[qbasic_forever]

I sometimes wonder if a mild COVID infection could also cause behavioral and psychological changes like more aggression, risk taking, depression, or even schizophrenia and could it be driving some of the conspiracies? If you think about it any kind of behavior change that avoids vaccination, masking, or other precautions would be selective pressure on the virus to further evolve in that direction.

How would you even begin to understand and deal with this kind of situation on a massive, global scale... it's an interesting problem.

Makes you think about the sudden and almost unexplainable push from aggressive, vocal experts to have the public unmask and drop all COVID mitigations immediately after the latest surge too...