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Old 05-02-2024, 03:14 PM
 
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Old 05-02-2024, 03:23 PM
 
Location: King County, WA
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Yes it's disturbing, from a certain perspective. The type of internal corporate pressure these guys faced likely ramped up their stress levels significantly for a lengthy period, which could be damaging to their health. I think normal actuarial data might not be applicable in that case. MRSA is highly contagious, spread through skin contact, and is difficult to treat. It would certainly look like a natural death, if one were inclined to infect somebody in a hospital setting.
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Old 05-02-2024, 05:15 PM
 
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Yes it's disturbing, from a certain perspective. The type of internal corporate pressure these guys faced likely ramped up their stress levels significantly for a lengthy period, which could be damaging to their health. I think normal actuarial data might not be applicable in that case. MRSA is highly contagious, spread through skin contact, and is difficult to treat. It would certainly look like a natural death, if one were inclined to infect somebody in a hospital setting.
That was a consideration but I decided to just play it straight down the middle using typical actuarial tables.

I think that showing it's a 1/6 dice roll to 2 OR MORE, dead is sufficient to make a point.

Now I am not saying there shouldn't be autopsys or ruling anything out, just pointing to the situation for the average joe and this is a mere single dice roll. Hard to hang a hat on that.

On top of that, these people have likely already made sworn statements.
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Old 05-02-2024, 06:57 PM
 
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Articles state the guy got pneumonia and then the dreaded MRSA infection when in the hospital, leading to his death. How did someone else do that to him?
Just chalk it up to Corporate Mental Illness.

Flush it down with "Schit Happens".
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Old 05-02-2024, 07:04 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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Articles state the guy got pneumonia and then the dreaded MRSA infection when in the hospital, leading to his death. How did someone else do that to him?

It's very easy to dismiss anything that might seem like a conspiracy theory. It provides a certain sense of comfort. But I'll take the cold hard truth over that which merely pacifies me. That's why I always try to maintain an open mind when events like this occur. Maybe it's something? Maybe it's nothing? Either way, it doesn't hurt to pay attention.
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Old 05-02-2024, 07:27 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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Articles state the guy got pneumonia and then the dreaded MRSA infection when in the hospital, leading to his death. How did someone else do that to him?
That can happen hopefully the family uses an expert pathologist to get a 2nd opinion. Really need a team of experts rule out any foul play. I know someone who got a cold bad cough he didn't go to the doctor was found dead. He had pneumonia didn't realize how bad it was.
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Old 05-02-2024, 07:35 PM
 
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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That was a consideration but I decided to just play it straight down the middle using typical actuarial tables.

I think that showing it's a 1/6 dice roll to 2 OR MORE, dead is sufficient to make a point.

Now I am not saying there shouldn't be autopsys or ruling anything out, just pointing to the situation for the average joe and this is a mere single dice roll. Hard to hang a hat on that.

On top of that, these people have likely already made sworn statements.
What are the chances of there being only one case of a highly contagious illness in a hospital setting? It's transmitted by skin contact so someone else must have been ill with it. I guess all we have to do is find out who else (or how many others) in that hospital were infected.

The other question of course would what the motive for foul play could be. It's too late to keep him quiet. Revenge? Doesn't make sense. And besides, the guy was in hospital with pneumonia. Seems far too complicated to be a plot.
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Old 05-02-2024, 08:05 PM
 
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What are the chances of there being only one case of a highly contagious illness in a hospital setting? It's transmitted by skin contact so someone else must have been ill with it. I guess all we have to do is find out who else (or how many others) in that hospital were infected.

The other question of course would what the motive for foul play could be. It's too late to keep him quiet. Revenge? Doesn't make sense. And besides, the guy was in hospital with pneumonia. Seems far too complicated to be a plot.
Not touching any of that stuff. Just showing that 2 random joes out of a group of 30 around that age dying is not even remotely rare in terms of statistics.

No point in engaging when the entire theme is based upon the *oddity* of rolling a 6 on a dice.

If there is further proof or evidence then fine.

I would note that killing whistle blowers after 30 or so have come forward, made their statements and having the entire thing blow up and waiting years and years would likely be a plot for a movie that we would all click off half way thru for having a stupid unreasonable plot.
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Old 05-02-2024, 08:33 PM
 
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So a healthy man in his 40s contracts a mysterious "illness" and then dies in a couple of weeks, with both hands and feet requiring amputation.
Yup, totally normal occurrence. Happens all the time.


He also shared the same lawyer as the other whistleblower. I think we found the murderer.
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Old 05-02-2024, 08:35 PM
 
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I wonder what they did to get the Clintons all p’od?
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