As a neurologist, it is now patently clear to me that the vast majority of people on the planet are suffering from neuroinflammation or brain damage (likely both)
The way people speak & behave has changed. Markedly so.
Whether irl, or via messaging/social media. It’s noticeable
What am I seeing?
- Reduced empathy
- Increased aggression
- Rising support for authoritarianism
- Declining critical thinking
- Less moral inhibition
- Rising disinhibition & antisocial behavior
- Lack of focus/commitment
- Frequent memory lapses
- Increased impulsivity
I am not stating that every single person is exhibiting all of the above. Some may exhibit one or two points from that list, others many more.
The degree to which people are affected isn’t uniform either. In some it’s v subtle. But on a population level, it’s anything but subtle
Of course, all of this neurological damage is a result of social media, screen time, lockdowns 6 years ago, and the shots.
It’s definitely not the neuroinvasive, brain damaging SARS-CoV-2, proven to disrupt white matter, cause neuroinflammation, and destroy/shrink grey matter.
This isn’t to say nobody has empathy.
Nor that everyone has an IQ that would deem them intellectually disabled.
Nor that everyone is now hostile & forgetful.
There’s a scale to this. But I see it in almost everyone. Even if just a slight change in how people interact socially.
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Blaming brain damage & neurological dysfunction solely on “screen time” is the perfect societal escape hatch
It means adults never need confront the possibility that repeatedly infecting children with a neuroinvasive airborne virus might require their behaviour to change instead
Notice how the “screen time” narrative also conveniently preserved normality for adults?
No need for cleaner air.
No need for mitigation.
No need for difficult ethical reflection.
No need for inconvenience.
Just pathologise the children and continue consuming as usual.
It is psychologically easier for society to believe children suddenly damaged themselves with iPads than to confront the possibility that adults collectively failed to protect developing brains during an ongoing airborne pandemic
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.