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Endemic Pathogens Are Making You Crazy and Then Killing You

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Re: Endemic Pathogens Are Making You Crazy and Then Killing You

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Post by JohnJamesRambo »

0x20cowboy wrote: post #7

I have no proof (or way to test this), but I’ve thought for a while that some pathogen has infected a good number of people, and damaged their brains. I find it hard to understand many people’s transition into madness any other way. I am not talking about “I believe bubble up economics you believe trickle down so you’re crazy” kind of disagreements, I mean stuff like “lizard people from planet nibiru are eating the c…

Anyone that has had to deal with any sort of customer support after Covid knows that things just aren’t right. It’s like talking to people from another planet. I don’t know if it is Covid brain or what.

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Post by biomcgary »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #12
0x20cowboy wrote: post #7

I have no proof (or way to test this), but I’ve thought for a while that some pathogen has infected a good number of people, and damaged their brains. I find it hard to understand many people’s transition into madness any other way. I am not talking about “I believe bubble up economics you believe trickle down so you’re crazy” kind of disagreements, I mean stuff like “lizard people from planet nibiru are eating the c…

Anyone that has had to deal with any sort of customer support after Covid knows that things just aren’t right. It’s like talking to people from another planet. I don’t know if it is Covid brain or what.

It would be interesting to see the interplay of social isolation and the psychological impact of parasites/viruses. The history of population bottlenecks in humans (and other species) might be informative. Social isolation tends to increase when plague wipes out a good chunk of a population (e.g., the black death).

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Post by jjulius »

vmception wrote: post #11

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>Make sense or nah?

Nah. Hard nah. I don't quite understand how you went from, "I'm an enthusiastic researcher who enjoys..." to, "Ivermectin works on Republicans because Republicans live in squalor so they have worms but we don't know if Ivermectin actually works against COVID or not because our healthcare system sucks."

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Post by vmception »

jjulius wrote: post #16
vmception wrote: post #11

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>Make sense or nah? Nah. Hard nah. I don't quite understand how you went from, "I'm an enthusiastic researcher who enjoys..." to, "Ivermectin works on Republicans because Republicans live in squalor so they have worms but we don't know if Ivermectin actually works against COVID or not because our healthcare system sucks."

We know that ivermectin doesnt work on covid, it works on worms

People with worms only notice they have a problem after getting sick with covid

How did you read that differently

Read it again

Re: Endemic Pathogens Are Making You Crazy and Then Killing You

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Post by 77pt77 »

0x20cowboy wrote: post #7

I have no proof (or way to test this), but I’ve thought for a while that some pathogen has infected a good number of people, and damaged their brains. I find it hard to understand many people’s transition into madness any other way. I am not talking about “I believe bubble up economics you believe trickle down so you’re crazy” kind of disagreements, I mean stuff like “lizard people from planet nibiru are eating the c…

> I find it hard to understand many people’s transition into madness any other way.

There was no transition. They were always like this and that is the default.

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