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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

and you looked all this up on....Wikipedia?

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Paul K's avatar

Hi Jacquelyn, you said you were “glad to discuss”. I offered my own prior thought journey in good faith.

My background is in medical research and I’m a thinker; not easily satisfied by information that supports my own assumptions (such as when I first heard of the South Korean crush), let alone those offered by others.

If you want references, here are a couple:

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32883753/

“Ninety-six people died following a crowd crush at the Hillsborough Football Stadium, Sheffield, UK in 1989. The cause of death in nearly all cases was compression asphyxia. The clinical and pathological features of deaths encountered in crowds are discussed with a particular focus on the Hillsborough disaster.”

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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1423936112

“Asphyxia-induced cardiac arrest occurs in patients with airway obstruction, respiratory failure, pulmonary embolism, gas poisoning, drowning, and choking. Experimental asphyxia in animal models results in cardiac arrest within a few minutes.”

All the best,

Paul

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