Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Report from Oregon" video.

We are unified, NSW would do the same to Queensland if the situation is ever reversed and everyone understands. Nobody wants a repeat of Victoria.
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@gocsa Yes overall the US has the second lowest population density which is by looking at urbanisation rate, interestingly Taiwan actually has the lowest urbanisation rate. Surprisingly Australia has cities we live in. Interestingly islands like Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska (not part of mainland) have done worse than all the countries mentioned so the rules don't apply to US controlled islands apparently. As far as low density areas go check South Dakota deaths per million and it's only 55% urbanisation so low density, at 1,600 it would appear they have found a way to infect farmers. Australia is a Federation also by the way and just like the US either level of government could create the mask mandate but in practice only states can because the Federal government doesn't have manpower to enforce it. Most Australian states have never implemented a full mask mandate, only one that had significant problems.
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@JohnSmith-qq8ok Ok go with Indonesia, India and China with higher or about the same population then and the US has performed the worst in deaths per million.
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I hope you are wrong and it's another reason.
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@Kate I am a Queenslander but currently in Canberra. South Australia isn't very high risk in the Australian context because Adelaide isn't too big so I would expect like the last incident if it was to occur again the government will react swiftly and effectively. I think all of Australia is ok now actually because most of the problems have been ironed out and seeing each other's errors in a very open manner. While it's rampant overseas we will probably still have cases every now and again relating to quarantine. All Australian except for maybe 1% are highly compliant with any orders our state or territory governments give us. Also it has been almost a completely bi partisan issue, more arguments over state borders and non partisan actually critical of each other regardless of party at times and visa versa supporting each other.
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@mandaAU09 Of course no vaccine is approved and won't be until at least then I would suggest because there is no emergency here or in NZ or in any countries like smaller Pacific nations that might follow the Australian New Zealand TGA who I expect would be giving the approval and likely a full approval only, not any emergency approval because it doesn't make much sense. With the Oxford Astrazeneca one already being produced in Australia it might be getting stored in large vats because if the dosing regime is found to be as effective with a smaller dose we can have more doses. The other thing is I think they want to see that the various vaccines are still effective after 6 months or so, to start dosing now and find out that a vaccine wears off after 4 months would be completely pointless because border restrictions aren't going to be removed any time soon but the NZ PM said maybe March they open the border to Australia and I am thinking for vaccinated people only. We can continue like this for a while longer without any harm , nobody wants Australia or countries around us to get as bad as elsewhere.
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@gferraro8353 the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is in production so that should be fine considering the emergency use overseas. The locally developed vaccine candidate was stopped because it used a part of a HIV protein and it caused all people to give a false positive test to that and HIV testing would need to change protocols or change the protein which would take too long. I do think some media does make the situation worse (when Victoria had problems in particular). Especially sky News Australia a Murdoch controlled media outlet similar to Fox News in our case .
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@johnsonpaul1914 South Dakota has 1650 deaths per million from covid 19, this is in a state with about 45% rural population and a population less than 1,000,000 , it seems they have actually infected farmers to get what you consider a great number. California has done better despite the population density.
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