"Died Suddenly"? Not so fast.
About the new film, the not-so-new phenomenon, and the need for proper comparators and denominators.
There’s a new film on the block, “Died Suddenly”, and it’s raked in views by the millions — 7,663,511 views for the main version on Rumble at the time of writing, less than four full days since its release. I had never heard of producer Stew Peters nor directors Matthew Miller Skow and Nicholas Stumphauzer, who look into the growing concerns about sudden and unexpected deaths among younger people along with reports from embalmers about never-before seen fibrous clots in heart attack victims and other deceased. These core concerns are supported by an impressive number of witnesses along with video and photographic evidence, yet also combined with an array of only partially related half-truths.
Dr. Joshua Guetzkow provides a number of valuable corrections of the documentary’s contents in four areas:
The US Department of Defense medical database DMED, where a whistleblower had over-estimated the increase in a number of potential vaccine side effects.
Australian birth rates are shown to plummet by -70% but this was over-stated due to a reporting issue.
Miscarriages and stillbirths in Pfizer’s post-marketing report were misinterpreted as being part of the vaccine trial, thus the denominator (number of pregnant women being vaccinated) is falsely assumed to be known, resulting in a vast exaggeration of adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Reference is also made throughout the documentary to global elites conspiring to limit or even reduce the population of planet earth. Pictures of today’s representatives of this suspected “depopulation agenda”, including of Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and Bill Gates, are associated with the suggestion that the COVID vaccines were made to kill people off. Yet, check out Josh’s post for a simple explanation for Bill Gates’ counter-intuitive statement that vaccines will help slow down global population growth.
To add to the last point, the filmmakers in a prerelease update emphasized that they decided to broach the ideology behind mass vaccination campaigns, referring to the Malthusian growth model that predicts a clash between an exponentially growing human population and declining global resources such as food. I have to admit to being fascinated by the Club of Rome’s limits-of-growth modeling as a student and I don’t think it’s wrong to monitor and steer humanity’s impact on the planet.
UPDATE (30 Nov 2022): I removed my silly map illustration of the world population in relation to land surface in order to avoid distraction from the main topic of this post. The original version can still be found at https://archive.ph/6BPcO and in the Internet archive.
In his critique of “Died Suddenly”, Josh Guetzkow also notes the introductory sequence of mostly unrelated scandals and mysteries, and I’ll add that this continues through the movie, where not just “Bigfoot, UFOs and Jeffrey Epstein” flash across your screen, but also suggestive images of the 1969 moon landing, 9/11, Volodymyr Zelensky’s green screen performances, and … Greta Thunberg. There even is a grainy Loch Ness-style video snippet. Why on earth would the filmmakers want their revelations be associated with the wildest conspiracy theories and unrelated political issues?
To the factual shortcomings noted by Josh, I will add that the US Army whistleblower brings up the “1291 adverse events” from the Pfizer post-marketing study, which have been misunderstood as actual observations rather than potential adverse events to be monitored (see e.g. one of my “Pfizerleaks” posts from March 2022). This is also where the narrator implies that Pfizer’s shareholders must be happy since the vaccines seem to fulfill their killing function — which I found to be one of the most absurd points in the documentary. Unfortunately, the honourable Dr. Peter McCullough is seen in a seconds-short frame seemingly confirming the narrative around the vaccines’ true purpose: “If the goal was to reduce the world’s population, it’s working”. That sure is a big “if” in the context of the depopulation agenda.
Another highly regarded critique of the pandemic measures, entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, also does not play the most fortunate role in this film, in my opinion. We are repeatedly taken back to his encounter with local police, when he was stalking a CDC vaccine safety director because she did not return his calls and emails … which is kind of awkward behaviour, even for a “journalist for Substack”. Plus, Kirsch pegs the under-reporting factor for vaccine-related deaths at 100, meaning that there were some 1.5 million rather than the reported 15,000 US-domestic deaths following the shots. To my knowledge, the VAERS URF is more realistically estimated at 26 to 41. In fact, Kirsch himself has written about a maximum URF estimate of 51.
The “Died Suddenly” film has more inconsistencies but let me also say that many of the speakers make important points, e.g. when Kirsch asks why no bureaucrat or mainstream academic wants to engage in a debate on vaccine safety or why most people do not seem interested in knowing what’s in the vaccine vials or how these drugs work. The snippets of vaccine pushers are compelling too, e.g. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow declaring with total conviction: “honestly, [the vaccine] is not for you, it’s so you don’t kill other people!” Talk about irrationally stoking fear and hatred against unvaccinated people.
The core contribution of the film is the testimony of multiple embalmers about an amount of clotting and a type of clots never seen before 2021 in their professional practice. I do however have questions in this area too. For example, are there other embalmers who would go on record to state that they do not see the same thing? Are these “calamari-like” rubbery fibrous clots structurally different from anything seen before the widespread administration of the mRNA therapeutics? I have to note that there is online information on “differentiating antemortem from postmortem clots”, including from before 2021, where the postmortem clot descriptions and images seem to march the embalmers’ findings quite well.
UPDATE (26 Nov 2022): Substack blogger “A Midwestern Doctor” also reviewed “Died Suddenly”, highlighting its visual-persuasion potential and the importance of the embalmers’ observations. He/she offers a tentative yet convincing explanation of “What is Causing the Blood Clots from ‘Died Suddenly?’” and created an abridged version of the documentary that includes only the scenes relevant to the fibrous clots. That version is a mere 15 minutes short, which in my view illustrates the amount of dispensable material included in the Stew Peters version.
Lastly, the film includes numerous short segments of people collapsing in the middle of normal activities. One has to wonder whether such incidents really did not happen as frequently in the past as compared to the last year-and-a-half. For example, a 59-year-old, perfectly healthy neighbour of mine passed away in 2019 within minutes, without premonition. Thus, I want to explore the question of the proper comparators, or denominators, a bit further.
At one point, the Stew Peters documentary shows a Google search for “died suddenly”, which turns up numerous heart-breaking stories. The total search results (using google.com in a private browser window) currently amount to about 642,000,000 web pages for “died suddenly”, and 89,300,000 if we restrict the search to the past year. So that’s a whopping 642 million pages, with 89 million of them date-stamped within one year! But let’s see what happens when we search “died after a long battle”. This gives us an even larger total of about 818,000,000 results, or 68,900,000 in the past year!!
An indication that something odd may be happening (or that our interests and focus of attention have shifted?) are the proportions, with only about 8% of pages related to “died after a long battle” dated to the past twelve months, but a larger 14% of pages related to “died suddenly” having been published within one year. However, “died peacefully” is even more popular with 6,490,000 (21%) out of 31,100,000 in the past year, topped only by “died unexpectedly” with the largest total of 1,460,000,000 hits and 22% or 317,000,000 recent pages. Thus, we can probably not draw any conclusions here, and any “Google research” may constitute research into Google’s algorithms and Google users’ behaviour rather than examining real-life phenomena.
As a final experiment, we’ll compare the Internet search results with similar searches on an online obituary site. The other day, I stumbled upon remembering.ca by sheer coincidence (I swear!). The site seems to include over 1.4 million obituaries. The search function did not turn up any results for the multi-word query “after a long battle” but for the single-word queries “suddenly”, “unexpectedly”, and “peacefully”, results amounted to between 15,000 and over half a million, with the above roles of peaceful vs. unexpected passing reversed as you might expect when families seek comfort in formulating an obit. Recent search results (filter set to “This Year”) yield only single-digit percentages from 2.1% to 4.5%, with no apparent pattern.
As with the collapsing athletes, show hosts, and comedians, I share the subjective impression that there are many more “died suddenly” incidents than before the pandemic, yet we need hard data to confirm these anecdotal observations.