Ed SuominenJun 22, 2024

By the mid-twenties, the cracks in the cognitive foundations become evident to one looking back, but of course they were invisible to those who brains had been hammered with repeated infections. First one variant, then another, and then yet another took its turn replicating inside the delicate networks of neurons that had given self-awareness to Homo sapiens, reversing two hundred thousand years of evolution with astonishing speed.

#NoToBrainInfections

Show threadKaladin 🧑‍🦽💨
@edsuom I work in a very intellect-intensive environment and have been at the same company for several years. Colleagues who were pretty sharp are now as dull as a shovel. You can literally tell who has had COVID multiple times by the quality of their output.
Jun 23, 2024 at 5:57pmWeb
Show threadBenderIsGreat34Jun 23, 2024
@windrunner I have seen this too. Formerly sharp colleagues who struggle to complete a thought and can’t retain any new information for longer than a few hours.
Show threadEd SuominenJun 23, 2024

@andymoose @windrunner The comments in this Reddit thread back up what both of you are saying. It’s not a Covid-related subreddit, either.

https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1dgrcz7/debilitating_a_generation_expert_warns_that_long/?rdt=52470

People, just wear an #N95 and say #NoToBrainInfections

Show threadDebbie BelairJun 25, 2024
@andymoose @windrunner I've been noticing this with sports announcers, especially in hockey.
Show thread MĂ©lani (Melanie) Bjornsdottir (she, Ĺťi)Jun 23, 2024
@windrunner @edsuom Shame these ones can’t be sharpened like knives can
Show threadKeepingMySanityJun 24, 2024
@windrunner @edsuom This would be my husband. Two known infections and it’s amazing how different his thought process is. He’s definitely not as sharp as before and sadly will likely go on to get more infections (although interestingly he’s hunkering down with me and being covid safe (as safe as he can be And I don’t think he always remembers sadly) for the time being. Maybe I’m his excuse as he realizes things are definitely off.
Show threadKeepingMySanityJun 24, 2024
@windrunner @edsuom We recently drove somewhere where there were a number of tortoises in the road. We saw our daughter two days later and my husband asked her if she also saw the tortoises in the road. Problem was, she wasn’t where we were two days previously-he genuinely thought it was the same night we met our daughter. It was very strange. That happens very frequently these days and he didn’t used to be that way at all. He was my memory.
Show threadDebbie BelairJun 25, 2024
@windrunner @edsuom Oh Wow. 🤯