SocraticGadfly: Coronavirus, week 79: This is your brain on COVID

October 14, 2021

Coronavirus, week 79: This is your brain on COVID

Even relatively mild cases of COVID can cause lasting brain changes, Psy Post reports.

Speaking of "brains on COVID," Allen West has "got it." He claims it's "not serious" but then says he'll likely need to be hospitalized. He's of course taking HCQ (cuz it has a Q in it?) and horse dewormer ivermectin for symptoms. Says his driving challenged wife is vaccinated while admitting he's not.

Brains on COVID include yet another Green on Hucksterman, a former friend, now blocked, passing on bullshit about the vaccines' deadliness and more. Many were gathered via his news settings on Opera's News App, but some came straight from RT.

The Atlantic says that COVID hospitalization rate is becoming a less accurate measure of the current problem with COVID, as many people in there are testing positive with mild symptoms and COVID may not be the primary problem. They've got light symptoms if any, because why? Vaccination. He quotes a doctor saying we need to look at  patients hospitalized from COVID, not with.

For the Texas Progressives weekly blogging roundup, I dropped a trio of new COVID-related posts. I started by noting that it's been a sad banner year already passing 2020. I then talked about vax mandates and how "firewalls" have failed outside the US. I wrapped up by looking at a leading COVID contrarian, or COVID obstructionist, the well-known medical public intellectual Dr. John Ioannidis, and wondering what the hell happened to him.

Katelyn Jetelina explains COVID waves.

Orac refutes another round of bullshit from the COVID obstructionists (NOT "contrarians"). Among the actual science? "Natural immunity"fades faster than a vax and is less effective; many mild cases of COVID does not create many antibodies.

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