Comments by "cloudpoint" (@cloudpoint0) on "Is Canada's 'first dose fast' strategy working? | COVID-19 Special" video.

  1. No spread “for at least a few months”. So masks are likely to be back with us again eventually. Don't throw yours away.
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  2.  @marias5088  There are 57 peer-reviewed RCT [randomized controlled trial] clinical studies that tested the benefits of masks of all types against respiratory viruses in a community setting that have been published since 2000. These trials are the gold standard for medical claims. They were conducted with all parties wearing masks. Out of 57 RCTs, none found significant benefit to the wearing of masks in a community setting. A relatively small benefit (8% few infections) was seen in close quarters, like in a private home where a healthy person was caring for a sick person and they shared a room at times. There are lab tests that claim masks reduce the spread of moisture droplets but they are using moisture droplets as a proxy for inoculum, which is what actually infects, and inoculum appears to pass through mask material unimpeded for the most part (it can’t be measured in the air). There are published papers that argue that wearing masks increases the spread of the virus for various reasons. Cases do seem to jump when masks are widely adopted in an area. If masks really worked, we’d see fewer cases in states and countries that wear masks more, and we don’t. There isn’t really any correlation between masking and cases when two areas are geographically nearby. In a very careful hospital study using nurses, no difference could be detected between ordinary medical masks and supposedly much better N95 respirators against influenza viruses. Viruses just don’t care about our masks. All the SARS-CoV-2 virus particles on earth today wouldn’t even fill up one Coke can. They are incredibly tiny. It would be nice if masks worked but there is no clinical evidence they do work against respiratory viruses in a community setting. They just work in hospital wards where a high level of airborne virus particles are present (ICUs) and even then only if other protective measures are included. Masks work well against bacteria and molds, which are much larger in size. And not at all against poison gas particles, as these are even smaller than viruses. To be safe, wear a gas mask in public. Or just get vaccinated. P.S. If masks work, only the infected person needs to wear one. The benefit of the healthy person wearing a mask is almost nil. Don’t believe claims by pro-maskers to the contrary. I’ve spent about 1000 hours researching masks and viral transmission. And studied virology.
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  3. Generosity? The European Union SOLD millions of vaccines to Canada.
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  4. The current population of Canada is 38,036,508 as of Monday, May 26, 2021, according to the World Population Review website.
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  5. ​ @matt1sullivan318  Canada has administered more vaccinations than any other G7 or G20 nation except for two no matter how you count them. And it did that without any significant domestic vaccine production capability. We’re aren't doing worse than most nations. We are one of the top three.
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  6.  @dimm7448  Vaccine exports from the EU to Canada—which currently include shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the two major providers—are subject to authorization requests provided by the EU government. Actually, it is the “for profit” vaccine companies in Europe that are doing the exporting and the EU is blocking their exports. This was true until March. India was also exporting vaccines to Canada but is redeploying its vaccines internally for the moment. A Pfizer-BioNTech plant in the U.S. as of May 3 and a J&J Janssen subcontractor in the U.S. as of April 26 are exporting vaccines to Canada too.
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  7. ​ @dimm7448  If EU blocked exports by European vaccine manufacturers, the manufacturers would just relocate to more export-friendly countries. The EU would lose and the other countries would gain, and probably block exports back into to the EU. I’ve very grateful that the EU is run by sensible business people who realize what goes around will come back around to bite them. Canada has not blocked any vaccine exports – it doesn’t make any COVID-19 vaccines to export. USA and UK simply did not take orders that they could not supply. They did not ban exports. India ran into a bit of trouble.
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  8.  @dimm7448  India seems to be the up and coming place for a pharmaceuticals producer to be now. 2018 Figures 1. Germany: US$62.3 billion (16.8% of total drugs and medicines exports) 2. Belgium: $27.8 billion (7.5%) 3. India: $26.12 billion (7.1%) 4. France: $25.9 billion (7%) 5. United States: $22 billion (5.9%) 6. Spain: $21.8 billion (5.8%) 7. Ireland: $21.7 billion (5.8%) 8. United Kingdom: $19.7 billion (5.3%) 9. Italy: $19.6 billion (5.3%) 10. Netherlands: $16.8 billion (4.5%) 11. Denmark: $13 billion (3.5%) 12. Canada: $6.8 billion (1.8%) 13. Sweden: $6.7 billion (1.8%) 14. Austria: $5.5 billion (1.5%)
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  9.  @dimm7448  Give me a reason why I should be grateful to greedy European Union vaccine producers given what I explained earlier.
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  10. ​ @silvialogan9226  If we are all vaccinated then anyone who is subsequently infected won't show sickness (at least until the vaccine wears off perhaps years later without any booster shots). SARS-CoV-2 would become just another harmless virus we cohabit with. There are about a billion viruses harmlessly cohabiting with us at any time. But we will never achieve all being vaccinated - 80%+ would be an excellent achievement - leaving lots of people available for potential outbreaks to be protected by masks if masks even work (doubtful since no clinical trial can show an actual benefit to masks in a community setting).
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  11.  @marias5088  Surgeons wear masks in surgical rooms to prevent bacteria from getting into open surgical cuts. As I said, masks work well against bacteria. But they have no effect on viruses in surgical rooms. Besides the patient is usually wearing an oxygen mask that isolates his/her respiration from any virus in the air of a surgical room.
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