The heart-attacks in the BBC, Eastenders, Coronation Street, and Real Life.
By Marica Micallef
On 21st October 2021, the BBC released a video entitled “Running with a heart condition that could cause sudden death”.
It is clear that media portals are producing propaganda campaigns to normalize heart failure in the sports scene:
Even soap operas are now normalising heart attacks, and collapses:
On 24th October 2022, the British soap opera EastEnders has also shown Lola, the protagonist, collapsing in the bathroom, in which what seems to be a heart attack:
In another British soap opera, this time Coronation Street, we get an episode where James collapses and stops breathing during a football game, with his brother Michael having to perform a CPR until the ambulance arrived:
And in real life, precisely on the 12th of September 2022, Cadiz goalkeeper Jeremias Ledesma spotted and was the first to notice that a fan in the crowd needed medical assistance since he was suffering from a cardiac arrest during a match in Spain. He thus sprinted to the sidelines, grabbed a defibrillator, and sprinted back to throw it up into the stands where the fan was. The match was stopped until the fan received medical attention and was then rushed to hospital:
How did those who were too blind to see, allow them to succeed in demonising coughs and sniffles while allowing them to normalise heart attacks?
