People posting these articles like "Research shows COVID does this really weird thing to cells in your brain!" and shouting "omg this is the worst, why does everyone dismiss COVID as a threat, we're all gonna die"

Ok, it's not the worst. We know things that are much worse. And that study only existed because billions are being pumped into COVID research. It's very likely other viruses do the same, but we don't pump billions into their research so we'll never know.

Just because we threw a ton of money at COVID and have new interesting data does not mean COVID is uniquely dangerous in this way.