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I had strange symptoms post-Covid infection - my ability to recognize faces was very distorted and it seemed like everyone was familiar to me. It was like every
by _whiteCaps_ 2y ago
I had strange symptoms post-Covid infection - my ability to recognize faces was very distorted and it seemed like everyone was familiar to me. It was like everyone I saw was an old high school acquaintance or maybe a celebrity, and I would get anxious because I didn't remember their name.
- School-Cotton 2y agoDid you recover?
- _whiteCaps_ 2y agoYeah, it took a few months but it gradually faded.
- genewitch 2y agothere was publications about viruses "causing the host to be more outgoing/in public" in the lead-up to the part of the disease where you're laid up with fluids leaking out of every orifice. I'm fairly certain some flu and iirc sars-ncov-2 were found to display this secondary (or tertiary) effect. So you "catch" a flu. Before you know you've caught it, suddenly you want to go out to dinner, or go to a meetup of friends that you weren't planning on, or go to the movies / a concert. Your misrecognizing faces seems like it might have felt the onus was on you to go up to people you saw and say "hey how've you been!" which, if you were infectious, would be detrimental to other people but beneficial to the virus. maybe long-covid or whatever left that part of your brain miswired and it took however long for the brain to fix the feature.
- crummy 2y ago"hey... Don't I know you from somewhere?" will become an even worse pickup line when it means the person probably has Covid
- ben_w 2y agoI have a suspicion that, for similar reasons, STDs would also be likely to make people hornier.
- loa_in_ 2y agoAs teens would say, "getting laid will give you a confidence boost and make you feel manlier". This is anecdotal, but I'd say that I've seen this happen. Many common viruses like HSV are passed down to children do I'd say exposure is nearly impossible to avoid.