cause and effect..
Interesting thread, as had not looked into 'delayed reaction' much. There IS a large body of literature on long term effects of severe electric shock of anything over 50 mA, but very little on delayed effects. One discussion of 'delayed effects' surmises that of the millions of internet reports these days one is bound, statistically, to find a lot of non-related but 'apparently obvious' cause and effect, but which are totally unrelated. Armageddon due to anthropocentric global warming (EXCUSE me, climate change) is a prime example of absurdity.
Will throw this actual last week case history into the mix, as similar type of some reasoning:
was cutting some firewood last week and after I shut chainsaw off and grabbed a didn dong for a snack a yearling deer comes walking up (never had that happen before!) and wants petted - this is out in the boonies of the Cascades.
So I pet the deer and feed it some ding dong.
This week have had a backache all week - diagnosis: petting a 'wild' deer causes backache, or is it eating a ding dong?
Maybe the deer was a 'shape shifter', as ancient alient theorists believe, and I was temporarily abducted by aliens and operated on an time warped back to present?
2 hours earlier I had adjusted the ignition on my dozer and got a tiny jolt - perhaps a weeklong backache was a delayed ignition shock reaction.
Cannot have been that I'm over 70 and was bending over throwing split cordwood into the back of a truck for a couple of hours, can it ?