Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Our COVID Response" video.

That's exactly what the Great Barrington Declaration supported. Good to find the first dissenter in the comments section.
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@Ebrahim Samirali Your comment is strange because you don't identify where you apparently were, Australia only locked down for about 8 weeks in 2020, the rest of the time lockdowns were only local as you would be aware if you were actually ever in Australia and you strike me as a person who wouldn't spend $3,000 AUD for 2 weeks quarantine and what exactly were you doing here , foreigner couldn't just enter at will , you would need to have close relatives who are dying or something or an essential worker.
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In the Western Pacific WHO region we all had 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine at the border, all had genuine quarantine for those infected and close contacts. In Australia and New Zealand we're pretty fat with diets almost as bad as the US so it's not that, we are majority European heritage so race has nothing to do with it either. Japanese and South Koreans have an obesity rate of below 10% and approximately the same death rate from covid 19 as Australia and New Zealand the fat countries in our region. Have the same policy get the same results it's that simple. Have no lockdown and no quarantine who knew the virus would spread, what a surprise.
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I am guessing you are American, why do you say lockdowns would never work when you never had one? They certainly worked in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand and our covid death rates are less than 10% that of the US.
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@caroldanson5476 Same applies in most cases, you never actually locked down only partial lockdown without enforced fair dinkum quarantine for travellers, infected people and close contacts. These are 100% necessary components otherwise it's like using a fishing net to try and create a dam.
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Europe and the US would never agree, keeping everything open was considered more important. Even though genuine lockdowns meant being open more often was actually achievable, just no international tourism.
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You're right, in 1918 restrictions were put in place so there's an historical precedent and zoom didn't exist then.
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The US had the worst response to HIV of a wealthy country, you are right the US isn't capable of responding to a pandemic and never will because a large section of your society will always try to stop a good response. Can apply that to other issues like drugs also.
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@MrArdytube The US is very diverse and at the state level there's some states that are extremely libertarian regarding drugs like Colorado and other states that still treat smoking a joint (not a dealer) as a major crime. In Australia I believe all states will be somewhere in between, discourage drug use and go after dealers but users to be treated for the most part as a medical issue as long as they aren't committing associated crime which obviously is most likely theft.
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