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74 RUNNERS RUSHED TO HOSPITAL IN ONE RACE????? WHEN WILL NPR TELL ME ABOUT THIS?

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Let me guess... Climate Change™

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Aug 31, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

I looked it up. 82 admitted to the hospital, 300 treated at first aid tent, 2 in icu, 2 passed away. One article cites one person w cardiac event. Everything else cited as "dehydration" although the ICU patients are "off the ventilator". 19 still in hospital

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How many were vaxxed?

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I'm always perplexed when I see an author whose first language is presumably English, when he or she botches a basic headline that I could have written in first grade. Is there an article below this story? I shudder to think what the rest of it looks like.

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It must be the humidity. 😜

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Anything but the....

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Apparently they all took cold showers before the race to cool there bodies down and this lead to off the wall heartbeats!

Please don’t take dangerous cool showers and stay safe!

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Can someone provide a link for this please? My brainwashed friend doesn’t believe this. I can’t convince them with this article.

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I think it would be best if all future sporting events are held within hospital grounds. Perhaps repurpose the car park for ball games, running event can be laps around the A&E department.

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2 dead out of 13,000 participants. Possibly not unheard of in ultras but sadly likely to be the norm these days.

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Yes this looks bad -- but this is an 89km marathon for morbidly obese people.... you need to be at least 50kg overweight + smoke heavily or you don't get invited.

Within the ultra marathon world this race is known as The Big Cull... the organizers were disappointed with only 2 deaths.

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I think they died of racism☠️

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Pfizer's new drug (ClotClear) should be out soon and can help with these nasty bio-structures "I mean clots" that are "maybe causing" some of this. I gets your body to make and then release millions of clot busting buzz saws into your veins and arteries. Brain explosion is a know side effect but it should be fairly rare.

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Had to be the heat.

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