Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "NDTV" channel.

@secret_fffree_fire1230 so bahkts are the same as CPC (communist party of China) nationalist or Trump loyalists? Is their blind devotion comparable?
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In reality the foreign support can only help a little bit especially if cases keep rising the situation doesn't change at all.
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There might be provisions to stop anything ending up on the black market and that sort of thing but other than that why would there be any conditions?
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Why is China intent on proving it came from the US through conspiracy theories?
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Although a few months old based on December last year I believe it is indicated a 75% approval rating which is extremely high. If that is even close to true he can behave like a dictator and no one can touch him because other parliamentary party members would silence and support demotion of any one who criticise Modi out of own self interest.
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But they haven't stopped, it only applies to non US citizen.
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Eventually they will be able to work out excess deaths but this won't say what the causes are and many dying from lack of care for other medical issues because hospitals reducing all other treatment as well plus lockdown causes extra deaths too. India is in a dire situation, I wish you the best stay as safe as you can for you and your family.
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Yes China is selling items to India. India has decided it doesn't want to accept aid from China. So no aid has come from mainland China it would seem, only some from Taiwan which India seems willing to accept.
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@KayyHong I am Australian , but anyway tell me which news website I can find alternate information. I did read exactly what I just said on what seems to be a reliable source. It stated that India has not accepted aid from China and equipment mostly by the private sector of Indian healthcare it would seem is being purchased from Chinese suppliers. You indicated India has accepted aid from China I can't find this anywhere.
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@chrisj2053 Did I say China was overcharging , no I didn't. Why is it you people always tend to respond to something I haven't said. It seems pro China people are concurrently running 2 stories, that is the Indian government has not accepted aid from mainland China and that it has , only one can be correct and other than in comment sections I can't find any evidence that India has accepted aid from mainland China.
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@chrisj2053 Hong Kong isn't mainland China, did the mainland Chinese government fund that aid or was it funded from Hong Kong government, I don't know do you?
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What are you talking about?
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No not Australia, we contain any outbreak from quarantine otherwise it stops at border quarantine.
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Tanha Dil no lockdown in your country probably means 1,000,000 cases a day, possibly more. The economy can't operate well under such circumstances. The longer it takes to lockdown the worse the effects, if you look around the world many countries or jurisdictions only locked down after the disaster already happening and a lot harsher lockdown. Support for the poorer people is needed at the same time.
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That problem is common in many countries, the US has more problems getting people vaccinated in the more rural states also.
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15 days will probably achieve very little, for about a week after lockdown start cases still rising as households become fully infected, if you then wait another week and open up all those newly infected people go straight back out again and all that might be achieved is 1 week without rising cases.
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Please don't post your nasty comment, people are suffering and you just want to gloat despite the fact your country that is if you are actually telling the truth is suffering too.
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@yaiphuakhakpa227 I don't understand mahadesh so what does that mean? China is actually far right if you look at it without bias on the political spectrum. It has more billionaire per unit of GDP than the US, it doesn't have free healthcare, it wants a version of racial purity as in everyone to be assimilated and look up to the CPC above any religion. Here's a question for you, what's wrong with Australia or New Zealand, we are virus free and democracies and we don't give special treatment or support to billionaire and the workers matter, isn't that a better model to aspire to? We have free healthcare and we don't tell people where they can and can't live as China does, forcing the rural poor to stay where they are. Australia from a crime perspective is just as safe as China but we have less corruption.
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Unfortunately no country that hasn't eliminated the virus has been able to stop the UK variant, it's far more transmissible and makes up the majority of cases in Europe , US and Japan now and probably Delhi based on very limited genomic testing. India also has the variant discovered in India which might be as bad. Considering the UK itself is still having 45,000 cases per day currently adjusted to India's population and over 50% of the population has had at least one dose of the vaccine it is unfortunately fair to say the chance of India gaining any sort of control over the virus at this point in time looks slim. I feel for you and am in a good situation in my country that has eliminated it so hard to really understand how it must feel to you. Stay strong and do the best you can and best of luck.
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Consider the US, 50% vaccinated and still deaths of 2,400 per day adjusted for Indian population. While what you say is correct, India is a long way from the US position as an example.
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@imbatido Even if you multiply the official case number by 10 and add in vaccinations you will only come to less than 30% of total population. I agree the case numbers are wrong and it would appear it's universally accepted that official cases and deaths are way below the real number.
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Well technically they did do well , but not with these new variants, just like how UK was in lockdown all other variants were decreasing but the UK variant was increasing.
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@chrisj2053 believe what you will, where are you from?
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@KayyHong I didn't know that Sydney and Melbourne were self governed special administrative regions of Australia similar to HK and Macao. There you go , I learn something every day.
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@KayyHong Well I don't know why you start mentioning autonomous regions now which in English can be referred to as colonies. Australia had a colony once Papua New Guinea, we gave them independence. So Australians are quite different to Chinese. If you read back I stated it would appear that the Indian government didn't accept aid from mainland China, it is you that seems to be bothered by that, they did accept aid from Hong Kong and Taiwan. I made no reference to whether they are colonies or whatever of China so why even bring the subject up?
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@KayyHong Yes Australia was a colony of England. What's your point?
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The problem might be the production , not the transport. I don't know which it is but CNG is extremely high pressure so such a tanker could carry oxygen I would think as long as no special lining is required.
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If you listened even to this interview he told you, he mentioned that there was some belief of herd immunity. Another aspect is from within and without India claims were being made of genetic advantage as in genetic superiority. Some European and US too I believe made the hypothesis that Asian countries less affected because they must have already had plenty of other similar viruses already making them immune or in other words genetic superiority, but it was nothing more than Europe and the Americas took no containment measures , only relaxed mitigation measures ( open borders and voluntary quarantine) so failed badly, but bias meant they wanted to explain it another way or excuse themselves for their own failures. India was in the middle along with it's WHO region, with 7 days hotel quarantine and 7 days self quarantine, Western Pacific region is 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine, however in deaths per million Japan and Philippines similar to India because their quarantine measures not tight enough. Without the new variants India would not have a problem actually, but the UK variant and most likely the Indian variant are far more contagious. Note the countries I mentioned including India are still below 10% in deaths per million of most of Europe and US.
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The queue outside isn't the problem, the problems might happen indoors if not well ventilated or crowded.
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Now maybe, when they started rollout looked the same, long queues of people and then doses run out.
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Seems they are invasive ventilator that need intubation and not many trained to use them.
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There is probably still a shortage but there might be enough for medical purposes. Industrial users are probably not getting what they want, if really no shortage at all then all restrictions of oxygen selling etc. would be lifted.
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Pat Cummins donated $50,000 Australian dollar equivalent I expect (Australian media said $50,000 so I think should be Australian dollars) so it's not true nobody from IPL donate. The game should be played without crowds, not sure if that's happening but that's a problem if it isn't and there are crowds. The game is using no resources that can help in the pandemic, probably contributes a relatively small amount of resources as in money.
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About 2 or 3 weeks lag between catching it and peak deaths. One doesn't die after 1 day.
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Maybe things get better with supplies for medical care but slowing the spread to any great extent takes a few months normally.
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It can't really happen because needs at least 95% compliance rate to have a great effect, if the government of a jurisdiction doesn't care you won't get such a high voluntary compliance rate, it's a case of try to protect yourself and loved ones.
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One plane load of stuff is a drop in the ocean for a billion people. Hope they send millions of vaccines , that's the next most important after the emergency items.
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What does the word Babus mean?
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To be blunt a lot of them die off in lockdown it would seem according to duration and a large number of the covid 19 patients have such conditions , that's why they need intensive care. For any non urgent matters hospitals like nursing homes are perfect environment to spread the virus and it's better to delay all but the most urgent issues. Australia we had 1200 excess deaths for the first 6 months of 2020 and they show a graph which shows the spike during lockdown and they give the highest contributing factors which was heart disease and diabetes. The US CDC did the numbers from January 26 to October 3 and there was 300,000 excess deaths to normal and 200,000 of them were covid 19 related so 100,000 from their model of ongoing lockdown lite at the time. More Australian actually died from the initial lockdown than the virus however the total for 2020 was 140,471 versus 140,363 for the 5 year average actually indicating a slightly higher life expectancy because the population is larger. Respiratory deaths were way below average, because flu wasn't around and so few died from covid 19. At years end it seems heart disease wasn't an issue at all coming in below average but diabetes was much higher. Maybe the disruption caused diabetics to care less about diet etc.
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Flights to the US are no problem from India, it's just you need to have US passport ( apparently such a passport protects one from catching or spreading covid 19). If you don't believe me search Mumbai to New York , I am sure other flights available but that's just the one I check for tomorrow.
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In the context used "children" means below 18 and while people shouldn't be arrested for criticism the criticism itself is not fair because it's older people that are at risk not teenagers.
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@sc-to4uf I am unaware of any circumstantial evidence, I looked into all of China's conspiracy theories , note none of these conspiracy theories were presented to the WHO team because they have no basis in reality. High flu season occured in China , US and Australia in 2019. Guess what a virulent strain of flu went around the world and the numbers are based on PCR tests so yes it was the flu. The people getting sick in Wuhan obviously were testing negative to the flu. This is just one conspiracy theory run by CPC and Trump and Qanon , just change location according to conspiracy theorist motives however the conspiracy theory identical in nature. The Wuhan lab 10 km from outbreak, that is real circumstantial evidence.
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They are not contradictory, the UK has given first dose of vaccine to far more and this is accelerating the rate for the most at risk group. India on the other hand needs as many getting first dose as possible but shouldn't have opened up to the younger age group this quickly in my opinion, because the older at risk aren't all vaccinated with at least one dose.
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@sridharsami209 I know and think that was madness. It's hard to say but I hope things improve, the current measures would have probably worked on previous variants but the new variants spread much easier.
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Exactly my thoughts. In reality it's an order to do the best they can, one can't be held responsible for not getting something done if it's impossible.
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There is no evidence of that but a broken system, as I saw one report it basically said unless sick people who eventually get admitted to hospital and tested they just get taken away for burial or cremation. So the real number of deaths will be correct although that data might be delayed and they will be able to calculate the excess deaths to what should be expected. They will never be able to untangle the cause of the excess deaths because 3 contributing causes occur, covid 19, preventable deaths from other causes due to not being admitted to overstretched hospitals and deaths caused by lockdowns . I don't know exactly why but the Australian data showed excess deaths from diabetes and heart disease during our countrywide lockdown a year ago, numbers were quite small because the lockdown was fairly short, the US had 200,000 deaths from covid 19 at the same time as 100,000 excess deaths not from covid 19 from January 26 to October 3 as calculated by their CDC because of their continuous lockdown lite model so it is real, I don't know the breakdown of what those excess deaths were in the US.
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@tahaabdullah8833 Actually they did, just as they did in New York. It might not have been as obvious but in both cases people might be inside a hospital ok they got a bed but treatment rationed. So you can say and it looks to be the case that the situation in India now is worse as in significant numbers not even getting a bed let alone treatment. Definitely the same thing happened in some parts of Brazil where oxygen ran out in some cases.
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