It's called SARS-CoV-2, and it causes notable brain damage - most notably to neural circuits associated with risk perception, thereby promoting reckless behaviour that helps spread the infection, but it also appears to predispose one to fervently believe one is not infected.
It is not at all out of the question that it could be affecting other aspects of behaviour detrimentally as well.
@IrelandTorin @altucker I can't find wide medical community agreement but I also believe there is more going on with Covid's effects on the human brain.
@Zevon @altucker From what I've seen so far, I am inclined to believe medical community is torn on the issue primarily because:
A) anything and everything related to SARS-CoV-2 has been politicised, and implicit (in some places, explicit) administrative diktats to minimize the perceived harm and "prevent the public from panicking" are widespread; and
B) a good portion of medical experts simply do not want to believe a mind-altering virus was allowed to run rampant... so they don't believe it.
@Zevon @altucker There's also possibility C) that impaired risk perception as a long-term side-effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection may, in fact, play a major role in why the medical community is split on the issue of SARS-CoV-2 infection's cognitive sequelae.
But that is an alarming thought, because of what it would imply about the impact on all organizations and on society at large.
@altucker: Wwwwwowwwwwww.
@thedisasterautist anyone want to donate a history book to Senator Graham's library?
@altucker: I doubt he reads.
@thedisasterautist just like 45% of the American pubic.
@altucker At this point I'm pretty sure that Lindsey Graham sniffs glue to get through the day.
@AnnetteTRemain @altucker
McCain must be rolling in his grave.
@altucker sometimes I wonder if there is a virus infecting these people's brains.