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.
After COVID, I forget common words in the middle of speaking now which has been fucking fantastic in work environments.
“Hey can you hand me that…um…uh….that piece of paper for coffee grounds?”
“A filter?”
“Yeah that”
“with full recovery proving elusive,”
FUN. JUST… FUN. FUN STUFF.
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
Let's sign up all the idiot antivaxxers. Tell them they can prove how superior their immune system is and how easy the infection is. Best case scenario we get more data like this to help us learn.
I'm not sure the world can afford them getting any stupider than they already are!
Well that’s just fucking terrifying 😞
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.
I'm glad I've managed to avoid getting covid, I don't have the IQ to spare.
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.
I caught the flu like right before the season started and it was so bad. Felt like COVID, maybe worse and I lost taste for a couple days. Accidentally drank some bad milk even. Wasn't COVID though, I tested. Body aches were the worst.
In hindsight, I don't think it's the flu. I think it's that respiratory syndrome virus or whatever it's called.
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