Long covid sufferer here, my video game skills have taken a hard drop in the last year, and I'm fucking terrified honestly.
Not just action, but cognitive games as well.
FUCK
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2024
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I'm feel so bad for you. 😔
git gud
git well soon ❤️
But then git gud
The tag line on this with regards to IQ is very misleading. Setting aside that IQ is a terrible form of measurement and no weight should be given to it, the study actually reveals that measured IQ is unchanged. They measured after discharge, and then several years later with no change. With no pre-covid measurement, this is a more than useless bit of data.
Depression and anxiety are increased, but so did that of the general population. So hard to tie any of that to COVID or long COVID.
IQ tests seem like they would actually be useful here though had they done pre-Covid tests and at least a couple of them. I’m not an expert but it seems like the thing they’re bad at is quantifying in specific amounts the intelligence of a person.
For instance, we can’t say that if someone’s IQ went from 100 down to 80 that they became 20% less intelligent. But we can maybe say that this suggests that they lost some cognitive ability and then we can characterize that against a population without long Covid. And again we couldn’t say they’re 20% worse than someone without long Covid, but we certainly know that losing 20 points on an IQ test isn’t normal.
Losing 20 points of IQ is massive. That's two standard deviations worth. It's going from average to bottom of the barrel.
Don't know what's doing it, the COVID or chain smoking thc from 5-11 every evening
Just from 5 to 11? Fucking n00b.
Honestly, I feel like it has affected me cognitively and I was 3 vaccines in when I got it.
Same, but I think it is more the stress of finding out just how many people are absolutely trash over the last decade with antivaxxers crushing my last respect for humanity.
I thought I had a pretty low opinion of humanity before the pandemic hit. Oh boy, was I wrong.
The worst part was finding out it was rhe same bullshit people pulled during the "Spanish" flu back in 1918.
I've been fucked up since late 2020, early 2021. I start to feel better again, and then bam, covid again and cycle restarts and gets worse. I have a weak immune system and pretty much get it whenever I have any sort of contact.
That fucking sucks! You shouldn’t have to get rolled by germs over and over. If you’re down for some up to date info on what you could do instead, the best short roundup I’ve encountered is here.
The creator’s site is currently hugged to death, which speaks to the quality of this resource and the magnitude of the viral surge.
Really great info thanks
Speak of the devil, just tested positive lol
sister of mercy. I hope your prognosis and future events are slightly less fuckin’ raw and poetically knife twisty!
Man... Some of those people where just 7 puts above "trump voter" on the IQ scale prior to COVID too...
I always tested negative for COVID in antigen test. But more than likely I have had it and man, I have gotten brain fog at the tail end of my illness this one time. I still went to work and have forgotten a couple of things-- which just so happens that there is an audit the following day. Thankfully, it was sorted just before the audit. But with covid now out of the bag, I will let any flu-like illness run its course fully before I return to work. COVID is totally different from your seasonal flu and don't underestimate what it could do to you cognitively.
This explains Trump and Biden?
Given their age it's more likely lead poisoning
or both
They’re old enough that my bet is atomic testing.
All of the above. Plus some affluenza.
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Christ, can not every thread be about them?
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