The ship itself is a representation of the bloated capitalist ego of america, apart of an era of flashy grandiose mega ships that existed to sink in the ocean like the inevitable failure of this system which is much like the ship. Still, its legacy carries on and the bloated ego to this day manages to stay inflated.
They avoid like the plague anything that punctures their fantasy word.
Given that they have done little to nothing to avoid the literal plague, I think this phrasing is undermining your point here.
So you are telling me that China's zero covid policy accidentaly created a master race of beings with superior brain size and cognitive functions yes? :shinji-screm: :horror: :xi-shining:
what even is the black isrealite take on asians? I know white people were invented by a mad scientist or something
Decades from now, if civilization continues to exist in a recognizable form:
"The people of the 2020s simply had no idea how bad the long term effects were!" :surprised-pika:
so half of boomers had lead exposure and now 80 million americans who got covid got slightly dumber. cool
Based on antibody seroprevalence, ~140 million people in the US have had it.
https://archive.ph/G8LJd
Here, we investigated brain changes in 785 UK Biobank participants (aged 51–81)
I'm not doubting the capacity of COVID to damage people cognitively, but I feel like this age range is more prone to cognitive decline than everyone as a whole -it's definitely useful to know but it doesn't seem as alarming as OP's title suggests.
They already controlled for that
Here, we investigated brain changes in 785 UK Biobank participants (aged 51–81) imaged twice, including 401 cases who tested positive for infection with SARS-CoV-2 between their two scans, with 141 days on average separating their diagnosis and second scan, and 384 controls.
It sounds like they had 401 cases where they had two scans with covid in between so in those cases at least you have a direct paired control. But yeah I'm also skeptical of how big of a practical effect this has on that many people. That being said we're fucking around and finding out about a virus we know little about getting all into our vital organs and causing our immune system to go wild.
I haven't read the study, and refuse to for laziness reasons, but I assume you'd have an understanding of what cognitive decline normally happens, and have a control group that hasn't gotten covid within the timeframe, and then do a between-groups statistical thingy. Once you control for the difference, you can see the effect that covid causes. There is some complicated statistical stuff you do here that I don't remember (and SPSS does it for you).
The sample size is large enough that a decent effect size can be seen.
Of course, that isn't causative proof. For instance, there might be some self-selection bias for people who didn't get covid during the allotted time period. But nonetheless I'd assume that's what they would have done to "prove" a correlation. This stuff gets slammed into you a bunch in undergrad shrinkology.
We’ll all be those submerged talking heads in jars from futurama
that explains why I've been visiting hexbear more and more since recovering
I mean on the bright side it definitely seems like long term symptoms from viruses are going to be researched more, it only took millions of deaths and millions of debilitated people to happen :shrug-outta-hecks:
like if we can find better ways to treat shit like chronic fatigue syndrome and the like that'd be a good thing to come out of this
Listen, Jack! I work out. I eat healthy. I keep my chakras aligned. Ain't no stinkin' virus gonna put a damper on my engine.
My regularly scheduled insomnia has become extra special insomnia since I road the Rona Rodeo. Does that count?
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-news/new-research-insomnia-and-covid-19
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