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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