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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath Profile picture
@JamesThrot
Mar 16, 2024 • 14 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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Millions of tweets like this and still so many not grasping the reason why this may be occurring. It’s a global issue.

How many times can I keep shouting the same thing and it not sink in?

COVID CAUSES DAMAGE TO THE FRONTAL AND TEMPORAL LOBES.

THIS CAN CAUSE SOCIOPATHY.
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And no it is NOT ableist to state factual information which is relevant to an ongoing and worsening worldwide situation.

The longer this is allowed to continue, the worse it will get, the harder it will become to get a neurocognitive deficient population to notice and/or care!
More details in this thread.

I am NOT saying everyone has Frontotemporal Dementia, or that Covid even causes this type of dementia.

But damage to this region DOES mimic symptoms of FTD.

When will you all take this seriously?

Losing my frigging mind.
Sociopathic behaviour? More aggression and violence? Nah it’s not happening.

Shall we blame lockdowns?

USA ⬇️ UK ⬇️
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More dangerous driving? Don’t be silly, it’s not happening.
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An increase in anti social behaviour amongst the population, in theatres, at concerts, on planes.

It’s not happening!!!
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Worsening racism? Not happening.
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Worsening sexism/misogyny? Even in children?

Not happening.
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More stealing and shoplifting?

Not happening.

(Some is attributable to rising costs, but 400% is inordinate)

UK⬇️ Australia🤦‍♂️
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More indecent exposure? Not happening.

(FTD is associated with new onset sex offenses, including indecent exposure, sexually inappropriate comments, and unwanted sexual advances)


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I guess it’s extremely unfair of me to expect anyone to notice, especially if it’s happening to themselves.
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If you’re not noticing any of this, you should be worried. It’s obvious now.

Lowered inhibitions:

“In psychology, disinhibition is defined as a lack of restraint manifested in disregard of social conventions, impulsivity, and poor risk assessment.”

POOR RISK ASSESSMENT. Image
What would poor risk assessment look like?


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The reason I’m shouting this as loud as I can now is because I see the impacts that these kinds of neurological maladies have on people every day of my life.

And it’s heartbreaking.

It’s traumatising.

It’s terrifying.

And if this happens to nearly all of us? Well, f*@k.

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath Profile picture
Jan 8
Has police & military behaviour become harsher, more rigid & more escalation-prone since 2020?

This isn’t just about politics or “bad apples”.

There’s a deeper, biological factor being ignored…

SARS-CoV-2

I’m a neurologist, and I’ll explain what’s going on here 🧵.
It’s common knowledge that both policing and the military already over select for people with certain traits:

- high threat sensitivity
- comfort with hierarchy
- rule based cognition
- obedience over ambiguity
- identity anchored in authority

This was true long before COVID.
What historically prevented this from becoming outright dangerous at scale was intact frontal lobe function.

The frontal cortex supplies inhibition, proportionality, empathy under stress, moral updating & the ability to back down.

And COVID is proven to damage the frontal lobes
Read 17 tweets
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Dec 9, 2025
You don’t have to be a neurologist to see patterns.

Everyone I know who avoids mitigation looks noticeably different from their pre-covid selves. In temperament, in consistency, in emotional regulation, in decision making.

The changes are everywhere. People just normalised them
A key problem we have is that neurological changes often impair the very systems needed to notice those changes.

It’s an anosognosia-like loop.

The more dysregulated someone becomes, the more convinced they are that nothing is wrong.
At population level, impairment camouflages itself.

If everyone’s executive function declines a little, the new baseline feels ‘normal’.

People compare themselves to the surrounding decline, not their pre-2020 selves.
Read 6 tweets
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Dec 6, 2025
And COVID is making an ever increasing proportion of people fall into that weak/vulnerable category that capitalism is happy to throw to the wolves.

Eventually, EVERYONE who is doing nothing to prevent repeat SARS-CoV-2 infections will be weak/vulnerable. This is what COVID does
People think vulnerability is a fixed trait. It isn’t.

With SARS-CoV-2, it’s a moving target.

And repeat infections keep moving it toward them.

Cumulative damage always catches up.

Keep letting a brain-damaging virus rip and the ‘vulnerable’ category expands year after year.
Call it denial, call it normalisation, call it whatever you want. COVID doesn’t care.

If you keep getting reinfected at your current rate, the virus will eventually put you in the category you thought only applied to ‘other people’.

This is your inevitable trajectory.
Read 7 tweets
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Nov 26, 2025
If you still believe COVID left the population “unchanged”, open a dating app. It sounds absurd, but stay with me here.

The cognitive bluntness is so widespread that the dating platforms themselves have had to acknowledge behavioural deterioration since 2020.

It’s not subtle🧵
Since 2020, apps report the same pattern: shorter messages, less reciprocity, fewer follow-ups, lower meet-up rates & a collapse in sustained conversational ability.

This isn’t just “people being tired”. It’s a measurable degradation of attention, initiative & social cognition.
The cause?

- repeated COVID infections impairing cognitive stamina/reward processing

- chronic low-grade fatigue

- dopamine systems altered by COVID/crises

- widespread emotional numbing

- increased avoidance as default coping mechanism

All the above = social “flatlining”
Read 17 tweets
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Nov 24, 2025
Oh they know.

The reason any utter of the word “COVID” is met with awkward silence, abrupt subject changes, or mockery is no coincidence.

That’s what denial looks like when the stakes are too high for people to admit what they already sense.

You’re letting them off too easily.
Universal internet access & AI at everyone’s fingertips in year 6/7 of COVID. Yet we’re still pretending the public is merely “uninformed”?

This isn’t a knowledge gap, it’s deliberate avoidance, a psychological defence to shield people from the consequences of their own choices.
And here’s the part people pretend not to understand: we don’t rely on governments or legacy media for any other major issue

Nobody waits for official guidance to form opinions on Gaza, Epstein, climate collapse, corruption/surveillance. People “do their own research” constantly
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Nov 16, 2025
There’s a pervasive misunderstanding in conversations about COVID’s neurological impact.

Many people assume that saying “frontal lobe damage reduces empathy” means everyone who’s had COVID instantly becomes amoral & unethical.

That’s reductionism at its finest. 🧵
Frontal lobe impairment is not an on/off switch.

Someone with naturally high empathy can still appear extremely empathetic, even if their capacity has measurably declined.

It’s a shift, not a reset.
At the population level, repeated SARS-CoV-2 infections subtly alter impulse control, moral reasoning and susceptibility to manipulation.

This doesn’t mean every individual loses morality, but society-wide trends can shift in meaningful ways.
Read 6 tweets

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