Does SARS-COV2 directly cause nerve damage to alter our emotional behaviors?

I copypasta'd the bulk of this idea from somewhere so please excuse the plagiarisms, and maybe it's bunk, and maybe it's not ... but the proposition sort of "solves" one of the far-too-common behavioral conundrums. This seems like the right place to ask for feedback.
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Brain damage to the frontal lobes causes loss of inhibition and emotional dysregulation along with attention deficits. There are actually long thin neurons that extend from the olfactory bulb in the brain down into the nasal cavity. Essentially, SARS-COV2 climbs up those neurons from the nasal infection entry point to directly infect the brain. Once inside, immune cells within the brain attack the virus but this likely causes the breaking of synapses. It may cause the destruction of neurons as well, depending in part on the health of the tissues of the blood brain barrier (the interior of blood vessels within the brain), the dosage levels, personal susceptibility and the genetic viral flavor-of-the-hour. COVID certainly has the well-known neural dysfunctions of temporary or medium-term anosmia and/or disguesia (smell and taste).

This paper linked below does NOT reference COVID at all, but it's still the same human wetware at issue, so perhaps it's still relevant.

The cause of frontal lobe disorders includes an array of diseases ranging from closed head trauma (that may cause orbitofrontal cortex damage) to cerebrovascular disease, tumors compressing the frontal lobe, and neurodegenerative disease. Other causes include epilepsy with frontal lobe foci, HIV, multiple sclerosis, and early-onset dementia.

If HIV can do it, maybe SARS-COV2 does something similar?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532981/
Commonly known to cause “frontal lobe personality”, lesions in the orbitofrontal areas classically cause dramatic changes in behavior leading to impulsivity and a lack of judgment. Lesions usually found in Broadmann’s Areas 10, 11, 12, and 47 are associated with a loss of inhibition, emotional lability, and inability to function appropriately in social interactions.

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Maybe COVID itself has an influence on the very inhibitions that are less prevalent in post-infection patients than our pre-infection selves. Maybe it's not anything that our post-infection contemporaries can even be aware of without enormous dissonant cognition? They've just changed and now they're more party animal than wallflower like they used to be, and this is why some people now, suddenly and seemingly out of character, want to meet us in person and spread their good cheer (and unconsciously the virus, of course).

I'm not an epidemiologist, nor a virologist, nor any kind of public health expert ... I'm throwing a ball at the wall to see where it bounces, which is kind of irresponsible, but that's what reddit's for, amirite? :)

Perhaps not ALL of the minimization is actually conscious or deliberate, and a large chunk is the disease maximizing its opportunities in unsuspected ways. This virus is triggering a sensitive chord that encourages we humans to spread it faster, by hormonally raising our friendliness levels, or lowering our dontgiveafuck caution levels ... it would explain a lot of the behavior that's anecdotally reported here on a daily basis and why so much of humanity seems so nonchalant about it all. It's not a binary switch-on-switch-off that is suggested here, but an individually-varying change of degree in sensitivity to certain environmental stimuli and/or changes in one's automatic responses. Naturally, one wouldn't suspect or expect this phenomenon either - a very effective subconscious bio-hack by the virus.

The rabies virus is known to make drinking water very unpleasant for the sufferer, and since the infected individual cannot swallow saliva and water, the virus has a much higher chance of being transmitted. Additionally, rabies is notorious for causing irrational aggression, raging and foaming at the mouth increasing infection opportunities through behavioral changes (wild animals and humans alike). There's every reason to suspect that the SARS-COV2 virus could mess with our emotions in a similar fashion, just making everyone a little friendlier instead of more aggressive as the method du jour to increase its propagation.

Are there any other medical analyses around that speak to this possibility, is this virus so pernicious as to directly subvert and critically impair our judgement, and IF (big if) any of this postulation is halfway "correct", how might we possibly "undo" the collective DGAF dysregulation that's theoretically become an endemic element of our shared human nature?