I’m on my eight day of testing continuously positive, I had my second booster in August and I am not in a high-risk group. Scrolling through some of the last day’s posts, I think of all the people the likes of Kelly and Lemoi actually, really, physically hurt. And I am filled with a sense of dread, because, dear folks: this is not the last pandemic in my lifetime. I am not a medical professional, but as a biologist with a bit of statistical training under my belt… well…
As Cassandra’s go, that one is a pretty easy call.
True.
Troy could still be standing. If they had listened to the woman.
And don’t anyone give me that “the gods prevented it” crap. It is decisions, not any supernatural beings which shape our fate.
In 13, the beast is rising
The Frenchman did surmise
Through earthquakes and starvation
The warlord will arise
Terror, death, destruction
Pour from the eastern sands
But the truth of all predictions
Is always in your hands
Iron Maiden, always good for your philosophical references.
“Most respondents with long COVID reported that their cognitive and perceptual abilities had decreased since they had COVID, which was not surprising, but what was really fascinating was how many respondents reported deficits,” says Kieseler.
“It was not just a small concentration of really impaired cases but a broad majority of people in the long COVID group reported noticeable difficulties doing things that they were able to do before contracting COVID-19 without any problems.”
“One of the challenges that many respondents reported was a difficulty with visualizing family and friends, which is something that we often hear from prosopagnosics,” says Duchaine, who is the co-founder of faceblind.org.
I usually go with noses and voices. I don’t have it too bad but as a child I often wondered where people disappeared to… I think they had hair cut.
I wonder if the number of neurological issues or symptoms associated with COVID is increasing, or if we are just seeing more reports now? 
This mentions cases started showing up three years ago:
This makes sense. The article points out that other viruses can affect hearing. The specific one I’m thinking about is mumps. I had a boyfriend in college who was mostly deaf in one ear due to an pre-adolescent case. He should have worn a hearing aid, but did not because vanity.
Ah, “former.” Sounds like you did well.
Famous person throws a fit about an self inflicted problem
It did affect her cognitive abilities.
Typhoid Tilda.
I cannot take joy in her suffering, but I cannot find it in me to feel terribly bad either. FAFO comes to mind, mostly.
Pandemic racial disparities extended to children, study finds
Black and Latino children had higher rates of severe cases
Dang. If that’s true, so much for thinking she’s like, the cool honorary sister of David Bowie or whatever. 
Story on Brett “this asshole again” Stephens, on his journalistic incompetence that likely killed people, while still being bizarrely employed at the paper of record.
Everything is woke nowadays, I’d like to find the person that started the whole woke thing and give them a good talking to.
Happy anniversary to the “lockdown”
Happy anniversary. 
Related to that first link, when this all started, we had passed a single-use plastic bag ban in Maine, but implementation got postponed bc of COVID fears.
I’d been bringing my own bags for ages, but on this day in 2020 the guy in front of me in line at the grocery store had a complete melt down about my cloth bags. It’s weird thinking back about how he was getting right up in managers’ faces (masks weren’t yet recommended, but the 6’ distance was) complaining that they were allowing cloth bags.
I wonder if he ever thinks back on that with chagrin.
