Zombies abound in nature

In my last two posts it might have seemed I was suggesting the possibility that the COVID virus actually takes over the human behavioral system, controlling it for its reproduction. There is obviously no current scientific evidence to support that. However according to this article that does happen in nature. For example:

"The zombie-ant fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis), which targets foraging ants, hijacking their tiny nervous systems. If an ant becomes infected with the spore of this fungi, it will begin acting strange. It will seek out a more humid microclimate that helps the fungus to grow, climbing a few inches off the ground where it will clamp down on a leaf or blade of grass, then wait to die. Several days later, the fungus will erupt from the bug like the Chestbursters in 'Alien,' spreading spores to ensnare more bugs. A true zombie in nature." 

However I was more referring to what is also described in the article: 

"Or you could have more subtle influences, like if you're in a relationship with another human being. It could be a romantic relationship or a parent-child relationship. If you're being conditioned to behave in a certain way, that's a certain kind of zombification. So that doesn't feel as intense as like, oh, a fungus is like completely taking over the function of your body, and 100 percent hijacking you. But it exists on a spectrum of real life zombification but then we also have more metaphorical zombification."

As I've described in several posts during the pandemic, there's been the extreme Covid zombie deniers who've been controlled by a sick ideology and spread the disease freely. But far more recently due to economics our own CDC enabled the spread of the disease by removing precautions for most people. It's more a psychological zombification where we feel free to just forget about it for our own selfish freedumb. In that sense our response to the virus has created mass zombies of us.

Which is not to rule out a future Covid mutation that creates organic zombies out of us like those poor ants. Which might just be caused by our current zombie behavior perpetuating new mutations. In effect we are still the Zombie Apocalypse.