The Sad Case of The World's Youngest-Ever Alzheimer's Diagnosis
Literally hundreds and hundreds of studies have been published on how SarsCov2 causes early dementia but this case is somwhow a “mystery.”
Karen Asp 🌱🐾✍️👟 (@karenaspwriter) on X
“Bumped into neighbor while walking 🐶. I've seen her walking more recently & we got talking.
She's on disability from work b/c of memory issues. She can't drive or do household tasks & is forgetting things she should know. Her writing has even changed.
She's 54. The kicker?”
Human Intelligence Sharply Declining
“As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills — all facets of the hard-to-measure metric that ‘intelligence’ is supposed to measure.”
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Related: We’ve known since 2020 that EVERY SarsCov2 infection, even asymptomatic, adversely affects the brain with severity spanning “brain fog” to dementia.
Can’t Think, Can’t Remember: More Americans Say They’re in a Cognitive Fog (Published 2023)
“There are more Americans who say they have serious cognitive problems…than at any time in the last 15 years…
…Richard Deitz, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, analyzed the data and attributed much of the increase to Long Covid
‘These numbers don’t do this — they don’t just start suddenly increasing sharply like this,’ he said.”
Caught up with quite a few friends over Xmas (most aged under 40) and nearly all now have alcohol allergies, deteriorating eyesight, new auto-immune diseases, shingles, rotting teeth, significant flu/pneumonia after-effects, muscle degeneration or persistent heart, brain or lung…
“Caught up with quite a few friends over Xmas (most aged under 40) and nearly all now have alcohol allergies, deteriorating eyesight, new auto-immune diseases, shingles, rotting teeth, significant flu/pneumonia after-effects, muscle degeneration or persistent heart, brain or lung issues since 2021/22 but shhh, don’t anyone dare say the word COVID.
COVIDIsntOver”
3/ Cognitive Disabilities Skyrocket
“To put this in context: from 2014 to 2019, the average annual growth in cognitive disabilities was about 28k. Since 2019, that number has skyrocketed by more than one million. This is a huge increase and deserves attention.”
Nearly half of NYC's aspiring drivers failed their DMV road tests this year - Gothamist
“Nearly half of NYC's aspiring drivers failed their DMV road tests this year”
Experts find memory troubles in young adults
“Experts are increasingly noticing people in their 20s, 30s and 40s experiencing difficulties remembering things. They compare it to the memory function more regularly seen in 70-year-olds.
Psychologists note younger people complaining of trouble remembering things, needing to write everything down, and missing important events because they forgot about them.”
Not mentioned: COVID COVID COVID. IT. IS. COVID.
Experts are increasingly noticing people in their 20s, 30s and 40s experiencing difficulties remembering things. They compare it to the memory function more regularly seen in 70-year-olds.Psychologists note younger people complaining of trouble remembering things, needing to write everything down, and missing important events because they forgot about them.