COVID infections can confer lapses in judgement and periods of inattention. For example:
This policy change is the latest in a continuous stream of attacks on science and public health by the CDC, which has wholly discredited itself over the course of the pandemic after once being the world’s preeminent public health agency.
A COVID infection doubles the risk of new onset dementia (NOD) in those 60 and older (my peeps). But not only COVID, RSV and the flu increase NOD risk too.
This is serious. Think of the large percentage of elderly in our political class.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/13/nzsh-f13.html
When compared to an elderly population that never contracted COVID-19 or other respiratory infections, those with prior COVID-19 infections had a nearly two-fold increased risk of new onset dementia at one year after infection.
lamy, david