Anyone else feel like COVID broke their brain?

well you are still here right?

"fun fact" did you know even in 2024, every two weeks in the USA more people die from covid than 9/11

Because the CDC sure isn't going to remind you about that and neither will the press

That's a lot of suffering, those people didn't just suddenly die in their sleep one day, it was a long painful series of days if not weeks

And of course there are millions with long-covid but not according to letsrun, just ignore all those pros that never recovered or they are "faking it".

Per letsrun if they didn't get sick or died, no-one got sick or died and everyone else is just faking it or somehow it's the vaccine and not covid.

There's no reasoning.

The way we acted when we were just slightly pushed by a virus with 99.7% survial rate shows that we are weak people. We are sheep that will pull a hammy sprinting towards the slaughter.

It sounds pretty clear in your post that the ACL tear is the real reason for your frustration, depression, and lack of vigor. You don't even mention having had COVID or the vaccine. Either this is an anti-vax troll, or you are just depressed due to your injury. Good luck rehabbing it if this is real.

I think your numbers are pretty accurate but where you misunderstand Americans (and humans) is that we are "okay" with certain kinds of death. We need to be. After all, everyone does die. So it doesn't really cause the population at large any psychological grief when a 95 year old with two other diseases dies of Covid. What was the alternative for that person? Live forever?

It is always sad for the family when someone passes but the deaths of 95 year olds with comorbidities is not the same as kids (even a few) being killed by a disease or a shooter or whatever.

Context really matters so we'd need to see the breakdown of Covid deaths before we can use the data in a meaningful way. And because nobody trusts the other side's data or analysis of the data, we are at an impasse (sadly).

p.s. I am normal, moderate person; not a Covid denier or something.

I have gone to see a sports cardiologist who is a leading researcher on long covid. Caveat: long covid is a big bucket that catches everything that one experiences weeks after having covid. So it's imprecise as a diagnosis. BUT, for many with the cardiovascular symptoms version of it, he chalks it up to cardiac deconditioning, which can happen much faster than one might expect and manifest in odd ways in athletes. Here is one of his articles, which includes the reconditioning protocol (in Figure 1). Although the protocol might seem almost humorously light it is what has been found to work--even for elite athletes. It worked for me. Best of luck.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

An Exercise Prescription as a Novel Management Strategy for Treatment of Long COVID - PubMed

Mechanisms causing the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (long COVID) remain elusive, but the clinical phenotype is consistent with cardiac deconditioning. We report a case series of patients with long COVID whose symptoms im...

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To me it's pretty clear OP is talking about COVID as the whole package/cataclysm that it was and not the virus/disease itself. I agree with others that OP is basically depressed and the events of the last few years accelerated all of those factors in a lot of us. The biggest thing for me is that I feel like there are an extra 2-3 years that got tacked onto my life, but it didn't register that way in my psyche. The amount of time between a given pre-covid event and now always seems off by about that factor whenever I think about it. It bums me out...time is the one thing you can't get back.

The OP is a glowie looking for fresh meat or more accurately fresh souls...

I was careful, wore masks indoors and around family when they were ill, got vaccinated in 2021, and didn't get COVID until I dropped the mask--and got it from my son, who had COVID for the third time (he was also vaccinated but was getting COVID from being in a big school for the first time). It was no fun, compounded by a really bad headache that was in part from dehydration, but I had no lingering mental effects. However, my running, which had been going quite well, was bad for the rest of the summer/fall. Even now, I'm not running where I would have expected with high mileage.

I agree. Since the start of the Covid stuff, everything changed. It is hard for me to recall a lot from before then, because it had such an effect on everything. Sadly, the world will not return to normal for quite some time. At my age, I feel it will be the next generation that actually sees things get to some semblance of normal.

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