by Mark Crispin Miller, News from Underground:
A breakdown of our methodology (with some history of that obituary phrase), and a glance at how the media has been deployed to NORMALIZE this ongoing catastrophe
From Charlotte Hervis:
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Analysis of long term trends across the news online confirms that there has been a spike in such reports these past three years. The number of reports of people “dying suddenly” rose from an average of 4,346 items per month in late 2020, to an average of 5,517 in 2021, 7,287 in 2022 and, from January to August this year, there have been on average 7,910 news items each month citing this phrase alone. That’s a marked rate of change – a 22% rise in average volumes late 2020 into 2021, a 37% rise between 2021 and 2022. The dotted line indicates the upward trend over time.
It is important to explore this broad recent historical context across a large body of data, before we delve further into the trends we see from our own research and cataloging of sudden, unexplained deaths, which have been posted here on News from Underground since early 2022.
The trend visible across online news over the past three years reflects content across 173 countries, from some of the world’s biggest global news sites. (MSN, Yahoo!, Daily Mail and The Sun are among the most prolific sources of content featuring this term.) In fact, 6% of references came from the top global news sites (ranked by web traffic, as listed recently by Press Gazette).
As reports of people “dying suddenly” have multiplied dramatically worldwide, the media has tried to play that increase down, either by ignoring it completely, or by noting certain evidence of excess deaths, in some country and/or ethnographic group, but attributing that rise to something other than the one and only thing most likely to have caused it. Thus we’ve read that all those “sudden deaths” are due to (for example) stress, obesity, hot weather (i.e., climate change), “heartbreak syndrome,” referees’ whistles (suggested as the cause of all those athletes “dying suddenly”), pizza margherita (proposed by one Italian outlet as the reason why so many Italians have “died suddenly” of heart disease), drugs, alcohol, too much exercise, and—last but not least—“long COVID.”
Both those tactics—blacking out the spike in sudden deaths, or quietly explaining it away—are meant to normalize this ongoing catastrophe, so that people will forget it, and move on. Those tactics have been quite effective, appealing strongly, as they do, to our wishful thinking that this horror isn’t really happening, or, if it is, its causes are innocuous, and easily addressed. In order to see through this push to normalize the utterly abnormal, we need to put that key obituary phrase—”died suddenly”—along with the synonymous “died unexpectedly”—in its proper historical context.
Until early-to-mid-2021, those phrases were used far less often than they are today, as they shared a certain coded meaning. Each was an obituary euphemism, primarily for deaths by suicide, and, secondarily, for deaths by overdose—that is, deaths that were, back then, deemed, by the bereaved, as shameful. (Similarly, back when the word “cancer” was somewhat taboo, “died after a long illness” was a euphemism for that cause of death.) Even throughout 2020, so widely (mis)reported as a year of excess ”deaths by COVID” (although 2020 featured only one brief spike in such excess mortality—among older people lately isolated under “lockdown”— whereas that year’s death rate was not unusual overall), the number of reports of people “dying suddenly” did not notably increase.
Starting in early 2021, however, the use of both those phrases started spiking; and while they sometimes had the euphemistic purpose that they’d had for long before, more often they were literally true, as people of all ages were now “dying suddenly” or “unexpectedly,” just dropping dead, or failing to wake up, often for no given reason—a trend unprecedented in the history of obituaries, especially in the United States. Formerly—that is, before the “vaccination” drive—even deaths of people in their nineties were ascribed to some precipitating cause or causes; whereas now the vast majority of all these “sudden deaths,” not just among the very old but all others, too, including teenagers, children, babies, are noted tersely with “no cause reported.”
Some people have asked the legitimate question whether the COVID ‘vaccine’, coerced across the global population since late 2020 could be contributing to this phenomenon.
Rarely, major news outlets come straight out and say what many are thinking, the case of UK NHS Doctor Stephen Wright being a rare example:
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