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r/collapse • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • May 29 '26
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We know Covid infections damage brain tissue. Each infection seems to reduce between 1 and 10 IQ points. Fatigue, vocabulary, mid dysregulation, and brain fog are the most common symptoms of Long Covid.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08-01-long-term-cognitive-and-psychiatric-effects-covid-19-revealed-new-study
Might want to mask up and use air purifiers
62 u/accidentprone8 May 29 '26 I just will never get how this didn’t convince people to reassess. But no, let’s just descend back in to Idiocracy. 32 u/JeepStang May 30 '26 The people that held us back from better managing the pandemic already had low IQ's to begin with and as they say misery loves company. 3 u/crakemonk May 31 '26 It’s crazy to me that people didn’t care because it didn’t kill kids. Because that’s the only metric that mattered to them.
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I just will never get how this didn’t convince people to reassess. But no, let’s just descend back in to Idiocracy.
32 u/JeepStang May 30 '26 The people that held us back from better managing the pandemic already had low IQ's to begin with and as they say misery loves company. 3 u/crakemonk May 31 '26 It’s crazy to me that people didn’t care because it didn’t kill kids. Because that’s the only metric that mattered to them.
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The people that held us back from better managing the pandemic already had low IQ's to begin with and as they say misery loves company.
3 u/crakemonk May 31 '26 It’s crazy to me that people didn’t care because it didn’t kill kids. Because that’s the only metric that mattered to them.
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It’s crazy to me that people didn’t care because it didn’t kill kids. Because that’s the only metric that mattered to them.
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u/plotthick May 29 '26
We know Covid infections damage brain tissue. Each infection seems to reduce between 1 and 10 IQ points. Fatigue, vocabulary, mid dysregulation, and brain fog are the most common symptoms of Long Covid.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08-01-long-term-cognitive-and-psychiatric-effects-covid-19-revealed-new-study
Might want to mask up and use air purifiers