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Oct 19Liked by epimetheus

Prices range from about 10 000:- for a low-end machine. On top of that, it needs a heated locker if it's to be placed outdoors, doubling the cost. Plus its internal batteries needs replacing 2-3 times inside ten years, no matter if it is being used or not and a battery runs you ca 3 500:-.

Very good business for the Chinese-American-UK medical companies who manufacture them.

(Also, there's a big technical difference between a "heartstarter" and a real defibrillator: the former is what's been bought and placed all over, the latter is the gear they have at hospitals, and those units a) cost a minimum of $50 000/unit and B) you need to be trained in advance to use it correctly. But the "heartstarters" are sold with the implicit assumption they work as in Hollywood movies. There's no depth capitalism won't sink to.)

2022 there were 22 000 (rounded to nearest thousand of) heartstarters in Sweden. I got the numbers from a registry set up so people can check where there are heartstarters, so they can "feel safe". Fear and paranoia sells. Let's say an average purchase price in toto of 20 000:-, including setting it up, times 20 000.

20 000*20 000= 400 000 000:-.

While it may seem trivial compared to the budget of the public health care sector (74 983 000 000:- for 2024) it's not peanuts either. I wonder how many China-made heartstarters have been bought in UK or Germany?

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Oh, my, that's quite a bit of money we're talking here. I'd further surmise that there's 'specialist service contractors' involved in regular check-ups, updates, and the like, too.

Like with modern cars, retailers don't really make big bucks from selling a vehicle--the big money is made with mandated service updates and the like (I think this aspect is even worse--from a customer's point of view--with so-called electric cars…).

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Oct 19Liked by epimetheus

Re the schoolboy story. There's a heart condition, and runs in families, called Long QT, which disregulates the electrical waves. This is only discovered after several fainting episodes or a heart attack and the remedy is a pacemaker. Then family members are tested. This problem was in my family, in-laws side, and fortunately, my children were not affected, although picked up in grandfather, one of 2 sons, (initial detection), then in one of his two sons. These heart problems were very rare before.

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Given that the piece explained that they were doing sports in school (and a rather extraordinary workout, at that) just minutes before he collapsed indicates you might be onto something here. That said, no indication about the proximate cause is given, and there's nothing about a prior history.

I'm the last one to reduce everything and the kitchen sink to the modRNA poison/death juices, and the teen who suffered a cardiac arrest in 2020 certainly didn't do so from these shots. Yet, why bring this up in a piece (see above) that's ostensibly about the drastic rise in 'sudden and unexpected' cardiac arrests? This is either incompetence or malice*, and given that the former is kinda hard to infer in late 2024, there's not that much in terms of choice here, isn't it?

* I would, however, add that there's a possibility that Mr. Wilthil is trolling the editors (who wouldn't permit publication of anything 'more' [sic] critical) or he's simply 'trolling' the reader by teasing them (us) with these 'catch-phrases'. You be the judge…

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