Disturbing Rise in Cognitive Problems in 2023
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Disturbing Rise in Cognitive Problems in 2023
Do you Know Anyone Who Recently Declined Intellectually?
This blog post is a departure from my usual fare, but it touches upon a topic that worries me greatly. I want to bring attention to a disturbing trend I have noticed, which has just been confirmed by the Dutch Health Institute RIVM.
The trend is a rapid decline in the cognitive abilities of many people.
I own a small business and deal with many people and other small businesses. Most provided reliable service, would remember appointments, followed up on issues, and so on. I noticed that lately, some people have become less capable cognitively. They forget essential appointments, cannot concentrate, make crazy-stupid mistakes, and so on.
A friend of this blog, Rintrah Radagast, found a disturbing report by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health called RIVM. He wrote a great post about that report. I will look at this report from a slightly different angle.
The statement that RIVM makes is chilling:
The increase in memory and concentration problems of adults seems to be a longer-term effect of the coronavirus measures as well as SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Interestingly, RIVM admits that “coronavirus measures” could play a role in this situation.
The most significant increase is seen in people aged 45-74:
The number of GP visits for memory and concentration problems increased in all age groups among adults (aged 25 years and up), but the biggest increase was seen in the age groups from 45 to 74 years (+40%). A 31% increase was seen among adults aged 24-44, and an 18% increase among adults over 75.
The results shown above are not taken from Long Covid advocates with a certain agenda. Instead, the findings above arose from data analysis of the Netherlands’ primary care database and are based on the number of doctor visits for memory and other cognitive problems.
These results are from the seventh quarterly survey among adults in the Netherlands and are based on figures from the Nivel Primary Care Database. This quarterly study is part of Health Research for COVID-19, a GOR Network research programme.
A more detailed data analysis can be seen here.
Sars-CoV-2 Prion Domain, Long Covid and Cognitive Problems
Long Covid is a poorly defined constellation of problems that seems to include almost everything under the sun. Most frequently mentioned are “brain fog,” concentration problems, and fatigue. Long Covid seems to be exaggerated by certain interests, but is real nevertheless and I know certain people who are affected. My readers also reported very compelling stories of their own consequences of Covid-19. Be aware that symptoms similar to the above are present in the early stages of dementia also.
The RIVM survey, which reported 40% greater visits for cognitive and memory problems, is an alarming finding. It matches and confirms the pattern I have seen in my daily dealings.
The cause of these cognitive problems is not yet known. An unsettling scientific article from 2022 reports that the lab-made Sars-CoV-2 virus contains “prion-like domains,” which are amino acid sequences that could cause protein misfolding, which allegedly could cause dementia similar to mad cow disease.
All Covid vaccines also encode this spike protein (with the prion domains).
The authors explain that brain fog, confusion, cognition and memory issues, etc., may be strongly associated with the symptomology, onset, and development of human prion disease (PrD) and other insidious and incurable neurological syndromes.
If so, perhaps, our conspiratorially minded readers can ask: was the prion functionality built intentionally into Sars-Cov-2, a lab-developed mystery virus of murky origin that spread worldwide? Is it a coincidence that Covid vaccines, forced on everyone, contained the same prion-like spike protein? It is a question we can (and should) ask. As always, all such possibilities must be considered skeptically but with an open mind.
I am not the first to notice the prion issue, and another friend of this blog, Walter Chesnut, has been discussing this possibility for a while:
What is new in my post is that dementia and neurodegeneration were noticed in the pattern of Dutch doctor visits by a prestigious Dutch scientific institute. It confirms that we need to look closely at this issue.
If the progressing collective neurodegeneration continues, we may be running out of intellectual resources and time to handle this problem. The scientists, who need to use the full capacity of their intellect, may also be losing cognitive abilities along with their peers - potentially with frightening consequences for all of us if the above-mentioned cognitive problems deepen.
I lampooned bad science on this blog many times and intend to continue doing so in the future. I do, however, like and appreciate good science, from which we all benefited tremendously. Good science is completely impossible without the intellect of scientists.
I hope we still have time to determine what is happening with our affected colleagues, friends, and others - and how to help them.
Lastly, I do not intend this post to be hysterical doom-mongering. All “the world is ending next year” predictions never materialized. I hope that the cognitive deterioration, which I am convinced is real, affects only a fraction of people.
Do you know any people who have declined intellectually during the last year or so? If so, please describe what you know in the comments while being MINDFUL OF PEOPLE’S PRIVACY.
Disturbing Rise in Cognitive Problems in 2023
In 2022 my sibling experienced sudden dementia. Not just decline, but suddenly couldn't perform daily tasks. Went from accomplished CPA to full blown alzheimers-type behavior in a matter of months. He never had Covid, and never experienced a lockdown. He was double jabbed (I'm sure just a coincidence).
My wife and I had long covid after Delta - a dry cough (similar to whooping cough) for about a month. We got checked out multiple times, they couldn't find any other problems beyond the cough, which was annoying. I know some people had it worse, fortunately we didn't.
Karl Denninger is VERY harsh -- but also very GOOD. (No clean speech filter on him though!)
Read his: Oh, So 'Filtration' Is The Answer?
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=250200
It's addressing both masks and room filtration.
A bit from which: (I "moderated" the swear words...)
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"... the general case physics and mathematics preclude it working, so if you did find "it does work" the instant expectation I have is that you committed fraud.
I explained why both filtration and masking was unlikely to work early on in the 2020 timeframe. The same is true for non-sterilizing shots, which the Covid-19 jabs all are now known to be; reducing viral load even if they do durably succeed in that this is immaterial to transmission if the virus is expelled from the person who has it, and if you mask symptoms you now remove from the infected person the only reasonable signal they have to stay home which reduces their contact with others and, as a result, actually would reduce transmission. That is, all of these "mitigations" would be expected to increase infections!
Why is all of this true?
Because beyond the minimum infective dose (MID) of a virus the amount you take in has no impact on whether you get infected or how poorly it goes for you. This is always the case because viruses replicate exponentially and as a result unlike a bacteria which replicates in a binary fashion there is no benefit of materiality to a "minimum" vs a "large" dose of the pathogen; once you reach a sufficient amount for infection to take place the further amount does not matter.
This is basic mathematics and denying it marks you as fxxking stupid in that you obviously failed high school math, so if you claim some "advanced degree" or "advanced sort of knowledge" yet argue that dose-response is material with a virus you are a fxxking idiot, should be expelled from your profession and, if you're not and your "advice" is put into mandates, taken out and hanged in public as you are literally going to injure and kill people and you are either maliciously doing so or are so godd@mned stupid your conduct reaches and exceeds the standard of gross negligence.
Viruses typically require from 8 - 72 hours for each generation but produce from several thousand to more than 100,000 copies each.
So if the minimum infective dose (that is, the dose which assures that at least one viron will in fact start the cascade) is, say, 10 virons (virus particles) then whether you inhale 10 or 1,000 is immaterial because each of those produces at least 1,000 and up to 100,000 copies each (depending on the virus.)
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So if we start with 10, for example, 5,000 copies per viron and an 8 hour time to progress we get:
10 -> 50,000 -> 250,000,000 (!!!) in 24 hours.
If you start with 1,000 virons how long does it take before there are 250 million or more?
1,000 -> 5,000,000 -> OVER
Effectively the same amount of time passes and the difference in your body's capacity to interdict the infection's consequences is pretty-much immaterial as the difference in replication to the same viral load is only a couple of hours even though you started with one hundred times as much of a dose.
This also means that if you wear an "N95" mask and cut the dose inhaled to 5% of what it would have otherwise been (and you won't because the "pore size" of an N95 is too large; you will block some, but nowhere near 95%) you still get nailed because you reach the MID in your respiratory tract and any amount beyond the MID results in infection.
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(I will note that Neil Orr proved 40 years ago that surgical masks were worthless {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2493952/pdf/annrcse01509-0009.pdf} even among all trained professional groups in an operating room. That should have been the end of the charade -- they're literal drool protectors and nothing more.)
The same is true, incidentally, for a HEPA filter in the room. Yes, the exchanges do filter out the particles. However enough of them are in the air for long enough to infect you because there is no way to insure that the exhaled air from someone else will pass through the filter before you inhale it.
Likewise a MERV13 filter in an HVAC system (assuming you can use them without unacceptable restriction) does indeed trap viruses. However, it cannot get enough of them before someone gets the minimum infective dose from another person who is in the shared space because there is no way to force the exhaled breath of the infected person through the media first.
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