Most unfortunately, lead in ones water makes one behave like the “Mad Hatter”. Lead poisoning does cause a specific dementia.
Hmmmn - I wonder, sometimes, what is in the Washington, DC water supply? Something is causing otherwise reasoned and prudent people to become supportive of collectivist schemes of a wildly metastizing “Nanny State”.
An Oldsmobile previously owned by a certain Taxachussetts senator?