Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Europe and Russian vaccine" video.

@krollpeter Other than Taiwan and Vietnam the rest of us "Asian" countries including Australia and New Zealand have a very different view on matters and understand the term quarantine. You can look at it country by country and you will discover that quarantine is taken very seriously in our part of the world. In Australia now there are effectively 7 major quarantine zones for covi sars2, each health jurisdiction basically which is a state or territory. There are more travel restrictions inside Australia than there are in Western Europe where to give the UK example the door has always been open with quarantine actually meaning an extremely relaxed voluntary scheme where you can infect others even if you follow the rules. We naturally have about 5 major different quarantine zones with agriculture during normal times. To give an example in my particular part of the world, dirt can't be taken outside of an approximately 100 km diameter circle without a permit which will probably never be issued at this point in time due to a fire ant problem in which we appear to have eliminated them in the end with the use of sniffer dogs. It is illegal to grow cavendish bananas in a non commercial manner because that is the main commercial variety and private plantings might cause risk to the industry. If you look at beef it has happened on a few occasions that American beef gets banned in South Korea and Japan because of agricultural outbreaks which the US is slow to contain but New Zealand and Australian beef have never been banned to my knowledge. SARS 1 affected the regions tourism very badly and since then the region has put systems in place and I know in Australia when you enter since then it is emphasized that if you get sick within 2 weeks tell the doctor where you have travelled from and not entirely sure but I think it's standard practice for doctors to ask anyway. All successful countries either have tough quarantine measures for imported food and or are major exporters of agricultural products where fairly major industries are threatened by any outbreaks. So I guess I am saying a culture has developed in this region. I do wonder after this is all finished will Western Europe and the US change or not. I don't think East Asian region will be changing. With Thailand accepting inbound tourists soon I expect quarantine will fail because the quarantine measures appear fairly relaxed by Australian standards. The locked in your room part of quarantine in Thailand is only 7 days and your room gets cleaned every 2 days according to the hotels offering the service which no matter how much care is taken produces higher risk and then after 7 days you can mingle with other guests for the next week , not 14 days you are locked in your room and no one's going to clean it as is standard practice throughout Australia I believe.
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@krollpeter I don't know about the other countries you mentioned but I think the conspiracy theorists relating to covid 19 in the US is literally 20% or more until someone they know dies making public health measures in most states extremely difficult. So if Biden gets elected and makes a national order regarding health measures it will fail in my opinion because some governor's and local authorities who are the only ones who can enforce it will just ignore him.
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@krollpeter Truth is yes if there is an element of the population that won't cooperate then some heavy handedness is required. My girlfriend is actually Thai so I know for the most part , moreso than a country like Australia anyway , people would have complied with the health orders for the country. This is very apparent in Taiwan with people continuously wearing masks even when no cases for months. So the heavy handedness will appear on youtube from countries where some, noting it is a small minority in Australia don't want to cooperate.
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