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

  1. He is because for the people who have lost a loved one it will help some of them a bit.
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  2. See what you are up against in other comments here. They will fight for the right to have anyone to carry out mass murder. There was an assault weapons (semi automatic rifle) ban in the 90s and it worked. The second amendment certainly isn't absolute otherwise fully automatic weapons couldn't be banned but in reality they virtually are because of President Reagan. Forget about just Japan, every single wealthy country on the planet has a lower homicide rate than the US. US homicide rate about 6.5 per 100,000 people, rest of the high income countries average about 1 per 100,000.
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  3. Well there's plane loads of people all rushing to get to the US, hundreds of cases in the air right now. Reminiscent of all those going from Europe into New York when it was advised that European countries would have restrictions a week later or whatever it was.
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  4. I think you are possibly correct on both counts. It could be a landslide for Democrats and unless WWIII breaks out or something it can't be a Republican landslide but they could possibly sneak in from available information.
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  5. Good question, is that lady who is an actor and playright in this segment black? Looking at her, I would have guessed southern European, Greece or Italy something like that.
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  6. No , or mostly not, data around the world suggests vaccines are only about 50% effective at reducing infection. They are significantly more effective at reducing death .
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  7. That's just ridiculous, maybe 5,000 cases out of China to around the world , every one knew this as of WHO announcement on January 21 and the UK can't even keep it out of a single local government area. China couldn't detain people from the UK or US who were running evacuation flights and not even checking if people had the virus and no quarantine. You can't blame China for your own countries failures.
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  8.  @drkcorner  the clinical evidence of human to human transmission was on January 28 in Vietnam, the anecdotal evidence was the harsh Wuhan lockdown on January 23, the notification of the existence of the virus was on December 31. The countries that did the same thing as China got the same results , I am Australian and we have mandatory enforced 14 days hotel quarantine with 2 tests on days 3 and 10 as do most countries in my region, if you refuse testing another 10 days at your cost. The UK doesn't have supervised quarantine to this day but at least has fines which are probably never given out. The US doesn't even have compulsory quarantine , like there isn't even a pretence that anything will be done just hand out the vaccine. Dr Fauci said on February 26 "...there weren't many cases in the US because of contact tracing and a good healthcare system in the US" , quote of the year I think for the biggest failure in the world allowing the virus to spread to every state and territory.
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  9.  @drkcorner  show me any US state website where it shows enforced hotel quarantine ( military or police guards). Voluntary measures that aren't policed don't work , in the West Pacific we realised this in March I believe. 2 tests 7 days apart on day 3 and 10 to be considered clear of covid not one test which might be those dodgy antibody tests like the Whitehouse probably still uses. It's a completely different standard. It's like the $40 vacuum cleaner with no brand versus a Dyson, you can expect different results.
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  10.  @drkcorner  As far as China they could have been more forthcoming about failures, they didn't know either on January 23 the best way to deal with it when they locked down Wuhan. It was already known it was in many countries at that stage. The US and others still haven't implemented Chinese or Australian procedures to this day which is not Australia or China's fault. You know best practice but keep taking short cuts.
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  11.  @drkcorner  Some of the Wuhan stuff I certainly disagree with however 1,000,000 + more people alive today than would have been so overall a positive, versus the US 400,000 dead and the number keeps rising for excess deaths including covid 19 and the response to it. Australia and New Zealand didn't weld people into there homes but did make sure when required they stay there unless for a very good reason like getting food or medical related issues. Everything open in China by the way with economic growth, everything open in Australia but still subdued economy.
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  12.  @stephaniefain1863  many of them do wear red hats, if it says MAGA or Trump or Q close enough.
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  13. Trump at his age had about a 4% chance of dying regardless, how much is him not being unlucky versus his treatment we will not know until the artificial antibody treatment is fully tested and then starts being distributed if it works which it likely does. However working might only mean 2% at that age die instead of 4% , even the manufacturer isn't going to claim it's a cure all , that's Trump's claim and should be considered in light of and the reliability of all his other claims.
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  14. Police male and female are resigning all over the US. Being constantly abused including by the media tends to get one down. She should and hopefully gets sick leave and the mental health support from her employer, and makes a choice after that whether she wants to continue in that job.
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  15.  @nealkelly9757  I have never seen Fauci comment on the lethality of covid 19. Could you provide a link to when he actually did so. All I see him talk about is how to slow the spread, he is not even a containment guy. In Australia he would be an outlier because he agrees with letting the virus spread .
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  16. The Israeli's don't care, as long as they remain a literal welfare state of the US they are happy. If a US president said no more funding then you would see real push back and accusations relating to race or religion.
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  17.  @sirtheoriginal201  Not everywhere but in many places you're right.
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  18. It's everywhere but there is a big difference in countries that successfully contained it and those that didn't. US is headed for possibly a worse situation overall than the worst hit European countries. At the moment the US is behind in per capita deaths but catching up.
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  19. That's what I was thinking. Now it seems your CDC is following realities rather than offering advice that was followed by very few states in the first place. I am in Queensland Australia and we went from covid 0 to opening up on 13 December meaning let the virus in deliberately, then about mid to late January with official cases reaching about 20,000 per per day for a population of 5 million. They abandoned most contact tracing around mid January, only doing it for vulnerable settings like nursing homes and hospitals. We have gone from about 2,500 cases and 7 deaths prior to opening to 580,000 cases and 570 deaths now.
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  20. The US was tapping phone calls in Australia to do with agricultural commodity deals , in the 80s. Industrial espionage is normal. Up to the owners of information to protect it. Other hacking of government stuff would be just to test defences in case you want use it one day.
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  21. You're right and that's pretty funny. Obviously the event wasn't funny but the reporting of it.
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  22. Trump isn't in office anymore , the nuclear power plants won't be run like a Trump covid19 response. You should be fine.
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  23. I think Brazil's President gives him a run for his money.
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  24.  @Ccodebits  I think you can't, it's already become rampant in your country. Any state with less than 1000 cases could close the borders and keep it under control but there is no political or public will for that. Close borders I mean very restrictive travel of persons but for goods they have exemption.
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  25. Have to agree with you on that one, it's a bit rich to blame the US for intelligence failures which is a significant reason for the disorder if you are ethnic Afghani, living in Afghanistan and you had no clue either.
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  26. How do you know, nobody knows , you are just presenting a hypothesis that new strains won't evade the vaccines and vaccinated people can't spread the virus and the vaccines are efficacious for at least 9 months with all emerging strains and vaccine rollout doesn't hit any major hurdles. A lot of positive assumptions have to eventuate for your hypothesis to come true. So far the US reporting has been wrong on the positive side almost every time let's hope that they have reached a balance now. The big unpredictable is human behaviour, but we do know when hospitals over flow this causes people to take precautions at least until the hospitals have space for more covid 19 patients again. So even without enforced regulations the cases will reduce everything else being equal.
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  27.  @moonlightfalcon7038  The irony is at this point in time as things are fast moving is Tucker Carlson is the strongest supporter of the Biden/probably NATO position. Both the lefty and Fox general position is escalate now, Tucker Carlson is ironically holding the line.
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  28. Elon Musk is nuts, yes he is extremely wealthy but who would pay $40 Billion for a company losing about $1 billion a year and has never made a profit. Whether or not he can turn it around who knows but I would suggest it's unlikely.
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  29. Your numbers a bit out, there are millions not thousands. In fact there are currently more living slaves that ever existed in the US.
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  30. Because your political system is a duopoly. How hard is it to register in 50 States noting even the paperwork to register as a voter in many states you can put Republican or Democrat?
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  31.  @ALLMUTANTER  those other virus you mentioned don't spread so easily and more deadly so easy to contain. So a virus that kills many more because of easier transmission and more difficult to detect of course is considered more seriously. If the worst Ebola symptoms were evident with most covid 19 cases , that is blood flowing from the eyes and other orifices the virus would be under control in no time.
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  32. On January 23 Wuhan went on total lockdown no flights in or out domestically or internationally other than evacuation flights run by other governments. Should China have detained foreign citizens and refused governments around the world the chance to repatriate their citizens? Did China know that many governments around the world wouldn't quarantine those people? It was known the virus was already outside China on January 21 when several countries detected it, it's not China's fault most governments did absolutely nothing. As far as the year for the investigation maybe that could be quicker but nothing much would have been discovered now or then unless they find the source which is likely in China but it might not be , can only do this by finding a bat colony with an extremely similar virus. There is also speculation that strain A may have been around for a while undetected and the B strain being more contagious caused the rapid outbreak. A bit like the Wuhan B strain versus the UK strain that has emerged now, a whole different kettle of fish.
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  33. I am surprised, I expected a bloodbath. It might still happen but it hasn't yet and if it doesn't then that's a good thing.
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  34. Trump and Biden both had/have open border policies without quarantine, so no change there. The US is not the world, it may surprise you but here in Australia we use oil products also, that pipeline being open or not doesn't effect the global supply of oil and therefore doesn't affect the price of oil products.
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  35. Amazing running up debt creating a short term unsustainable boom is a Republican success. I am not American but government largess and running up debt is not a conservative principle in my opinion, it's not even a lefty principle or at least not in most nations. Amazing a government debt and escalation of that debt bigger than has ever been seen before in the world. Well done so called American conservatives. Germany and zimbabwe tried this policy at various time periods.
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  36. 60 million cases since pandemic began and about 5 million current active cases, these are not inconsistent.
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  37.  @mikerosellinremt-pcct-pcct1335  and 1,500 give take have to die today in the US from covid 19, that's not so good but you are correct it moves things closer to ending one way or another.
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  38.  Barbara Witchey  Fair enough but that's not the argument being put forward. The argument being put forward is something different. I am much more sympathetic to your argument which does have some merit. If such processes were to produce a vaccine more quickly then the company should receive some benefit noting it's just as likely any break through will come from elsewhere and very likely government or quasi government funded eg . Another country and or a university
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  39. They certainly are. 34 new cases in last day with a 50 million population. Australia with about half S Korea only had 12. So scary the out of control out breaks in Australia and S Korea.
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  40. It's sensible because otherwise knowing the votes already counted while voting is still occurring could change the outcome.
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  41. The vast majority of tyrants are elected and based on the most recent polling I can find with a quick search indicates he is still popular. He is the definition of a tyrant taking the rights off one group, cruise line operators to protect their crew and passengers for the freedom of others which is never a right. A business should be able to make their own decisions at a minimum and if not it actually goes in the other direction if logic is applied and that the rights of the workers that is the crew must be kept in a safe working environment. I am Australian so a very different approach and the approach taken is bipartisan for the most part with only arguments around the edges. My state Queensland with a population of 5 million has only 7 deaths so far, yes we have restrictions and currently in lockdown for at least a week but life matters , the first principle of freedom is protecting life not people's ability to go to bars , nightclubs and restaurants. "Life liberty and pursuit of happiness" comes to mind but some have forgotten the first word.
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  42. Looking in from Australia or the West Pacific in general we look across the ocean to the US and think what are you doing , pretty much a guarantee of total nationwide lockdown for January. Of course Americans will enjoy their Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year, you wouldn't dare interfere with freedoms during festive times. Osterholm is a good bloke , I know he has been observing other countries and can see what works.
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  43. Occasionally, he has said things like I just want your vote and how he doesn't like certain states.
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  44. No about $5,500 you need to learn maths. Or alternatively learn English where most if not all English speakers a Trillion has twelve zeroes, apparently some European countries it has fifteen zeroes.
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  45. Australia and New Zealand are doing fine thank you. No need for the racist comment.
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  46.  @lealmelisa  what you say may be true but Trump only represents one Western government out of 30 or so most of whom if not all haven't behaved like the rogue leader. As an Australian I don't want Trumps behaviour to some how be seen as the same as my government and we have Covid 19 under control with leadership that took responsibility for protecting it's own citizens , same with New Zealand.
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  47.  Fatima Ramjoo  I am Australian but maybe I can shed some light. In Australia and US if you say you are in Australia's case Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ( our native people) you can access certain extra government help and services. US has similar programs I believe but covers more than one group.
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  48.  Fatima Ramjoo  what do you mean wiped out. A number were killed outright and most likely the major killer was disease. Australia without modern technology and imported crops was a pretty harsh country to live in so the population wasn't that large and there is only estimate available like everywhere at that time. It does make sense but I would object strongly if that concept applied to any other group. Currently the indigenous population which includes mixed race is about 3% . Race is by self identification to a certain extent. It's based on census data.
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  49.  Fatima Ramjoo  I had a look at the site you showed me. I only skimmed through it but did notice it said only 70% of people believed this occured. If that number is correct that's not very good. As you can see the total numbers were not large but all over the place. With the American statues I don't really have that strong an opinion and you can see if you read many comments both black and white people are divided over the issue both inside of their own group and between each group. My opinion is the statues shouldn't have been allowed to be built in the first place because was after they lost the war it seems. Keeping the pre war buildings is fine and doesn't seem to have much contention anyway. The rock used to display a slave on for sale , again I don't know it's up to them.
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  50. Surely a life is a life, why does there need to be hate crime provisions? If someone kills me I can assure you I don't care who or why, but I would hope under such circumstances the person is caught and treated accordingly. 80 to 90% of homicides are the same race.
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