Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Antibody data and US predictions" video.

There is a benefit though that might save thousands of lives. It's the first time to have celebrities in our region advertising containment policies noting what Australia does is the same in all West Pacific countries. Maybe some other countries not in our region might consider having a quarantine scheme. See the death toll of over 2,000,000,000 population in the region with the same policies is less than the UK. One has to say maybe containment policies work and hard lockdown as required noting also higher internal freedoms on average than constant mitigation lockdown lite which is still nowhere near finished.
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Modern medicine makes all the difference, most of the Spanish flu victims died from bacterial pneumonia which a simple dose of antibiotics can cure now which didn't exist then. Certainly no intubating back then, lucky to have clean water probably.
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@cornishhh your opinion is based upon failure, if you were in a virus free jurisdiction you would most likely like it to stay that way with everything open.
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@johnsonpaul1914 yep South Dakota a small population less than 1,000,000 people and 40% rural has managed to kill 0.18% of there population, about the 4th worst jurisdiction in the world behind New Jersey, New York and Belgium I think but since it's small and significantly rural on handicap it comes out as the worst jurisdiction on the planet , well done South Dakota.
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It's something in the water, as the currents of the pacific ocean reach the Western side they vibrate at just the right frequency due to Magnetic fields etc. to cause a healing and mental acuity improvement causing people and their leaders to fear the virus so implement policies we follow like sheep. Unfortunately once those waters circulate back round to the Americas the effect is no longer apparent. I hope that's a reasonable explanation for you. I am in Brisbane Australia , the first jurisdiction to go into a reasonable lockdown without a single known case of community transmission, a hotel quarantine worker tested positive for the UK strain so a 3 day bars and restaurants shut and mask mandate implemented. This has triggered an investigation by Queensland health and Queensland police, all people staying at that hotel plus all workers will be interviewed to try to establish what the breach may have been , environmental swabs will be taken around the hotel to test for the virus. It's like an episode of CSI but more intense. I don't think any investigation was even done when the virus entered the big house oh, I mean Whitehouse.
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@DeneF on a more serious note , I really want to see a Western European country and a US state break ranks with this open borders no forced quarantine lockdown lite stuff, it simply doesn't work and the rate things are changing etc. in 6 months probably vaccines worn off and New strains can evade current vaccines. While my hypothesis might be out a bit the trend is certainly there and the tried and true proven method is get rid of the virus. My second theory is the domino theory, if one state or country virus free and neighbor is in lockdown lite they sort of want to join their neighbors, Victoria versus South Australia this very much happened, at some border town one side masks required and everything shut and can literally look a few hundred yards away and bars open etc. without any concerns (everything open and hospitals overrun doesn't count). It gets messy because it causes some hardships, but if the vaccines don't eliminate it then it might be the only way or just live with the current situation. You take care of yourself and best of luck.
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The numbers aren't adding up. New Jersey USA has had 0.23% of it's population die already yet the number of confirmed cases is about 8% of the population. For the 0.48% CFR number to be correct New Jersey must have the worst testing regime in a rich country or managed to infect almost all nursing homes to get the death rate up. I don't think either of these 2 scenarios are likely and therefore the CFR should be higher. Also the theory that the virus will become less deadly is based on nothing because this virus isn't killing off people before they can reproduce, mutations are random so if the virus both comes more transmissible and more deadly at the same time and add the possibility of vaccine evasion we are back to day one.
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