This time in US, possibly even world, history, is going to be viewed by historians as the mass conspiracy psychosis period of human history. A time in which unrestrained, often politically-motivated, paranoia continuously elevated pure idle speculation into widely accepted lore leveraging social-media borne misinformation. Where state, political and special interest groups adopted and refined the misinformation into disinformation to serve their purposes.
Apparently healthy people die suddenly all the time. About 5-6 years back, I had a close friend, in his mid 40s, who was very fit, ran 5 miles every day, played soccer games twice a week, who died suddenly on the side of the road while driving back to MA after giving a lecture at RU. Heart failure.
A fully healthy woman I went to HS with died fairly young from choking on food while alone. Another guy I knew died suddenly at his desk for no apparent reason. This stuff happens.
Meaningless coincidences, often based on unrelated and purely anecdotal reports that nobody can verify, quickly become pseudo-facts that are spread around until nobody questions it. People no longer apply skepticism logically. They apply skepticism using their preconceptions, their strongly held biases. Things must be true because they correlate with my politics, or with the propaganda espoused by my chosen “news” sources.
This sucks, is very widespread, and is not restricted to any particular “side” of any issue or any political orientation. This thread is a perfect example of the problem.
It’s always possible that foul play is involved in a sudden death. Or that there is some actual medical trend that correlates with something and that a given singular event might become part of that trend. But possibility is not evidence. Statistical anomalies, even when accurate, are not conclusive evidence of theories.
People need to step back from the conjecture abyss and learn to be skeptical again.