The billionaire who wants to live forever just admitted he has long covid. Specifically, covid wrecked his lungs.

If you haven’t come across him, Bryan Johnson is a 46-year-old tech bro who cashed out a few years ago and now spends all his time trying not to die.

He has been interviewed by most mainstream news outlets where he has documented his extreme and bizarre quest for immortality. From a story in The Guardian:

“He rises at 4.30am, eats all his meals before 11am, and goes to bed – alone – at 8.30pm, without exception. He ingests more than 100 supplement pills daily and bathes his body in LED light. Two of the three meals he eats every day are exactly the same: boiled broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms and garlic, nuts and seeds. He takes 54 pills in the morning, and the rest in between skin treatments and red-light therapy. He doesn’t drink alcohol, and doesn’t go out in the evening. He experimented with injecting himself with blood plasma from his 18-year-old son Talmage.”

Lol, and indeed, lmao

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Nobody else picked up on the important part?

Today, for whatever reason, he admitted a mild infection in November 2022 (months before those interviews) stripped him of 15% of his lung capacity.

This is a guy that tweets about every other health gain he says he is making. Most recently he has boasted he reduced his sperm age from 57 to 42.

So why did he admit this now and not earlier? Who knows. I asked him, but haven’t had a response.

He’s a billionaire who has long-COVID himself, but still can’t bring himself to admit it. Why? Simple. Recognizing long-COVID means opening the doors for a restructuring of society, which strips rich people of their unearned wealth.

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I think it’s far simlpler: the fact that one can easily get sick or hurt and render so much of an otherwise healthy life meaningless shows how ridiculous his whole project is.

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I’ve posted many times before that long-COVID is often curable with time + isolation. I was completely cured of my long-COVID symptoms 2.5 years after my initial infection in 2020.

And your comments keep getting taken down for misinformation. Unless you’re bringing science, leave the the anecdotal evidence to yourself.

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Also, a mild infection.

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mild infection of the most contagious x virulent bioweapon the CIA created yes

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Also a disease that so common we are all going to get it at least once a year, we are fucked.

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