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Small sample, but this is worrying. Covid found to affect children's brain structure.

Can we please stop infecting children over and over?

#CovidIsNotOver

nature.com/articles/s41598-025

NatureMultimodal MRI analysis of COVID-19 effects on pediatric brain - Scientific ReportsThe COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant concerns regarding its impact on the central nervous system, including the brain. While the effects on adult populations are well documented, less is known about its implications for pediatric populations. This study investigates alterations in cortical metrics and structural covariance networks (SCNs) based on the Local Gyrification Index (LGI) in children with mild COVID-19, alongside changes in non-invasive MRI proxies related to glymphatic function. We enrolled 19 children with COVID-19 and 22 age-comparable healthy controls. High-resolution T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted MRI images were acquired. Cortical metrics, including thickness, surface area, volume, and LGI, were compared using vertex-wise general linear models. SCNs were analyzed for differences in global and nodal metrics, and MRI proxies, including diffusion tensor imaging along the perivascular space and choroid plexus (CP) volume, were also assessed. Our results showed increased cortical area, volume, and LGI in the left superior parietal cortex, as well as increased cortical thickness in the left lateral occipital cortex among children with COVID-19. SCN analysis revealed altered network topology and larger CP volumes in the COVID group, suggesting virus-induced neuroinflammation. These findings provide evidence of potential brain alterations in children following mild COVID-19, emphasizing the need for further investigation into long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes.

There is a Rökysopp song, “Melody A.M.” that gave me a twinge of sad nostalgia. Not the tune, but the end, where it switches to a recording of a guy calling his friend and telling him some “good frequencies” he’s been messing around with in his DSP music machine. He gets to 400 kHZ and his friend says, “Four hundred!” Yeah. “I’m coming over.” “Do that.” “I’ll be there in a sec.”

Just being able to call a friend and have him come over, with no concern about #Covid — about being infected by #virus that has given millions a life of disability and misery and continues to do so whether you choose to believe it or not. And still having such friends, five years into a #pandemic that has changed people’s brains and mass-delusional behavior.

It’s a lot. We’ve been at this a long time, fellow #CovidIsNotOver people, with no end in sight and the pressure to quit worse than ever. For me, the lulls in between waves are some of the hardest of times.

And yet, we persist. We don’t want this virus in our bodies if we can help it, ever.

Went to see Köln 75 at the little indie movie theatre here. I thought it was an interesting thing to have a bilingual movie (English and German) without any subtitles; just expecting the audience to understand both well enough.

It was an enjoyable film. Funny in parts. Some of it is very German. The family dynamic reminded me of the way my father's family would sometimes speak to each other.

#YallMasking at the movie theater?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Köln_75

“We’re trying to find the missing pieces that help people connect the dots and the intersectionalities of capitalism and this pandemic.”

New today in Deceleration: "Mask Blocs" help the sick, #disabled, and #COVID-conscious stay involved in their communities in #Texas, while raising awareness about why this needs to be a core issue for organizing on the Left. deceleration.news/texas-mask-b

Wallgreens says we’re at 16% covid positivity in the US with not all the states reporting.

Y’all, do you remember when the plan was to not reopen America until we got below 3%? Then when we couldn’t even get down to 5% Biden called it over. Disgusting.

walgreens.com/healthcare-solut

www.walgreens.comWalgreens Respiratory Index | Walgreens Healthcare SolutionsExplore the Walgreens COVID-19 Index, taking data from our stores to visualize trends and patterns in COVID-19 across the United States.

The evidence for altered brain function after (repeated) Covid keeps stacking up in the medical literature.

But is it influencing people's behavior towards more risk taking?

I am not sure. People panic about safety issues other than Covid?

It seems that Covid is systematically suppressed for a reason I do not yet understand.

#CovidIsNotOver

minorheretic.substack.com/p/ca

Minor Heretic · Cat and MouseBy Minor Heretic

Here's the thing. I'm perfectly willing to spend time w/ people outdoors, or masked indoors, or unmasked indoors w/ rapid testing, open windows, air purifiers.

But if the other person isn't covid-aware, then I don't actually ENJOY hearing about or seeing photos of their various unmasked exploits that include people I know who are medically vulnerable (and who don't even take covid precautions themselves).

It's depressing instead of uplifting & makes me prefer being a hermit.

Thread covid août 2023

#covid #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver

Bon je voulais mettre à jour mon tract covid précédent avec un point sur la situation actuelle du covid, mais finalement j’ai fait un thread entier car il y a trop de choses à dire (et que je sais pas résumer, oui bon).

Je sais que c’est long, mais il y a beaucoup de trucs à expliquer et de propagande à déconstruire, et si les gens qui commencent à lire sont un peu de bonne foi, il y a ptètre une chance qu’iels continuent.
Sinon ça peut aussi sûrement servir comme base pour faire quelque chose de plus réduit et accessible (ce que je sais pas faire donc, mais servez-vous).

Je mets l’ensemble de ce thread dans le domaine public (en fait, techniquement, sous licence CC0, mais c'est tout comme), donc vous pouvez en faire des copier-coller tant que vous voulez sans même avoir à me mentionner, ou réécrire des bouts, modifier, etc.
Si vous utilisez ça pour en faire un tract (genre un 4 pages) ou un truc plus court et accessible, n’hésitez pas à poster le résultat en réponse. C’est peut-être aussi possible de travailler collectivement sur une version plus réduite via un pad HedgeDoc ou autre truc, mais j’ai pas la motivation de gérer ça donc je vous laisse faire).

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