Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Trump Supporters TURN ON TRUMP Over COVID Vaccine" video.

@_h1ghlife_ Most Americans have not visited the next county let alone the next state let alone another country. If the do travel is by bus or plane. So they never see what's in the next state except for a blur as they go through or over. I'm Australian but went to college in America and there. One thing that most people don't realise about America is that its a massive population that is VERY ACTIVE. Its actually impossible for Americans to get anything but a very basic summary of the news. There's so much happening that no one has ENOUGH time to sit down and get a decent in depth look at anything. In Australia between the time I went to college in America and now our population has gone from 15 to 25 million and its now hard to get a full understanding of all of Australia. So America at 238 million is simply impossible for anyone to grasp. So for Americans to get anything but a rudimentary understanding of any other country is actually difficult. With their failing education system its even worse.
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Nope that's what's called being honest and you were reasonably polite doing it. There's certainly others way more blunt.
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Very sad and sadly very true.
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PS lets not forget these people have been drowning in misinformation. Even David's a bit guilty of that here - He says (4:33) "The idea is the flu vaccine prevents flu in some and in others it makes it less severe. But the flu vaccines are not nearly as effective as these coronavirus vaccines are." Where does he get that last part from because we only have trial data so far on COVID vaccines. Plus there's many flu vaccines for different strains just as there's different COVID vaccines. NO ONE should be comparing efficacy between flu and COVID vaccines, unless they're an epidemiologist and can answer questions and explain the differences. In refuting the sort of ignorance that's here David AND ALL OF US need to be careful we are NOT making it worse. The best weapon against ignorance are straight forward facts not embellishments. We all need to watch what we say because right now its so easy to slip up and make mistakes. Best wishes to all. (edit was for a typo)
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@daveg2104 I'm Australian too mate. I went to college in America. I think David's one of the few people commentators who's fairly well balanced, but he does slip at times. And with this stuff you have to stay on the ball or its too easy for detractors to run off with minor mistakes. As I just pointed out on another page the difference between Australia and America with respect to health care is monumental to say the least. I went to college in Illinois and the combined population of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin is 25.2 million to our 25.7. We have 909 COVID fatalities while Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have over 42,000. I know those 3 states damn well and Australia being an island and spread out does not explain that level of difference. America's COVID response is a disaster of incredible proportion and they are not facing up to it well. Its not like 9/11 where they could blame someone. Its very sad, but it is a disaster of their own making.
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@daveg2104 I'm a Victorian who was caught out of state and been stuck in Queensland since this time last year. Hopefully once the vaccine reaches me I can get back to what I was up to. But you're right David isn't that great on the COVID analysis. Generally I think his political commentary is pretty good. BUT I think he's way to soft on critiquing the Biden administration. He's got a soft spot for Jen Psaki which is totally unwarranted considering some of her public comments in the past. She is certainly a giant leap forward from Kayleigh McEnany but then a mangy lost dog could do that.
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@daveg2104 I'm did aerospace engineering in America courtesy of a sports scholarship and have a classmate very high up at NASA. We had a very interesting "exchange" abut 20 years ago arguing over how the ISS was being built. I was coming at the problem from the industrial "get it done" mentality. Putting it mildly got put in my place. I was informed NASA does not actually decide much of what it does, the senate committee overseeing NASA does. NASA proposes and they select and once you understand that many things you wondered about these last 50 years become quite apparent. When you wonder why didn't they simply do X instead of Y and you get the answer "how was that going to win person Z votes in their state." When you ask why did the spend so much doing..... and the answer is it got a lot of people employed where Senator Z is their representative. Similarly when you look at the nightmare disaster the F35 supply chain (not the plane, the supply chain as in where all the bits are made) is you understand it was done that way so that almost any US senator who questioned it got a tap on the shoulder from the boss of a company in his state telling him how many jobs could be lost. Going back through our military spending, there's been some good decisions like the Mirage and F111, but since the early 90s its been a lot of ugly questions nobody would want to ask publicly but they should be. Lets not mention the Super Seasprite. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️ So our subs are just another disaster in long, long, long list of engineering disasters,
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@daveg2104 I only know what I know about NASA from that class mate and these days she very high up in ISS management. I didn't know the buried the F-111s. You'd hope somebody would be smart enough to scrap them for the raw materials. They don't get made out of cheap stuff.
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@daveg2104 I'm in Bris Vegas, its wet but not flooded. I'm just going stir crazy with a few things. I came up here to try and convince the right people we needed an actual space program to go with our Space Agency. I asked for too much but then they gave the Airforce 10 times as much, which is on par for how stupid they have been with these submarines. Naval group only charge the French government about $2 billion Australian per sub and our cost is now close to $7.5billion. PER SUB. Remember Scomo howling at Shorten about how Labour couldn't manage money. Well Farq that. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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