'Let’s talk about COVID, brain damage & society'

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18.7.2025

'Let's talk about COVID, brain damage & society'



https://x.com/JamesThrot/status/1945802539615572284

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

Let's talk about COVID, brain damage & society.

Specifically, what happens when a neurotropic virus repeatedly infects the population, targeting the frontal lobe & almost nobody talks about the consequences?

This thread is for the skeptics.

I'm a neurologist, stay with me 🧵
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1:07 PM · Jul 17, 2025
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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

Frontal lobe injury, whether from strokes, dementia, tumors, or trauma, is clinically known to reduce empathy, impulse control, risk perception, and moral reasoning.

SARS-CoV-2 has been shown in multiple studies to damage this part of the brain.

What happens at scale?

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

Disclaimer:

This is NOT about saying brain damage = bad person.

This is NOT about blaming those with disabilities.

This is NOT biological determinism.

It's about asking how repeated infection by a brain invading virus might affect collective behaviour, at population level.

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

We know from history:

- Lead exposure increased aggression and crime

- Parasites like toxoplasmosis change risk perception

- Brain injury can alter ideology, emotional control, and even voting behaviour

Why wouldn't covid, a virus that damages the brain, be doing the same?

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

We know the virus causes anosmia (loss of smell) partly by damaging the olfactory nerve, a direct pathway into the brain.

Studies show changes in grey matter, even in "mild" infections.

And this virus doesn't just hit once, people are getting infected over & over, incessantly.

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

Yes, this sounds chilling. That's why it gets laughed off & I face ridicule.

But if covid causes damage in areas that regulate empathy, inhibition & moral logic, we should expect:

- More cruelty

- Less resistance to authoritarianism

- Rising impulsivity and antisocial behaviour

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

This is not saying "brain damage makes you evil."

It's saying that certain kinds of neural injury, especially to the frontal lobe, make people less able to regulate behavior that protects others and themselves.

That is NOT ableism. That is neurology.


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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

There's a difference between lifelong neurodivergence and acquired neurological injury from a virus.

One is an identity. The other is harm.

Saying "SARS-CoV-2 brain damage may be reshaping society" is not ableist.

It's morally urgent.

1:07 PM · Jul 17, 2025 15.5K Views

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

Many with such damage won't even be able to see this, a crucial point.

Anosognosia, lack of insight/awareness into one's own brain changes, is common after frontal lobe injury.

So of course denial would be rampant.

Of course people would say "I'm fine, nothing wrong with me"

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

But this is anything but fine.

Empathy is collapsing. Violence is rising. Logic is fracturing.

And covid is still spreading; unchecked, unstudied, unacknowledged.

This thread isn't fear-mongering. It's a warning.

We need to start taking brain damage seriously.

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

Population wide outcomes I'd expect to be seeing:

- Reduced empathy
- Increased aggression
- Support for authoritarianism
- Declining critical thinking
- Less moral inhibition
- Rising disinhibition & antisocial behavior
- Inability to recognise own impairment/decline

James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

This is NOT alarmism.

It's consistent with decades of lesion and dementia research, now playing out under mass infection conditions.

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

I'm bored to fucking tears of replying to the anti vax trolls plaguing my replies.

I've replied to enough of them now for my replies to cover all bases.

Read them and weep.

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James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot

Frontal lobe dysfunction shatters critical thinking.

That's how you go from understanding public health to believing vaccines are more dangerous than the virus, every expert is lying, & your YouTube search counts as research.

Thank you for providing very convincing case studies
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https://x.com/silence4453/status/1945910255424319652

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just reading climate @silence4453

I would be much more interested in reading this without all the disclaimers trying not to offend the rainbow people. They're old enough to read the work of a neurologist without having a panic attack over microaggressions. Losing all of  your punch in delivery.
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This comment by @silence4453 is absolutely correct. To show the really important contents of what James Throt wrote, I put those parts in bold font.

[AribertDeckers]

18.7.2025
'The loss of neurons'


https://x.com/Yash25571056/status/1946183237803602420

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Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056

The loss of neurons is commonly sensed as the loss of common sense.

2:20 PM · Jul 18, 2025
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