"COVID causes cu-mulative damage, not all of it, but each time you get COVID, you’re increasing your chances of long-COVID. By the time you’ve had it five times, it’s about a 50% chance. It causes damage to the frontal cortex, which regulates emotions and does logic and risk analysis and some very important things, as well as damage to the somatosensory cortex, which is why you lose your sense of smell. That is brain damage that’s happening, and it’s cumulative. It doesn’t fully repair. Your brain just sometimes finds ways of rewiring around it, but that can only happen a certain number of times. As we’re allowing COVID to just spread through populations, the dis-ability theory is going to be a lot more important in the future. There was a recent study with 5 million participants. They found that getting COVID once increases your chances of developing dementia by 17%, if you get COVID mildly. If you get COVID seriously, to the point you go to hospital, you’re increasing your chances of developing dementia 17 times. People are going around who’ve had COVID four or five times, you’re going to see aspects of personality change as people lose the ability to regulate their emotions. They could be a lot more angry, a lot harder. My original training was as a research psychologist, and COVID has certainly been an interesting development. It has shaped society recently and continues to. What is the world going to be like where people keep getting infected, and there’s only a certain number of times until you have permanent, long-term conditions? That’s going to be everyone, especially people in public-facing jobs, school teachers, nurses, police, and armies. What is society going to be like when people can’t get stuff done as effectively as they previously did? I think we haven’t really reckoned with that, and no one’s been looking into it, but I think it’s going to be hugely impactful. But I guess we’ll have to see. Currently, people think that COVID is over and that everything’s back to normal now, but that’s not going to last. We’re already seeing all of the conse-quences sort of stacking up, and they will only be ignorable for so long. But I think it’s like climate change. It’s going to be slightly annoying to fix, and it’s going to be an enormous long-term problem, and so existing power systems are just not gonna bother. They need reliable workers showing up at work and not worrying about the long-term health consequences of their actions."
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