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If they have the means and the opportunity, people should try an isolation retreat e.g. go camping in nature with a friend (or solo is personally preferable) for 2-3 days and only power on your cell phone for emergencies. As always, research and take preparations like telling people where you are going and went to expect you back if you're going into the wilderness. It only takes about 30 steps off the marked path to potentially get lost (forever).

People so vastly underestimate the role of their attention-seeking, cognition-theiving phones in their ability to think clearly. I would hazard a guess that most people increased their phone addiction (and psychological importance placed on their phones) during COVID.

However, it's well-known and confirmed that long-covid does cause brain fog. Plus all the other viruses that people got when they started mingling again after the entire population was inside allowing their immune systems to be mostly dormant... Long-covid really kick-started the research into long-virus issues.