Stupid Dumb Murderous Video Games

 Oh my god, how do I opt out of LIFE. Before anyone misconstrues this, I'm not talking smack about vaccines: I know health issues associated with them are statistically rare. But I am encouraging people to become more aware of how blatant and stupid the media is becoming in its attempts to divert public attention. Or to the fact that it seems to be working.

Cuz wait, suddenly in 2022 researchers have discovered that video games can cause FATAL CARDIAC ARREST in kids predisposed to arrythmia! And somehow they didn't notice that before!
Really? Hello? Undiagnosed arrythmia can cause cardiac arrest, blackouts, and death FROM THE ADRENALINE SPIKE CAUSED BY SWATTING A FLY. Why pick video games? Why now? Given the backdrop of the global health scene this is just scandalous.
Altogether they say there have been 22 cases documented. Ever. I'm sure there are thousands of kids who have died playing video games from all sorts of different causes. Games have been played for half a century and nobody's drawn a link to them (acutely) causing death. How come researchers coincidentally happened to discover that the same year that a globally distributed drug was proven to cause fatal cardiac arrest in younger populations?
How does anyone rationalize skipping this very fundamental logical stepping stone and jump straight ahead into "Good lord! No more video games for Jimmy, he'll have a heart attack! Put your phone away and read a book while we're waiting for our shots, there's a good lad."
Look at the first page of results for https://www.google.com/search?q=video+games+heart+attack . The whole thing looks delightfully curated, all with a bunch of studies and news articles, ALL from this week, ALL from 2022, except for one study from 1983 blithely lumped in at the bottom as if to say "Hey! Don't worry! This is old news!"
But if you look at that study, it's hardly damning. It's locked behind a pay wall but the abstract says that it just "observes some physiological changes in people playing electronic games."
Look at other studies between 1983 and 2002 and you'll see a few more that suggest video games can affect cardiovascular health. this one ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16585487/ ) says that "video games produce significant cardiovascular changes that are lower than that associated with standard physical exercise." This one ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1877563/ ) concludes "the increase in metabolic rate and cardiovascular stimulation was similar in magnitude to mild-intensity exercise."
Nowhere anywhere ever in the history of video games has something as ridiculous as "video games cause heart attacks" been published. Remember the outrage when they published a study that said video games might make people more violent? Like ten million kids' parents banned them from playing GTA so they had to sneak out at midnight and go slam energy drinks and play it at their friends' places.
If video games were causing heart attacks as well as making kids turn into psycho killers, don't you think we'd have a video game version of M.A.D.D. on our hands?
And yet suddenly, after the global release of a drug that causes cardiac arrest (see this study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8831382/ and this one https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8243257/ and this one https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.abj7796 and this one https://www.ema.europa.eu/.../comirnaty-spikevax-possible... and this one https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29503439 and this summary table https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../children-08-00607-t001/ and this one https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34229446 and so on) it becomes apparent that VIDEO GAMES ARE ACTUALLY CAUSING CARDIAC ARREST BTW SORRY WE FORGOT TO MENTION THAT OVER THE LAST FIVE DECADES BUT ALL YOU 30-50 YEAR OLDS WHO GREW UP GAMING MUST KNOW SOMEONE WHO'S JUST KICKED THE BUCKET WHILE PLAYING PONG RIGHT? RIGHT?
Am I saying vaccines are causing heart attacks all over the place? Of course not! All these studies say that myocarditis is extremely rare but that there is a definite link between vaccination & cardiac arrest / myocarditis.
But I'm saying this is horribly biased science, an extremely, EXTREMELY obvious example of narrative-driven media that I seriously challenge anyone to dispute. And with something this serious, I think it warrants further questioning regarding what else the media's narrative is pushing for.
So they looked through data and found a number of kids who experienced cardiac arrest while playing video games and then release a study phrased as if that's a definite causative factor is just dumb, biased science. Maybe if there were dozens of studies linking ACUTE cardiac arrest to video game playing, then that'd be worth drawing a causative link. But there isn't. The closest you'll get is this study (here https://www.voanews.com/.../couch-potatoes.../171346.html ) saying that couch potatoes who game or watch TV for 4 hours or more daily have a higher risk of strokes (shit, guilty) or this one, saying that an egyptian kid with obesity died after playing PUBG for 12 hours straight (here https://7news.com.au/.../12-year-old-dies-of-heart-attack... ) and they ultimately blamed the obesity, not the video game.
I mean good god, last year they published a study proving that playing war games actually improved cardiovascular health by reducing blood pressure and lowering heart rate. Make up your damn mind and stop using science like a storybook. It's discrediting the very nature of science!

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