I’m still in the middle of reading this but it’s really taken my interest. My grandmother (memere) and dad both died of neurodegenerative diseases. Alzheimer’s and and in my dads case- Alzheimer’s but suspected Lewy Body. I have had brain fog and intermittent short term memory loss since COVID as well as loss of smell. I’ve wondered and wondered what, if any the link could be with these disorders and covid. This is immensely interesting! Thanks
I'm sorry about the loss of your family members. Dementia is really scary since the mind and cognition just deteriorates. It's one of those things where experiencing it happen to people you know is far different than just being aware of the disease, and it changes the perspective a ton.
Given how these diseases progress it'd be interesting to see to what extent SARS-COV2 would exacerbate the stress and neuroinflammation. I'd like to see how much research goes into this to see what goes on. It's possible that the persistence could be due to some form of neuronal damage from prolonged inflammation, but it's likely that endothelial dysfunction may have played a role as well. I think an assessment may be able to provide some insights into what actually is going on, but it still seems like not much is known about long COVID.
I too had loss of smell and trouble thinking during omicron. But it cleared up when I met more like-minded people and wasn't so isolated. I attributed my cognitive decline to stress, but it was marked.
Stress is associated with inflammation, so it's not too big of a surprise. Inflammation is probably one of the most widespread yet insidious maladies of modern time it seems.
Shocker! It’s a respiratory virus not at all unlike all the others which came before it and its “novel” features appear to be a result of observation / confirmation bias.
We learn nothing do we? The past few decades have seen several viruses causing “absolutely characteristic” clinical syndromes - until it transpired they actually hadn’t.
To be fair, the symptoms are very strange relative to other viruses so it makes sense that people had some initial scares with anosmia, but as more information came out ideas should have been reworked. I don't think many are aware (as was I) that there was evidence arguing against a neuroinvasive method of infection.
The issue of “novelty” is one I have thought a lot about.
Notwithstanding that I would say that “covid” did feel unusual for both myself and my wife, I am not convinced it actually means there was a novel pathogen around, this is why:
1. I do not rule out that we were also to a degree subject to the hysteria driven by the propaganda, despite only buying into the propaganda for a short period in March - April 2020 before recognizing the psy-op. After all, we kept stocks of Ivermectin etc in “just in case”, so we certainly DID to some extent buy into the dangerous virus theory. If hysteria can make groups of people genuinely think they were blind (as is documented), it is perhaps more powerful than we give it credit.
2. Viruses come and go and some are associated with weird symptoms. In the past we might say “I had that really weird bug the other day, felt crap for a few days” without going on to ask whether its unusual nature means it (in itself) was part of an attack on humanity by an engineered virus. Think of it like weather. If lots of people closely monitor their own weather patterns looking for something unusual, lots of them will find it. But that doesn’t (necessarily) mean the climate is changing as there’s obviously significant bias in who puts their hand up and says “yes, the weather was really strange for a few days”.
Anyway, say the novelty is real and it DOES reflect an “engineered” origin. The true question humanity must face is was it anywhere near dangerous enough to justify anything done to the citizens of the world, and how do we stop that from ever happening again? If metallic / loss of taste for a few weeks (and for me that is the only serious candidate for something which might possibly be truly novel) is the worst it can do over and above other previously known CVs, then so what?
I would like to know how to regenerate the cells. My husband lost his taste and smell. He also had brain fog and severe headaches for at least a year. He was 80 when we both had covid in December 2020. I got my taste and smell back in about 3 weeks. His first wife and daughter had covid a year later and they both still can't taste and smell. It is serious because my husband doesn't really care about eating. No pleasure anymore.
I’m still in the middle of reading this but it’s really taken my interest. My grandmother (memere) and dad both died of neurodegenerative diseases. Alzheimer’s and and in my dads case- Alzheimer’s but suspected Lewy Body. I have had brain fog and intermittent short term memory loss since COVID as well as loss of smell. I’ve wondered and wondered what, if any the link could be with these disorders and covid. This is immensely interesting! Thanks
I'm sorry about the loss of your family members. Dementia is really scary since the mind and cognition just deteriorates. It's one of those things where experiencing it happen to people you know is far different than just being aware of the disease, and it changes the perspective a ton.
Given how these diseases progress it'd be interesting to see to what extent SARS-COV2 would exacerbate the stress and neuroinflammation. I'd like to see how much research goes into this to see what goes on. It's possible that the persistence could be due to some form of neuronal damage from prolonged inflammation, but it's likely that endothelial dysfunction may have played a role as well. I think an assessment may be able to provide some insights into what actually is going on, but it still seems like not much is known about long COVID.
I too had loss of smell and trouble thinking during omicron. But it cleared up when I met more like-minded people and wasn't so isolated. I attributed my cognitive decline to stress, but it was marked.
Stress is associated with inflammation, so it's not too big of a surprise. Inflammation is probably one of the most widespread yet insidious maladies of modern time it seems.
Shocker! It’s a respiratory virus not at all unlike all the others which came before it and its “novel” features appear to be a result of observation / confirmation bias.
We learn nothing do we? The past few decades have seen several viruses causing “absolutely characteristic” clinical syndromes - until it transpired they actually hadn’t.
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To be fair, the symptoms are very strange relative to other viruses so it makes sense that people had some initial scares with anosmia, but as more information came out ideas should have been reworked. I don't think many are aware (as was I) that there was evidence arguing against a neuroinvasive method of infection.
The issue of “novelty” is one I have thought a lot about.
Notwithstanding that I would say that “covid” did feel unusual for both myself and my wife, I am not convinced it actually means there was a novel pathogen around, this is why:
1. I do not rule out that we were also to a degree subject to the hysteria driven by the propaganda, despite only buying into the propaganda for a short period in March - April 2020 before recognizing the psy-op. After all, we kept stocks of Ivermectin etc in “just in case”, so we certainly DID to some extent buy into the dangerous virus theory. If hysteria can make groups of people genuinely think they were blind (as is documented), it is perhaps more powerful than we give it credit.
2. Viruses come and go and some are associated with weird symptoms. In the past we might say “I had that really weird bug the other day, felt crap for a few days” without going on to ask whether its unusual nature means it (in itself) was part of an attack on humanity by an engineered virus. Think of it like weather. If lots of people closely monitor their own weather patterns looking for something unusual, lots of them will find it. But that doesn’t (necessarily) mean the climate is changing as there’s obviously significant bias in who puts their hand up and says “yes, the weather was really strange for a few days”.
Anyway, say the novelty is real and it DOES reflect an “engineered” origin. The true question humanity must face is was it anywhere near dangerous enough to justify anything done to the citizens of the world, and how do we stop that from ever happening again? If metallic / loss of taste for a few weeks (and for me that is the only serious candidate for something which might possibly be truly novel) is the worst it can do over and above other previously known CVs, then so what?
I would like to know how to regenerate the cells. My husband lost his taste and smell. He also had brain fog and severe headaches for at least a year. He was 80 when we both had covid in December 2020. I got my taste and smell back in about 3 weeks. His first wife and daughter had covid a year later and they both still can't taste and smell. It is serious because my husband doesn't really care about eating. No pleasure anymore.
There's no such thing as pathogenic, transmissible 'viruses'.. so yes, you are right