Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Global differences" video.

In Australia's case a lot of it was about how much effort to get the vaccine, going through apps and finding a booking and all that stuff was an effort for me personally. If have observed there's an inverse correlation between speed of vaccine delivery and vaccine take up rates in large countries, if people feel the government is rushing it they trust it less. We haven't had that problem and likely we will have very high vaccine take up rates. Another issue particularly in WA and QLD most of the geographic area there's been like 1 case within 1,000 km for the entire pandemic so not exactly seen as a risk. There's no reason to believe that Australia won't get very high take up rates eventually, we also seem to have good leadership right across society, ethnic/demographic groups in promoting vaccine take up. Also look at childhood vaccination rates and Australia's life expectancy , what you consider health illiterate in Australia is probably not by international standards.
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A poor Indian or Indonesian which there are a lot of were in "lockdown" by US standards even before the pandemic, if you only have enough money to survive you aren't traveling all over the place going to bars and restaurants, also if people know they are vulnerable they take precautions. There's no guaranteed expectation that you will get a hospital bed unless you are rich. But more broadly speaking countries that have restrictions have far lower deaths, compare the Western Pacific WHO region that all had 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine for entry, less than 10% of the deaths per Capita of PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region and European WHO region both without quarantine just some voluntary scheme. The numbers speak for themselves and the thing about the Western Pacific WHO region is it's extremely diverse, China, Japan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia as examples we have significantly different cultures, governments etc. but we all did the same thing and have similar results. India and Indonesia are in the South East Asia WHO region and there policies far more strict than Europe or Americas but less strict than the Western Pacific and their deaths and cases are in between.
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@jimjamson9534 Your last point which was different to your original comment, nobody knows why case numbers plummet at a certain point usually about 2 months after cases accelerate quickly but people taking more precautions does play a part. Your point that Indonesia is pretty slack in restrictions is correct but you were comparing to the US, a couple of points when compared to the US, a 9 Year lower median age and only a bit over 50% approximately urbanization versus a bit over 80% urbanization in the US. Those differences are significant. Let's compare regionally, only 2 countries have higher deaths per million than Indonesia in 2 WHO regions , Western Pacific and South East Asia WHO regions, Malaysia and Fiji. So yes compared to the region Indonesia is in and it's adjoining region Indonesia's approach hasn't been the best and I already knew that but it's been a stellar performance if you compare to the PAHO and European WHO regions. Demographically Brazil is fairly similar to Indonesia except for urbanization rate and similar weather, with no restrictions pretty much Indonesia would look similar to Brazil most likely. Light restrictions by regional standards you end up with one of the worst results at this point in time.
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@jimjamson9534 I get it now your original question was completely rhetorical and you were just pointing out that Indonesia and India have a lower death rate than US. You take care.
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