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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath Profile picture
@JamesThrot
Feb 18, 2025 • 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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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath Profile picture
Mar 18
Because COVID has caused so many health problems for so many people, they’re inundated with patients demanding help for their new ailments.

And because nobody, including doctors, wants to acknowledge COVID, it’s more convenient to label the myriad of health problems as “anxiety”
“My new issue that just so happened to appear post-2020 is nothing to do with COVID”

Maybe not.

But repeated infections w/a virus that is vasculotropic, neurotropic, cardiotropic, thromboembolic, oncogenic & damages the immune system certainly won’t be beneficial to your health
I increasingly suspect a feedback loop is emerging in medicine.

People develop health problems after SARS-CoV-2 infection, but neither the patient nor the doctor wants to raise COVID as a possible factor.

So it quietly disappears from the diagnostic conversation.
Read 11 tweets
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Mar 15
Two students at the University of Kent in the UK have died following an outbreak of "invasive" meningitis.

A further 11 students are currently in hospital and reported to be seriously ill.

All normal on plague island during a never-ending SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Image
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It’s worth knowing that COVID has been associated with T-cell exhaustion, lymphopenia, impaired interferon responses & persistent immune dysregulation.

When host immune regulation is altered, susceptibility/vulnerability to other infections, like meningitis, can increase.
Pathogens responsible for meningitis, like Neisseria meningitidis & Streptococcus pneumoniae, often take hold when immune defenses are impaired.

If SARS-CoV-2 can dysregulate immune function, the downstream effects on vulnerability to infections need acknowledging.
Read 7 tweets
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Mar 8
Spreading a brain damaging virus on repeat for >6 years won’t be helping

And since nobody has an appetite for avoiding brain damage, there’s no end in sight

Pretending your 8th COVID infection is just another cold won’t protect you either

Actions & inactions have consequences
Frontal lobes refine behaviour. COVID damages them.

They regulate impulse control, empathy, moral reasoning & judgment.

Damaged lobes mean someone can remain articulate & knowledgeable while becoming reckless, cruel, suggestible & catastrophically bad at evaluating consequences
Executive function is also degraded.

Intelligence without executive function is dangerous. You can be sharp, knowledgeable, eloquent… and still impulsively destroy lives, misjudge catastrophes, or follow urges with zero moral compass.

The brain’s brakes & filters are gone.
Read 6 tweets
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Mar 7
MAGA has gone full throttle at attempting to smear me and claim I am unequivocally incorrect in my suggestion Trump may have FTD

Exhibit A below ⬇️

These are not the words of a world leader with fully functioning frontal lobes

His internal filter is progressively diminishing Image
MAGA has been hanging off every word of a dementia patient. No matter how ridiculous or how unhinged it became. They followed. They regurgitated. They worshipped.

The baseline for what constitutes normal behaviour has continually shifted into increasingly preposterous territory.
Imagine having to reckon with the fact you were hoodwinked, beguiled & cajoled by a cognitively compromised senior citizen w/progressive brain atrophy. This won’t sit well.

Under normal circumstances this individual would be in a memory care facility.

But instead, they’re POTUS
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Mar 5
As a neurologist, I’ve dealt with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) patients for years

I often pondered how diabolical it would be if a world leader suffered the same fate

Now I’m seeing it play out in real time

Without impeachment, this will get darker than you could ever imagine
Frontotemporal dementia attacks the frontal lobes. The brain’s command center for judgment, empathy, impulse control, moral reasoning and long-term planning.

Imagine a world leader whose frontal lobes progressively fail, but no one intervenes.

Or worse, they cheer it on.
As FTD progresses, disinhibition dominates.

The leader may issue impulsive orders, make erratic public statements or flout norms & laws.

Even in those who were previously unmalicious, there would be a genuine neurological inability to foresee consequences.
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Mar 3
When you realise that frontal lobe dysfunction lowers resistance to manipulation & propaganda

And that aging leads to frontal decline, affecting how seniors vote

You’ll understand why the uncontrolled spread of a virus, well documented to damage the frontal lobes, is encouraged
Why?

Reduced prefrontal cortical function, whether from injury, aging or temp impairment, is associated with decreased critical evaluation, increased impulsivity & greater reliance on emotionally salient narratives, which can increase vulnerability to manipulation & propaganda.
A society’s resistance to propaganda depends on the cognitive health of its population.

If executive function declines at scale, you end up with worse decisions on an individual basis, and weaker collective judgment.

And SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that corrodes executive function.
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