#DiedSuddenly Was Bullshit: So Why Did We Believe It?

Covid Vaccines did NOT lead to an increase in sudden death

I suppose, in retrospect, it was inevitable. The moment that covid vaccines were approved in what was an unprecedented scientific effort, the backlash began. There have always been vaccine skeptics, but this response was worse, fueled by suspicions that the work done to create these vaccines was somehow too fast, and turbocharged by the amplifying effect of social media.

There is a bit of a hack to getting your voice amplified on Twitter — now X — or Facebook, or any engagement-based platform: Inflame emotions. And few anti-vaccine trends were more powerful in 2021 than the one with this hashtag: #DiedSuddenly.

The stories were heartbreaking. Young people, healthy, struck down in the prime of their life, with no symptoms to speak of. One moment playing soccer or football, the next in cardiac arrest.

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If you were on social media at the time — you couldn’t get away from that hashtag. The implication — these deaths were due to vaccination — was ghoulish, but more ghoulish was the ravenous way the reports of virtually…