Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "ABC News" channel.

  1. I've read all the comments and feels like I am at a Qanon meeting with just a couple of other sane people who thought there was free food and beer so turned up anyway.
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  2. "militia members who disavow the extremists" What a ridiculous contradiction. If you are armed at a protest and call yourself a militia ( a group for a potential overthrow of a government) you have no right to denounce anyone as extremist because the "extremist" only differ to you because they took the actions you threatened to take. A threat of violence by law is a crime, just because you weren't locked up because it didn't meet the standard of proof required the threat was certainly implied to any reasonable person watching on.
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  3. Big tough keyboard warriors saying FJB and Let's go Brandon. My gosh what a pathetic bunch and yes I am an Australian. Call me a Communist if you want and deny the assessment of Heritage Foundation's economic freedom index.
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  4. There's no registration of guns in Texas so no problems, any willing seller can sell to any willing buyer, the gun doesn't even officially exist. Edit: just did a quick search, it's completely legal to sell a weapon in Texas to anyone without any paper work whatsoever and no records of the sale required to be kept. Supposed to sell it to over 18 years old Texas residents only however since no process exists as long as the buyer says they live in Texas and are over 18 the law would seem to be complied with. Information from Texas State Law Library a government website.
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  5. If Pompeo thought he was being funny he doesn't know how the Trump devotees will take his words. The other Republicans in general are ok just saying Trump has the right to contest it if he wants without any statement that they think he has a chance.
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  6. It's only an issue if the election is close, if one side wins easily then no problems. I think one side will win easily.
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  7. West Pacific I like to say so it covers East Asia, ASEAN, and Australasia . Not everyone doing real well but even Philippines and Indonesia are still doing much better than US or most of Europe.
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  8.  @t0ny1189  New Zealand people and Australian people travel internationally much more than a country like the US on a per capita basis, compulsory enforced quarantine when entering the country along with testing and contact tracing, lockdowns as required, the exact same measures in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea and Japan , the US and European countries could do the same but chose not to it's as simple as that.
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  9. You put it rather softly , it's outright authoritarian, have to remember this is to harm one group and their rights over another for ideological reasons. Most authoritarians in the world start out with the claim they are improving freedom.
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  10. Completely irrelevant. You can't be on private property if someone asks you to leave.
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  11. Unless you pay cash up front you will not get the same treatment. He wouldn't qualify for any public health or insurance at this point in time because he isn't sick enough. If he was an ordinary citizen he would be told to stay home for 14 days and if symptoms get worse go to hospital.
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  12. They might not have been perfect but they seemed to care more and did their best.
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  13. I wonder why the life expectancy of the US would appear to have just dropped below that of China and no American seems to care. Media outlets and both major political parties haven't said a whisper. It's like the changing of the guard in some respects but nobody noticed.
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  14. America First is the US equivalent of the great leap forward with likely 500,000 excess deaths mostly due to policy failures. The CCP is looking better and better thanks to this policy. No president has done more for the cause of communism. Chinese imports and deficit with that country has skyrocketed , government debt is skyrocketing also. Best of luck and I hope for your sake and the sake of other countries Biden does what he indicated he will do which is be a more fiscally conservative and less isolationist president.
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  15. @ShittyMcPoopyBalls  every country should be protected or helped when invaded otherwise we are back to colonial days, my country Australia would be taken by China in days if nobody cared. Civil wars are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Unfortunately that's reality.
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  16. You will never know but some of the PCR tests get sampled and genomic sequenced and they extrapolate the the data to come up with approximate percentages. Only if it becomes 100% will you know it's a particular variant.
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  17. Well done USA, it's some lighter news for once. From Australia 🇦🇺
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  18.  @totheworkshed7915  The pandemic response plan was set up to have global monitoring and stockpiles of the necessary equipment by Bush and then continued under Obama. Trump is certainly an outlier even withdrawing from the WHO as a blame game move. While he does have a valid point the Chinese contribution was way too small , better to ask them to pay more and possibly reduce the US contribution to pressure China, not withdraw. So actually until Trump came along it was never a partisan thing. I am Australian and if you look at the differing responses by our states you will not be able to distinguish which side of politics is in charge because the responses overlap, it just came down to the individual governments decisions. It's sad to see what's happening in the US and if Trump literally did nothing and let those tasked with doing things actually do it, the outcome would probably be not as bad.
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  19. It's 9 hours now after estimated oxygen, it's unfortunate but unless they got their numbers wrong which is extremely unlikely because this type of calculation is literally a routine part of the job, they are gone. Can hope for miracle but giving false hope is not a good thing.
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  20. They were always open, the UK strain didn't jump across the pond.
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  21.  @painrdf7988  Well mate here in the virus free land of Australia all us stupid sheep did as we were told and guess what everything is open except the border. Obviously our governments were far more effective and took freedom for the many long term versus freedom for the few short term with no clear end until a lot more have died. It's unfortunate and I am guessing you are a socialist Trump supporter and you just don't get it. Trump is a protectionist who loves industry subsidies, pity he doesn't care for humans too much. Whether through intent or incompetence the US has committed the largest peacetime killing this century so far not caused by a natural disaster. Let's hope the vaccines work because you have nothing else.
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  22. Surprise surprise, yet another border quarantine failure, Trump can blame Japan though, why not.
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  23. That's good and lucky I would suggest.
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  24. Even just truck them across the northern or southern land borders. Both those countries would appreciate it I think and seeing them being dumped will annoy them.
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  25.  @nivlz  You are talking to people who don't understand the concept of a lockdown because they have only ever had partial lockdowns. The concept to your average American of a lockdown is the local bar is shut and if I have the means I will just go to another state where things are open. What the US CDC recommends in an emergency situation would have someone in Australia doing prison time in most states at least. In Australia as you know if a single staff member in a nursing home or hospital is infected, within 24 hours the entire staff will be replaced and have to do 14 days quarantine. There it's a recommendation to continue business as usual, just like those sent into nursing homes sick earlier on was also a recommendation of the CDC because they would overflow hospitals as occured in New York and a few other states. It's sad to see that people couldn't do a proper 2 month lockdown and open slowly like Australia did.
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  26. I love that US term "out of an abundance of caution" , doesn't mean the same thing in my country. The US has a homicide rate about 5 times Australia and yes that's per capita and noting the only other time I have heard abundance of caution is covid 19 restrictions, your per capita deaths are about 40 times on that one. Question to American, when would a situation actually be urgent? Australia was considered to have a laid back attitude, you guys are in a coma if you think an abundance of caution creates such results, maybe throw that recent saying in the dustbin out of an abundance of caution because coma like complacency doesn't work.
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  27. Even if you drop dead with a fever it'll take your body half an hour or so to reach normal body temperature, so unless you wacked someone in an ice bath it can't be just a moment.
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  28. Trump was shouting and it was 1 and half hours. If Trump was shedding a significant amount of the virus at the time Biden was in a high risk situation. While I don't have much sympathy to Trump because he knew the risks , I will have deep sympathy for Biden if he gets it.
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  29. Some countries are. The US is like a virus stud. Creating new strains and everything. A great breeding property.
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  30. He most likely thought he would make him unconscious but not kill him like the other 44 times this occured in that jurisdiction over a 5 year period.
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  31. She put up a dam good fight for a severely disabled person who can't breathe through a handkerchief.
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  32.  @tigergoat7006  What is wrong with you? Maybe you should seek help if you are this angry. We know Trump listened selectively to the media , Fox News. In Australia actually decisions were made primarily by the Prime Minister and state Premiers and health ministers guided by the state or federal health officers. In my state of Queensland Australia mostly the health officer just allowed to do her job and police commissioner also for enforcement purposes. I am happy my state in particular but Australia in general ignored the continuous ongoing calls from a certain media company Sky News Australia , another Murdoch media outlet, we would be like the US.
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  33. He could have been a bit more diplomatic and answered at least one Indonesian reporter rather than only blow ins.
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  34. There is proof in about 50 other countries. But your point is correct because the US is divided and a large number of people won't follow rules so maybe it can't work in the US because of citizen and government behaviour.
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  35. Delta airlines is happy, it hated sharing that name with a virus.
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  36. I reckon Christie might be at more risk than Trump due to his weight. Yes too much political correctness going on, obese people should be told outright you have a comorbidity, don't rely on your age as to your true risk and if you can losing weight at this time wouldn't be a bad idea.
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  37. They are actually the same they feel powerless and this is what they think will help, they just tend to support different political parties , that is the main technical difference between them.
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  38. The F35 started under Bush and only now is being ramped up in production after going into service towards the end of Obama's term. Technically Trump's comment is correct but nothing to do with Bush or Obama, he just wants the glory for something he had little or nothing to do with.
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  39. This sounds like Putin.
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  40.  @graceashe2974  the fact it appears to be the only allegation means on probability it's likely true. If there was 20 allegations then it's likely untrue. Something that happened 50 years ago isn't really relevant. The question is only is he doing a good job.
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  41. All you non socialist out there who do you think is paying the hospital?
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  42. His condition now is meaningless. Wait at least 10 days from him testing positive. Trump knows this too but he is just going to keep speaking positive and hope he doesn't become very ill which for his age and condition is probably a little under 50% chance. He is however receiving intensive care when an ordinary person wouldn't even be in hospital and this must help.
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  43. "it's rounding the turn"
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  44. Actually everyone knows, the US has a homicide rate 5 times that of every wealthy country just about, so it can't be nobody knows. You can say that the US political situation is conducive to not fixing it. In other words the real root cause is the lack of functionality of the US politically.
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  45. As per other response I would suggest pet fish whether you on 1000 acres or in a tiny apartment you can do that along with talking to family , friends or calling a help line if you are really not feeling well and need to talk to someone. Hope all goes well with you but it will probably take time.
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  46. A quick summary, we are broke and sick so we will continue the spread with bars , restaurants and gyms open and if you need to go to a hospital for another reason the medical professional might infect you, but we have a high level of freedom if you aren't on a hospital bed.
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  47. The Flu isn't news unless it's a major outbreak, go search the CDC if you are interested in deaths involving the flu which is far lower than normal.
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  48. It's a good sign. In most other democracies without a powerful autonomous president the leader usually a prime minister is often removed from the top position. Your president is closer to a king than a prime minister even choosing who runs the country being an unelected cabinet who they can personally fire like Trump has done on numerous occasions. The 200 plus year old constitution is out of date.
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  49. It sort of doesn't taķe away his megaphone but can make fun of him. Anyone can run conspiracy theories on YouTube.
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  50. Lucky it's not a spelling contest, too as in too much or whatever has a double o.
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  51. There are sometimes I don't feel good about my country. We agree too easily to the US, Assange committed no Australian crime ( maybe now he has because we probably changed the laws ) but we don't protect him from the US International laws which apply to every citizen of the world. It is wrong and over reach. Just a quick search revealed he is charged with espionage, how can this be, he carried out no covert acts on behalf of any government. On this basis if I had US classified material I can just give it to anyone in the world and they have apparently committed a crime by opening the package. Same goes for Snowden effectively reporting unlawful behaviour according to US law by the government, well if he reported it to police (FBI) they would have presented it in court theoretically so what crime did he commit other than presentation of wrongdoing by government while Bush and Obama were in charge? Not divulge secrets should not include secrets about criminal activity based on a persons position.
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  52. Every one knows what a semi automatic rifle is when you give the AR-15 example. The information the media has probably only says semi automatic rifle.
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  53. This clip said nothing about gun laws so what is your complaint? The US has 5 times the homicide rate of all similar wealth countries except Canada, so clearly something is wrong. You wish that everyone undergoes weapons training and buys a gun , this in a country where people can't even wear a face mask. A gun is totally useless in the vast majority of homicides, if I want kill you I just kill you, I am not going to warn you , it's not a Hollywood movie. So for the mass killings maybe it would save a life or 2 but a big maybe the US already has the most liberal gun laws in the developed world and the vast majority of mass shootings. Keep your beliefs if you want but looking at evidence might be a better place to start.
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  54. Karen as far as I can establish is a racist term for a white lady who complains in an inappropriate manner. Are you suggesting this issue is all the blame of white ladies and men?
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  55. Here's an interesting little fact , in Australia the term ice when not referring to frozen water is used to describe high concentration Meth Amphetamine because some dealer i guess thought it looked like ice.
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  56. Uhm but it has never shut to US citizens with a voluntary self isolation scheme or guidance in place, so what are you talking about?
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  57. @t nonyabusiness You appear to be from the US and calling Australia authoritarian, your country if it is the US has about 400,000 health offence prisoners which is more than double Australia per capita. You made a note of one event in one state of Australia, while it wasn't handled that well so what? Your country has literally millions of people on limited house arrest whether through orders or it's the only way to protect themselves from a virus which is rampant, you also have thousands of businesses forced to close because of health directives and you come up with a single incident where nobody hurt and nothing happened. The 400,000 effectively thought crime health prisoners are persons found with drugs. As far as Australia being communist please check the economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation and you will see your country is more socialist than mine actually and Trump increased this with his trade war with China and increased industry handouts, which is not what free market capitalists like to see.
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  58. The US is possibly the most religious wealthy nation in the world and it also has a homicide rate 5 times that of all comparable nations except for Canada where it's 3 times the homicide rate or something like that. Religion is irrelevant.
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  59. The 9/11 terrorists were reported on and they weren't white as such, seems your assertion is incorrect.
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  60. A complete waste of time but the public thinks it achieves something.
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  61. Don't know about that, I reckon Trump would keep tweeting even if put into an induced coma, it's become a bit like breathing or a beating heart. Only death will stop the tweets.
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  62. @Will Reddish Biden is soon to be a president, this was not a federal crime and absolutely nothing he or Trump for that matter could do about it. Whatever the law and policies in that state is what it is. Your president isn't an all powerful God, states do actually exist and have certain jurisdictional issues.
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  63. More likely a video game Martin Bryant Australia's and the world biggest mass shooter at the time, it was said he performed far better than you would expect any trained military person. He was the catalyst for gun reform in Australia about 25 years ago, haven't had any incident like it since except by an Australian who travelled to New Zealand to take advantage of lax gun laws to commit a massacre, gun reform to align New Zealand laws with Australia is in process. Maybe one day the US will realise the benefits, nothing to do with second amendment, automatic weapons are already banned under Reagan a republican president, now move to semi automatic.
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  64.  @omar-uu8qo  the problem has been around for almost 50 years and Republicans have been in power about half the time, how do you figure it's one party's fault?
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  65. I am not American but some of this does amaze me. There are out of touch politicians everywhere but if Joe did say poor kids can be just as smart as white kids. What the hell was he thinking. Just a quick internet search shows that numerically poor white kids according to poverty line outnumber poor black kids by a factor of approximately 2. The rate in the black community is on average maybe a little over double that of white people but there is a far larger white population. If I was one of those white or black people in that situation I think I would consider voting for Trump not because I like him but because the other guy offends me more.
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  66. I agree at this point in time it looks like his job might be impossible when he takes over. But wait and see, maybe he will do better than seems possible now.
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  67. US mannerisms. The US has 6 times the homicide rate of Australia.
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  68.  @glennw7118  The lady who was shot was in pajamas without a weapon, certainly like you say if you have a weapon you have a reasonable chance of getting shot because it understandably makes the police nervous.
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  69. Probably you.
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  70. Hopefully the air con isn't on recirculate otherwise it would literally be concentrating the virus. But regardless it's still irresponsible because now he is sending a signal that quarantine isn't necessary.
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  71.  @richardcogbill6791  You seem knowledgeable on the matter and actually I have compared all those statistics previously to my country Australia and unfortunately the US doesn't compare well. If I was to pick 3 issues as the biggest contributors it's the healthcare system (you have the best healthcare in the world for some and your governments , state plus federal spend more than most other countries ) but it has significant inequalities and ineffective spending, lack of a consistent social welfare safety net, with drug and crime issues it's about how the matter is treated, countries like Australia or Western European countries treat drug addiction as a disease or health issue and dealers as criminals, the US tends to consider them all the same and outside of a few states rehabilitation doesn't seem to happen which leads to violent crime and overdoses etc. Rural suicides are generally higher in all countries I think , Australia would be similar in this regard. The question is how can the US change trajectory which is what matters, I have no idea what might work but it must be possible. The pandemic has probably had a net positive effect towards national cohesion in Australia, it's certainly done the opposite in the US or it's exacerbated underlying issues.
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  72. So how does a black Hispanic fit in Bidens picture? Will that person be the diverse Hispanic person or the you ain't black if you don't vote for me person.
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  73.  @Suongchieu12  Sometimes there is that misconception, it's based on the countries you mentioned having mostly middle class migrate. So of course migrants will always outperform locals if the migration is this source.
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  74. I have a feeling you weren't in the crowd anyway.
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  75. You reap what you sow, ex President Trump has often stated " you know what the second amendment is for" which for those who are completely ignorant means for political violence when stated in that manner.
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  76. They are obviously still friendly both keeping roles and working together or as you say good at hiding it. I think the former. Regardless they are both good generous people.
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  77. The problem is police data in that jurisdiction showed what occured was standard practice and would appear to be inline with the police handbook guidelines and well known to the police chief for example. In a 5 year period 44 people out of 237 were made unconscious, unconscious versus death is a very small difference I would think and if the health, including intoxicants , at the time of the other 44 was the same as that of George Floyd, how many would have likely died. Effectively the authorities have accepted the guidelines were wrong and have since changed them. If I was the defense lawyer this would be my line of argument and that my client didn't know the risks and is a simple policeman with no medical training other than basic first aid who put his trust in the guidelines which have been in effect for however many years.
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  78. Read Looneylacy's comment. You are expecting too much, if Biden brings 2% more of people like Looneylacy accross the line that's an achievement. Don't think he should change everyone's mind, that's impossible.
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  79. @Ronald Jpones You're still alive, while there's no way to tell if you would've died without the vaccine personally it does reduce your chance of death by about 90%. So if your risk was 5 % because you are 80 and obviously not that healthy given your age your risk changed to 0.5% which is good I think.
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  80. Based on 2010 census the urbanization rate in South Dakota is 57% so similar to say South Africa if we assume that urbanisation has increased by say 10% in the last 10 years. South Africa is at 330 deaths per million and South Dakota 606 per million ( source worldometer) . It's far to say South Africa is a low to middle income country. It's a pity people seem to be dying more quickly than she can keep track. She did however take responsibility saying that she liked the ability for the state to manage the situation, so credit where it's due. In Australia our worst state performance Victoria is around 115 deaths per million and far more urbanized. Some might say unfair to pick an African country because probably more developed than South Dakota , so Nicaragua has a similar urbanisation rate and it 24 deaths per million. I looked up urbanisation rate and didn't cherry pick it was a coincidence possibly. South Dakota has failed badly given it's demographics and assuming it is located in a high income country makes it look particularly bad.
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  81. The masks only slow spread, what's happening in the US? It's like collective self destruction from a unified country with both political sides at the grass roots level in agreement with everything but masks. Masks won't save a mob crammed in like sardines. Maybe because Trump set the bar below sea level nothing matters anymore.
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  82. What do you want him to do, cause a global collapse so the world oil price is as low as last year?
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  83. Civil war versus invasion
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  84.  @uncleraze3427  I don't think so, it lost contact and they believe it has or likely has sunk in water of about 700 metres. They wouldn't deliberately go below the rated depth.
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  85. You make sure you take care of yourself and if it gets too much seek help. Most people appreciate what you do however commenters in places like this tend to have conspiracy theorists outnumbering the rest. Take care.
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  86. It's not a cure and excessive amounts can be harmful. Ask your pharmacist about safe levels for anyone or doctor if you want more details and possibly higher doses if recommended.
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  87.  @justinbailey1239  Public amenities not publically owned property which is private property under the law, the presidential palace , oh I mean white house is directly owned by the government and likely held by treasury, try exercising your perceived freedom there on that public property if you consider it to be that.
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  88. Chances of dying of gunshot wound in the US over the next year approximately 15 out of 100,000 and possibility of dying from a covid 19 vaccine complication over the next year, well actually we don't know but seems like 1 in 20 million or so. Please don't get shot and then hopefully you will survive the vaccine.
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  89. Just do one properly. Partial lockdown shutting local business so people travel to the next county or state. The US has an inbuilt spreading mechanism in its policy. It's madness. Australia stop people traveling from any outbreak areas without quarantine, US don't worry if your county locks down go infect the neighbor county where the restaurants are open, the California governor even demonstrated how to increase infection spread personally. With government leadership like that and the let's infect everyone states like South Dakota with 0.19% of the population dead despite it having a rural population of about 40% , total population of less than 1,000,000 and therefore no big city. They've either found a way to kill the urban population quicker than anywhere else in the world (other US states excepted) or they've actually found a way to spread the virus efficiently through rural populations. If US states were countries South Dakota would be the 5th worst just behind 4 other US states.
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  90. @Gina Giant where are you? Australia rates much higher on the economic freedom index than the US so if we are communist what does that make you? With a homicide rate about 5 times that of Australia you sort of already look like you have a low level civil war. They went straight back on the streets in Portland Oregon smashing stuff, what's with that? And that's after Biden takes power, yes no state in Australia would allow that behaviour and if you think we are Authoritarian based on a single arrest which I agree was misguided versus all the people being tased etc. in the US even they aren't a threat so be it.
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  91.  @IsaiahConte  I hope you are joking but if not don't do it, things will get better in time.
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  92. This didn't age well.
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  93. Well they are the 2 most powerful people on the planet, they can speak as equals, not like us who are peasants in a relative sense. Just like you wouldn't see doctors in a hospital walking around calling each other doctor, however depending on culture nurses might.
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  94. Nobody says that , not even US people.
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  95. Which state does the watermark procedure? Whichever one does that has an extremely secure voting system and should be congratulated under the circumstances because most states probably don't.
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  96. Some comments are strange, why would a felon purchasing a gun privately inform the seller they are a felon? Of course they won't and as it's a private sale the seller doesn't even have the capability to do a background check unless they make it not private and go through a gun shop.
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  97. Read through a few comments, you know you Americans are not normal right? If that was Queensland Australia we would be hunting him or her down almost as urgently as a covid 19 carrier, but you guys see it as getting back to normal and somehow reporting on some mass shooting is fear mongering. Should they only report if 10 victims wounded mortally or would that still be fear mongering? Maybe 20 plus.
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  98.  @ymehair  I just think if you are talking about others being stupid better to spell properly otherwise you might look stupid.
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  99.  @777sweet  Do you mean Ugg boots?
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  100.  @pakde8002  as my screen name suggests I am not American. You are a keyboard warrior just like me lol I have seen your comments around lol. Your concept of nothing suggests you are American , the background noise at the moment of 1,000 deaths a day from covid 19 makes a riot and a street on fire not the top story anymore. The homicide rate in the US is 6 times that of Australia and yes that's per capita, nothing happening in the US by wealthy country standards is there is absolute chaos. A street on fire and angry mobs on both sides of the extreme political spectrum mind you with weapons and the occasional killing of the enemy is not nothing. So nothing isn't nothing by my standards and yes the Covid 19 deaths do overshadow what you refer to as nothing. Will any of this cause absolute destruction of the US no of course not , US people are used to the current standards which are way better than say 40 years ago but still way behind other like nations.
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  101.  @marylee4553  I don't think you understood my point Trump did actually say the problem with testing is more positive results or words to that effect. Flagged as in like the saying that's a red flag particularly used in investment language like the CEO is selling down his or her holding indicating he or she doesn't have confidence in the company which is a red flag.
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  102. LOL join Australia better, we covid 19 free just about and with extra iron ore we can have a monopoly and charge more to China.
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  103. The polls have weightings according to likely voters in each demographic and also what each demographic is likely to vote in percentage terms. Polls can be way out especially because the drop box issue would encourage a larger Democrat turnout and a swing to the Democrats because not everyone thinks that behaviour is acceptable. Texas is in play but still favours Trump.
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  104. I was thinking, sort of glad she's not my relative, but then again maybe I'd be dead and unaware so it wouldn't matter.
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  105. Best comment so far, apparently fear of not being able to wipe one's bottom is greater than the risk of death by some virus so I think the same principles should apply here.
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  106. Unfortunately I believe you, they can't however cover up deaths but they can delay the reporting time. A few days from when a death occurs would be quite normal in the US due to the case load , but from what you say the delay seems much longer than expected. They can't get in trouble though because proof would be required that the delay in reporting is intentional . I have a suspicion that many cases will be reported in certain states after November 3. Best of luck to you and I know many appreciate the work you are doing even if some don't. Stay strong and seek help personally if things get too much. From Australia 🇦🇺
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  107. I don't really think so it's just a matter of speculation which they shouldn't do because it only confuses people more. It would be better if they said the basic medical stuff and just say The President is in a stable condition and note that hospitalisation normally only occurs after 2 weeks or so and death a significant time after that. It would be unwise to speculate what condition the president will be in after a week because we simply don't know, we only know he is currently in a stable condition with symptoms that would normally not require hospitalisation and this measure is only precautionary at this stage. Because what they have done now is speculated that he will not get very sick and based on probability he won't but if he does everyone will get annoyed.
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  108. What normally happens in recent years at least is travel bans of any high officials. Have to wait to Jan 21 though because he is still legally the president for now. I expect Trump will go but the internal damage he is doing currently to the US is significant and a pretty bad look internationally.
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  109. The failed response means other healthcare issues can't be responded to properly because a lot of health care resources being put into covid 19 including extra measures required when patients are admitted for other reasons to try and reduce the chance of giving them the virus. I wish you the best of luck.
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  110. Deep state = public servants including military? Who ever is against this deep state an American term only I think should ask themselves , do I hate every public servant even those selected by Donald Trump? If you answer in a certain way you are delusional, it's true the public service is disfunctional by high income country standards but that's as far as it goes. If I was a conspiracy theorist I would think Trump is the deep state leader, done more for functional authoritarian governments than any other person in the world in recent history and because the US is biggest and most well known given all Democracies a bad name.
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  111. What confuses most about the peaceful protestors is what they actually want. I haven't heard them indicate what law it is they want changed. I haven't in the case of Minneapolis heard a call for either the police commissioner or mayor to resign, these are the ones in charge. I think that the protests could end up lowering the standard of police officers because who wants to be shouted at and considered guilty of misconduct due to the actions of others.
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  112. I think what you say is a possibility.
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  113. Look up the definition of King. I think you will find it really does apply to the US president. I am Australian and we are a constitutional monarchy under the Westminster system of government, no individual has as much power compared to your president. The government has ministers (secretaries) who come from the parliamentary pool of elected officials, a US president selects the entire government and has absolute discretion in doing so and can hire and fire as he wants. I consider the US system to really be elected absolute monarchy to a large extent. He has the power of Veto which actually gets used frequently, the governor general in Australia does too but I am unaware of it ever being used. It seems the powers of an Australian governor general are technically similar in many respects except nominating ministers, only putting a prime minister in power in the case of a deadlocked election where no party can gain power which has never occured because minor parties will always support one of the major parties in the case of no party getting a majority. I think the worst problem is the president controls the entire government that is selecting all the ministers and then if they don't do as he says he can just sack them. Too much power for any individual in my opinion. I actually voted for Australia to be a Republic with the current system in place , but if the system was to change to something similar to the US system , I'll keep the constitutional monarchy thanks.
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  114. Less chance of getting covid not no chance. Social distancing etc. Reduces the chance further.
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  115. Just one question why would the left want to overthrow a presidential election where a Democrat candidate won?
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  116. I would think that's an atribute if they can pull it off. How is it dishonest?
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  117.  @loveisthemostpowerfulforce1397  Have you read your second comment back to yourself, you are saying 99.9% of the time the virus has mutated in the US that strain has survived. If you meant people clearly you are way out maybe 20% infected and already more than 0.1% of the population dead. South Dakota has about 45% rural population so not that dense and the city not a big city and they already get to 0.17% of their population dead, either they are killing the city populations at a massive rate or have actually worked out an effective method of spreading the virus in a rural population. Any bad actors will study this state to find out how it achieved such a result arguably the worst jurisdiction in the world, even worse than Florida because it has big cities.
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  118. I am wondering if you are being sarcastic or not? Hard to tell given comments going around.
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  119.  @LundBrandon  Locking down 11,000,000 people and not allowing them to leave there apartments and then building a hospital in a week at emergency speed , seems pretty dangerous to me. Not sure where you get your information from Xi Jingping going to the area with a mask on indicated danger also , Trump seems to have been your adviser that you were listening to or even Fauci early on, Boris Johnson in the begining and Brazilian president the same and a few others. Maybe your country should have been looking at China and the government behaviour there and you wouldn't have any cases in your country now.
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  120.  @I_SuperHiro_I  China I think you could call socialist has year on year economic growth and less socialist countries have to varying degrees economic collapse. So it's nothing to do with socialism.
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  121. I think embarrassed given all the testing that goes on they were totally arrogant. They know nobody else has access to such resources but they still managed what would be considered a significant outbreak in many countries.
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  122. Think of this quote " The government is afraid of the guns people have because they have to have control of the people at all times. Once you take away the guns you can do anything to the people. You give them an inch and they take a mile. I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. ......." That quote is from Timothy Mcveigh. I have seen Trump supporters paraphrase this over and over again and the rhetoric itself is remarkably similar to what Trump said at his rallies, "They are coming for your guns ... Joe is going to turn the US communist" So my question is why would Trump speak like Timothy Mcveigh, surely he knows this will anger gun owners who are paranoid. Add to that after the election telling them that they were cheated and the election was fraudulent and you get what we see.
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  123. I am Australian so certainly doesn't apply in my country at any time, this is a cruel point but likely. I bet you gun sales up up year on year last month , there is a proportion of the US population whenever they become afraid they buy more guns, gun sales are like the main street version of the VIX ( volatility index for stock markets)
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  124. There is another explanation people are not considering. The prison operators who are often private have an incentive to look after their prisoners. More sick people , more costs, more dead people, less prisoners. I would imagine that most contracts would have a payment for prisoner numbers.
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  125. They do have that right in Colorado, so in the case of Colorado clearly not many.
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  126.  @Me-ou5tc  what have you been smoking the US spread the virus to every state and territory, not a single county in the entire country without a case. To this day voluntary self isolation for international arrivals. The US did nothing of consequence to this day other than vaccine creation. Edit: misread your comment, sorry about that ignore my tone above.
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  127. It's about European trade with West Pacific and Asia. Supply chains are global so if a ship with just a single component needed for a major good like a mobile phone or computer is held up, that can cause major problems. The oil price is global so anything affecting it will cause an effect here. The price of petrol in Brisbane is $1.67 generally and at at least one place probably several on Sunshine Coast $1.25 . The petrol prices these days are very much based on location. You remove tax and the original cost of oil from my above pricing it's an incredible difference.
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  128.  @Hoss-ro5cd  no there's a balance, yes the US should be less interventionist, in this case they intervene with the UN stopping even a statement and continue to supply weapons and moral support to anything Israel does.
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  129. Because there's always a surge in one state or another in the US, I bet you in November or so when it's getting quite cool and vaccines wearing off to some extent there will be a surge in the North East of US.
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  130.  @Midwit_Madness  it doesn't work like that, are you going to participate in the economy and risk killing grandma or alternatively do you think this is a great time to expand business. If hospitals fill up are you ok with just letting them die on the sidewalk because it would affect the economy to put restrictions in place. If you answer yes to all 3 I hope you aren't an investor.
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  131. So Republican Party are progressives? I am not American so please explain this to me as I thought some members of the Democratic Party were considered progressives.
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  132. It's only 6 stocks in the S&P 500 that moved the market, if not for them the market would be way lower.
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  133. Teenagers or not much older wandering around armed and talking about possible insurrection doesn't sound that funny to me.
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  134.  @DJCayne  Rich countries can from a technical perspective contain the virus and so can some middle income countries. However politically it seems impossible in many countries, I am from Australia and 2 cases of community transmission last 24 hours. If you look at the broader region East Asia plus ASEAN plus Australasia which has over 2 billion population and I think approaching 1.5 million cases , so not even 1 in 1,000 getting it so far. If there is no effective vaccine we might have a sort of segregated world for a while. Some ASEAN countries look like they probably can't contain it and 2 might fall into that position because of political disruptions.
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  135.  @DJCayne  Most if not all countries in my region have enforced 14 day quarantine for any arrivals including interstate in Australia's case if there is an outbreak. Usually hotel quarantine but I think some might allow at home but still enforced. Contact tracing is international here if an arrival tests positive then the country they came from will be notified. In the case of a potential risk heading to another state or country they will be informed like a cargo ship when someone has tested positive and the person removed but the ship continues on the destination to give an example will test the crew prior to arrival, I have a feeling one jurisdiction does this as a matter of routine. You can never contain a virus if you keep letting it in with nothing more than voluntary quarantine as is practiced throughout Europe and the US, up to now anyway, a couple of jurisdictions in Europe I think are considering border restrictions for example Wales in the UK and maybe Republic of Ireland, have to see what they do next.
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  136. Says the person with an account opened today.
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  137.  @pakde8002  it's relative not meant to offend in any way. Indonesia and Philippines are struggling and when vaccines start to become available I am hopeful that these 2 countries will receive a high priority by the other governments in the region like Australia. Australia can really take it's time and if the vaccines are as effective as is suggested there might never actually be any real need for mass vaccinations , I think if we just vaccinate medical staff and possibly the at risk old people that would be enough and everyone entering either quarantine as now or vaccinated, most will choose vaccine versus paying to be locked in a hotel but can't really force Australian citizens I think , but can force foreigners entering to have a vaccine as a condition of entry.
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  138. In Queensland Australia a common definition of an outbreak is maybe 5 connected cases. What is an outbreak in the US in common language? Just a number would be fine.
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  139. Take care.
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  140. Paper is still the most secure method. Any electronic method can be hacked. Try forging 20,000 signatures. I am not suggesting electronic methods might be better in some ways but you need an equal amount of enhanced security for the same level of efficacy.
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  141. It needs to go to at least 3 state courts first before any federal court challenge if the situation remains the same. I think pretty unlikely 3 out of 4 states 2 with Republican governor's and 2 Democrat governor's have somehow colluded to kick Trump out.
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  142. Obesity is well known, other factors you mention might make a small difference but getting to a reasonable body weight is the number one thing.
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  143. Yeah the number of people saying his is right wing is amazing.
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  144. Does it matter? Pretty silly comment actually, both left and right leaning people have carried out murders in the last year based on actual ideology. This was nothing to do with ideology as far as we know unless he targeted people based on political leaning.
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  145. And in other breaking news West Pacific ( East Asia plus ASEAN plus Australasia) reported almost 10,000 cases and possibly up to 200 deaths , one of the deadliest days so far. With a regional population of more than 2 Billion this is a devastating blow with some countries looking to be at risk of things getting out of control. Last statement I say in all seriousness.
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  146.  @patrickc3419  The first 2 certainly didn't occur in Queensland and the other things you mentioned occurred all over the world. You are a rather ignorant person who doesn't believe in property rights at all because you do not respect property owners right to have conditions of entry. Are you a communist because that's the only people who don't believe in private property?
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  147.  @gameshot586  It's relative, you are aware only 1 in 7 businesses last 4 years right and your personal example was just News Corporation consolidating, nothing to do with pandemic whether or not they used that as an excuse. Queensland's economy is far better than others in Australia and better than virtually every "open" country which aren't open actually , they still having lockdowns in Europe. As far as inflation of petrol actually nothing to do with QLD, that's world oil price and tax. You have to remember nowhere has had a boom and yes some businesses have failed just as they did in Sweden. We could become socialist like Northern European countries with government spending over 50% of GDP or run on debt like US , Canada and UK, do you favour either of these options? Everything is open , I am not saying QLD should lockdown so your last comment is just absurd.
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  148.  @gameshot586  Oh and I am unaware of the Aussie Coup d'etat when the military took over and freed people from the leper colonies. The great leper liberation movement. I thought they ignored the lepers and fought against Japanese and Allies, Germans and allies and communist North Korea , Communist North Vietnam. Anyway look forward to this history I was unaware of. Leper colonies were far worse than any covid restrictions.
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  149.  Susie Goodwin  what are you on about, this guy if he pulled it off would only kill one. Australia to be fair might have the same per capita number of serial killers but we have virtually no gang killings and we don't really have mass murderers other than the event in Christchurch NZ or the Tasmania event more than 20 years ago.
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  150. Correct idea but urbanisation rate is better and also consider that New York City is a large city unlike whatever South Dakota has.
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  151.  @france1945  You say you have made it on your own , so I do wonder what you do. The following industries receive government socialist interventions, All manufacturing, All farming, all real estate, all banking, all insurance, most healthcare, consumer staples like Walmart. So it's great you have made it on your own without government support. It would seem you are a Trump socialist, a big fan of a closed market (protectionist) and industry subsidies but not a fan of a decent welfare safety net including healthcare. Australia is less socialist and more free market orientated and most likely we spend less on public health care than the US at the moment noting the absolute failures of the Covid 19 response. If you doubt me see the Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation. Why you want higher taxes or government debt to support corporations versus humans is confusing to me. Look forward to your argument in favor of the limited socialist model of the US versus Australia going head to head. Also why do you subsidise farmers and then use illegal labor, is this to crush farmers in the very countries the workers come from?
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  152. Reading the comments in this thread it appears that mind altering drug sales are prevalent in the US.
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  153. Dying in hospitals then buried or burnt. Others less affected are spreading it and they can't be identified because no gravely ill. Do you ask such questions when 30 people murdered over a weekend in Chicago?
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  154. Are you kidding, China has declared Australia to be the enemy, they haven't even done that with the US.
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  155.  @cadwell3061  the problem is if the virus is rampant there is no possible way to stop at risk people getting it. So quarantine is to stop the young infecting those with health problems and elderly.
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  156.  @possumfriend2335  What are you talking about, the only raid regarding such matters was by Florida authorities on a state exemployee I think it was who released the real statistics regarding covid 19 , they raided this whistle blower guns drawn and everything, similar to how those medical people were treated in Wuhan I guess. Australia isn't Florida or Wuhan and people speak freely and for the most part in a civil way, if you're American you might not understand the term peaceful protest.
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  157.  @TheLightSideReactions  Encouraging mail in voting for those at risk is sensible in the case of the US because the virus is rampant killing 220,000 already. Total excess deaths are 300,000 and the excess above the Covid 19 deaths is due mostly to the mismanagement of the situation and the indirect killers. It's a shame you have had weak leadership in your country.
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  158. Totally agree , Q signs all over the insurrection and every single Trump rally for 6 months and he wasn't curious what's this Q thing? I say ok if you are so unaware of anything you shouldn't represent me , but this only applies to his electorate , both the Republicans to nominate him and the voters, it's up to them and hope they see clearly and tell him and any others to back down and unreservedly denounce the ex presidents behaviour and Q.
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  159. You guys have forgotten about all the Mohammed s . Just about every muslim family has one. Would it be racist if I referred to a muslim as Mohammed well yes actually. The term "Karen" is racist and sexist and worse than Mohammed and Jose in my opinion. It would be better if everyone stopped using soft racist terms however we live in the real world and most of us do it sometimes. I forgot about Tony the Italian. So my opinion try not to do it personally however don't consider someone the devil if they do it.
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  160.  D R J  Have you ever eaten Peanut Butter because it's approved for human consumption yet peanut allergies kill about 100 people every year in the US so more than the vaccines have killed. Are you outraged that you can't sue a peanut farmer or a peanut butter manufacturer. With the vaccine it's like peanut butter except the government does offer compensation unlike with the peanut butter, so you are better protected with the vaccine. So long as the vaccine or peanut butter is made to standard you can't sue , if however it's contaminated of course you can sue whether it be the vaccine or the peanut butter. I have had one dose of the Astrazeneca vaccine in Australia. If you are concerned go speak to a doctor, in my case because I am below 60 and Pfizer is recommended for my age group I needed to see a doctor first so that I could acknowledge the approximately 1 in 1 million chance the vaccine might kill me and also to check if there's any health condition I have which means I shouldn't get it. Anyway consider what I have said and if you are scared still I guess you should avoid peanut butter because it's dangerous and you can't sue or maybe consider getting a vaccine, nothing is 0 risk and it helps your society the more people that are vaccinated.
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  161. You're truly nuts and have just threatened a racial war against whites if a defense lawyer uses an argument you don't approve of. I hope some authority is monitoring this because of what you have just said and your direct threat of "war" could be a crime.
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  162.  @notyou8716  I hope not, I know I am stupid at times and maybe one day I'll have kids
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  163.  @Midwest-hx8wf  I wanna know when is America going to either thank or litigate against Australia. Rupert Murdoch was our greatest export and the Fox network was one of his biggest creations. But you did want him lol.
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  164.  @staciasmith5162  lol
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  165. Sorry , Jesus isn't available and doesn't have a phone or computer to make YouTube comments but there's plenty of well trained in the University of YouTube doctors, epidemiologists, virologists and other scientists that might be able to help. Next time ask for qualified University of YouTube specialists and you might get more responses.
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  166. Maybe they think only the Rhino virus (common cold) can enter that way.
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  167. Basically every poll in the world has become highly unreliable since cell phones started to dominate land lines. It's extremely hard to get good polling when nobody wants to answer unknown phone numbers.
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  168. American exceptionalism is a form of nationalistic racism based on the ethnic US citizen not the subgroup within that, good luck getting rid of that. All the subgroups actually in general terms support this racism.
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  169. Maybe Melinda was angry last week chasing a half naked Bill around the yard with a shotgun, who knows, their home probably has high fences and nobody would see.
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  170.  @jjohnson5652  taxpayer are eventually paying for a significant proportion of covid 19 patient costs , debt is paying for now.
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  171.  @montgenerejamiemcnelsonson3344  That's exactly what occurs if you open fully with no restrictions when there is plenty of virus about then you will need to lockdown or accept that hospitals will only treat some patients to any high standard. Partial lockdown then completely reopening and keep doing again and again until vaccine arrives I would suggest produces the worst outcome, however that is the same approach pretty much taken by every US state. A hard lockdown and get rid of the virus is best followed by lockdown lite where most follow the rules like Sweden is probably next best which would have meant no BLM protests and no Trump rallies because over 50 in a gathering. Private gatherings could be more in Sweden but most people seem to have not done that.
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  172.  @AH-yu2pi  Partial lockdowns then full reopening achieves very little because it only slows spread for a short time and spread accelerates after reopening.
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  173.  @AH-yu2pi  A comprehensive lockdown with the accompanying measures like contact tracing and compulsory border quarantine can get rid of it as Australia and New Zealand have demonstrated and then pounce on any new outbreak with appropriate restrictions which mostly means don't let anyone travel out of the outbreak area if it becomes serious. US states are unlikely to do this so even with a vaccine if take up rates are slow it could be around for years or even possibly forever.
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  174.  @AH-yu2pi  I don't think you understand there is no virus in 4 states plus a territory. Border quarantine will remain in place until a vaccine is widely distributed. The other countries with the same policy are New Zealand , all the South Pacific islands , Taiwan, China , Vietnam and Thailand ( not sure what will happen with South Korea and Japan) There are a few other countries spotted around the globe with our same policy. As your country isn't going to change policy , nor is mine and the fellow travelers countries.
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  175.  @AH-yu2pi  I agree mostly with what you say and definitely agree with your last point one size doesn't fit all. Comparing the Japanese or Taiwanese with our societies as an example doesn't work because they have a much more compliant populations than we do, Australia is much better than US though because the response is bipartisan here with only small arguments around the edges and it isn't in the US making things sort of impossible. I wish you and your country good luck, I hope it isn't as bad as I sort of envisage it being over your winter.
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  176. Not exactly Australia operates in the same manner. Our states run health. There is universal health cover though. The federal government provides a significant amount of funding to our states who run the hospitals. We also have a private healthcare system running in parallel which interacts with the public system more often in the elective surgery part of the system. The US system is all over the place with some states playing a major roll in healthcare and others not.
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  177.  @brmillgr  we are getting close now. Probably more than a quarter of the number you suggested back then already. The positivity rates in US are through the roof.
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  178. The comments in this thread make it clear the current claims of "nobody knew" is completely false if normal people on this thread at that time can work it out. The CDC clearly failed and Trump along with governor's of both persuasions made it worse.
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  179.  @Taricus  read your comment again.
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  180. They at least had a hard lockdown for a while and have to remember Delhi is full of fat people so lots of deaths there but if you look at the overall obesity rate in India it's fairly low.
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  181. Funny comments in this thread, even if Democrats were to lose Georgia, so what, still need a few more states to overturn the election. If the Democrats are this highly skilled that they can get 1,000s of officials including Republicans to pull off such a fraud , I say as an Australian they must be geniuses beyond compare , happy that Biden will be president because having geniuses as allies of Australia is great. However I put it down to something far more simple, more people voted for Biden and enough electoral college votes to win.
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  182. @Moris Blackborn As I said that's not unlikely in fact on the average of probability you are right as I said below 50% chance of needing hospitalization. Are you saying his chance of getting sick is lower than mere mortals of the same age?
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  183. @Moris Blackborn the 80% number is overall and seems about right it's not for a person of Trump's age, which seems to be somewhere between a third and half likely hood of happening. I am not on any side I am Australian and we chose and carried out an effective containment policy regarding the virus, so our countries are in a completely different position. Mitigation will continue to mean ongoing lockdown lite in your country changing from state to state. Australia has a hard border closure but far less restrictions internally other than Victoria which is probably a month away from elimination of the virus.
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  184. @Moris Blackborn You have no idea do you. The number of imported cases into Queensland Australia a state of 5,000,000 is about 60% higher than Taiwan. The number of imported cases into Australia is greater than Korea by a little bit. Australia detected 15 cases at the same time the US detected 15 cases around 20 February so it can only be one of 2 things an absolute failure by the US to detect cases at that point in time or the US actually started out with the same number of imported cases, I know which one my money is on. Every state is an island in both the US and Australia because the states run the response, in the US it was decided by all governor's that there would be no more than a voluntary quarantine system, which Australian authorities realised early on will never work. So you can keep your belief that Australian s are some sort of superhuman but I can assure you we aren't and are just as vulnerable to the virus as any US citizen. Australia , US and Canada all have about the same urbanisation rates which decides how hard a containment policy will be.
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  185. Of course they do. In New York they found that medical staff had less infections than the general public. But there are caveats. Must be worn properly and the type of mask and no reduction in other precautions. Masks reduce risk not eliminate it.
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  186. Interestingly no evidence of what you say however a political party literally did what you accused in January 2021 and people died also.
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  187. The Statement by Florida health acknowledged it manipulated data to create a false narrative by with holding data and not putting provisional data that was known but incomplete and it would certainly seem the website didn't note the review meaning no data for weeks. Seems like a totally planned manipulation with all the classic hallmarks of a conspiracy that was possibly unlawful because it was designed to manipulate the federal election. I would bet that the governor knew but also that it's going to be extremely difficult to prove and possibly impossible if planned correctly where he received no information by email.
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  188.  TheSpirit AndTheBride  I watched a YouTube video a few years ago of a Holocaust survivor, he said that Israel was doing some of the same things the NAZIS did. It's true Israel hasn't put people in gas Chambers however they don't treat them well.
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  189. It's probably getting safer. The bus has already stopped because of all the bodies.
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  190. Well done USA, you have now entered a low level civil war with 2 different armed groups killing others. Maybe compared to Australia this is sort of normal with a homicide rate 6 times that of us. Get your act together and denounce both armed militias and condemn the "peaceful protestors" on both sides excusing executions by there comrades or Patriots whatever ridiculous association exists.
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  191. You are right about the travel bans because US citizens and permanent residents aren't subject to it and only voluntary self isolation upon arrival into the US so by definition xenophobic. To Biden's credit though if genuine they looking into having some enforced quarantine of some sort upon arrival but it's a week already and nothing I think, the virus won't just wait.
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  192. Well excess deaths from January 26 to October 3 according to the CDC was 300,000 and 200,000 of those deaths involved covid 19. So the deaths caused by lockdown lite plus covid 19 is significant otherwise there would be 0 excess deaths because flu deaths are down due to lockdown lite policies. In Australia it looks like our life expectancy has actually increased in 2020 due to hard lockdown for mostly a short period and covid 19 gone. One state is the exception because they sort of followed a US like policy for a significant time but fixed now. If the trend has continued in the US then well over 500,000 excess deaths now, so people that would otherwise be alive.
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  193. In countries with a containment model that have contained the virus successfully it so far appears to be less of a problem. I am in Australia and some wish for your situation of continuous measures with no end in sight and aren't really happy with low restrictions (ex Victoria currently fixing their situation). We have major travel restrictions though. Some people will be unhappy no matter what.
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  194. Well a large part of the ideology is the same as in a potential overthrow of government by the use of a militia group.
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  195. More people in Chicago are killed in an average week than has occurred in Israel, clearly in the US you would do nothing.
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  196. Wrong country, in many countries what you say is correct.
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  197. The accounting system for this will have that occuring however many people don't get tested in the US so total cases would be much larger than reported cases because you need a positivity rate below 1% to be catching the majority of cases. The other thing is the ages of people getting it because people under 40 if not obese or other health issue then very low risk.
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  198.  @marcusmccurley7686  unless it's changed it's murder 2. Agree though that murder 2 looks shakey. Murder 3 which is essentially manslaughter which is another charge for Chauvin does look likely based on a previous case in the same jurisdiction where a police officer shot an unarmed person who was of no threat. Murder 1 is premeditated I believe so can't be that.
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  199. Nobody cares about a few days, it's possible they care about the 400,000 or so extra people in body bags, that number assumes no excess deaths other than covid 19 from October 3 to now.
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  200. I feel like I am in a CGTN comments section.
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  201. Nah it's an internal issue in your country.
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  202. But then Americans will be " exceptional" . All the idiots in many other nations will survive degrading our gene pool.
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  203.  @fabiandaroca  your logic is flawed, after a civil war the victorious side disarms the loser. So the event has already occured and there is nothing about personal gun ownership that stops a civil war, often it's the military that takes over and trust me these poorly equiped disorganized scattering of diverse militia groups with different aims ranging from ANTIFA to the insurrectionists would be no match for the US military.
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  204.  @lala4461  You have indicated that I am ridiculous for some reason, could you please explain what that reason is?
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  205. How, draft the entire adult population into the military or something?
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  206.  @nothing2see315  yes agree especially because that age group low risk. They can infect the vulnerable though. Then probably more protests complaining about how their community more affected by the virus.
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  207. No, he might face that, I would suggest if he's vaccinated he can come back anytime on whatever visa he wants.
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  208. Small pox, Hepatitis A and B, HPV (most common variants) , the plague, measles , polio. Actually quite a lot of them. You can say they aren't completely gone which is correct but vaccination or in the case of the plague detection, the risk of these is low even in low income countries and extremely low in high income countries.
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  209. Why do people think that " hate crime " laws should be involved? I am curious because you are implying it's ok to do that behaviour to someone of your same race and then it's not criminal. While this case might or might not be racially motivated who cares, someone has wronged another person and such behaviour does occur frequently within a racial group based on class etc.
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  210. Ok and only 18,000 died from homicides and a bit over double that from road related deaths. Is the US a death cult because on all 3 scores you perform the worst for a Western Democracy? Wake up the US could be like other high income advanced democracies if they wanted but you don't want and are willing to pay taxes to ensure it doesn't. New Zealand and Australia on a technical level are probably less socialist than the US, because the US government is using debt before this issue to create demand rather than funding government by at least attempting a balanced budget. Check government spending to GDP and government debt to GDP and changes year on year.
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  211.  @onusnewsservice2319  ok I got a bit off track. If we talking about death why does the US accept being number one in traffic deaths and homicides and now likely Covid 19 all on a per capita basis for wealthy Western democracy? I say now about covid 19 because the US hasn't reached the lead yet but is continually moving in that direction.
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  212.  @solengarugarsubarbengabu2773  I shouldn't but your comment did give me a good laugh for some reason.
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  213. Your president is going to tank your economy if he carries through with his trade policies. Best of luck to you.
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  214. The other side is just as bad, nobody calling out BLM and rioters associated with them. I am not American but if I was I would certainly consider different voting according to individual candidate and government level. The crazies on the left and right should be got rid of.
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  215. All you can do is write a letter to your representative giving your opinion. Old fashioned mail probably works better than email because more likely to be read. The other thing of course is vote for whoever you think is best whenever you can. Just stay safe , seems like you care and that's all you can really do.
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  216. @Ronald Jpones Well good for you for being in the 98% of people who didn't die without a vaccine not age adjusted, you weren't unlucky. Still extremely stupid reasoning though. If you are below 50 your chance of dying would only be 0.1% or whatever. You keep posting your lie if you enjoy trolling then contradicting it if anyone responds.
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  217. In part you are correct but segregation is a bigger issue, many white and black people live in segregation inside the US to this day. Some of it is self segregation and some is historical segregation. Also the perception by poor white and black believing the other is advantaged and they are not being listened to. In Australia we had copycat BLM marches , out of 70,000 protestors , many who probably didn't really know what they were protesting about not a single arrest or single property damage incident, a few people who did something stupid were pepper sprayed by the police, that was it. No extremist calls for defunding police or anything like that. Contrast that to the US protests which were in many but not all cases violent.
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  218. Hope it doesn't bring some virus back.
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  219.  @thomasgrabkowski8283  there is some truth to what you say as in that applies to some poor countries and in the US Post mortem tests are probably performed now because the detection rate would be about the same as South Africa which was one of my examples , the percentage of tests positive gives a rough idea of proportion of cases detected, if that number is below 1% then 90% or more of cases are likely detected. The US like South Africa is around 7% positivity.
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  220.  Random Youtuber  ok you are imprisoned in a small plot of land , can't travel even to Westbank and your occupier continually takes more land bit by bit, would you be happy with this or want to do something and the only thing you can do is protest, of course they can't beat the occupier.
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  221.  Random Youtuber  that's means you would do nothing and just submit, they don't have any targeted weapons. Israel has killed far more civilians anyway over the deaths of less people than a bad Chicago weekend.
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  222. The US is funding and supporting Israel's actions, they are doing that alone. So can't accuse the US of doing nothing.
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  223. How did the player stop some countries like the UK and US putting in containment measures and quarantine for travellers? Why did that player leave the West Pacific nations alone to carry out containment measures? Great player though, who would of thought of ways to increase spread in a country internally by closing businesses in high infection areas so that people being people travel to low infection areas where things are open to ensure the spread never stops , that was a stroke of genius
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  224. It's a bit like one of those interviewed saying that in Democrat run states Biden won the vote because they cheated. What did they expect?, Trump to win all the Democrat leaning states.
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  225. The US is not at number 1 for deaths per capita yet, so a while to go. So really only top ten. So inversely the US is doing better at this point than Spain, UK , Sweden, Belgium and Italy.
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  226.  @quin1364  Number 7 at last count out of about 200 countries seems not so remote to number 1 in deaths per capita. However if you count by healthcare jurisdiction US states get the trifecta of first , second and third.
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  227.  @richardj2125  did they have covid 19 and did it contribute to the heart attack? Just because it was heart attack not pneumonia doesn't mean covid 19 was in no way responsible. Heart issues , diabetes and obesity will all increase your chances of death from covid 19 and the existing issue.
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  228.  @olgaroche4422  without even looking I know Nigeria has slums, the densest accommodation style you can have. Just search Nigeria slums and find the source you trust.
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  229.  @olgaroche4422  while I like your optimism I don't think it's hydroxychloroquine. My guess they have not let it spread to the poor so far. In countries with large wealth gaps there is extreme social distancing by our standards. The well off who get the disease first from international travel are therefore much slower to transmit it. A wealthy person will only come into contact with the poor when they serve them at a restaurant or something like that. Hopefully Nigeria has succeeded in contact tracing etc. but eventually without a vaccine it will probably be like India slow to start but impossible to stop.
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  230. No , just the US military. But many ex and current high ranking military members put out statements effectively warning lower ranks not to consider it.
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  231.  @jedmccollister576  ignore this person account created on 28 October 2020
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  232. There are quite a few Bernie and Donald supporters for those who like trade protectionism and corporate subsidies or taxes on imports. Donald and Bernie have identical policies on this and the working class at the bottom end support it.
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  233.  @masterjesus1013  thanks mate, it's true less Australian tax dollars go on healthcare than you pay in the US. It's true Bernie goes beyond this and wants dental but the price you are paying now it probably should be included in a best practice system. I don't know if Australia is best practice on healthcare and suspect we are good but not that good. So go with normal socialism designed to help all or those in need but not the totally twisted socialism of the current US healthcare system.
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  234.  @dareptile2653  You seem to be wilfully ignorant. Trump is promoting what he calls operation warp speed, that is a socialist scheme by which the US intervenes in the market to help US companies produce a vaccine and a guaranteed market. So intervention at 2 points and arguably a good socialist idea. The US government pays a very high proportion of money for research in the medical field creating new drugs and other treatments, which every major country tends to do. More socialism. So it can be said that medical research is not free market at all, because governments around the world offer subsidies etc. otherwise those companies leave. The US doesn't even have a free market for agriculture, a socialist scheme was set up over 80 years ago, possibly a world first at the time , called the school lunch program designed to give farmers money and feed kids. Trump boasted about throwing money at farmers , he doesn't believe in the free market. The US regardless of party loves to subsidise small inefficient farms. If you look at government spending to GDP you will see the US spends about the same as Australia, New Zealand and UK. How is it that you consider us all crazy socialists when your government as a headline number spends the same amount. You can argue about which socialist policies are good or bad but right now your president is very happy to subsidise the Covid 19 response including subsidies for care, if you hate your current president for this that's entirely up to you, maybe a country that is in the midst of a civil war is suitable for you because you won't see these socialist programs you so despise. Send a letter to your president and tell him how much you hate his socialist policies and how you want no more medical subsidy and NIH and CDC should be abolished because it goes against your free market principles (which exist nowhere on the planet other than failed states).
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  235. Do you? Trump is the most openly protectionist politician I have seen. Just my observation and listen to any rally speech, he claimed Joe and Barrack cut some industry welfare to Puerto Rico for drug making and that he would reintroduce those subsidies , in other words socialism. I am not American but just encourage you to actually listen to Trump rather than make assumptions. If you want Trump's socialist industry protection and subsidies and running up the gov debt far quicker than Obama with a booming economy then just admit you want Trump's socialist non fiscal conservative policies and vote for him but don't vote against Biden for some reason you made up. I am Australian so not my business just pointing something out.
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  236. The number is already over 500,000. Are you only looking inside the US. Numbers don't matter to the conspiracy theorists. The numbers are a lie, road accidents and cancer. If the number surpasses those deaths they say it was the ordinary flu which is more dangerous. So even dead bodies in front of their eyes will not change the hardliners because it's a bad flu season.
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  237. They sample some for genomic testing and extrapolate based on that. The person who the test comes from won't be told.
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  238. That's not how death certificates work, families aren't asked to fill in a death certificate, a doctor fills in a death certificate based on best available information unless a full autopsy is done and a family might request that if for example they believe the death to be suspicious.
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  239. I love the commentator, the commandeering of the bus not really an issue, but masks are. Both are issues of significant magnitude.
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  240. That black girl is as cute as hell but whatever the issue is a little less blinking would be good.
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  241. Because it's treatable. The WHO target was to eliminate it by 2022 from memory. If you are in a rich country so long as you get to hospital before you are on your deathbed you will be fine. Same applies to dirty water etc. These are problems of poor countries.
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  242. They aren't that stupid of course they adjust for crew numbers but can only estimate and of course can't be highly accurate.
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  243. The police followed procedure the best they could. Would you blame an infantry man who followed orders for the loss of a war or the general in charge? The same thing will likely occur in my opinion with the George Floyd matter because subduing someone to the point of unconsciousness was standard practice and occured 44 times in a 5 year period, it was unfortunate that George Floyd died under such circumstances. Why is the police chief in the Floyd case seen as a hero and not mobbed by the crowd and threatened , despite taking a knee in the middle of the angry mob , which I found to be completely hypocritical yet he was in a position of power to try and effect change to police procedures ?. I am not American which possibly gives me a little more unbiased perspective. Best of luck in your country. I think you personally will be ok but look at the full picture and consider who is actually running the show and in general it's someone much higher.
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  244.  @chris-solmon4017  what are you talking about?
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  245.  @rob3791  the only positive possibility I can think of but unlikely and probably not change the time that much is the calculation quoted assumes the engine continued operation using up oxygen and obviously we can reasonably assume the engine stopped operating at about the time they were supposed to send a signal.
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  246. Is the engine GE or Rolls-Royce?
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  247.  @CatBot007  ok , had heard the name before but sort of assumed the big 2 had the commercial market. While we don't know yet the most likely cause is an engine fault because of design or a maintenance failure. One thing about aircraft any incidents are investigated far more than any other transport, probably more than most murders.
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  248.  @zjoe555  I have no idea about levels of vitamin D that might be harmful but certainly agree whatever the over the counter dosage is would be ok.
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  249.  @tonyt4764  not America, any civilized country not run by warlords or at civil war.
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  250. Technically the rest of the UN security council, the US vetoed a statement by the them, the US has said we would like Hamas to stop at this point in time, no pressure on Israel.
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  251. For all those saying that they are cute, well I would like to inform you they are tasty and the meat is healthy, just had some kangaroo for breakfast.
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  252. I am not American and can't understand why any state allows heavily armed protestors. At some stage I would suggest a shoot out will occur with very bad consequences just based on probability. There has already been a few killings by left and right leaning people at protests. The good thing about this group is they seem fractured and without any central leadership so any incident probably won't spread. I wish you the best.
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  253. Thriving pyramid scheme based on Trillions of dollars of extra government debt.
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  254.  @selms22  yep totally believable a doctor would say someone is a deadman when even 80+ age group 95% survival approximately.
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  255.  @selms22  so your father is in a nursing home with constant care then, then visit him often before he dies or you might regret it.
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  256.  @améliehester6996  Here is something for you to ponder. Communism in simple terms is collective ownership of just about everything. Those who say it's in the constitution that they can enter "private property" without the permission of the owner are technically communists who believe that the US Constitution is actually communist.
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  257.  @schouvler25  I think the point is the extent. Out of 50 million people on either side someone will disagree with everything down to the type of tie a president might wear and is it too dark or too light etc. etc. My observation from afar is this objection to many of Trumps behaviour s within the Republican Party is more wide spread and opposition more organized than the things you mentioned about previous presidents.
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  258. LOL
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  259.  Ron Wojcik  I can give you 2 Australia and New Zealand. We are not accepting anyone except returning citizen. Canada is another one, not a total ban, but close.
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  260. What's with you people? This is not personal but you have exercised your freedom and are seeing the results. Australia lockdowns including interstate travel, opening up except for one infectious state where if you leave that state and come to my state 14 days lockdown in hotel at your expense. Until a state stops accepting outside infections you will never stop it in any state. Best of luck and it's every man and woman for themselves, protect your elderly and those with diabetes and those who are obese especially. Take care.
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  261. I just love these socialist comments accusing the Democrats of not being as socialist as Trump. It's a complete laugh where I am standing and funny thing is it probably mostly comes from people who hate universal healthcare so much because it might be socialist they will pay higher taxes to make it happen. Public spending on healthcare in the US isn't actually low by world standards of comparative countries.
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  262. Actually you are wrong on 2 accounts, the US governments state and Federal spend more money on healthcare than the average total amount of OECD countries as a proportion of GDP , so if in dollars even worse. Military spending although fairly large I believe would be less than the healthcare spend especially this year with all the Covid 19 costs with testing and higher hospital costs with ppe etc. etc. I am Australian and our government spends a bit less on publically funded healthcare than the US I believe , especially this year , but we prefer a universal healthcare system run by government. We do have private healthcare if you want to jump a queue for elective surgery for example in a private hospital.
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  263.  @yourlocalalexis4578  if you do a few internet searches if it is as per normal your state and federal government pays about 2 thirds of the healthcare bill. So not exactly a free market system and the services offered aren't universal.
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  264.  @vbin9081  you do realise in a free market emergency care is a monopoly right, if you say oh there's this great little hospital in Alabama when you are in New York having a heart attack but every hospital charges double the rate of the lowest cost hospital which hospital will you choose? You also realise that if you go through private healthcare they don't care if all hospitals charge more and in fact profit off it because insurance is a commission business.
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  265.  @vbin9081  I didn't say anything about Obamacare in fact I was criticising it because the conditions I describe are under Obama care. No country on the planet has managed to have cheap free market healthcare , it doesn't seem to be a possibility, just like you can't have free market roads because otherwise I could buy 5 metres of every road exiting a city and charge any vehicle $50 to pass and there would be nothing you can do about it. Some parts of healthcare can be free market but not emergency care and who pays for public health eg covid 19? With a free market system more deaths are more profitable and good for vaccine companies if the virus remains so no incentive for elimination.
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  266.  @vbin9081  You are already aware that your country is somewhat socialist. What Asian country are you talking about, they have universal healthcare. Are you referring to medical tourism hospitals? Yes that's free market for non urgent procedures. See the US rating on the economic freedom index while it can't be described as low it isn't that high, my country Australia rates above the US. As far as limited socialism Australia isn't a bad model. If every country achieved what Australia has achieved there would be no need for a vaccine so the US failures have just made some companies some big healthcare money and your government is paying, not the free market.
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  267.  @vbin9081  sounds like we actually agree, your a bit Utopian in what might be possible and on the other hand a bit of a conspiracy theorist on what you think will happen. The point about the US limited socialism model is it's directed more to corporations than it should be. As far as both of countries seeming to go down sort of an inevitable path of being more and more socialist , we only disagree in so far as I don't think it's inevitable but you seem to. We have to see over the next 10 years what happens, I am quietly confident Australia will generally stay on course but don't think it's a given. Some things do spill over from the US and UK to Australia but it's not always one direction, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia probably in that order are pushing a free trade agenda in our region and quite successfully actually, the TPP was most likely started by Singapore and or New Zealand as a trade grouping called P4 according to Wiki but with the US not wanting to join it still exists as CPTPP and Biden's apparently willing to consider it but will probably try to water it down a bit with too many conditions about workers and environment. It might be well meaning but truth is for poor countries to develop and get better incomes for their citizens the starting point by wealthy countries is very low but no trade they get nothing so even poorer. We will wait and see if the US joins and I hope it does. The approach our countries are taking is just keep putting more and more deals on top of each other, there are 4 different free trade deals with Australia and Singapore now as an example so it's really hard for any future government to get rid of 4 deals involving 20 countries give or take because 3 of the deals are multilateral. To give the US example Trump did threaten at one point to throw out our bilateral free trade agreement, however if we have a bilateral one and CPTPP it makes it twice as hard for the US to get out of Free trade with Australia.
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  268. I feel for you, I am in Queensland Australia which can basically be considered covid 19 free because if new cases appear they are jumped on quickly. Unless you're in Hawaii what you describe is all that you can really do. Hang in there the best you can. If you think a little comedic relief might help go to this fake news website betootaadvocate.com .
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  269. Trump and Rudy have already called for faithless electoral college electors. Too many states though , so can't see it being pulled off.
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  270. My guess is the jury will be mixed both race and sex.
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  271.  @0817sweetstacy  he didn't shut down travel, he stopped Chinese citizens entering while literally bringing back infected people with no monitoring or quarantine. Operation go slow with testing was a disaster with only 500 tests by the end of February versus 10,000 in Australia and something like 100,000 in South Korea. So complete failure. He also encouraged people to ignore the virus , gather in large groups packed closely together. It was absolute madness.
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  272. Maybe call it a wealthy undeveloped country. Some rich oil states probably fit that definition also.
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  273. That applies to anyone over 65 , so what's your point. Maybe not so much the mental bit.
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  274. Are you suggesting there is a death bonus. In other words hospitals are now carrying out hits on sick people with intent. I guess that's an interesting point of view. This would make them a bit like those NAZI death camps. What do you reckon?
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  275. But there was "secret" good advice coming out of the Whitehouse.
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  276. Only wealthy nation actually.
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  277.  @nope6908  Western means about as much as eastern, it's meaningless. I think in general terms Western seems to mean wealthy country with majority European race of people. So Spain is Western according to what I think most people mean but not their ex colonies because they are poor. The geographic western and eastern is only Eurasia so the political definition is quite different.
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  278. Probably because direct pocketing of money rather than declaring it as money paid to them as employees. A very serious offence actually, it's called theft or fraud in common language. Just guessing.
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  279. In low case jurisdictions you need to look at community transmission . I tried searching their numbers now but couldn't find it. Queensland Australia has had more imported cases than Taiwan with a population of only 5 million. We have however had 450 or so cases of community transmission which is much more than Taiwan. Masks made no difference in Taiwan that is really just an extra protection, like wearing a seatbelt when driving at 6 miles an hour already your chance of injury is small this is just an added precaution. You can't catch a virus that isn't there.
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  280.  Mark Sebring  the official numbers are based on death certificates where covid 19 was a contributing factor as standard practice around the world. The CDC of USA doesn't have a section where it says bullet wound causing blood loss leading to death and died with covid 19. As much as political manipulation in the opposite direction might be occurring the death numbers are as accurate as they can be under the circumstances.
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  281.  @KaiserBlade  ok whatever you think Russian or MAGA.
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  282. By US standards your state isn't doing too bad. Obesity is a direct and or indirect contribution to the likelihood of death which I would agree contributes to your country's death toll. I am Australian so a bit better but you check out the Japanese obesity rate , it will surprise you.
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  283. The chance that a person his age dies was estimated at 4% , not sure how many million that would be in the US his age or older however it's a big number. A trial of one person which in no way whatsoever contradicts the information given by the media is proof of lies. Please inform what the lie is?
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  284. I have to say it. Why can't a somewhat authoritarian country institute appropriate restrictions for covid 19 and why are health thought crimes punished so hard but health violations that actually kill people not a single hard punishment? For anyone who can't work it out your country has the most in number and probably per capita drug user prisoners. So freedom to kill others due to what has often been referred to as rugged individualism AKA as selfish sociopathic behaviour but lock up someone who has in there possession a drug and possibly kill them with a virus as 1500 or so deaths in prison from covid 19 and no doubt at least one was a harmless health offender. Get your priorities straight Americans. The DC lockdown actually puts greater restrictions on residents than a proper covid 19 lockdown. What a joke everyone crying freedom and now all in favor of an authoritarian lockdown for yet another photo opportunity. Maybe Biden will help your country and lockdown to save lives though and maybe this lockdown is good , just pointing out 500,000 people dead because no proper health lockdown killed many through infection and maybe 150,000 through the failed lockdown lite. CDC reported 300,000 excess deaths from January 26 to October 3 and 200,000 were covid 19 and reasonable to say ineffective lockdown lite killed another 100,000 people, if trend has continued the number I suggested above is much lower than the real number.
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  285. Why doesn't the US direct it's socialism to the needy rather than corporations? Your country isn't particularly high ranking on the economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation which is the best measure of how socialist a country is.
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  286.  @k333rl  assuming you are in Texas how can the weapon be traced back to you as there's no registration? Is there actually registration but it's slightly hidden as in all transactions by gun dealers are registered including who they sell to.
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  287. Don't insult 15 year olds, vast majority have the capability to understand if you see images coming out of Wuhan with hospitals overflowing and serious lockdown measures it's certainly a high risk situation that won't go away. The early errors in January and February were shared by his team including Fauci who said on February 26 that the US was doing well because of a good healthcare system and contact tracing. At that point in time the US had already completely failed on its initial response and the "travel ban" was absolutely useless because the virus got in and was already rampant in New York in particular at the end of February. So I actually don't consider Trump to be responsible up to February 26, it's the actions or failing to act after that and recover the situation which is the true failure. State governors have a lot of responsibility also allowing every single state to have significant infections.
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  288.  Feng L  To this day no US state has put mandatory government supervised hotel quarantine in place for people entering their state. A mish mash of voluntary measures exist . This has nothing to do with the Federal government. Without virtually stopping the virus from entering you can never contain it.
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  289.  Pam Schobelock  not my business but according to Trump's own words no one should care because it only affects the very sick people with comorbidities. Read through many comments of Trump's hardline followers , they have no empathy because they still believe Trump and that he won't get sick according to Trump's words. So the bias cuts both ways. I am not American but have followed this issue.
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  290. Lots of authoritarians in the comment section, crack down on civil disobedience which affects nobody but the power of those that are planning a crackdown it would seem. I know being Australian your comeback will be cracking down in defence of our dear leaders is totally fine but freedom to infect must remain because that's our human rights. Pity about the human rights of the dead , because it's generally accepted that the first human right is life, but in a bipartisan fashion the US decided it would be too hard and the life issue isn't the most important. Anyway best of luck and just remember when the shoe is on the other foot and Democrats take power don't whinge and complain if they become authoritarian against you because it's what you wanted.
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  291. Probably because it doesn't, that was the UQ CSL vaccine and they decided to finish up because it showed everyone gets a false positive HIV test and protecols for testing would need to be changed. This is completely different technology that somehow makes your own body cells create a protein that is in covi sars2.
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  292. She knows Trump has lost, but her and others who aren't hardcore Trumpets still want Trumps base to vote for them next time. Whether that eventuates or not who knows, it could backfire with normal Republicans heading for the exit, maybe not to Democrats but just not vote.
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  293. Lots of thoughts and prayers in the comments section. Go USA with 5 times the homicide rate of an average wealthy country. Yep more guns thoughts and prayers is working real good.
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  294. I don't think so, I am not American but putting my money where my mouth, going to Bet on Biden.
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  295. No one really knows. If the vaccine does increase your immunity that's better for society but on a personal level I expect you would be at very low risk of serious health consequences if you did already get it and caught it again a year later. Nobody knows how long immunity will last and how effective immunity might be accross all strains from a previous infection or any of the vaccines. Personally the Pfizer and Moderna ones scare me a bit, I would prefer other ones that don't make my cells do things. They say it's safe and maybe it is, just giving my personal fear, I am in Australia so different position and I am against our authorities giving emergency use , I think better for us to keep doing what we are doing until normal approval is given or at least wait a few months, the vaccines going out in large numbers now is the real test and time.
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  296.  @jameshaney171  it doesn't change the dna from my understanding but it somehow makes your own body cells produce virus proteins.
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  297.  @TommyElijahCabelloReal  it's not runaway capitalism because the US is more socialist. The issue is the socialism is towards corporations not humans, AKA corporatism . See Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation which is a pretty good guide of how socialist a country is.
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  298. It's really unusual for a judge to use such terms basically making fun of the people making a claim before them which technically I don't think they are supposed to do , but unusual times it can be excused.
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  299. Trump has flagged your answer , the problem is testing creates positive results so just stop testing by 1 October then the problem is solved
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  300.  @marylee4553  yes in Australia and a little bit in Thailand and Malaysia.
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  301. LMAO it's inappropriate that votes should be counted if they can't be counted in 6 hours, the approximate time from close of polls to the Trump deadline. So they should declare the election with only half the votes counted, this seems like a reality tv show way of doing things where the producers leave plenty of leeway in the rules.
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  302. Do you believe Australia or South Korea for arguments sake are telling the truth. Whatever your answer is , it will lead you to the same conclusion.
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  303.  @ConvictedFelon2024  So that means there was no reason China couldn't have detected cases outside of Wuhan after the lockdown, because other provinces were in the same situation as other countries. As far as the death toll in Wuhan , the official death toll is probably lower than the real toll, it would likely be a few hundred more or at the outside double. Any locality with large case loads will not be an accurate number but a pretty good guide. Testing numbers and positive cases are probably less accurate due to double counting sometimes.
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  304. You are a democracy but low functioning by international standards. I am Australian and I would actually trust an Indonesian election for fairness above the US. To be fair I haven't looked into their system so I don't actually know, just an impression and I do know the US system is how it is.
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  305. Military don't normally get much training in crowd control.
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  306. In a relative sense inner city Chicago is 10 times more dangerous, the deaths on the Israeli side are less than a bad Chicago weekend yet the population of Chicago is only 8 million versus 10 million in Israel. Anyway I am not American, they would prefer to spend $ 4 billion a year protecting a safe country than their own citizens in many US cities that are far more dangerous.
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  307. China numbers are more accurate now than US numbers. If you only have 10s of cases to count and the occasional body it's not hard.
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  308. The one in ten isn't disproportionate to the overall population, what's your point?
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  309. Maybe that's a fair emotional response but not realistic.
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  310. A few months ago a significant proportion of Trump supporters were doctors according to comments on youtube, I guess you are similar to those long list of youtube doctors.
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  311.  @farmsim_usa9235  You must be happy then with your 5 times homicide rate and 500,000 dead from a virus , a 16% of GDP estimated government deficit, so I hope you got to travel around the world or US and took advantage of your freedoms. I wonder how much training the shooter had.
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  312.  @angrr5074  it's an open carry jurisdiction with a magazine limit of 15. Concealed carry with a permit. So the law is already perfect for those who thinks it makes a difference.
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  313. I like the lady at the end. She is probably better presidential material than the 2 candidates and said all people are equal and no one should act superior to another and people should come together to fix the country.
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  314.  @insectbite1714  Normally grading a wire is 0.5, 0.6, 1mm etc . What is this exciting new grading called 5G?
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  315. Yeah I wish the US would get it's act together, being China's number 1 trade and propaganda adversary for a while isn't much fun for my country. They don't need to run any propaganda against the US, because it's doing a good job on its own , they can just honestly report the news. Best of luck from Australia 🇦🇺
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  316.  @sandisom23  the Wuhan strain died out months ago, it can't compete against the thoroughbred.
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  317. Imagine if such attacks happened in a US city and 10 people died over a week, like has occurred in Israel a population of 10 million. What would the US do. Chicago population 8 million , this conflict on the Israeli side of things is safer than Chicago, not even a particularly bad weekend for homicides if it was Chicago.
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  318.  John Patriot eagle freedom boner  But Bill Gates is putting chips in the aluminum foil.
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  319. Well on that basis I guess it's lucky a left wing radical got killed so the right wing radical can learn.
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  320.  @Hidinginthetreeline  I am Australian and what I see in the US to me is a low level civil war. Both left and right and both major parties unfortunately not condemning all actors without equivocation. The US has a serious rule of law problem. If Biden wins hopefully it will make things calmer but I wouldn't be certain. Harris might help with general reform of how police operate, noting the federal government probably has very little power to do anything other than set guidelines, but if done well it might work.
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  321. ☣️ you forgot one
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  322. Yeah rightio, Trump the dictator is going to get 90% vote . Keep believing that and don't worry about voting because you have the numbers.
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  323. Very strange comments in this thread. So the US currently has about 400,000 people in prison on health related offences about double the per capita rate of Australia yet you decry how free the US is. If you haven't worked it out drug charges are a health issue with less consequences to others than covid 19. Is locking up and or arresting maybe 100 individuals in all of Australia because they put others at risk worth it to save 25,000 lives noting that deaths from covid 19 and a poor response had killed 300,000 approximately between January 26 and October 3 in the US with 200,000 excess deaths directly attributable to the virus and the rest one has to assume the poor response. My answer is 100 annoyed people is better than 25,000 body bags adjusting for Australia's population. As far as business goes the US is not fully open , Australia is other than those businesses relying on tourists and overseas students. Overseas students are starting to return so things can get better. China has decided to start a trade war with Australia so it will have an economic impact not related to covid19 or it's response.
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  324. The percentages will tend to line up because elderly people generally have enough common sense to get vaccinated whereas younger age groups don't care.
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  325. Didn't he chuck toilet paper to them after some hurricane. Why wouldn't they love him?
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  326. @dianetaylor8278  ok , I didn't know that.
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  327. That's why in my opinion police should be state not local, I think this situation is unique to the US and it leads to problems in my opinion.
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  328.  @eljefemaximo5420  Omicron wasn't the first variant and won't be the last, getting vaccinated including booster is sensible. Maybe next variant is far worse than Omicron, nobody knows.
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  329. The only one I disagree is the Covid deaths. If things were done really well the US would still have thousands of deaths , say 5,000 to 10,000 given the difficulties dealing with state governments that's an absolute minimum. Your number will be correct in a week or 2 though so not all is lost.
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  330. The body bags will start to pile up after the election, full opening was at start of October, hospitalisations I guess are starting to rise now, deaths will start to rise around 4 to 8 weeks. If you look at the numbers in Victoria Australia (population 6,500,000) that looks like they came back from a very bad situation now with daily cases below 10 the pattern I describe is approximate lag times from the peak.
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  331. Well he sent his daughter to a G20 meeting with world leaders once , this is actually no worse than that.
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  332. I hope so lol , got a few $1,000 riding on it
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  333. Looking back at an old article of news "record cases 23 October 83,000 cases", US is now at about 100,000 cases per day and deaths although lagging behind case counts and should go down soon at about 3,000 per day. Time to celebrate Americans open up and when the snow clears you can all see if you can catch a new variant or something considering your immunity from a year ago is probably reducing. Maybe herd immunity is kicking in as was thought the case 6 months ago or just maybe the optimists are wrong again. It's true it could be either , I guess we will find out in about 2 months, best to as Trump said " fight the virus head on [by getting infected] ", at least it's a bipartisan approach I suppose.
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  334. Those running the tests are making millions, more infections = more testing = more money. If I owned shares in one of those companies every stupid protest including BLM or this mob I am seeing dollar signs.
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  335. You still doing this lol? In Queensland Australia we still at February 2020, we still covid 0 but border slowly opening soon.
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  336.  @dixieward626  So when some dies of pneumonia caused by covid 19 they shouldn't be counted? This is just one common example.
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  337. The problem is his base are often poor folks who won't bail him out.
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  338.  Sam Boudreau  you seem like a person that will listen. The problem is in many cases one group outnumber another. So it incorrectly seems to that group that the other group is more racist. For arguments sake there is 70% white 5% East Asian and 15% black people. They are all equally racist at a rate of 10% ( the most racist town in US) out of 100 people there are 7 or 8 racists against blacks but only one or two black racist against white and East Asian. This is the problem. So even though the racism is identical as a black person you will become hypersensitive and over estimate the amount of racists because you encounter it at 5 or 6 times the rate. Another issue is violence and young black males proportionally cause more violence and it's concentrated in certain areas. So those especially young black men not involved which is the vast majority (noting some areas with public housing and basically a segregated black community are truly dangerous) are treated with suspicion. At the moment it's an intractable problem.
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  339. How is it the smart Chinese could contain it and the US couldn't? For you to be correct China must be a much superior nation. I don't think this is the case they had some initial failures but by Jan 20 they realised as did the entire world, before this China didn't realize otherwise they would have stopped it spreading around China and locked Wuhan down earlier. Why couldn't the US stop the spread internally if it was such an easy thing to do?
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  340. In this comment section it's about 5 like you and 95 saying Trump won. There numbers although not the majority of Americans are still significant.
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  341.  @jackiepaper6464  first of all I am Australian and of course Biden won or he has pulled a conspiracy involving 1,000s of people including many Republicans , which would make him the genius of the century, he doesn't look that smart to me. The comments in abc videos always run Trump's way for some reason, which I don't really understand. To me it seems like one of the most balanced news network with no strong bias unlike a couple of others.
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  342. Given her age she is certainly good.
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  343. Trump didn't concede , concession goes something like this ," I congratulate Joe Biden on becoming the 46th president elected in the USA......and I say thankyou to all my supporters...."
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  344. I am not American but I think in the order of $10 per hour would be better because the minimum now is something like $2 per hour for waiter/ress who is expected to get tips. Maybe some cultural change could occur where tips are voluntary as is probably the most common custom around the world.
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  345. Probably but not certainly. For arguments sake it could have been found in trash.
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  346. Why does the US celebrate a socialist holiday? Seems a large proportion of people are hypocrites because they should protest and demand it's cancellation. Or alternatively people are ok with a certain level of socialism and just use the word socialist as an insult without actually knowing what socialism is.
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  347.  @melvincastillo2496  Masks were used in the US during the Spanish flu with a mandate in some states. I realise they didn't have tv then but I think the reports that this occured are correct.
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  348.  @melvincastillo2496  Well TB is totally curable unless you are on your deathbed. I guess you are in the US so not too hard to go to a hospital maybe stay there for a while and get antibiotics. There was a plan to try and eliminate it in less well off places by 2022. This however would be on the back burner because dealing with COVI sars2 is of higher priority. I don't know what your search turned up regarding restrictions in the US and Spanish flu but indications were the masks at that time didn't particularly produce a noticeable difference, social distancing did. Please consider the time though. Running water etc. Was not like now. Common sense does however tell you a mask even a flimsy cloth thing will filter the air going in and out of your mouth. If you are really concerned about the lack of use of cloth then wear an N95 mask like a health professional will and they are proven to work highly effectively if used properly. The medical staff and first responder in NY had a lower infection rate than the general population.
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  349.  @melvincastillo2496  Well politics are involved. Would you be happy if 3% of your tax was spent on foreign aid primarily in healthcare. Personally I would but the majority in rich countries think otherwise so with limited money things take time. This doesn't discount the threat that covi-sars2 is. As you have pointed out with all the efforts so far and minimal spread already the same death rate by population actually as TB because it's only 6 months. If 10% of the world was infected with COVI sars2 imagine the numbers.
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  350. The question is was he trespassing. This news report didn't answer that. Lucky he wasn't in the Hood I suppose, they don't muck around like that, they just put a cap in you.
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  351. I'll just say "only in America" as far as I am aware for a high income country. The US has many great inventions , this is not one of them.
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  352. Be fair to the guy he comes from a kill zone arguably the worst response to covid 19 on the planet. 0.18% of the population dead in a state with about 40% rural population and a total population of less than 1,000,000 so no big city. So the few deaths in the capitol building are nothing really to these people. Apparently South Dakota has done a great job so the governor says on the South Dakota government website.
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  353.  @philongpham3886  Your arguments are interesting, the government spending to GDP in UK and US is almost the same, however you are correct in recent years (2018) the US just borrowed 5% of GDP and created public debt. Way to go maybe can do that forever and nobody will notice. Now saying the US attracts more immigrants is like saying a 100 room hotel gets more guests than a 20 room hotel, so what? Not sure how the US public debt spiralling out of control will end because USD is the world currency and therefore protected but I think even if it's a long way off when it ends it may well be catastrophic.
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  354. Is that a true quote? If it is it's a crime inciting criminal behaviour I would think.
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  355. There are prejudiced people of all colours, ethnic and religious groups but they are not the majority. I hope you find a better workplace soon and try to stay positive and remember they aren't all like the person you encountered.
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  356.  @datsuncrown6614  what is that supposed to mean. I just made a comment on what he likely thought. If you know differently then call for murder 1 charges with the evidence.
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  357. There is no evidence in either direction that suicides are either increasing or decreasing. It should be noted that in the years of economic decline during the great depression in the US life expectancy actually went up. The exact reasons for this aren't known. It's a possibility that in the current circumstances suicides could decrease just as they could increase. It's likely it will have both effects for different individuals, now some at risk people would have others like family members talking to them more often etc., but longer term business people for example who lose everything would probably be more likely to suicide.
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  358. Trump has implied that it's all a political hoax being carried out by every nation that has contained the virus. He has stated that China can't be trusted with there numbers and the only reason the US has a large number of confirmed cases is because of testing. So Australia , South Korea, Taiwan , Thailand etc. have more cases. This is effectively what he implied. I can assure you countries in my region aren't faking the numbers . I expect Trump knows this but he is talking to his base who literally believe anything he says. If he doesn't know it , he is an imbecile.
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  359.  @dos14dos14  your argument is ridiculous, it's like saying someone died in a car accident therefore seatbelts, airbags, brakes, tyres and vehicle crush zones don't work.
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  360. After the vaccine because it won't happen earlier than that because the US is divided why not get rid of the virus? It's sort of like the policy is to ensure it never gets eliminated.
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  361. 44 people were made unconscious out of 200 or so when that approved maneuver occured over a 5 year period, the black police chief approved of such procedures otherwise why didn't he attempt to have them changed. It could have happened to 44 others both black and white and possibly other but it didn't, making someone unconscious was not considered a big deal or risky this is clear. The most despicable person regarding this matter is the police chief pretending at least to morph into a BLM supporter, taking no responsibility and throwing his fellow officer under the bus because he failed. Under law maybe some offence occured but it doesn't seem to be second degree murder or the felony that might have occured to warrant second degree murder, something along the lines of excessive force or whatever was inconsequential to the death.
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  362.  @loveisthemostpowerfulforce1397  Partial lockdowns only slow the spread from what it might otherwise be. However one particular US measure increases the spread and that is to lockdown businesses in high case areas to encourage customers who on average are more often infected to seek areas with low restrictions with businesses open, so one measure certainly helps the spread. Other jurisdictions believe it or not actually stop those in infected areas going to non infected areas, something a 10 year old could work out but there is bipartisan consensus in the US to not consider this theory used for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The US in some respects has reverted back to stone age behaviour, the rock used as the one and only took for everything is vaccines. A bit like a hammer is the only tool to fix everything if someone has no idea, just hit it with a hammer and sometimes it works, an engine might have an electrical connection loose but the reverberation of the hammer hitting some part could reconnect the loose connection allowing the engine to start. Maybe vaccines will work and actually maybe not if no other action is taken like now. Good luck with your expensive rock.
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  363. He is erratic one day it's a global pandemic that he knew all about before the WHO declared it on another day he says it's like the flu and most people can just go to work it's not really a problem. If you took every quote and looked at them side by side you might think he is mentally ill. He isn't even if he lacks empathy, he just says whatever he thinks at the moment that will look good for him, so erratic not insane.
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  364. Russian roulette is now a political statement. Pretty sad.
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  365.  @giri37  technically Trump said the proposed response was a democratic hoax not the virus itself (paraphrased).
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  366. It depends on infection rates and availability of ppe to critical workers.
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  367. Well I guess that ends the argument of who can manage the pandemic better with a 100% score of increasing cases by state means the virus has gone purple on y'all . I wonder if Puerto Rico , the forgotten territory has cases increasing.
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  368. First of all it doesn't seem that easy if he has more drugs in him than a crack addict and did have additional oxygen on 2 occasions that we are aware of. 99% of the population doesn't have access to the above. Now of course he is likely to recover the mortality rate at his age is estimated at about 5% and the extra care would make some difference I would think lowering his personal risk of death. So what's your point, is it that it's ok for 1 in 20 74 years olds to die unless they are very rich or powerful and have access to intensive care at an early stage?
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  369. Are you being paid for each post or what? Fairly active account for less than a day old.
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  370. If you don't put travel restrictions it's meaningless, to this day the US has only had voluntary travel restrictions and no lockdown because can drive or fly out of state no problems so by definition not a lockdown, just a local business and poor people lockdown.
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  371. Ok young lady if that's your picture, why was Queensland Australia chosen as the only jurisdiction outside of China with a population of 1 million plus? To explain further we currently have 1.4 deaths per million from covid 19, that compares to for example the US average per jurisdiction of 2,400 deaths per million. Are Queenslander like me the chosen ones or something?
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  372.  @Dmdirmrjr33  Read the original comment, your comment is completely irrelevant. The original comment says how to stay safe. Just like running red lights is against the law you still wear a seatbelt right in case someone doesn't follow the law for whatever reason , including I might add a fleeing criminal.
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  373. If the story is about covid 19 plenty of experts with youtube doctorates indicating cures. With this comment thread it appears youtube learning has gone into engineering with the number of salvage experts who know exactly what to do after seeing just one photo.
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  374. Why not just give him 538, that's what a proper dictatorship would do.
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  375. Have you seen news clips at US airports, doesn't look like an emergency.
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  376. Weak leaders afraid to tell people what needs doing. In Australia and New Zealand our leaders told the truth and did the best they could as with other West Pacific countries. We have better international contact tracing than the US has in most states that don't even bother. The US has also set up an accelerated virus spreading plan and that's literally what it is, one state puts in restrictions people depending on distance and means in many cases can just drive there infected bodies across the state border to go partying. We actually have enforced hotel quarantine not this voluntary stuff in the US which is particularly important at the national border. Once an area in Australia has an outbreak the people in that area can't travel interstate without hotel quarantine. The US has about 400,000 people in prison for violating health orders, that is drugs yet won't restrict infected people who in the end kill others because it's against freedom. For a country with the most non violent offenders in the world in prison on a per capita basis I think, it would seem priorities are a bit messed up. Most European countries are similar to the US. Until a single US state government shuts the state border to non essential travel and puts in enforced quarantine and other measures I won't believe anything will change until vaccine very widely available. In and out of lockdown to come.
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  377. We know given his age he has a 5 % chance of death give or take, he is the person who is old and has comorbidities who paraphrasing his own words is a nobody who doesn't matter. Another issue is he would be less likely to recover in 2 weeks which is based on a person who is young and healthy, although we don't know average recovery times based on age group because it's never really been reported we do know some hospital patient have taken 90 days or so to shake the virus. There is a reasonable chance should Donald Trump survive he might not actually be the active President on election day because if he was to be in intensive care he can't do his duties and Pence would be acting president.
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  378. It was said these test results come from swabs earlier in the month and the carriers it came from are probably not infectious anymore. So it's probably everywhere.
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  379. All these talks about launching nukes, just need a satellite phone and a shipping container, can deliver a nuke anywhere in the world and detonate it at the destination if you are an aggressor. Distance means nothing. Before you say oh but it would get detected, yeah not a single 200kg item or drugs has ever been smuggled across a border.
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  380. Ok 36% of American adults are obese, so more than every third person you see has an underlying condition with only one single measure. Are you suggesting those fat people should be left to die?
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  381.  @cjfernandez9089  governments won't make it mandatory but the chance you can travel internationally will be quite low and if the government is the employer probably same story depends on the job.
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  382. You can't be on the jury because you just made a statement. I do hope fair minded people are on the jury.
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  383. With open borders and voluntary self isolation you are right , just like a package from Amazon it will come to you.
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  384. Been reading the comments, give the guy a break, he hasn't said the election is rigged or anything like that and he is correct in saying when Trump has finished his most likely baseless claims to the court and recounts have been done that will likely change nothing some Trump supporters will be happy. Democrats you should want this to occur in Georgia and Arizona because Republicans running the show in Trump supporters minds will calm most of them. The diehard Trump supporters will say the Republican governor's were in on rigging the election and at this point in time have to accept some will be like this.
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  385. Life expectancy is only in the 60s so a young population and less obesity I would think.
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  386. The strain was discovered in South Africa so what do you mean?
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  387. Many democracies have a Senate which has regional representation and the US has the Electoral College for president and a Senate. So not all votes are equal other than in the house of representatives or congress in which I think all votes are equal everywhere that has independent electoral commissions which guess what some US states don't have meaning you can gerrymander to skew the election to your side of politics by drawing electoral boundaries that give your own party more seats.
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  388. Has Trump claimed credit yet for helping run the mission because he is better than the scientists?
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  389. So? And why is an old person like Trump or Biden supposed to speak at the rate of a young person? Do you want a drugged up President?
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  390. In Australia if the Whitehouse was in a rural area it would have gained covid 19 hotspot status triggering our federal government to consider the matter and discuss it with the state or territory involved. A hotspot definition is 9 cases of community transmission in a rural area over 3 days or 30 cases of community transmission in a metropolitan area over a 3 day period. So doesn't really meet the definition yet because it's in a metro area but pretty close.
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  391. Nah that's what we say to the Parochial Mexicans (for Queenslander people from New South Wales and Victoria are Mexicans because they keep migrating north).
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  392. Worldometer is probably more accurate, the 997,000 will be official CDC data as of today.
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  393. It's actually symbolic of the US response to the virus, always too little and definitely too late.
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  394. In the context of the electoral college system you have for the presidential race , if this number was to actually occur Trump could still win technically.
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  395.  @Midwit_Madness  there have been 3 states transport patients outside of their states , this is just my memory so could be wrong Alabama, Mississippi and might be Arizona. Transported intrastate El Paso and somewhere in Southern California. If you mean local authorities which should not be the main ones running the response it should be the states you are correct in that the majority of large cities are Democrat run, stopping spread in a large city is far more difficult than small cities or rural areas so obviously that will occur. In Australia at the moment all but 2 states are covid 19 free other than imported cases. There is 2 states with less than 10 cases a day total so probably soon country of 25,000,000 covid 19 free , just to pre-empt your next comment Australia is slightly more urbanized than the US we aren't spread throughout the desert. Now Australia's worst state for per capita deaths has done better than the best performing state or major US territory. Some states must be run by Republicans I guess even though you think the virus has gone political, evidence would suggest otherwise. Trump runs the country he is the government due to your system of government he chooses and commands all the secretaries normally called ministers elsewhere, so the people running government are actually unelected. Maybe that system should be looked into, a president is a bit like an elected king. Trump was creating a "better" economy by tax cuts to corporations and running up debt and that's before covid 19. A lot of business was created under Trump's watch through government spending or in other words socialist policies, now due to government failures drug companies etc. have plenty of customers and PPE manufacturers. I will be curious to see the ratings for the economic freedom index by the Heritage Foundation next year. It's is a pretty good guide for how socialist a country is. As a Republican you must be disappointed that the US is low functioning for a limited socialist economy.
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  396.  @Midwit_Madness  Now I get where you are coming from , while there is some truth in what you say about the US being corrupt compared to best practice you are correct. The reason for it is your system of outdated democracy which in it of itself creates corruption. Voting in law enforcement , and DAs as one example will create corruption in small jurisdictions because you will be more lenient towards your voter demographic or you lose your job. There are numerous examples of this sort of system in the US. Gerrymandering is extremely harmful and is by modern standards a corrupt system, the reason it's so harmful is because those you are disenfranchising are angry for being discriminated against. As we can see discrimination and affirmative action which is another form of discrimination has created some very angry people who kill each other and destroy property, this is not normal in a high income country, although I don't know the details France seems to have similar problems having riots there somewhat often. Constitutional change is the only thing that can fix these problems in my opinion. Maybe because things are so bad now it might be considered or maybe not.
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  397. Look through the entire comment section and not a single Trumper willing to admit a controlled border is a good idea. Rather amazing since the Trump administration tried to unsuccessfully copy our policies. Keep that Mexican border open without restrictions Y'all.
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  398. Vaccines are normally but not always used to stop infections, in the case of covid 19 a vaccine could increase symptoms and it's the symptoms as in immune reaction causing pneumonia which is probably the most common cause of death with covid 19.
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  399. We shall see. Do you believe that a police officer should never chase a suspect? Do you also believe that firing a deadly weapon , the taser as defined by the attorney general, towards the police officer, the police officer should not respond? We shall see how the case goes.
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  400.  @gutgolf74  I am Australian , however this is not about race many black and white people are on both sides of this argument. I didn't state whether I think he is guilty or not and that's for a court to decide in the end. I have my personal opinion on the matter but that is not a legal one. Unless you are a lawyer who has studied the particular charges in the state of Georgia you only have a personal opinion also.
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  401. That's a negative attitude and assumes all vaccines are ineffective. This could be the case but the experts think it's likely we will have an effective proven vaccine by middle next year give or take for widespread distribution.
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  402. The US doesn't know much about it's home grown strains because to quote a wise old man , " if you don't test you don't have cases" , the US has ramped up genomic testing on a countrywide level to 0.3% so I think the saying applies. The California strain isn't getting much news maybe they don't know much about it yet.
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  403. She didn't know, simple as that. The probability of the shots killing someone is fairly low actually, but drive by and in this case walk by shootings being so prevalent of course people die. Think of the statistics given in Chicago recently, they give the number of people shot and the number of deaths. Most of these incidents involve multiple shots I would think and the statistics provided don't include drive by shootings where the bullets didn't hit anyone as far as I know. These types of shootings are for terror purposes , not only to kill.
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  404. Probably there has and it could be a business owner for example who didn't have mental issues before but lost everything, I think it could also be an issue for young people thinking there is no future for them.
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  405.  @valeriequinn8942  once it's over whenever that may be (over is everything has run it's course and we back to normal) based on history there will be a strong worldwide recovery and it will be relatively fast.
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  406. Maybe next April it will.
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  407.  @nzplus7922  don't know about that. In Australia had about 70,000 protestors around the country but only for one day and 0 property damage and 0 violence so not an international story. Maybe 1 minute on NZ news because we are close to you. But at the time of the protests Australia had the virus as now under control. Victoria looking concerning but I think they will stop stuffing up otherwise the rest of Australia won't allow them out of their state.
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  408. Looking from the outside so no direct personal feelings. While your President was not the only problem, he has turned out to be the biggest problem. At the current point in time he is encouraging the virus to spread by ignoring every government guideline. Him saying and this is a direct quote at one of his rallies if you haven't heard it " the CDC says 85% of people who wear masks get the virus" is an outright intentional misleading statement to ensure the antimaskers vote for him. Your president is as crafty as hell in his wording and considers every single word he says, it wasn't a slip of the tongue he does the exact same behaviour constantly with intent. While not legally responsible because it wouldn't meet the legal standard he is directly causing the deaths of people who listen to him and around those people.
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  409. @Will Reddish You said thanks to Biden they will go free. So explain that comment to me because a state crime has absolutely nothing to do with a president in any way shape or form. In general terms why do American speak like you? In Australia if there is an issue of something occurring inside a state nobody outside of that state does anything , that's a state issue. I observed this with the George Floyd incident and it made no sense, people protesting all over the country against the wrong people, they didn't even seem to be protesting against the state government who's jurisdiction it was. So I am curious of your strange culture that doesn't seem to assign blame in an appropriate manner.
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  410. While it's a bad and disappointing situation as long as the military isn't killing people that's the main thing. So long as this is the case the international community can only really speak against it. The US has threatened sanctions, for your sake I hope they don't occur because throughout modern history it has only worked on one occasion with South Africa, every other time it has led to food and or medicine and or fuel becoming scarce and hurting the poor with no benefit, in fact to the contrary in my opinion, hungry people rarely fight for political reform they only fight for food and the dictator can actually oppress the people easier. I wish you the best of luck but I recommend you and your people consider very carefully any sanctions not related to weapons or personal sanctions on the military leaders like not being able to travel or having any foreign assets frozen. For reform to truly occur the low rank poor soldiers must be on the side of the people so don't attack low ranking people it's counterproductive because they have little or no choice. Best of luck , take care and stay peaceful.
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  411.  @JordanMelbyVlogs  At the get go without even doing anything other than a basic observation 36% of US Adults are obese. Pre existing fatness. Time to carry a cull I guess. Is this really how you think?
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  412.  LAST CALL  There is nothing wrong with having a little neanderthal blood. Unless you are racially pure sub saharan african you will have some neanderthal blood also.
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  413.  @JordanMelbyVlogs  What jurisdiction are you referring to with regards to some mask mandate?
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  414.  @JordanMelbyVlogs  If you are referring to Michigan the governor's last order was July 19 and in the order itself has no expiry date that I could see, so if the order does cease on November 5 then the only logical explanation is that it expires because an order can only be in effect legally for a certain period due to legislation on the matter or for constitutional reasons.
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  415.  LAST CALL  possibly ,but better not to worry about it. I think getting angry or annoyed is what some people want so just respond to them normally, it would be rather off-putting to them I think and if they are attacking you because someone attacked them it allows them to reconsider. Some people I have noticed do calm down if you treat them with respect even if they were the instigator and didn't treat you with respect. Admittedly I don't always follow my own advice because sometimes people can get under my skin, but that only harms me.
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  416.  LAST CALL  exiled could mean fleeing prosecution for criminal activities and the US let them in. This would certainly not be unheard of. The US is easily conned sometimes look at the make up stories of WMD in Iraq for US citizenship and they got what they wanted.
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  417.  @Mogadorus  that one I am uncertain, antivaxxers might be big beer drinkers on average, not sure. I do drink but in the Australian context cask wine is the cheapest so that's my choice. Prefer beer but it's above my budget for now.
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  418. Actually about 2 million excess deaths in US over the 2 year period. How drastic do you want it to be?
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  419. It wasn't a hit. No hitman or woman will walk up to a front door. They will almost certainly be caught eventually. A person involved with her or husband in a professional sense or something to do with the son directly.
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  420. You take care, people appreciate you
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  421. You are completely uninformed, the US provides billions $s in military aid.
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  422. I know in Australia at least as of a month or so ago they will not use the antibody test which is very quick outside of emergencies (like at a car accident for example) because it was totally unreliable, the one Trump is currently promoting. Maybe it's changed, but if that was the case the entire world would have changed over to the 15 minutes test, why spend so much extra money getting lab tests done.
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  423.  @skythunder334  fair enough, so HIV isn't a problem because there is not a single known case of the virus directly killing a human being, all that virus does is affect your bodies immune responses and if you don't subsequently get another infection of something you will not die. If we use your premiss we can't count the 50,000 or whatever the number is who died from pneumonia caused by covi sars2. Virtually no one will ever die of anything if we adopt your convention of disregarding cause and effect.
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  424.  @coolman299  if you refuse to look at information available then what you say is correct, maybe look outside your country to any country that was/is relatively successful as in less than 10% of the deaths per million of the US and see what they did ( choose any large country of 1 million or more that belongs to Western Pacific WHO region, they all fit this category )
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  425. Huh? It's impossible that 2 countries with no tourist receipts due to a virus situation would sign what sounds like a travel agreement. I think that's entirely possible and in fact quite likely. It's good to see though and without the virus probably they wouldn't agree. So this might be one of those silver linings where conflicts are put aside even if only for a while. I think this has occurred in many countries due to the virus.
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  426.  Anthony Quantrill  Well how about the alternate reality of the West Pacific, I am in Australia, half a dozen cases and everything open. It's a pity you prefer not to join that alternate reality with all the sheep.
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  427. He certainly has it. For him to go to hospital for "an abundance of caution" is very difficult. Also the fact he is receiving all those treatments when an ordinary person would not receive them unless they are extremely ill shows he is sick. He is scared and taking pre emptive actions that others wouldn't and in most cases wouldn't have access to such care. His doctors would have told him based on the information we know you have approximately a 5% probability of dying.
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  428. My impression is that people believe that the police should be able to chase a criminal and if fired upon be able to fire back. A taser is a deadly weapon according to the attorney general involved.
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  429. @Kevin Castaneda all Western democracies are socialist, so what are you talking about? Limited socialism is necessary for a functional society. Countries like the Nordic countries and France are more socialist but still function pretty well, arguably better than the US at this point in time.
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  430. 1500 deaths in a week, that's remarkable, maybe if you are correct they are slow to report numbers, very slow.
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  431. I like the comment that the interview was fake yet he apparently has a copy of it. I wonder what was said in the interview which hasn't been released yet that is so bad Trump is calling it fake.
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  432.  Ellen Peba  I am Australian as I think you had guessed. The US has certain things we are very alike and other things we are quite different. But I find watching interesting. Also you know politics between Australia, UK and US is very interconnected. There are campaign advisors who sometimes work for the same sides of politics in different countries . There is also one media person that has had no problems crossing borders . Rupert Murdoch has influenced the politics in all 3 countries I think.
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  433. You mustn't be from New Jersey, or do you mean starting from now? Already 0.3% of their entire population dead and although much slower now people are still dying.
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  434. There are more poor whites in the US than blacks, the proportion is higher in blacks but the poor whites feel left behind too, they have sided with Trump to a larger extent. With males Trump received a higher proportion of votes from less educated white people than educated and the inverse was true with black males with a higher proportion of educated versus uneducated voting for him. The overall vote however was much more white males voted for Trump than black males.
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  435. Why did you make the statement "the world needs you"?
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  436.  @trentwise3762  totally agree with you.
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  437. What's with you mob? When cases hit a record you have record travel for the year. I hope the US isn't developing biological weapons because you will end up infecting yourselves.
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  438. Effective Vaccines might be coming. I hope for your sake they are because otherwise what you say is correct for the next few years.
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  439. Read the other comments in this thread and around, not a good idea , some basically say they "are either really old or have serious underlying health issues" , these people don't care if " the weak" are killed off and wouldn't particularly care about patients. The first quote is from Trump at a rally actually.
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  440.  @NORTHBROOK1978  you've lost me in your last comment. Without being cryptic, what is unconstitutional? What do you need a gun for , are you going to shoot the virus? I am in Australia which is virtually covid 19 free and my country has a homicide rate one 6th that of the US on a per capita basis.
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  441.  @foodandhomeprep8425  You better free those 400,000 Americans who went against health orders and are currently in prison for an offence that doesn't kill others. This is an approximate number of people incarcerated for drug crimes. Do you support any laws restricting drugs?
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  442.  @SOGFLY1  funnily enough the sheep countries that have been successful have lower restrictions, no martial law or anything like that. You are possibly going into lockdown because your government failed or just didn't care. I feel sorry for you if you acted as a stupid sheep and followed the advice of the slaughter man.
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  443.  @SOGFLY1  for a lockdown to be successful it needs to be comprehensive and cases need to get down to about 10 cases per million for contact tracing to work. The problem mostly is places get on the cusp of achieving this and then open up fully and cases go back up rapidly. If you look at Victoria Australia 3 months ago it was looking pretty bad by the then world standard with many places in Europe and many US states looking far better, now they have 14 days no new detected cases. Weather seems to play some sort of role in spreading rates but exactly what seems uncertain and might depend on culture and living conditions. If you look at tropical areas around the equator it might be the case that because of no real seasons it makes for a flat year round spreading pattern versus we can see the spread in Europe and US now as it starts to get cooler. I wish you the best of luck and take care. What an individual can do is very limited other than do the best to protect themselves and family. Let's hope the vaccines will turn things around over the next year.
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  444.  Jesus Christ  I didn't know that but did notice another shirt on someone else had alternative logo's. Not very good for a confrontation because then both sides look the same in a fight.
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  445. It's pretty simple last 2 weeks about 1000 dead per day on average, reduce that number a little on the assumption people will take a little more care , multiply by number of days.
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  446. @drew13600 very correct, you can't forecast human behaviour. Human behaviour including political decisions decide the outcome. Not highly predictable.
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  447. Audio from the bodycam will let us know in time I expect. I am guessing the officer or suspect said something around that time.
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  448.  @stringmonkey568  The problem is Trump decided not to tell others of the dangers, how were opposition party members supposed to know? He had behaved this way before suggesting a muslim countries ban on entry to the US without good reason, a case of crying wolf.
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  449. You might find it like NY was where a large proportion of officers going out sick leave. But if protests were to continue even peaceful protestors probably won't follow the rules of not coming if at all sick.
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  450. I think you mean by Israel not of Israel, your statement says that Palestinian are illegally occupying Israel in that sentence.
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  451. It's got no power most likely and even if it has power some mechanical failure means it can't.
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  452. So one Antifa shot another Antifa, that sounds strange.
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  453.  @patrickc3419  I'm Australian, what exactly is it you believe I have suffered? I am in Queensland to be specific, so relate your answer to Queensland.
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  454.  @gameshot586  You're all over the shop, you complain you got sacked because of market forces, now you talking about communism. Why complain about losing your job when the market decided you were surplus to requirements? I ask you what you would prefer as in higher socialism and you don't answer. If you are getting Australian minimum wage of $20 AUD per hour and complaining about to the cost of food $1.40 for cheap bread and $12 per kilo for beef mince, $3.90/kg for whole Chicken. So you poor thing have to work 1 hour per day for excess food requirements. Maybe you want prawns and wagyu everyday, not my problem I am ok with Chicken and beef or kangaroo mince and veges for $1 per kilo if I can be bothered going to budget fruit shop instead of supermarket.
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  455.  @gameshot586  So now you tell me you are sitting pretty with a great job, good for you , stop being paranoid. A big part of inflation or high retail prices in Australia is high wages. You're right about big corporations becoming dominant which is what happens in a free market, look at the fast food chains, they dominate now and people like that. No Rothschilds doesn't own the world. As far as government debt yes it's an issue but we still in a much stronger position than almost every wealthy nation on earth. Anyway you take care.
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  456.  @gameshot586  Yes but things are not going to double in price any time soon. You point out beef is up a bit , but chicken on the other hand is the same price. Australia is a free market economy and the price of beef is international, higher beef prices are good for Australia actually, we have to sell something. The issues affecting beef are improvements in ASEAN and East Asian economies along with issues in the US which is a significant market for low cost beef as in mince for hamburgers. You do support Australia being a free market economy I hope and yes means mince is a few dollars dearer but our country needs revenue so keyboard warriors like us can import phones and computers as an example.
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  457.  @gameshot586  Good
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  458. She is younger, female and not obese so at maybe 1% of the risk compared to Trump.
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  459. Well at least one got let out by Trump so probably less than there should be and this guy might do a runner.
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  460. This is madness, in future people won't get vaccinated deliberately because they wait for payment. The ones who got the vaccine through community spirit as in a 25 year old who is fit and not obese are effectively being punished for having community spirit, their taxes paying for those who don't have community spirit.
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  461. They are below 18 most likely so why would you expect pictures so quickly? Also does it matter?
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  462. Yep both at over 1700 deaths per million so it means 2 jurisdictions in the bottom 10% going by world standards , such a pity you people (most Americans) think that allowing people to die is a political issue and not a health issue.
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  463.  @seanc3317  if you want to be honest then the first place to look is demographics, Texas median age 5 years below Michigan, Texas GDP per capita in 2019 about 20% above Michigan, life expectancy in Texas about 1 year longer than Michigan indicating better overall health of population. So quite likely demographics play the biggest role but this would need to be assessed by looking at every state and calculating out the demographic outcomes in the case of the US, Michigan based on 2010 data is actually 10% less urbanised than Texas which should favour a better outcome in Michigan actually. Weather also plays a part because of people's behaviour during different seasons can cause more variability in areas with more variable weather and possibly how buildings are built. So tell me what it means and how you are indoctrinated. You sound like you have studied all states and looked through all the demographic data and travel patterns of people considering all borders have always been open to non essential travel including the national one. As far as masks go they are only but a small factor in the scheme of things in a country that never really tried to stop spreading the virus. This doesn't mean masks achieve nothing but it could be close to nothing in a country which on every other measure has allowed the virus to spread rapidly and much of that with intent and sometimes just due to incompetent government (about 500 covid 19 tests by end of February 2020 in the US versus about 10,000 in Australia in the same time period, a factor of approximately 1 to 300 by population ). You think Texas is now a great success , good for you.
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  464.  Simo Hayha  I read the comments between you and france and tend to agree with you but implementation of what you would prefer seems almost impossible because both major US political parties are beholden to corporations. I do like Joe's plan of introducing medicare for all by stealth by putting in a public option insurer , but the insurance industry will fight tooth and nail against it and probably win. Read my comment to france .
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  465. What on earth. "Member", are they now blaming the customers for a roughly one third refusal rate. US corporations have disgusting gaslighting language. Calling employees associates and team member and calling customers they treating disgustingly members.
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  466. I thought they thought it shone out of a certain oriface of a certain person. Ok maybe you are talking about the other half.
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  467. Didn't see that, it was a left wing person who sprayed someone and got shot.
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  468. It's not about formal education. Many Americans believe in American exceptionalism which is a nationalistic superiority complex often touted by politicians of all persuasions. This crosses party lines and education levels and is a form of brainwashing. Ideology has gone to a ridiculous level where to give one example healthcare the US government spends more on a non universal healthcare system than some countries spend on a universal healthcare system yet it's apparently superior because it's not socialist. This one example shows how brainwashed people are.
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  469. Well the Trump campaign would have to hire those buildings. Maybe you are a Trump supporter and would donate that but most people would not.
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  470. Yep and leaving the borders open to US citizens and permanent residents with only a voluntary self isolation scheme in place for arrivals while touting "travel bans to foreigners" seems a bit like doing the same thing for a year now which it is. It's almost like US leaders want US citizens to believe that US citizens can't bring virus in but foreigner can.
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  471. It should go to those with businesses burnt to the ground. Pretty sure if you are white your shell of a building has the same effect on you but anyway , it sends a subtle message don't have a business in a neighborhood that might burn it to the ground if you are white. A segregation idea.
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  472. 109 homicides in Oakland California in 2020 with a population of 480,000 giving a rate of about 22 per 100,000 . Keep building those prisons America maybe it will work one day or maybe your society needs a rethink.
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  473. Equally divided can't happen, should just be the pre 1967 borders and that's it. But until the US has a position on the matter nothing can change in my opinion.
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  474. Observation from afar, because the US doesn't know how to deal with such issues. This is not the first time , if you look at many hurricane responses, responses to law and order, response to HIV, you will notice that the US underperforms like countries. I think constitutional change is needed, having a king who selects the entire government and bends them to his will doesn't really work that well, even if the king only can serve 8 years and is elected. So a state of the art constitution for 1800 better than being ruled by an English king or queen. I am Australian and the entire government is made up of elected officials not just one person, the Queen who is the head of state has never interfered and the governor general who is a representative of the Queen has only ever intervened on one occasion. A prime minister can easily get the boot because he or she is at the mercy of the political party they are a member of. Just some thoughts and maybe compare US to Canada because culturally the closest I guess but a different system of government. I think Canada has virtually the same set up as Australia although there are bound to be some minor differences.
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  475. The US is 15 times Australia's population , I don't see any train except at Melbourne station and it ain't no Florida or New York depending on which political party you blame.
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  476.  @abood-2639  I like the per square kilometer idea, only Vietnam has done better than Australia for a major country.
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  477.  @scillaburton2965  you've got to be kidding, the US health system is massively over funded. Most expensive in the world on a per capita and gross basis. Functionality is the issue , not money.
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  478. Yeah rightio mate, and not one study suggesting those refrigerated trucks to support morgue overflow have real bodies in them. Maybe it's a multinational blockbuster movie being made by Hollywood.
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  479.  Bubble Eye Ridah  Really, then why as soon as not required , no lockdowns and sporting events with 10s of thousands of spectators. Anyway we did lockdown in Australia and New Zealand and now everything open and very few restrictions. But you prefer to have neverending lockdown lite (without vaccines) , lucky you are in the US where you have your wish. Truth is as the video showed just travel to a state without whatever restriction that bothers you , you aren't locked down. I sympathize with US people who would prefer to have locked down properly and opened up fully.
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  480. The US is great by size only. Most key societal measures compare very poorly to other wealthy countries. To just pick one the per capita homicide rate in the US is around 6 times that of Australia. Wouldn't a peaceful nation be something that Americans should aspire to and accept that currently the performance is very low on this score. I am not making a partisan comment , what I have just said applies to all Americans.
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  481. We have wait to see what eventuates. After that for sure hollywood will put out a movie like "Infection in the House" or variety of other possible names.
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  482. The gentleman is wrong, if 3% of votes don't get counted it will affect all candidates equally , it's impossible that all lost or slow mail would be all voters of one candidate only. While it's not good if it occurs other than if it's malicious and a certain area has its postal service being slower it will have no effect on the result.
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  483.  @shaejen127  which countries. Australia , New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, HK, Thailand all did lockdowns, are we worse off? Most country mentioned are opening up. The key was the initial response and taking the threat seriously and good contact tracing and testing in the initial stages of the pandemic. The US can only do mitigation not containment now because of previous failures . While we could descend into your situation you can never get yourself into our situation. Christie is the first person I see in US politics talk about mental health which was a serious consideration in Australia even a month ago, which probably has reduced the timing in our reopening. I wish the US the best of luck . Ok I just discovered maybe Taiwan didn't but their initial response leaves even Australia for dead, pardon the pun.
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  484.  @charlesklempner8273  It's not that simple and if people lack the confidence and hide in their homes as you put it jobs won't be available anyway because of no customers. Calling people names won't achieve much in my opinion. Yes if you are aged from maybe 10 years old to 40 years old and don't have health issues including obesity your chance of dying is probably 1 in 1000 or less but just consider others.
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  485.  @charlesklempner8273  thanks for reply. I look at US politics because it fascinates me. We do have some of the same issues to the US regarding people s animosity to each other but we have a multi party system and not a 2 party system which allows for those on the extremes to join smaller political parties. This makes a difference I think because major parties don't have to have extreme policies in some cases. Both political groups have people not even willing to listen or consider alternative views and sorry to say it just act in anger which reduces those people's chance further of actually being listened to outside of the echo chamber. So I would encourage you to not throw insults if you want a chance to be listened to. When others do it to you it feels bad so why do it to others. I have thought a bit about what should the US do now , noting I haven't thought about that till now. Australia's situation at the moment is completely different so what I want for Australia is completely different to what I think the States within the US should do. Looking at the numbers I think most states should probably adopt the Swedish model now and due to political restraints I apply that thinking to all. Protect the vulnerable and continuous testing for hospital and aged care workers. If resources permit once an outbreak in either of these settings is confirmed replace the entire staff with people who it is believed don't have it. I do differ with mask wearing compared to the Swedish or Australian model because that is what US people want. If testing the groups mentioned above after that test others with flu like symptoms and 2 weeks enforceable quarantine in the case of a positive result to ensure hospitals are not over run. Best of luck anyway and I have no idea how but I hope the US becomes less divided.
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  486. It's incredible there is only one leader of the world behaving in such a manner , it would also be incredible if the entire US media didn't report on this leader's behavior. Watching from afar in covid free Queensland Australia.
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  487. It just happened how would they know, the suspect needs to be interviewed.
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  488. As a non American I have no idea and just judge based on what he just said and with possibly a slightly different emphasis I agree but totally agree mental health is a serious issue.
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  489. Actually there is a study on that and technically it would appear to be correct. Riots so far have achieved the best lockdown for the masses. When you see rioters on the streets burning down buildings and being violent to passers by in some cases there is a good reason to shelter in place. So it spreads through the protest mobs but reduces infections in the general public.
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  490. Likes and dislikes are irrelevant in cases like this because some will dislike and like for the same reason, like because something is being done about it and dislike because of the wrongdoing.
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  491. Well he is about the complexion of Zimmerman, let's wait and see. I think someone will describe him as white because the title becomes arbitrary. Race isn't the issue , just young man kills someone, not good.
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  492. Don't look at Western Europe, they failed too in the beginning. Look at Western Pacific countries who largely successful in the beginning until now. For the response after the initial failures Western Europe is appropriate to compare to in many ways.
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  493. I am outsider don't worry I not provide undue influence. But Red is the Chinese Communist Party and Republican party. Best to be safe red and orange and yellow are also a symbol of a poisonous creature and danger. So red tie, orange face and yellow hair seems like a decent warning. Read the biological warnings.
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  494.  itchydiscoman  unfortunately your words may be profetic
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  495. The real public health crisis in the US is the suicide rate of white males, it's through the roof. I don't know the age statistics on it but I would think young to middle aged white men would be a large proportion.
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  496. They did actually, a jump to 1, 000 deaths in a day from a low of 250 or so.
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  497. It's slower moving than that, deaths per day can't reach that. But it can continue for a year without effective treatment or vaccine.
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  498. It's the deaths that count, mass shootings happened so far this year more than 1 time per day, need a 24/7 mass shooting channel to properly cover them all.
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  499. Pretty out of date headline. News would be 14 days rolling average of New covid 19 cases hits a 1 month low.
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  500.  @frankbrown536  this isn't exactly a Jihad or White supremacists channel, speak freely and keep it reasonably civil that's all.
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  501.  @xjunkxyrdxdog89  finding alternative means like I saw in one video is ok also. Don't come in but please provide a list of what you want and we will pick it for you.
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  502.  @Gena7486  No I am suggesting although I won't be listened to on this forum carry out measures as the West Pacific countries including my country Australia and at least suppress the levels of virus floating around or if you actually want to open up fully other than travel restrictions go for elimination. The Florida Experiment is in progress which is no restrictions other than try to take care of people in nursing homes but no real plans there either. It's the only jurisdiction on the planet to go down this path so we will see how it goes. Florida is going for herd immunity and is a brave jurisdiction in doing so, a world first. It would make more sense in a country with a low life expectancy however let Florida take the lead, I am sure many are watching with interest.
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  503. Stop advertising AR15 rifles, you are really a part of the problem. Call it what it is and that is a semi-automatic rifle.
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  504. I just read the first amendment it only states that Congress can't make a law to stop peaceful assembly. If someone is blocking a street it's already not peaceful because you are restricting others the right to use that street in a lawful manner, to travel and or transport goods. Really it means you can meet on private property. So Antifa can have 10,000 people assemble on a private farm for arguments sake. This I guess is why KKK can't be designated as a terrorist organisation and rallies if held on private property can't be stopped. Are you certain that amendment is 100% positive? It really comes down to the government how they act because there are always ways around everything.
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  505. About it being widely reported and well known that's a good thing. Although hopes are slim better to get help from neighbors who likely have some equipment Indonesia not have and more looking means more even if slim chance.
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  506. Can you imagine if they didn't? Locking up a man of color for no reason. This is not minority report, you can't keep someone locked up because they might do something.
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  507. Well Fauci did just say the fast tests are inaccurate . In Australia we don't use them at all, I think medical staff might have them for emergency situations where the person is being treated for an accident or something.
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  508. Basically the police are saying they have no leads. Not ruling out could be to do with her lifestyle. A lot of comments of people jumping to conclusions. I hope the police get some useful information to give the family and friends some peace.
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  509. You go place the biggest bet you can on a Trump win at the bookmakers if you are so certain, much better return than the stock market.
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  510. They don't need to, it's assumed that people are aware of this fact. Everyone knows if you eat a lot of fast food you will become obese and it will shorten your life as in kill you at some point. KFC or McDonald's etc. are not responsible for your death.
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  511. Not their jurisdiction for the most part , those were state crimes.
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  512. The strangest contradictory thing at the moment is so many bars being open and public officials saying don't visit them. Another take on that is do whatever you want .
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  513. But beaches much lower risk than closely grouped together protestors yelling stuff.
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  514. There's been as many outbreaks connected the Whitehouse as Australia and New Zealand put together in recent times.
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  515. The US has most likely the most paramilitary police in the world for groups such as yours and one of the largest militaries on the planet. Exactly how are you protecting Americans and from what?
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  516. But what if both choices have that in common? I think quite a few people don't like the behaviour of either party or presidential candidate.
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  517. Different laws in every state. The one that amazed me is 1 to 20 years for putting foot on shoulder. Possible 20 years for that is ridiculous. But depending on sentencing guidelines maybe could be as low as 1 year non custodial sentence of probation if the judge decided so. This and the kick are not really disputable but the extenuating circumstances should determine the possible sentence.
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  518. Probably people north of the sun belt states are just reading through the comments thinking as long as they don't move north and move between each other we should be fine.
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  519. It was badly handled but going to the "human rights commission" whatever that is because it sounds like a United Nations body not something a state would have is a bit over the top also. A more sensible approach would have been to ask all officers if they want the task due to its high profile nature noting if anything was to occur at all it will be investigated intently. This is not special treatment , more a case of poor judgement. The killers they frequently look after are no different and on some occasions a lot worse I would think. The procedure that caused the death of Floyd was done on 44 occasions in that police department over a 5 year period causing unconsciousness. So it's reasonable to say it was standard practice that the police commissioner was aware of. If such actions which this case appears to be based on for the second degree charge why on 44 occasions were no charges laid at all it would appear?
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  520. Umm it was some pictures with no editorial. What is the bias may I ask or did you just not like the photos?
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  521. The company is Taiwanese.
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  522. The second amendment is for "a well regulated militia" automatic weapons were banned by Reagan and nobody has challenged that, a ban on ordinary people having semi automatic weapons which do the most damage seems legal and bans do exist in certain jurisdictions but it's like the covid 19 policies of the US, guns are so freely available in a lot of places they end up everywhere. So my take on it is it's nothing to do with the second amendment.
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  523.  I'm a misanthropist  Ok you seem to be correct to a point, it stated "in common use" so you can't just have any arms, you can't go and buy an RPG I would expect. I suppose hand guns are the preferred weapon of gangsters and AR-15 are the preferred weapon for mass school shootings. So I suppose they are in common use. The US has 5 times the homicide rate of any other wealthy country, gun culture is a contributor , give an inherently violent people compared to other countries full access to guns and some will use them.
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  524. Mask is not important actually unless major outbreak maybe. Look at Australian per capita numbers we are head to head. Some major difference in approach regarding the border though.
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  525.  @dankoyun4822  so far we are both fine, Australia and South Korea. I do think if infection rates were to be high then masks would probably be important.
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  526. Where in Europe, that covers Western Russia to Ireland?
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  527.  Indi Pillai  You are a person of extreme prejudice to even suggest such an idea that Trump followers are basically all racist people who sympathize with those who commit lynchings. Quite a few lynchings have been carried out by supporters of both major US political parties recently. How many innocents do you want to die? Should a policeman be lynched, should a Trump supporter be threatened with lynching, should a Trump supporter go to a rally with the intent of killing someone if need be to protect property ( yet another lynching). I am not American but it saddens me when anyone says only the other side is guilty when literally lynchings have been occurring on both sides recently. Because it's possible you are not aware a lynching is an extrajudicial killing.
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  528.  @messenjah  I am a foreigner mate. Aussie means Australian for future reference. Whether Trump stays or goes until both sides completely without qualification denounce lynch mobs of any persuasion you can't move forward as a country. Is it ok the BLM occupiers lynched a person driving a car into the occupied zone in Seattle? I think not and is absolutely equivalent to the 17 year old kid who went armed to defend businesses in Kenosha. If you consider both these lynchings really bad and the leadership of both major parties lacking for not treating both cases equally then there is hope for you. Vote for whoever you want , a homicide rate of 6 times on a per capita bases when compared to Australia is certainly nothing to laugh about or point blame. It won't be fixed unless both parties admit failure and do something about it together I would suggest.
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  529.  @messenjah  Well yeah I am Australian as I stated and my screen name implies. If you want an American equivalent of the so called "great firewall of China" so that you can't interact with foreigners I guess you should write to your Congress man or woman. I have no problems if foreigners offer opinions on Australian politics but if I disagree I will certainly let it be known. I actually don't have a strong opinion on who might be the best US president next time around , only a strong opinion that the current conflicts between both major US parties is making things worse at this point in time and both sides are deliberately outraging the alternative side. This doesn't apply to every person on either side.
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  530. the South West Pacific is doing fine thanks but pretty isolated.
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  531. How about 12 weeks then it would be gone in most states. Other jurisdictions can do it.
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  532. @Al LivesMatter Masks are the last line of defense and help a little bit, it's hard lockdown measures that work, soft lockdowns do more damage to business and people's mental health because there is no end, you are still at day one when truly considering containment , so fair to say even the concept has been abandoned in the US. I truly hope vaccines work as well as hoped because not enough information that immunity will last long and or that they will cover the ongoing mutations. If one US state could break ranks and decide they don't want the virus and stop all arrivals from other states without 14 days hotel quarantine that the traveler pay for containment could theoretically work, easiest jurisdictions to do this because no cross border daily workers is Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico. I feel for you in your situation because your response indicates you are not anti everything but very negative due to the situation and lack of any tough leaders around who could get the job done. Maybe Biden will surprise but his rhetoric so far is "just wear a mask" which simply isn't good enough and waiting to see if vaccines really work on all strains over the next year or so with current mitigation measures only and no plan B is high risk in my opinion. Best of luck and take care of yourself and those around you the best you can.
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  533. Yes and unfortunately in the US many such people exist of different racial backgrounds, it comes back to unfair government policies affecting poor whites and blacks for the most part which are the 2 main groups. Without addressing the underlying problems and reasons you can't solve the problem. I am in Australia and while we are no devoid of this problem it's far less of a problem at least at the current time. Unfortunately there is one incident that stands out being the Christchurch New Zealand mosques attack carried out by an Australian white supremacist. Because of the internet these groups or individuals can be radicalized across national borders. Not sure how that killer was radicalized exactly but pretty sure the internet played a part and might have been international.
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  534. The comments in this thread are quite disturbing, collectively you are literally killing each other at a rate 5 times that of other wealthy nations through homicides and your life expectancy is now lower than that in China. But according to half the comments in this thread death is the last human right and the first human right is to be selfish. So I guess those that think that way can't really be unhappy if a gang shoots up your neighborhood and kills a loved one because half the population doesn't seem to care including yourself. You are the only country to break into a simmering civil war over "freedom to infect" , noting other countries are gaining greater freedoms including life through cooperation.
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  535.  @irishsaber18  Why the border question to someone, Trump kept the border open and so has Biden, what relevance does it have to your situation? You can't turn the clock back unless you are annoyed with both political parties and still nothing you can do because most Americans fully support an open border (not talking about illegal immigration). At least the vaccines are available.
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  536. Are you serious? Do you think that all that has happened hasn't caused a single bit of distress or anxiety to anyone. People losing jobs and some knowing due to their age may never get another one, people going bankrupt, people losing multiple family members knowing in some cases it was preventable. Ok you stick to your opinion if it helps your mental health but maybe keep it to yourself.
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  537. Interrogated , you got to be kidding. This was like the easy questions on "are you smarter than a 5th grader" . Interrogation is a little different.
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  538. That's ridiculous, good cops would be behind a desk in weeks because criminals watch the cops too. They know which ones to fear and they would set up complaints real quick.
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  539. Arizona has lost the plot. The order should be shelter in place unless you are an essential worker. Testing only for essential workers and immediate family of essential workers and at risk populations (elderly , obese people and those with other serious conditions) . Having a test that might take 3 weeks is as useful as tits on a bull.
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