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[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I really wish people would stop claiming suicides are secret murders. It minimizes suicide, and you shouldn't.

It also paints a vastly different picture of what John Barnet was going through. (I can't find any mentions of a second boing whistleblower dying)

and Christina Balan is alive, and if not well, at least she's currently winning.

The brakes thing wasn't someone cutting her brakes, it was her getting fired for reporting the issues with brakes on early Teslas.

https://www.europesays.com/2012653/

Edit Okay, found the other boeing whistleblower,

Joshua Dean, a former quality inspector for the contractor Spirit AeroSystems, a 2005 Boeing spin-off, checked himself into the hospital after experiencing difficulty breathing from contracting influenza B and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). He died two weeks later (May 1, 2024) after developing pneumonia and suffering a stroke. Dean and other workers at the Wichita, Kansas factory testified that they had been instructed to downplay or hide production defects on the 737 Max, which had a door plug blow off mid-flight in January 2024.[44]

I doubt that boeing controls the flu virus.

Especially since this then happened.

The deaths of Barnett and Dean prompted more than 10 new whistleblowers from Boeing and Spirit to come forward with similar allegations.[50] Santiago Paredes, another Spirit whistleblower, dismissed the conspiracy theories.[47]

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago

Pneumonia from illness, especially when you molder flat on your back in bed (which makes it worse, by a lot) is a legit disease progression. Also common in elderly/fragile found down on the floor after a couple days.

Unhealthy lungs don’t like being horizontal.