Oh dude, yeah. The documented symptoms of mold exposure are mainly respiratory, but if you were already under a bunch of stress and your body is getting further stressed by toxic air... Could explain it.

It definitely took me a bit to get into, but the scathing indictment of the upper middle class liberal pearl clutching in the face of fascist violence eventually hooked me.

I'll give "The Plot Against America" a try.

More likely that the lives of vfx workers just continue to get less financially stable while having to have more skillets to cover more disciplines at once while "ai" is suppose to make up the difference according to their corporate overlords.