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COVID-19 Linked To Substantial Impact On Intelligence In Recovered Patients: Study

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Scientists tested 81,337 participants between January and December 2020. (File)
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London:
A severe coronavirus infection, involving hospitalisation and ventilator support, has a substantial impact on a recovered patient's intelligence as part of wider "Long-COVID" symptoms, a UK study has found.
Scientists tested 81,337 participants between January and December 2020 with a clinically validated web-optimised assessment as part of the Great British Intelligence Test. The questionnaire items captured self-report of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 infection and respiratory symptoms.
"These results accord with reports of long-COVID, where "brain fog'', trouble concentrating and difficulty finding the correct words are common," notes the study published in 'The Lancet - EclinicalMedicine' journal last week.
"The scale of the observed deficit was not insubstantial... When examining the entire population, the deficits were most pronounced for paradigms that tapped cognitive functions such as reasoning, problem solving, spatial planning and target detection whilst sparing tests of simpler functions such as working-memory span as well as emotional processing," it said.
One possibility was the observed cognitive deficits related to ongoing symptoms of the deadly virus, such as a high temperature or respiratory problems, with 4.8 per cent of participants who were ill reporting residual symptoms.
People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited "significant" cognitive deficits versus controls when controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group, pre-existing medical disorders, tiredness, depression and anxiety.
"The deficits were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised, but also for non-hospitalised cases who had biological confirmation of COVID-19 infection. Analysing markers of premorbid intelligence did not support these differences being present prior to infection."
"Finer grained analysis of performance across sub-tests supported the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-domain impact on human cognition," the findings conclude.
The scientists said the results accord with reports of "Long COVID" cognitive symptoms that persist into the early-chronic phase.
They say the findings should act as a "clarion call" for further research with longitudinal and neuroimaging cohorts to plot recovery trajectories and identify the biological basis of cognitive deficits in SARS-COV-2 or COVID-19 survivors.
The study entitled "Cognitive Deficits In People Who Have Recovered From COVID-19'' involved researchers from Imperial College London, King's College and the Universities of Cambridge, Southampton and Chicago.
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Watch: In This China City, 300-Foot Wall Of Sand, Roads Close

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The sandstorm from Gobi Desert created dangerous driving conditions in the area.
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Beijing:
A giant over 300 feet wall of sand wreaked havoc on Dunhuang, China, reducing visibility to less than 20 feet across the city.
The sandstorm created dangerous driving conditions and forced local police to close major roads amid reduced visibility, reported NBC News.
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Sandstorm today, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dunhuang?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dunhuang</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E6%B2%99%E5%B0%98%E6%9A%B4?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#沙尘暴</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E6%95%A6%E7%85%8C?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#敦煌</a><a href="https://t.co/XDpyhlW0PV">pic.twitter.com/XDpyhlW0PV</a>
— Neil Schmid 史瀚文 (@DNeilSchmid) <a href="https://twitter.com/DNeilSchmid/status/1419300304936312835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2021</a></blockquote>
The sandstorm from the nearby Gobi Desert created dangerous driving conditions and forced police to shut down major roads.
 
 
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Imran Khan's Ruling Party Wins PoK Regional Election

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Imran Khan congratulated his party's winning candidates and thanked voters in a tweet.
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Muzaffarabad:
The ruling party of Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has won a majority of seats in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's regional assembly, the head of the election commission announced on Monday.
Analysts say polarisation in Pakistan's politics pushed the main national parties to focus on the polls in the semi-autonomous region, tightening races in an election that is often overlooked and traditionally won by the national ruling party.
Khan, who came to power in a 2018 election, has faced growing criticism over his management of Pakistan's economy and his ability to deliver on campaign promises, including pledges to create millions of new jobs and root out corruption.
His Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) won 25 seats in the 45-seat assembly in Sunday's poll, Chief Election Commissioner Abdul Rashid Sulehria told a news conference.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of former premier late Benazir Bhutto secured 11 seats, while the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, which had previously held a majority in the body, took just six seats.
Kashmir's outgoing Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider, of the PML-N, contested two seats, losing one and winning the other by only 300 votes.
Two local groups each won a single seat, Sulehria said, while the result from one constituency had been withheld.
Sulehria dismissed accusations, mainly from the PML-N, that Khan's party had rigged the election.
"We have fulfilled our promise to conduct free, fair and transparent elections," he told journalists in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Two workers for Khan's party died in clashes with PPP supporters on election day, police said, but the polls were otherwise peaceful.
Four soldiers involved in securing the vote also died when their vehicle plunged into a mountain ravine, the army said.
Khan congratulated his party's winning candidates and thanked voters in a tweet following the announcement of results.
"I want to thank the (people) ... for placing their trust in the PTI through their votes," he wrote. "We will focus on bringing the (people) out of poverty."
 
 
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46 Afghan Soldiers Seek Refuge In Pakistan After Losing Border Military Posts

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Islamabad:
Forty-six Afghan soldiers sought refuge in Pakistan after losing control of military positions across the border following advances by Taliban insurgents, Pakistan's army said on Monday.
Hundreds of Afghan army soldiers and civil officials have fled to neighbouring Tajikistan, Iran and Pakistan in recent weeks after Taliban offensives in border areas.
The Afghan military commander requested refuge at the border crossing in Chitral in the north, the Pakistan army said in a statement, adding the soldiers were given safe passage into Pakistan on Sunday night after clearance from Afghan authorities.
"Afghan soldiers have been provided food, shelter and necessary medical care as per established military norms," the statement said.
The move comes at a time of poor relations between the neighbours. Afghanistan recalled its diplomats from Pakistan after the brief kidnapping of the Afghan ambassador's daughter in Islamabad earlier in the month.
Afghan officials did not respond to a request for comment.
The Taliban has escalated its offensive since the United States announced in April that it would withdraw its troops by September, ending a 20-year foreign military presence.
Washington has said it will continue to carry out air strikes to support Afghan forces facing insurgent attacks.
Afghan government and Taliban negotiators have met in Qatar's capital, Doha, in recent weeks, although diplomats say there have been few signs of substantive progress since peace talks began in September.
Reeling from battlefield losses, Afghanistan's military is overhauling its war strategy against the Taliban to concentrate forces around critical areas such as Kabul and other cities, border crossings and vital infrastructure, Afghan and U.S. officials have said.
The Pakistan army said the soldiers who sought refuge will be returned to Afghanistan after due process, as had taken place in the case of another batch of 35 soldiers earlier in July.
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Russia Blocks 49 Websites Linked To Kremlin Critic: Ally

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Alexei Navalny was subsequently jailed for two-and-a-half years on old fraud charges. (File)
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Moscow:
Russia's media regulator has blocked 49 websites linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, his ally said Monday, as pressure mounts on the movement of the opposition leader ahead of parliamentary elections in the autumn.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most vocal domestic critic, was arrested in January after he returned to Russia following months of treatment in Germany for a nerve agent poisoning he blames on the Kremlin.
He was subsequently jailed for two-and-a-half years on old fraud charges and his organisations were banned as "extremist", barring members and sponsors from running in parliamentary elections in September.
"By the decision of the prosecutor general's office, 49 websites were blocked simultaneously," key Navalny aide Leonid Volkov said on his Telegram channel on Monday.
The blocked websites include Navalny's main website, the website of his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), the websites of key allies and of Navalny's regional offices that disbanded earlier this year.
AFP journalists said Navalny's website was unavailable in Russia.
"The night of the long knives," Volkov wrote in reference to a bloody purge of military and political rivals launched by Adolf Hitler in Germany.
Volkov said the only website that was not blocked by the state censor was "Smart Voting", which is dedicated to a Navalny-proposed strategy to back candidates best placed to defeat Kremlin-linked politicians in elections.
This tactic has seen the ruling United Russia party lose a number of seats in recent local elections.
AFP has reached out to the Roskomnadzor media watchdog for comment.
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Unvaccinated Students Will Not Be Able to Attend Lectures Under Government Plans

News that billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page has been hiding out on and buying isolated private islands in Fiji to avoid tourists who aren’t allowed in once again underscores how the elite is using the fallout from the pandemic to segregate themselves from the general public.
Page has been living off grid for over a year and forced a state-owned news website to remove an article about his activities that was also de-listed by Google in an apparent effort to conceal his location.
“He has spent months in Fiji during the coronavirus pandemic – mostly on the island of Tavarua – and it has been rumored the billionaire has bought at least one island in the country’s Mamanuca archipelago,” reports <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9816787/Google-founder-Larry-Page-grid-hiding-Fijian-islands.html">the Daily Mail</a>.
“Page has also been spotted an a smaller island called Namotu – which a sailor named Lorenzo Cipriani claimed Page bought in a blog post in August.”
Page, who has a net worth of $117 billion, making him the sixth-wealthiest person in the world, was able to take advantage of Fiji’s ‘Blue Lane’ program, which “lets the super wealthy visit the archipelago on their superyachts and private jets, even when other travelers were banned.”
So while Page gets to enjoy a sumptuous view of the South Pacific while being attended to on his luxury private island by 30 staff waiting on him, ordinary people who have lost their jobs, businesses and homes due to the lockdown aren’t even allowed to travel there.
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Google co-founder Larry Page 'has been living off-grid and hiding out on isolated Fijian island for most of the pandemic' 
via <a href="https://t.co/4BICcpeuDD">https://t.co/4BICcpeuDD</a> <a href="https://t.co/w2p7Kk7ALp">https://t.co/w2p7Kk7ALp</a>
— Sarah (@brontesarah) <a href="https://twitter.com/brontesarah/status/1418478964688015361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2021</a>
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Page’s story is just a microcosm of how wealthy elitists have rapaciously exploited the lockdowns that they have vehemently supported and facilitated to further expand the economic inequality gap and segregate themselves from the peasants.
While Page has his staff prepare him cocktails and the finest cuisine after a day of surfboarding in paradise, children in his home country are either permanently traumatized and afraid to go outside or literally <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9248259/Girl-8-finds-brother-12-hanged-isolation-COVID-lockdowns-left-lonely.html">committing suicide</a> out of loneliness caused by lockdown.
Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum – architects of ‘the Great Reset’ that has been rapidly advanced thanks to lockdown policies – tells people that they’ll “own nothing and be happy.”
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It tells them to look forward to their rental servitude under a system of neo-feudalism that will make home ownership completely unaffordable.
Meanwhile, Davos billionaires like Bill Gates are buying up huge swathes of property, with Gates recently becoming the largest owner of farmland in America.
In terms of individual land owners, Gates is still far behind media mogul John C. Malone, who is in top spot with 2.2 million acres of ranches and forests and CNN founder Ted Turner, who owns 2 million acres of ranch land.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is also “investing in land on a large scale,” according to Forbes.
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America’s biggest owner of farmland is now Bill Gates <a href="https://t.co/j9gW4zQ0Yh">https://t.co/j9gW4zQ0Yh</a> <a href="https://t.co/0tZLJcGXfg">pic.twitter.com/0tZLJcGXfg</a>
— Forbes (@Forbes) <a href="https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1349815704116199424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2021</a>
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While billionaire philanthropists and technocrats are acquiring land at an accelerating speed, they appear to be telling the general public that in the future private property will virtually cease to exist.
The WEF also celebrates the notion that “lockdowns are quietly improving cities,” greasing the skids for climate lockdowns and regulated air travel even as the likes of Page and his ilk jet off for luxury holidays whenever they please, absent the nuisance of those pesky tourists who might spoil their tranquility.
While our quality of life is eroded, while we have to take vaccines and jump through 100 flaming hoops to be allowed to travel internationally, they’re all completely exempt – exempt from the same rules they onerously impose on us.
Tourists are flushed out and banned from entering countries so Page and his rich friends can enjoy their days of pampered, opulent leisure in total seclusion.
Indeed, many elitists have expressed delight at how global lockdowns have left roads, airports and luxury resorts in Caribbean countries virtually empty, allowing them to avoid any interaction whatsoever with the unwashed masses.
This then has the knock-on impact of forcing low income workers to flood to western countries in search of work, exacerbating tensions caused by mass uncontrolled immigration.
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This is the tweet the <a href="https://twitter.com/wef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wef</a> deleted, saying “lockdowns are quietly improving cities”
Lockdowns have destroyed cities, lives & economies. Yet climate change zealots see them as tools of control
These unelected cranks must NEVER be allowed near policy
<a href="https://t.co/NKtqQbjUXm">pic.twitter.com/NKtqQbjUXm</a>
— Martin Daubney (@MartinDaubney) <a href="https://twitter.com/MartinDaubney/status/1365673851179401220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2021</a>
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Billionaires also exploited the pandemic to snuff out their remaining competition and create even more centralized monopolies.
Worldwide, the combined wealth of the world’s 10 richest men rose by $540bn during the first year of the pandemic, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who saw his personal wealth grow by $86 billion as Amazon shares soared.
According to an Oxfam report, billionaires exploited the the impact of lockdown to create a “rigged economy,” causing expanding wealth inequality during the “worst economic downturn in a century.”
A record number of billionaires were also created in the UK during the pandemic even as millions of ordinary people lost their jobs and saw their businesses go under.
Meanwhile, lockdowns caused 150 million people globally to be pushed into extreme poverty.
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'Wealth increase of 10 men during pandemic could buy vaccines for all'
Never mind hungry people. Never mind those without shoes. Never mind.
It will trickle down…. <a href="https://t.co/3wQ1cpjvIk">https://t.co/3wQ1cpjvIk</a>
— Some Fella (@BusterPell) <a href="https://twitter.com/BusterPell/status/1407573587612086272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2021</a>
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But for those lucky enough to hold onto their jobs, they’re kept at arms length by ‘stay at home’ orders, remote working and Zoom calls, even as globalists continue to enjoy maskless BBQ parties at the G7 and socially un-distanced black tie dinners at Davos.
They still get to meet each other in person (while avoiding the worker drones), but you don’t.
None of this is anything new.
Since humanity began to divide into class systems, entrenched elites have always sought to aggressively separate themselves from the public, prevent the creation of a strong middle class, and maintain a poor service class that is only good for attending to their needs.
The major difference now is that the elite have built a giant technocracy which enables them to maintain total surveillance of the populations under their control, while they get to enjoy total exclusivity and privacy.
As Larry Page’s successful effort to get the article about his whereabouts removed from the news media proves, they get to conceal everything about their activities while demanding to know everything about yours.
They get to avoid attention and they get to avoid people knowing their location.
Meanwhile, your government health app knows your every locations and ‘pings’ you back under quarantine at the drop of a hat.
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'Pingdemic' Triggers Widespread Panic Hoarding At UK Supermarkets  <a href="https://t.co/65AncfvZEV">https://t.co/65AncfvZEV</a>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1418484977298202625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2021</a>
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The advancement of robotics and artificial intelligence will also ensure that even much of the elite’s servant class will become obsolete in the near future.
This agenda will all be facilitated through puppet governments and private corporations, allowing Page, Gates, Zuckerberg and other billionaires to fade into the background and hide their role in the managed decline of civilization.
While they continue to inflict all of this upon humanity, we continue to bicker over identity politics, racism and all manner of relative trivialities that keep us divided and asleep.
And if you’re naive enough to think that this is all coming to an end as the coronavirus pandemic winds down, rest assured that there are many more ‘variants’ to be discovered and innumerable more reasons to put you back under lockdown.
Don’t worry though, because none of these restrictions will apply to Larry Page and his billionaire friends, who will remain totally isolated on their luxury private islands as the rest of the world goes to hell in a hand basket thanks to the economic warfare they declared on us.
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News that billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page has been hiding out on and buying isolated private islands in Fiji to avoid tourists who ...