I was thinking about this yesterday when reading that some people with long covid experience the smell of meat as that of decaying dead flesh, which none of us

I was thinking about this yesterday when reading that some people with long covid experience the smell of meat as that of decaying dead flesh, which none of us wants to hear but is not technically wrong. Could it be that whereas we're socialized toward certain perceptions, a disorderly shutdown of the senses causes something like a reboot to factory settings?