Seven US government investigators briefly fell ill in early March while studying the possible health impacts of a toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
The investigators’ symptoms included sore throats, headaches, coughing and nausea – consistent with what some residents experienced after the February 3 train derailment that released a cocktail of hazardous chemicals into the air, water and soil.
Perhaps the residents of that town weren't lying when they said that the mass exposure to toxic chemicals was poisoning them? :thinky-felix:
Been thinking a lot about that whole covid brain damage thing.
One of my bosses had always been fairly astute. He's had covid 5 times (that he knows of) and a bit over a decade of an extremely high pressure job.
Our latest written collaboration has him commenting on relatively normal phrases (that imo don't take much working memory to process) with question marks and notes like, "doesn't make sense, please rephrase". In one example, I quoted something we wrote in 2021 and he insisted that the quoted material was incoherent. This was quoting published, peer-reviewed work that he'd already read and approved of when we coauthored it.
If it weren't for the power dynamic in our workplace, I'd feel like I should say something but he controls my healthcare so it's too risky and I wouldn't even know what to say. I'm just frantically applying for jobs and trying to jump ship ASAP.
yeah... if I'm noticing it, he has to too right? I'd be terrified if I noticed my brain slipping like this
I'm terrified of that shit happening to me. I took care of my grandfather in his final years and watching him lose his mind towards the end kinda broke me inside. The cavalier attitude that's been manufactured around the brain fog, and covid in general, makes me feel like I'm living in horror movie.
Lol this is literally the scenes from Chernobyl where soldiers cleaning the area and scientists investigating get radiation poisoning while all the government officials downplay it to everybody
The funny thing is that there are several different public health disasters caused by US government regulatory failure that could havdee been the cause of their distress
