Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "DW News" channel.

  1.  @petergriffin9902  Sorry Pete, I've got a date with my clinical pathologist buddy who says -wait for it -that facemasks are useless. His name is Dr John Lee. Most of his colleagues agree. Professor Carl Heneghan and one two others pop up on a YouTube channel called Co-Immunity. It bothers them a bit that every public health body in the world said the same thing until some sort of directive went out last May or thereabouts.
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  2. They failed in Syria. They will fail in Ukraine. Not exactly good selling points.
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  3. They had to destroy the Ukrainian army first.
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  4.  @antred11  Is it though? The front seems relatively secure at the moment and more or less along the line I imagine Russia had in mind. The Ukrainian army, meanwhile, has sustained substantial losses of trained troops while Russia has considerable reserves of men experienced in the war in Syria, the battle-hardened armies of the Donbass republics, plus Cossacks and Chechens with more Chechens on the way I gather. Should be an interesting winter campaign, especially if Ukraine has no electricity.
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  5. He's completely correct. Russia and Ukraine could have sorted this out between them if the West didn't have its greedy eyes on the vast mineral wealth of Donbass and Crimea.
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  6. Uncle Sam or Allah? My money's on Uncle Sam.
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  7.  @johndavidwolf4239  This is simply not true. In the last census , carried out years before annexation 73% of the population self-identified as Russian. That percentage is thought to have increased now. Crimea was never Ukrainian. It was mery stuck on to it by the Soviet Union in 1955 for purely administrative reasons.
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  8.  @mikekubo3668  Masks are but a minor factor. There is considerable evidence that people in many Asian countries have a built-in immunity to covid due to historic exposures to similar pathogens which did not reach Europe. A curious feature of this is the way in which the Delta variant seemed to bypass such immunity. Many parts of India, as well as Japan, Singapore, Vietnam etc experienced a sudden simultaneous surge. And they hadn't stopped wearing masks all of a sudden!
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  9. It's tit for tat. The US via NATO started this new phase of conflict - what did they expect?
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  10. Warning: Trump Derangement Syndrome has severe chronic symptoms. These include hallucinations, inability to think rationally and an increasing obsession with legislative procedures.
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  11.  @mariannelabanane2589  And to gain Western access to the vast mineral wealth of Donbass and Crimea.
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  12. This doesn't sound like a definition of losing to me. Quite the reverse.
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  13. Job done. The Ukrainian army has been crushed in the 'meat grinder' and will be reduced even more when it tries to take it back.
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  14. Why bother? You get better immunity from the disease itself.
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  15. The chances of reaching herd immunity do not increase with more vaccination. The vaccines would have to be 100% effective and long-lasting for that - and they are neither. It can be argued that vaccinating more than a certain percentage of the population is harmful because it reduces the number of people who become immune through infection - which is the only way out of this mess.
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  16. Are you aware of the legal term "scraping the bottom on the barrel"?
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  17.  @borabay91  In the UK the UK Health Security Agency produces a Covid Vaccination Surveillance report each week. It regularly reveals over 65% of those in intensive care are fully vaccinated, as are over 83% of those who die. This is entirely reasonable, since those who end up in intensive care or in the morgue are going to be very elderly or severely immuno-compromised in some other way. It is hard to believe the situation is in any way different in the US. I am not an anti-vaxxer. I do, however, have considerable and justifiable reservations as to their safety and efficacy.
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  18. This is disruption, not destruction.
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  19. Like it or not, Putin's account is the true one.
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  20.  @MELODYMUNRO  A total of 13 as of two days ago. All elderly "with" other co-morbidities and "with" Omicron. .
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  21.  @Thor.Jorgensen  What stage is the US at right now?
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  22.  @usucktoo  The conspiracy comes from the other direction. Until about May of last year every public health body in the world, including the CDC and the WHO, advised strongly against the wearing of facemasks by the general public. It had been that way for years. What suddenly happened to change this strategy? The covid 19 virus is a virus like any other. It speads in the same way and yet all of a sudden masks become a magic bullet. This is clearly nonsense. Masks are a political statement, a badge of submission to authority and little more.
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  23. Checked on deaths per 100,000 lately? Cases figures are meaningless.
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  24. We are kind to homeless beggars in the UK.
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  25. Ukraine will probably take Kherson - but at great cost. Once again we are seeing the Russian tactic of attempting to cripple the enemy by engaging them in territory they don't really want that much.
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  26. @Quote Ukraine in NATO is not a threat? This war is America's war.
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  27. Why, if the neighbouring countries are largely inhabited by people living in small towns and low-density cities, and where there are few, if any, large care homes for the elderly occupied by people in or approaching their nineties? Geographical proximity is irrelevant. It's what's going on INSIDE a country that counts - not what your neighbours are like.
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  28. On the contrary the drones can be made to fly high. They have been used to tempt fighter planes to fly higher and so make them easier to hit with ground to air missiles.
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  29. Not that amazing. The balance of advantage and disadvantage is split fairly evenly.
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  30. @@craigsteddy8331 No. Russians by ethnicity and heritage. There have never been many Ukrainians in Crimea. They are outnumbered by te original inhabitants the Tatars but most people are direct descendants of Russians who have located there over the years since Russia took it from the Ottomans in 1783.
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  31.  @wavemaker2077  The Asian explosion was curbed - some say -by the widespread use of Ivermectin. In Japan Tokyo's chief medical officer recommended it. In Goa the government handed it out for free to everyone over 18 and while it was actually banned in other parts it is alleged that much was smuggled in from India.
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  32. There is already a very cheap and effective anti-viral drug available. It's called ivermectin.
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  33. Every channel I watch on the progress of the war seems to show Russia making steady advances.
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  34. The answer is simple: you have tens of thousands of people behaving as though they are immune because they have been vaccinated when, in fact, they are asymptomatic and spreading covid like wildfire.
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  35. Or common sense.
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  36. Trump has truth and justice on his side and has emerged with great dignity. Lying and cheating is such second nature to the Democrats that they don't even seem to know when they're doing it.
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  37. Ukraine will regret not heeding these offers once it lies in ruins
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  38.  @mazzerattimike8695  Recognition of Crimea as Russian (which it is), autonomy for Donbass and a commitment by Ukraine not to join NATO. The way things are going Putin is likely to get all of this and more - and around half a million people will have died to.no.purpose.
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  39.  @cube6687  Here's hoping.
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  40.  @stasguivan4680  Absolutely.
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  41.  @stasguivan4680  There are memorials to the dead in front line towns and villages in Donbass. At least 14 thousand people have died. People are living in cellars. Industry is crippled. What world are you living in?
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  42.  @linusa2996  The civilian deaths are incidental, as the low numbers show. Different missiles with different targets would be used if the prime objective was killing large numbers of civilians. Shooting the drones down might not be such a good idea either.
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  43. Not as unlikely as it may sound.
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  44. The end of the world is nigh. Or at least the end of the dollar as world currency is.
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  45.  @jakexgold3879  From what I've seen, very few people have any idea what the war is about.
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  46.  @arnovriends5873  No it isn't.
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  47. @rory kinahan So Crimea and the four former Ukrainian oblasts are now part of Russia.
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  48.  @roboparks  They don't. They want Crimea and Donbass where many Russians live, and whose mineral resources they feel entitled to continue to exploit.
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  49. A dozen ancient, heavy, hard to maintain and hard to operate tanks which might just about arrive as Russia's winter blitz reaches its successful conclusion. Yup. A real game-changer.
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  50. These boasts were never made, as far as I can tell.
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