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

  1. Remember when they compared it to a wildfire or bushfire , now the US and Europe in general look like California or Victoria Australia in a very bad fire season. It doesn't help if the bloke in charge is a fire bug.
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  2.  @---fc2ph  technically you could be right he could become vice president indefinitely or until he's dead and nothing really stopping the president of the day handing over to the vice president as acting president. But alas I think he'll be gone by 20 Jan sometime during that day.
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  3. Totally agree with your last point , Japan, Western Australia, China and New Zealand seem to be the last covid 0 holdouts, better they let Omicron in/spread but in a semi controlled manner.
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  4. Sounds unfortunate.
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  5.  @donbell4583  I am ok with us getting vaccines a little slower because others do need it more but on same token and this applies to Australia moreso we shouldn't be condemned for draconian measures, applies to Australian border especially. John doesn't condemn us and probably most viewers on this youtube channel don't either, so not talking of this group as a whole. If that Indian variant is as bad as it seems it might be some countries with fairly high vaccination rates could have yet another wave of cases and deaths, so we have done the right thing. I hope that possibility doesn't occur but prefer our countries treat these new variants as completely new viruses.
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  6. Well Italy had 2,000,000 available for itself at the time and only distributed 21% of them, Italy's population is about 2 and a half times that of Australia, so sending 250,000 doses to Australia was already a go slow. Until all border workers, hotel quarantine workers and certain medical workers are vaccinated effectively we are at risk of further outbreaks which cause lockdowns. I am uncertain if all those mentioned above have received there first shot yet but hopefully they have with the Pfizer one. My point is ok fair enough we get it a little slower because other countries failed but be reasonable and consider the other countries in our region, it's Australia and New Zealand that will help the rollouts in our Pacific neighbours. Good thing is if reports are correct the vaccines are all ramping up quickly and the timelines now look achievable.
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  7. Unless you refuse all covid patients and put them in covid colonies to die with no interventions having covid 19 rampant means other healthcare suffers.
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  8. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. We don't know if Delta or Lambda or something might mutate and the mutation appears out of nowhere like omicron but unlike omicron keeps it's deadliness. If it really occurs which I doubt, that all people are either infected with Omicron or vaccinated ok it might not be a big issue but if not then things will continue for a while. I of course hope your optimism comes true but I prefer to be cautiously optimistic, certain countries with very high vaccination rates should be fine regardless but those countries with still significant aged people unvaccinated the problems may continue.
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  9.  @AbbyViewss  I hope all goes well and you get extradited home for compassionate reasons. Unfortunately as you probably know most Australian states reduced their intakes recently due to in part the more infectious strains in the world.
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  10. Unfortunately my guess is printing presses are running hot in India at the moment.
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  11. You are doing well, cases down about 90% from peak, freedom awaits you , but have to still be patient and vigilant for now.
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  12.  @KlausJLinke  Good attitude, being furious is like worrying it serves no purpose on its own. Stay safe the best you can.
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  13. The federal government has nothing to do with testing other than paying for half of it. I watched QLDs treasurer give part of the covid update for boxing day I think it was and QLD has a budget deficit of about $ 1.5 Billion and he took a jab at NSW saying that they have a $20 Billion deficit. So my guess because your budget position is really bad they are taking short cuts out of desperation which unfortunately compounds problems, seen this play out in many countries around the world. NSW does have a very high vaccination rate so should be ok but things may not go smoothly. Hope you recover no problems, take care.
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  14. Those 2 countries are very highly vaccinated and lower obesity rates than countries like UK or US.
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  15. I agree with everything you say but on this occasion I think he might be right. It would be better coming from someone else because nobody trusts him.
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  16. Well a few million have died.
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  17. Take care the best you can.
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  18.  @bchollis1451  It's not a no brainier actually, doing some half arsed measure will achieve half arsed results or delay spread a tiny bit from imported cases. China only ever exported 5,000 cases to the world if that and the US has managed to grow the virus very successfully. 14 days enforced hotel quarantine is the only proven successful method of dramatically reducing virus coming into countries or jurisdictions like states. Quarantine breaches will still occur occasionally but see case numbers per capita in Australia versus the US which are both federations where the states control the response within their borders. Australians normally travel internationally on a per capita basis a little more than Americans so nothing to do with size.
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  19. You are another country that was looking good but now looking out of control. I wish you the best of luck, take care.
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  20.  @taffshep1  No that was other states plus Northern Territory other than essential goods and transport of course. Western Australia had several intrastate checkpoints in the beginning to ensure people don't travel around their state. There is very good reason however because if covid 19 got into any remote community and the capital of any of the large area states had a problem then they are dead simple as that. If a reasonable hospital might be 1000km or 650 miles away really what can be done if problems everywhere.
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  21.  @michaelwilliams3861  maybe UK plus Republic of Ireland and throw in France for land area and maybe 2,600,000 people. Area doesn't matter though because mostly they live in Perth , not scattered throughout the desert.
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  22.  @PonderingLifeToo you have to think of the different Australia states as different countries if you are from Europe or North American. From a technical but not logistical point of view travelling to London or Western Australia is very similar, not sure which would be easier. I would need lease on my proposed accommodation in either case to get either entry permit to Western Australia or travel permit to leave Australia. We are like a communist country, we need a permit to leave. An illegal immigrant from Victoria that snuck into Western Australia got 6 months prison. Western Australia might have only minor internal restrictions but try getting in or out if you are not transporting goods or for work.
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  23.  @rijamor  100,000 dead people and you consider that a success? What might failure look like in your opinion?
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  24. One little mouse lol that I have seen. The tennis players and crew are the scary possibly diseased ones. Rodents can catch it but no idea how difficult because they ran tests on them earlier on.
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  25.  @ykook7000  I agree with your last statement, I am in QLD and same applies to WA we both locked down with only 1 known community case of the Delta variant and a high compliance rate I believe. That variant terrifies our state officials.
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  26.  @CarolReidCA  Part of your comment is correct but most of it isn't. If China had known earlier they would have locked down Wuhan earlier so clearly they didn't know until January 22 when over the next day they did a complete lockdown including all flights to anywhere which remained in place until April 14 . The flights coming out of Wuhan were evacuation flights requested by other governments which for obvious reasons couldn't be denied. It's not either possible or the responsibility of China to do anything with those people once they are in another country. All the evidence I have seen indicates less than 1,000 cases ever got out of China prior to January 23 and more likely around 100. I have not heard of a single confirmed case going from any other Chinese city to outside China so even if it did occur the number would be minnescule. But the number is completely irrelevant if countries chose to do nothing other than watch the spread , like the US did and no enforced quarantine to this day. Biden talks about doing it but I don't think it has been done yet and if it's not in a hotel it can't work anyway, even with hotels breaches will occur occasionally. Partial lockdown as practiced by every US state is largely pointless because as you pointed out no travel restrictions. I take it one step further the US actually has a spreading mechanism built into policy because if you lock down one state or county with high infections people just go to the place with low infections that are not locked down. Australian hotel quarantine is almost exclusively for returning citizens so can't avoid that one.
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  27.  @vietnam1978  It's not about being honest, Dr Campbell is trying to look at too many things at once and if course can't understand all peculiarities in every country. Good to hear it looks like you have got rid of it again in Vietnam.
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  28. Yep and 400,000 of them ironically are in there on health offences as in drugs which causes no direct harm to others.
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  29.  @davidjohnpaul333  Totally with you David, from Queensland we have picked up some in sewerage as a possible early warning too which is great it means those areas monitored closely and seeing if it's a new outbreak versus someone shedding dead virus, meaning much less chance of significant local lockdowns. In Aus/NZ we have it down pat now I think with every state plus NZ in full communication and learning off any errors of others .
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  30. Not from what I can see, just 3 days stopover in a government approved hotel if entering by air which is somewhat pointless, another Swiss cheese approach to quarantine and will slightly slow spread , no intention to stop the spread. Maybe you are speaking of some proposal not yet in effect, my source was the Canadian government website so pretty reliable I think.
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  31.  @patriciafarrow9586  I agree with you but mostly if it was a leak from a lab or as some conspiracy theories proclaim a bioweapon the chance of it being so effective is almost 0. The other thing is every single day there are probably 1,000 or whatever zoonotic transfers of virus to humans , 999 either die within minutes of infection or the person becomes ill but passes it to no one, 1 case passes to a close relative or something and it goes no further. All the talk about stopping it from ever occurring again is silly because it's impossible, we can only minimize risks and prepare. The pro China conspiracy theories are just as bad as the Western ones.
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  32.  @just_chris1630  It's not a curfew, just the time pubs and restaurants have to close. They use terminology very different and as a sceptical person I think it is partly to mislead. California at least has capacity limits at bars and restaurants but other than that feel free to spread the virus. I think they have shut some business types in some county's but again feel free to go to the neighbouring county if it's open. Melbourne and Auckland had lockdowns proper and police checkpoints to stop people escaping if they're not allowed. Hey great job in Victoria if you are from there, I think start of next month Queensland will open its border to Vic.
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  33. The problem with that theory is a genomic sequence that demonstrated that virus came before the A and B types in Wuhan should have been found somewhere. I think it could have however been what you say but extremely low levels and not contagious at all, needs to be lower enough levels to have never been detected and sequenced as in hundreds or thousands of cases only worldwide.
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  34. What they have done where I am in Australia but I am guessing in all Australia and New Zealand a supermarket chain shames people. The mask mandate in my area only for 2 weeks and ends on Saturday hopefully. I noticed although the vast majority of people are wearing masks a couple of times I saw people not wearing a mask and a message comes over the loudspeaker reminding people that by law they are required to wear a mask, I think it's triggered by staff whenever they see someone without a mask. One guy did have a guilty look so I think it works.
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  35. Hepatitis B vaccine is 2 or 3 shots , it's normal.
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  36. I have observed that occurring in US states many times, my guess is voluntary measures to protect oneself dramatically increase after hospitals are seen overflowing and refusing patients on the news, it becomes very real.
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  37. Yes I agree nothing to do with UK, protests occured in Melbourne last year but lower numbers. Those people are potentially an extremely big problem if the virus spreads amongst them because they will likely ignore all restrictions and not get tested unless they need to go to hospital.
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  38. It doesn't exactly work like that , a household that becomes fully infected can be over a longer time. It seems consistent with Melbourne Victoria when they lockdown hard cases continued to rise for about 2 weeks from memory. Maybe with the Delta variant it will be a little quicker. So opening up the same thing it can take a while for the spread to accelerate. My guess is cases will increase because the efficacy of vaccines against infection of Delta is only 60% or so. This one I think will know next week.
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  39. Maybe BBC will be a little less critical of Australia having a short term direct travel ban from India.
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  40. That's good but just remember it's a marketing campaign. They probably plan to sell 100 or 200 million doses of the vaccine at $20 a shot. Nothing wrong with it but if India ends up overpaying for vaccines the small gain now might not seem so great in the future.
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  41. There is an advantage if the food is horrible you can dispose of it without being caught and still say how beautiful the food was. So think of it as having certain added advantages.
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  42.  @Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes  I think you mean coastal QLD, not going to be normal at Roma or Mt Isa I think.
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  43.  @vietnam1978  It's a state issue, my opinion is that certain other states are far stricter.
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  44. It's random, just like some kids getting Kawasaki Syndrome, no way to predict which little kids that might happen to. Bad health obviously increases the rate of problems but good health doesn't make one bullet proof.
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  45.  @NibbleIT  Not in the tropics, seasonality makes little difference over time. Brazil is in the tropics and hasn't done well. Israel itself hasn't done well, they are just doing well at distribution of emergency approved vaccines.
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  46. What you describe is so backwards, why are they using tests known to give many false negatives and positives. There are so many things wrong with what you describe. Not saying this is the case in your state because it seems no precautions are required, in Queensland Australia every single person to come in contact would need to quarantine 14 days regardless of PCR test outcomes. A few weeks ago a fairly small hospital I guess a nurse tested positive, the entire 181 work force was quarantined and replaced within 24 hours I think. A little different to the procedure in your state.
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  47.  @kirim8621  How so, take Australia plus New Zealand , 30,000,000 population and not sure but let's say 20,000 tests a day in total. In the last 3 weeks maybe 10 to 20 positive cases per day with less than 10 representing 19,500 tests give or take per day in the community and the other tests of people in quarantine arriving internationally showing that there is a much higher rate of infections overseas. It's true the tests are not 100% however the 99.99% correct positivity or whatever it is, is good enough. The rapid tests aren't used outside of the US that I am aware because they might be 90 or 95% accurate or completely useless in stopping an outbreak in layman's terms. So totally agree with you , can never get to 100% accuracy.
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  48.  @VictorCopeland  Trump evacuated people from Wuhan and didn't quarantine them. Achieved nothing , in fact probably jump started the spread. To be fair in the beginning Fauci was singing from the same hymn book. The second superspreader event was all those people rushing back to the US from Europe mostly through NY because flights being stopped soon.
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  49.  @pakde8002  Not really, the same way New Zealand or South Korea or Taiwan or most states in Australia have done it. But the initial Wuhan lockdown was nothing like anywhere else in the world. Catch it before it gets out of control keep vigilant and cross your fingers but outbreaks are expected to keep occurring unless you shut borders tighter than North Korea.
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  50. What stands out with your comment is that John is acting as an untrained journalist and actually doing quite a good job at it. Maybe he can be a health journalist on a reputable media organization and get paid.
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