Sigh Here we go again. I'm sure this post will not stir up yet /another/ post of straight arguing in the comments.
How can it seemingly never be acknowledged following the pandemic that young people do, on occasion, have freak events such as cardiac arrest for reasons not related to the vaccine? There are plenty of cases that predate the vaccines. Is it also too hard to suppose that maybe heart disease doesn't necessarily discriminate based on age for people who eat like crap and never exercise?
Agreed. I was going to point that out as well but a few other comments addressed the dating of the sources so I instead just wanted to address the people who read the title and were ready to jump into the comments to beat a dead horse.
See, this is what I love about the internet. It channels the best of the "ancient curses": "the curse in disguise" ... "the poisoned chalice"*. I guess, it's a sort of "Artifact of Doom", as tvtropes.org, handily accessible through the very same, renders it.
I remember "here we go again" VERY well, from the 90s. There are probably people here who remember it from the 80s and before, on the internet (of course, disregarding earlier iterations that, granted, could not provide the speed, volume, intensity, etc. of our "greatest" communications tech to date**).
The Internet is reminiscent of "The One Ring", "The Ring of Gyges"***, and also, "The Mask (of Loki)" (as characterized in "The Mask", that Jim Carrey movie from the 90s). It has that mixture of addictiveness / fascination, particularly to those who seek power / influence****. And, like each of the objects just mentioned, it amplifies (and sometimes outright twists) the internals of individuals. Even those who "should know better" give in to the dark impulses of ego / id ... in the heat of a fight.
There's a saying from far earlier days to the effect of "flamewars bring a lot of heat, but very little light". The great thing is, there's always "a new sucker", and now we have "Nation State actors", "Advanced Persistent Threats", and whole new categories of that good old-fashioned "rhetoric" (really, rhetorical "spanking the monkey") that haunts human existence, spreading like a cancer OF cancer.
... Every blessing a curse, I guess. Pretty much guaranteed that continual rolls of the dice will eventually result in "snake eyes". I'd better stop writing before things get too biblical, hahaha... hard not to think of Carlin, at least, to close: https://youtu.be/b9fmjHeRh4k
** A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila - Mitch Ratcliffe
*** Plato, a sort of ancestor of Tolkien's version (no idea off the top of my head if it influenced his or not ... Tolkien also has been argued not to have been influenced by development of nuclear weapons per se, though nuclear weapons certainly fit the metaphor - would be "The One Ring" of "The Atomic Age", IMO / fairly clearly)
**** How often do I think the name "Wormtongue" when reading something I come across on this network of networks ... and, toady or fool, the cause matters little
How can it seemingly never be acknowledged following the pandemic that young people do, on occasion, have freak events such as cardiac arrest for reasons not related to the vaccine? There are plenty of cases that predate the vaccines. Is it also too hard to suppose that maybe heart disease doesn't necessarily discriminate based on age for people who eat like crap and never exercise?