We Just Got More Evidence That Long COVID Is a Brain Injury
The exact nature of long COVID is still coming to light, but we just got some of the best evidence yet that this debilitating condition stems from a brain injury.
Using high-resolution scanners, researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford have shown microscopic, structural abnormalities in the brainstems of those recovering from COVID-19.
Signs of brain inflammation were present up to 18 months after first contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
“We show that the brainstem is a site of vulnerability to long-term effects of COVID-19, with persistent changes evident in the months after hospitalization,” the authors of the study conclude.
https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awae215
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Ok? You’re still demonstrating conspiracy theorists have a community while those who oppose them aren’t members of a specific community.
Again websites, internet forums, and subreddits are not real communities. No one is self identifying as a person that opposes conspiracy theories whereas flat earthers are prominent enough that I don’t have to explain what the flat earther community is.
Conspiracy theorist communities offer a sense of larger belonging that opposition to conspiracy theories does not provide. They are incredibly different in that regard
No. A particular conspiracy may have a group of people that form a community. E.g. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth but these people don’t believe in flat earth.
If websites, internet forums, and subreddits are not real communities then there is no conspiracy theorist community.
If you allow websites, internet forums, and subreddits then the anti-conspiracy theorist community is just as valid as the conspiracy theorist community and they display many of the same dogmatic traits. Hence my mirroring of their words.
Again there are real world gatherings of conspiracy thinkers or people within a specific conspiracy community like MUFON. There is no skeptic convention that carries the same sense of togetherness. There is no community of anti-conspiracy theorists that grants a sense of belonging to something bigger whoch is one of the traditional appeals of conspiracy theorist groups.
Im stopping here. I can only spend so much time repeatedly pointing out that your position is non-factual. If you can’t tell the difference between a formal organization with a membership list and an internet forum I can’t help you.
Incorrect
Correct.
Incorrect. Online there are, but for some reason you want to pretend the internet doesn’t exist.
https://mufonsymposium.com/
Look here’s a convention for UFO people! A real world gathering of people in a real life community with a membership organization that all buy into a conspiracy.
You’re wrong and clownishly so.
A forum isn’t a real community.
Oh look. People gathering to discuss a single subject. Not people wanting to discuss flat earth or 9/11.
“Conspiracy theorists” is an invented label used to shut down discussions and feed the anti-Conspiracy theorist’s superiority complex.
A wuhan lab leak is a conspiracy theory. Don’t discuss it.