@1goodtern RT @JamesThrot@birdsite > Covid is impairing the very part of the brain needed to perceive the danger of the virus > It’s a self-reinforcing loop: the more society gets reinfected, the less cognitively equipped people are to care, reflect, or adapt > Mass denial on autopilot >>How much longer before the majority of people look around and realize this is not normal https://xcancel.com/JamesThrot/status/1947244158760169506
@jeffcliff@1goodtern@VIcFury I've wondered if dementia is going to be the new cancer. I don't think COVID will be the cause, but I think more chemicals that linger a long time and accumulate in our body are going to begin piling up and will prime our immune systems into disproportionate response. In the most generic terms, all cause mortality is strongly correlated with mitochondrial health which shows sign of damage from most illnesses, however minor.
Having brain damage of this kind in the frontal lobe often results in people who don't think they are much different, but who make decisions more impulsively, have less empathy, have less ability to form intelligent thought and engage in rational decisionmaking. People who are drunk think they are fine usually too for the same kinds of reasons: even when they get behind the wheel
@VIcFury@1goodtern >. Having COVID today Is very different from when it started.
only because there are vaccines -- and those are increasingly out of date as variants continue to evolve past them. That is our only real line of defence, and it's not holding.
> The powers that be see this as too small to be of concern.
yeah, because they have air filtration and can protect themselves, while the poor are repeatedly infected over and over
Generally: you haven't done a brain scan of people in your life. You don't know how many people around you are beset by chronic pain and brain damage. You don't know how their grey matter / white matter is degrading and who's getting dementia decades earlier than normal.
@jeffcliff@1goodtern they don't seem to be complaining... which they would. because, them do that. it's not going to change as most are satisfied with the outcome.
@VIcFury@1goodtern this post *is the finding out*. There's no mystery left here. The manifestation *is happening*. Mass brain damage *is a net negative* ffs
@jeffcliff@1goodtern I know 3 people so affected.... They all had a bad time with covid in 2020. I think the last one with this effect was from 2021. Out of the 1000s of people I know who had COVID. Having COVID today Is very different from when it started. The powers that be see this as too small to be of concern. which means the 3 I know, are not getting the help they need.
@jeffcliff@1goodtern society doesn't provide skills in dealing with the mentally unsound. When you become disfunctional people are rewarded for abandoning you. Normal is abandoning the dysfunctional. That's not going to change. They will be weeded out. the concept of compasion has been burnt out by a society which demamds it for every little thing, without reward or gratitude. No one cares. No one is coming to save you.
@VIcFury@1goodtern "they" ?? you're talking about everyone who has gotten covid. we're going to weed out everyone who has gotten covid and fucked up their brain, really now?
@jeffcliff@1goodtern The vast majority of people have had covid multiple times. and if you are correct... we'll find out soon enough. What you're predicting is an unrecoverable catabolic spiral that doesn't seem to be manifesting significantly. This problem will not be addressed. Unlltill the % of the disabled become drain on the economy. The conditions you've laid out don't require immediate attention because those most affected are dieing faster than new ones are being created. At this time there is no net negative on society or the economy.
@jeffcliff@1goodtern@VIcFury I don't think COVID will be the cause. An unknowable brain damage that's undetectable by the afflicted functionally doesn't exist; it will be seen as aging. Perhaps the average age of dementia onset will start in the 60s if you're actually right rather than symptoms manifesting in the 70s. Such is life.
@jeffcliff@1goodtern@VIcFury Rarely. It's been a rare occurrence for a while in the young, hence my initial post. Wondering if something is frying acetylcholine production and mimicking it with corresponding brain activity downregulation.
@Zardoz@VIcFury@jeffcliff Fair point. I stand by it as a heuristic until I'm convinced of something better, but I'm open to changing my mind. Mechanism is always the question. I recently read something about "RNA viruses" hijacking mitochondria as a root cause of "long" infections. Interesting if true, as it seems to suggest it's a retrovirus esque function but for mitochondrial DNA. That's another rabbit hole.
I don't know what ebola is. I haven't done any research on it yet.
Until I do my own research, I can't take it on faith that Ebola is a "real" virus and not just some sick medical experiment, or even just an excuse to impose quarantine conditions.
RNA does not work like the mythology says. Even the statement that the cold or flu is CAUSED by a virus is mostly mythology. The causal relationship has not been established despite the "common knowledge" that flu virus and cold viruses are "real".
However, there is an extensive record of failed contagion studies (See: Rosenau) which disprove the causal connection, not to mention the 2015 CDC EPIC studies which found that in respiratory infections, 65% had NO KNOWN pathogen.
There are a lot of scientists out there just going with the herd and pretending they know.
@Zardoz@VIcFury@jeffcliff >Rosenau I had forgotten how extensive this was. It's kind of crazy to think about. "What if we're wrong?" regarding big parts of germ theory and such.