Here's what the media are blaming for the catastrophic rise in heart attacks

The potential causes vary wildly between sources, yet these sources all agree what the culprit isn't. Also, a (perhaps too bright) light in the darkness

On February 13, CBS News did a segment on the recent rise in heart attacks in younger Americans. The network was careful to repeatedly mention one of the two major new ingredients in the public-health stew since 2020—the coronavirus—while studiously avoiding any mention of the other new ingredient for the entire three minutes and twenty-two seconds of the segment.

Since only the other ingredient has been definitively linked to alarming rates of myocarditis and other cardiac problems, especially in younger men, one would expect a group of journalists to be eager to explore every potential driver of this dire trend. Not only is this their job, but one of their colleagues, a 44-year-old CNN reporter who had followed all of the government’s covid-related guidelines, recently suffered a bout of myocarditis and was off the air for weeks. Okay, so what if that episode was attributed to a common cold? Surely other things must be contributing to the coronary mayhem, since we’d all be dead by now if colds typically sent our tickers into states of extreme distress or dysfunction.

There are no useful studies linking the coronavirus to a significant rise in these events; if there were, you’d see these trumpeted in headlines. Also, the incidence of heart attacks didn’t start increasing until 2021, whereas the virus and its variants began circulating in the United States in the beginning of 2020. That should help narrow things down a little! Was it a new POTUS and his moribund, shambling vibe that was causing thirteen young people to have heart attacks for every ten that previously did?

That’s not a ratio anyone could ignore, or else I wouldn’t be writing this. The entire corporate media has engaged in a ferocious and transparent “non-denial denial” campaign ever since it became impossible to contain the amount of people experiencing cardiac arrest, especially the ones who died.

The government and its allies can hide a lot of things, but they can’t hide dead bodies, especially teenaged and young-adult bodies. Therefore, they have to produce explanations for how these and other American bodies come to exist in permanently deceased states. The CDC does this via its longstanding and highly detailed Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), which is how actuaries and others have kept themselves informed of cause-of-death statistics trends.

The CDC, if it chooses, can hide or delay specifying anyone’s cause of death by ordering the event ne assigned a code that amounts to “unknown, will specify later.” This practice, which is neither legal nor ethical, can in theory be used to artificially flatten a rising death curve attributable to a known and specific cause. Later, the temporary code can be replaced by one matching the real cause of death.

Provided the CDC distributes some of these events over an artificially extended period while backlogging others toward eternity, members of the public—those who even know where to hunt—will see no apparent spike in, say, fatal blood clots, or fatal strokes, or fatal heart attacks. And it looks like this is what’s been happening.

The obligatory result of this deviant practice is a rise in literally unexplained or “excess” natural-cause deaths, of which something like 550,000 have amassed in the U.S. since early April of 2021. To detect this glut of unexplained corpses despite the CDC’s relentless obfuscation, data manipulation, and purposeful inaction since the start of the “pandemic” requires a rare combination of time, expertise in data analysis, and determination. The Ethical Skeptic is rich in these traits, and I recommend digging into this post (though this is the site’s magnum opus to date).

If you have a low tolerance for graphs or numerical narratives and subplots, the post is not worth wading through, and neither is the rest of The Ethical Skeptic's work. But it’s not difficult to understand, just slow reading and rife with unfamiliar insurance-code and other jargon. I think it’s a great treatise on how systematically diabolical the U.S. Government truly is. That syphilitic leviathan is filled with crooks and hacks, and every last shifty operative should be sent to either the guillotine or an mRNA booster clinic, their choice; but at the plotting and executive level, its actual principals—who generally are not the people you see speaking in public—are not stupid.

If you have a low tolerance for bullshit, or perhaps four-by-four grids of squares, you won’t like the image below, either. But at least it’s not confusing. Things that may put you at risk of a heart attack include skipping breakfast (or eating bacon and eggs instead); exercising, including shoveling snow (or not exercising); being a sad old maid (or a happy 22-year-old woman); climate change (if you’re a baby); energy drinks; noisy planes overhead; too warm a bed; bad potting soil; and falling asleep with the television on.

The (obvious) thing here is that people have been facing each of these hazards for decades. Heck, most people I know haven’t eaten breakfast since being weaned off the titty, if not earlier. What are the chances these sixteen-ish foes are acting together to newly injure or kill as many people as something that came along in 2021 and caused the CDC to visibly become a document-shredding propaganda outlet instead of a public-health agency?

I’m actually quite tired of all of this. I could write a post a day like this one about a different official lie or spin-job and not keep up with the output or the media’s catalysis of it. This country is a massive, throbbing shithole—a spasmodically winking anus three thousand miles in diameter, long unwiped and emitting a plume of greenish, searing death-gas reaching nearly to the moon (and carrying many spirits with it)—and it’s honestly impressive how quickly this was enacted across all its institutions by such colossally lazy bureaucrats and other fuckups. By dismal, shakedown-oriented DEI design, every institution has more mindless bureaucrats than ever, and this widely dispersed cavalcade of absolute idiots has ruined all of them, albeit not precisely of these idiots’ own tepid volition.

I really do expect a lot more people to eventually wake up to what’s happening, though I have no idea what that will take—if the economy tanks, people won’t think of much else—or what any of us will or can do in response besides morph into around-the-clock keyboard zealots, or simply wander around bellowing until given free long-term hospice with a warm bed (but not too warm) and precisely the right amounts of the right kinds of foods, mostly cricket-and-cicada smoothies with a shot of Paxlovid.