Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Whistleblower Rick Bright’s Damning Testimony on Trump’s COVID-19 Failures: A Closer Look" video.

  1. 10:27 The WHO already had a working test, but the US refused to use that, instead preferring to develop their own. Which it turned out didn’t work, so it had to be withdrawn and redone before trying again. Wasting precious time while the virus continued to spread.
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  2. 7:21 And the Koreans also managed to hold a general election in the middle of their coronavirus containment measures. And not mail-in votes, but actual personal voting. Every voter had their temperature taken as they came to the polling stations, and those with temperatures were not turned away, instead they were sent to a separate section to cast their vote. You hear that? Nobody was turned away from voting, not even those who might be infected!
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  3. 11:06 Talking about hollowing out, today I hear that there are mass layoffs among US medical staff, even as coronavirus infection rates continue to rise. Why? Because most of the high-revenue elective surgeries have been cancelled to deal with the virus, leading to a cashflow crunch, and Wall Street investors want their money back before the health-sector investment funds collapse.
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  4. Even in the US polls seem to show most of the people want to be sensible. It’s just you’ve got this small, yet disproportionately powerful group who prioritize their own welfare over that of the public. In a democracy, they would be outvoted. In the US, on the other hand ...
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  5. I believe successive Tory governments have tried to water down the NHS, too. But the current ur-Tory, Mr Johnson, now owes his life to the NHS. Wonder if that will colour his thinking any ...
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  6. 0:17 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySpecificDenial
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