Another interesting poll from Roy Morgan

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Maybe a bit.
I would always hesitate to call someones intelligence into any debate and especially here as the man has mild Covid symptoms and there is nothing at all to suggest his brain could be affected.
I wish anyone with Covid a speedy and full recovery no matter who they are or what office they may hold.

It is also not factual at all!

Some partisan politics here I suspect.

Sadly it is factual. There can be brain changes with covid, althoiugh they can't be sure at this stage whether or not they're permanent changes.



https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-ne...-rcna18959


"During at least the first few months following a coronavirus infection, even┬ámild cases of Covid-19┬áare associated with subtle tissue damage and accelerated losses in brain regions tied to the sense of smell, as well as a small loss in the brainÔÇÖs overall volume, a new British study finds. Having mild Covid is also associated with a cognitive function deficit.

Gwena├½lle Douaud, an associate professor at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Oxford and the paperÔÇÖs lead author, said that the excess loss of brain volume she and her colleagues observed in brain scans of hundreds of British individuals is equivalent to at least one extra year of normal aging.

ÔÇ£It is brain damage, but it is possible that it is reversible,ÔÇØ she said. ÔÇ£But it is still relatively scary because it was in mildly infected people.ÔÇØ

Older participants experienced all these excess brain-related declines more profoundly."



https://www.sciencealert.com/significant...dy-reveals

"The authors show that people who had mild COVID-19 infection an average of five months prior had thinning of brain tissue in several key brain regions."

Of course, despite the strengths of this study, there are still big questions left unanswered.

It's also important to note that the scans were conducted between March 2020 and April 2021, so it's unlikely any of the participants had the Delta or Omicron variants that are now in circulation ÔÇô so we need to keep that in mind when considering how these results may be related to more recent infections.

Also, these results were analyzed as a group sample and so the results aren't directly applicable to individuals."

I'm kinda glad that New Zealand adopted an elimination strategy initially after reading that - think of the number of people we have saved from permanent brain damage by doing so...  Wonder if there might be a small thank you in them somewhere...