Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?
Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?
Just as the title asks I've noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they're reading.
They'll read it and despite all the information being there, if it's even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it's complete gibberish or indecipherable.
Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it's making me lose my fucking mind.
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I think COVID did a lot of brain damage. People are acting crazier and more reckless in the last few years and I can't think of any other reason for it.
Some of the earliest studies I read about COVID was how it can enter the brain like meningitis and effect a person's cognitive functions. This was a while back and I can't vouch for the accuracy of the information, but seeing how much people have seemed to have lost their minds over the last few years makes me think back to that study.
I can't say I've been immune to it either. I have never been "symptomatic", but the last 3 years have definitely felt more hazy than the times before, and have made me question my own sanity.
thankfully I'd been vaccinated by the time I got symptomatic covid for the first time and I don't think I had any cognitive effects.
Yeah, it's wild how much denial we're in about this as a society. Neurological damage was widespread. I personally contracted Covid twice (that I know about) and had noticable difficulty with memory and keeping my train of thought. Something that I never had problems with previously. I think for a lot of people, the difference might not be that noticeable, and therefor is being ignored. I was a hypervigilant stress knot all my life. So now I just have even more anxiety because I can't remember the entire grocery list in my head anymore.
I don’t know if it’s Covid itself but at least driven by Covid lockdowns and isolation. I am just as sane as always because I’m very level headed and not extreme about anything.
Yet I’ve seen some of my friends/acquaintances go off the deed end. They’ve become hyper obsessed with politics.
It’s been strange to watch. My best friend came out as a trans woman. My girlfriend’s mother who is a crazy liberal hippy, can’t stop saying Trump is the savior. wtf.
I have friends who won’t leave their homes.
It has been a wild ride over the past few years. I think the simulation broke. I use to laugh at Elon for saying that crap but things have just been off.
Why is your friend coming out as a trans woman the first example you give of a friend going off the deep end and becoming hyper obsessed with politics?
Not at all the person you’d expect to do it. No signs. No nothing. Just one day transitioned.
Didn’t bother me, we are still best friends. Just wasn’t something expected at all.
Nah man ive seen coworkers who spent this whole time in the office and caught covid multiple times become imbeciles no matter how good they were at the job. I've been home this whole time and I'm working with so many idiots.
They’ve become hyper obsessed with politics
I lost a lot of people to this too. They saw me as the enemy because I'm hardcore apolitical at this point as I want nothing to do with what the obsessors are obsessing about.
I notice your name says Oregon - are you in Oregon too? I'm in Portland and political discussions here are a headache that lead to shunning. People treat politics like its their religion.
Im in south Salem.
I lean more right for most things. Socially more to the left.
I’m south Salem, I might as well be a communist. It’s super red.
I’m a republican but I’m not maga. So I don’t fit in with the right wing politics in Salem. They appear to be very far right.
I’m very moderate on everything. If you could sum it up; let people do what they want as long as it’s consensual and I’m not paying for it.
Basically I want to live my life and be left alone.
@wintermute_oregon @const_void "I have friends who won’t leave their homes."
That's me. When I have to wear PPE in order to safely leave my home -- because everyone is huffing immunodysregulating, organ damaging plague at each other year-round -- it tends to make me not want to
And then they have the nerve to give you dirty looks and ask why you're wearing a mask. Buddy, employees going to work with covid is now cause for celebration where I am, fuck off.
Didn’t even slow my down except the lockdown. We didn’t have to wear mask where I was living at the time. Went to movies, dinner, did a lot of things outside.
I have friends who still won’t go out to eat.
I did get vaccinated and boosters. I won’t don’t more boosters since it screwed with me blood pressure but I’ll most likely stay more indoors in the winter.
Staying inside for months to years and watching your society fail at things that are actually important to you is also bad for one's mental health. You don't have to actually get Covid for Covid to get you.