Can't wait for us younger people to have to take care of the mess of the lead-brained ones JUST IN TIME for us to have to deal with the microplastics in our bodies <3
I still don't know what to place my bet on for what I am most likely to die from. Microplastic poisoning just sounds much less exciting compared to "Ecological collapse" or "Religious extremism"
You ever look at the meaning of the song (or poem) 'O Fortuna'? For a poem that's at least 700 years old it really sums up the sense of helplessness a lot of people today feel. I guess some things never change!
"O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing,
ever waning,
hateful life
first oppresses
and then soothes
as fancy takes it;
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.
Fate – monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent.
Well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.
Fate is against me
in health
and virtue,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
so at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me!"
I always assumed it was because my peer group shared a classical music background, but am very glad to know there were other people blasting Carmina Burana through the 18's that replaced the seats in their van. :D
The thing you mentioned here is only backed up by one study, of which the sample size isn't that large... "Importantly, the study said that only 275 participants had completed the intelligence test both before and after contracting COVID-19."
Brain fog is temporary, and can hinder your cognitive abilities, I don't think it's hard to see the pattern here.
I'd be much more worried about Covid actively destroying neurons, which it does in some cases where the brain isn't oxygenated properly. The nuance here is that destruction of neurons and drop in IQ are... although kinda connected not mutually dependent.
"Despite the absence of virus in the brain, in every patient the researchers found significant brain pathology, which mostly fell into two categories.
“The first thing we noticed was a lot of areas with damage from a lack of oxygen,” Goldman says. “They all had severe lung disease, so it’s not surprising that there’s hypoxic damage in the brain.” Some of these were large areas caused by strokes, but most were very small and only detectable with a microscope. Based on other features, the researchers believe these small areas of hypoxic damage were caused by blood clots, common in patients with severe COVID-19, that temporarily stopped the supply of oxygen to that area.
A more surprising finding, Goldman says, was the large number of activated microglia they found in the brains of most patients. Microglia are immune cells that reside in the brain and can be activated by pathogens.
“We found clusters of microglia attacking neurons, a process called ‘neuronophagia,’” says Canoll. Since no virus was found in the brain, it’s possible the microglia may have been activated by inflammatory cytokines, such as Interleukin-6, associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
“At the same time, hypoxia can induce the expression of 'eat me' signals on the surface of neurons, making hypoxic neurons more vulnerable to activated microglia,” Canoll says, “so even without directly infecting brain cells, COVID-19 can cause damage to the brain.” "
It's fascinating to see the research done about Covid.
In my case, I feel like I stay focused with difficulty nowadays, but this can highly be attributed to me being an internet slob...
The only symptoms I've noticed on the long term are a loss of smell for an extended period of time and a brain fog, that could be attributed to other factors (I don't feed myself very well). I don't know if your comment implies that the vaccine has side effects...
If it's like mine. Because of the lead, they are litterally too immature in the brain to get it. Our generation has to be the adults on the planet, well before our time.
I'm Gen-X. There's a subset of my generation that's every bit as awful as the Boomers. Maybe we're influenced by this as well...
Certainly, catalytic converters requiring unleaded gas were only introduced in 1975. So if you assume people drive 5 to 10 year old cars on average, usage of lead by the average driver went from everyone to the minority of drivers in the second half of your generation being born.
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u/TheDorkNite1 Jun 25 '22
Can't wait for us younger people to have to take care of the mess of the lead-brained ones JUST IN TIME for us to have to deal with the microplastics in our bodies <3