{"id":548061,"date":"2023-02-05T13:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T10:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/died-suddenly-posts-twist-tragedies-to-push-vaccine-lies\/"},"modified":"2023-02-05T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T10:42:22","slug":"died-suddenly-posts-twist-tragedies-to-push-vaccine-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/died-suddenly-posts-twist-tragedies-to-push-vaccine-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Died suddenly&#8217; posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e055764cca\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e055764cca\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/died-suddenly-posts-twist-tragedies-to-push-vaccine-lies\/#%E2%80%98Died_suddenly_posts_twist_tragedies_to_push_vaccine_lies\" >&#8216;Died suddenly&#8217; posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Died_suddenly_posts_twist_tragedies_to_push_vaccine_lies\"><\/span>&#8216;Died suddenly&#8217; posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver\u2019s autopsy may take weeks. But online anti-vaccine activists needed only hours after her funeral this week to baselessly blame the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>A prolific Twitter account posted Anastasia\u2019s name and smiling dance portrait in a tweet with a syringe emoji. A <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> user messaged her mother, Jessica Day-Weaver, to call her a \u201cmurderer\u201d for having her child vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the Ohio kindergartner had experienced lifelong health problems since her premature birth, including epilepsy, asthma and frequent hospitalizations with respiratory viruses. \u201cThe doctors haven\u2019t given us any information other than it was due to all of her chronic conditions. &#8230; There was never a thought that it could be from the vaccine,&#8221; Day-Weaver said of her daughter&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>But those facts didn\u2019t matter online, where Anastasia was swiftly added to a growing list of hundreds of children, teens, athletes and celebrities whose unexpected deaths and injuries have been incorrectly blamed on COVID-19 shots. Using the hashtag #diedsuddenly, online conspiracy theorists have flooded social media with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> reports, obituaries and GoFundMe pages in recent months, leaving grieving families to wrestle with the lies.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s the 37-year-old Brazilian television host who collapsed live on air because of a congenital heart problem. The 18-year-old unvaccinated bull rider who died from a rare disease. The 32-year-old actress who died from bacterial infection complications.<\/p>\n<p>The use of \u201cdied suddenly\u201d \u2014 or a misspelled version of it \u2014 has surged more than 740% in tweets about vaccines over the past two months compared with the two previous months, the media intelligence firm Zignal Labs found in an analysis conducted for The Associated Press. The phrase\u2019s explosion began with the late November debut of an online \u201cdocumentary\u201d by the same name, giving power to what experts say is a new and damaging shorthand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of in-group language, kind of a wink wink, nudge nudge,\u201d said Renee DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. \u201cThey\u2019re taking something that is a relatively routine way of describing something \u2014 people do, in fact, die unexpectedly \u2014 and then by assigning a hashtag to it, they aggregate all of these incidents in one place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The campaign causes harm beyond just the internet, epidemiologist Dr. Katelyn Jetelina said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real danger is that it ultimately leads to real world actions such as not vaccinating,\u201d said Jetelina, who tracks and breaks down COVID data for her blog, \u201cYour Local Epidemiologist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rigorous study and real-world evidence from hundreds of millions of administered shots prove that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/how-do-we-know-covid-19-vaccines-safe-b688bd470d2eb8a74953dd34d29fd756\" data-ylk=\"slk:COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective<\/a>. Deaths caused by vaccination are extremely rare and the risks associated with not getting vaccinated are far higher than the risks of vaccination. But that hasn&#8217;t stopped conspiracy theorists from lobbing a variety of untrue accusations at the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cDied Suddenly\u201d film features a montage of headlines found on Google to falsely suggest they prove that sudden deaths have \u201cnever h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened like this until now.\u201d The film has amassed more than 20 million views on an alternative video sharing website, and its companion Twitter account posts about more deaths and injuries daily.<\/p>\n<p>An AP review of more than 100 tweets from the account in December and January found that claims about the cases being vaccine related were largely unsubstantiated and, in some cases, contradicted by public information. Some of the people featured died of genetic disorders, drug overdoses, flu complications or suicide. One died in a surfing accident.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers did not respond to specific questions from the AP, but instead issued a statement that referenced a \u201csurge in sudden deaths\u201d and a \u201cPROVEN rate of excess deaths,\u201d without providing data.<\/p>\n<p>The number of overall deaths in the U.S. has been <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/covid19\/excess_deaths.htm\" data-ylk=\"slk:higher than what would be expected\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">higher than what would be expected<\/a> since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in part because of the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-science-health-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-robert-anderson-ff2f01e401abce778bea8ac2e9c6e53e\" data-ylk=\"slk:virus, overdoses and other causes\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">virus, overdoses and other causes<\/a>. COVID-19 vaccines <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-science-health-england-54d29ae3af5c700f15d704c14ee224b5\" data-ylk=\"slk:prevented nearly 2 million U.S. deaths\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">prevented nearly 2 million U.S. deaths<\/a> in just their first year of use.<\/p>\n<p>Some deaths exploited in the film predate the pandemic. California writer Dolores Cruz published an essay in 2022 about grieving for her son, who died in a car crash in 2017. \u201cDied Suddenly\u201d used a screenshot of the headline in the film, portraying his death as vaccine related.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout my permission, someone has taken his story to show one side, and I don\u2019t appreciate that,\u201d Cruz said in an interview. \u201cHis legacy and memory are being tarnished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others featured in the film survived \u2014 but have been forced to watch clips of their medical emergencies misrepresented around the world. For Brazilian TV presenter Rafael Silva, who collapsed while reporting on air because of a congenital heart abnormality, online disinformation prompted a wave of harassment even before the \u201cDied Suddenly\u201d film used the footage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI received messages saying that I should have died to serve as an example for other people who were still thinking about getting the vaccine,\u201d Silva said.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the posts online cite no evidence except that the person who died had been vaccinated at some point in the past, using a common disinformation strategy known as post hoc fallacy, according to Jetelina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople assume that one thing caused another merely because the first thing preceded the other,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Some claims about those who\u2019ve suffered heart issues also weaponize a kernel of truth \u2014 that COVID-19 vaccines <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/safety\/myocarditis.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:can cause\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">can cause<\/a> rare heart inflammation issues, myocarditis or pericarditis, especially in young men. Medical experts say these cases are typically <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fact-checking-552859079506\" data-ylk=\"slk:mild\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">mild<\/a> and the benefits of immunization far outweigh the risks.<\/p>\n<p>The narrative also has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/buffalo-bills-nfl-sports-health-damar-hamlin-b1273c5903a1efd3f67c8480feb6b52f\" data-ylk=\"slk:leveraged high-profile moments\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">leveraged high-profile moments<\/a> like the collapse of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin as he suffered <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/Bills-damar-hamlin-collapse-what-happened-d73a76f2f7f736b652e95896dfaa0900\" data-ylk=\"slk:cardiac arrest during a game\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">cardiac arrest during a game<\/a> last month after a fierce blow to his chest. But sudden cardiac arrest has long been a prominent cause of death in the U.S. \u2014 and medical experts agree the vaccine didn\u2019t cause Hamlin\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n<p>For some families, the misinformation represents a sideshow to their real focus: understanding why their loved ones died and preventing similar tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>Clint Erickson&#8217;s son, Tyler, died in September just before his 18th birthday while golfing near their home in Florida. The family knows his heart stopped but still doesn&#8217;t know exactly why. Tyler wasn&#8217;t vaccinated, but his story appeared in the \u201cDied Suddenly\u201d film nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt bothers me, him being used in that way,\u201d Erickson said. But \u201cthe biggest personal issue I have is trying to find an answer or a closure to what caused this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Day-Weaver said it was upsetting to see people exploiting her daughter&#8217;s death when they knew nothing about her. They didn&#8217;t know that she loved people so much she would hug strangers at Walmart, or that she had just learned how to snap.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Day-Weaver said, \u201cI wouldn&#8217;t wish the loss of a child on anybody. Even them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Nat\u00e1lia Scarabotto in R\u00edo de Janeiro contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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