Another athlete in her prime has a sudden unexplained death
(www.orlandosentinel.com)
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One thing I've been wondering is if there's any trend in this apparent spike in athlete deaths, like if this would impact sports with more of an endurance component or, say, speed/high intensity. I've heard of soccer players collapsing, but not necessarily much else.
Going only on the select stories I've heard about, it seems like this is mostly impacting sports with some variety of intensity during play/practice. With that in mind, I would ask, do those sports necessarily make someone more prone to cardiovascular problems?
There's probably a zillion factors in how the mRNA gets to your heart muscle.
Does more of it stay around in a larger arm muscle? Or do large muscles have better circulation / larger veins to whisk the mRNA away?
Did an individual do arm exercises after getting the jab and squeeze it out into the lymph? Or somebody did lots of full-body motion that circulates the lymph?
Are people in one sport more likely to fake getting the vaccine, and did this happen a lot or just a handful of people?
My guess is the trend would be the more exercise the sooner after getting jabbed. So you might see people on the same team being more likely to have heart problems because one team got jabbed in the morning and the other before they left for the day.
The vast majority of the pre-COVID related sudden cardiac deaths in athletes would've been arrhythmias - aka problems with the electrical and wiring systems of the heart.
One of the most common causes of exercise-induced death pre-COVID was something called hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), which is a genetic defect where high-performance exercise causes an unnatural thickening of the myocardium in a non-concentric way, eventually causing the outflow portal of the left side of the heart to become so narrowed that an athlete will suddenly pass out and die in a situation when oxygen demand outstrips supply.
So I would suspect that adding in the mRNA spike protein X-factor, the sudden deaths have to do with subclinical inflammation of the heart/subclinical myocarditis that leads to remodeling or scarring of the heart muscle, producing fatal arrhythmias due to wiring disruption or thickening of the heart muscle in such a way that leads to obstruction in athletes with the genetic predisposition to HOCM.