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This title sounds very disconcerting until you realize the “brain damage” is actually damage to the nervous system (located in your nose). I lost my sense of s
by newshorts 5y ago
This title sounds very disconcerting until you realize the “brain damage” is actually damage to the nervous system (located in your nose).
I lost my sense of smell years ago from another issue, it’s a minor inconvenience for me now. I say this not to dismiss the dangers but to balance the alarm in this hyperbolic title.
- ctoth 5y agoYou are the second person in these comments making this same mistake. The olfactory bulb is in the brain. I guess Covid seems less scary if it doesn't damage the brain and so people who might otherwise be okay catching it or whatever might want to push back, but as far as I can tell it actually damages the chunk of goo in your skull that makes you you. Not so great if immunity fades and you're rolling a D20 every time you get infected which more and more seems to be the case.
- timcavel 5y ago
- sterlind 5y agoit's disconcerting, certainly. but I would be far less worried about localized damage to the olfactory bulb, than I'd be about the amygdala, or some kind of widespread inflammation. this particular chunk of goo doesn't make me me, at least to the degree that others do.
- somewhereoutth 5y agoI suspect it's one of those things 'you didn't realise how good it was until it had gone'.
- sterlind 5y agooh, I'm sure it is, but I'd much rather lose my sense of smell than my capacity to feel and respond to emotions.
- intrasight 5y agoYour nose is the one place, and one sense, where your brain directly touches the environment.