Stress, isolation, and uncertainty appear to have caused the brain to age quicker for those who lived through the crisis. www.wired.com/story/the-pa...
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Claims 5.5 months of aging. Detectable. Practically significant?
jul 29, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I can attest to that
jul 29, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Covid and 2 trump presidencies is enough to make anyone experience total brain death 💀
jul 29, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn’t that all of us?
jul 29, 2025, 4:55 pm • 20 0 • view
Some people are in such denial that they dont believe there ever was a pandemic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
jul 29, 2025, 5:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes. Badly written title.
jul 29, 2025, 5:22 pm • 6 0 • view
www.nature.com/articles/s41... "However, accelerated brain ageing correlates with reduced cognitive performance only in COVID-infected participants." You get both!
jul 29, 2025, 8:19 pm • 2 0 • view
How do we separate the stress from living through the COVID era from the stress of living through 9 fcking years of Trump?
jul 30, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
WTF is living with 10 years of Trump terrorizing our country going to do to our brains? Many are going to outright die from his cruel policies, how many extra died during Covid due to him? 500,000 extra deaths he is so proud to have caused?
jul 30, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
"appears"? a lot like how prescribed medicines "are thought to work". and that was BEFORE JUNKIE RFKJ, TOO.
jul 29, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Seems like you missed the part about how the COVID virus actually damages the brain, maybe that should be a notable data point
jul 29, 2025, 8:10 pm • 6 0 • view
i mean. read the article idk
jul 29, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I did read the article. The headline downplays the most significant & well documented aspect of COVID: brain damage from contracting the virus; while playing into the "lockdowns caused anxiety" trope sure, pandemics suck. letting them continue indefinitely because we are traumatized sucks worse
jul 29, 2025, 8:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Could just as easily attribute that to the President.
jul 29, 2025, 4:59 pm • 7 0 • view
What about people who enjoyed the pandemic?
jul 29, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
enjoyed is an exaggeration, but i will admit the whole keeping my distance thing suited me to a T.
jul 29, 2025, 9:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I honestly miss the pandemic
jul 29, 2025, 11:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Came here to see/say this.
jul 30, 2025, 12:05 am • 2 0 • view
well, it's time to shake it off and get to work! felon needs to go - however you can imagine.
jul 29, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Most of my stress wasn't from COVID, per se. It's from Trump who failed to address the pandemic intelligently. Not to mention every stupid thing he's done since. My never having COVID, might have not taken years off my life. But I'm perfectly willing to believe he has taken years off my brain power.
jul 30, 2025, 12:57 am • 1 0 • view
I'm pretty sure it was the Trump Presidency, not Covid. I know it aged me a decade.
jul 29, 2025, 5:55 pm • 8 0 • view
yes!
jul 29, 2025, 10:46 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
jul 29, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 29, 2025, 8:42 pm • 1 0 • view
And if covid era did all that, imagine what the Trump presidency is doing to our brains!
jul 29, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
At least during covid I had hope.
jul 29, 2025, 6:36 pm • 2 0 • view
No shit. So who'd have thought that the absurd pressures non-rich people have are guaranteed to cut lives short? Let's do a study on how common sense has gone by the wayside.
jul 29, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view