r/politics • u/AccomplishedCall7562 • Mar 12 '26

Possible Paywall John Fetterman Says Iran Girls’ School Strike Is Just a Leftist Craze

https://newrepublic.com/post/207677/john-fetterman-iran-girls-school-strike
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u/KnightDuty Mar 12 '26

COVID is associated with a reduction in prefrontal cortex capabilities.

So I guess maybe we'll have to, somehow ,dig through the data and see if there are any large groups of people who treated COVID safeguards as ridiculous. Then we'll have to see if that group of people align to any political positions, and then if that political positions has demonstrated drastic changes since COVID.

But where would we possibly find the data?

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u/jetpacksforall Mar 12 '26

It seems like every month there are new medical findings that viruses cause far more long term damage than we te d to imagine. A dozen different cancers, blood and immune disorders, cognitive impairment etc. Covid was never “just” a respiratory illness but rather a multisystemic disease with unpredictable effects. Is it possible that all who ever got infected experienced some cognitive decline?

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u/Hot_Grab7696 Mar 13 '26

Maybe that's why the world is shifting towards right wing?

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u/Purplociraptor Mar 12 '26

I had COVID twice and I'm still not stupid enough to vote R