My pet hypothesis is that long COVID has really fucked with people, behaviorally; at least when measured across large populations. Granted, there were disturbing trends before COVID, but it seems to have accelerated things afterwards.

I could be wrong. But increased systemic inflammation across an entire population can’t be good. Anecdotally, drivers appears to be more unhinged after COVID. But, that is just anecdote.

I think the Internet plus COVID is this generation’s leaded gasoline. I am just a random idiot on the internet though.