It's hard to say but there's a theory that COVID brain damage made people like Trump and Musk into even bigger jerks than they already were. See Phineas Gage for a comparison that went around. AOC has it again now and is going around spreading it for midterm campaigning. She might even run for president and end up with her finger on the button. That's no worse than Trump's, of course.

Remember too that she was actually diagnosed. Like AIDS, COVID infections often have zero symptoms for the infectee. So they go around infecting other people and having lingering vulnerability to seemingly unrelated illnesses. They never show up in the stats. The denial level is insane. Thanks, Fauci! And the rest of them too of course.

So yeah IMHO keeping up precautions is well warranted. Stay safe!

Depends on age and overall health.

Younger people can recover faster, older people will likely never see normal again. Any intoxicants need to be avoided.

I am not a scientist, but I've had brain fog and reduced cognitive function for 3-4 years I think. It feels like it has maybe gotten a bit better, but I also may have just gotten used to it. If there has been improvement, it took a very long time, was not a lot, and then plateaued and stayed there, I think.

Its like the sleep deprivation thing... After prolonged sleep deprivation people stop feeling tired, but there are nevertheless significant hits to various cognitive faculties, they just don't realise it... I'm concerned if covid is something similar?

I basically stopped vaccinations and wearing masks a few months after the general media and public shrugged it off, and only recently after I learnt about its mortifying consequences have I restarted precautions, and I am wondering if it had long term, or even permanent consequences. The brain can compensate for damage remarkably well, but even if in certain domains its somewhat the same aren't there nevertheless some permanent nerfs to the overall set of capabilities? Especially in my case of years of no vax/mask?

I have Long Covid. I'm in my fourth or fifth year. Basically can't leave the bed. I feel considerably dumber. But everything is hard for me now, so 🤷.

I think there is a massive range of possible issues (both in severity and duration) following an infection, so it has to be evaluated on a case by case basis.

It's hard to tell really, but https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nep3.70050 looks encouraging.

You don't specifically say long covid. In some cases there are short term impairments where the person recovers. IDK but anecdotally it seems to me that sometimes the person mostly recovers but keeps having occasional bouts of impairment.

Brain fog is considered a Long COVID symptom if it’s present three months after the person had COVID and has persisted for more than two months, Dr. McAlpine says. It usually goes away completely between six and nine months after the infection, although in some people it lasts as long as 18 months or more, Dr. McAlpine says.

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/how-to-manage-long-covid-brain-fog

There's actual journal articles out there but this is a quick estimate of the timescale.

A week after covid I was trying to swat a fly and boy, that fly eluded me for a full 20 minutes. Full derp.

In my personal annecdotal experience, I've tended to recover after a few months, but I've never looked into scientific literature

Believe me, – you find me someone willing to sponsor – I'll have done it yesterday.

In Germany we have them for like 1€ in every DM. They also test for other viruses. Get a plane down here. Check if you like it. Then maybe stay with us.

This really should be a no-brainer. Anyone claiming they've seen "the evidence", but doesn't show it to you...is lying. That's it.

I keep hearing about evidence and never seeing any. The simplest answer is lab leak so I still think it's likely, but there would be evidence.

is this the first maga conspiracy that turns out to be true? lol

What "evidence" are they talking about? Because no one in the scientific community has seen it.

I know it really fucking sucks

It's so distressing how little everyone seems to care about COVID. Most people seem to think that they can fight any and all disease with good nutrition alone. The Biden administration should be hauled to the ICC for crimes against humanity for many other reasons, but their purposeful COVID misinformation campaign is definitely one of them.

Direct link: https://sheerspite.ca/?download_file=4834&order=wc_order_8eDDdoByyeLY9&uid=5ed2349081f9323738d5cc6ac68fcb8ad408bff93ea4c09d7248c4254cf220b1&key=7b6c1b2d-8580-44f0-a173-9c9faa96e3d2

(This is behind a free paywall but you gotta put in a canadian address to get to the download of the zine)

Great share tho thanks!

I keep nagging my hospitals for COVID and flu vaccines in Sweden and these keep denying me for not being in a risk group and it being off season.

it's been four years since i last got a vaccine against COVID, more!

edit: i've had shortness of breath and stiff joints & headaches migraines with slight disorientation since two weeks back and constant respiratory pains since four days back. i'm 26 and fit. i literally went to the emergency room with this and they went "well nothing's physically wrong" and the care center goes "COVID is over, there are no vaccines anymore"

fucking help. herbs guide me

Thanks for sharing, we have to be there for each other

this is amazing, and through this, i've now found a load of other zines to check out! tysm for this 🙌

i mean for every infection a person loses literal braincells and loses some of their total lifespan for the infected organ- like ten years or something from being sick three days.

source: Lola Germs, the researcher publishing to youtube mentioned in the video.

Very true. Additioally, younger people had not been affected by any major outbreak. There were documented cases that older people, who had survived different previous outbreaks from were not hit as badly in the Spanish flu due to ore-existing natural immunity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22148/table/a2000c209ttt00007/?report=objectonly

If interested this is a good read. Interesting bit:

"The New York City data also demonstrate that mortality among people aged 45 and older during the 1918–1919 pandemic influenza season was no worse than in surrounding years. For people under age 45, however, the 1918–1919 influenza season was very bad—people in this age group were far more likely to die of influenza than in previous years. Indeed, the age groups at highest absolute risk of dying during the 1918–1919 A(H1N1) pandemic were young children and young and middle-aged adults (Table 1-6).

These findings suggest that the early 1918 pandemic herald wave was spreading as early as February 1918, 6–7 months before the beginning of the explosive 1918–1919 pandemic. Relative to preceding influenza epidemic seasons, both the herald and pandemic waves caused proportionally more mortality in younger age groups but less mortality among those over 45 years of age, possibly as the result of recycling of an H1-like antigen from half a century earlier (Olson et al., 2004). "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22148/#a2000c209rrr00209

Covid is a corona virus. 🤔