Much, much wilder....because the more moderate American right-leaning voter have seen what he can be. He was 'different'...now they know the consequences of that difference. The level of support for Trump is very dependent on the performance of Biden. Biden seems to be picking up in that area in recent weeks.
Anyway Trump's going to be tied up in legal issues for some time to come.
More than a year has passed and it’s fair to say Trumpmania isn’t in its death throes. And even if Trump goes away (to the big house?) Trumpism will continue with right-wing demagogues such as Ron DeSantis.
He's still hanging around that's for sure and certain. But to believe he's a realistic chance of regaining his position is a wild stretch. There's enough division in Republican ranks to ensure that won't happen.
What hasn't happened, and what I expected, was that the alternative would be good enough to consign him to the dustbin of history...and that's on the Democrats.
In typical Scomo fashion, being the dedicated servant of the people, he’ll resign after December so he qualifies for maximum benefits.
As long as he is there it reflects on the opposition. They'll want him gone so this isn't a distraction and a point of constant attack by Albo and his minions.
It will be interesting to see how much of a 'servant of the party' Morrison is.
As a middling voter I don't have a lot of issue with the PM taking on repsonsibility for extra duties. In fact with the proper checks and balances it makes sense to have the boss with the back-up power should a minister be indisposed.
When Gough Whitlam came to power he and Lance Barnard divided up all the portfolios between them (Whitlam 13, Barnard 14) and they made quite a few decisions in the weeks before the new full ministry was sworn in. Whitlam and Labor had a clear agenda and as leader of the party I doubt there was much issue amongst his colleagues with the process. There was a bit of public outrage at the time, but they hit the ground running.
The big problem for Morrison is in terms of transparency and secrecy. Let folks know...no problem. Do it without that transparency...political career over. It's time to go.
Recently I wrote here, like any self-respecting smarty pants, that I'd had Covid a while back and the symptoms were pretty mild, which was true. Then I got the seasonal flu, which floored me for about 5 days. Red hot razor blades in the throat when coughing. Then a week later (last week)... Covid struck again, obviously due to lowered immunity due to flu, this time nothing mild about it. Not bad enough to go to the doc or hospital, but debilitating and still, mmm... how do I put this without being gross... clearing unpleasantly coloured debris from the shnozzle. Like a bad cold now.... stuffy head, mild temperature etc. So my thoughts are with you esteemed friend, I haven't ventured for a long walk as yet! I hope your recovery speeds up and is complete.
Same to you Baggers. I guess the moral to the story is with Covid...it's not over until it's over.
I guess the thing I was trying to highlight was the nature (in my case ) of the memory malfucntion. It was a specific type of task image/name matching rather than a written question. I wonder about the issues with others.
Thry I hope you can continue to avoid it but there may come a time when you will be infected. If you'd asked me three days after the initial infection I would have said it's 'no biggy'. But then other symptoms kick in. Maybe it's all in the mind. You'd have to experience it to understand (Not that I'd wish that on you) Walking up the hill while waiting for the car to be serviced yesterday I had to stop a couple of times. I feel I'm on the mend, that's but I'm nowhere near like my normal self of just a month ago.
To quote a very much used argument to debunk a lit of things, correlation doesn't equal causation.
I suspect the majority of covid positive people are acutely aware of it, and as a consequence attribute things to it.
I have a persistent cough at the moment despite not having tested positive, or having even been sick.
Is it covid? Or is this normal and im like that?
Not sure. I have my days when my memory works well. I have my days when I can't remember simple terminology.
The factors could be illness, or it could be stress from seeing your footy team cough up a game from a winnable position or it could be covid fog.
You know the fog that has seen everyone reaching for a treat or a coffee or a tea at 3.30 every day since i can remember?
Im not yet 40 but close enough. Have noticed the last few years this has been getting worse. Is it lock down? Is it the stress of a pandemic? Did I get cpvid that caused it? Or am I just getting on a bit and feeling my mortality?
Or is it simply what happens to people. People are variable in their performance. Brain works well some days and not so well the other. I imagine that a proper neuro doctor would be able to explain why covid fog can't be a symptom of covid because they should effectively follow a change in physiology to match the degradation of memory but you would only be able to benchmark against a before and after brain scan which limits the pool to people already having neurological issues and ergo can't really draw any meaningful data.
It may be as you say Thry... But then again it may be that there is an issue with the virus affecting the memory and thought processes of some of us.
The effects of the virus are still largely not understood. But the 'covid fog' is certainly something that is being looked at.
Covid symptoms vary greatly from individual to individual The length of symptoms also varies.
I can only go on my own experience, and a task I'd normally find realtively easy, and not one I've had trouble with before, became frustratingly complicated.
It seems there are a lot of different experiences with this thing. I'm one month post positive. The first day was the worst (chills and fever) after that I got access to some anti-virals and the symptoms cleared up pretty quickly. Then about a week later the cough, which hadn't been too bad, started to get a bit worse, and is still hanging around. I re-tested on around days 10 and 14 (two weeks). There was still a faint second line on both occasiions. I tested again this morning, after developing a few sniffles over-night, and I'm clear (must be a day-care head cold from the grandkids).
There will no doubt be a lot of follow up research on the effects of the virus. One interesting one may be the 'covid fog'.
I like to do a lot of online quizzes and puzzles. Trivia stuff-History Geography, Science, Entertainment etc.
I was doing a quiz the other night that required me to match the names of movie stars to their photographs. It's the kind of task I usually have little trouble with and usually get them all or miss on one or two.
In this quiz there were 20 photos of fairly well known stars. I ended up missing 8. They were 8 I knew very well and included folks like Val Kilmer, Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins. I could see them in their films, but the names just wouldn't come to me before I ran out of time. It was really frustrating and I suspect it's similar to the way folks with Alzheimers must sometimes feel. Knowing but not able to verbalise it.
I had a similar problem later with a flag quiz.
Now here's the strange part. It seemed to only happen with 'image' matching....picture/ name, flag/ country On a general knowledge quiz around the same time I had no trouble with written questions.
The other strange thing is that if I were to repeat that 'film star' quiz today I'd have no trouble...I can even remember most of them now without looking at the quiz. It's like the covid deleted an information block or processing unit from the brain and then the quiz task rebooted it and corrected the error. Weird.
....and his direct opponent is getting a pat on the back?
That's BOG like numbers for Oliver, but we are all congratulating Setterfield on a job well done?
Now don't get me wrong, setters played one of his best games for the year but it's not like he tagged Oliver out of the game. He got the ball himself and put up respectable numbers, but I'm not sure we should rush to sign him up to a long term contract off the back of it.
It really doesn't matter what we think. He impressed the coach, who singled him out for mention in his press conference. That's an indication that the role he was assigned, he performed more than adequately.
