CORONA Disturbing Rise in Cognitive Problems in 2023

[Squib]

This blog post is a departure from my usual fare, but it touches upon a topic that worries me greatly. I want to bring attention to a disturbing trend I have noticed, which has just been confirmed by the Dutch Health Institute RIVM.

The trend is a rapid decline in the cognitive abilities of many people.

I own a small business and deal with many people and other small businesses. Most provided reliable service, would remember appointments, followed up on issues, and so on. I noticed that lately, some people have become less capable cognitively. They forget essential appointments, cannot concentrate, make crazy-stupid mistakes, and so on.

A friend of this blog, Rintrah Radagast, found a disturbing report by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health called RIVM. He wrote a great post about that report. I will look at this report from a slightly different angle.

Significant increase in memory and concentration problems among adults | RIVM

In the first quarter of 2023, there was a 24% increase in GP visits related to memory and concentration problems among adults (age 25 years and older) compared to the same period in 2020.. This is evidenced by the latest quarterly research update from the GOR Network.

www.rivm.nl

The statement that RIVM makes is chilling:

The increase in memory and concentration problems of adults seems to be a longer-term effect of the coronavirus measures as well as SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Interestingly, RIVM admits that “coronavirus measures” could play a role in this situation.

The most significant increase is seen in people aged 45-74:

The number of GP visits for memory and concentration problems increased in all age groups among adults (aged 25 years and up), but the biggest increase was seen in the age groups from 45 to 74 years (+40%). A 31% increase was seen among adults aged 24-44, and an 18% increase among adults over 75.

The results shown above are not taken from Long Covid advocates with a certain agenda. Instead, the findings above arose from data analysis of the Netherlands’ primary care database and are based on the number of doctor visits for memory and other cognitive problems.

These results are from the seventh quarterly survey among adults in the Netherlands and are based on figures from the Nivel Primary Care Database. This quarterly study is part of Health Research for COVID-19, a GOR Network research programme.

A more detailed data analysis can be seen here.

Sars-CoV-2 Prion Domain, Long Covid and Cognitive Problems​

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Long Covid is a poorly defined constellation of problems that seems to include almost everything under the sun. Most frequently mentioned are “brain fog,” concentration problems, and fatigue. Long Covid seems to be exaggerated by certain interests, but is real nevertheless and I know certain people who are affected. My readers also reported very compelling stories of their own consequences of Covid-19. Be aware that symptoms similar to the above are present in the early stages of dementia also.

The RIVM survey, which reported 40% greater visits for cognitive and memory problems, is an alarming finding. It matches and confirms the pattern I have seen in my daily dealings.

The cause of these cognitive problems is not yet known. An unsettling scientific article from 2022 reports that the lab-made Sars-CoV-2 virus contains “prion-like domains,” which are amino acid sequences that could cause protein misfolding, which allegedly could cause dementia similar to mad cow disease.
All Covid vaccines also encode this spike protein (with the prion domains).

The authors explain that brain fog, confusion, cognition and memory issues, etc., may be strongly associated with the symptomology, onset, and development of human prion disease (PrD) and other insidious and incurable neurological syndromes.

If so, perhaps, our conspiratorially minded readers can ask: was the prion functionality built intentionally into Sars-Cov-2, a lab-developed mystery virus of murky origin that spread worldwide? Is it a coincidence that Covid vaccines, forced on everyone, contained the same prion-like spike protein? It is a question we can (and should) ask. As always, all such possibilities must be considered skeptically but with an open mind.

I am not the first to notice the prion issue, and another friend of this blog, Walter Chesnut, has been discussing this possibility for a while:
A Prion Disease of the Body: The Spike Protein as Proteopathic Seed
What is new in my post is that dementia and neurodegeneration were noticed in the pattern of Dutch doctor visits by a prestigious Dutch scientific institute. It confirms that we need to look closely at this issue.

If the progressing collective neurodegeneration continues, we may be running out of intellectual resources and time to handle this problem. The scientists, who need to use the full capacity of their intellect, may also be losing cognitive abilities along with their peers - potentially with frightening consequences for all of us if the above-mentioned cognitive problems deepen.

I lampooned bad science on this blog many times and intend to continuedoing so in the future. I do, however, like and appreciate good science, from which we all benefited tremendously. Good science is completely impossible without the intellect of scientists.

I hope we still have time to determine what is happening with our affected colleagues, friends, and others - and how to help them.

Lastly, I do not intend this post to be hysterical doom-mongering. All “the world is ending next year” predictions never materialized. I hope that the cognitive deterioration, which I am convinced is real, affects only a fraction of people.

Do you know any people who have declined intellectually during the last year or so? If so, please describe what you know in the comments while being MINDFUL OF PEOPLE’S PRIVACY.

 

[parsonswife]

Did not get the shots but having a terrible time with longterm recall....is it just age (68) or post infection? I find it deeply disturbing that I seem to searching for words or scriptures. Of course we have also been under A LOT of stress too

 

[blueinterceptor]

It’s possible that some of this is attributable to a break in social interaction. A break in a normal work routine. A sort of if you don’t use, you lose it or a perishable skill. People were isolated for a long time and I would figure that the fewer interactions people had, both personal and professional took its toll. Add to that the unending stress put on people because of this 3 year ordeal and uncertainty did further damage to peoples psyche.

 

[TheSearcher]

I see it on the roads. An occasional extreme speeder, but mostly people driving reaaaalllly slow. Like they can't process what they see and they're slowing the progression of input and response.

At work, too, I see it. People with significant experience in their fields doing the DUMBEST shit. I want to take them by the shoulders and shake them, asking "did you forget how all of this is supposed to work?"

It scares the Hell out of me.

 

[jed turtle]

many of us have been highly suspicious from the start and have been waiting for more bad news to arrive as long term affects from the Covid injections take their tolls. The idea that the most scientifically capable from among the general population would ALSO be affected means we may be witnessing the end of all modern civilization Almost as rapidly As any war could achieve otherwise, unless the saline shots were reserved for such types.

 

[wobble]

I think it's the huge rise in the use of Delta 8 THC gummy's and vapes.
Maybe ask some of these people: Dude(or dudette), are you stoned, or what?"

 

[mudlogger]

My adult daughter-in-law recently asked me if coconut oil (for soapmaking) was cheaper from company A or B. The weight per bucket was different between companies, but this certified vet tech couldn't reason out how to get the price per lb to compare?
J & J vax, won't take Ivermectin because it's for animals.

 

[Henry Bowman]

I have always thought the majority of people were idiots. It is just more pronounced now.

 

[Hfcomms]

J & J vax, won't take Ivermectin because it's for animals.

If she is a certified vet tech then would she take penicillin or any other antibiotics that are also given to animals? She hasn't thought it through but then again most people are propagandized today from the media and the so called 'experts' and won't think for themselves or research for themselves.

My BIL who is retired now was a veterinarian and owned his own practice would source meds for me that were labeled 'for animal use only'. Funny thing is that they were manufactured on the very same lines the human medications were and everything was identical for purity, quality etc. The only difference was the labeling and lot numbers.....and of course the prices.

A course of antibiotics for animal use his cost was $12 and the very same capsules for human use was well over $100 at the pharmacy. Big pharma looks at us like cows ready to be milked or harvested as the case may be.

 

[raven]

I have always thought the majority of people were idiots. It is just more pronounced now.

They say the average IQ is 100 and most people range between 85 and 115.
Based upon the results that average people achieve,
you know, in common things like
bank accounts, credit card debt, mortgages, and other "significant and measurable" life choices,
average is only that which is necessary for productive slavery.

And while hand held computing devices and instant internet access were supposed to make people smarter
. . . it appears that just having access to information does not yield that result, especially considering the number of people that fervently accept ideas like global warming, climate change, transgenderism, etc.

 

[WalknTrot]

What. People are getting stupider? I've been seeing that for decades.

Lack of responsibility, lack of personal skills, lack of real world experience, lack of a practical education, lack of common sense and a general "me first" attitude. Toss in a legal or illegal drug addiction (rampant) and you are dealing with carp-for-brains on a daily basis.

It's only going to get worse until something big happens to shake up the gene pool, society, behavior, or most likely all of the above.

 

[marsh]

Nattokinase is supposed to purge the spike protein from your system and is good for cardiovascular health.

 

[Kathy in FL]

Using tech to make every decision, to substitute for human interaction which is also the right kind of brain stimulation, being on the phone/computer all day even if it is for legitimate reasons like work/school, failure to understand action/consequence because the consequence part of the equation is never instituted, extremely high levels of stress from socioeconomic issues, etc. ad nauseum.

Seriously, yes some of this is the result of an aging population and some of it could be caused by covid and some of it could be reaction to a vaccine and some of it could be ....

What I am saying is that there are plenty of reasons beside the vax and/or infection for this to be happening to our society. And we are passing it along to the younger generations by example.

 

[Firebird]

They say the average IQ is 100 and most people range between 85 and 115.
Based upon the results that average people achieve,
you know, in common things like
bank accounts, credit card debt, mortgages, and other "significant and measurable" life choices,
average is only that which is necessary for productive slavery.

And while hand held computing devices and instant internet access were supposed to make people smarter
. . . it appears that just having access to information does not yield that result, especially considering the number of people that fervently accept ideas like global warming, climate change, transgenderism, etc.

I've been saying for years that computers and smart phones are making people dumb

 

[Hfcomms]

I've been saying for years that computers and smart phones are making people dumb

Give the average kid a piece of paper and a pencil and have them do long division or multiplication for you and they are lost. Even as adults without the calculator app they are hard pressed to even balance a simple checkbook. Don't get me wrong, I like my technology. Scratch that, I love my technology but never depend on your technology.

Even things like map reading and navigation are a lost art pretty much. I've seen people pull up at my guard house telling me they have to go five miles ahead to get to a small town and I tell them where they are at is private property and they passed the small town five miles back. They tell me I'm crazy because their GPS is showing they have to go forward.

I tell them the GPS is extremely accurate but the mapping software leaves much to be desired. Meanwhile they went through the small town with the village limits sign as well as the big water tower which has the village name plastered all over it along with the ballpark, etc but they still maintain that the GPS is right and the town leads off into the boonies where the GPS tells them it is.

Heads down and locked and really don't even bother to look out the windows and read the signs. When our technology takes the big dump these people are screwed because few of them know how to do it manually anymore.

 

[Firebird]

Give the average kid a piece of paper and a pencil and have them do long division or multiplication for you and they are lost. Even as adults without the calculator app they are hard pressed to even balance a simple checkbook. Don't get me wrong, I like my technology. Scratch that, I love my technology but never depend on your technology.

Even things like map reading and navigation are a lost art pretty much. I've seen people pull up at my guard house telling me they have to go five miles ahead to get to a small town and I tell them where they are at is private property and they passed the small town five miles back. They tell me I'm crazy because their GPS is showing they have to go forward.

I tell them the GPS is extremely accurate but the mapping software leaves much to be desired. Meanwhile they went through the small town with the village limits sign as well as the big water tower which has the village name plastered all over it along with the ballpark, etc but they still maintain that the GPS is right and the town leads off into the boonies where the GPS tells them it is.

Heads down and locked and really don't even bother to look out the windows and read the signs. When our technology takes the big dump these people are screwed because few of them know how to do it manually anymore.

Yep! Most people can no longer even remember phone numbers, as everything is stored in the smart phones.

 

[raven]

I've been saying for years that computers and smart phones are making people dumb

If the information encoded in the calculating machine is wrong,
and you can only rely on the machine,
then you will always arrive at an incorrect result.
This is why AI will fail.
AI is being encoded with climate change, global warming, CBDC, trans, social justice. It can only arrive at answers that promote solutions that support the resolution of these things.
And if you have to have an IQ above 115 to begin to recognize this and most of the rest of the people will go along with it (to get along with their liberal friends) . . . it does not look good.

 

[Samuel Adams]

And yet the mega-bureaucracy destroying “us” marches on, with ever increasing energy, enthusiasm and efficiency.

Pretty cool, huh ?

 

[Cardinal]

I see it on the roads. An occasional extreme speeder, but mostly people driving reaaaalllly slow. Like they can't process what they see and they're slowing the progression of input and response.

I hadn't thought of that as a cause. I'm seeing it on the roads too.

 

[Red Baron]

I wouldn't rule out a large part of the problem is the steady use of pot and it's derivatives.

A lot of what I see today harkens back to the 60's and 70's. Actually worse now because weed is legal in many areas and you can stay perpetually high, legally.

 

[raven]

I see it on the roads. An occasional extreme speeder, but mostly people driving reaaaalllly slow. Like they can't process what they see and they're slowing the progression of input and response.

At work, too, I see it. People with significant experience in their fields doing the DUMBEST shit. I want to take them by the shoulders and shake them, asking "did you forget how all of this is supposed to work?"

It scares the Hell out of me.

In my former life, I always drove faster than posted.
Not anymore. However, it isn't from slow processing. It is a measured response.
I have noticed that other people driving are doing dangerous stuff like running red lights and texting while driving - I take extra care to give them all the room they need to be as stupid as they want.

 

[naegling62]

What was this thread about?

 

[Melodi]

I wouldn't rule out a large part of the problem is the steady use of pot and it's derivatives.

A lot of what I see today harkens back to the 60's and 70's. Actually worse now because weed is legal in many areas and you can stay perpetually high, legally.

It is happening in other places, though, in places like Ireland, the use of even CBDs is quite low. Sure, there is a popular illegal market, but it isn't everywhere, and most older rural people don't use it. Overuse of some types of THC, in particular, can cause memory issues or hallucinations.

While that may need to be looked at, I would also suggest looking at the massive use of various prescription medications both for depression but even for things like heart disease, diabetes, cholesterol control, and even life-saving cancer drugs, all of which have some versions that may affect the thinking processes.

While the use of pharmaceuticals is growing in Europe, many people in nations with high-quality health care are stunned at the number of pills taken by many Americans, even those who seem relatively healthy. Then you add to this the potential of every drug to interact with any other medicine, including over-the-counter and herbal preparations, and you have a real recipe for problems.

Now add in things like smartphones, google, and now the coming of AI "Chat," which for now is a joke but won't be for long, and it becomes relatively easy to see what people don't remember things and sometimes can't sort out simple situations without a crutch.

 

[Vegas321]

I think it's the huge rise in the use of Delta 8 THC gummy's and vapes.
Maybe ask some of these people: Dude(or dudette), are you stoned, or what?"

Pot makes you stupid.

 

[Samuel Adams]

What was this thread about?

Pretty sure it was roadkill recipes.

 

[Hfcomms]

What was this thread about?

Cognitive problems....did you forget??

 

[TFergeson]

Ill just leave these Google search results here.......

 

[Melodi]

I am not discounting a possible connection to either the COVID-19 vaccines or Long-Covid itself. Both are possible, they are not mutually exclusive and both could also interact with other drugs and chemicals in the environment.

 

[bracketquant]

What was this thread about?

What was that post about?

 

[FireDance]

I am of the “too much stress” mindset. For THE GREATER part of this. I mean look at what most of the world is going through - economic collapse, war possibilities, food shortages, etc. Most of us are hearing/seeing this on a constant basis and eventually, you either set your back straight and dig in your heels, give up, try to avoid thinking about or you think about it all the time.

If you think about it all the time, you really don’t have the ability or desire to process much else.

Heck, I have patients who are bedridden and watching the news almost all the time and they are worried about war with China or the Trump indictment to an overwhelming degree. Some are hopelessly lost in this “created” bs and you can’t even calm them down.

Others I tell not to worry about it because a great deal of what they are seeing is propaganda and we can’t do anything about whatever is being planned anyway so stop worrying. After that, they will usually tell me to turn the TV OFF.

Now I DO believe there are those who have been damaged by the vaxxx. That was stressful too. But it does seem to have done something to some people. How many is the question and how far into the hole will they go? Can they be helped? Will it “wear off”? We don’t have enough information now. Something has been done and done on purpose. It’s a “now what” question now.

 

[wobble]

What was this thread about?

I think it's about toxic hair syndrome

Pot makes you stupid.

But Delta 8 makes people even moar stupid.

 

[ShadowMan]

....won't take Ivermectin because it's for animals.

Strange, Ivermectin is a standard "Deployment" medication in the military for dealing with parasites and such. The kind you find in third world shitte holes that our government frequently sends our troops.

They say the average IQ is 100 and most people range between 85 and 115.

Just like any muscle....if you don't use it, you lose it. HOWEVER......COMMON SENSE has nothing to do with IQ. I've known many college professors that were extremely intelligent, but "didn't have the common sense to back a piss ant out of a pea pod". You can be smart as hell but dumber than a box of rocks at the same time. Here bubba....hold my beer!

 

[TheSearcher]

In my former life, I always drove faster than posted.
Not anymore. However, it isn't from slow processing. It is a measured response.
I have noticed that other people driving are doing dangerous stuff like running red lights and texting while driving - I take extra care to give them all the room they need to be as stupid as they want.

I'm talking about people doing 40 or less on a 55 MPH road. Saw all three lanes of a nearby 55 MPH road do this just yesterday.

People coming to a stop in the middle of a turn at an intersection to look around at a green light. Not before a turn, stopping at the 45 degree mark of a 90 degree maneuver.

Imagine the human brain as a data acquisition and control system (because it is) and these people can't handle the bandwidth, so their buffers fill right up.

ETA: I completely get what you mean about following distance and trying to stay away from the crazies. I do however manage to do the speed limit when I'm not blocked by a road zombie.

 

[Kathy in FL]

I wouldn't rule out a large part of the problem is the steady use of pot and it's derivatives.

A lot of what I see today harkens back to the 60's and 70's. Actually worse now because weed is legal in many areas and you can stay perpetually high, legally.

Reliance of meds that have a psychotropic effect in general is a problem in our society. Such drugs being used before the age of 25 runs a real risk of affecting the physical structure of the human brain and that results in .... yep, cognitive issues. So we can add that to the list of possible reasons people are like they are.

 

[Dennis Olson]

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[Knoxville's Joker]

This is a combination I think. CBDs are one component. The other is social isolation. Another is extreme stress from collapsing fiat currencies. A bigger one would be brain washing from MSM causing cognitive dissonance. I think most of the processing issues are a result of quiet quitting and folks giving up on using their brain as a result.

Plus there is the whole mobile gaming and electronic aspect which I think is destroying cognitive functions. I think this plus the gummies are what are causing most of the issues.

5g role outs, are too hard to pin point conclusively as a source, but many argue it is a factor as well.

 

[Tristan]

I'm sure it's just as 'baffling' to the Authoritays as:

Soccer Players keeling over on the Field
High-school Athletes keeling over on the Field
News Anchors keeling over on the air
Babies and Children presenting with Myocarditis in record numbers
The need to remind Parents and Caregivers that Children can have heart attacks, too


Baffling, simply baffling...

But the large increase in All-Cause Mortality (absent Covid) is likely due to Climate Change, so they got that one covered...

 

[marsh]

Give the average kid a piece of paper and a pencil and have them do long division or multiplication for you and they are lost. Even as adults without the calculator app they are hard pressed to even balance a simple checkbook. Don't get me wrong, I like my technology. Scratch that, I love my technology but never depend on your technology.

Even things like map reading and navigation are a lost art pretty much. I've seen people pull up at my guard house telling me they have to go five miles ahead to get to a small town and I tell them where they are at is private property and they passed the small town five miles back. They tell me I'm crazy because their GPS is showing they have to go forward.

I tell them the GPS is extremely accurate but the mapping software leaves much to be desired. Meanwhile they went through the small town with the village limits sign as well as the big water tower which has the village name plastered all over it along with the ballpark, etc but they still maintain that the GPS is right and the town leads off into the boonies where the GPS tells them it is.

Heads down and locked and really don't even bother to look out the windows and read the signs. When our technology takes the big dump these people are screwed because few of them know how to do it manually anymore.

GPS has issues in rural areas. We used to occasionally get a big rig that had to be extracted from Salmon River Road, which showed as a short cut to the coast. It turns into an extremely winding one and a half lane road where you need a CB to talk to any oncoming regular vehicle sized traffic so that one of you stays at a wider spot while the other passes through. Otherwise, one of you will have to back up through the curves to the last wide spot.

We had a huge battle with the Forest Service because their new maps included only approved roads. If you were out in the Forest, unapproved heritage or unauthorized track roads would pop up in reality and people would turn down them and end up stuck and lost. GPS made matters all the more confusing. We made the USFS publish special driving maps showing reality with approved roads marked.

 

[Walrus]

A v

My adult daughter-in-law recently asked me if coconut oil (for soapmaking) was cheaper from company A or B. The weight per bucket was different between companies, but this certified vet tech couldn't reason out how to get the price per lb to compare?
J & J vax, won't take Ivermectin because it's for animals.

A tech should know that Merck donated billions of doses to people in africa, and it was awarded Pharmaceutical of the year (or something like that) in 2015.

 

[dawgofwar10]

Ran into a buddy of mine at a local BBQ place, we had our orders in and waited at the bar. Had a Jack on the Rocks and the bartender asked what he wanted, he said a Virgin Mary. At that point one of the ladies asked what that was, he replied it is a Bloody Mary with no Vodka. Her reply was why would you order that… His reply was…. I do not have to do complete stops at stop signs, needless to say I had J.D. blowing thru nose!!!