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Old 01-06-2023, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by MrLonzo View Post
Just wondering why there’s so much coverage of Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest during the NFL game last Monday. There are close to 1,000 people going into cardiac arrest every day in the U.S., none of which are headline news. Their businesses don’t shut down, their employers don’t send everyone home, the world doesn’t stop. Why is this one so special? Just wondering…
I suspect that if any one of the 1,000 people you refer to went into cardiac arrest and had their seemingly heroic emergency treatment broadcast on prime time television for twenty minutes that they too would would also receive special attention.