Comments by "surely you joke, mein failüre" (@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531) on "Dr. John Campbell" channel.

  1. Further exponential growth in the USA is almost a certainty. I have witnessed the crowded campgrounds, the crowded beaches, the license plates from all over, the crowds of people tight together and ignoring masks & distancing unless some plucky store/restaurant employee forcefully reminds them of the rules. With the current high prevalence of virus and random community spread, there's almost no chance those people aren't circulating the virus.
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  2. Things in the UK could be less panic-y if only they would reduce the level at which testing is performed, like we have here in the US. That's sarcasm, sorry. But it enables hundreds of millions to pretend that this is no big deal, and go about their business as usual while spreading the disease even further.
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  3. Hopefully the new administration will use the defense production act on the Oxford vaccine. F*ck the profits, we're talking about saving potentially millions of lives here.
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  4. Correct on how Australia / New Zealand are the only places doing it right. For the most part they've been able to function normally throughout all this thing, with occasional localized lockdowns when outbreaks happen.
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  5. Please recover. The world needs you, and the deniers need to hear your story.
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  6. I fear that at-risk residents of large apartment buildings throughout the dense northeast corridor in the USA are essentially in the same situation as cruise ship passengers who, even when isolated and kept in their own suites, still manage to spread the virus quite effectively throughout the ship.That whole area from DC / Philly / Baltimore / NYC / Boston is very dense.
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  7. Looks like the Mango Mussolini was looking for the CDC to help push his agenda. Again.
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  8. The best way to treat your covid case in the US is to be the president, so you get a whole floor of Walter Reed, and experimental expensive treatments not available to the general public, about $100,000 in care for paying almost nothing in taxes. Meanwhile, in North Dakota the hospitals are so full, they're sending people home with aspirin to take care of themselves.
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  9. The covid deniers are frustrated about the disappearance of their Q-Anonsense channels from most social media. They miss having a place where they can commiserate about how the sun rises in the west, how the earth is flat, and so on.
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  10. Do they not read the effing news? Australia has had mandatory inbound 14 day quarantine for more than half a year already. Duh.
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  11. Prior to this I hadn't quite realized how many absolutely-batsh!t-crazy people we've got in the country - so many stark raving nutters who say "What pandemic?"
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  12. Here in Oregon (pacific northwest USA) we've just learned that an elementary public school employee, in a suburb of Portland, has been symptomatic since February 19th and has just tested positive for covid-19. Most likely, they contracted it on or around February 12th (from sources unknown) and have been communicative since at least February 14th. This is time enough for it to spread to the young students (who will make excellent carriers, as they suffer it fairly lightly compared to older adults with medical issues) and their families and whoever those people have collectively been in contact with. If any of those people work in public-facing jobs (as many people do) then Portland is effectively already undergoing early stages of pandemic. 95% of the human population in Oregon (around 4 million total) lives in the Willamette valley and the intersection of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Vast flows of daily commuter traffic go in and out of Portland via routes 5, 205, 30, 26, 84. Looks like we're going to get a firsthand look at how things unfold here in the USA.
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  13. Reporting from Oregon, USA. Monday at the store, there was a new sign saying purchases of sanitizing wipes, hand sanitizer were limited to 4 per family through the end of April. As of Wednesday the same week, the list was expanded to include soap, gloves, masks, bottled water.
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  14. Is anyone else looking at the remainder of the ratio of recovered to total known? Of the 81,005 accumulated confirmed cases only 30,257 are able to return to work and normal activities. Looking at it another way - the majority of those who fall ill will not be coming back to work anytime soon, and some of them, never. Global recession here we come :(
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  15. Here in the US we call that the Campion Effect, after a character in the Stephen King novel "the Stand". People who, in their zeal to escape a plague, unwittingly carry it with them when they flee.
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  16. The superspreading event looks well underway already :( fresh video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44D55OUboxQ Looks like mask usage level there is less than 1%.
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  17.  @christianbuczko1481  Probably because no one can patent vitamin D and make a fortune off being the exclusive distributors of it. As for the people wanting to try out ringworm medicine .. that's like rubbing mayonnaise on your head to stop hair loss. FFS. The hydroxychloroquine crowd strikes again.
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  18. Same. So I try to make it easier on the store employees by going after the anti-maskers myself. They can yell at me all they want, but I'll just shame them into putting a mask on or leaving the store. I've had it with them.
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  19. A whole generation put down what they were doing, donned uniforms, and spent four long years ducking bullets and watching their buddies get burned or shot or blown up. And we can't bring ourselves to wear masks? I almost want to reincarnate some WW2 vets so they could slap some sense into the whiners.
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  20. It's like the authorities here in the USA really don't want to know how bad the problem actually is. The ostrich approach :( hint: it doesn't work. That means cv19 will spread rapidly, and at some point in the next month or three, hospitals everywhere will be overwhelmed. Pay attention to how things go down in Italy because at some point we'll face all the same challenges.
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  21. Putting any Trump appointee in charge of official numbers is like letting Hannibal Lector be the warden of a remote prison.
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  22. With covid, just like with teen pregnancy, there are fewer reported cases if you do less testing. At least until things start to show. It's a lame way of kicking the can down the road.
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  23. January. I first heard about this thing on Amy Goodman's program back in December. Started panic buying masks and sanitizer and food by mid-January.
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  24. Living in the USA these days is sort of like being in a free-range mental asylum. People aligned with president superspreader proudly display their ignorance of science (and everything else) and some are even militant about it. I'm trying to catch as much of their nonsense on video as I can. These are strange times that deserve to be remembered.
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  25. "Camps where people are concentrated" .. heard that tune before, don't like it.
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  26. Bingo. I'd be willing to bet that the virus spreads through dense apartment buildings just as quickly as it spread aboard the Diamond Princess even when everyone stayed in their cabins for weeks.
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  27. Dr John seriously deserves some kind of knighthood for his tireless work to help the global community.
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  28. For nonbelievers who live alone (no housemates) just encourage them to visit the covid wards, and breathe deeply without a mask on. Kindest way to let the trash take itself out.
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  29. This makes me glad I live in a safely blue state, although it has all too many people shopping without masks because they think it's a hoax. Some of those same people without masks also have really bad coughs that they share with everyone else in the building :( So I wish the governor here (Oregon) would make it mandatory to wear some kind of face covering in public settings, especially grocery stores.
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  30.  Andrew Ongais  Even they should be able to see for themselves how well that science-denying thing worked for Herman Cain.
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  31. This has some incredible consequences if true .. namely, that the first wave was very stealthy, and that only later (maybe December 2019 or January 2020) did it mutate into the more lethal strains we see now.
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  32. At 24:43 - "president Balthazar" is the same nickname I use for another one who feels the disease is nothing to worry about and easily dealt with.
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  33. That happy clown BoJo, Trump's mini-me, would be a good place to start looking.
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  34.  @tomjohnson4681  They're welcome to whine about me. I'm trying to save lives. They're trying to spread the virus.
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  35. Same problem here in the US, except some of the protesters bring military-style long guns to their gatherings - where of course few people wear masks or practice distancing. The US state of Minnesota has just opened industrial and office work settings .. but virus cases in Minnesota are rising exponentially, and 7 of the past 9 days have seen consecutive records for the most new cases per day. Offices in particular will be virus incubators. I tire of reminding people that you can recover from being broke, but you can't recover from being dead from the virus. I'm on 48 days without any kind of income, and relying on friends to help me stay afloat.
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  36. Anecdote from an hour ago - I live in a state (Oregon) where masks are required in public spaces. Yet this morning at a supermarket, I kept running into the same woman who wasn't wearing a mask, and who ignored all the evil eyes she was getting. Finally I looked at her pointedly and tapped the mask. She shouted out that some people are exempt (they're not) and that some people are smart. Huh. "Smart" like Herman Cain, she obviously meant. I moved away from her quickly after that. At least she didn't shoot me.
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  37. Oh dear. You seem to have fallen prey to one of the common logical fallacies. Here's an example: Suppose the hospitals are full of gunshot wound victims and most people are wearing body armor in public. A study comes out telling people that body armor is only 60% effective. Folks like you ask, why bother wearing it at all? The answer lies in how it reduces your CHANCES of trouble.
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  38.  @davidjohnpaul333  Sounds like Sky News talking points are being taken seriously instead of being laughed at for being propaganda. The reality is, Australia needs to get moving ASAP on vaccination. Lockdown type measures will not be effective much longer, now that we know that covid is capable of evolving in the direction of being so much more communicable as to render lockdowns pointless. Mass vaccination is the only way out of this.
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  39. The USA cannot claim to be under lockdown. Domestic travel in the US still continues unabated, people still gather on beaches in Florida, people still go to spring break in the sun, some states are not yet shut down, etc. Even if most of the country is locked down, those people still socializing and gathering and traveling will spread the disease throughout the country. Air travel, buses, trains, boats, automobiles still continue to go everywhere. A little over 0.3% of the population has been tested.
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  40. Being an introvert by nature, I've been avoiding people and crowds anyway for most of my life. So far it's working great. I spend a lot of time in the woods alone.
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  41. During WW2 families had to endure wondering if their -son was going to come home -brother was going to come home -husband was going to come home.. -rationing food -rationing gas -curfews -if the country was going to get attacked... We lost 405,000 Americans over the course of 4 years to defeat the Germans and Japanese... So far we have lost over 150,000 citizens to Covid 19 over 25 weeks and all we are being asked to do is to -social distance -wear a mask -and wash your hands It's only been 5 months And we can't deal with that!! PATHETIC
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  42. Don't worry about Dr. Birx. Everyone remembers when she just sat there, silently, when the idea was bandied about that people should inject disinfectant. She would be more respected now if she had leaped up and taken the microphone away from whoever said such twaddle.
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  43.  @wileyschmitt  Bingo - which means it's got community spread already and it's been there for weeks. The current problems in India began showing (in the trends) more than a month and a half ago. Air travel from there was only just now shut down. So we can expect everyplace in the USA to be already seeded with the newest variants :(
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  44. Here in Oregon (pacific northwest USA) we've just learned that an elementary public school employee, in a suburb of Portland, has been symptomatic since February 19th and has just tested positive for covid-19. Most likely, they contracted it on or around February 12th (from sources unknown) and have been communicative since at least February 14th. This is time enough for it to spread to the young students (who will make excellent carriers, as they suffer it fairly lightly compared to older adults with medical issues) and their families and whoever those people have collectively been in contact with. If any of those people work in public-facing jobs (as many people do) then Portland is effectively already undergoing early stages of pandemic. 95% of the human population in Oregon (around 4 million total) lives in the Willamette valley and the intersection of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Vast flows of daily commuter traffic go in and out of Portland via routes 5, 205, 30, 26, 84. Looks like we're going to get a firsthand look at how things unfold here in the USA.
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  45. Somebody deserves an O.B.E. after his name :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire
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  46.  @johnwang9914  Please don't misunderstand. I'm not wanting to see restrictions lifted while things are still so dangerous. I was merely saying that Delta is so much more contagious that we (as a race) need to get better at doing the right thing instead of sucking down the dumbest anti-science propaganda that the internet has to offer up. And there is quite a lot of it. This "ignore the science, just lift all restrictions and let nature take its course" thing has been proven wrong by every single place that's tried it. Every government that did try it, had to later change policy once it became evident that a lot more people would sicken and die. Take a good look at Florida. Not only have they not required masks (via state laws, anyway) but the government has outlawed local legislation to that effect. So by governor DeSatan's thinking (I may have misspelled his name - it's tricky) this disease should have burned itself out already and left behind survivors with covid immunities. Instead, the covid outbreak there just keeps getting worse and worse.
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  47. Trump in April: China tried to hide the extent of their outbreak. Bad China!! Trump in July: We need to keep data from the CDC so the numbers don't look so bad for ME!
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  48.  @robertlivingston360  Sure, sure, that's why the US has a frigging out of control pandemic now. Jeebus F Christ on a stick, do you trolls ever get out of the basement?
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  49. Bingo! The first mention I saw of this whole covid story was something on DN back around Christmastime .. then I got onto Dr John's channel since around Jan 20th. By then I was already stockpiling food, which now I'm needing.
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  50. That one patient has been at the hotel for a week already feeling unwell .. so everyone departing that hotel for the hotel (since he arrived there) is a potential new vector that will pop up in a few weeks when they return to home and start making new clusters.
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