Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Australia's COVID-19 curve continues on a steady decline" video.

How can something decline if it never really went up in the first place? By the Governments own admission all the early reported cases were from people entering the country, or people who had been in contact with someone entering the country. As such there was NEVER a reasonable or rational basis for totally smashing the economy to 'control' local infections. Had locally acquired cases being on a seemingly uncontrolled trajectory then there would have been a valid basis for what was done. But it wasn't. What has taken place is no more that an experiment that public health officials had been practicing for many years, so just couldn't wait to find the first hint of an opportunity to test it out for real.
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@joebloggs5387 So you think a nation with 42% of its population classified as obese, and nearly 10% classified morbidly obese is a healthy one? Don't worry, Australia is not far behind. Unless people are honest and recognize that Covid-19 is mostly a minor bug for healthy people, and a real threat to sick people, the major reason for those sicknesses being lifestyle choices like obesity, the globe is destined to repeat this drama every 10 years or so. Am I confident people will make the necessary adjustment to their life-styles, or just sit on their fat arses waiting for a quick lazy fix. Judging by your response I'll let you figure out which I think most likely.
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@grayshus6706 Just out of curiosity, what Australia city has a population of over 8 million people many living in what would be considered third world conditions, experiences below freezing temperatures, and has over 60,000 people VERY sick people living in plastic tents on the streets ever night, packed together like sardines and sharing booze bottles? Oh! and I haven't even mentioned skin color (yes that is showing to be a factor) or the national average of 42% of the population classified as obese. You do realize the estimate for USA deaths from Influenza for the current year is placed at 62,000 and routinely can get as high as 80,000 a year, every year?
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@YuuToobz You seen a very sad person.
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@grayshus6706 A bad Influenza kills up to 600,000 people globally a year. The age/health demographic affected is basically identical (over 70 year olds). If there is a significant difference it is that younger people especially children are less affected by Covid-19 than Influenza. The current recorded death count,as I type, from Covid-19, while highly questionable in either direction, currently stands at 207,265 Roughly 1/3 the annual level of a bad Influenza season (which is only a few months for each hemisphere). New York is regularly put forward as one of the world's disaster spots. As at 14 of this month only 137 people of the over 6500 people who at died in NY did not have comorbidities. 98% who died had one comorbidity, and 80% had two or more. We re regularly told about the number of people who die from Covid-19 in aged care homes. Residents in high care in an aged home are more often then not only inches from death at any time. That is why they are there. What the media doesn't report is that the vast majority of these very frail people actually recover from Covit-19. If they can recover, its should be a walk in the part for a healthy person under 60. If it isn't , they aren't healthy. Ebola in an aged care home would kill everyone. Influenza creates havoc ever year in aged care facilities as bad as Covid-19. So often the media generally don't ever bother to report it. If you aren't familiar with why dark skinned people in cold climates (not how natural evolution designs people) have a significantly greater risk of compromised immune systems I suggest you do some research. There is a reason nature designed dark skinned people for sunny climates, and very fair skinned people for cold. It wasn't just to blend with the surroundings.
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@joebloggs5387 Sorry if I offended you with the discussion of obesity. If you think with a high BMI that your are "lean and muscly" who am I to burst your bubble. Clearly reading comprehension is not your strong point. The reference to Australia being not far behind the USA refers to the level of obesity. If you think the average Australian is taught, trim, and terrific you need go hand out at McDonalds or your local fish and chip shop for a while. Australia is NOT getting back to normal this week, your idea of normal is not mine. FFS Australia has around 6 million unemployed. Australian health officials are fighting tooth and nail to hold the economy on a state of suspended animation till such time as a vaccine can possibly (low chance) be developed. The LAST thing they want is for a natural level of immunity to develop in the community and ruin the financial and scientific prizes on offer. SARS and Zika opportunities slipped away, they aren't going to let it slip past them this time.
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@joebloggs5387 Let me put this delicately, your clueless. Nearly 1 million people went onto Job Seeker in the first two weeks of the shutdown. Only reason it took 2 weeks is because the system couldn't cope. Another 6 million people have gone onto Job Keeper which is just a fudge system to keep unemployed people out of the other system and so fudge the unemployment number when it is published. That's 7 million Australians in the private sector people being paid by the Government, just under 1/3 of the total Australian population. Removing the significant number of people ripping off the Job Keeper system, the true unemployment rate is probably somewhere around 20%. The USA took 9 years to regain its pre GFC employment levels. This Government created global depression will be way worse. Countries like Italy and Spain that were already in financial difficulties will be totally wiped out for generations. To think the world is just going to simply bounce back in a few months is naive.
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@grayshus6706 So you think its prudent to totally smash the economy and plunge Australia into a deep recession that will last for years, along with massive social and economic costs, for the equivalent of a bad Influenza outbreak?
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@YuuToobz It might surprise you some people have enough sense to make informed decisions based on solid facts. Not knee jerk react to watching social media videos. We pay million of dollars a year to the WHO for them to monitor and report accurate scientific facts. They failed miserably to do so, and Australia made a terrible mistake based on missing and incorrect data. No matter how much you want to spin it, that is what has happened.
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@krishutchinson1739 Why don't you tell us. Be sure to give the scientific basis for your numbers. Last thing you want is for people to accuse you of just making then up.
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@krishutchinson1739 You've already admitted you have no idea what the number of deaths would have been had the Government taken a more proportionate strategy. And I suggest you take the advice of the Kenny Rogers song "The Gambler", the line .... "don't count your cards while you sitting at the table, there'll be time enough for counting, when the dealings done". It will take a couple years until the virus has run through most of the globe's population before anyone will be able to determine what worked, and what didn't.
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@krishutchinson1739 What you're actually doing is making wild unsubstantiated claims, clear enough?
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@krishutchinson1739 With your attitude, I don't doubt you get in a lot of social media fights. First true thing you've said.
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@anthonycoleman1909 Leave aside the rules as who has right a way, traffic lights etc. which are obviously critical to stop us bumping into each other, but an interesting one is speed limits and Covid-19. Studies in Europe have found that if there is no speed limit people actually don't drive recklessly. They drive to a speed they judge to be safe under the circumstances (which may be faster or slower than the posted limit). The vast majority of people are actually remarkably responsible. Something our current leaders seem to not realize when it comes to the virus.
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