Meanwhile, Dartmouth researchers documented the first known case of long Covid-triggered prosopagnosia in the journal Cortex.
After repeated tests — including one where she was asked to recognize celebrity faces — the patient was diagnosed with prosopagnosia. Further study of 54 other people who experienced long Covid found the condition is likely a symptom of the disease.
Er… This assumes that you know who the celebrities are in the first place, doesn’t it? Of the ones in the image, I know three of them, and possibly a fourth. I don’t have face blindness, I just don’t take any notice of celebrities.
Must try harder.
When we go to the trivia night down our club, if there is a round of famous faces, the team doesn’t even bother passing me the sheet to look at because they know that if I do happen to recognise a couple of faces out of the ten pictures, they’ll also know them. That said, a couple of weeks back the others were all stumped on one picture and turned to me in the vain hope that I might know, and I did, it was Salvador Dali.
I do think the majority of people would not be able to recognise any famous?
people, unless there from your era, even then.
They all look the same now.
Thick.
All slebs either start out with the “ideal” features, or morph themselves to achieve them. Much as mobile phone software filters do. So they all end up looking the same with slight variations of shade.
Well, there you go. We’ve all caught prosopagnosia as a result of covid. It must prove those vaccines were necessary after all, even in spite of all those incredibly rare heart attacks and such.
There isn’t any possibility that the condition is being caused by the vaccines then?
I had never heard of face blindness but when the subject came up in a discussion I was slightly intrigued. My question was, is there some kind of spectrum, can you have the condition but less severely? The answer was yes, I had asked the question because I’m a bit rubbish at face recognition, especially with people I’ve only just met. When I start a new job, if there are two people at the new place that look even superficially alike I will get them mixed up until I get to know them better.
I’m pretty dreadful, too. Am constantly accosted in the lifts and canteen and meetings by work colleagues and they clearly recognise me, but can I put a name to the face? Rarely!
I had to look up the condition to know what it was! The worry I do have is that they are still flogging this horse. I note Bird flu panic is being hyped up as well. Looks like they are determined to find a justification for a renewed lockdown.
How is this remotely scientific? Bird says she can’t recognise people because “long Covid”. Scientists™ show her photos. Bird says, “Oooh no, can’t recognise those. Long Covid, see?” How do you prove any of this?
Great comment there about the self-test picture the DM put up, though:
“It’s the Mount Rushmore of “I don’t care who these people are”.”
Dammit. Ran out of editing time. I did want to add that I don’t discount the possibility that this is real. Normally harmless viruses can do nasty things sometimes. I’ll never forget a TV programme years ago about a bloke who’d had part of his brain zapped by the cold-sore virus, leaving him with symptoms very like Alzheimer’s: he couldn’t remember anything for more than about a minute. Scared me witless that did, until I realised: that bloke was on the telly. And how many billions of people have cold sores every day? It’s rare. I strongly suspect that this will turn out to be no more common.
I quite like the quiz show Pointless and they sometimes have a board of faces that are famous for something that contestants have to identify. Given my lack of interest in telly movies and sport generally I seem to do reasonably well. That is despite the problem that I mentioned above.