➡️ Getting COVID-19 now feels like getting the flu or less, for almost everyone. ➡️ About 5-10% of people will get sick for a year or longer with Long COVID. ➡️ Every COVID-19 infection can cause brain damage and small long-lasting or permanent drops in IQ.➡️ Every COVID-19 infection may cause long-term weakening of people’s immune systems...
I have been concerned by reports of excess deaths correlating with Covid vaccine administration. I haven't looked into it enough to evaluate the claims but they worry me. This is, after all, a new kind of vaccine without a long track record. (To anyone about to attack me here, I am a strong advocate of other vaccines.) However, your excellent piece is making me seriously consider getting a booster. Not sure it will do much despite my age of 60 since I recently had COVID for the first time and it was milder than a cold. But the long-term effects are disturbing, especially if they exceed post-viral syndrome for other viruses.
The IQ drop sucks, because I feel it. My mind is complacent almost uninterested in this reality. I have to force myself to reengage with this reality and that takes energy. I had to get a subscription to Grammarly, to bug me about grammar, because I could not care less about spelling or grammar. This was not always the case, but it's how my mind has changed.
> What should we be doing in response to all this? Probably many other things — let me know in the comments!
We could:
- wonder what we should do (what is most optimal?)
- wonder what is true (as opposed to what seems to be true, because we believe it to be true, perhaps because we have been told it is true *in persuasive stories*, and do not have a means to overcome the psychological effects of that)
- wonder if we have the ability to do either of these two things with a high level of competency, and if not, wonder why that is
The WHO didn't announce that the pandemic is over. They announced the end of the PHEIC status, i.e. the end of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern. This is a state of emergency announcement, not an announcement about the end of the whole pandemic.
They went on to say that we are still in a pandemic and they haven't yet announced that we are not.
I have been concerned by reports of excess deaths correlating with Covid vaccine administration. I haven't looked into it enough to evaluate the claims but they worry me. This is, after all, a new kind of vaccine without a long track record. (To anyone about to attack me here, I am a strong advocate of other vaccines.) However, your excellent piece is making me seriously consider getting a booster. Not sure it will do much despite my age of 60 since I recently had COVID for the first time and it was milder than a cold. But the long-term effects are disturbing, especially if they exceed post-viral syndrome for other viruses.
The IQ drop sucks, because I feel it. My mind is complacent almost uninterested in this reality. I have to force myself to reengage with this reality and that takes energy. I had to get a subscription to Grammarly, to bug me about grammar, because I could not care less about spelling or grammar. This was not always the case, but it's how my mind has changed.
anti masking has turned into an emotional claim.
regardless of your analysis, masking should be a mathematical expected value decision.
odds of saving one from COVID/flu/cold/etc via masking, multiplied by the expected cost of each such infection, Vs the cost of masking.
shouldn't be an emotional ideological issue
> What should we be doing in response to all this? Probably many other things — let me know in the comments!
We could:
- wonder what we should do (what is most optimal?)
- wonder what is true (as opposed to what seems to be true, because we believe it to be true, perhaps because we have been told it is true *in persuasive stories*, and do not have a means to overcome the psychological effects of that)
- wonder if we have the ability to do either of these two things with a high level of competency, and if not, wonder why that is
- wonder if I have missed anything in this list
The WHO didn't announce that the pandemic is over. They announced the end of the PHEIC status, i.e. the end of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern. This is a state of emergency announcement, not an announcement about the end of the whole pandemic.
They went on to say that we are still in a pandemic and they haven't yet announced that we are not.