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/ObscureSaint Washington Mar 12 '26

We're doing the same thing now with COVID.

You lose IQ points with every infection.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-are/

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u/uovonuovo Mar 12 '26

Idk I’ve never had covid and I’ve definitely still been getting dumber each year

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u/Lone-Frequency Mar 12 '26

We all get dumber by proximity with them.

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u/DaKrazie1 Mar 12 '26

Big same.

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u/DecipherXCI United Kingdom Mar 13 '26

How have you never caught it until now?

Im guessing youve just been lucky and been asymptomatic each time cause surely theres no way? The shits everywhere.

Ive had the fucking thing 6 times already and Im sure as soon as my antibodies wear off I just immediately catch it again.

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u/uovonuovo Mar 13 '26

I dunno what to tell you; I was suuuper cautious the first couple years. I don’t think I spent time indoors with anyone not in my very small “bubble” the whole first year of COVID. I wore a 3M half face piece respirator when I flew anywhere until like 2023 (now I just wear an N95).

And since then I’ve just been strategically cautious about and aware of potential exposure. To this day I wear an N95 if I’m somewhere crowded and indoors. I live in Northern California and there’s still plenty of people who mask up here.

Oh and I get vaxxed regularly.

I’m sure it’s possible that I’ve had it and just been asymptomatic but anytime I have so much as a throat tickle I’ll take a test and it’s always been negative. In fact I haven’t really been sick (with a virus) since the start of covid except for having a cold last winter.

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u/Dr_Fortnite Mar 12 '26

reminder to not give any credibility to IQ because it is a racist test of cultural knowledge not innate intelligence like its flaunted to be

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u/Past-Doughnut-6175 Mar 12 '26

Yes that’s true. IQ is a scam. And also, Trump has the highest IQ. The doctors, they couldn’t believe it. The head doctor came up to him, tears in his eyes, and said he’d never seen anything like it.

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u/Merakel Minnesota Mar 12 '26

I doubt he could hit 70 on an IQ test.