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

  1. It's better the conspiracy theorists are here because then they aren't learning new conspiracy theories and less likely to become more radical. Also some would be going through a phase and therefore when reality hits them at some point they can adjust more quickly.
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  2. Impractical and very expensive so no point.
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  3.  @moon_struck6573  They can demonstrate that more antibodies occur after a vaccine than by natural infection on average, this doesn't prove what you are asking but it means it's highly probable.
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  4. I think the MS thing would be correlation not causation. There are no high income countries on the equator other than Singapore.
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  5.  @susancheer5981  Are you including Ted Cruz in that?
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  6.  @stormbreaker008storm6  Yeah I don't know how you do it, even the US with it's open border policy doesn't get such premium results on the matter you described. It's like London is a first class distribution center or something.
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  7. That's a little unfair, how many cases and deaths per million? Maybe you can say regarding vaccination plans , that might be fair. Also if you are in Thailand remember this part of the world speaks a different language, if you fail to look at the numbers and just the rhetoric you would think things were always out of control in South East Asia , East Asia and Oceania. If you then selected certain media groups in North America and Europe you would think they were having no problems , only problems with politicians over reacting.
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  8. If he was very overweight then high risk
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  9. Well this time round most " Western" vaccines were tested more on Western people than others because infection rates higher. So this reason shouldn't apply to these current vaccines. I am Australian and we don't need emergency use or at least not yet. Emergency use means not guaranteed to the normal standard, you are effectively in a phase 3 trial.
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  10.  @BobWidlefish  depending on the infection rates of a country , you might find if you are talking about governments that they are just like Australia and New Zealand, no need for emergency use of a vaccine at this point in time if they have done fairly well. Africa as a continent would have the highest rural population and they do take precautions so the virus spreads pretty slowly. I would just hope governments act in the true interest of their citizens and the ultra cold Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are probably not suitable for any low income countries because the logistical and higher vaccine costs probably can't justify it. Being in Australia I am happy for us to wait for further data etc. , I am also guessing our government is realising having vaccines could be a curse because everyone will want all travel restrictions gone and it's not going to happen all the travel restrictions will remain the same until either the virus is gone internationally or everyone vaccinated and vaccines truly are 90% plus effective which I am sceptical of and also if the vaccine looses efficacy after 8 months or so pretty pointless most people taking it unless it's decided to be a permanent 2 times a year thing. Sorry for raving on.
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  11. Definitely however I'm not convinced that Iran won't have an explosion of Omicron cases, to me it looks like it just got in. I'm in Queensland we had 40 cases or so about a fortnight ago (mix of about 75% Omicron and 25% Delta), look at our cases now. Happy New Year.
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  12.  @SUPER8ALTERN8  Australian economy has performed far better than UK, US and Canada at much lower cost to government. Maybe you should ask that question to your own country whichever one that is.
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  13. That just makes you the same as , the Americas ( almost all countries ) and almost the rest of Europe, so unfortunately you have a lot of company. In Western Pacific countries we all have 14 days hotel or other enforced quarantine for entry , most have policy of elimination, South Korea and Japan a little less so but towards that direction and even countries that didn't do as well like the Philippines or Indonesia much better than your group of countries.
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  14. Without complimentary efforts closing the borders would have achieved nothing. The virus was already in all major countries on the planet at the time of the Wuhan lockdown. The countries who succeeded all had detected more cases than USA on February 20, that's the approximate crossover date when the US started to overtake other countries case numbers. Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Thailand officially had the largest case loads with 15 or more cases and the US only 15 cases. There is a direct correlation with a small number of countries carrying out all required measures and other countries carrying out one measure partially, eg UK and US still haven't had a lock down by successful country standards to this day with borders still open and no supervised quarantine. It only takes one case, about 15,000 cases in Australia came from a single quarantine breach in Victoria and they know this from dna testing the strain. The main failure was not the quarantine breach because it's happened in Queensland , New South Wales and New Zealand also, the failure was to detect the breach contact tracing and acting very quickly. So quarantine at the border would be useless without proper lockdowns and internal travel restrictions with a massive contact tracing and testing effort by the end of February. Some countries were not particularly aggressive with all these measures officially but if you look at compliance levels of voluntary measures you will find they are much higher in some non Western countries so not as much enforcement required.
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  15. Kathy's comment is silly, the US spends loads of money on health and science that goes with it, the problem is the effectiveness.
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  16.  @Tigerhearty  So the cull in Sweden has slowed down for now. How is it killing 0.12% of your population is now something to be proud of? Florida has been lucky and I am thinking it's because of a couple of factors including older people in that state being wealthier and better weather for controlling virus spread, South Dakota with pretty much the same policies now over 0.2% of population dead.
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  17.  @tomjohnson4681  You sound like you are American, Australian life expectancy is about 5 years longer than the US and we are happy to keep it that way. Fortunately we spend less than the US on a per capita basis on public healthcare, so we live longer on the cheap.
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  18. @Elleanoire age group mostly.
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  19. Not mandatory but more restrictions if the "green passport" idea takes off.
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  20. Ignore Investigative Audit.
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  21. In Australia's case and for Taiwan too it's just annoying because we have no cases, however if in Taiwan it stops them from getting vaccines at all that's bad, Australia has the AZ vaccine in production here with enough doses over time to cover our entire population with some leftovers if we don't go to vaccinating children.
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  22. Over the next year there might be 4 or 5 vaccines available. If you are concerned choose whatever one uses the oldest technology which will likely be like your flu shot.
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  23. Hopefully your government does a lockdown and get back to 0 but every day of waiting it gets much harder. Thailand has done well to now but when cases are over 1,000 per day very hard to turn around.
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  24.  @Zandiv  I checked the TGA and Sinovac along with about 5 or so others from China, India and Russia are not approved for use in Australia yet but will be recognized as being vaccinated for the purposes of cross border travel. I wonder if China will comment noting they only recognize there own unless it's changed recently and Australia is the declared enemy yet we seem to have recognized these vaccines before our geopolitical allies.
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  25.  @chrisstevens8431  Florida has the 7th worst death toll per million in the union, if that's success what would failure look like? Great their cases happen to be lower now but that doesn't change the facts.
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  26.  @alisonhoyte7608  So that along with evidence in NZ of slightly reduced suicides and evidence in Australia of the regular flu dropping substantially , means countries who contain the virus are likely increasing life expectancy at the moment, especially if there is actual statistically significant drop in infant mortality. I think they don't want to emphasize the point though because those who would still prefer the mitigation policies of Europe and US use this as an argument . It amazes me that I think although not many is still a significant number. I was chatting on one of these forums to someone I discovered was from NSW and he or she seemed to be a fan of the Swedish model, funny thing is other than border restrictions there is slightly less restrictions in NSW than Sweden or at worst maybe the same. Some people always think the grass is greener elsewhere no matter what.
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  27. I agree because it's not good if he gets millions of emails and we know unfortunately many emails to public health professionals and politicians are not particularly nice.
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  28.  @Rik77  a little out of date but I did find a number for 2012 and Australia's per capita imports were higher than UK in value. It's a false argument, and has no basis in reality, policy has overridden all other concerns, small islands like the island of Ireland and even Malta have performed badly and populous nations with lots of land borders like Vietnam and China have performed well. There is 0 consistency based on geography and political system and trade and wealth to a point. Your PM is just making excuses, consider Philippines, 100,000,000 population with the most overseas workers in the world and poor country with lots of imports, worst performing country in the Western Pacific region of WHO at about 10% per capita deaths of UK.
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  29. It's a degree of self censoring I believe , because it's inconvenient to compare the US with other rich countries on several metrics. Best of luck to you.
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  30. You point out a potential problem which is probably partly brought about by messaging, maybe people are less likely to seek medical help if they have been vaccinated because it's considered unlikely a healthy person would need medical help.
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  31. We don't know for certain and nor does John, as Fauci said once if you knew for certain everything was fine there would be no reason to do a trial. Also things must be very highly controlled, there are 2 types of thalidomide one perfectly safe and that's what was tested, the other has one atom or something like that in a different position in the chemical chain, that's the one that caused the problems. I expect standards are higher now as a result of that ocurance and whatever is tested will be 100% the same as all product put out as vaccine if it's successful.
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  32.  @laughingachilles  life expectancy is about 75 and you stated an average of once a generation. The other thing is if you know a little about probability the chances of pandemics occurring will keep increasing because the population has quadrupled in the last 100 years and that doesn't mean the probability multiplies by 4 , it will be greater than that, factory farming of animals also can increase the possibility of outbreaks. Compared to 100 years ago when it would take months for an outbreak to spread due to transportation at the time it now takes about 2 weeks to travel to every major country in the world if it's infectious enough like covi SARS 2 was. So to me there's nothing at all out of the ordinary.
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  33. The only cases now are imported and they would unlikely to fit into the category of likely to need hospitalisation because otherwise they couldn't fly here.
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  34. Did you see the Vietnam graph in the clip, their approach and success similar to Australia but at 1000 cases a day in only a few weeks they are in trouble. So they are right to be freaking out as you put it.
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  35. You break restrictions or enter Queensland Australia with a false declaration you go to the slammer for a bit. Good old fashioned enforcement works. The people who break the rules here receive no pity, in fact the opposite people want them to get maximum sentence because they cause or potentially cause lockdowns.
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  36. No they aren't, but not being states constitutionally they are slightly different. An example might be police, the ACT uses Federal police but the NT uses their own police.
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  37.  @TebTengri  I am Australian so if I didn't follow things I the US I wouldn't know. The term i most recently heard to apply to all southern states (I think) is sunbelt states. Is that usual or was it just the reporter or is it technically a little different again?
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  38.  @Christmascancelled  My guess what they say is cold would be like me in Brisbane Queensland, maximum below 22 Celsius which looking at a couple of South African cities it is. Not sure English people would consider it cold as in things are relative and behaviours probably are too. Also they might mean cold for the season not cold compared to winter.
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  39. Who is these people? And what do you mean by want it to go away?
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  40. SAR1 far more deadly as in survival rates and probably no a-symptomatic people so very easy to trace. The asymptomatic spread of sars2 makes it more deadly because far more difficult to trace so can keep spreading.
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  41.  @kace4160  that sounds like a mess, if it's organized and they do it I think fair enough but what you describe is disorganized and like in other parts of the US the vulnerable are not always being vaccinated first, people joining queues for hours or driving long distances to get there aren't the most vulnerable generally. I am quite impressed by how the UK is doing it and hope Australia is similar but we aren't in such a big rush and the EU has slowed it down a little anyway. It's good your grandparents got in, hopefully it goes smoothly.
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  42. The main reason for SARS 1 "dying out" is extremely easy to detect in a relative sense , 10% death rate with all getting significant symptoms, the same reason Ebola is relatively easy to control. Look for really sick people , contact tracing job done. Sars2 look for someone who might have had contact no symptoms greater than hayfever or a runny nose from a cold temperature, really hard to find. Someone with Ebola isn't likely to spend a week partying spreading it to others because fairly quickly they are really sick with an approximate chance of death at 50%.
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  43. The problem is people are using veterinary ivermectin and hurting themselves, it's approved for clinical trials only in most places and that is the position of the WHO. Seems to me it might offer some limited benefit but a vaccine no matter brand is far superior.
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  44. As John said it could be a very minor factor. As there is only likely to be 50 to 100 undetected cases in Victoria and New South Wales and 100,000 undetected cases inside the UK it's fair to say the risk is higher in the UK compared to our only infectious states regardless of the weather.
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  45. Please remember Australia is about number 4 as far as vaccinations go , the US is about 60th most vaccinated nation. Australia is in a much better place and can afford to not put so much pressure on the public about vaccinations.
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  46. 0.25% of New Jersey population already dead from covid 19. As far as comorbidities well 36% of Americans are obese, add in other comorbidities and you will find especially in older age groups many have comorbidities probably well over 50% of the population.
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  47. You mean liquid nitrogen probably. Dry ice is -25c
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  48. No you don't need to know because if it didn't kill them the first time as in wipe out the vulnerable ones it's unlikely to kill those who already survived subject to age over time and other infections happening simultaneously such as flu or other conditions like cancer. Obviously the vaccine won't kill off the vulnerable ones in the first place, so with waning vaccine immunity they will become vulnerable again over time.
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  49.  @lisafairbourn7798  Masks help to slow spread, not stop it.
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  50. That surprises me , are you sure not the other way around from Melbourne Victoria to Perth Western Australia?
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