This is what confirmation bias looks like. You weren't looking for it before, and people weren't incentivized to sensationalize athletes' medical problems in the past.
Sudden cardiac problems tend to rear their heads when you're overexerting yourself, no matter how healthy you perceive yourself to be[1]. There's a reason gyms have defibrillators, it's because strenuous exercise increases your risks of sudden cardiac events.
Here's an article from 2012, titled "Why do sports stars collapse in action?", that examines the collapse of athletes while playing sports[2]:
> Professional sports players are generally in prime physical condition, especially with today’s advanced physiological, nutritional and medical knowledge.
> However, Fabrice Muamba is the latest in a growing list of athletes around the world who have suffered heart problems – seemingly out of nowhere.
Weird how this sudden trend goes all the way back to 2012.
I agree the phenomenon isn't new.[1] But that doesn't mean that number of cases hasn't changed. I think what started the recent 'sudden cardiac death of athletes' speculation is more the perceived incidence than the phenomenon itself.
Anecdata time: the nurse at the school I attended in the 90's had a son who was a marathon runner, keel over and die on a light training run from a undiagnosed heart defect 30 years ago.
If you're referring to Damar Hamlin, if you look at the event he took a super hard blow to his chest prior to collapsing, something which can cause a cardiac arrest.
Not saying it is not happening more often, but how often you see it reported is not a good indicator. It is just how the news works, there is now heightened interest in that sort of thing so it is reported more often. I do remember such cases from before Covid.
Another recent example would be „black person killed by cops“ - even here in Germany the latest case made national news, even though it happened in the US.
So you watched an NFL player get hit in his chest by a 6'4" 220lb athlete that plowed his full body weight into the hit... and thought: the vaccine did this
You say this happens "weekly" but cant name any other incidents.
Literally before covid I had heard of multiple professional athletes collapsing on the field, and personally known a healthy young football player who hoped to go pro but died at 21 by collapsing during a game with a heart attack. How are you defining truth in this question?
For example, avoiding formulating ideas through broad categories that could only belong to a world of tentative preliminary draft models, between the "omniscient homo oeconomicus, spherically shaped" and "things and they" (but also "we", "science"...).
> in our society
You were not supposed to drown mentally in "what comes to you" (and the poster calls "«society»") in the first place.
> [the dire state]
Yes, the state is dire because citizens are treated like fools, and the strategic answer is education, not paternalism (which by the way alienates intellectuals and properly developed individuals).
It was definitely happening in Europe in football games, but it was less common than nowadays.
Of course now one group will say these people are collapsing because of vaccine, other group will say it's because they didn't recover from COVID and it's difficult to draw the conclusion. Now what we really need to do is to compare highly vaxxed nations with least vaxxed nations (Africa will be helpful, China without mRNA as well) and see their heart attacks trends, then you can draw conclusion whether this rise is most likely caused by vax, COVID or other factors. Obviously with population getting more obese ty year they were growing already before vax/COVID.
