COVID Dystopia: Brain Damage


Even mild cases of COVID cause brain damage. Most people don’t like to hear this. Even a case of COVID that felt “no worst than a bad cold” can cause lasting damage to the neurons in the brain resulting in a 30% decrease in a persons IQ. Worst cases of COVID then result in an increased loss of neural activity in the brain. Just mentioning the long term damages caused by COVID can cause a science denying anti vaxer to froth at the mouth. They want to blame anything but the virus.

This scene has the two scuba divers animated as they swim back towards their ship. Presumably they have just finished inspecting some neural damage and need to type up their report back on the submarine.The background was filtered in a free online depth map generator and It allows the camera to zoom towards the making it quite believable that you are moving along the brain neuron. I am quite pleased with the effect

As for myself I feel that it is my responsibility to take basic steps to keep from getting infected. I always wear an N95 mask inside. Air in the studio is filtered using a high quality HEPA filter. I am getting out and sketching in theaters again, but I will be the only person masked as I work on my sketch.

I have been sketching in the Orlando Science Center this week and was pleased to see several staff masked. I am glad a few are following the science.