Anyone that has had to deal with any sort of customer support after Covid knows that things just aren’t right. It’s like talking to people from another planet. I don’t know if it is Covid brain or what.
Have noticed that. Also, some agencies that are required to work with people (no way to automate that) remain incredibly under-staffed and/or have huge work backloads piled up. One told me the other day (after a two-hour phone battle to reach a real person) that there were no appointments available for 'over a month'.
It would be interesting to see the interplay of social isolation and the psychological impact of parasites/viruses. The history of population bottlenecks in humans (and other species) might be informative. Social isolation tends to increase when plague wipes out a good chunk of a population (e.g., the black death).
Fun thought: The toxoplasma gondii wants to spread, and it's gonna make its victim go out and socialize, even if that means breaking COVID rules. The more push back there is, the more reckless and crazy the victims get.