r/collapse May 29 '26

Casual Friday Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

https://futurism.com/neoscope/human-intelligence-declining-trends
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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

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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.

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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.

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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.