Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@social.cleverlibre.org

@Bletherer1

Likewise other staff in the NHS. Medical secretaries get paid a miserable pittance as do cleaners in fact so does everyone who isn't fcükin manager or a doctor!

@MsAlliance

She was a household pet; no one ever taught her her how to run down prey. Somehow, she knew instinctively what to do!

In fact it was an embarrassment to everyone when she went after a squirrel but unless she was on a lead, there was no stopping her and even if she was on a lead she would often slip her collar.

@RDHale@mastodon.online

I would add to that example, that of Donald Trump who inherited half a billion US$, who has squandered it all on failed business ventures and who is now in the invidious position of having signed personal guarantees for around $450 million of debt owed by the Trump Organization that that organization has no means of paying!

@MsAlliance

Yes friends of mine used to have a whippet. She was the sweetest natured animal you could ever meet and wonderful with kids BUT if she saw a squirrel; that was it, she was off like a bullet and 9 times out of ten she would catch the squirrel, take it by the head and shake it until she broke its neck.

With foxes she was likewise merciless. She would chase them at full speed (about 40 MPH). At the very last moment, she would somehow turn sideways and slam broadside into her prey which would knock the wind out of the fox and bowl it over, then she would start tearing the poor creature to pieces.

She was fine with cats, rabbits, hares but for some reason squirrels and foxes were her sworn enemies!

@pete @PaulSchleifer

One could say he's doing a Liz Truss

@skanman

I had no such brain fog before I actually caught Covid-19 which therefore suggests to me that it is a product of Covid infection rather than of being vaccinated with the assortment of vaccines that I had had long before being infected.

@teekayyye
We are neighbours! I live in Luxembourg and the housing crisis is really acute hereabouts!

@marathon0

Yes fully vaxxed! Two doses of Astra-Zeneca and one of Modena. In fact I was due for my 2nd booster when Covid struck.

You know, people say "brain fog" which is an unhelpfully non-descriptive term, really. I am simply assuming that what I experienced was that!

@skanman
Personally, given there were several vaccines in use, certainly where I live, there were four types given, and all worked in subtly different ways, I would guess that it had more to do under-reporting or the fact that people would not necessarily associate it with a "respiratory disease" than to do with any vaccine side effects.

@teekayyye

In many countries in Europe there is a desperate shortage of housing and, whilst it is land that is the difficult part of the problem to solve, pre-fab housing can significantly accelerate the journey from turf to home.

@teekayyye
Jeezus! If I had that "brain fog" for 18 months, I'd be suicidal. I began to think I was developing dementia!

I assume medical science has no treatment for it yet, no?

Having made it through several years of the COVID pandemic without catching it, I thought I'd got away with it. Wrong! A few months back I started coughing and feeling a bit off colour and the lateral flow test indicated that I had finally caught COVID-19. I tested positive for about 5 days and then the tests went negative. Other than an annoyingly persistent cough for about four days, a bit of a sore throat and a mild general feeling of malaise, it really wasn't that dramatic.
However, I noticed that I was forgetting things more than more than I usually do and that I was suffering from what I thought to be “brain fog”. This was characterized by an inability to bring words to mind when speaking and the general slowing down of my mental processes. For example, if I wanted to create a new Word document, something I do quite frequently, it would take anything up to 30 seconds between me thinking “I need to create a Word document” and my brain remembering how you do that. As I used to be a computer programmer, I found that really scary. This mental fog persisted for several weeks following the infection. Thankfully, several months later, I seem to have regained my mental agility.
Has anyone else experienced similar symptoms?
Does the description above qualify as “brain fog”?