Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Pandemic Update, Europe and US" video.

  1.  @aengusmacnaughton1375  I know it's actually getting more and more bizarre, especially the wearing a mask might kill you one. It's true proper N95 masks are annoying and hard to breathe through, not gonna kill you though, but all that's being requested in most countries if not all is a cloth mask. Bill Gates is great , a pity not every billionaire was so generous. I do hope there is an effective vaccine , that's safe. I think everyone wants that regardless of how their country has done so far.
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  2. Well sometimes John is wrong or wrong emphasis when relating possible reasons for various countries success or failure and not holistic enough. He is trying to understand too much too quickly and of course can't read every comment because too many. As one example. The discussion over masks should compare Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan, not UK. I am not saying masks don't help in the case of an out of control outbreak, they do. Taiwan never got to that stage, and nor has all states in Australia plus New Zealand, other than Victoria . So there is no concrete evidence that masks do anything other than slow the spread and possibly cause a low dose or alternatively different initial infection point which maybe reduces the chances of major illness or death. Those countries that contained the virus, even if at a latter date had problems all successful at initial detection of the virus, contact tracing, effective public messaging and draconian enforcement of measures if the population required that. In Australia it was certainly required, Victoria took a little different approach and didn't want to fine anyone and keep stuff open including borders. It's not entirely a coincidence Victoria is having problems in my opinion. So masks are really the last line of defence after all else has failed in my opinion, they can't stop an outbreak. Correlation is not causation, other measures created the success , not masks. If masks were 100% effective healthcare workers would never get infected and they are trained to use proper N95 or P2 masks and still get infected even if at lower rates than the general public.
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  3.  @aengusmacnaughton1375  Don't worry, your border is still open with no actual quarantine required, just a recommendation.
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