Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "DW News" channel.

  1.  Pub Comrad  Ukraine has gas and oil fields too. Not as many as before, because Putin seized the fields in Crimea. Maybe that, as well as a warm water port, is why he invaded them.
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  2. This disease was first discovered in lab monkey, in Germany, in the 1950s.
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  3. Members of the IDF do not bring their weapons home any more. It is much harder to get a gun permit, in Israel, than in the US, and you must prove you need to defend yourself. As to no mass shootings, you clearly have ignored this year's news, where Arabs snuck in from PA controlled areas, with guns, and murdered many innocent people, in Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv, and Hadera. Those terror attacks took 19 innocent lives, just during Ramadan.
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  4.  @scottslotterbeck3796  Now it doesn't. But when I was a child, in Southern California, in the 1960s, it often did.
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  5. Why not? It worked for the parts of Yudah and Shomron, that Jordan invaded and occupied. Arafat told them, in 1962, "Call yourself Palestinian, and people will forget you aren't from here." And it worked.
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  6. False, when PCR tests are performed, the look for S protein dropout. When dropout occurs, they know they have many changes in the S protein, and sequence the sample.
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  7. It never is.
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  8. The people didn't get a real choice, since any really viable political opponent was killed or jailed.
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  9. The UN, the US, the UK all regard Crimea as part of Ukraine, and occupied by Russia. What Russia "recognizes" is moot. Russia should withdraw its troops from the sovereign nations of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine.
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  10.  @wertcon  But everyone is not vaccinated. If they were, we wouldn't have to endure all these lockdowns, and hospitals would not be full.
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  11. So does overpopulation.
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  12.  @iraqpestcontrol  No, the US was for forming Kurdish country, at least within the area they lived in in Iraq. But, when there was a referendum, one Kurdish group was for it, and another was not, and the US gave the idea up.
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  13. Ester saved herself, and her people, without any help from a false prophet.
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  14. Stop victim blaming. The fault lies with one man, and one man only, the mad dictator treating Russia as his own personal piggy bank. Ukraine knows what being under Russian rule means: no control of one's life, no chance of a better life, possible starvation as your food is stolen, or transportation to Siberia.
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  15. Probably the same 30% who've not been vaccinated, are walking around without masks.
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  16. Sure, we'll get right on that, as soon as Brits learn to pronounce Los Angeles and New Orleans properly.
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  17.  @fedupwithbs1782  The Arabs that live in Israel, and are over 60 did, like all Israelis.
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  18. By allowing citizens to vote, without risking exposure to Covid-19.
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  19. Also in Japan, South Korea and the Czech Republic.
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  20. Same in NW Oregon. We are still having near daily heavy rain, with highs never hitting 70F (21C).
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  21. Both Turkey and Israel are good allies of Azerbaijan, not Armenia.
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  22. Why is it our problem? We limit our family size. They can too.
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  23. The Armenians are leaving voluntarily, because they know what they did to the Axeri people, that they ethnically cleansed from Karbakh. They are afraid they'll get their just deserts.
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  24.  @MrLibya101  FREE GREATER ISRAEL IL
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  25. At the beginning of the pandemic, many marveled at how effective China's strict lockdowns were, while we in countries, with individual freedoms, struggled to contain a virus transmitted by asymptomatic hosts. China laughed at how the US bungled testing and quarantine, and bragged of their superiority. Then, as countries began to roll out their vaccines, the Chinese bragged about how much better their inactivated virus vaccines were, because they contained more epitopes. But, it has turned out, that the mRNA vaccines are incredibly superior, in the adaptive immunity (both humoral and cellular) they induce, against a respiratory virus, and Europe and the US have the last laugh. As Covid-19 both mutates rapidly, and has animal reservoirs, we will not be able to eliminate it, as we've done with smallpox and rinderpest. We need to learn how to live with it, with yearly boosters. A zero Covid policy is impossible.
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  26. And yet, statistically, you are more likely to die from a gun, if you own a gun. If guns really made people safe, that would not be the case. Also, none of the proposed gun restrictions would take guns away from law abiding owners. But, they might make it less likely for deranged young men, to so easily obtain a weapon, to murder innocent people. If, for example, the background check, for the Uvalde shooter, had included his juvenile record, he could not have legally purchased a gun, as he had tortured to death helpless pets. Unless you are fending off an invading army, you don't need an extended magazine, to defend yourself. There is no logical reason those should be sold. Most guns used by criminals, were obtained through straw purchases. By federally limiting a person to two guns a year, straw purchases would be all but eliminated. All we need do is, institute federally laws like Canada has, requiring a PAL or RPAL license to buy a weapon, limiting the number of guns a person can purchase, and having adequate red flag laws.
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  27. There are no cameras, even still ones, allowed in US federal courts. State courts vary. Some states do allow the jurors to be shown.
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  28.  @kerryb2689  Great, during the daytime. Storage capacity isn't adequate, at this time. A constant energy source is needed.
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  29. Yes.
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  30.  @eddiegrimm9462  And now he's threatening to launch a nuclear missile, if sanctions aren't taken off, and if any more military aid goes to Ukraine. Putin is the abusive husband, just itching for an excuse to beat up his wife.
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  31. The area is part of Ukraine, but the DPR is Russian occupiers.
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  32.  @dreamtime3692  Just like the J&J vaccine, they transfect a virus (in this case baculovirus) with genetic material coding for part of the spike protein. But, in the J&J, they administer the virus (hence viral vector). With Novavax, they purify out the gene product (protein) after growing it in an insect cell culture. Novavax contains the protein, and a saponin based adjuvant.
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  33.  @andrewnielsen6498  In 2003, Russia captured the Transdniester region of Moldova. In 2008 they stole the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions of Georgia. In 2014 they stole the Donbas and Crimea from Ukraine. While NATO has allowed nations to join their alliance, they have not expanded any of their countries into the territories of other countries, as Russia has done. How about Russia returns the parts of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, that they are illegally occupying, and stops trying to dictate which countries may join NATO. After all we aren't trying to dictate which countries can join CSTO.
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  34. Cell phone towers aren't the problem that cryptocurrency is. Have you looked at how much energy that eats up.? You need to reassess what is using the most energy.
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  35. The only thing the US did wrong was send too much humanitarian aid in the past. Have fewer children, then you can feed them.
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  36. Yes, since climate change has begun to cause problems, there have been more wildfires. But, back in the 1960s and 1970s, wildfires only occurred, in Southern California, in late August and October, when there were Santa Ana winds. Look at the number of significant fires in 1977, not 2017, and you'll see this is new.
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  37. The Philistines were Greek, these are arabs, who invaded from Jordan.
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  38. Free the East Bank.
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  39. No it's not. This is not an STD, anyone can get it.
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  40. This disease has much lower mortality rate, and there is no such thing as long monkeypox. The lesions are painful, and you experience fever and malaise, due to your immune response.
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  41. He may claim to be another Peter the Great, but his brutality and desire for conquest, is more like Ivan the Terrible. He even pretended to give up power, putting a puppet in his own place, then reclaimed power, like Ivan. He certainly is not the modernizer Peter was.
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  42.  @kinngrimm  A grand sum of 32 people have died from nuclear power disasters throughout the years of its use. And yet, 3.3 million people die each year from pollution, and more than 150,000 die each year from the results of carbon driven climate change. Clearly, fossil fuel is much more dangerous than nuclear power.
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  43. She is married to Radosław Sikorski, who became Poland's defense minister, and lives in Poland.
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  44. The police only started firing live rounds after a police officer was fatally wounded by these thugs.
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  45.  @kayjr9795  Although this was really spread from a European fetish fair, that is not how it got into the human population. It is assumed it jumped into the human population from rodents, either that people ate, or that contaminated human food.
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  46.  @Dirgis-66  You really are ill informed. The animal reservoir is rodents. While this might have emerged through consumption of rodents, it is more likely that it came from rodents getting into human grain supplies. And being vegan would not have prevented such an emergence.
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  47. Wrong. This is not an STD, and gays aren't the only infected people. It was just first noticed in gays, and they are only routinely testing gay men. But, if straight people and children, with suspect symptoms are tested, it is found in them as well.
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  48. Let's hear how fluent you are in German first.
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  49. Because the solution is birth control. And no country can dictate that another have only a sustainable number of children.
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  50.  @johnwang9914  Where do you get your data? Most transmission occurs in the first 5 days after infection.
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