Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis blames this for surge in cases" video.

@jaketapper8910 The US government spends more on public healthcare as a proportion of GDP and in gross terms per Capita than Australia which has universal healthcare. The US has a life expectancy 5 years less than Australia, possibly 6 years now. If the reports by CNN saying life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years due to the pandemic [response] then your life expectancy is less than 1 year ahead of China. It's not about the money, it's about policy, the public health/economic response to Covid 19 by Australia has been far cheaper than the US which ran a government deficit of around 15% of GDP last calendar year compared to about 7% for Australia. Just remember it's not about the money it's about functionality, throwing more money at public healthcare in the US would probably produce a low return, it needs reforming.
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@mjor6406 What are you talking about, I did a quick search , in 2018 5% of the healthcare budget went to research so the remainder is still more than Australia per Capita. Australia has 125,000,000 vaccine doses on order so if they all work out then approximately 80,000,000 doses will be donated, those US companies getting money from everywhere. We are producing 50 million doses of the AZ vaccine but it's recommended only for 40 plus age group, younger to get Pfizer but can request AZ, a bit messy actually however many doses of the AZ are already being exported. Canada will export (not receive ) most of it's ordered doses also and donate them . The US was useless when it counted , all that skill but completely disfunctional, 500 covid 19 tests by the end of February 2020 which compares to 100,000 in South Korea and in second place on a per capita basis Australia with 10,000 tests. The population of the US is 13 times that of Australia so of course no other country comes close in gross numbers regarding research achievements. You might however have heard of something called Wi Fi or Cochlear ear implants or discoveries regarding stomach ulcers or the cervical cancer vaccine first developed in Australia or go way back you might have heard of penicillin developed jointly in Australia and England. We actually did develop 2 covid 19 vaccines, one of which up to phase 2 looked good however it gave false positives to HIV tests so it was decided not to continue due to time it would take to start again using a different protein that would remove that problem. CSL might not be the biggest pharmaceutical and blood products company in the world however they have a market cap of $133 billion AUD so not too bad. I don't know about Canada but Australia at least, punches at a similar level for our size to the US.
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@mjor6406 I never said Australia ended up creating a viable vaccine that's being used so we are in agreement. Money doesn't buy common sense all the "woke" intellectuals of PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO regions have millions of deaths on there hands because open borders and as mentioned extremely slow off the mark in a lot of cases. Less than 10% of the per Capita deaths from Covid 19 in the Western Pacific WHO region even if you eliminate China compared to those other regions although struggling now.
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@mjor6406 Your comments are strange, I said no Australian developed vaccine and you keep carrying on. You're happy with your country that's great, good for you and I am happy with mine. You keep talking about how the US government is more socialist than Australia as in lots of government spending and other manipulations. I agree it is hence it's lower rating in the economic freedom index.
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