // out of the woods // anti-hero // forever winter // hits different // august ☀️☀️

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dougielombax · 2 months

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A week or two ago I stumbled across a clickbait YouTube channel which was solely dedicated to producing fake tabloid news “journalism” videos focusing on the deaths of famous people…who aren’t actually DEAD!

Julia Roberts being one of the more recent examples.

Trashy, sickening shit.

I normally wouldn’t care but something about this shit sickened me for some reason.

Who even does this crap?

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 year

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By: Jonathan Jarry M.Sc.

Published: Nov 25, 2022

People want to feel like their concerns are heard. Being dismissed can lead to loss of trust, which can send people looking for empathy in the wrong places.

Members of the anti-vaccination movement and of its media arm excel at portraying themselves as “those who care.” The rest of us—scientists, doctors, politicians, journalists—are represented as either apathetic or simply evil. The latest “documentary” to emerge from this movement, Died Suddenly, is an exercise in reframing compassion. It also represents the apogee of conspiritualist ideas, where grand conspiracy theories surrounding vaccines are painted on a canvas so large, they involve a Biblical war between the forces of absolute good and those of pure evil.

Who are portrayed as ringing the alarm for Armageddon in Died Suddenly? Embalmers.

A tale made out of whole clot

The documentary’s smoking gun is the alleged discovery of long, white, fibrous clots in the deceased bodies of people who, we are told, got vaccinated against COVID-19. Sometimes, their blood also looks dirty, like it contains coffee grounds. This claim seems to have originated from Richard Hirschman, an embalmer in Alabama, who spoke about it to The Epoch Times, a frequent vehicle for misinformation and grand conspiracy theories. Hirschman and a few other embalmers testify to their findings in Died Suddenly, with some being blurred out, their voices altered, like they are sharing secrets so damning they’re about to be shipped to their local witness protection program.

Every conspiracy demands its whistleblower, and Hirschman serves as one of many for this documentary. He can boldly speak out while his colleagues self-censor, he tells us, because he doesn’t work for a funeral home. The movie cozies up to the body horror genre by repeatedly showing us images and clips of these lengthy strings of organic matter being pulled out of post-mortem incisions. The power of these alien, rubbery artefacts grows in the telling: in the Epoch Times piece, a cardiologist says these clots have “nearly the strength of steel.” Given the shock that these visuals can give to the untrained eye, it’s no wonder these supposed “vaccine clots” are making the rounds on TikTok.

The problem is that embalmers and funeral directors are not medical professionals. Don’t take it from me, but from the National Funeral Directors Association in the United States, whose representative told me as much, and from Ben Schmidt, a funeral director and embalmer with a bachelor’s degree in natural science. Schmidt wrote a detailed explanation of what is happening here. Clots can easily form after death, as the liquid and solid parts of blood separate and as formaldehyde and calcium-containing water used in the embalming process catalyze clotting. Refrigeration can also be to blame, especially when a rapid influx of bodies due to COVID necessitates longer stays in the cooler as embalmers make their way through their backlog.

Then there are the clots that happen prior to death. Embalmers do not typically know that someone who died was “in normal health,” as is often claimed in the documentary, nor do they reliably know someone’s vaccination status. Blood clots do happen in life, for a variety of reasons. The COVID-19 vaccines made by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson were indeed associated with rare—and I must repeat, rare—cases of blood clots, but risk factors for blood clots in general include obesity, cancer, a sedentary lifestyle, pregnancy, family history, and smoking. Oh, and COVID-19 itself, which you won’t learn from Died Suddenly. This may surprise you, but an American dies of a blood clot every six minutes. Clots, either before or after death, are common.

As anatomical pathology specialist Irene Sansano told a fact-checking website, the clots shown by Hirschman do not look different from the ones pathologists regularly see in blood clot autopsies at the hospital. To know if there really was an uptick in clots seen during embalming, we can’t rely on a scattering of anecdotes. We would need a database to monitor trends, and as Schmidt points out, this database does not exist.

But if the sight of strings of clotted material isn’t scary enough, Died Suddenly is willing to make its title even more manifest by showing us rapid-fire montages of people fainting and seemingly dropping dead. Out of context, these videos are distressing. However, The Real Truther account on Twitter has demonstrated that many of them are not what they seem. The woman who passes out and falls into a moving train? Her name is Candela. She fainted because of low blood pressure and survived with a fractured skull. That young basketball player who collapses on the court? His name is Keyontae Johnson, and his fainting took place on December 12, 2020, before the COVID-19 vaccines were readily available. He has since been medically cleared to play and recently signed with Kansas State. These people are not dead. To borrow a phrase from the conspiracy playbook, we have been lied to.

Given that syncope, the medical term for a temporary loss of consciousness brought about by a drop in blood pressure, affects one in five over their lifetime, and given the ubiquity of cameras in our world, that’s a lot of fainting episodes captured on video that can be used to bolster a narrative that “something’s not right.”

Outside of the documentary, its Twitter account and many more in the anti-vaccination space have used “died suddenly” as a rallying cry. One of the producers of the movie, Stew Peters, interviewed a woman who claimed that Canadian physicians were dropping like flies in the prime of their lives. Peters didn’t mince words: “We absolutely know 100% what is going on. They want to cover it up. The doctors are dying, and they’re dying from these stupid shots.” Their evidence comes from the Canadian Medical Association’s In Memoriam webpage. I had a look. Peters’ interview was released on August 22nd of this year. I looked at the last ten doctors who had been memorialized at this point. For most, the cause of death is not mentioned. For the others, it’s Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, COVID-19, and a two-year spell with brain cancer. The average age at which these ten physicians died? 82. The youngest was 64. Hardly in the prime of their lives. That same woman making the claim goes on to hypothesize that Alberta was sent the most toxic batch of the vaccines because its residents don’t typically vote for Justin Trudeau. How else to explain its high mortality during the pandemic?

The Died Suddenly Twitter account, which boasts an authoritative blue check mark it received after paying $8 a month, memorializes a long list of people who, we are led to believe, died of the vaccine, including the voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy, who very recently passed away from intestinal cancer. Except that scrolling through these names, it becomes apparent the list includes anyone who died suddenly, who died after a short illness, who died after a long illness, who died of cancer or of an immune condition or of a viral infection. Their vaccination status is often not even known. Basically, everybody dying after the vaccines were rolled out has now been killed by the jab

One of the funeral directors interviewed in Died Suddenly, who now identifies as an anti-vaxxer, tells us to go on Google and type in “died suddenly.” I listened to him and did the exercise.

Disturbingly, I found a 13-year-old boy who died suddenly after collapsing while playing in a schoolyard; a 38-year-old publisher who died suddenly at home, with no known health issues; even actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s brother who died suddenly at 36. What I didn’t tell you is that I did the search for the year 2010. Sudden deaths are not new. I even found a particularly distressing example. Her name was Kalina and she had shown no sign of illness before suddenly falling ill and dying that very evening. She was only 25 years old and was the third adult to die from her place of work in a four-month period.

Scary stuff, isn’t it? Except that Kalina was a killer whale who died at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010.

What Died Suddenly does is akin to grave-robbing. It raids online obituaries, with complete disregard for consent or basic journalistic integrity, and stitches a pseudoscientific horror story with the faces of the deceased.

The makers of Died Suddenly don’t want you to think; they want you to feel. For all of the anti-vaccination movement’s admonitions to “do your own research,” the thing that consistently sinks their arguments is doing your own research. It’s fact-checking if what they are telling you is correct.

None of this is new, though the conspiracy they are selling is growing to epic proportions.

Cut from the same clot

Died Suddenly can serve as a teachable moment for those of us who study the post-COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement, to help us recognize its traits and see its progression.

We witness motivated reasoning: starting from the conclusion that the vaccines cannot be safe and looking for evidence that matches the conclusion. We see a thick coating of “after the fact, therefore because of it,” as anybody dying from 2021 onwards is said to be the victim of a vaccine that can kill you instantly, with a delay, or simply worsen a pre-existing condition. The “VAERS scare” tactic is also briefly adopted, as the database of “bad things that happened after getting a vaccine” is easily trawled for hits.

Died Suddenly also features fake experts, a characteristic of science denial. The VAERS scare itself is brought up in the documentary by entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, who is seen stopped by police after repeated, uninvited visits to the private residence of Dr. Grace Lee, the chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. He tells the cops he’s “a journalist for Substack,” a fancy term for “blogger” if there ever was one. In the documentary, he confidently asserts that no one wants to know what’s in the vaccines and that no journalist has ever asked, “What’s in the vials?” Funny how there was so much worry about what was in the COVID-19 vaccines, their manufacturers released a list of their ingredients at the beginning of the roll-out, which was covered by the mainstream press. But this is the kind of accuracy you can expect from a grown man who literally called me a chicken on his blog for refusing to debate him.

Meanwhile, a military whistleblower tells us that deaths are up 40% in the 18-to-64 age group, pointing the finger at the vaccines. Except that it’s not the vaccines; it’s the COVID-19 pandemic itself. From blood clots to excess mortality, everything caused by the virus is blamed on the vaccines.

Died Suddenly premiered on both Twitter and Rumble, the alternative video platform favoured by conservatives who loudly proclaim their right to free speech, to a combined 8 million views as of this writing. The text box below the documentary is filled with sponsor links that echo the concerns of the people living outside the mainstream: survival food, “manly” supplements, and precious metal investments. There’s also a link to Mike Lindell’s MyPillow company. The subtleties of the anti-vaccination movement have been shed: the box asks viewers to “support anti-vax activism.” The masks are off.

Meanwhile, the movie throws everything onto the conspiracy cork board, with Jeffrey Epstein, Anthony Fauci, Justin Trudeau, Greta Thunberg, and Bill Gates flashing before our eyes, next to mentions of MKUltra and a clip from that infamous Sasquatch hoax video.

A clip of Tom Hanks explaining Malthusian theory during a press tour is borrowed, which introduces us to the ultimate thesis of the documentary: the COVID-19 pandemic was apparently an excuse to roll out a deadly vaccine engineered to decimate our military forces, affect pregnant women, and kill as many people as possible. As Thomas Malthus once wrote, our population will someday exceed in numbers our ability to provide for everyone. The Powers That Be thus had to come up with a solution: an injectable bioweapon.

And this is where conspirituality comes in. As Died Suddenly ramps up to its climax, religious beliefs are made clear and the full scope of the conspiracy is laid out. This is spiritual war, we are told. The depopulation agenda was written by the forces of Evil and it is our God-given role to fight back.

The anti-vaccination movement no longer sees itself as merely opposing an industry; its vociferations are a clarion call for divine salvation.

Those who care

I have already read superficial denunciations of the movie by media outlets that do not address the core claims the movie makes. I get it. The escalation of the anti-vaccine rhetoric into a mad fever pitch is so pronounced, it can leave us speechless. We resort to dismissal, anger, and accusations of widespread idiocy.

I worry that this sort of drive-by skepticism—quick, often smug—, excusable though it may be, plays right into the hand of a movie like Died Suddenly. Its brave “truthtellers” are shown as people who care. They want to prevent deaths. They are tearing through the wall of passivity and the thicket of wickedness they see in order to save human lives. Propped up by the shallow depth of field of the camera, the professional lighting, the unnerving music, and the storytelling power of a good edit, it makes for convincing fodder.

Our casual dismissal of these propaganda pieces doesn’t help, in my opinion. If we want to persuade the people caught in their wake—not the die-hard believers, who can hardly be swayed, but those who are scared yet still willing to listen to reason—we must fact-check with empathy. We must show how easy it is to topple the scarecrows of anti-vaccine propaganda.

We need patience, as hard as it can be to find these days.

Take-home message: - The anti-vaccine “documentary” Died Suddenly alleges that the COVID-19 vaccines are bioweapons meant to depopulate the world by creating clots that kill people suddenly - The clots shown by the embalmers in the movie seem to medical experts to be no different than the clots that commonly occur in life and also after death - Many of the people the movie wants us to believe suddenly died are not actually dead

Because embalmers are the best judges of vaccine efficiency. Like how creationists are the best equipped to debunk evolution.

Apparently even correlation isn’t needed to declare causation.

#Jonathan Jarry #Died Suddenly #antivax #anti vax #anti science #conspiracy nuts #conspiracy theory #conspiracy theorists #conspiracy theories #COVID vaccine #hoax #hoax videos #coronavirus vaccine #blood clot #misinformation #mRNA vaccine #the darkest timeline #religion is a mental illness

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lonelypoetandiknowit · 1 year

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When Taylor said

“I wake up screaming from dreaming one day I’ll watch as your leaving cause you got tired of my scheming”

And

“No one wanted to play with me as a little kid, so I’ve been scheming like a criminal ever since. To make them love me and make it seem effortless”

“I search the party of better bodies just to learn that you never cared, you’re on your own kid, you always have been”

HOAX

“They told me all my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential”

“Cause when I’d fight you used to tell me I was brave”

“I’m still a believer, but I don’t know why, I’ve never been a natural, all I do is try, try, try.”

“I’m not your problem anymore, so who am I offending now?”

“Who could ever leave me darling? But who could stay?”

“You kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath”

Taylor really knows how her swifties are falling apart at the seams for lack of support.

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andromedasummer · 1 year

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bro are any drivers from new zealand gonna like. come help with the cyclone cleanup. or even donate some money. we were in a state of emergency. people are dead. thousands are missing. entire towns are buried in silt and cut off. peoples houses are just gone. every other athlete in every other sport we compete in are showing up to help clear out houses or donate things or help fix roads. one of you went on a rant about nz covid restrictions and retweeted our most right wing party. another one of you was born in the city that was hit by the cyclone.

#i know the answer is no because nz rly is just a photo op/place they spend a few months in #would love for them to give a fuck #remember when auckland flooded 3 weeks ago and mitch and nick did fuck all #cheers cunts! this is why nationalism means nothing to me and i will never cheer for you no matter what flag we share!#will never get over that twitter/insta meltdown evans had. unbelievably unhinged.#and not a funny or cute unhinged but a ''is he repeating what those covid-hoax protestors who set fire to my city/caused violence #for a month said out of coincidence. or is he retweeting out far right party and calling our pm the worst in the world #because he's completely aware and doesnt care anyway #or is he just so selfish he wants to go home and doesnt care about the consequences to the public #and did not do any research into anything going on here save the stuff he didnt like and still decided to use his #influential social media to accidentally (?) spread the anti-labour party shit that caused our pm to resign and death threats #to happen to her and other party members on the reg''#anyway s/o to the all blacks whove been stripping carpet and offering support to people who had to be #airlifted off rooves and lost their livelihood + all other famous/locally famous nzers who are using their position to assist the community #in what is for sure our worst disaster in a decade. esp since the 2011 quake.

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elimgarakdemocrat · 1 year

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I was doing great before the Pfizer shot. Now look at me. I've turned into a gummy worm. Damn you, Bill Gates 😡

#politics #discourse #pfizer #vaccine hoaxes #anti vaxxers #antivaxxers #science #gummy worm #bill gates

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lumiereswig · 1 year

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listening to Taylor swift with hate and fury but must still acknowledge champagne problems is absolutely an adam song

#anti hero is also adam. but also Belle #you’re on your own kid may also be Belle. and snow on the beach is clearly plumiere? and let’s be honest mad woman is also Belle #to Be clear I listen to a Lot of Taylor swift. And still can’t stand her. yes I contain multitudes #*blasts hoax on endless repeat while continuing to slander t swifty*

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oflgtfol · 2 years

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imploring anyone who lives in new york state to do everything you can to not let lee zeldin win the upcoming gubernatorial election. as someone who lives in his congressional district this man is fucking insane. do not let him become GOVERNOR

#brot posts #i doubt hes gonna win bc thank god the cities make this state blue #but still. the fact hes running for governor at all is scary as hell #this man is an anti masker a whole ‘covid is a hoax’ conspiracy guy #this man fucking supported the jan 6th insurrection and the whole ‘2020 election fraud’ bullshit #he is STILL on that bullshit actually despite all this time #I HATE THIS MAN !!!!

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bea-lele-carmen · 2 years

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I recommend you to buy this smart book and read it ! It’s gonna help you to understand better the cruel hoax of feminism and how it’s turning the society ill

Feminism destroys and hurts women’s but also men’s !

Feminism, our official gender ideology, masquerades as a movement for woman's rights. In reality, feminism is a cruel hoax, telling women their natural biological instincts are "socially constructed" to oppress them. Feminism is elite social engineering designed to destroy gender identity by making women masculine and men feminine. Increasingly heterosexuals are conditioned to behave like homosexuals who generally don't marry and have children. Courtship and monogamy are being replaced by sexual promiscuity, prophesied in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Rockefeller and Rothschild created feminism to poison male-female relations (divide and conquer.) Their twin objectives are depopulation and totalitarian world government. Why? These bankers create money out of nothing and think they are God. "Cruel Hoax" shows the connection between feminism, Communism and 9-11. It examines male-female relations and shows how we can take back our heterosexuality.

#anti feminist women #hoaxes

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duskmite · 2 years

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some of you need to realise that it doesn’t make you some red scare fearmongering mccarthy lite to acknowledge that the soviet union was Bad

#personal #seen way too many people on here actively praising the soviet union lately #like. do you uhhhh know about it and still think that the imperialism and mass genocide was a good thing #or are you just seeing 'communist' and throwing your blind support behind it #there's a post floating around straight up claiming that the holodomor was anti-communist propaganda #you wanna tell that to the four million dead or what #you know who else looks at a mass genocide and claims that it was a hoax don't you #batshit insane

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miracleeye · 2 years

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#Conspiracies #Conspiracism #Youtube Video #The Grave Creek Stone #Miniminuteman #Archaeology #Awful Archaeology #Pseudoarchaeology #Pseudohistory #Conspiracy Fantasy #CW Racism #NAGPRA #Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act #CW Grave Robbery #Hoaxes #Crania Americana #CW Anti Indigenous Racism #CW Phrenology #CW Eugenics

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 year

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By: Rachel Schraer

Published: Nov 24, 2022

"Seven days, 18 hours, 39 minutes ago my beloved... died suddenly of cardiac arrest". When Victoria Brownworth logged onto Twitter to post these words about her partner of 23 years, she didn't know that two of them in particular would provoke a storm of online harassment.

Because, as Victoria waited at her home in Philadelphia on Sunday night for her wife's ashes to be delivered, a video titled Died Suddenly was about to drop.

In an hour and eight minutes of dramatic music and out-of-context news reports, the film tells a fictitious story of a dangerous vaccine killing off swathes of young people - all part of an imagined plot to depopulate the earth.

It landed on niche video-sharing platform Rumble on Monday and began to spread. By Wednesday morning it had been viewed more than 4 million times on Rumble and at least 1.5 million times on Twitter.

The claims made in the video quickly fall apart under scrutiny. Vast amounts of evidence from different independent scientists all over the world, as well as the experiences of billions of people, have shown that serious Covid vaccine side effects are rare.

But its call for people to look at any reported deaths through a lens of suspicion had made Victoria fair game - and as the phrase "died suddenly" started to trend, people flocked to her memorial thread.

"How long's it been since she got the jab?", hundreds of people began to reply.

Victoria's wife, Madelaine Gold - a painter and design professor - had an advanced stage of cancer, though she had been doing better just before she died. There is no suggestion the vaccine had anything to do with her death.

When she began to hit back, Victoria was told she was lying.

"She did die suddenly... We didn't have time to say goodbye, I didn't have time to give her a last kiss. I will never get to talk to her again."

"They were trolling her obituary, literally."

So what was it about this film that led people online to deny Victoria's reality?

The film flashes through dozens of upsetting news reports and images of people collapsing.

One headline reads: "My kind, compassionate son died unexpectedly." Another clip shows a young athlete dramatically keeling over.

Together, this can easily be used to paint an alarming picture of something suspicious going on.

Yet just a couple more clicks would reveal the son in question died in a car crash. And the athlete, college basketball player Keyontae Johnson, collapsed in December 2020 before he could even have had a Covid vaccine. He didn't die suddenly as the title suggests - he returned to the court last week.

Other people featured are also still alive. And several of the genuine deaths are explained by an alternative cause within the very news reports used as evidence by the film makers.

Part of the film's power is that it takes scraps of truth but distorts them to tell a misleading story.

There have been a small number of deaths from the vaccines - I've spoken to people affected - but these cases are rare and their causes are established through extensive monitoring, complex medical testing and statistical analysis.

It's not possible to measure vaccine side effects by simply Googling news reports. As Dr Frank Han, a US cardiologist says, it can "give you pieces of the puzzle, but actual medical training is necessary to link all the pieces of how the body works together".

Long stretches of the film involve gruesome images of clots being pulled out of bodies, designed to suggest Covid vaccines are having alarming effects.

When people feel afraid or disgusted they might be more likely to leap to conclusions. But these images can't tell us anything on their own.

Firstly, they are mostly based on the testimony of one embalmer with no indication this is a wider concern.

And, Dr Han explains, it's "insufficient to establish why the clots are there".

Blood clots are commonly found in dead bodies and are caused by a range of things from smoking to being bed-bound to having Covid-19.

When unusual clotting was identified in rare cases after the AstraZeneca vaccine - not used in the US - it was quickly investigated and vaccine recommendations changed, after which the cases pretty much disappeared.

Emotional stories, backed up by official numbers make a powerful persuasive tool.

But it's important to understand where the numbers actually come from and whether they are being fairly represented - something many people won't have the time or resources to investigate.

A graph in the film showing stillbirths shooting up around 2021, making the unsupported suggestion Covid vaccines are causing miscarriages, looks shocking.

The film-makers don't provide a source, though.

Although the voiceover claims the data is from Waterloo, Canada, genuine data from Ontario, the province Waterloo is part of, has not seen any increase in stillbirths, according to Dr Victoria Male, a reproductive immunologist.

In fact, a large study found a "lower (not higher) rate of stillbirth among those vaccinated in pregnancy, compared to those who were not," she said.

This is supported by dozens of studies involving tens of thousands of people produced by different independent teams around the world.

The tactics used in this video have been seen before and this isn't the first time misleading health information has been spread by verified accounts.

What's new this time is the main account spreading the film on Twitter has bought verification - the blue tick which is supposed to be a mark of credibility, something experts have warned could help misinformation spread.

"Since Elon Musk took over he's just, you know, let it be the Wild West again," Victoria believes.

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.

It’s troubling that there’s a very real possibility "Died Suddenly,” full of blatant and obvious nonsense and lies, is a troll, but with reality and parody now indistinguishable from each other, as with Dylan Mulvaney, we might never really know.

It’s sufficiently bogus that even anti-vaxers are calling it a “psyop” to discredit anti-vaxers. Considering it simply reproduces anti-vax talking points, it’s kind of like the Xians who tell you “that’s not what Xianity’s about” when you simply quote the bible back to them.

#Died Suddenly #hoax videos #hoax #antivax #anti vax #coronavirus vaccine #coronavirus #COVID vaccine #blood clot #Keyontae Johnson #fraudsters #fraud #misinformation #mRNA vaccine #conspiracy theorists #conspiracy theory #conspiracy theories #the darkest timeline #religion is a mental illness

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