he has brain damage because he is 80 and lives in the country where its normal to engage in every possible excess with no cognitive stimulation.

Sure but how could you tell?

Not really, i could not invent a better representation of 21st century US than him. I think if you simulated 10 iterations of the US, you’d end up with a Donald Trump in each one.

No, but they’ll likely claim such causes afterwards, when they try to wash their hands… An Oligarch power-culture with no accountability, and an ideology that glorifies egocentric/ps*chopath behaviour, WILL do the trick by it-self…

I think COVID would be at bigger risk of brain damage during that infection.

Idk if long covid is as effective as old age and drugs to make someone braindead, that already was braindead before covid