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

  1.  @nor0845  I never knew that, I learnt something.
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  2. Take care of yourself and hope you are doing ok given the circumstances.
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  3. Another comment has said the US doesn't report cases anymore , only reports them if hospitalized, so India probably needs to lower it's standard to the US standard to achieve the required outcome.
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  4. Try reverse psychology on them, they might slip up. Tell them about Australia and New Zealand and how it's all opened up now. They will most likely say but they are islands etc. etc. If they do this then they have just acknowledged the virus. Explain to them the enforcement and rules in Australia and NZ was strict , nothing about being islands otherwise Puerto Rico and Hawaii shouldn't have cases. You want to have a conversation and just discuss the matter, don't tell them what they should do because they will resist, just present evidence in a way that allows them to criticize, ignore the I am American and we can't do it because xyz.
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  5.  @oldbloke204  The covid 0 states intend to keep it that way without lockdowns and my guess is will probably be successful. Have to remember our "open" will be far stricter than the US or most European countries ever were. Home quarantine for 7 days will be enforceable and not voluntary, 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine for those with the virus and close contacts. So my opinion we will be fine but it's unpredictable , next winter might be the problem time.
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  6. Because adverse vaccine reactions and immunity to the virus are 2 completely different things. The first few days after vaccination there is little effect on immunity.
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  7. It's still very rare so I would not worry too much just if something was to happen tell the medical staff exactly what you just said here.
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  8.  @bootburner4544  It's lucky NZ had a reasonably quick turnaround in genomic testing of the NZ cases so Australia knows to put any incoming passengers into government supervised 14 day quarantine. We are terrified of this UK strain that keeps escaping quarantine.
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  9. Having alternate messaging in different languages is what one expects from a propaganda state (dictatorships) , it's sad to become aware Sweden is doing it.
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  10. But it may well act as a deterent, look Bill Gates is now paying for you to take the death jab.
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  11. It's actually good policy and the companies pay into the fund via a 75c per vaccine tax. Doesn't cover all vaccines it seems so if the Covid 19 vaccine available isn't on the list of course be concerned. It's good for both parties and doesn't prevent someone sueing the vaccine company or whoever administered the vaccine but they must go through an initial process first and reject the compensation on offer if applicable. If you were in most country including Australia I believe you would have no access to compulsory compensation and if the vaccine company or whoever administered the vaccine didn't want to pay one cent you would need to take the company to court at your cost and risk only with no alternative. Sounds great for the consumer and at a reasonable cost of effectively payment if 75c in tax which can be considered insurance. If only the rest of US healthcare was so affordable. Go to national vaccine injury compensation program FAQ (frequently asked questions) and you can verify what I say.
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  12. That's what I'm thinking, probably vaccine companies afraid that current batches go to waste and everyone wants the newest version. Also have to run trials.
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  13. Meaningless, can catch it in transit and some countries buying a piece of official looking paper saying whatever you want it to say isn't expensive.
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  14.  @DrScopey2  The only reason you "had more cases" early on is because your state was competent and actually did some of that testing and tracing stuff. If you were a state of Australia you would have shut the border when required and have 0 cases with an actual quarantine system.
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  15. Hope you are fine, try to take care of yourself.
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  16. The worst are those who literally attack people who have had a death in the family.
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  17. The alternate view is up to 12 week comprehensive lockdown in all countries with cases and go to 0. Very difficult in poor countries with slums but achievable in all wealthy countries.
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  18.  @annebritraaen2237  My comment is a compliment to John acknowledging that he is good enough to be a real journalist even though untrained.
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  19. Thanks for the survey link. I am in Queensland and appreciate the sacrifices Victorians must make. I notice comments in this thread that are simply incorrect, every jurisdiction with major outbreaks can't have hospitals carrying on like normal so letting the virus rip will never improve other health outcomes. Truth is but many don't realise it or have forgot Victoria had the least oppressive approach in the beginning which was an error and has contributed to people being angry now. As far as the economy there is 0 evidence that countries with out of control outbreaks are performing better and have provided approximately equal levels of government stimulus and economic declines are also very similar but non tourism parts of the economy are far better in places with little to no virus because things are more open. Victoria's comeback is impressive and looking good for reopening cautiously and I don't think the same mistakes will happen again. To all Victorians hang in there you will be like the rest of Australia soon.
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  20.  @enrobsorussell  open borders and voluntary quarantine which has holes in it is a partial lockdown only. Evidence is poorly executed partial lockdowns do the most damage , search for pew research covid 19 country response survey and hopefully you can find it. US and UK least approve of their governments approach out of 14 high income countries, Australia and Denmark out of the countries surveyed had the highest approvals. Evidence is success is the only thing the public wants. If you looked at the survey support for certain measures actually rose as numbers have improved in Victoria. This is counterintuitive but can be explained by the vast majority would prefer a cautious approach that will succeed even though it might take a little longer. It's amazing to see actually and extremely encouraging the support for the curfew for the time being , actually increasing. The curfew is a low cost but effective measure which frees up resources for other times of the day, particularly to do with enforcement which is required because of the small minority.
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  21. Regardless of the virus you should do something about that weight if you can.
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  22. N95 is literally 100 times better but hard to breath through because it is actually filtering the air if sealed around your face properly. So consider the pros and cons and more importantly try to spend a low amount of time in high risk areas.
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  23. Their outbreak was Alpha actually not Delta. Nobody has contained Delta over 100 cases a day in a jurisdiction so far, China did contain it with low numbers in different provinces but extreme measures, testing entire population in an area for example not possible in almost any other country. Edit: Taiwan did have a Delta outbreak while dealing with the Alpha outbreak, possibly very fortunate timing because already in a reasonably hard lockdown, if the Delta was the initial outbreak things could have been very different.
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  24.  @karlhawkes  I am in Australia so I am calm but I feel for people in other parts of the world who's governments decided on a different approach.
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  25. Has the ratio of covid 19 deniers versus the realists changed? I was not aware.
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  26. I don't think it's fully authorized but undergoing trials. I think unfortunately there's some geopolitics involved with how our government is treating that company.
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  27. Stay safe the best you can.
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  28. Not at all for the big cities, so Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne are certainly no different to many European countries and all US states except the big 4 New York, California, Texas and Florida. US is actually slightly less urbanised than Australia and had they closed the borders like Australian states all the states excluding the ones I mentioned could have just as easily had Australian results. The US and Europe still to this day have nothing like the West Pacific standard border quarantine. The US still has voluntary quarantine at the border and so does Republic of Ireland along with most of Western European countries.
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  29. How is your ginormous prison state lol? I am in Queensland a softer version but our Premier seems to cop more flak. In the end the closures of all borders except New South Wales and Victoria in the beginning probably saved us because if every state was like Victoria 2 months ago they wouldn't have the extra federal assistance which certainly has helped.
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  30. Would have dig deeper in the data, they might be coming in for other things but could still be caused by the virus, need to know are the hospitalizations above average or not and what the other issues are. I had covid most likely and herpes and tinea flared up and conjunctivitis I couldn't open my eyes after waking without manually removing the stuff gluing my eyelids together. Never had these issues in such a severe way previously.
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  31. At least 50% of any adult population in a Western country has a comorbidity, so yes evidence points to it works.
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  32. Sorry mate you don't get it the border is still open with only voluntary quarantine, no enforced hotel quarantine. If I am wrong and it has changed in the last few weeks let me know.
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  33. Quarantine or self isolation are interchangeable words so not sure what you mean. If you are in England a person from New York can fly to England , tell immigration they will be staying at your place for 14 days as the self isolation address, then they can catch a bus or taxi to your place and start their 14 days. You may continue going to work or doing whatever it is you do while following any local restrictions. This is England's version of quarantine or self isolation. The UK and US are in line, the Swiss cheese quarantine and isolation policy. I am in Queensland Australia, if you come from Victoria Australia to Queensland you will go into 14 days mandatory government supervised hotel quarantine largely at your cost $2,800 AUD for individual, you will be tested twice while you are in quarantine, if you refuse testing you need to stay another 10 days , not sure it will cost extra but I would expect so. I think at this point all states in Australia are about the same plus NZ which I think has identical quarantine procedures. Both Australia and New Zealand are not accepting people who are not permanent residents or citizens at the moment. Do you see any difference between us and UK and US?
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  34.  @just_chris1630  I think biosecurity is basically standardised between Australia, New Zealand and Japan. I looked up out of curiosity about dogs quarantine and all needed a rabies vaccine which takes about 6 months from first shot. Once a dog has been in one of these 3 countries plus a couple of other countries for 14 days the dog can travel freely between the jurisdictions. Interestingly at one point in time for people returning they had to spend 14 days in a few low virus jurisdictions this year, so returning travellers were treated like dogs. The irony is a dog can travel between these countries easier than a human, I looked the info up while Victoria was not accepting international flights which is the only dog quarantine facility so some dogs travelled via NZ at that time. The dates of updates on the international procedures was around this time in all 3 countries. I look forward to being able to travel as easy as a dog next year and yes a vaccine is ok just like the dogs.
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  35. Fluorescent lights give off some UV light but no idea how much effect it might have because would be far lower than sunlight for example. The old incandescents can produce some heat but I don't think any UV . LED lights produce no UV and very little heat so probably the same as being in the dark as far as the virus is concerned.
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  36. Every little bit can help.
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  37. The problem in the US is the capacity to deal with large numbers of hospital cases has actually reduced and healthcare in general is more stretched than at the beginning of the pandemic in part from people quiting. Moral is extremely low by all accounts and that's not good.
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  38. Comorbidities and age might very well have a 90% + correlation. If you make it to 85 years old you will probably have something wrong with you. So they can both be correct because they occur in tandem.
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  39.  @bootburner4544  you are being ridiculous, no other Australian state has had to lock down again. Victoria needs to be sure there isn't 100 cases out there that they don't know about otherwise it's all for nothing, the rest of Victoria outside of Melbourne isn't in lockdown as of tomorrow or something.
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  40. It's relative, let's take US versus Australia, 6 years less life expectancy now in the US compared to Australia but that concerns very few people there. If Australia's life expectancy dropped by 6 years in one go so maybe 5% of the population or something over the age of 40 dead in one year or so we wouldn't look as calm as the US right now with exactly the same life expectancy.
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  41.  @inglis7086  hope all is well now, take care. I most likely had covid 19 and in my case symptoms worse than your first vaccine dose. You did the right thing, risk isn't 0 but much less than the virus.
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  42. I was thinking that actually, it's a naturally imposed lockdown, but when things clear up you might see big spikes.
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  43. I am 47, truth is I got taught all that stuff as a kid washing hands etc. , but never been a problem and I have been completely ignoring it. The personal hygiene in certain middle income countries is probably better than many high income countries because they have seen problems in their own life time. So totally agree but it will depend on country and even area of a country. To a New York kid that walked past a hospital each day with trucks lined up to take bodies from the hospital it was very real, but another kid who has seen nothing it's not a big issue.
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  44. I read a statistic that indigenous children at age 5 have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world at 96.9% , so while there are still issues and lower life expectancy in that group we are trying. The overall national rate at that age is 94.8% .
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  45. Nowhere is "quick enough" , except maybe Israel and a couple of others, most countries it's realistically 6 months before all at risk people vaccinated and maybe 9 months for majority of population. There is also the mutations which would still be occurring which is a significant risk in my opinion.
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  46. No the 95% is 95% less likely than if unvaccinated, so if it's 10% chance of hospitalization in an unvaccinated person then it's only 0.5% chance in a vaccinated person.
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  47.  @yingyang1008  hell no but try crossing the Western Australian border. Not all draconian efforts are identical but they can be equal in intensity. A rich Queensland politician made a court challenge against the state of Western Australia that basically the state was unreasonable to stop the entry of him. The court found in favour of the State of Western Australia. From a comment of a Western Australian apparently 3 people currently serving prison terms for quarantine type breaches.
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  48. There is a benefit though that might save thousands of lives. It's the first time to have celebrities in our region advertising containment policies noting what Australia does is the same in all West Pacific countries. Maybe some other countries not in our region might consider having a quarantine scheme. See the death toll of over 2,000,000,000 population in the region with the same policies is less than the UK. One has to say maybe containment policies work and hard lockdown as required noting also higher internal freedoms on average than constant mitigation lockdown lite which is still nowhere near finished.
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  49.  Underbitelover  Strange comment of yours it's the open border policies of many countries is why this problem continues. Everything would be open including international travel had a different policy been in place.
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  50. True they end but can easily come back with a less favourable mutation. Flu pandemics in Eastern Asia in particular during 50s and 60s killed a lot of people. If Omicron completely takes over which it hasn't yet that would be great because will give a lot of people some immunity for the next mutation.
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