Fast forward some. The last essay I wrote last year had a significantly different 'voice' than any of my others. Even more different than the stuff I wrote while being poisoned by various cleaning products at another place in 2016-2019, which also had a different voice from stuff immediately before and after. This worried me and I took notice because someone who cannot think clearly cannot write clearly and therefore the clarity and precision in which you write is directly related to what's going on in your head. In other words, if you notice a change in your communication ability, you must assume that is connected to a change in how you are thinking, because the two are intertwined. I attributed this change in voice to the carbon monoxide damage.

Fast forward again. Everyone seems to be going crazy. By that I mean they are getting more aggressive and are exhibiting out of proportion reactions to very simple things. I literally had a guy at work explode on me last month because he asked ME if I planned on staying until we were done that morning and I said 'Hell yeah', and he went on a nutball rant about me being a smart ass. I know some people who were writers, artists, and movie makers as recently as four years ago and what do these people do now? Sit around, do nothing but play video games, steal work labor (by playing video games on the clock), and generally insult anyone that isn't them. Someone else I know has been steadily declining in a very bad way for the last two years (and two years just happens to be the min onset time for early onset dementia) who is now stark raving mad and threatening to shoot people, but it is their word against the word of other people and nothing has yet been actually done that can stop what's happening with that person. At the place I work, we also had a guy bring a gun into work three months ago to shoot someone that had made him mad. Luckily, the person he wanted wasn't there that day, no one was shot, but the guy that carried the gun in went to a psych ward. I was personally almost hit in anger and nearly had to defend myself by yet another guy two weeks ago that literally lost his mind during a very mild exchange. I witnessed another guy sexually harass a woman at work the other night for most of the 12 hour shift even though she never responded to a single thing he did or said. Other people that I've known for a while are also showing weird personality changes like not laughing as much, not talking as much, and hints of paranoia.

So, the question I came up with was this: Is it more likely that I'm screwed up from the carbon monoxide poisoning or is it more likely that I'm being affected by the same thing that's driving other people crazy? The answer, of course, per Occam's Razor, is that I'm more likely to be affected by the same thing as the others. This answer prompts the real question: What is making everyone go nuts?

I did hours of research to refresh my memory on some things, because it's been about 27 years since I last worked in a locked dementia unit at a nursing home. The conclusion I came to is that all these symptoms I see in others and in myself are actually the symptoms of dementia, and I even acknowledged this before the research when I told people 'the people starting this nonsense sound like senile 80 year-olds'. The symptom list for dementia is an exact match for the odd behavior I'm seeing. Once I concluding the symptoms were close enough to suspect, I started researching another angle. And once I did, it took me five whole seconds to pull up a research article from Aug of 2024 that details exactly what I just concluded. The only difference between my conclusion and the researchers conclusion is that they say it's only 'long' Covid sufferers suffering from the dementia type symptoms while I say it's everyone. However, no one actually knows how many people get 'long Covid', so it could be that EVERYONE that gets Covid gets long Covid. Either way, the dementia symptoms are almost certainly related to the Covid spike proteins from the virus and vaccines, because as I and researchers have warned people over and over, it's the spike proteins that cause the damage, not the actual virus or vaccine. This means that anything caused by the spike proteins will first affect those exposed to them the most (vaxxed people) and then everyone else will follow with the same symptoms, and this is exactly what's happening. The only break in the pattern that I see is that people who have done a lot of hard drugs and aged their bodies excessively are further along in progression, like the person I know who currently wants to shoot people.

My conclusion? If what I'm seeing is correct and if the research is correct, we're in for one hell of a crazy ride over the next 1-3 years as all these people descend into madness and it can't be stopped. Only someone with an extreme grasp on reality and who they are as a person can notice these type of changes in themselves and only someone that truly understands what it leads too will be motivated enough to attempt slowing or reversing it. The only reason I noticed weirdness in myself is because of what I do and the record of my mental health that it leaves behind. The way dementia works is that the person thinks everyone else is crazy and they're normal, because to them they are. It's why dementia patients steal so much. It's not even stealing to them, because the thing has always been 'theirs' as far as they are concerned due to their illness and that is their reality. Also, due to how dementia progresses, once someone notices bad symptoms of it, it's too late. This is because dementia starts off slow, but the more it progresses, the faster it progresses, until the person suddenly falls off a cliff and is crippled by it.

UK researchers find Alzheimer’s-like brain changes in long COVID patients (Aug 2024)
https://www.research.uky.edu/news/uk-researchers-find-alzheimers-brain-changes-long-covid-patients