15 July

An American friend works in the biotech industry. His son just got a ‘mild’ Covid infection. He now has parosmia. Parosmia is a condition where your brain distorts what you smell, in this case his son smells an absolutely disgusting smell, all day, that doesn’t correspond with anything around him. Like having fresh shit smeared under his nostrils that he can’t wash off. When you look at articles about parosmia and Covid, it says parosmia is something people can get ‘after’ they’ve had a Covid infection. Um, sorry, there is no after. Parosmia is literal brain damage, caused by the continuing action of the virus in the body, after you think you’re better. Covid never leaves. It sets up shop. And then eats you from within. I can only plead again that people do everything they can not to catch it. Catching it will not make you more immune, that’s a disgusting political lie. Catching it all the time is making us all *less* immune, by generating more and more variants of the virus. If you’re catching it from your kids (where most catch it), who catch it at school, ask your school what they’re doing against Covid. (It will be nothing.) Then ask them TO do something. Like open fucking windows, and put some inexpensive air purifiers in the classroom. Hand sanitiser is NOT action against Covid, and I doubt most even bother with that now. If you’re worried doing something like wearing a mask will make you look silly with your friends, imagine having fresh shit smeared under your nostrils, that you can’t wash off, for the rest of your life. That should help.