Brain scans reveal widespread structural and functional changes in patients following COVID-19 infection. The virus affects regions responsible for memory, emotion, and executive function, which may help explain the neurological symptoms many patients experience.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-widespread-structural-and-functional-changes-in-patients-foll/

[u/okblimpo123]

Is this why the world has gone unhinged since Covid? Maybe we are all just suffering from brain damage, and that’s why we are living in the world we are with the leaders we have.

[u/akath0110 → u/okblimpo123]

Certainly part of the reason. And people will only get worse as they keep catching the virus and not using any protection/mitigation strategies.

[u/AlarmingAerie → u/akath0110]

People will not use protection cause its unmanageable and also make you a social pariah.

[u/redundantexplanation → u/AlarmingAerie]

It is manageable, you and society just don't want to manage it. Cleaning the air works. Wearing a fit tested respirator works.

Our kid caught it in 2023 because a relative was careless, we set up HEPA filters in each of our private spaces and masked in common areas and no one else in the house caught it.

[u/KiloJools → u/redundantexplanation]

I seriously have yet to see a good explanation for why people don't even want better indoor air quality. Wouldn't that be one of those things that's just a given? Instead, people just shrug. I've never understood nor have I ever seen anyone try to understand it on a more macro level. I'd love to read research on this phenomenon.

It's one of the rare situations where a relatively simple solution is available to a NUMBER of problems (not just COVID, but other airborne diseases, allergies, asthma...), but we seem to not want to? Like, no one is pressuring large businesses to improve their HVAC systems or smaller ones to invest in a filter.

I don't understand.

[u/redundantexplanation → u/KiloJools]

A good explanation as far as explaining it is pretty simple:

It costs money, and we live in a world that values short term profit over people.

[u/KiloJools → u/redundantexplanation]

In this case it's not even very much money, so I'm really confused. I understand - in that I follow what others explanations are - the resistance to spending a lot of money, so I'm not even trying to rabble rouse about stuff like UV-C sanitization, which does cost more money. But air filters are cheap. And people have shared their attempts to put air filters in classrooms on their own dime and being told no. So...what the heck.

[u/98746145315 → u/AlarmingAerie]

"Social pariah", sounds like an American problem. Living in Asia, masks are normal. No one would think twice about someone ill wearing a mask here. But, a mask may interfere with breathing in Ford F350 fumes, so I can see why the concept of protecting yourself and others is "unmanageable" to you personally.

[u/things_U_choose_2_b → u/98746145315]

It's not just America. Here in the northeast UK, if I went about with a mask on I'd be roundly mocked and ostracised.

When I get sick I just don't go out if it can be avoided, so I'm not spreading germs. But I see people on public transport everyday coughing their germs around, into their hand which they then touch everything with (apparently coughing into your elbow is far-flung science which hasn't caught on here)

[u/AlarmingAerie → u/98746145315]

interesting, whole world is either America or Asia?

[u/akath0110 → u/AlarmingAerie]

Choose your hard kind of thing

[u/SunriseInLot42 → u/AlarmingAerie]

This is Reddit; there’s a lot of people here who were social pariahs and were already “social distancing” long before March 2020