I have said repeatedly that COVID rewired my brain. I was infected with the OG strain the January of '20 and then subsequently twice more about 6 months to a year apart despite being vaxxed. I never mentally felt quite right after, and my memory has definitely taken a dive. My wife even comments that my personality changed somewhat.

God damn UK...

In a closely monitored human challenge study approved by national ethics bodies, they deliberately infected healthy young adults who had no prior immunity with the original strain of the coronavirus. Most developed only mild illness, and none reported lasting problems, but after a year they performed slightly worse, on average, on memory and decision-making tests they’d taken before being infected. The difference was roughly comparable to six IQ points. Although that experiment followed participants for only 12 months, longer-term population studies suggest that cognitive symptoms are among the slowest to resolve after Covid, with full recovery proving elusive for a significant minority even years after infection.

Invaluable research, but crazy it got approved.

6 points is very significant

Welcome to why I still mask up in public and at work. I don't have kids, so that attack vector is absent; I don't often eat out or hang with friends irl.

To the best of my knowledge, my spouse and I are still COVID virgins and I'll do anything I can to keep it that way.

“with full recovery proving elusive,”

FUN. JUST… FUN. FUN STUFF.

I'm glad I've managed to avoid getting covid, I don't have the IQ to spare.

Well that’s just fucking terrifying 😞

Many things, specially traumatic ones, rewires your brain

I am seeing a lot more dementia around me happening at roughly the same time.

I just caught the flu last weekend. It also feels like it's fucked up my brain. I'm so out of it. In not feeling like myself at all. I wonder if the latest flu doesn't have something similar.