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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by xd on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @07:16AM (#24846648)
Also, I had a brief look over the paper but couldn't find anything to control for isolation since lockdown .. surely this would of had an effect on peoples cognition.

On a side note, maybe it's just me but I keep seeing comments that don't follow a "politically" accepted view point, being down vote like yours.

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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by w_t_payne on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @07:19AM (#24846664)
Maybe it's because this whole situation has been ridiculously politicized, to the point where it's difficult to have a rational fact-based discussion.
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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by hejja on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @07:25AM (#24846698)
...about anything. not just covid.
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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by EForEndeavour on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:19PM (#24849956)
That's exactly what someone with your political beliefs would say!!
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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by api on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @08:28AM (#24847099)
If isolation with a net connection for a few months dropped multiple IQ points, then all the shut-ins who do nothing but hang around on the Internet all day would be losing multiple tens of IQ points a year and would be functionally disabled by now.
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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by webmaven on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:17AM (#24855113)
> If isolation with a net connection for a few months dropped multiple IQ points, then all the shut-ins who do nothing but hang around on the Internet all day would be losing multiple tens of IQ points a year and would be functionally disabled by now.

You're assuming the effect is both permanent and cumulative.

An analogous effect: Clinical depression is also known to lower IQ in a subset of sufferers (for some oddballs, it's actually their main symptom). But the effect is neither permanent, nor cumulative. When the depression lifts, so does IQ (usually with a bit of delay).

So I would surmise that the same may be true of IQ deficits caused by prolonged isolation.

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Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covi... by jmull on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @07:36AM (#24846767)
I don't know why people downvote things, but in this case I would hope it's because the previous comment was pretty superficial. Whether the covid causes cognitive decline through causing the use of a ventilator, sedatives, and immobilization or through some other mechanism still means it causes cognitive decline. So there's a basic logic flaw. Also, quite a large number of people have been put on ventilators due to covid-19, not "almost nobody". That's just an incorrect assertion. You'd like to attribute the downvoting to politics, but given the quality issues, I think that's a hard claim to support.
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