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"There was a recent 2024 study that showed us that individuals who survive an acute COVID-19 infection (...) on average will lose somewhere in the neighbourhood of two to six IQ points per infection."
"although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives."
Seriously, wear a mask 😷 .

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio
Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing long COVID.

Good article summarizing a lot of things relevant to continued COVID'19 caution:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888
Key points:
COVID'19 weakens the immune system:
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So it's not just about infecting you and causing respiratory illness and fever and all of the things that we usually get with the viral infection. This virus also specifically causes your immune system to become weaker.
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It damages blood vessels:
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In addition to SARS-CoV-2's ability to dysregulate the immune system and suppress the immune system, the spike protein itself is very damaging to blood vessel structures as well as red blood cells and platelets themselves.
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The folk idea that infections make our immune system stronger and stronger like a muscle just isn't true (or at least, doesn't apply to COVID'19 because of how, unlike most other viruses, it damages the immune system):
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For the longest time in the field of immunology, there was the sort of adage that your immune system needs to be tested every now and again to stay strong. That's an old-fashioned idea.
The more new-fashioned and evidence-based idea is that, although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives.
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Newly released court documents show power utility DTE Energy knowingly contributed $100,000 to a dark money non-profit that helped sabotage Michigangovernor Gretchen Whitmer’s Covid lockdown policies.
The documents contradict previous DTE statements that claimed the utility was not involved with the donation.

This framing of long COVID is uh chilling. Not masking in public sure seems dumb.
https://thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/long-covid-mode-seeing-the-crisis-through-games/

Michigan utility aided sabotage of Covid lockdown policies, documents reveal (Tom Perkins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/michigan-covid-lockdown-dte-energy
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p31#a250707p31

Quadratic Chabauty Experiments on Genus 2 Bielliptic Modular Curves in the LMFDB
Kate Finnerty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03784 https://

Quadratic Chabauty Experiments on Genus 2 Bielliptic Modular Curves in the LMFDB
We present results of quadratic Chabauty experiments on genus 2 bielliptic modular curves of Jacobian rank 2 that have recently been added to the LMFDB. We apply quadratic Chabauty methods over both the rationals and quadratic imaginary fields. In a number of cases, the experiments yielded algebraic irrational points among the set of mock rational points. We highlight specific notable examples, including the non-split Cartan modular curve $X^+_{ns}(15)$. Lastly, we offer a conjecture relating t…

Deep-Learning-Assisted Highly-Accurate COVID-19 Diagnosis on Lung Computed Tomography Images
Yinuo Wang, Juhyun Bae, Ka Ho Chow, Shenyang Chen, Shreyash Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04252

Deep-Learning-Assisted Highly-Accurate COVID-19 Diagnosis on Lung Computed Tomography Images
COVID-19 is a severe and acute viral disease that can cause symptoms consistent with pneumonia in which inflammation is caused in the alveolous regions of the lungs leading to a build-up of fluid and breathing difficulties. Thus, the diagnosis of COVID using CT scans has been effective in assisting with RT-PCR diagnosis and severity classifications. In this paper, we proposed a new data quality control pipeline to refine the quality of CT images based on GAN and sliding windows. Also, we use cl…

Star Wars Actor Kenneth Colley, Who Played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Has Died Aged 87 After Contracting Covid and Developing Pneumonia - IGN
https://w…

Star Wars Actor Kenneth Colley, Who Played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Has Died Aged 87 After Contracting Covid and Developing Pneumonia - IGN
Star Wars actor Kenneth Colley, who played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, has died aged 87 after contracting Covid and developing pneumonia.

Researchers have discovered a breakthrough link between
organ failure and long Covid
after overcoming contentious Covid-era autopsy regulations
and one of the medical profession’s most high-profile legal disputes.
https://archive.md/TrZ32

Major medical groups sue Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccines (Erika Edwards/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rfk-jr-sued-pediatricians-medical-groups-covid-vaccines-rcna217218
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p100#a250708p100