Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Tough coronavirus restrictions to last at least 90 days" video.

Yep, I was able to get a test, but only because I've been going to the same GP for about 40 years, we are on a first name basis and he likes me because I talk to him about things other than health. Anyone else will encounter the Government line (a) have you recently returned from overseas, or (b) have you been in contact with a person who has tested positive. If no to both, unless you're dying just stay home if you feel sick.
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Why would I want to listen to the mob who allowed 4000 people, with infections that represent 10% of all NSW currently reported cases and 25% of all deaths to just walk of a ship in the middle of Sydney into the community. Yet goes around harassing individuals sitting completely own their own in the sunshine. This level of incompetence inspires you with confidence?
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@bartbarry2662 The head of the CDC in the USA is just in the last few days is reported as stated his belief the asymptomatic percentage could be as high as 25% (but I haven't seen this from his lips). A CNN reports says Iceland is showing 50%, but as I believe nothing from CNN take it with a grain of salt https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/01/europe/iceland-testing-coronavirus-intl/index.html
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@elizabethblackwell6242 Some don't care what that are enforcing, as long as they enforce. As a regular motorcycle rider, I've been subject to pointless harassment from 'enforcers' for over 50 years. It's just par for the course to be lectured by some highway patrol guy (women are actually worse) on the dangers of riding a motorcycle when I've been doing it from before they were even born. You clown, think I got to 67 not knowing what I'm doing. A typical motorist probably has no idea just how much police harassment is directed at law abiding riders engaging in a perfectly lawful activity. It's nothing new.
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@drtooth7505 If you only allow people to be tested on two strict criteria, who would expect anything other than the positive results from those tests to show the source of infection is those two criteria. But that's not the biggest problem as I see it. It's that senior public officials stand in front of the cameras and present the results of totally flawed testing as solid science. They are either totally incompetent, or know its flawed and are prepared to lie to the Australian public. Personally I think its a combination of both.
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@drtooth7505 The criteria for testing may have changed in the last week, since I had one. I did hear mid last week they were going to extend it to age care workers ..........WTF!!!!!!! You haven't been testing ALL aged care workers on a regular basis, since the second death occurred in Australia (really the first true Australia case) when an elderly lady in a aged care home caught it from the visiting doctor operating out of the Liverpool Hospital in Sydney. This is just one example of why I have zero confidence in the people running the show. Until we do mass random testing of the population, its impossible to make any real sense of stats. Until such time I'm working forward on certain assumptions, and as more information becomes available those assumptions are proving to have been valid. Example, just this instant a Fox News report on TV, strong evidence is surfacing that diabetic and pre diabetic especially with a high BMI is by far the highest risk group of death. I'd previously heard the strong link of obesity (perhaps mostly subjective rather than objective) from a doctor involved with the Wuhan deaths.
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@drtooth7505 I completely understand WHY they need to control who gets tested, they don't have enough. But don't stand up in a press conference and present this flawed testing as some factual insight into the current level of actual infection in Australia or how people may get it. I don't have any problem believing general health e.g. obesity, smoking, poor diet, etc is a MAJOR factor in how people respond to the virus. I don't need stats or formal studies to tell me the obvious. For years people have been warned about the consequences of poor lifestyle choices, but they assumed the medical system would just fix em up as necessary (always a flawed belief). All that was really missing was they didn't know where the threat would come from. This isn't wishing anyone ill will, but unless people really get their head around what is truly happening, their risk factor, and what THEY really need to do e.g complete and total isolation till herd immunity develops, how can they take appropriate action that's relevant to their unique situation. People need solid facts, not just general spin. Give the public credit for having some intelligence.
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@drtooth7505 Absolutely agree about who is to blame. But I don't for a second believe it likely came from a wet market. It most likely escaped due to poor controls from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Why else would have doctors who were trying to raise public awareness have been threatened with jail. And why else are they all now either dead or missing. And this is coming from someone who isn't a big conspiracy believer. An example of the lack of information, public preparedness, and personal responsibility. Fox News just ran a credible story, with decent scientific support, that pre diabetic and diabetic, especially with a high BMI are showing up as THE major factor in death in the US. I send this information to a friend who is pre-diabetic, 70 year old, significantly overweight, and other serious health conditions as long as your arm. Response: "pre-diabetes is not diabetes and that's why doctors don't treat it". Basically total denial. Fine continue going to the shops, masseur, chiropractor etc. I'd done my bit, can't do any more,
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@drtooth7505 Welcome to the flat-earth society (I'm only a junior member). Due to it being China, we'll never know the real truth.
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That's an EXTREMELY narrow and highly flawed view of the situation. I'm assuming you don't have to work for a living, or are funded by the government in one or another e.g public servant.
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You are aware that a person with Cov19 can spread the virus before they experience symptoms e.g fever, and some may experience no symptoms at all e.g Richard Wilkins. In the case of SARS it seems people experienced symptoms before they became infectious, were far more sick so became quickly immobilized, and in many cases died. This is what allowed a 'track and isolate strategy' to be effective. Cov19 seems to have the very opposite and so some strategies that worked in the past are unlikely to be effective this time around.
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I found a comment in a video I watched useful, so thought I'd share it. If people are thinking this current crises is a pox on the earth of biblical proportions, don't loose sight of the fact plagues etc in ancient times often killed 50% of the population of the known world. So while bad, just keep death rates of 2-3% or whatever it really is in perspective.
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I genuinely don't understand why police are acting on isolated beaches or asking people sitting in the sun with significant distance to others are being asked to move on. So perhaps you can explain it to me. Perhaps in that explanation address, have we as a society become so self assessed and callous that we no longer care that some single and lonely person who lives in a tiny one bedroom depressing tiny unit can go sit in the sun in a park for some sunshine (vitamin d) and observe other people for mental health reasons. They've had their normal only social contact at the pub or club removed, now we have to GUARANTEE they suffer depression.
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