The brain/neural inflammation that comes after a covid infection can be intense. I was constantly rageful for 2-3 months after my infection. My mom noticed it. She said I was like a completely different person. But that's not the worst part ...
The scariest part is that I've spent over a decade training my nervous system to be calm and to be able to handle intense emotions, and I can tell you the level of rage I felt was MORE intense than anything I felt before training. So really think about that,
A nervous system that's been trained with over a decade of intense Buddhist and other meditation/mindfulness/emotional practices was MORE sensitive to anger and rage than before I trained. A single Covid infection UNDID a decade of intense cognitive and emotional training!
Not only that, but I was MORE rageful than I had ever been in my entire life. I was lucky in that my nerves did finally go back to normal (although they are still a little sensitive, but it's a lot more manageable now).
It's hard to imagine what has happened to the general population who has no training in this area. Like how many people have had their moods altered after a covid infection and yet have no idea about it? The damage covid has caused this world is immeasurable
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As a men's dating coach who's worked with hundreds of men this past decade, so many thoughts. Too many to write. But if you want to know the common thread, you can see it in all of the replies: so much self pity and women blaming, and very little taking responsibility.
Putting the economic issues of late capitalism aside (which is definitely a factor bc everyone is broke and burnt out), many men who aren't that affected by this are deeply disillusioned by dating bc they've been indoctrinated into the manosphere way of thinking about women.
Many are angry, miserable, and blame women and the woke mind virus on their dating woes, not realizing they've lost (or never developed) the ability to connect to people (including women) on a non-superficial level. Every relationship for them is transactional in nature.
Pretty much everyone I talk to has long covid symptoms currently. They don't call it long covid, but like I have friends and relatives who are super fatigued all the time. They think it's from getting older or over worked. But it only started this year or last year
Other friends are now super forgetful or they can't think or read like they used to. They think they're just burnt out or over worked. But, again, it only started in the last few years and it's persistent.
One of my friends said it felt like they had early dementia but then laughed it off bc they're so young. I told them imtheir symtpoms sound A LOT like the long covid brain fog I have. They weren't sure since no one else in their life talks about long covid.
I still can't get over Olympic athletes, who are using all kinds of the latest tech and nutrition/sports science to increase their edge by the TINIEST fraction of a percent, are not avoiding COVID, a virus that causes endothelial damage, resulting in less than optimal blood flow
Seriously, why are all these Olympic athletes rawdogging COVID air without a respirator, risking impaired vascular activity that will 100% affect their performance? And why isn't the Olympic committee protecting their athletes? (That's rhetorical, I know they hate their athletes)
Not only that, but it appears that athletes are at greater risk of stroke and heart attacks after COVID specifically bc they push their hearts and vascular system too hard while it's being damaged by the virus. The long term consequences of these infections will be dire.
Since everyone keeps claiming LASIK is super safe and has a 99% success rate and keeps calling me a liar and a fear monger bc I say it's not and that the industry LIES, here's an ENTIRE thread of receipts (recreated with permission from one of my support groups):
Neurotrophic keratopathy -- According to this article, the complication rate of neurotrophic keratopathy alone is 16.7% after LASIK. Source: iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a…
Pain -- In this high quality study, 24% of patients reported eye pain at six months after laser eye surgery (LASIK and PRK), and 11% percent of individuals reported PERSISTENT eye pain at both, 3 months and 6 months after surgery. Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36809816/
I still can't get over how bad AI has become. And this is coming from a computer scientist who spent over a decade studying and programming AI.
I fucking LOVE AI, but here are 10 reasons I absolutely fucking hate it now, a 🧵 ...
1) the massive training sets required to train them cannot be obtained legally so they are stealing huge amounts of content w/o consent, all in the name of "innovation"
2) the energy required to run their data centers is starting to overwhelm our power grids (and during a time of climate crisis too!) washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…
A lot of people are misunderstanding what this research is about bc the concept of "tight transmission bottlenecks" is not a common concept. This research isn't saying we should be afraid of a single viron that could cause an infection...
In the context of viruses, you either have a tight transmission bottleneck or a wide transmission bottleneck (TB). A tight TB means that only a small number of viruses initiate an infection, while a wide TB means a high number of viruses create an infection. Why does this matter?
A tight transmission bottleneck means that very few virus particles managed to start an infection, which will dramatically limit the amount of genetic diversity of the virus that was transmitted. This is actually a GOOD thing from a mutation perspective.