Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Smerconish: What have we done to our kids?" video.

  1. 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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  2. There's a problem with your assertion, suicide rates have gone down in both Australia and the US , up to October 31 last year the ABS specifically looked at NSW and VIC and suspected suicides being of course the states that actually had long term lockdowns and suicides were down. What has occurred is more attention has been brought on the issue. Previously I looked at suicides by state and think it was 2019 data my state QLD was at 17 per 100,000 and Victoria was at about 10 per 100,000. The real question is why is QLD so high, I didn't try to find out the age groups but clearly QLD has more problems. Victoria quite possibly has less problems because people like Pat McGorry, Jeff Kennet and Vic governments since. There may well be demographic factors regarding rural and remote communities in QLD but whatever the case the state that got the most attention probably has the smallest problem and people never looked at the rates , just the change in rates which went against their narrative anyway. So I would argue it's not so much about a real effect but the effect of people looking and governments being concerned drawing attention to the matter and ironically not looking where the problem already exists. In Australia for 2020 homicides went down slightly from the previous year by about 5%. Suicides and homicides should be looked at together, in the US homicides have shot up from a very high rate to start with. I would suggest happy people usually don't tend to kill others and it's a cultural thing with gangs and even those mass school shootings in the US.
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  3.  @hannahdyson7129  Australia is very firm centre right on business and trade, that is a free market economy and believes in social welfare. The US on business and trade is far left or right, doesn't really matter they both believe in subsidies and tariffs on imported goods and the social welfare system must first pass through the hands of corporate America, to give an example healthcare, the US spends significantly more on publically funded healthcare on a non universal system that makes sure private operators make plenty of profit compared to Australia's universal healthcare system which is cheaper but goes for value for money with drugs and equipment and public hospitals for the most part. Just remember 10% of Bernie Sanders voters voted for Trump because he was seen as more protectionist than Hillary Clinton is the main reason I guess. On what might be called social issues Australia believes in the rule of law and is somewhere in the centre on things like cannabis or same sex marriage etc., the US has a lot of divergence on these issues according to which state.
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