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

  1. This is sad to see, can't see how this can end peacefully.
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  2. You can't reopen something that was never shut, not a single border was ever shut to US citizens and permanent residents travelling to the US without quarantine.
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  3. 2 died by suicide. This has destroyed people.
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  4. This one is the game changer already in production in about 5 countries with a low profit margin and easy to transport.
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  5. Not his niece , she is fine.
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  6. You are taking an anecdotal sample of 1, those 10,000 dying each week some will be around the age of your friend who was fine. A death rate of maybe 1% for that age and very sick maybe 20% or whatever just means your friend was in the 80% group, it's not a reason not to be vaccinated. I wear a seatbelt when driving however my risk of crashing and dying is less than covid 19. However a Vaccinated person's risk is 90% less of death according to ones starting risk and does cut the rate of serverly ill significantly.
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  7. Best of luck and take care the best you can. Happy Christmas.
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  8. What's more surprising is they found a crowd of "normal" or should be normal Republicans who accept that Trump lost.
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  9. This guy is as tough as hell, pretty sure if it's me I am just crying and "hiding in the basement" but he managed to tell his story to keep fighting for others.
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  10. I think she's not well , hard to say but prepare for the inevitable that happens to us all one day be we royalty or not.
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  11. The interesting thing out of all this is a slight swing to the right other than for the presidency , maybe people don't like you Mr Trump.
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  12. I think Joel indirectly answers your question, he believes anyone who says anything about the dear leader is communist.
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  13.  Am Pat  Are you American, if so you have approximately 400,000 people doing prison time for not caring about their own health, the number is about quadruple that of Australia on a per capita basis based on 2018 data. So much for your freedom, drugs are a health issue. Now in the US you have freedom to infect , no penalties in most states and no prison time for agregious breaking of health orders on Covid 19.
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  14. Actually millions are celebrating right now but they can't be public about it, how many people are happy they don't have to meet that annoying relative they end up wanting to kill at such events? Given the US population it has to be in the millions.
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  15.  @superja67phy27  ok so make your point. Ukraine has labs like any other large country on the planet. What's the issue.
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  16.  @ernieragogini3994  Nobody personally said anything about you or said all Americans are ignorant, so why are you so defensive? For a wealthy country the US certainly has a lot of problems at the moment and it's not one-sided either, consider the protests last year from people aligned to both parties. Take care and try not to react so much especially as nothing that significant has even been said.
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  17. One would think it would be in a locked cabinet, a $20 box and a $5 lock would be sufficient. However I can't understand how a real round could be loaded into the gun because every round should have been inspected again at that time. These lawyers seem to have just said she is guilty of negligence.
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  18.  @oldfogey4679  my observation is in the case of the US having compulsory turn up laws or send in an envelope laws, ballot is secret you can do anything you want with it , would be beneficial because policies are literally being developed in the US to get the turn out to vote which makes them care less about those unlikely to vote and I would suggest radicalizes the policies. In reality most people will vote if they are there. Australia and US removed all segregation officially around the same time, but the US seems to be stuck in the past for some people and matters still unresolved. There's also way too much money involved in political donations in the US, that's very hard to solve it seems.
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  19. Iran has trade sanctions on it and the US position is now Iran you follow the deal we broke and then we will renegotiate. A bit like pointing a gun at another person's head and saying let's negotiate after you have put your gun down but I will continue to hold this gun to your head and agree to nothing at this point in time.
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  20. She's an old battle axe , she stood true to what she said. She never said the word war. She is following the Russian Federation law. That's not always enough but if I had confidence anyone could pull it off, I would think she could.
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  21. Starting to feel left out here, Q has mentioned Venezuela, China, Cuba, Indonesia, Canada and now Italy as having changed the election results, I am waiting for the Australian connection and Q if your reading this please remember the Aussies.
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  22. Veterans when they were in the military and vaccines available were all required to be vaccinated, so they certainly weren't fighting against vaccines.
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  23. In Australia once he recovered assuming that occurs he would be in court facing possible prison time in most states for breaking public health orders, if he was an ordinary person that is.
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  24.  @icare7151  I have 2 questions for you why did China release the bioweapon inside of China, why not release it somewhere else? Why only allow maybe 1,000 cases to go from China to the US and warn them on 31 December well before the release as you call it?
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  25. Had to give that one a thumbs up it did make me laugh.
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  26. It's pretty sad you say that and seems true , for the most part US military overseas are safer than civilian back in your home country.
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  27. He wasn't as far as we know but it wouldn't surprise me if he donated to it.
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  28. OAN and Newsmax people will be excited, maybe they can get a well paid job.
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  29. Knowing his followers, to get on TV because if you wear a mask you get to stand or sit behind the president. For some reason Trump thinks that changes something showing some people are willing to wear a mask. To be fair some probably do think it's a good idea they just hate Democrats more. Most of Trump rally crowds don't wear masks if you see a pan of the entire crowd.
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  30. Longest monarch in the history of the world. After the previous King of Thailand passed she took the crown.
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  31. Well a few , not Tucker but at least Candice Owens suggested invading my country of Australia, DeSantis while not going that far said some disparaging things about my country. It's a strange situation in the US now.
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  32. There was a ruling on the matter about 100 years ago and it was found that the government can make quarantine conditions but that they should be reasonable. If nudists need to wear clothes I think a requirement that some cloth be put over ones mouth and nose is reasonable.
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  33. I don't know why the media so polite, call him a witch doctor which has a slightly different tone but same meaning.
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  34. Hang in there and if you can't then take care of yourself even if it means leaving. Happy Christmas.
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  35. Why the stupid partisan arguments, in Australia there is no daylight between the positions of our political parties regarding the health response. Some differences with other policies however the most hardline state versus the most let's keep things open state are actually the same party. The let's keep things open state has had the largest failure and been locked down the most because subsequent outbreak , the hardline states have only had one lockdown and no major incidents since. The previously soft approach state has changed it's thinking to become inline with the harder line states. Conservative means by it's very definition to take lower risks and change things slowly. The conservative approach is to put restrictions in place , the harder the restrictions the more conservative the approach because it's lower risk. A conservative will used tried methods that work and be very cautious trying something new. Anyway speaking as a conservative who just voted for a state government that is left leaning because they did a great job, so prefer not to risk changing horses midstream which is actually a conservative position. I still support my right leaning Federal government that's also done a great job in assisting the states. Trump has failed so the only risk is Joe might do better.
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  36.  @brotherjames2204  I am Australian, so can't vote in your election, just making a point this is not whether someone is conservative or a lefty it's only about who might do a better job, Trump has failed on this pretty major issue. Australia is very different to the US, far more in favour of fair free trade and against industry subsidies, Trump on this issue would be too far to the left to become a leader of our left leaning political party , the Labor Party (theoretically similar to Democrats). I wish your country the best but until agressive partisanship by both your major parties goes away you can't really improve.
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  37. You take care
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  38. A face mask is a simple dress code addition. I always challenge anyone who says they have the right to not wear a mask in certain public areas as required. Ok walk naked down the street then apparently it's your constitutional right. Being naked is no threat to others if they wear a face mask lol.
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  39. Benefit of the doubt, I have been watching US politics for about the last 2 years and so many make a career out of this sort of stuff, raise money and pay themselves a fortune to help the cause. No idea if she is going to do that but it's a possibility, my guess is she is genuine but I am an eternal skeptic.
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  40.  @saki5073  I'll translate for you , the term "they say" when spoken by Trump usually means "I am going to make something up now" and occasionally it's original meaning.
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  41. Looking from afar , don't blame the "right". Both sides of your politics promote victimhood and violence with no regard to others to change the situation. Case in point BLM protests during a pandemic that were associated with many homicide deaths , heaps of vandalism and actually supported by an open letter from some doctor mob (not the homicides of course). Your lefties and righties are as bad as each other. It took actually agreement on principal between both sides of politics to ensure that the US had the worst covid 19 response of any wealthy nation and one of the lowest vaccination rates of any wealthy nation dropping behind many middle income nations. To give your lefties one ounce of credit at least there's a smaller proportion of antivaxxers amongst them.
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  42. For sure he wrote it, control freaks don't let others do this work for them.
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  43. But supply shortages are just inconvenience actually, pretty sure just like in Australia there's plenty of food, other goods can wait, you won't die if you have to wait a week or two for that piece of designer clothing and hey not having your favorite cut of meat in the supermarket get over it, buy what's available. Inflation coupled with price gouging which occurs in the US is probably worse on consumer sentiment but that's what you get if the government just keeps pumping the economy with money and loading up government debt. Vaccination is the only answer to stabilize things and the US ranks about 40 or 50th most vaccinated with probably the most vulnerable starting population in the wealthy world.
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  44. The problem in a public health sense is it snowballs, then those left have it even worse and more likely to quit. Of course your friend did the right thing , one can only take so much.
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  45. It's a raging bushfire. The embers resemble burning buildings during the riots.
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  46.  @MarkSmith-ud4sd  Trump didn't tell the Democrats why, he said there is no concern so it contradicted his actions which did appear racist. I would have thought the same thing.
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  47.  @X2LR8  Could you please provide the Bernie Sanders quote that calls for any violent act such as arbitrary incarceration, liberation of something, you know your second amendment rights , Trump knows full well what some nutters believe (knowing that a large proportion of US gun owners take this to mean to overthrow the government not personal protection or the stated reason in the preamble of the second amendment which is for " a well regulated militia being necessary for a free state.... ", nothing about overthrowing an elected government whether disputed or not, that's what courts are for)
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  48. Not really, Putin did poorly and his government is in effect a one party system. Australia is a multi party system and all states except one have handled it as well as China while noting that the Wuhan officials didn't handle it well and probably caused some delay. This delay meant nothing to a country like the US which to this day only has voluntary quarantine, Biden says he will change things but I will believe it when I see it.
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  49. @Joker You are joking right? What was American Indian scalping may I ask?
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  50. I don't think it's a racial thing, the game show host was white. He just likes to retweet any conspiracy theorist, he wants 100% of the conspiracy theorist voting block.
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