James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath Profile picture
Feb 18 6 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Since Covid arrived:

“Why are so many children having developmental problems?

Why are there more car accidents & plane crashes?

Why are people more aggressive & less empathetic?

Why is everyone sick all the time?

Why is there more violence in schools?”

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“There isn’t more violence in schools and kids are fine”

Oh, ok 👍🏻. Image
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“People aren’t more aggressive and less empathetic”

Oh, ok 👍🏻. Image
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“Everyone isn’t sick all the time”

Oh, ok 👍🏻. Image
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“There aren’t more plane crashes or incidents in aviation”

Oh, ok 👍🏻. Image
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Yet when the answer to all these questions is obvious, giving the actual answer (covid) is always met with complete bewilderment and you’re looked at as if you’re some kind of intellectually challenged conspiracy theorist.

Let’s keep ignoring the virus that shan’t be named then!

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Apr 2
After targeted harassment & defamation, I’ve realised that people want to insist that doctors take all SARS-CoV-2 sequelae seriously, except for neurological sequelae/brain damage.

I’ve been called ableist & bigoted for stating that damage can negatively affect behaviour.

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Suggesting that an increase in violent behaviour, diminishing empathy, increasing apathy & emotional lability, decreasing risk aversion & more disinhibition could be a result of damage to the frontal & temporal lobes in the brain is apparently ableist & bigoted.

Yet it is fact.
Many accusations come from those who have neurological disorders or brain damage themselves, presumably because they see it as an attack on them, that I’m somehow making the insinuation that any/all brain damage makes someone behave in an undesirable manner.

I am not saying this
Read 8 tweets
Mar 31
Lol.

Most people keep getting sick w/a few months respite between infections (Covid, flu, norovirus, take your pick).

What in gods name do people think Long Covid is?

“Yeah I get sick all the time since I had Covid & I’ve had that several times. But I don’t have long covid” 😂
My dude, that’s Long Covid.

“Erm no it’s not. I just keep getting sick”.

And what does it mean if you keep getting sick?

“Erm that my immune system isn’t working properly… [long thoughtful pause]”

Immune system damage sounds like Long Covid to me.

“You could be right”

I am
Here’s the long & short of it. If something has changed regarding your health since Covid arrived on the scene, the overwhelming chances are that it’s Long Covid.

Whether that’s getting sick more often, new fatigue, diabetes, cognitive issues, insomnia, or all of the above.
Read 9 tweets
Mar 11
In neurology/psychiatry, we would call this Apathy.

Brain damage to the frontal lobe (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex) causes apathy & reduces empathy.

SARS-CoV-2 damages this region of the brain. Every. Single. Time.

More infections = more damage = more apathy.

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Increase in apathy is often seen in traumatic brain injury, stroke & dementia.

It manifests as a lack of motivation/enthusiasm due to disruption in the brain regions responsible for goal directed behavior & reward processing.

Resulting in a lack of drive to engage in activities
Apathy means having a lack of interest in activities once enjoyed.

Difficulty in initiating tasks.

Reduced motivation to engage in social interactions.

Feeling indifferent & unbothered.

Everything the OP & others are experiencing, with many assuming they just have ‘burnout’.
Read 8 tweets
Mar 10
“They create the idea of a terrifying plague that will kill us all, when the truth is far less frightening”

The truth is SARS-CoV-2 likely won’t kill you today, nor tomorrow.

But it will damage the brain, internal organs, blood vessels & immune system of everyone it infects.
“Well covid did me no harm”

- You can lose up to 90% kidney function before experiencing any symptoms.

- Cancers often develop silently with symptoms only appearing at a more advanced stage.

- Blood clots develop silently.

- Brain damage often goes unnoticed by the sufferer.
An example regarding immune damage;

- Once infected with HIV, the time taken to develop AIDS is usually 10-15yrs.

- If people caught HIV in 2020, most would still be extremely fit & healthy with zero symptoms.

- HIV+ folk wouldn’t be sick every couple of months this early on.
Read 4 tweets
Mar 8
Does anybody else feel that blaming a few months of lockdown for ill health in 2025, both physical & mental, is not only disingenuous & delusional, but a crusade to spread disinformation?

The public lap it up so they can reassure themselves the threat has vanished into thin air.
We have outrageous hyperbole, as in the quoted tweet below, and almost everyone in the comments agree.

Peter is UK based, where lockdowns for the youngest children & those in year 6 lasted just 10 weeks, returning on 01/06/2020.

All other ages returned in September 2020. Image
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As previously stated, all other ages returned in September 2020, after the 6 week summer holiday period.

Lockdown started 23rd March 2020.

If we take away the time they’d have had off school for Easter and half-term, then all other ages missed a total of 14 weeks in school. Image
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Mar 5
You’re a bit late to the party guys.

I’ve been telling you this for years.

I’m sick of talking about the frontal lobe and the damage SARS-CoV-2 is inflicting upon it.

Personality changes, executive dysfunction, emotional lability, cognitive decline.

Welcome to the new normal.
As previously stated, personality changes will come before cognitive decline (intellect, memory, problem solving etc).

You don’t have to be a neurologist to see what’s happening to almost everyone around you.

SARS-CoV-2 almost always damages the brain of everyone it infects.
Always good to give this thread a read, discussing in more detail what you might start seeing in those around you, or even yourself.

Regardless of the severity or mildness of your covid infection/s, it’s getting into your brain.

It gets everywhere.

Respiratory virus? You wish.
Read 4 tweets

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