Vecka 38: I den galna supermånens sken
Supermånen skiner över Öllsjö.
Det är supermånen. Den hänger uppe i himlen inte så långt över åkrarna som kantar vår väg från henne till hem.
Den är inte farlig. Men visst ser den ut som ett omen.
Någon dag senare ger tre av oss i familjen ut på hajk. Vi besöker en plats där vi aldrig varit - Fulltofta naturområde mitt i Skåne.
Mycket fint. En perfekt dag, varm och vacker, i fantastisk natur.
Och så måste vi förstås - men de bara två - ta en sväng till stranden. Den är vår tillflykt i alla väder.
Pandemin är inget ord man ser varje dag, men plötsligt skriver Time om den, att den faktiskt kanske gjorde oss dummare:
"Not long ago, Mark Chiverton, a 33-year-old in the U.K., noticed he was making a lot of silly mistakes. He’d mix up words when writing emails, or blank on a basic term while talking to his wife. None of these slip-ups were all that concerning on their own—but they were happening frequently enough that Chiverton worried he was, to put it bluntly, “getting dumber.”
“At first I thought, ‘Maybe it’s just general aging, or maybe I bashed my head and didn’t realize it,’” he says. But eventually, a thought occurred to him: could COVID-19 be the reason for his mental slips? m
Chiverton thinks he caught the virus in early 2020, before tests were widely available, and he knows for sure he had it in 2022. Though he has no lingering physical effects from those infections (and has periods of time when his brain cramps get better), he sometimes wonders whether those mental slips are mild signs of Long COVID, the name for chronic symptoms following an infection.
He’s not alone in experiencing these problems—and he may not be wrong that COVID-19 is to blame. In the U.S. alone, about a million more working-age adults reported having serious difficulty remembering, concentrating, or making decisions in 2023 compared to before the pandemic, according to a New York Times analysis of Census Bureau data.
Every mental mistake isn't cause for concern, says Andrew Petkus, an associate professor of clinical neurology at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. Blunders like forgetting why you walked into a room or spacing out on an appointment can be totally normal parts of being busy, distracted, often under-rested humans. Even though you likely did those things before and brushed them off as nothing, they may seem more significant in the wake of a life-altering event like the pandemic. "If we didn’t have COVID, you might have still forgotten," Petkus says.
Still, it’s not outlandish to think the pandemic has had an effect on our minds, says Jonas Vibell, a cognitive and behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Vibell is currently trying to measure post-COVID inflammation and neuronal damage in the brains of people who report symptoms like brain fog, sluggishness, or reduced energy. When he began publicizing the study, he says, “I got so many emails from lots of people saying the same thing”: that they’d never fully bounced back after the pandemic."
Det är ett fint ställe att bo.
En riktigt spännande match bjöd Eket och Åhus på. Åhus tog ledningen, tappade till 1-3, vände till 4-3, varefter gästerna lyckades kvittera genom matchens sista fullträff. Alla var både nöjda och missnöjda efteråt.
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