Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Canada’s Embarrassing Vaccine Rollout Explained" video.

  1. Nice way to put it - So did Australia although ours has hints of Thatcherism thrown in for variety. Sovereign manufacturing has suddenly become a hot topic around the world. Here in Australia there are calls for our Government to simply build the factories the we need as a nation. And its not the first time either. Way back in the 1930s the head of BHP at the time famously got Australia its first steel mills. Had we had not listened to him then we'd have been overrun by Japan for the simple reason we might have had NO steel to make anything with. What COVID has done is expose one of the great flaws of neoliberalism which is based in Milton Freidman's claim that companies owe nothing to society and have no responsibility to society, they only have a responsibility to their owners. I call COVID Acid Flu because its stripped off all the bullshit veneer our business & political leaders have shoved down our throats for these last 40+ years. I was actually in Canada a couple of years ago for work and 1 thing I found out was how dependent on certain foods Canada is. Canada grows almost no lettuce and other leafy greens. Its mostly from California. I was there when Trump tore up NAFTA complaining about Canadian timber and putting tariffs on Canadian products. I was there as Canada pointed out all that they imported from America - like lettuce. FYI - Australia is world leader in Vertical Farming technologies and could easily help Canada free itself from America on things like lettuce.
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  2. Sovereign manufacturing has suddenly become a hot topic around the world. Here in Australia there are calls for our Government to simply build the factories the we need as a nation. And its not the first time either. Way back in the 1930s the head of BHP at the time famously got Australia its first steel mills. Had we had not listened to him then we'd have been overrun by Japan for the simple reason we might have had NO steel to make anything with. What COVID has done is expose one of the great flaws of neoliberalism which is based in Milton Freidman's claim that companies owe nothing to society and have no responsibility to society, they only have a responsibility to their owners. I call COVID Acid Flu because its stripped off all the bullshit veneer our business & political leaders have shoved down our throats for these last 40+ years. I was actually in Canada a couple of years ago for work and 1 thing I found out was how dependent on certain foods Canada is. Canada grows almost no lettuce and other leafy greens. Its mostly from California. I was there when Trump tore up NAFTA complaining about Canadian timber and putting tariffs on Canadian products. I was there as Canada pointed out all that they imported from America - like lettuce. FYI - Australia is world leader in Vertical Farming technologies and could easily help Canada free itself from America on things like lettuce.
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  3.  @TybudX  Interesting while I was there (late 2017) I heard nothing about salmonella outbreaks. Not surprising about the regulatory issues. If you get into any of the current discussions regarding the legacy of Reaganomics and Thatcherism (what's called neoliberalism or libertarianism) one of its trademarks is de-regulation. Reagan famously said government is the problem not the solution. Its now pretty much accepted that he was not only senile he was an idiot as well. Don't forget he was the actor made famous for doing the "duck and cover" commercials for handling a nuclear attack. If there is a scary thing about Reagan its that some claimed he wasn't far enough to the right. One of the famous Koch brothers ran against him claiming he Reagan was too LEFTIST and wasn't libertarian enough. With COVID I have had some time to look into where its all gone wrong. Partly we are living in the last days of an economic system that's failed. Prof. Mark Blyth has been talking about this for a few years and been trying to tell people we are at the end of the Reaganomic era. Here's his primer on it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY Here's a lecture he gave on it (2019) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE Part of the reason its getting really bad is that we should have had a system upgrade after 2008 but it didn't happen and now the system is just falling apart. I've seen/heard reports that the US Economy actually started falling BEFORE COVID-19 really struck and they what COVID-19 actually did was push it off the cliff it was already falling over. I call COVID "Acid Flu" because more than anything else it has exposed the flaws in our current economics. I don't think a radical leftist agenda is the solution but we need a completely new way of running the worlds economy because this idiotic shit we're doing now is killing us. What you've pointed out with the salmonella and no way to regulate what these companies do is just another symptom of the disease. I just watched a vid story about an Australian swimmer (I used to swim) who got caught with Ligandrol in her system. Ligandrol is one of the current FAD drugs among gym junkies. Its actually experimental and not yet approved for human use. How the farq is it even available and yet gym junkies are claiming its easy to get? Same disease, different symptom - a lack of regulations and enforcement of regulations. We've just had ANOTHER major building project in serious trouble. We almost had a brand new massive apartment block collapse a couple of years ago. Same disease, different symptom - a lack of regulations and enforcement of regulations. What did Reagan and Thatcher and the others want? Those farqers might be gone but we've been left to clean up the mess.
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  4.  @TybudX  When you get time watch the Mark Blyth stuff. I know its long but worth the effort. There is something he doesn't really address and that's the underlying reason we didn't have a reset after 2008 and that is because the elites have such an incredible strangle hold on the political system. He recently wrote a book with Eric Lonergan called "Angrynomics" in one of the book talks he mentioned a report that said during this neoliberalism era the top 1% have made of with $55 Trillion. That's $55,000,000,000,000. I'm an engineer and engineers like finding ways to visualize numbers and here's mine on that. In Australia we used to have a quiz show "Who wants to be a millionaire" it was the same as other versions around the world. It had a clear box on it with a million dollars in it and it was approximately a 1ft cube. A 20ft container at about 1140 cubic feet is roughly $1 Billion dollars so the worlds largest container ship the Emma Maersk can carry away $11 Trillion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit). It takes 5 Emma Maersks to carry off what the top 1% have done the past 40 years. So they really have made off with boat loads of cash. That's unsustainable and will break the system. Its not the first time a ruling Elite has broken a system. Look what the Capets did in France and the Romanovs in Russia and neither of those worked out.
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