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

  1.  Alexander Van Burk  You must have joined the discussion months later than everyone. The mask is designed to keep you from sharing your droplet dispersal with others. When enough people wear masks, infection via droplet transmission is reduced.
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  2. Some people in the USA have trouble understanding that just because they've gotten tired of staycationing with their Netflix and legal weed and munchies, it doesn't mean the virus has gone away. If anything, in most places your chances of catching it are higher now than they were when the lockdowns began.
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  3.  @johnwang9914  I love you thinking, but Delta spreads so easily that classic control measures have lost the bulk of their effectiveness. Best would be for anyone unvaxxed to remain in some form of bio-isolation, only the vaxxed to be out adulting, and everyone to continue wearing masks and distancing (and avoiding congregate settings) while the unvaxxed get vaxxed. But that's not going to happen anywhere.
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  4. Here in the US, we still have whole states that won't impose mandatory mask wearing, and in some places, rural reich-wing authorities won't enforce the laws on masks, distancing, closure of activities that are known to spread virus. The USA will be the poster child for how not to do a pandemic.
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  5. It's funny the way some people will seize on any opportunity to NOT wear a mask - even while the cumulative effect of not enough people wearing masks is what's causing the disease to continue spreading. Are you afraid of people laughing if you wear a mask when leaving the home? Are you afraid that wearing a mask outside of the home will mean you'll have to wash the masks more often? What's the expensive, painful, maybe just embarrassing-to-you downside of wearing a mask outside the home?
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  6.  @veralenora7368  Good luck with the mayonnaise. What's next? Watching people scramble for snake oil, when real vaccines are already here, is cold amusement to the rest of us.
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  7. @4:20 Who else laughed uproariously when he said "the great United States of America"?
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  8. They had a word for people who wouldn't do what they were told during WW2. Something along the lines of "quisling", "traitor", or "draft dodger". As it is, this damn virus has taken more American lives in one year than WW2 took in four years, so, yes, it's a time of national emergency and one should get with the program.
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  9.  @nanmaco  LOL fool. Explain again please why you feel it's you "right" to infect other people? And if you think you do have that right, you're overdue for a lesson in consent.
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  10. Thank you for your hard work!
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  11.  @vollkerball1  Re "So you elect people you don´t trust" << Faker words were never put in someone else's mouth.
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  12. It took "only" 144,000 dead Americans to get him to do what he should have done 7 months ago when the experts explained what to do. Sheesh :(
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  13. .. and if you manage to escape from quarantine you're probably a carrier.
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  14. Such choices. Be absolutely sure before leaving quarantine, or fly home anyway and spread infection all over the place as you travel. Choices, choices.
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  15.  @angelatester2471  Not my job. But spotting snake oil, and calling it out as such, is the duty of any citizen. How'd that hydroxychloroquine work out for you? Or zinc? What was the one before that? These things play on false hopes, and when clinical trials are done, the results almost always end up being at best inconclusive. Randomized double-blind trials are the only thing that prove it one way or the other, and so far the various flavors of snake oil are not doing well.
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  16. I guess DeSantis missed the "good old days" when thousands of people die of covid within a single day. Not much other way to explain his behavior. Maybe he bought into high-capacity crematoria.
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  17. One of my friends is in recovery. He's 10 years younger, a bodybuilder, was in great shape, etc. For almost 3 months he's been fighting it and relapsing. He's apparently got permanent lung and kidney damage. He never got tested either! (USA)
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  18.  @gd7681  Agreed, all the anti-maskers need to drop their BS/propaganda right now. If EVERYONE EVERYWHERE even did so much as wear a bandana style improvised mask and either wore gloves and/or washed their hands all the time, virus transmission would be cut by 80%+. That's an incredible negative force multiplier to use against the virus.
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  19. I'm sorry to say that the US will probably need to import more refrigerator trucks soon .. even in states where masks are now required by law, people continue to congregate indoors without masks whenever they feel they can get away with it. I've gone on a rampage on unmasked people I see in stores. Don't care if they're offended.
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  20. 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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  21.  @andrewtrip8617  Regarding "it is not a threat to the vast" << On that point you are 180 degrees wrong. Last year's kinder gentler original covid was like that, but the newer variants are not. Young, old, healthy, sick, it does not care who you are, it can kill you with ease of there is not hospital care available for you when you need it. And that has always been the danger of this disease, overwhelming the local hospital systems. When that happens, the death rate goes up from around 2% to around 20%.
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  22. Sorry for you and your family. Hoping you have a speedy recovery to normal health. I have two friends who both suffered the 10-week version of covid, and it nearly killed them. So when I hear fools who stupidly insist this is nothing to worry about, I want to bring them to a covid ward or get them talking with others who've actually suffered it. This is nothing to laugh at.
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  23.  @ndrklerz2178  Notice how we haven't heard from Dr Fauci lately? You nailed it.
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  24. Count me as officially concerned.
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  25. Exactly. Look at how the governor of North Dakota, months too late, finally enacted a mask mandate just yesterday. Of course he waited until his state had become the worst-infected state in the whole country (8.2% of their population infected as of today, up from 7.9% just yesterday) all out of a desire to hang close to Sweet Potato Hitler's coattails. Condolences to the people of North Dakota :(
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  26. "If we don’t have enough resources for the severely ill then the mortality rate is going to be" - bingo. As the good doctor has communicated, a large portion of the patients ill enough to go to hospital will need oxygen support and/or ventilators. Even in the more affluent countries, there's nowhere near enough hospital beds and oxygen/breathing support equipment to go around. Someone in another thread pointed out that in all of New Mexico there are 3,600 hospital beds, and on any given day 90% of them are already in use.
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  27. Uhh, guys, look at his pre-covid19 videos, he was doing this for awhile beforehand. He'll definitely be more famous afterwards.
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  28. That's basically how we did it in the USA for the first few months - you could only get a test if you had the classic COVID symptoms. By glossing over the asymptomatic people (who were deemed not worth expending a test on) the authorities inadvertently caused a vast spread of the disease. Heck of a job, Brownie.
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  29. They're not even remotely clever. People like that fall into the Dunning-Kruger bin - folks too dim to realize the limits of their ability to understand things. Just avoid them. By the time they figure out it's real, they or someone in their family will have been hooked to a ventilator (or worse).
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  30.  @OceanFrontVilla3  As I said, randomized double-blind trials are the only kind that show the truth. I don't believe anything less than that, nor should you or anyone else.
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  31. America is, or has got, its own special brand of stupidity. Nearly all states are reopening, and shedding any mask/distancing requirements, exactly as Delta is spreading exponentially and just as the vaccination rates have dropped sharply.
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  32.  @ggjr61  "I think it’s perfectly obvious that a lot of Americans are either hesitant or outright hostile to getting vaccinated." Unfortunately true. Given that America (like every other nation) is at war with this virus (which has been the third largest mass casualty event in our nation's history) it's astonishing that so many want to help it spread and potentially breed new variants - as if they think their choice to abstain from masks/distancing/vaccine affects only them. What's happening now in India is a picture of what happens when lots of people take that approach.
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  33. Not true. There is one (1) place in the USA where the federal government does the test-trace-isolate thing that Germany, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Vietnam etc all do successfully. That would be the white house. So we all need to work there.
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  34.  @JoceyyJ  Here in the USA, it costs a person $3500 to get the coronavirus test. In most every other country (including China, S Korea, Italy, etc) this test is FREE. But then, those countries don't let a predatory monopoly set prices for things. In some places, you can even set up a drive-through test for free. Failure to do widespread community testing for free is going to really hurt :(
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  35.  @reflexionesdelabiblia6711  Judging by how things went in northern Italy, we have perhaps 4-6 weeks before the authorities in the Portland metro area finally order closed any venues where the disease would easily spread - movie theatres, restaurants, public events, bars & clubs, etc. But by then the damage will have already occurred.
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  36. Of the 3 local friends I know who had covid, two of them had long covid (with strange aftereffects) and that was enough to keep me paranoid.
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  37. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the most affordable to manufacture and requires no special handling such as super low temperatures. It's more like the Southwest Airlines of vaccines than the Concorde.
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  38. Bingo. The case rate is accelerating where I live (Oregon) now that indoor air heating systems have been turned on, and aerosol spread is working its deadly magic. We're all going to have to be hermits this winter. Up until just a few weeks ago, everyone was able to leave the windows open and the heat off. As soon as that changed, the spread rate skyrocketed.
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  39.  @katiehettinger7857  Correct. And if the unvaccinated people happen to make contact with the new Indian variants, then we may see the numbers going up. It's not as if they haven't had time to digest the news that there's a nasty virus going around and that vaccines are available.
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  40. Sadly, all it takes is one person carrying those little viral hitchhikers :( What I'm most afraid of now would be a) vaccination rates slowing drastically because cases are going down for now, and b) poorly-vaccinated places becoming the pools in which new variants breed. Then every so often, a person from there will travel to the big city and light off a whole new cycle of disease :(
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  41.  @kekcheburek7712  That's nice for you. BUT NOT EVERYONE ELSE IS SO LUCKY. Can you understand that? FFFS.
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  42.  @HkJoK  What I've seen, on the west coast and the interior vacation spots (hot springs & such) is that people go from high-covid to low-covid places to engage in pre-covid behaviors that they miss. It's insane :(
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  43. I was 300 miles from home recently, out in the far boonies, and it was a mix of bad and good behaviors. In one diner, the waitress left her mask covering only her mouth (not the nose) and kept coughing; the people at another nearby store said not to bother with the masks; and in one store, neither the cashiers nor the customers bothered to wear masks. That's coming back to bite us :(
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  44. Let's all click on the 3-dots thing and select "don't recommend this channel".
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  45. Glad someone else noticed that. Here's his DN interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNVzfwXanLM
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  46. What could possibly go wrong, right?
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  47. One of my friends had symptoms for 14 weeks and almost died. This is someone who went to the gym all the time and was super-healthy. Now they've got lifetime lung damage and more :(
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  48. Sorry to hear about your experience. This goes to show what I've been preaching: that even with vaccinating as many people as possible, as well as continuing with masks, distancing, capacity limits, hand washing, etc, we will be lucky to make it through the winter without mass graves everywhere. I live in the best-vaccinated county in my state, and our hospitals just started adding emergency overflow morgues, that's how many deaders we've got. And fall is not even here yet.
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  49. Yesterday I went into a convenience store outside the city. As usual I had on mask & gloves. The man behind the counter did not. I asked him why. He said he didn't know of any edict (his word) to force people to wear masks. I asked him if he knew there was a dangerous disease going around and he just shrugged. Faceplant :( Edit: this was outside Portland, OR.
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  50. President Balsonaro, is that you?
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