Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Aspiration, more information" video.

  1. I asked and the nurse at a GP practice said yes ok and said no problems when giving the vaccine, I didn't watch because I don't like needles but I think she did it. I am surprised the reaction your husband got, I am guessing that's the exception not the rule.
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  2. The WHO is run regionally and has zero enforcement powers. How can you blame an organization run by it's regional members? Specify the region if you want , my opinion is the European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region completely failed and my region the Western Pacific region of WHO did pretty well, less than 10% of the deaths of those other 2 regions and less economic impact.
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  3.  @chg1264  In the middle of February Tedros said the time for containment is now. Can't get much stronger than that and broadly speaking Europe and the Americas did nothing for an entire year and a half, just waited for the quick fix of vaccines. Nowhere had compulsory quarantine just voluntary schemes, don't blame the failures in policy of the various WHO regions on the WHO, as a person in the Western Pacific WHO region where the hardest line was taken and everyone in the region all 27 countries had border quarantine usually hotel and enforced. The Americas and Europe never went beyond voluntary compliance which completely failed. Africa and South East Asian region (South Asia plus half of South East Asia approximately) weren't as tough as Western Pacific region but still got comparatively good results compared to do nothing. The Eastern Mediterranean region which is basically the middle east I am uncertain of and haven't looked into it. Italy had a chance of elimination but never did it. With Delta the game has changed however and for some countries that were perfectly capable of containment with previous variants under the existing policies failed including 2 states in my country Australia and countries like Vietnam and New Zealand which previously had a very good record. I hope there is discussion about what was the best regional policy and I think it's my region and the open borders no quarantine regions should reconsider what they do next time but they were more concerned about freedom to travel and no lockdowns until hospitals overwhelmed than anything else. Is it possible that those 2 regions will ever admit they got it wrong, my cynical opinion says no they won't and geopolitically the Western Pacific region is far from a united grouping, Australia has been declared the enemy by China so even though essentially we took the same approach on the matter we don't want to give each other credit at the political level, behind the scenes though I think there's a very high level of cooperation throughout the region, contact tracing is truly international here although that will probably fade away slowly as countries "live with the virus".
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