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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath Profile picture
@JamesThrot
Feb 18 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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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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Oct 28
Why are Religion & Fascism rising? Two faces of the same psychological/neural process.

They’re far more intertwined, and dangerous, than you might have ever believed.

SARS-CoV-2-induced frontal lobe (brain) damage makes both more likely.

A neurologist’s explanation 🧵

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Religion and authoritarianism share the same psychological architecture: submission to authority, suppression of doubt, and moral outsourcing.

Both dissolve individual responsibility and reward conformity over critical thought.

And both are on the rise, simultaneously.

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It’s no coincidence that the far right movement in the US is also deeply religious.

MAGA’s fusion of politics and evangelicalism isn’t accidental, it’s the merging of two cultic structures that thrive on fear, obedience and moral absolutism.

3/
Read 17 tweets
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Oct 21
SARS-CoV-2 brain damage is real, happening with every infection.

Many of you are on infection number 6+, asymptomatic cases count.

It damages the region (frontal lobe) that governs empathy, compassion & the internal brake that stops us from saying or doing inappropriate things.
Which is why you now see it spilling into public life, a White House Press Secretary thinking “your mom” is an appropriate response to a journalist.

Leaders across the world saying things once unthinkable, blurting out cruelty, absurdity, and arrogance in equal measure.
You see the same behavioural decay across governments. Leaders snapping at reporters, trivialising mass death, ignoring public health.

This isn’t just moral rot. It’s neurological. A species repeatedly damaging its own frontal lobes will lose empathy long before it loses power.
Read 8 tweets
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Oct 8
Since I’m a neuropathologist, I’ll put my two cents into this MND discussion.

SARS-CoV-2 isn’t just a respiratory virus. Emerging evidence shows it can infect human motor neurons. Could this link to motor neuron disease (MND)?

Let’s break down the neuropathology. 🧵
Direct infection of motor neurons:

SARS-CoV-2 enters via ACE2, NRP1, CD147 receptors and can replicate inside neurons.

These long, metabolically demanding cells are highly vulnerable to injury.
Neuroinflammation:

Infected neurons trigger microglial activation & astrocyte dysfunction, creating chronic inflammation.

Neuroinflammation is a known driver of MND, especially ALS.
Read 11 tweets
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Oct 7
All the “there’s no evidence SARS-CoV-2 causes brain damage” takes I’ve seen are weak, unscientific, and often just opinion masquerading as fact.

Let’s break this down with actual facts, rather than mere conjecture. 🧵 Marc Veldhoen states: There was no lymphopenia, no superantigen, no immune damage/dysfunction/exhaustion. There are no large outbreaks of infections. Furthermore, there are no increases in cancers due to SARS-CoV-2 infection, no compounded risk of longCovid, etc. Now it is brain damage.
Marc Veldhoen states: Sneaky, nobody can see it, and nobody can be aware..... so they will always be right. They will blame everything and anything on SARS-CoV-2, regardless of its lack of plausibility or the absence of actual evidence. And all the ZeroCovid accounts are at it!
Claim: “No lymphopenia, no immune dysfunction, no long COVID.”

Fact: Multiple peer-reviewed studies show SARS-CoV-2 does cause lymphocyte depletion, immune exhaustion, and long-term neurological effects.

Denial ≠ evidence.
Claim: “No compounded risk of infections/cancers”

Fact: SARS-CoV-2 impairs immune memory in some patients & is linked to increased risk of complications

Chronic inflammation & immune disruption are known risk factors for cancer, it’s scientifically reckless to say “zero risk”
Read 10 tweets
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Oct 5
You fixate on coughs/fever/hospitalisation

Meanwhile, billions w/no obvious symptoms are sustaining brain damage

Empathy. Logic. Foresight

Invisible, ignored, unstoppable

You’re all acting like nothing is happening

Covid isn’t just a virus. It’s a quiet collapse of humanity.
While we worry about obvious Covid complications, billions w/out symptoms are suffering hidden brain damage

Impulse control/inhibition/foresight/conscience are quietly eroding

Humanity is losing its mind, one silent infection at a time

Compassion is on the brink of extinction.
Look around. The quiet collapse is happening.

Billions are silently losing the part of their brain that makes them human.

Denial isn’t always due to ignorance.

SARS-CoV-2 can rewire your mind; it robs the brain of the very faculty to perceive the threat you’re facing.

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Oct 3
🧵 Attribution Bias: The Hidden Fuel of COVID Denial

One of the main reasons society refuses to face the ongoing damage of SARS-CoV-2 is attribution bias

It’s not that the harms aren’t there, they’re everywhere

It’s that people are misattributing them to the wrong causes

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Brain fog? Must just be “stress.”

Shortness of breath? Must be “getting older.”

Heart palpitations? Probably “anxiety.”

Cognitive slips? “Too much screen time.”

Anything, literally anything, but admitting that repeat COVID infections are the cause.

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Attribution bias makes the invisible visible elsewhere.

Instead of facing the direct, uncomfortable truth (“COVID has injured me”), people redirect it to a more socially acceptable explanation.

This isn’t an accident.

It’s how the human brain protects fragile worldviews.

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