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

  1. Depending on what the issue is , if it's they won't give you an exemption well that's wrong. If it's about not being able to get the vaccine and you are at high risk of a bad outcome if you get covid 19, you're sort of on your own, move to a highly vaccinated state and region if you aren't in one already and can afford it to lower risk. Best of luck and hope everything turns out fine for you.
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  2. Oh you poor little MAGA girl. Someone asked your dear leader some questions.
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  3. They are likely cattle hide so yes and no, to me the general animal welfare standards for cattle should be better than those mink. I am not against either but if I did desire a mink product I would want better animal welfare standards because those tiny cages seem cruel to me for the type of animal it seems to be.
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  4. Actually no, you taught soldiers, there was no transition to having Afghan military commanders calling the shots and US and allies beneath them in a supporting role.
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  5.  @abradam26  Do you mean largely covid 19 free? Trump is probably more of a socialist than Biden anyway , he is hardly a proponent of the free market and spends every rally saying what industry he wants to subsidise for that state.
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  6. He has to pay back campaign debt. No one knows how big this is, maybe it's a big number and the moment he leaves office they'll come after him.
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  7.  @kulik03  it's not just as much , according to the data from Israel with Pfizer after about 6 months when the vaccines decline in effectiveness the chance of being infected is about 60%, that is 39% efficacy of the vaccine against infection. In reality that's probably a good number to go off because it's going to be a long time before it's even possible even in a country like the US that you could have everyone having been vaccinated within 6 months. The effectiveness against dying seems to be holding up ok for now. It's like it's never going to end , we just waiting for the next variant which changes everything again. The Delta variant has caused 3 countries to now have problems that didn't exist before, China, Vietnam and Australia so it's not imagination that this is effectively a whole new virus. I am in Queensland Australia and looks like we can go to covid zero again but the neighbouring state of New South Wales after about a month of restrictions they had their highest cases of 240 or so yesterday, 240 is a lot and maybe they can't regain control so they doing a big vaccine push and the rhetoric seems to accept that they might not contain the virus again.
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  8.  @chrishansen8477  The Delta variant in schools that are open doesn't spread are you kidding? I mentioned nothing about how sick they get so why bother mentioning that, we know they for the most part won't get very sick or die but they spread it just like anyone else. Now maybe Australian Children are different because in Brisbane Australia the Delta variant has spread through children into households , infact it's the only spread , we seem to have prevented other spread.
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  9.  @chrishansen8477  With the Delta variant right?
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  10.  @chrishansen8477  The Delta variant for all intensive purposes is a new virus , it spreads like crazy through everyone but it's still the case young people are extremely unlikely to become seriously ill. Vaccines don't stop it spreading either they just slow the spread down to the rate of spread of the original variant if the numbers presented are approximately accurate. Vaccines do half the number that get infected up to about 3 weeks after the 2nd dose up to 6 months and dramatically reduce the number of very ill. My personal opinion is pretty much don't vaccinate anyone below 30 other than those with jobs like healthcare because the risk return on being vacinated for this group doesn't add up especially as so many countries have to suffer with low elderly vaccination rates and vaccinate everyone above 30.
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  11. Because others with free time are probably in a line getting ready to vote
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  12. The US is the only country in the world or at least wealthy one that has a bipartisan plan to spread the virus , all protests rallies etc. take precedence over containment of the virus and no state is permitted by public demand to become covid 19 free so all lockdowns will be partial or barely existent with free travel. Just put a mask on does stuff all when the bars and restaurants are open. So I dispute your claim the US on both sides of politics has been active in spreading the virus and it seems to have majority support.
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  13. I think the 3 most important people at the inauguration were in no particular order Mike Pence, George Bush and Mitch Mcconnell. Biden I would rate as the 4th most important because under the current circumstances those 3 people bring a lot of legitimacy to Biden's position. Trump has made it his dying stand to make Biden should he win the election which he did not seem legitimate and has been highly successful at his aim.
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  14. You are correct however one is literally encouraging the spread and the other isn't so one result will be worse than the other.
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  15. What's with the absolute bias in favor of Israel? It's true that they are superior to the US but that's a pretty low bar, in fact the US is below every other wealthy nation with life expectancy and homicide rates for example. The US is so much in love with Israel that they receive 3 or 4 billion USD per year in aid, why give aid to people more successful than you, 100% they don't appreciate it, they think you are suckers.
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  16. My gosh Trump's 50c army rivals the Communist Party of China's 50c army. Should have a social media platform for the Wumaos and Trumpers to just talk to each other.
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  17. The arms trader can't trade arms anymore, everyone is watching. Texas gun laws are killing Americans, 90% of illegal fire arms in Mexico come from the US and Texas of course is the best state for cartels to purchase those weapons.
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  18.  @TeemElohim  so 10,000,000 slaves in India is not an issue and off topic. Isn't slavery one of the worst human behaviours? Are there any slaves in the US well yes there is but most of them are probably Asian and it's in the 1,000s are these people worthless because they aren't black?
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  19.  @TeemElohim  well transported as slaves directly to US about 500,000 give or take. The total numbers of slaves that ever were in the US seems difficult to find and would include born as a slave which is possibly a larger number. If you are concerned about black people being enslaved what about the estimated 9,000,000 on the African continent living at the moment. Hey email me if you want, would love to discuss with you kliddle2AThotmail.com
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  20.  @TeemElohim  what is it that you want? You don't care about slaves actually only your ancestors. And you think there are more than 9,000,000 slaves in Africa currently. Prison isn't slavery that's an acceptable concept throughout the world, if you do a crime you are subject to confinement for the purpose of punishment and or rehabilitation.
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  21. It's a joke, they could easily fly private jets anywhere with cameras. Unless the US wants to emulate China anyone can look. Google Earth is a great tool just look anywhere Google earth doesn't show.
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  22. You people are nuts ( the ones who care about number of twitter followers) Here in Australia our Prime Minister has 468,000 twitter followers or less than 2% of the population and Trump is like near 20% of the population and Joe Biden apparently about 3% of the population. Let's look at another metric covid 19 deaths per capita Australia 35 deaths per million and US 670 deaths per million. Maybe you should choose a president based on whether they will work for the country rather than a "popular" President behaving like a teenage girl worried about her social media likes.
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  23. Lol
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  24. But it would need to be pre emptive , can she do it without cause? Obviously if they intend to be faithless electors they aren't going to tell people.
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  25. He is one of the people. Or maybe to mess with the facial identification cameras everywhere.
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  26. For trials that's pointless because they will protect themselves already and as Gates said having prominent people take vaccines does increase confidence so that will be done however billionaires are not the people most likely to produce confidence, religious leaders as he said along with sports stars and entertainment stars work better.
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  27. Why the worry about drug dealers online? Whether they on the street or online it's up to the child to say no. Parents can't stop them if they determined to buy drugs.
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  28. Your process isn't crash hot but it somehow works.
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  29. They sort of are equal, both defeated people.
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  30. As reported on NBC I believe, 44 cases in 5 years of people being made unconscious in Minneapolis by police from that maneuver, all those police testifying first time they are aware of anything like this including the black police chief in charge who took a knee would appear to be blatent liars, this was standard practice approved of by at least the police chief.
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  31. Well if nothing else people have masks now which obviously helps with reducing smoke inhalation when outside. Take care and be safe from all threats.
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  32. Something doesn't seem quite right. Are hackers going after large US companies , yes just like every other large company on the planet. It could very well just be random and going after anything they might find as per usual. As a researcher said not really much point trying to steal information about a vaccine trial because the studies results will be published in a publically available medical journal. I think that's why the narrative has changed to the intellectual property regarding processes. But this seems unlikely too because if you have a much better way of doing a process you licence it out to make more money with all other companies in the same field paying you.
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  33. My guess is a bit of both, probably more related to socio economic group than anything else and possibly ironically party affiliation, those who praise Donald Trump's warp speed the most are most sceptical of the vaccine. Just anecdotal I don't have links proving anything.
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  34. Didn't need to trick him, he said lots of stupid stuff without much prodding.
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  35. I hate it but agree with you.
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  36. @Fern Dogg89 China's numbers are consistent with other like minded countries that have succeeded so no reason to suspect there numbers aren't accurate other than during the outbreak in Wuhan when things were out of control, double the death number if you want. The countries with containment policies have less lockdowns and general restrictions overall and economically have performed much better on average. You sound like you are a US citizen , enjoy your freedom because your life expectancy is about 6 and a half years less than Australia and you need to pay higher taxes for your publically funded healthcare than Australia which is a pity.
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  37. Given your accent you would pretend your Canadian, now the poor Canadian s will get bad names if your behaviour becomes common.
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  38. Headline should be majority of US citizens realise limited socialism should be directed towards humans and not corporations. 70% apparently according to polling would prefer universal ( also called single payer) healthcare and less tax to pay for it when compared to the current expensive non universal system. Life expectancy in the US is about 35th or so in the country or jurisdiction rankings but spending is probably number 1.
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  39.  Greg Lakatos  Life expectancy in Australia is about 4 years longer, public health spending in Australia as a proportion of GDP is actually lower than the US and I would suggest especially right now with a virus out of control in the US and Australia with 0 community transmission and any quarantine breach which is unavoidable dealt with swiftly. The US government has higher debt to GDP by a significant amount. According to the Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index which is the best available measure of socialism Australia ranks significantly higher , you can check it yourself. So in answer to your question no I am not trying to convince myself Australia has done better, I do believe it has and don't require any convincing at this point in time.
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  40. Yeah, a riot is more like those Miami scenes.
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  41. You are right I think except don't worry about the high speed train thing because you can't afford it and it's not really important. Australia doesn't have on either and although it might make more sense in some areas of the US compared to Australia for the most part it would be uneconomical in the vast majority of states. However if I am wrong in my assumptions and some routes could actually run at a profit then they should be built.
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  42.  @leonmat26  I just looked up about high speed trains, maybe can jump the conventional high speed train and go straight to Magnetic Levitation train , could call it a plane actually because it flys. Only problem outside of costs is it might make sense to ask Japan , South Korea or China for help or expertise because they are already doing it which could hurt US pride.
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  43. LOL, now let's assume that the statement is correct. This means that the President of the US is worse than a slave owner 170 years ago that cared for his people. Hardly a ringing endorsement, and you never know it might have been true to prevent dust being breathed in when times were dry.
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  44.  @Healingwearehere13d  I looked at the script explaining the show and yep you are right. So ok I definitely had a misconception but still funny. I am sure that statement can be used outside of context because I wouldn't be the only one not to realize what you just told me.
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  45. Do you want them to read the speech off a piece of paper as was done since independence? Why?
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  46. Hey best of luck and hearing your symptoms I think you should consider calling medical care of some sort so you know when but hopefully if you need to go to hospital. Of course mandates are to protect everyone and the countries with high vaccination rates are already doing better, doesn't mean perfect though, all countries having the same issues with staff out sick etc.
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  47. Don't worry you're borrowing the money from Japan and China.
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  48. It's the unions job. They are like a defence lawyer if an incident occurs. But the suggestion of no immunity is ridiculous, nobody would ever become a policeman because too risky. Maybe changes to the level of immunity can be made and standardized nationally if the states agree.
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  49. You have to break it down. I am guessing you are in effect saying for profit hospital operations without any meaningful conditions (for emergency care it's a local monopoly in most cases, if you're having a heart attack you can't decide to go interstate) and or elements of insurance. Because virtually all medicines and equipment are for profit, in a country like Australia we purchase on a value for money basis and the federal government in case of medicine is the purchaser and equipment is at the state level along with private healthcare which is for people who want quicker or extra services. What's wrong with our system?
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  50. Employment level s make a big difference to crime, problem is it might go the other direction now.
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