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mopinko

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6. snopes said that was not true.

Reply to Javaman (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 08:49 AM

Yesterday

that rumor was connected to a concert by kneecap.

Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras in Cuba confirmed that there were no deaths "associated with failures of assisted mechanical ventilation" during the blackout. Furthermore, there's no evidence that the concert triggered the blackout. Cuba's Electric Union confirmed that an unexpected failure of a generating unit at a thermoelectric plant nearly 350 miles away from the concert venue caused it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cuba-hospital-blackout-kneecap/?collection=472802

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