Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores

[Anonymous]

I’m sure flu and other viruses do the same but we don’t study them. What do you propose we do?

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Anonymous wrote:Then society has to deal with a collective three-point loss of IQ. Covid is endemic. This is the world we have to live in. Wringing hands about it isn’t going to do any good.

Get vaccinated and go on with your life.

Vaxxed and unvaxxed get covid.

Yeah, but unvaxxed get more serious cases. Greater loss of IQ according to that article, as well as greater costs to society from hospitalization, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure flu and other viruses do the same but we don’t study them. What do you propose we do?

Nope. They really don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then society has to deal with a collective three-point loss of IQ. Covid is endemic. This is the world we have to live in. Wringing hands about it isn’t going to do any good.

Get vaccinated and go on with your life.

Vaxxed and unvaxxed get covid.

Yeah, but unvaxxed get more serious cases. Greater loss of IQ according to that article, as well as greater costs to society from hospitalization, etc.

Without risk factors, there is virtually no risk of severe cases from current variants whether vaxxed or unvaxxed. Some studies can't even tell if the vax helps with severe illness because there are too few instances of severe illness in the study to tell.

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, I have experienced this, as have my family members. And for my family members who have had covid several times, the negative cognitive effects are huge.

+100 same, it's been quite bad in my family.

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Anonymous wrote:This is highly concerning since lately the theme is "covid is only a cold," here is the proof that it can leave long term damage to the body including brain function. It is worth the read.



https://theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-including-with-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-224216

The Conversation is not worth reading, much less reposting. https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/ogji5c/thoughts_on_theconversationcom/

lol wait what? You're refuting an article about health studies, actual studies with a reddit post?

I can't.

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Anonymous wrote:What would you suggest people who become enlightened by this article do? COVID is in the community. 99% of the time you go out to crowded places, you won't get it, but then you get unlucky and do. Should people avoid any indoor spaces outside their home, and when they can't, cover their mouths and noses with tight-fitting masks indefinitely for that 1% of times to avoid a 3 pt loss in IQ that is of indeterminate persistence in the long term and indeterminate clinical significance? What about people with young children who can't mask properly but are at a critical stage in their social development? What about people who are hard of hearing and rely on seeing people's faces to understand what they say?

They've now found that using a CPAP device with degraded foam can cause cancer. Can you imagine what they'll find twenty years from now in people who wore synthetic and treated masks all day for several years?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would you suggest people who become enlightened by this article do? COVID is in the community. 99% of the time you go out to crowded places, you won't get it, but then you get unlucky and do. Should people avoid any indoor spaces outside their home, and when they can't, cover their mouths and noses with tight-fitting masks indefinitely for that 1% of times to avoid a 3 pt loss in IQ that is of indeterminate persistence in the long term and indeterminate clinical significance? What about people with young children who can't mask properly but are at a critical stage in their social development? What about people who are hard of hearing and rely on seeing people's faces to understand what they say?

They've now found that using a CPAP device with degraded foam can cause cancer. Can you imagine what they'll find twenty years from now in people who wore synthetic and treated masks all day for several years?

In your view, do masks explain the findings of covid in the brain in autopsies of recovered people?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would you suggest people who become enlightened by this article do? COVID is in the community. 99% of the time you go out to crowded places, you won't get it, but then you get unlucky and do. Should people avoid any indoor spaces outside their home, and when they can't, cover their mouths and noses with tight-fitting masks indefinitely for that 1% of times to avoid a 3 pt loss in IQ that is of indeterminate persistence in the long term and indeterminate clinical significance? What about people with young children who can't mask properly but are at a critical stage in their social development? What about people who are hard of hearing and rely on seeing people's faces to understand what they say?

They've now found that using a CPAP device with degraded foam can cause cancer. Can you imagine what they'll find twenty years from now in people who wore synthetic and treated masks all day for several years?

Nothing else matters since everyone will be dead from COVID by then. Right? Oh wait what year is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would you suggest people who become enlightened by this article do? COVID is in the community. 99% of the time you go out to crowded places, you won't get it, but then you get unlucky and do. Should people avoid any indoor spaces outside their home, and when they can't, cover their mouths and noses with tight-fitting masks indefinitely for that 1% of times to avoid a 3 pt loss in IQ that is of indeterminate persistence in the long term and indeterminate clinical significance? What about people with young children who can't mask properly but are at a critical stage in their social development? What about people who are hard of hearing and rely on seeing people's faces to understand what they say?

They've now found that using a CPAP device with degraded foam can cause cancer. Can you imagine what they'll find twenty years from now in people who wore synthetic and treated masks all day for several years?

In your view, do masks explain the findings of covid in the brain in autopsies of recovered people?

I'm going to say this as gently as I possibly can. NOBODY CARES unless you are a scientist who is interested in this. People do not care about things that don't affect them and these studies don't show an impact that is clinically significant.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would you suggest people who become enlightened by this article do? COVID is in the community. 99% of the time you go out to crowded places, you won't get it, but then you get unlucky and do. Should people avoid any indoor spaces outside their home, and when they can't, cover their mouths and noses with tight-fitting masks indefinitely for that 1% of times to avoid a 3 pt loss in IQ that is of indeterminate persistence in the long term and indeterminate clinical significance? What about people with young children who can't mask properly but are at a critical stage in their social development? What about people who are hard of hearing and rely on seeing people's faces to understand what they say?

They've now found that using a CPAP device with degraded foam can cause cancer. Can you imagine what they'll find twenty years from now in people who wore synthetic and treated masks all day for several years?

In your view, do masks explain the findings of covid in the brain in autopsies of recovered people?

I'm going to say this as gently as I possibly can. NOBODY CARES unless you are a scientist who is interested in this. People do not care about things that don't affect them and these studies don't show an impact that is clinically significant.

Well, this study shows what I have personally experienced, as has my brother, my SIL, my mother, my MIL. I'm glad that you and your family have not. Regardless of your views of masking, etc.

[Anonymous]

Had covid late last year, tested pos but very mid case. Only got the initial vaccine dose in 2020. I though I had recovered "completely" but approx two months later I started to experience Gastro issues. Never had stomach/gastro issues any anytime in life prior....always very fit and healthy. I'm 50 and dealing with it. Trust me....its more than just the standard seasonal flu.

[Anonymous]

Here is the study:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2311330?query=featured_home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you suggest? I’d rather be slightly dumber than a hermit with no friends

If you are lucky, you will be slightly dumber. If you are unlucky, you will be welcomed into the world of autoimmune illnesses, and then you will lose friends because they don't want to accommodate your illness. Ask me how I know.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would you suggest people who become enlightened by this article do? COVID is in the community. 99% of the time you go out to crowded places, you won't get it, but then you get unlucky and do. Should people avoid any indoor spaces outside their home, and when they can't, cover their mouths and noses with tight-fitting masks indefinitely for that 1% of times to avoid a 3 pt loss in IQ that is of indeterminate persistence in the long term and indeterminate clinical significance? What about people with young children who can't mask properly but are at a critical stage in their social development? What about people who are hard of hearing and rely on seeing people's faces to understand what they say?

They've now found that using a CPAP device with degraded foam can cause cancer. Can you imagine what they'll find twenty years from now in people who wore synthetic and treated masks all day for several years?

In your view, do masks explain the findings of covid in the brain in autopsies of recovered people?

I'm going to say this as gently as I possibly can. NOBODY CARES unless you are a scientist who is interested in this. People do not care about things that don't affect them and these studies don't show an impact that is clinically significant.

Well, this study shows what I have personally experienced, as has my brother, my SIL, my mother, my MIL. I'm glad that you and your family have not. Regardless of your views of masking, etc.

Amazing coincidence isn't it, that all your family got dumber except you, right?