Thread by @JamesThrot

Let’s talk about COVID, brain damage & society.

Specifically, what happens when a neurotropic virus repeatedly infects the population, targeting the frontal lobe & almost nobody talks about the consequences?

This thread is for the skeptics.

I’m a neurologist, stay with me 🧵

Frontal lobe injury, whether from strokes, dementia, tumors, or trauma, is clinically known to reduce empathy, impulse control, risk perception, and moral reasoning.

SARS-CoV-2 has been shown in multiple studies to damage this part of the brain.

What happens at scale?

Disclaimer:

This is NOT about saying brain damage = bad person.

This is NOT about blaming those with disabilities.

This is NOT biological determinism.

It’s about asking how repeated infection by a brain invading virus might affect collective behaviour, at population level.

We know from history:

- Lead exposure increased aggression and crime

-Parasites like toxoplasmosis change risk perception

- Brain injury can alter ideology, emotional control, and even voting behaviour

Why wouldn’t covid, a virus that damages the brain, be doing the same?

We know the virus causes anosmia (loss of smell) partly by damaging the olfactory nerve, a direct pathway into the brain.

Studies show changes in grey matter, even in “mild” infections.

And this virus doesn’t just hit once, people are getting infected over & over, incessantly.

Yes, this sounds chilling. That’s why it gets laughed off & I face ridicule.

But if covid causes damage in areas that regulate empathy, inhibition & moral logic, we should expect:

-More cruelty

-Less resistance to authoritarianism

-Rising impulsivity and antisocial behaviour

This is not saying “brain damage makes you evil.”

It’s saying that certain kinds of neural injury, especially to the frontal lobe, make people less able to regulate behavior that protects others and themselves.

That is NOT ableism. That is neurology.

There’s a difference between lifelong neurodivergence and acquired neurological injury from a virus.

One is an identity. The other is harm.

Saying “SARS-CoV-2 brain damage may be reshaping society” is not ableist.

It’s morally urgent.

Many with such damage won’t even be able to see this, a crucial point.

Anosognosia, lack of insight/awareness into one’s own brain changes, is common after frontal lobe injury.

So of course denial would be rampant.

Of course people would say “I’m fine, nothing wrong with me”

But this is anything but fine.

Empathy is collapsing. Violence is rising. Logic is fracturing.

And covid is still spreading; unchecked, unstudied, unacknowledged.

This thread isn’t fear-mongering. It’s a warning.

We need to start taking brain damage seriously.

Population wide outcomes I’d expect to be seeing:

- Reduced empathy
- Increased aggression
- Support for authoritarianism
- Declining critical thinking
- Less moral inhibition
- Rising disinhibition & antisocial behavior
-Inability to recognise own impairment/decline

This is NOT alarmism.

It’s consistent with decades of lesion and dementia research, now playing out under mass infection conditions.

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I’m bored to fucking tears of replying to the anti vax trolls plaguing my replies.

I’ve replied to enough of them now for my replies to cover all bases.

Read them and weep.

Frontal lobe dysfunction shatters critical thinking.

That’s how you go from understanding public health to believing vaccines are more dangerous than the virus, every expert is lying, & your YouTube search counts as research.

Thank you for providing very convincing case studies

@Daithiunjabbed Studies that show SARS-CoV-2 causes disease:

nature.com/articles/s4159…

nature.com/articles/s4158…

@Daithiunjabbed Want a one-paper silver bullet that isolates, characterises & causes disease in one neat package?

That’s not how real science works. But you wouldn’t know this, being intellectually challenged.

It happens cumulatively, across multiple rigorous studies, all of which now exist.

@JN1171 The problem?

Our data systems weren’t built to track a slow, mass cognitive shift.

But the behavioural signal is there; clear, global, and exactly what you’d expect from repeat frontal lobe injury.

@tryna_do_rite socialsciences.uchicago.edu/news/could-los…

verywellhealth.com/losing-sense-o…

@SnoopDougieDoig What stands out is the sudden acceleration in things like youth violence, attention deficits, and empathy decline after the mass global spread of brain damaging SARS-CoV-2.

If phones were the root cause, we’d expect a more gradual, linear trend. Not this sharp, post 2020 curve.

@JjudgeThe77524 @JN1171

@JjudgeThe77524 @JN1171

@Kristy718028917 High spike antibody levels in the vaccinated = strong immune response.

That’s not the same as viral replication, tissue damage, or CNS invasion like actual covid causes.

Conflating immune signal with pathology is how misinformation spreads.

@cfd4441 @EmilyPetro22 If by ‘pushing that trash’ you mean correcting misinformation with evidence, then yes, I’m guilty. Sue me.

Sorry that facts feel like a personal attack.

Maybe sit with that.

@Kristy718028917 The spike from the vax is transient, localised, and degraded quickly.

SARS-CoV-2 infection, not vaccination, is strongly linked to lasting neurological damage, including direct invasion, inflammation, microclots & hypoxia.

@Kristy718028917 Comparing vaccine effects to viral brain injury ignores critical differences in mechanism & severity.

Spreading false equivalences like this fuels misinformation and fear rather than science-based understanding.

@rusty_ricochet The virus causes documented, widespread neurological harm.

The vaccine does not replicate, does not contain nucleocapsid protein, and has nowhere near the same pathological footprint.

You’re blaming the seatbelt for the car crash. And it’s f*cking tiresome.

@EvalEvan66 And as for “it’s not relevant in 2025”, the virus is still spreading, still crossing the blood-brain barrier, and still triggering neuroinflammation.

What’s changed is the willful ignorance.

@kristy_warrior @Kristy718028917 Most biodistribution data show spike production is transient, mostly in muscle & lymph nodes, and cleared fast.

Unlike the live virus, which replicates, crosses the BBB, causes inflammation, cell damage, and brain shrinkage.

This is boring now. Blocked.

@AJonSchultz @GVDBossche @VigilantFox The evidence overwhelmingly supports mRNA vaccine safety and efficacy.

Healthy skepticism is good, but it has to be based on data, not vibes, nor on farming for engagement.