Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Dr. John Campbell" channel.

  1. One thing very noticeable in the Uganda clip is although people are poor, in that area at least it's quite clean, not seeing rubbish everywhere unlike a lot of poor nations. The video quality was pretty dam good in my opinion especially being recorded on a motorcycle.
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  2. You state they are ignoring the science, you are incorrect and here's why. In the US people were having covid 19 parties to get infected, tell some people they don't need a vaccine if already had the infection those parties will start up again killing a large number of people. You are basing your opinion on simplistic thinking and or assuming everyone will do the right thing. Voluntary quarantine resulted in 650,000 deaths, seems voluntary cooperation doesn't work, in fact where voluntary quarantine existed in European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region the deaths are 10 times that of the Western Pacific WHO region where quarantine was mandatory on a per capita basis. 650,000 dead people based on voluntary compliance speaks for itself I would suggest and is pretty simple social "science".
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  3. Hope it continues to show results, best of luck.
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  4. A small correction, can't remember which, think it was Alabama but could have been Mississippi they sent covid 19 patients interstate previously, so things are not all good. Various states seem to be entering a real danger zone and then people behave different reducing cases for a while and then back again, cases and self or government imposed restrictions going up and down like yo yos.
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  5. You take care , best of luck.
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  6. Pity about the 70,000 funerals to get to that point.
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  7. I think people are thinking too much, just use 4 demographic indicators and it explains it, life expectancy so the age of the population, obesity rates, urbanization rate and income levels (poor people will make a greater effort not to get the virus and don't frequent places where the virus spreads rapidly like enclosed air conditioned bars and restaurants). Wealthy city people who will be fatter and older will also be the first to get vaccinated because they will be less vaccine hesitant. In a way covid 19 is a rich fat person's disease. I agree with you that the statistics will be fairly accurate in most African nations, they actually have more experience with pandemics than wealthy nations so data collection and tracking of diseases is already in place even if it might not be collected in a sophisticated way.
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  8. Hope you recover without problems.
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  9.  @pittabreadchicken7926  You want sympathy because of your governments incompetence yet you are ok that incompetence killed someone. You are just an extremely selfish person. Wouldn't it have been better to have both like Australia and New Zealand and China, few deaths and less economic impact, in fact short term at least the failed responses around the world have helped China's economy because more goods purchased and less services purchased.
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  10. I think the general advice at least in Australia is should wait 6 months after infection, probably as immunity wanes a bit the reaction to vaccines reduces.
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  11.  @anfieldreds_1892  You are simply wrong, Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland and New Zealand all have managed to either keep the virus out or in the case of Queensland and New Zealand manage any outbreaks successfully. New South Wales I believe might have achieved that goal too. Victoria as long as open carefully should join the rest of us soon. So with a combined 30,000,000 population of Australia plus New Zealand it can be done.
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  12.  @mballer  read my comment again, I said nothing about whether or not people are more or less protected after being infected, I only commented voluntary compliance killed 650,000 US citizens and that US citizens will have covid 19 parties and kill themselves to avoid a vaccine, the evidence of this is overwhelming.
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  13.  @mav1733  You don't believe Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea? Don't know where you are from but the most misleading behaviour is in the USA.
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  14.  @charliefoxtrot5001  You're nuts , Sydney isn't Australia. However yes it's going through the same thing as Melbourne before and no, unarmed public servants in camouflage uniforms isn't close to martial law, they have no powers, they just expand police numbers and they will be the boys who go get the coffees and doughnuts for the coppers and doing mundane tag along stuff, go and buy the old lady in lockdown her medication and food things like that. Not heavily armed military with combat equipment, not like a US riot with the national guard and riot police brought in with plenty of rubber bullets and tear gas and military vehicles. We are a peaceful country thanks.
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  15. The Western Australian government just wants to show they are the toughest jurisdictions on the planet and have to outdo Queensland. Second lockdown on the planet with 0 known cases of community transmission but to outdo Queensland 5 days instead of 3 and a bit stricter. Queensland however , the only state I think has declared the areas under the Western Australia lockdown area as a hotspot which used to be a case of community transmission but now seems to be even a single quarantine breach without evidence if it has spread or not. To the comment above that Australia had a long lockdown this is incorrect, most places it was around 8 weeks, however Victoria had about 6 months of a less strict lockdown than say Western Australia and opened up more than elsewhere while cases spreading , this led to about 3 months of very strict lockdown and they successful in elimination. New South Wales had a few issues also so maybe a bit more lockdown than the remaining states in some areas but they had great contact tracing and it never got out of hand despite that state being arguably the worst for quarantine breaches caused by carelessness not the likely unavoidable kind like WA just had. If it turns out Western Australia does have cases of community transmission they will get on top of it quickly, a pre emptive lockdown just in case shows a high level of proactiveness .
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  16. Wish your state the best but unfortunately looks like your community is in for an ongoing very hard time. Take care.
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  17. China is having problems too and 21 days mandatory enforced quarantine for them, the Delta variant is nothing like the Wuhan variant. Greater Sydney isn't all of Australian and that state slowest to lockdown and as the person who wrote into John they are reactive not proactive and now in trouble, no other state have problems anywhere near as bad.
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  18. But one is unsightly the other can potentially kill.
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  19. Hey glad you survived the heart attack.
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  20. The Oxford Vaccine is already in production by CSL in Victoria.
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  21. Asymptomatic is being used liberally, runny nose , slight cough etc. , normal mild cold symptoms I believe are being called asymptomatic when technically they're not.
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  22. Unfortunately black market stuff is often fake. Hopefully even if it is black market mostly it's the real thing.
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  23. It's also charisma, he's easy going, non threatening and very good at explaining things in a way normal people get some idea.
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  24. Well Australia effectively shut the border to free movement of people only allowing citizens to return mostly at their cost, this resulted in an increased trade surplus because we can't travel overseas and spend money, this would apply to most rich countries I would expect, so from a national point of view closing a rich countries border for a bit actually helps the economy. (Maybe our treasurer is secretly devising a plan to keep it shut as long as possible)
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  25. There's a a complete list actually, bread, then fresh meat, then pasta, then instant noodles, then rice and last of all canned fish. If you start running out of canned fish then start to worry because it's not a very sought after item and or hoarders already have a stock of canned fish. My experience from Brisbane from the original lockdown.
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  26. I am trying to create one, I store my infected saliva after each infection and reinfect myself every few months to create a super variant, then eventually I can be a live bioweapon should my military or spy services require such a service.
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  27. It's probably a time thing, they keep telling their patients to eat properly, don't drink too much or smoke and they have a 1% success rate at achieving results so pretty disheartening over time.
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  28.  @milenalm5288  7 deaths for a population of 5 million, the lowest deaths in the world on a per capita basis for any reasonable sized jurisdiction along with most Chinese provinces. What numbers would you need to see to be convinced lockdowns work. Another note the states run the responses in Australia, NSW was less cautious than QLD and now 200 cases a day and minimum 1 months lockdown for greater Sydney.
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  29.  @djedd23  not unusual, if you watched Trump's doctor he repeated at least 2 times he will have nurses and doctors available 24 hours a day and that anything that might be required is available in the Whitehouse ( paraphrased ) . So he has just transferred to an alternate intensive care setting that doesn't happen to be called a hospital. It's not the same as your home.
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  30. Hi from Brisbane
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  31. Lol but your big mac won't kill me, eat up become fat get diabetes, I don't care although for your sake I would encourage you not to. Cough on me and I am old or the fat fast food junkie you might kill me. That's the difference.
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  32. Sounds like what was reporting in Alabama US with "challenges" of see who can get infected first. The arguments were all the same arguments in just about every country in the world and in the minority, but a sizable minority in many places.
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  33. £2.50 each , that's a bargain. In Queensland Australia if that happened and rules didn't permit at the time probably somebody going to the big house for a couple of months to think about things. Our first covid 19 prisoner threw a house party , got a £750 fine (approximately). He or she , not sure decided to do the same thing the next day and got 2 months prison.
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  34. Great open borders and now no one wants to take vaccines, what a recipe for success.
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  35. Look back at any video mentioning Australia or New Zealand. We are all doing the same thing. You must have quarantine at the border 14 days government enforced. Then lockdown if required and any outbreak treat possible cases like biological terrorists track them down with that level of urgency, quarantine people and isolate close contacts. Internal travel restrictions if required. Non of this is rocket science it's just a matter of wether a country is willing to do it. Fine people and or a prison sentence depending on offence if required ( highly compliant populations don't require heavy enforcement) , enforcement was a very important component in Australia.
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  36. Nobody knows, it's based on assumptions which are impossible to predict, especially with Omicron because the severity in English population as in older and fatter on average could be quite different to South Africa.
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  37.  @jacobpetersen5662  Howard Springs is far from horrifying , far better than hotel quarantine which literally hundreds of thousands have gone through in all Western Pacific WHO region countries. Not sure why an improvement in accomodation from a converted mining camp is attracting so much attention. Maybe something to do with propaganda.
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  38.  @karlhawkes  If you are in the US well people are dying at about 1,300 a day give or take , around 1,000 from covid 19 and the rest from related or secondary causes like lack of other health care etc. These numbers are with significant intervention. How many should die do you reckon to make it a "proper pandemic"?
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  39. You need farmers first, that red stuff called beef comes from an animal believe it or not. Actually abattoirs are the highest risk in the food chain , so abattoir and processed food factory workers should be added to your list and maybe farmers even though their risk is low.
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  40. Depends who you mean by we and if you mean any virus well SARS1 and Ebola are easy to stop because nobody asymptomatic. Many countries have shown that stopping the spread is possible but unless completely cutting of travel it can re enter at times even with quarantine which can't be made perfect in a realistic sense. When numbers are low enough it would seem detection of the virus in sewerage is often quicker than a person showing up to get tested as experienced in Australia, so many ways to keep getting on top of it and identifying new outbreaks if they occur.
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  41. It wasn't quite that long and 25km now, they are in cleanup phase with very few new cases in the last week. The 2 week lockdown in Wales will make it worse if they just open up again because after 2 weeks everyone will go out at the same time and 4 weeks from now the cases will be even higher.
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  42. My opinion is in general and not particularly on this issue is being dead or causing the death of another is not true freedom
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  43.  @davidwilliams3856  Forced in a hotel with guards in Australia, I think only police military etc. doing guarding now, private guards didn't go so well, the UK has now improved it's self isolation on paper at least but until November some time it was a completely voluntary scheme with nobody even getting fines and you could stay in a household doing your self isolation and others already in the country could continue life like normal under the previous rules. Of course spread will never stop with such relaxed rules.
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  44.  @importantjohn  the current rules in the UK don't compare to lockdown 1 in Australia, nobody allowed to go into the office. Lockdown 2 in Victoria closed everything but pharmacies, supermarkets, petrol stations and takeaway food. The only factories operating was meat works at the lowest possible capacity to process animals that needed to be processed. Lockdowns need to be proportional, people say no lockdowns in places where it worked perfectly and other measures worked well but not true , even Taiwan had a lockdown but short because under control quickly. Same applies to most Australian states plus New Zealand. If you are locked down partially for 10 months 2 months hard lockdown doesn't get noticed so much because all you see, is for example Queensland my state fully open with limited restrictions for 6 months.
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  45.  @thankmelater1254  I thought Toronto would have the most cases in Ontario, just checked the government covid 19 page and 712 currently in hospital in Ontario in total so pretty big surprise only 10 in Toronto.
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  46. In Brisbane it was funny with the short lockdown recently, first time have mask mandate and 0 cases actually.
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  47. You're right you could just read stuff he shows us and turn off the volume and get a basic idea.
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  48. If that's in any way representative of the population then ivermectin is useless, death toll in Mexico per capita is almost identical to the US.
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  49.  @yingyang1008  I think as an Australian (includes other Australian plus Kiwis) I have a fairly unique perspective. It's actually just a parallel or to use a sci fi term alternative reality. We believe that keeping diseases and problems away from us makes us safe. In Australia we have about 4 or 5 major quarantine zones normally with respect to agriculture and any outbreaks create other quarantine zones or rules. My city Brisbane is home to or at least discovered in Hendra the Hendra virus a bat virus with a similar mortality rate to Ebola but very few cases and no known human to human transmission however certainly spread through a horse population which some people caught the virus from. Australia and New Zealand are free from many agricultural viruses that are endemic around the world and we want to keep it that way. While human viruses might have differences the principles are the same it's only the specific containment measures that differ because humans aren't livestock or plants or fungi or soil. Western Australia just happens to be the island on an island separated by desert from the rest of Australia. I think the very hardline reaction is not a coincidence.
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  50. Because you don't have a lockdown, you never have. A totally voluntary system is not a lockdown. You have never even put any border restrictions in other than a voluntary code of conduct that will spread the virus even if the rules are followed for arrivals from highly infected areas.
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