Comments by "Owain Shebbeare" (@shebbs1) on "The Spanish Flu: The Greatest Pandemic of the 20th Century" video.

  1.  Garrison Nichols  Despite what JP claims, the facts actually back you up. At best Communist states were miserable and totalitarian, made worse by the tendency to use force and oppress their populations. JP will likely use the modern undergraduate excuse of " that wasn't REAL communism", but it is what comes from any implenentation of that faulty ideology.
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  2.  Jody Owen  not exactly a model for how to deal with this virus, but is often quoted in Australia, where I am, despite having 330 deaths per million population, whereas Australia, which was laughed at by the WHO and UN for imposing strict restrictions and calling it a pandemic before the UNconscionable UN finally woke up, has 4 deaths per million.
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  3.  @MarielaQue  Depends on where you are. Where I am (Victoria, Australia), there are definite effects on civil liberties imposed by the state government and, to a lesser extent because of constitutional roles, the federal government. These effects may be temporary suspensions on associations, movement and so on, but there are concerns that not all these assumed liberties will be returned. I am not too worried myself, even though I dislike the state government, I reckon things won't change much in the longer term, but there are some who are very concerned. Oh well, time for a beer, a liberty I definitely can exercise!🍺
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  4. We also don't need to capitalise most words.
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  5.  @hasenhirn1965  You do realise it was Obama who asked for Rusdian help, caught on video, in the 2012 election, and he and Hillary happily sold Russia a massive amount od weapons-grade uranium? Typical Democract: accuse others of that of which you are guilty. As for me, I am not even Americam, much less a Trump fan, but that collusion theory is long dead. As for scapegots, well it is true that various regimes have targeted certain groups, but the facts point to China as the source, and that they mishandled and lied regarding COVID-19.
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  6. Why would March be at all relevant? It just took time for people, especially China, to admit its existence and take it seriously. Some countries took it seriously as early as mid January , which still too slow, and the UN/ WHO wasn't honest about it until two weeks after that. Is there something special about March?
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  7. Both are actually correct
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