Youtube comments of annoyed aussie (@annoyedaussie3942).

  1. Kudos to the presenter who pointed out the same issues in her extended family. It's people like her who are brave who can change things, hopefully not at her expense in a serious way.
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  2. I was expecting this to be about pain killer medication based on the title. Very interesting and just as informative. Seems our private healthcare industry is just as bad as the US.
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  3. Looks a bit like peaceful protests when they occur in the US.
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  4. I tend to agree with Susan's hypothesis that it's probably deliberate to slow aid as much as possible.
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  5. How about the I think French speaking lady calling herself a refugee, as far as I know France or anywhere in Western Europe aren't oppressing the Jewish population. The eternal victim I suppose.
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  6. You might be right but those who didn't vote have no right to complain because they were ok with Trump getting in.
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  7. This is reminiscent of the auto workers for Trump.
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  8. This is sad to see, can't see how this can end peacefully.
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  9. Well I'm in the Southern Hemisphere and he hasn't noticed any countries in half of the world. We are safe for now.
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  10. It's strange the initial targets seem to be Democrat areas. It would make more sense to start in Republican areas where there'll be cooperation.
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  11. To blame anyone or anything prior to the end of the investigation is inappropriate.
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  12. Not only that, the US is currently a net exporter of dairy products. Retaliatory tariffs will be going after agriculture because the products are replaceable elsewhere.
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  13. He can't live that long , however maybe Donald Trump Jr will be the successor to the throne.
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  14. Not commenting on what they are protesting about or if I might agree but that's the sort of protest that's good to see , no property damage or things on fire and no beating up policemen.
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  15. More evidence for ICJ and ICC.
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  16. It's absurd, of course Olympic athletes are often a bit genetically different, that's just how it is. They should ban tall people in the 100m and short people in the marathon because they have an advantage.
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  17. The Jordanians are being ultra diplomatic. I am sure their true thoughts are rather different.
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  18. What's wrong with saying illegal immigrants?
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  19. There's one major country they seem to be holding up well for now, China. Of course Chinese leadership can change that any time they want just by telling people to not buy Tesla.
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  20. Yeah sounds like a great idea, an international occupation force, i am sure the Palestinians would be completely happy with that idea.
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  21. Not just accross the country, virtually accross the world , the protests are by boycotting, no need to go to dealerships, just don't buy them.
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  22. Well it looks like the West Bank is now Judea and Sumaria. The future ambassador has already said they recognise it as such. The US will recognise it when and I don't even think it's an if now that Israel annexes the West Bank.
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  23. Hang in there, you are on the right side and in the current and future you can always be proud of your stance.
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  24. It's great he has been deposed. The problem is those who remove dictators often become dictators themselves rather than changing to democracy. I hope it can become a democracy.
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  25. One thing very noticeable in the Uganda clip is although people are poor, in that area at least it's quite clean, not seeing rubbish everywhere unlike a lot of poor nations. The video quality was pretty dam good in my opinion especially being recorded on a motorcycle.
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  26. Although my mum has passed away she didn't like feminists because they take things way too far. There's a difference between equal rights and overturning everything, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Mum was born in the 1930s in New Zealand but of Australian parents and grew up in Australia, she did become a nuclear physicist which at the time was probably rare for a female. Myself being a man doesn't know what we're supposed to do , some feminist for example don't want a man to open the door for them or let them go first in a queue if it's questionable who arrived first, this type of thing is what I mean by taking things too far.
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  27. You state they are ignoring the science, you are incorrect and here's why. In the US people were having covid 19 parties to get infected, tell some people they don't need a vaccine if already had the infection those parties will start up again killing a large number of people. You are basing your opinion on simplistic thinking and or assuming everyone will do the right thing. Voluntary quarantine resulted in 650,000 deaths, seems voluntary cooperation doesn't work, in fact where voluntary quarantine existed in European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region the deaths are 10 times that of the Western Pacific WHO region where quarantine was mandatory on a per capita basis. 650,000 dead people based on voluntary compliance speaks for itself I would suggest and is pretty simple social "science".
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  28. Thanks Singapore , we much appreciate it. I hope the rumoured open borders between Australia and Singapore along with the short lived New Zealand open border can be one of the first even if it's way behind schedule. It's tough on everyone, best of luck Singaporean.
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  29. There will be more desperate people from the economic fallout and potentially more users so it is more likely to increase supply.
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  30. I hope your daughter and friends enjoy my country Australia.
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  31. Can't trust the "Arctic council", they always give a cold reception.
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  32. In answer to the last question in the clip, Yes. Evidence does point to the people of the Philippines wanting a "strong man" AKA dictator.
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  33. I am not American but you have a true statesman in Bernie Sanders.
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  34. USA you've got some competition to keep your no.1 position for police brutality in a "liberal democracy "
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  35. The lady analyst doesn't know what she is talking about. She has no understanding of how smuggling works and also seems unaware that the manufacture of weapons occurs inside Gaza. The only issue is gaining enough high explosives for the bombs either by smuggling in the precursors or high explosive itself and enough precursors for low explosives or gun powder for rockets , mortars and bullets. Reason you can't smuggle low explosives in is they are to unstable and packing them safely would stand out too much. The only way major smugglers of drugs for example get caught is by following the money and Israel is incapable of doing that in the case of Gaza. Also we are talking about relatively small sums of money.
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  36. Well done and congratulations Mary Simon.
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  37. Saturday 3 AM is 10 hours time. Time is really running out, I hope a miracle happens.
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  38. Hope it continues to show results, best of luck.
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  39. I've read all the comments and feels like I am at a Qanon meeting with just a couple of other sane people who thought there was free food and beer so turned up anyway.
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  40. One thing that surprised me is how calm and collected Nancy was despite the situation.
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  41. A small correction, can't remember which, think it was Alabama but could have been Mississippi they sent covid 19 patients interstate previously, so things are not all good. Various states seem to be entering a real danger zone and then people behave different reducing cases for a while and then back again, cases and self or government imposed restrictions going up and down like yo yos.
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  42. Finally the US being called out by the UN, about damn time.
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  43. The US being quite rich has some nuances. The bottom 90% of the population aren't particularly rich on a world standard and the US government has debt 120%+ of GDP. So basically the country is somewhat poor and 90% of individuals while not being poor on a world standard aren't rich either. The top 10% of Americans are really rich.
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  44. You take care , best of luck.
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  45. Pity about the 70,000 funerals to get to that point.
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  46. Actually they would be under the condition the country was united about the problem and how to fix it. This is extremely common in war time. The problem is that Americans, Canadians and Mexicans aren't going to have a little pain it'll be a lot of pain possibly destroying entire industries and the US is far from united.
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  47. 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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  48. I was one of those who thought world central kitchen were doing something good. Sad to hear it's a publicity stunt.
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  49. I'm an Aussie and on this issue i am on China's side. While i don't like China's subsidies i also don't like US subsidies although i have to admit in some ways they both advantage Australia in some ways as a free trade economy with very limited subsidies.
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  50. I don't know why all the negativity. She seems like a nice lady who stands up for what she believes in. If I was there I would vote for her. She certainly wouldn't be pushing religion upon others in my opinion.
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  51. The CPTPP was timed fairly well even if by accident. Canada and Mexico both being part of the new trade agreement will have some markets opening up. It'll be fairly funny when Mexican goods are cheaper in Australia than in Texas.
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  52. Some people in the comments miss the point. Spying on foreign governments and other foreigner is normal and to be expected, spying on your political opponents internally and media for political gain is a completely different thing. Most spying is in detecting terrorism anyway I would expect.
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  53. There's nuances to what you say. Elected officials can't just enter any federal facilities in this case. Military facilities in particular can have extremely limited access.
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  54. There's more history than that, the Philippines was a US colony. The way Trump talks he might consider retaking it but he sort of seems anti Asian so maybe not.
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  55. 2 died by suicide. This has destroyed people.
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  56. 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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  57. You are wrong , Western countries loved white before when it represented wealth but it could be the case a tan now actually represents wealth or health in the West now and possibly free time as in wealth. Hard to know because in South Korea people are wealthy but still want white.
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  58. Hopefully the ANC loses some power. Any political party in power too long usually leads to problems especially corruption.
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  59. Well have you ever heard of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea or the People's Republic of China. The countries with very outstanding democratic names are not and this is not uncommon, Tyrants are pretty damn good at propaganda.
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  60. It wasn't actually him but one of his papers. Almost every economist has said Trump's tariff plans are crazy. Could hardly have a financial newspaper saying the opposite.
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  61. I think people are thinking too much, just use 4 demographic indicators and it explains it, life expectancy so the age of the population, obesity rates, urbanization rate and income levels (poor people will make a greater effort not to get the virus and don't frequent places where the virus spreads rapidly like enclosed air conditioned bars and restaurants). Wealthy city people who will be fatter and older will also be the first to get vaccinated because they will be less vaccine hesitant. In a way covid 19 is a rich fat person's disease. I agree with you that the statistics will be fairly accurate in most African nations, they actually have more experience with pandemics than wealthy nations so data collection and tracking of diseases is already in place even if it might not be collected in a sophisticated way.
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  62. That's every government for the last 40 years or so. So both parties obviously.
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  63. The truth is if you eat at an international fast food brand anywhere in the world the hygiene standard is high, doesn't mean perfect but the standard is known especially for any tourist. Nutrition on the other hand is variable and tends to be as bad as the national government of a particular country allows. In the wealthy world it seems the US has the lowest standard.
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  64. I smoke rolled cigarettes, so please people don't think we are all like that.
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  65. Not his niece , she is fine.
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  66. If the traffic lights aren't working then it's useless I would think unless it needs a green light to go through an intersection that has lights. A driver still needs to have control. The other thing that seems to have happened in this case was the car's GPS thought it was still on the freeway otherwise it would have slowed down if it had full self drive. Drive safely and be aware of current limitations.
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  67. Indirectly using the word obesity is a massive problem is very true, yes obese people are massive.
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  68. It's an exaggerated claim based on net migration directions by most countries. Interestingly there is a country that has net migration towards it in every case and that's Australia, there's more US immigrants here than Australian immigrants there.
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  69. lol
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  70. As an Aussie please save your country, we in Australia have agreements which should be honored, we gave up the idea of nuclear weapons because we have an agreement in place, I don't trust the Republicans especially Trump to honor that agreement. Please vote Blue, I am a center right Australian.
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  71. Thanks Nora
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  72. Yes that fat lady is extremely high risk because she is not just obese but morbidly obese.
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  73. "militia members who disavow the extremists" What a ridiculous contradiction. If you are armed at a protest and call yourself a militia ( a group for a potential overthrow of a government) you have no right to denounce anyone as extremist because the "extremist" only differ to you because they took the actions you threatened to take. A threat of violence by law is a crime, just because you weren't locked up because it didn't meet the standard of proof required the threat was certainly implied to any reasonable person watching on.
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  74. There's nuances. Pharmaceuticals are exclusively for profit. In the US the charge above market rates because the government let's them. Medical equipment is all for profit. Construction of hospitals is all for profit. So give or take any medical system in the world will be 50% or higher for profit. The problem is when insurance is forced upon people, that's a for profit financial service, it's not actually a medical service, that's a problem. Privately run hospitals that overcharge especially for emergency services that's a problem because they are often a monopoly, one can't shop around in an emergency, it's the closest hospital. One sector that needs to be government run is emergency care hospitals. Non emergency care can be done Privately for people willing to pay some insurance or wait in a public system.
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  75. 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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  76. They're paid actors , if they were real agents they have just given away their identity through the voice which can be anylysed quite easily by any other intelligence agency. Or alternatively they really do need some new talent because such errors shouldn't ever happen.
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  77. When Ruben spoke about how he got information from his direct circle of contacts without looking around every other person nodded. This indicates the biggest problem that has occurred. His last comment is look for real information. Without discounting the others I think he made the best point.
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  78. I just looked up recent polling in Australia and the Coalition (Liberal and National Party) our conservative side of politics for US people are actually losing ground to the Labor Party our major Left Wing party. Unless Dutton the opposition leader denounces President Trump this might continue causing Labor to win even though for the last year or so it was mostly looking like Labor had no chance. I am a swing voter but tend towards conservative the Australian version of that which isn't like the US version, I am thinking I will vote minor Parties first then Greens, Labor and coalition last in our preferential also called rank choice voting system.
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  79. Actually he did , the US government deficits are a problem, however Donald is making it worse. Tanking the economy will lead to an even larger government deficit.
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  80. Australian here, I agree with you but only up to a point. Building infrastructure as an example is done better by private companies so long as the tendering process is robust. With healthcare pointing out approximately 50% of costs come from the private sector in all cases, it makes sense for it to be run by government employees. The US actually does the opposite and subsidises big pharma by paying above free market rates for an unknown reason. So it's not black and white and the biggest issue in the US is dysfunctional government.
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  81. Hope you recover without problems.
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  82. It's not really so much about whether he changes it's more a matter of is he capable of carrying through. Starting a worldwide trade war for example may not go so well for anyone.
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  83. Well someone has to pay for the war crime of ethnic cleansing and colonisation in the West Bank and the seige and war in Gaza and your duly elected politicians both Democrat and Republican literally take some of that money through AIPAC and need to keep the cycle going. Until the US citizens demand a multiparty system instead of a duopoly this status quo will remain. To have a multiparty system you need to have rank choice or preferential or automatic run off voting system so occasionally independents and minor parties can win seats in the house of representatives and senate. Further changes should probably be made however that would be a good start, it works very well in Australia. On a lighter note eventually Israel will have to pay for itself because US government debt is becoming unsustainable and the US won't be capable of sending so much aid for no benefit or humanitarian reason.
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  84. To the second question, yes he's on Russian tv all the time. The beautiful thing about it for Russia is they can do honest direct translation and limited editing, no need to make stuff up.
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  85. I am not American but have to say this really really effective. I have biological niece and non biological niece and this ad would work on me if i was American.
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  86. ​@michaelreid2329 Trump got about 32% of eligible voters, non voters was about 34%. So Trump got about 2 thirds support because non voters were OK with him becoming president.
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  87. Best of luck and take care the best you can. Happy Christmas.
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  88. No evidence he fired.
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  89. I would add one more, rushing. That can be because of employer or employee.
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  90. And those who chose not to vote.
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  91. New a new terrorist category, maybe vacciterrorist.
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  92. 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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  93.  @bremCZ  they believe in angels but not viruses?
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  94. The main problem with the US is it was first at everything including modern socialism but just doesn't want to modernise to today's standard because they believe they the best despite all key indicators showing they aren't.
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  95. Big tough keyboard warriors saying FJB and Let's go Brandon. My gosh what a pathetic bunch and yes I am an Australian. Call me a Communist if you want and deny the assessment of Heritage Foundation's economic freedom index.
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  96. 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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  97.  @pittabreadchicken7926  You want sympathy because of your governments incompetence yet you are ok that incompetence killed someone. You are just an extremely selfish person. Wouldn't it have been better to have both like Australia and New Zealand and China, few deaths and less economic impact, in fact short term at least the failed responses around the world have helped China's economy because more goods purchased and less services purchased.
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  98. I think the general advice at least in Australia is should wait 6 months after infection, probably as immunity wanes a bit the reaction to vaccines reduces.
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  99. There's no registration of guns in Texas so no problems, any willing seller can sell to any willing buyer, the gun doesn't even officially exist. Edit: just did a quick search, it's completely legal to sell a weapon in Texas to anyone without any paper work whatsoever and no records of the sale required to be kept. Supposed to sell it to over 18 years old Texas residents only however since no process exists as long as the buyer says they live in Texas and are over 18 the law would seem to be complied with. Information from Texas State Law Library a government website.
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  100. Compulsory attendance in reality.
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  101.  @anfieldreds_1892  You are simply wrong, Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland and New Zealand all have managed to either keep the virus out or in the case of Queensland and New Zealand manage any outbreaks successfully. New South Wales I believe might have achieved that goal too. Victoria as long as open carefully should join the rest of us soon. So with a combined 30,000,000 population of Australia plus New Zealand it can be done.
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  102. She correct, however it seems she is indicating letting bird flu spread unchecked is a good idea. If such a policy is adopted the US could be the cause of a pandemic because allowing the disease to spread unchecked increases the chances of bird flu mutating to a point where human to human transmission becomes possible.
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  103. Thankyou in the comments, as an Australian i appreciate not all Americans support your government's actions. I realise not everyone in the comments are Americans however many of you are.
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  104. 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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  105. But that's not the big issue, as of today Ozempic costs $140 AUD or $96 USD unsubsidised at Chemist Warehouse.
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  106. I noticed a Japanese and South Korean flag in one of those mobs fairly close together, what's with that? Not sure Japan or South Korea would approve.
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  107. She is like your friends, she just parroting Putin's position which is indirectly Trump's position as he referred to Putin as a genius for invading.
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  108. 1,000 cases a day and still rising isn't contained.
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  109.  @mballer  read my comment again, I said nothing about whether or not people are more or less protected after being infected, I only commented voluntary compliance killed 650,000 US citizens and that US citizens will have covid 19 parties and kill themselves to avoid a vaccine, the evidence of this is overwhelming.
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  110. The people might but our governments don't.
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  111.  @mav1733  You don't believe Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea? Don't know where you are from but the most misleading behaviour is in the USA.
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  112. To have any meaningful guard rails in place you need constitutional changes, a good starting point is to make the head of state and head of government different people, don't give one person absolute power.
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  113. 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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  114. Based on your other comments I can see you are hard-core MAGA.
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  115. I am sceptical of the age but hey it's probably outlasted any Louis Vuitton bag.
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  116. ​@heidimueller1039 that's not quite correct, the US had the highest death rate from covid 19 for a high income country. If someone argues about how deaths are reported point out to them that the US has the lowest life expectancy of a high income country, when someone dies is universally reported the same way as in age of death.
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  117. I think Joel indirectly answers your question, he believes anyone who says anything about the dear leader is communist.
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  118.  @KittykatOz  American Exceptionalism is inward looking arrogance that the US is always the best. If the US is always exceptional then no reason to look at why other countries are better on whatever key measure is being looked at. So excuses are then made of it being someone else's fault.
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  119.  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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  120. If Camden was a country it would probably be top10 and definitely top20 homicide rate in the world. If that's the standard you want to set anything is possible.
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  121. If Pompeo thought he was being funny he doesn't know how the Trump devotees will take his words. The other Republicans in general are ok just saying Trump has the right to contest it if he wants without any statement that they think he has a chance.
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  122.  @JJ-iy7rk  Actually a lot of middle income countries are better than the US, maybe if you only include really poor countries the US looks better because they get food and some degree of medical care, solitary confinement generally isn't practiced in poor countries though because it's expensive and that makes people insane.
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  123. Not him alone, he has full support in congress from Republicans. They could stop this at any time.
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  124. I am curious why it was said that Austria would be the first European country to have a general vaccine mandate when it appears it would be the first in the world. Seems like they are insinuating another country has done it already which seems not to be the case.
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  125.  @charliefoxtrot5001  You're nuts , Sydney isn't Australia. However yes it's going through the same thing as Melbourne before and no, unarmed public servants in camouflage uniforms isn't close to martial law, they have no powers, they just expand police numbers and they will be the boys who go get the coffees and doughnuts for the coppers and doing mundane tag along stuff, go and buy the old lady in lockdown her medication and food things like that. Not heavily armed military with combat equipment, not like a US riot with the national guard and riot police brought in with plenty of rubber bullets and tear gas and military vehicles. We are a peaceful country thanks.
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  126. ​@justinp8599 Join who might I ask. Trump was the biggest deficit spender in history and Biden wasn't much better. I am an outsider but even I can see that no political group in the US wants to improve the government deficit.
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  127. The Western Australian government just wants to show they are the toughest jurisdictions on the planet and have to outdo Queensland. Second lockdown on the planet with 0 known cases of community transmission but to outdo Queensland 5 days instead of 3 and a bit stricter. Queensland however , the only state I think has declared the areas under the Western Australia lockdown area as a hotspot which used to be a case of community transmission but now seems to be even a single quarantine breach without evidence if it has spread or not. To the comment above that Australia had a long lockdown this is incorrect, most places it was around 8 weeks, however Victoria had about 6 months of a less strict lockdown than say Western Australia and opened up more than elsewhere while cases spreading , this led to about 3 months of very strict lockdown and they successful in elimination. New South Wales had a few issues also so maybe a bit more lockdown than the remaining states in some areas but they had great contact tracing and it never got out of hand despite that state being arguably the worst for quarantine breaches caused by carelessness not the likely unavoidable kind like WA just had. If it turns out Western Australia does have cases of community transmission they will get on top of it quickly, a pre emptive lockdown just in case shows a high level of proactiveness .
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  128. The surprising thing if true is 3 deaths because not likely party goers are 65+ .
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  129.  @yeshiyangzom8532  what a stupid question, everybody's ancestors 200 years ago were either brutal oppressors or victims. It's now 2021. I don't have records of my ancestors so how the hell would I know anyway and do you want to go back 2000 years how long? My brother did a DNA test that approximates heritage and came up with small amounts of Norway and Sweden and mostly English and Scottish. Although no strong evidence either way my longest Australia ancestor was about 210 years ago but it only told which ship she was on, maybe she was a convict being oppressed by the English who knows. The point is this is not how modern countries should behave. Will have racists in every country, maybe that lady was one of many or one of few. Do you consider Uyghurs equal to you?
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  130. He is so blatent about it, that's the amazing thing. It's the thing that I believe will lose him the election. It's not a given but some who would support him otherwise would think this is crossing the line, they would prefer the other candidate win rather than these really dirty tactics.
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  131. I hate the date it apparently happened, that's my birthday. I believe gaza can and will recover.
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  132.  @1987BillyBob  Public health failures in the US are consistent. It's nothing to do with how dead people are counted. You seem to think it's culture but it's not , culture plays a part only. You seem happy that US people are free to kill themselves or each other and the government won't provide a decent level of healthcare. Are you happy your government watches people die because they aren't willing to pay market prices for goods and services in the healthcare industry? By the way not paying market prices means paying up to 10 times the market price, not that they are unwilling to come up with the money. It's insane that your tax dollars are used to subsidise big pharma in particular and watch people die.
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  133. 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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  134.  @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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  135. Hate to burst your bubble , this is your normal. The US failed in its HIV response and allowed it to spread throughout the IV drug users for quite some time. A high income country acting different to other high income nation's who believed drug users are human first and took time to distribute clean needles. You will return to your normal when this is all finished most likely and next health or quarantine issue will be responded to in a similar manner. I hope I am wrong on that point.
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  136. Disagree on the education thing. According to Congress representative Crockett black ladies are the most educated segment of the US population.
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  137. Wish your state the best but unfortunately looks like your community is in for an ongoing very hard time. Take care.
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  138.  @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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  139. So public executions in soccer stadiums is peaceful? You think the Taliban has changed to some peace loving freedom group?
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  140. ​@diegoharo7943 not really, US aid to most countries is puny unlike to Israel.
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  141. It's only an issue if the election is close, if one side wins easily then no problems. I think one side will win easily.
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  142. 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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  143. I'm Australian and have mixed feelings with both the US and China. The US is Australia's largest investment destination and China is Australia's largest export destination. So we are heavily intertwined with both countries on an economic basis. I don't like China's and US's interventionist behaviours in smaller countries by both their governments and big corporations. The US has a long term record of literally destroying smaller countries for geopolitical purposes, China is a more recent participant in such behaviours with a lot of belt and road initiatives designed to gain power over countries by bankrupting them.
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  144. China is having problems too and 21 days mandatory enforced quarantine for them, the Delta variant is nothing like the Wuhan variant. Greater Sydney isn't all of Australian and that state slowest to lockdown and as the person who wrote into John they are reactive not proactive and now in trouble, no other state have problems anywhere near as bad.
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  145. It doesn't help your cause by either lying or spreading misinformation. He is a US citizen and also an immigrant.
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  146. I would suggest sending an old fashioned paper letter. You are more likely to get a response. Not a guarantee of course but just more likely.
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  147. Probably some will fly over the US to Mexico.
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  148. I think she means Hummer armoured personal carriers.
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  149. It'll be much quicker than that if he keeps his tariff promises.
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  150. But one is unsightly the other can potentially kill.
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  151. As an Aussie just waiting for the day he notices our land area and threatens to invade.
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  152.  @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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  153. Hey glad you survived the heart attack.
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  154. The Oxford Vaccine is already in production by CSL in Victoria.
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  155. It's virtually a carbon copy of the original " it's morning in America" ad for Ronald Reagan. Search for it and you should be able to find it. Ronald Reagan was probably turning over in his grave from what his Make America Great Again slogan became, now he can rest in peace again and don't think he would mind the Morning in America being used for Biden. Biden has much more of the characteristics of Reagan than Trump will ever have.
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  156. He's still got approval in 40s , they still don't see it.
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  157. Asymptomatic is being used liberally, runny nose , slight cough etc. , normal mild cold symptoms I believe are being called asymptomatic when technically they're not.
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  158. If I was American I would actually be scared about what's going to happen. If Trump can assemble enough loyalists martial law is going to happen, it probably won't be the whole country but somewhere.
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  159. I think he handled well, the caller wanted him to get angry or something. Well done Biden.
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  160. Unfortunately black market stuff is often fake. Hopefully even if it is black market mostly it's the real thing.
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  161.  @robertsharp3238  about 4 billion $ per annum for a population of 10 million is anything but symbolic. Take a look at aid to other countries and their population.
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  162. I am not American and clearly not in this mans electorate, but if i was i would vote for him simply because he hasn't bowed down to AIPAC.
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  163. Well the death toll in Sweden is about 10 times that of India currently on a per capita basis. Just because the deaths weren't shown live on TV like they are being shown in India doesn't mean they didn't happen. India does have serious hospital capacity problems and this makes the deaths more real or obvious but to the dead and their families it doesn't make any difference.
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  164. It's also charisma, he's easy going, non threatening and very good at explaining things in a way normal people get some idea.
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  165. 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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  166. Well Australia effectively shut the border to free movement of people only allowing citizens to return mostly at their cost, this resulted in an increased trade surplus because we can't travel overseas and spend money, this would apply to most rich countries I would expect, so from a national point of view closing a rich countries border for a bit actually helps the economy. (Maybe our treasurer is secretly devising a plan to keep it shut as long as possible)
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  167. I just looked up the conditions an exemption might be granted and for Pfizer or Moderna basically you need to have a significant heart problem. Is this guy dying or something or did he lie to get the exemption claiming heart problems. If he is likely to have a heart attack or something lucky he isn't playing, time to retire it would seem.
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  168. Seems a bit like the Tulip bubble of the past.
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  169. 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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  170. I rewatch these clips after seeing the whole thing to help the algorithm and press like.
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  171. Got to accept that those who didn't vote support him otherwise they were have voted against him. Having 2 thirds support is definitely a mandate. Those who didn't vote have no right to complain.
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  172. It's not about disrespect, most but not all world leaders can put up with that, the moment Trump likely carries through with his tariff plans there will be a very big response from all 3 countries currently targeted.
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  173. He's guilty of assault certainly but the other stuff , the US would need to lock up at least 20,000,000 people of both political persuasions if the same rules applied.
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  174. Anyway most federally elected Republicans have already caught the virus , so what conclusions should one reach? Speaking from another land so not my business but just curious.
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  175. I honestly don't understand the billionaires agreeing to tank the US economy with trade wars. A lot of these billionaires will be negatively affected as well. If the pie is smaller there's less to go around. Maybe billionaires only care about relative wealth. The poor will go down further than the billionaires.
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  176. I agree with the headline because there's only 1 country where Tesla sales are holding up and that's China.
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  177.  @trudyherbst5387  There's a difference, no matter how misguided some of the US invasions might be none of them are for the purpose of territorial expansion. No country should invade another country for territorial expansion no matter what.
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  178. No judge is going to be that corrupt in any wealthy democracy. It would be extremely unlikely or rare even in poor countries that have significant corruption problems.
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  179. ​@anna8331 Not wanting to waste money on a sports car is sensible. A BYD Dolphin costs around $20,000 USD in Australia, a perfectly good vehicle with more durable batteries even if the range isn't as high as Tesla. Most people don't drive over 400km each day.
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  180. Interesting , maybe Australia should become friends with the Taliban, then China would talk to us again but hang on a minute Australia is seen as an oppressive regime and the Taliban a peaceful organization, oh well. A strange world we live in.
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  181. Breaking news: Donald Trump now promises to buy up $100,000,000 in monopoly money as a strategic reserve. Money seized in NY to be added to this strategic reserve.
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  182. There is a bit of whoever keeps their mouth shut has a better chance. Both candidates are prone to major stuff ups but one is President so can't go completely silent especially now because he has made himself almost a daily news item.
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  183. I think the spraying girl might have been Asian. So that's interesting.
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  184. 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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  185. 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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  186. They can't say too much if currently in power, ex leaders and minor opposition parties can.
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  187. West Pacific I like to say so it covers East Asia, ASEAN, and Australasia . Not everyone doing real well but even Philippines and Indonesia are still doing much better than US or most of Europe.
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  188. 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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  189. Now the real trucker convoys can get back to work with goods flowing.
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  190.  @woden3894  To the Chinese people of China it's the same thing, you insult China or it's government they consider you have insulted them, 90% support for the government and it's actions.
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  191. Tesla likely has what I refer to as a corruption premium built into the share price. It's likely overvalued.
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  192. Well Britain has a branch of the BLM movement in it along with Canada. Australia doesn't have one yet and probably unrealistically I hope we never do.
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  193. Antony Loewenstein makes me proud as an Australian.
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  194. There's a a complete list actually, bread, then fresh meat, then pasta, then instant noodles, then rice and last of all canned fish. If you start running out of canned fish then start to worry because it's not a very sought after item and or hoarders already have a stock of canned fish. My experience from Brisbane from the original lockdown.
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  195. Yeah should be Grandad.
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  196. Nora you are so tough. I know you and others at EI see very disturbing videos you can't show us. Keep up the excellent work however if it becomes too much take a break and this applies to the rest of your team.
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  197. @Real M You mean the people afflicted with the America Virus known as Qanon, unfortunately it has infected the English speaking world. It'll go away I expect but needs time and the infection rates outside of the US aren't quite as bad.
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  198. No wonder the UK left the EU, the EU is a country by the standards anywhere else, how is it a country can't shut it's borders at will?
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  199. I think his citizenships might be Canada and US. Apparently he wanted to set up a battery factory in South Africa and due to South Africa's investment rules require 30% local ownership which annoyed Musk. This is why I don't think he has South African citizenship.
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  200.  @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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  201. I am wondering what the other 4 eyes are thinking, can we trust the US any more on non urgent issues?
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  202. Had to give that one a thumbs up it did make me laugh.
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  203. I guess you have a tough job but admire that you are trying.
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  204. 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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  205.  @bignose8614  Nah, my observation from Australia is Trump is highly problematic but Johnson is maybe not the best choice but he doesn't incite social division or certainly not in the way Trump does. Division in the US is the greatest threat to their country in a way.
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  206. I am trying to create one, I store my infected saliva after each infection and reinfect myself every few months to create a super variant, then eventually I can be a live bioweapon should my military or spy services require such a service.
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  207. He wasn't as far as we know but it wouldn't surprise me if he donated to it.
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  208. It's probably a time thing, they keep telling their patients to eat properly, don't drink too much or smoke and they have a 1% success rate at achieving results so pretty disheartening over time.
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  209.  @milenalm5288  7 deaths for a population of 5 million, the lowest deaths in the world on a per capita basis for any reasonable sized jurisdiction along with most Chinese provinces. What numbers would you need to see to be convinced lockdowns work. Another note the states run the responses in Australia, NSW was less cautious than QLD and now 200 cases a day and minimum 1 months lockdown for greater Sydney.
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  210. OAN and Newsmax people will be excited, maybe they can get a well paid job.
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  211. 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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  212. If Canada can divert a significant amount of oil elsewhere it should regardless if a tariff is on it if tariffs are on everything else. Retaliation can also involve cutting supplies.
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  213. But it might be an illegal immigrant.
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  214. Like it or not , Trump has a mandate. Two thirds of the population are happy with him, must include the non voters. If they had an issue with his agenda they should have voted. Americans need to take responsibility for their actions.
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  215. The catholic church has done the same rating vaccines on their religious appropriateness or in other words halal for catholics.
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  216. You could see the stress and disappointment in the doctors facial expressions.
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  217. That's the playbook of every authoritarian.
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  218. Longest monarch in the history of the world. After the previous King of Thailand passed she took the crown.
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  219.  @djedd23  not unusual, if you watched Trump's doctor he repeated at least 2 times he will have nurses and doctors available 24 hours a day and that anything that might be required is available in the Whitehouse ( paraphrased ) . So he has just transferred to an alternate intensive care setting that doesn't happen to be called a hospital. It's not the same as your home.
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  220. Studies conducted when kids weren't at school and was essentially the Wuhan variant not the Delta variant. It's going to spread like crazy in schools unless high vaccination rates which will slow the spread but not stop it.
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  221. His qualifications aren't an issue, he can read English which is all that is required. He isn't going to be personally involved in anything, just read reports. It's a purely administrative position. Having said that Hegseth is unsuitable because of his radical ideology.
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  222. It's irrelevant, it's simply an advisory service to the president which doesn't need to be confirmed by anyone. Maybe someone could take them to court to have the name changed or removed, that's about it.
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  223. We will find out eventually. I didn't trust China at first however even if their numbers are a bit out they are not way out. You could say the same about Australia look at our per capita infections versus US and we both demographically similar so Australia must be lying and I can assure you thats not the case.
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  224. Do you honestly think that African and Asian colonialists treated people better? Every race was doing it so why single out Europeans?
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  225.  @t0ny1189  New Zealand people and Australian people travel internationally much more than a country like the US on a per capita basis, compulsory enforced quarantine when entering the country along with testing and contact tracing, lockdowns as required, the exact same measures in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea and Japan , the US and European countries could do the same but chose not to it's as simple as that.
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  226. One of the 3 Amigos with Trump (who's been booted) and Bolsonaro. The problem isn't the rallies themselves which in scale of things change nothing, it's that an entire population is sent the message to have gatherings it's fine.
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  227. There's actually a lot of Australians that like Trump. It's our system of government that protects us from having an extreme radical leading our government.
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  228. They probably won't, they care more about the delivery than you may think. Some dead person in an unknown location with drugs on them wouldn't be helpful. However Coronavirus has entered the Whitehouse and it's just as functional as before.
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  229. In answer to the question, yes they can. Nobody is stopping them in the West Bank so this is no different.
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  230. What's a Chancellor, is he/she equivalent to a Prime Minister or a President?
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  231. In Australia we generally use the term import duty. Tariffs is just a synonym.
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  232. Hi from Brisbane
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  233. And people criticise Sydney Australia with police in normal uniforms and soon military going on the streets with weapons such as pens and notebooks being lackeys for the police without any powers whatsoever.
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  234. You put it rather softly , it's outright authoritarian, have to remember this is to harm one group and their rights over another for ideological reasons. Most authoritarians in the world start out with the claim they are improving freedom.
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  235. 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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  236. The US isn't pausing weapons transfers, only one type of weapon, the rest of the weapons such as artillery are still flowing freely for now.
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  237. Lol but your big mac won't kill me, eat up become fat get diabetes, I don't care although for your sake I would encourage you not to. Cough on me and I am old or the fat fast food junkie you might kill me. That's the difference.
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  238. Video games are nothing to do with anything, every wealthy country has equal access to video games however one country the US has a homicide rate 5 times that of the average wealthy country and guns (peaceful people with guns would not be a big issue but the US isn't peaceful) and culture are to blame.
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  239. Reed Galen's appeal is great, I would seriously consider sending you money but I'm Australian and even if I could get around donation rules I wouldn't want to. I send my best wishes, while I think your democracy needs to be refurbished as in the constitution needs changing first you need to keep it a democracy before considering what needs to be changed.
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  240. It reduces the chances of getting it and spreading it. It's not perfect but better than nothing.
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  241. Fiscal responsibility for his own corporations.
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  242. Nobody other than a few fringe people outside of the US respect the US. However we all fear Trump and his plans to tank economies around the world and fear the US ignoring alliances making way for expansionist China and Russia, noting the US has become expansionist too at least in rhetoric.
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  243. 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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  244. Hey that's not fair, Mary Trump is against many of the things Donald does.
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  245. 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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  246. Hang in there and if you can't then take care of yourself even if it means leaving. Happy Christmas.
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  247. The hasbara guy didn't disappoint, same tired old talking points and lies.
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  248. Sounds like what was reporting in Alabama US with "challenges" of see who can get infected first. The arguments were all the same arguments in just about every country in the world and in the minority, but a sizable minority in many places.
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  249. 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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  250.  @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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  251. You take care
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  252. Actually he said he wouldn't cut benefits. Trump contradicts himself all the time. His followers just believe the version they want to.
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  253. At least Reagan believed in increasing free trade, Trump is an anti trade president.
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  254. Obviously it will be Toyota Corporation USA or whatever it's called. Should corporations be allowed to contribute political donations , in my opinion no and unfortunately it's the same in Australia. If you want any sort of free market allowing only US majority owned corporations to donate well what do you think would happen. Same thing laws will start to be put in place to protect the US companies at the expense of the consumer. Truth is that already happens to some extent in the US which is a bit protectionist.
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  255. Every Western Pacific country basically, some more successful than others but in relative terms no massive failures either.
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  256. 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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  257. 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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  258. It won't "go away like magic" if there is different politicians.
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  259. No it said use of force has been reviewed 79 times, so looked into 79 times. Maybe he works in a crime ridden area and carries out lots of arrests, we really know nothing. Now people saying officers are guilty until proven innocent. Him shoving someone who is kneeling is hardly a felony. Ok probably he shouldn't have done that, however if that protestor shouted abuse towards him it's understandable.
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  260. Where can they go?
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  261. So you want Australian beef producers to have tariffs put on them. I am sure same with other products too even if it's not a large part of our economy.
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  262.  @mikkiduncan2497  Every major leader in the world has congratulated President Elect Biden on his win so I am unsure what makes you think people in other countries don't believe/agree with the outcome that has occurred.
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  263. Now we can officially say the EU are vaccine hoarders, they refuse the export of Astrazeneca to Australia, a relatively small number just to help until local production occurs and now some EU countries seem to be refusing to use it. If they want to donate to a developing country ok but stop hoarding it.
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  264. Sad to see but it didn't seem 100% negative at least.
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  265.  @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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  266. Well at least your current allies are doing ok.
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  267. 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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  268. Hey that's a bit offensive. Orang means man , Utan means forest. I think the people of Malaysia and Indonesia consider those primates to be highly developed.
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  269. Encourage people to read "road to nowhere " lyrics by talking heads, i think it's quite apt. Israel is literally building an East West highway through Gaza that literally goes nowhere and for reasons unknown. It sure isn't to make sure goods get delivered otherwise guess what it would have run north south.
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  270. At least her parents can discuss it with her.
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  271. You can take a leaf out of Australia's book or maybe not at the moment.
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  272. I am thinking of doing the same, hard boycott on US products as much as possible and a soft boycott on US companies operating in Australia, however it's actually really hard to boycott US companies especially with processed food like canned soup or stew and canned vegetables and frozen meals all dominated by US companies operating in Australia and New Zealand.
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  273. It's pretty hard to hide, his picture is everywhere so can't work and either need to know how to survive off the grid or have plenty of money.
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  274. £2.50 each , that's a bargain. In Queensland Australia if that happened and rules didn't permit at the time probably somebody going to the big house for a couple of months to think about things. Our first covid 19 prisoner threw a house party , got a £750 fine (approximately). He or she , not sure decided to do the same thing the next day and got 2 months prison.
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  275. I think democratic leaders are laughing but dictators are laughing even harder.
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  276. Good ad.
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  277. You are not considered vaccinated until 2 weeks after the second shot, you are considered party vaccinated 2 weeks after the first shot, we don't know how long after the first shot so the 4 number is somewhat meaningless without this further information.
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  278. Am I the only one confused. Aren't these 2 incidents in different states and possibly different levels of police (state/local authority) . If I am wrong correct me and tell me how they are related.
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  279. Actually many of them argue they voted for him because they believe he is a liar and won't do any of the stupid things he promised. This is especially the case with mass deportations and tariffs.
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  280.  @Dandelionfleur  Don't sugar-coat the numbers , excess deaths are more than 300,000 and most of the non Covid 19 deaths are to do with the handling of the pandemic.
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  281. Well they'll have even less once the Trump tariffs kick in.
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  282. The very last point was interesting. It almost sounds like Zuckerberg is excited about the idea of Trump putting tariffs on countries under an oligarchs command if a country annoys one of them.
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  283. I feel sorry for all businesses with Delta in their name, this will cause a downturn in business and they should complain to the WHO and tell them to use countries again.
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  284. For sure he wrote it, control freaks don't let others do this work for them.
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  285. It will differ by state but the same playbook will be used. If Trump's ahead at midnight stop counting, if he's still behind days later all the votes need to be counted.
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  286. Thanks for kicking Taiwan , Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Zealand out of the free world, we might not be the richest or most sophisticated countries in the world but we seem to have community spirit and sensible governments that's lacking in countries where selfishness (AKA rugged individualism) is seen as a good thing apparently.
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  287. Reminds me of an ad I saw in a South East Asian country some time ago telling people to stop at red lights, I think that country has moved on since then to be a reasonable developing nation with citizens who understand the basics now, the US is reverting back to being a developing nation by modern standards.
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  288. Great open borders and now no one wants to take vaccines, what a recipe for success.
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  289. Denmark doesn't exploit Greenland, they actually subsidise it and Greenland self governs and receives all the revenue from natural resources. If that revenue increases to a certain level then Denmark will no longer send subsidies. So while what you say might well be correct historically it isn't now in my opinion.
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  290. I am unaware of the big beautiful ocean between Alaska and Russia.
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  291.  @jigsaw2253  You're comment is completely unnecessary, I am not religious but if a religious person wants to pray for me or my country that makes me happy, it does help actually. A non religious person like me wishes them the best.
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  292. Look back at any video mentioning Australia or New Zealand. We are all doing the same thing. You must have quarantine at the border 14 days government enforced. Then lockdown if required and any outbreak treat possible cases like biological terrorists track them down with that level of urgency, quarantine people and isolate close contacts. Internal travel restrictions if required. Non of this is rocket science it's just a matter of wether a country is willing to do it. Fine people and or a prison sentence depending on offence if required ( highly compliant populations don't require heavy enforcement) , enforcement was a very important component in Australia.
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  293. Hope you are doing ok now.
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  294. Nobody knows, it's based on assumptions which are impossible to predict, especially with Omicron because the severity in English population as in older and fatter on average could be quite different to South Africa.
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  295. Not being from Canada or US I would point out there's some nuances. Canadians have no choice but to fight you and hurt you economically. You mightn't be personally responsible but you can't expect them to just be nice, they need to fight you back.
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  296. The Communist Party of China is anti union too, how about that.
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  297. 0.28% of Brazil's entire population is already dead from covid 19 and it's the southern hemisphere summer now with the majority of Brazil south of the equator so it's going to spread slower at the moment. Better hope Omicron is less deadly.
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  298. It's because the Delta variant is so infectious, China having same problems too and Vietnam already lost control. Sydney in reality has probably lost control and will be lockdown till new year when vaccination rates are high enough.
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  299. Need elimination diet and elimination environment. While I can't identify everything, I am intolerant/allergic to both food items and environment, I have worked out some environment intolerance/allergies but not the exact chemicals, laundry powder and a deodorant and perfume concoction make me sick. Currently living on balcony to reduce exposure to whatever, have good days and bad , working on getting better. The medical establishment here in Queensland Australia doesn't accept that what I have observed about myself is real and I am just insane. They have basically said as much.
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  300. Other nations have, what do you think Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand have done and South Korea and Japan not too bad either at this point in time. Many other countries want open borders without quarantine, in particular US, UK and most of Europe. You can never stop a virus if you keep inviting it in, not that that matters now because they are the more infected countries.
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  301. 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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  302. Lol says the person sending a message on a Chinese made device.
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  303. ​@ThradNevar83 Saying it won't change anything is very far from the truth. It's going to have massive effects on all sorts of things many of which people don't realise yet. The most notable effect is those on low and medium incomes will have less to spend because they're paying more tax in the form of tariffs and flow on costs of tariffs.
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  304. 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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  305. The US banking system is literally the largest socialist enterprise in the world. Government housing loans sold by private banks at no risk plus government student loans. It's amazing how Americans think they are so capitalist when all evidence points out they actually perform poorly on that measure. The issue is a significant amount of the socialism is directed towards corporations.
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  306. Netanyahu has apparently said they are going into Rafah whether or not a ceasefire deal is reached, meaning they are only offering a temporary pause in the killings. With that sort of offer on the table hamas has no other option other than to say no.
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  307.  @jacobpetersen5662  Howard Springs is far from horrifying , far better than hotel quarantine which literally hundreds of thousands have gone through in all Western Pacific WHO region countries. Not sure why an improvement in accomodation from a converted mining camp is attracting so much attention. Maybe something to do with propaganda.
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  308. Philippines can look forward to some sort of sanctions from China, it'll likely be some trade item that China "will find issues with".
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  309. It's a raging bushfire. The embers resemble burning buildings during the riots.
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  310.  @karlhawkes  If you are in the US well people are dying at about 1,300 a day give or take , around 1,000 from covid 19 and the rest from related or secondary causes like lack of other health care etc. These numbers are with significant intervention. How many should die do you reckon to make it a "proper pandemic"?
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  311. A sovereign wealth fund isn't always a bad concept for development reasons as an example like building fast rail lines then selling off the asset eventually. A sovereign wealth fund run by a partisan president is just crazy.
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  312.  @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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  313. You need farmers first, that red stuff called beef comes from an animal believe it or not. Actually abattoirs are the highest risk in the food chain , so abattoir and processed food factory workers should be added to your list and maybe farmers even though their risk is low.
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  314.  @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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  315. Depends who you mean by we and if you mean any virus well SARS1 and Ebola are easy to stop because nobody asymptomatic. Many countries have shown that stopping the spread is possible but unless completely cutting of travel it can re enter at times even with quarantine which can't be made perfect in a realistic sense. When numbers are low enough it would seem detection of the virus in sewerage is often quicker than a person showing up to get tested as experienced in Australia, so many ways to keep getting on top of it and identifying new outbreaks if they occur.
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  316. Although almost impossible to compare due to different demographics, I don't think it's fair to say Modi is worse, the death toll per capita is still a lot lower on a per capita basis and he at least did something in the beginning which did work fairly well until the UK and Indian variants took hold which spread much more rapidly.
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  317. Not only demand to put out fires but also burnt out buildings will have water flowing freely until someone turns it off at the mains. I am sure this is being done but in some cases it's probably difficult.
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  318. That would mean a million dead, pretty big call, so far very few people killed if any.
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  319.  @collinvelox5924  if the UN went in militarily will have 1,000,000 dead people and you think this is a good idea? No doubt like usual the majority of the dead will be civilians. It certainly hasn't reached that stage. If invaded the military will fight like they have nothing to lose if they believe that they will be treated badly. Maybe they just put down there weapons, I see the chance of that as close to 0.
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  320. So basically 10% holding 90% of people hostage. Not only that they are trying to overpower US and Canadian government border policies to effect an open border without restrictions. Of course the same would need to be applied at the Mexican border.
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  321. Not only to Brazil, basically all agriculture exporting nations of which of course Brazil is a major one.
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  322.  @easymoney8535  Texas and Florida are doing great if you compare them to Mississippi and Alabama. It's all relative.
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  323. 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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  324. Nationalise is the word you're after.
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  325. They already have the power to search for you. All the app will do is make it much quicker. Here is list of countries using an app Taiwan , China, Australia, NZ , Singapore, South Korea, Thailand . Although I think it's too late for North America and Western Europe it can't do any harm. Please see infection and casualty rates of countries I listed.
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  326. @terriemcgarrity-sr9kg  I think they probably are but very quietly. The 2 countries I suspect of having daily diplomatic meetings would be Canada and Mexico and to some extent China because those 3 countries the first in the firing line. Even outside of governments companies will be looking for friendly trading partners who they know they can trust and won't put excessive tariffs.
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  327. Looking from afar , I don't think you should be too hopeful this time around, as an example he will likely start the trade wars against everyone and he will double down, not back down.
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  328. His current promise is to increase costs with tariffs but that prices will magically go down in the future. A bit like covid 19 will go away before Easter.
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  329. Yes ignoring whatever they might be in there for it is pretty impressive especially in this modern day.
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  330. This is propaganda, while it's true they probably destroyed some tunnels, the idea that there were 1500 tunnels doesn't pass the credibility test.
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  331. You forgot the other members of the alliance, China and North Korea.
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  332. It wasn't quite that long and 25km now, they are in cleanup phase with very few new cases in the last week. The 2 week lockdown in Wales will make it worse if they just open up again because after 2 weeks everyone will go out at the same time and 4 weeks from now the cases will be even higher.
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  333. My opinion is in general and not particularly on this issue is being dead or causing the death of another is not true freedom
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  334.  @cinpeace353  Developing countries gain and loose it depends on their economic make up and trading dynamics. The biggest sanction is Russia stopping wheat production in Ukraine which affects the poorest countries that are also big importers of food. If the developing country is a food or energy exporter then it's great for them. Being Australian from an economic standpoint this is great for our country being a net energy and food exporter. Of course I think it's bad and don't want to become richer off of a war but reality is reality.
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  335. @murraytorney2222  It's not so much about cost, because processed food is usually dearer exception being some frozen vegetables, more about laziness sometimes and preferring a can of soup for example that I only need to heat.
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  336. He didn't seem to recognise the Palestinian hostages, that's rather unfortunate.
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  337. Completely irrelevant. You can't be on private property if someone asks you to leave.
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  338. Owen Jones has a video on what you talk about. Meta is censoring pro Palestinian content.
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  339. ​@grizzkarizz2960 Australia is unique in a few ways which in theory offers us some protection from Trump tariffs etc. Australia invests a little more in the US than the US does in Australia. Australia has a trade deficit with the US. More US citizens have migrated to Australia than the other way around. Australia does spend over 2% of GDP on our military. Australia rightly or wrongly has participated in every major conflict with the US since WWII. There's nothing Trump can complain about us.
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  340. Didn't mind the Christian Taliban guy, at least he's honest about the policies which makes him more honorable than the rest.
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  341. That's just feeling frustration. Doesn't mean supporting a blockade of one's own country.
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  342. Imagine arguing over who supports a plausible genocide more. Well that's what we have in our major political parties. Time to vote Greens.
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  343. @Joker You are joking right? What was American Indian scalping may I ask?
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  344. That poll represents fox viewers. Even though outside of Comrade Tucker Carlson the actual policy opinions of Fox commentators agrees with Biden's position, they also continually express how Trump would have done it better despite Trump actually stating his position at the start of the invasion that Putin is a genius. Sounds like Trump fully approved of the invasion to me.
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  345.  @davidwilliams3856  Forced in a hotel with guards in Australia, I think only police military etc. doing guarding now, private guards didn't go so well, the UK has now improved it's self isolation on paper at least but until November some time it was a completely voluntary scheme with nobody even getting fines and you could stay in a household doing your self isolation and others already in the country could continue life like normal under the previous rules. Of course spread will never stop with such relaxed rules.
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  346.  @importantjohn  the current rules in the UK don't compare to lockdown 1 in Australia, nobody allowed to go into the office. Lockdown 2 in Victoria closed everything but pharmacies, supermarkets, petrol stations and takeaway food. The only factories operating was meat works at the lowest possible capacity to process animals that needed to be processed. Lockdowns need to be proportional, people say no lockdowns in places where it worked perfectly and other measures worked well but not true , even Taiwan had a lockdown but short because under control quickly. Same applies to most Australian states plus New Zealand. If you are locked down partially for 10 months 2 months hard lockdown doesn't get noticed so much because all you see, is for example Queensland my state fully open with limited restrictions for 6 months.
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  347. 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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  348. @Dean Clark Well as the advisor to Trump that's where Trump appears to have got most of his information. When Fauci realized that the US was slow to act he did acknowledge more lives could have been saved if earlier action was taken. Trump then diverged from Fauci at approximately that point in time. Trump's actions after the divergence have caused further harm in my opinion.
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  349. Unless you pay cash up front you will not get the same treatment. He wouldn't qualify for any public health or insurance at this point in time because he isn't sick enough. If he was an ordinary citizen he would be told to stay home for 14 days and if symptoms get worse go to hospital.
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  350. The true vaccine hesitancy rate is low but apathy is somewhat high, pretend you are in Northern Queensland , maybe 3 community cases so far not connected to a family member of an imported case and closest death 600 miles away, how would you take it extra seriously it's not real to you so you will lack urgency and wait for Pfizer which is considered the best and in short supply. Even when that Pfizer vaccine is available you still won't rush but technically you are not vaccine hesitant.
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  351. I had to laugh too
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  352. I found that funny, so many asymptomatic cases and the mighty power of the US to protect itself uses $50 Chinese made thermometers as the first and final line of defense.
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  353. Some American sayings are funny. Because it isn't a saying in Australia my mind immediately interprets it literally and it takes a second to realise it's just some confused American saying. He should use the saying " work your fingers to the bone" if Americans understand that although then Qanon would think something up on that too. You can't beat Qanon, it's not possible, the members need to deprogram themselves.
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  354. It's pretty sad actually, the biggest supporters of the brutal Myanmar dictatorship are Trump supporters and Communist Party of China supporters, a very unfortunate moral alliance.
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  355. Both, what is referred to as stagflation.
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  356.  @secret_fffree_fire1230  so bahkts are the same as CPC (communist party of China) nationalist or Trump loyalists? Is their blind devotion comparable?
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  357.  @Uhtredrag1080  Well actually Maine with a population of 1.4 million approximately had 22 homicide deaths which gives a rate of about 1.5 per 100,000 so about 50% more dangerous than the rest of the wealthy world excluding Canada which is a bit worse than Maine. Problem is your looking at it from the inside and it seems good to you in Maine which was your example.
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  358.  @JoeDeglman  Maybe you should just go and look at worldometer covid 19 statistics. Also check which countries are in the Western Pacific WHO region , I am in Australia but just go through the list country by country and you will find that deaths are less than 10% on average on a per capita basis compared to PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region and European WHO region. Take China out if you want and you will see compulsory covid 19 measures certainly do work.
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  359. Send all the vaccines to Australia, we will use them.
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  360. Tariffs are a socialist policy. A bit ironic implying socialists are always lefties.
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  361. Interesting perspectives in the comment section, most commenters seem to think wait until the body bags piling up and 10,000 cases a day and then lockdown which achieves very little because it's too late, if Australia had that policy we would have had 40,000 more deaths like all the other comparable countries and longer lockdowns too.
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  362.  @thankmelater1254  I thought Toronto would have the most cases in Ontario, just checked the government covid 19 page and 712 currently in hospital in Ontario in total so pretty big surprise only 10 in Toronto.
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  363. To anyone out there without a major disfigurement don't do plastic surgery, go to a counsellor to improve your self esteem.
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  364. In Brisbane it was funny with the short lockdown recently, first time have mask mandate and 0 cases actually.
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  365. You're right you could just read stuff he shows us and turn off the volume and get a basic idea.
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  366. If that's in any way representative of the population then ivermectin is useless, death toll in Mexico per capita is almost identical to the US.
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  367. Jesus was a Jew so it's an impossibility
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  368.  @1cyanideghost  yes phenomenon is the right word , just like they have worked out mirages were most likely involved in the titanic disaster, many of these unidentified phenomenon could be optical illusions no different to a mirage on a hot road.
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  369. They might not have been perfect but they seemed to care more and did their best.
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  370. Best of luck Asian neighbours, I hope your relative success continues, from Australia 🇦🇺 Some comments here are disappointing, stop squabbling over who is best and racist sentiments.
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  371.  @yingyang1008  I think as an Australian (includes other Australian plus Kiwis) I have a fairly unique perspective. It's actually just a parallel or to use a sci fi term alternative reality. We believe that keeping diseases and problems away from us makes us safe. In Australia we have about 4 or 5 major quarantine zones normally with respect to agriculture and any outbreaks create other quarantine zones or rules. My city Brisbane is home to or at least discovered in Hendra the Hendra virus a bat virus with a similar mortality rate to Ebola but very few cases and no known human to human transmission however certainly spread through a horse population which some people caught the virus from. Australia and New Zealand are free from many agricultural viruses that are endemic around the world and we want to keep it that way. While human viruses might have differences the principles are the same it's only the specific containment measures that differ because humans aren't livestock or plants or fungi or soil. Western Australia just happens to be the island on an island separated by desert from the rest of Australia. I think the very hardline reaction is not a coincidence.
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  372. We will, why you speak like we can't be trusted? Chinese Coolies versus British convicts we come from similar stock and we trust you.
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  373. I thought it was only famous for potatoes
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  374. It's nuanced. The government puts the rules and regulations in place which creates either a more competitive environment or a less competitive environment. The government also regulates monopolies such as utilities like water and electricity if privatised. I am Australian and we have a more competitive environment for things such as agriculture, supermarkets or at least many of the products stocked in supermarkets being cheaper which is actually a surprise because wages are lower in the US. The US has more import tariffs than Australia already which along with New Zealand and Singapore can be considered a truly free trade nation. Trump plans a big socialist experiment by putting tariffs on everything imported. This virtual removal of competition will dramatically reduce competition and higher input costs for manufacturers importing goods and lead to price rises. Even something like ground beef which the US imports from various countries like Australia will go up in price. So if Trump does what he says you should complain to him when burgers get more expensive. Because there's no plan to increase minimum wages places such as Burger King and McDonald's will suffer or be selling more chicken which the US produces very cheaply.
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  375. It's basically a test of nervousness. Sycopaths will pass it every time and nervous people will fail it every time. My guess is your president would pass it every time.
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  376. They're going to be privatised which will reduce costs in the short term however services will decline and over several years of above inflation cost increases will end up costing more. The public in the US will fall for it.
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  377. I wonder why the life expectancy of the US would appear to have just dropped below that of China and no American seems to care. Media outlets and both major political parties haven't said a whisper. It's like the changing of the guard in some respects but nobody noticed.
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  378. Historically that's not the way it tends to go unless you are a racial or ethnic group they don't like, the regular way is you put a Trump flag on your balcony or in your yard so you won't be attacked. The US isn't like that yet but viewing from afar it seems like some rural pockets in certain states aren't that far away from becoming like that.
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  379. It's worse than that , even the dose for the animal would not have as strict accuracy as for a human and there could be additives that aren't approved for human use at all, it's not up to the manufacturer to bring it up to human standard.
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  380. I think you will probably be shipping things around or through the US to each other, a good example is fruits and vegetables which will now be cheaper to send from Mexico to Canada compared to the tariffed price of US fruits and vegetables. Trudeau did mention fruits and vegetable as part of the retaliation.
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  381. If it's a farm that exports it won't matter because customers will look elsewhere.
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  382. You'll probably see more Mexican goods if the tariffs happen. Some manufacturers will be in both Mexico and US and currently send US made goods because transport is cheaper.
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  383. America First is the US equivalent of the great leap forward with likely 500,000 excess deaths mostly due to policy failures. The CCP is looking better and better thanks to this policy. No president has done more for the cause of communism. Chinese imports and deficit with that country has skyrocketed , government debt is skyrocketing also. Best of luck and I hope for your sake and the sake of other countries Biden does what he indicated he will do which is be a more fiscally conservative and less isolationist president.
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  384. This lady had such composure, i love her total concentration on her message.
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  385. They are clearly coming voluntarily, nobody is forced to migrate to Australia, it's a privilege. Healthcare and social support for life once a person is a citizen.
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  386. One thing I would like to know is how is the Taliban getting it's weapons and ammunition, making bombs can be done with regular materials but guns and ammunition aren't so easy.
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  387. Because you don't have a lockdown, you never have. A totally voluntary system is not a lockdown. You have never even put any border restrictions in other than a voluntary code of conduct that will spread the virus even if the rules are followed for arrivals from highly infected areas.
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  388. I have read through the comments on this thread. Don't you realise those passionate about Trump and those passionate about getting rid of him are peas in the same pod quite often. Until you as Americans can talk to each other without insults not much can change. See who voted for Trump who is his base? It's the "disadvantaged" poor white male. White males in the US are much more likely to die a violent death than any other group due to suicide plus of course but at a lower rate homicide. Don't listen to these people s concerns at your peril. Same applies on the other side the poor minorities with the Democrats taking advantage of them. What is the difference with a poor racist white and a poor racist black? They are the same , but open racism towards white people is currently actually acceptable. Even in some cases when the mayor is black , the police chief is black and officers involved in an incident are black it's still the white man in control apparently. Think about that. Best of luck to your nation but you need to bridge the gap in talking first and then look at disadvantaged communities regardless of racial make up as the same as most of the problems are the same. Inflaming each other can never produce long term results.
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  389.  @phyrestorm999  I understand your electoral college system which is sort of like the Senate system of many countries ensuring that minorities (by state population) get a more significant voice. I think it is appropriate for a Senate but for your president I think every citizen should get an equal vote noting millions of citizens have no right to vote. If it's a really small territory no harm done and is relatively normal around the world however elimination of about 1% of citizens who reside in Puerto Rico is wrong. Another serious problem is states decide on electoral boundaries in a partisan manner and decide on eligibility criteria and voting procedures and rules. A true overhaul us required. Australian has a very different form of government with independent state and federal electoral commissions deciding electoral boundaries and enforcing the rules of the Federal or State jurisdiction ( in the case of a state election) and the problems I described don't exist here.
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  390.  @nor0845  I never knew that, I learnt something.
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  391. We'll have a new virus by then that will replace it.
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  392. Oh the focus is off Australia now, Howard Springs quarantine facility a repurposed mining camp which the entire Olympic team went through was the boogie man before, the irony is it was like a resort compared to hotel quarantine which means being inside a room you can't leave and in many if not most cases no opening windows or a balcony.
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  393. I think because Trump didn't actually understand the interviewers mannerisms. Also he knew when to pull back rather than constantly attack like some reporters do causing a defensive reaction in Trump. I have a feeling Trump won't want an Australian interviewing him for a while. Maybe , who knows he might be thinking of Rupert Murdoch an ex Australian who Trump is likely fond of.
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  394.  Rob Russell  I am Australian, I can assure no reset occurring here, only ever had a comprehensive mask mandate for 2 weeks the entire time in my part of the country. Everything is open and maximum capacity of venues is 2 per square metre so hardly restrictive at all of course international travel restrictions are very strict but other than that things are normal without the deaths. As far as fat people and people with things like high blood pressure dying because they caught covid 19 or getting pneumonia and dying well you have an unusual interpretation of cause of death, it would be almost impossible to murder someone based on your theory, like if someone gets shot and dies of blood loss you would say the shooting didn't kill them just like those that get covid 19 and die from pneumonia.
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  395. That's just a ridiculous statement.
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  396. Well $2 Trillion in cuts would be absolutely ruthless. If massive cuts to welfare handouts don't scare you they should.
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  397. Not sure exciting is the right term.
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  398. In regards to some indigenous people being taken to an old repurposed mining camp in Northern Territory Australia to quarantine the issue was the conspiracy theorist got to some of them to the point I actually saw a video of an indigenous community member believing people were being taken away to be killed. Yes the mostly US antivaxxer conspiracy theorist have done real harm to some susceptible people. While those indigenous people may live in remote and semi remote areas they do have access to Facebook etc. , some of the same problems in Africa. Those particular people would all be out of quarantine by now and given the uptake of vaccines in the Northern Territory is 95% of the 16+ population has received at least one covid 19 vaccine dose and 30% of Northern Territory's population is indigenous most likely they already vaccinated. It's just unfortunate that people had to suffer due to conspiracy theorists.
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  399. What bastion of freedom, don't you have about 2,000,000 people imprisoned, that's the population of a small country.
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  400. It's a whole different approach to the ex president. He just laughs he knows he is old and looking like a grumpy grandad sitting in the corner or something but totally ok with it to the point of hey this can raise money for good causes.
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  401. Some commenters in this thread need to watch a few episodes of COPS, this guy could have been a highly dangerous individual on drugs, to a policeman that's what he probably looked like, his behaviour was consistent with a criminal playing games. Turns out he wasn't but the cops actually aren't psychic. Just putting myself into the shoes of the cops and what they commonly deal with in the US.
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  402. @ShittyMcPoopyBalls  every country should be protected or helped when invaded otherwise we are back to colonial days, my country Australia would be taken by China in days if nobody cared. Civil wars are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Unfortunately that's reality.
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  403. ​@Cheeeeseman I doubt what you suggest would occur in Australia. The possible reason the Australian government is trying to do this is directly related to one billionaire in Australia who started his own political party and actually outspent one of our major political parties last election. So in a way the idea might be out of self interest and similar to the US keeping 2 dominant parties with the vast majority of elected officials.
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  404. I am with Trump on this. Those persons mentioned Pete and Matt are qualified whether you like them or not. Appointees should be rubber stamped so the government can start to function. The US is the only democracy in the world that appoints it's ministers through some slow laborious process.
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  405. If tariffs come in as promised on day 1 it'll be a lot quicker than that.
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  406. You must be rich and not involved in export or import or retail. I guess you will enjoy watching the North American economy tank. A strange thing to enjoy watching others getting hurt.
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  407. Just need to put a gun on it and it's a Dalek, does it start saying exterminate , Exterminate, EXTERMINATE ,if someone does something wrong like in Dr Who.
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  408. Take care of yourself and hope you are doing ok given the circumstances.
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  409. Problem is nobody willing to directly speak against the US, if Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand spoke in unison against the US support of Israels territorial expansion and the blockade of Gaza we could get somewhere. This is what keeps Hamas powerful, an oppressed population of course will support fighting that oppression and put up with Hamas oppression as a lessor evil. The chance of the other 4 eyes going strongly against the US is about 0.
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  410. That 500,000 doses brought forward helps, it doesn't matter what our total population is.
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  411. Bitcoin generally has 2 purposes, running scams and money laundering.
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  412. Another comment has said the US doesn't report cases anymore , only reports them if hospitalized, so India probably needs to lower it's standard to the US standard to achieve the required outcome.
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  413. It's emotion which can't really be taught. If the US wasn't already disfunctional in many senses it couldn't happen. It would be impossible in many countries for Trump to get anything more than a minor following.
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  414.  @joostdriesens3984  RINO is Republican in name only. It's about hunting members of his own party who he doesn't agree with. This isn't even against the opposite party.
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  415. Try reverse psychology on them, they might slip up. Tell them about Australia and New Zealand and how it's all opened up now. They will most likely say but they are islands etc. etc. If they do this then they have just acknowledged the virus. Explain to them the enforcement and rules in Australia and NZ was strict , nothing about being islands otherwise Puerto Rico and Hawaii shouldn't have cases. You want to have a conversation and just discuss the matter, don't tell them what they should do because they will resist, just present evidence in a way that allows them to criticize, ignore the I am American and we can't do it because xyz.
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  416. The idea of shutting down comments is ridiculous. It's also ironic that the discussion of such allowed comments here knowing people were going to leave comments sympathising with the killer and or lack of empathy with the victim. Now is the very time to discuss the issue for US citizens, the killing should start discussions. The killer did a revolutionary act which many people approve of. Shutting down discussion is like not expecting such an act to occur occasionally. The act and the reactions are a symptom of failed US policy that watches people die rather than saving them. So better to try and fix the disease of corporate greed and compliance by both your political parties protecting the status quo. Both your major political parties actually subsidise pharmaceuticals. Nowhere else in the world does this. It's insanity. But hey let's shut down conversations about the matter, like that's going to work. It's as stupid as Trump's tax cuts for corporations mostly owned by the rich and hiking up taxes on those with low and middle incomes through tariffs. People voted for this insanity and the majority of politicians of both parties support a for profit insurance industry to increase healthcare costs. Insanity yet again. Sorry to sane Americans, you are actually in the minority.
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  417. I second that from Australia.
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  418. Somewhat of a facade. When you have one person who is the head of government and head of state and can choose the entire unelected cabinet it's a recipe for increased chances of a dictatorship.
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  419.  @oldbloke204  The covid 0 states intend to keep it that way without lockdowns and my guess is will probably be successful. Have to remember our "open" will be far stricter than the US or most European countries ever were. Home quarantine for 7 days will be enforceable and not voluntary, 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine for those with the virus and close contacts. So my opinion we will be fine but it's unpredictable , next winter might be the problem time.
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  420. I wouldn't agree with that but Canada could get a free trade agreement with China. Australia has one.
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  421. It's worse than that. Having stand your ground laws with police can enter without notice ( knocking and identifying themselves) . The elected government officials in that state are literally acting in an insane manner.
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  422. Maybe they need to bring in 1,000 cases or so then they can study it.
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  423. Sky News Australia finally puts put out a clip that points out the insanity of a Trump policy.
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  424. Because adverse vaccine reactions and immunity to the virus are 2 completely different things. The first few days after vaccination there is little effect on immunity.
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  425. It's still very rare so I would not worry too much just if something was to happen tell the medical staff exactly what you just said here.
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  426.  @bootburner4544  It's lucky NZ had a reasonably quick turnaround in genomic testing of the NZ cases so Australia knows to put any incoming passengers into government supervised 14 day quarantine. We are terrified of this UK strain that keeps escaping quarantine.
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  427. Having alternate messaging in different languages is what one expects from a propaganda state (dictatorships) , it's sad to become aware Sweden is doing it.
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  428. Actually it's social media access and especially in some remote areas believing conspiracy theories, all the regular ones plus one specific to them "it's a white man's disease". But I am confident although a bit slower indigenous communities will eventually have high vaccination rates.
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  429. None of it makes sense.
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  430. I am not American but seems a bad system, getting rid of the electoral college would change nothing much actually without making voter eligibility uniform across the US . Every state can make their own criteria regarding felons or ex felons. Number of polling booths per potential voter needs to be written into law, the worst case I have heard of is one voting location for 700,000 people or something like that. The constitution regarding this doesn't need an oil change it needs the engine reconditioned. The oil change won't do anything much on it's own because the other problems will get worse.
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  431. International interventions never work, it needs for the majority in the country to agree and as suggested in the report maybe not all military and police support this, depending how many are in that camp. Soft international pressure helps in this regard. ASEAN has a policy of not interfering in any countries internal issues so unless that was to change they won't do anything, not even speak against it. Individual countries within ASEAN might but I am not going to hold my breath, 2 ASEAN members are communist and one with a military government, they certainly can't say anything.
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  432. When he talked to the tourists reminded me of yesterday day morning I had a sausage, egg and cheese McMuffin with a hash brown and small coke. The same McMuffin in Australia the one I ate approximately 1600kj, UK 1800kj and US 2000kj. McDonald's thinks you should be fattened up. While it's one of many factors clearly portion sizes in the US are bigger. Another thing this was made at least 14 years ago and now Australian are fatter than the Americans back then and Americans are now giants but unfortunately fat giants.
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  433. You will never know but some of the PCR tests get sampled and genomic sequenced and they extrapolate the the data to come up with approximate percentages. Only if it becomes 100% will you know it's a particular variant.
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  434. There's nothing communist about China, it's far right on the political spectrum other than state ownership.
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  435. Those 4 girls are so sweet. I wish I could hug them .
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  436. President Joe's the man, a real man, of course not perfect but but one of the greatest USA presidents ever.
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  437. @James Caley yes he thought the US had it under control and they didn't and possibly it's not much worse than the flu. Fauci dropped the ball .
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  438. Wouldn't she be considered a moderate these days?
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  439. Being the US it depends on jurisdiction and if the FBI gets involved. The worst clearance rate of a wealthy jurisdiction is probably Chicago.
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  440.  @luckbenjamin  Are you kidding, China is buying up around the world, they have heaps of USD to dispose of and Trump has sort of set the course for the future regardless of if he gets re elected. Look at the increases in US gov debt up to 2019. Tax cuts did revalue companies big time plus increase dividends and it's paid with debt but a teenager with a credit card will be happy. Also the US has made it clear they in retreat leaving the door largely open to China. Australia will be fine , historically we actually outperform in times of hardship.
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  441. But it may well act as a deterent, look Bill Gates is now paying for you to take the death jab.
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  442. Trump will be 74 soon I believe.
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  443. Even the volunteer hasbara trolls are giving up.
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  444. It is a bit of a consolation because it means the Israeli Jews are losing support.
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  445. Actually rats as taste testers isn't a bad idea, I am guessing a rat would run away from KFC or McDonald's if it can smell other options because the food not healthy enough.
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  446. It's actually good policy and the companies pay into the fund via a 75c per vaccine tax. Doesn't cover all vaccines it seems so if the Covid 19 vaccine available isn't on the list of course be concerned. It's good for both parties and doesn't prevent someone sueing the vaccine company or whoever administered the vaccine but they must go through an initial process first and reject the compensation on offer if applicable. If you were in most country including Australia I believe you would have no access to compulsory compensation and if the vaccine company or whoever administered the vaccine didn't want to pay one cent you would need to take the company to court at your cost and risk only with no alternative. Sounds great for the consumer and at a reasonable cost of effectively payment if 75c in tax which can be considered insurance. If only the rest of US healthcare was so affordable. Go to national vaccine injury compensation program FAQ (frequently asked questions) and you can verify what I say.
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  447. I don't understand why the Republican Party doesn't just remove him from the party?
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  448. China might buy a lot of stuff off us but I can assure you China doesn't actually own Australia.
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  449. That's great if you achieve that result.
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  450. Exactly and that makes him personally fair game.
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  451. 15% baby, on reduced revenue from corporations as Trump's tariffs tank the economy and any business involved in import, export and retail has reduced revenue.
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  452. Reagan would be too, don't have to go back that far. Reagan started the movement towards free trade, the exact opposite thing that Trump stands for.
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  453. That's what I'm thinking, probably vaccine companies afraid that current batches go to waste and everyone wants the newest version. Also have to run trials.
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  454. I am curious how they have been ranked. My guess is it's certain metrics and the overall health system including private hospitals. Thailand which I have some knowledge of has a 3 tiered healthcare system, best care and world standard is private hospitals for the rich, second tier is public hospitals when servicing government workers and families of government workers who get preference over the third tier people who get the public hospital system but behind the government employees and families. Not sure the current rate but I know previously 50% of public hospital expenditure was going to government employees and families demonstrating their preferential treatment.
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  455. Interesting comments in this thread. Of course China is bullying Australia, a couple of reasons and some misunderstanding of what free trade is. The agreements in place only cover goods for free enterprise in general terms China doesn't have any right to demand public infrastructure is open to Chinese goods and doesn't have any right to demand Australia sell assets to it. Australia can't whinge and complain if Tianamen square is being refurbished and an Australian contractor offers stone tiles at a great price so why should Australia not choose who supplies 5g infrastructure. About 20 years ago Royal Dutch Shell wanted to buyout Woodside Australia's largest oil producer and we said no, the Europeans didn't complain but if it is China they whinge and complain and won't talk to us anymore. The trade war is soft at the moment actually, Australia supplies 53% of the traded iron ore in the world and China buys 69% of the traded iron ore, if trade war was to go hot Australia 53% plus Brazil 18% could cripple China by cutting off supply. Not suggesting we do it and China is probably now paying more for metallurgical coal than it's competitors South Korea and Japan, that's a self inflicted wound. China like the US hates to be in a trade deficit with another country, Australia is the biggest trade deficit for China and visa versa which makes China think bullying has a strategic advantage with us. I don't think it does and now companies will be cautious with dealing with China meaning higher prices than reliable buyers like South Korea, Japan and even Vietnam now. Yes China is causing some pain to Australia but it's not all out trade war yet, it's pot shots from a national perspective.
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  456. I am curious how sex should be considered in regard to any further lockdown, does this mean adult services should be put above everything but food?
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  457. Meaningless, can catch it in transit and some countries buying a piece of official looking paper saying whatever you want it to say isn't expensive.
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  458. Damn that's a real blood bank can actually withdraw exactly what's put in and even get a different currency (blood type)
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  459. Well your in 100% agreement with all the pro Palestinian protesters then. We want to leave them alone economic, cultural, arms , travel sanctions is we want. That would be leaving Israel alone which you apparently support.
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  460. I am a 49 year old male diagnosed with anxiety and a ward of the state of Queensland Australia. I am forced to take some stupid anxiety drug which according to all cause mortality kills dementia patients. The US FDA has a warning of this on that drug. I collapsed several times which would make anyone anxious. That issue is resolved now but the modern version of ward of the state isn't. In Queensland the doctors can make you a ward of the state if they don't agree with the patients decision on any psychiatric treatments, we still have electric shock treatments with a court order, so being a ward of the state has it's own anxiety.
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  461. Good to see a reasonable number of Qanon followers in the comments along with the people who want call Australia communist or something despite the fact we rate way higher than the US on the economic freedom index , the bottom 3 on the list are Cuba , North Korea and Venezuela, so fair to say a good indicator of how socialist a country might be . As it does contain rule of law issues corruption and government disfunctionality comes into it so not entirely a measure of socialism.
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  462.  @DrScopey2  The only reason you "had more cases" early on is because your state was competent and actually did some of that testing and tracing stuff. If you were a state of Australia you would have shut the border when required and have 0 cases with an actual quarantine system.
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  463. This lawyer is nuts, why is he going into an interview showing his weak hand, prosecutors will be watching this and he is laying out his defense. A lawyer should be keeping his cards close to his chest and not tell anything outside of a courtroom. Now the prosecutor knows exactly the case he's going to make and can run mock arguments for practice. Zero element of surprised for the defense.
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  464. He does because he treats them with respect and listens. Trump was an autocrat who listened to no one and even worse he would offend anyone, actually offended allies as often if not more often than adversary. He certainly never offended Putin.
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  465. She was probably highly intoxicated and in denial.
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  466. Hope you are fine, try to take care of yourself.
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  467. The worst are those who literally attack people who have had a death in the family.
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  468. The alternate view is up to 12 week comprehensive lockdown in all countries with cases and go to 0. Very difficult in poor countries with slums but achievable in all wealthy countries.
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  469. You are trying to diminish her position, that's not fair. She is the Queen's voice in Canada under a constitutional monarchy. Saying native leader also isn't fair , she's the governor general of Canada.
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  470.  @annebritraaen2237  My comment is a compliment to John acknowledging that he is good enough to be a real journalist even though untrained.
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  471. Other than direct victims I feel most for medical workers. You take care and get help for yourself if needed.
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  472.  @The_SmorgMan  your comment is very strange. Vanessa didn't claim every death is due to Trump on this issue only that people follow Trump and sometimes this causes them to die.
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  473. Thanks for the survey link. I am in Queensland and appreciate the sacrifices Victorians must make. I notice comments in this thread that are simply incorrect, every jurisdiction with major outbreaks can't have hospitals carrying on like normal so letting the virus rip will never improve other health outcomes. Truth is but many don't realise it or have forgot Victoria had the least oppressive approach in the beginning which was an error and has contributed to people being angry now. As far as the economy there is 0 evidence that countries with out of control outbreaks are performing better and have provided approximately equal levels of government stimulus and economic declines are also very similar but non tourism parts of the economy are far better in places with little to no virus because things are more open. Victoria's comeback is impressive and looking good for reopening cautiously and I don't think the same mistakes will happen again. To all Victorians hang in there you will be like the rest of Australia soon.
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  474.  @enrobsorussell  open borders and voluntary quarantine which has holes in it is a partial lockdown only. Evidence is poorly executed partial lockdowns do the most damage , search for pew research covid 19 country response survey and hopefully you can find it. US and UK least approve of their governments approach out of 14 high income countries, Australia and Denmark out of the countries surveyed had the highest approvals. Evidence is success is the only thing the public wants. If you looked at the survey support for certain measures actually rose as numbers have improved in Victoria. This is counterintuitive but can be explained by the vast majority would prefer a cautious approach that will succeed even though it might take a little longer. It's amazing to see actually and extremely encouraging the support for the curfew for the time being , actually increasing. The curfew is a low cost but effective measure which frees up resources for other times of the day, particularly to do with enforcement which is required because of the small minority.
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  475. Only 2 minutes in but sorry, i think these people are disgusting selfish people. It shouldn't matter what a person's background might be , them getting sacked unfairly should be treated the same.
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  476. I'm Australian and this time we are getting hit too. Not sure of our response yet, we sell about $800 million USD in aluminium and and steel. So not a great deal but could mean job losses. It's the principle of the matter for us whereas for Canada and Mexico It's going to tank your economies along with the US. China has hit back already with 25% tariffs on US made cars which they apparently used to buy $3 billion worth, that will essentially go to 0 I would expect. Australia has a couple of responses it could take, one being floated is to stop giving $2 billion per year to help build US submarines in hopes we get some in the future however there's actually no guarantee of that. I reckon we would also be looking at what Canada and Mexico do. We could tariff certain products like US whiskey following Canada's approach, this will hurt those industries even more. The biggest thing is the US is no different to China now, annoy the dear leader and your country will be punished. At least China ended all it's sanctions against Australia last year. Now we got to contend with the US behaving like China did before.
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  477. I think the Taiwanese lady was a little off the mark, it's success breeding success not necessarily about collectivism and it also followed that failure created more failures as populations actually resist more and ignore the rules. Can even see this internally in a country like Australia although our vaccination rates are looking like they will eventually get fairly high everywhere.
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  478. Regardless of the virus you should do something about that weight if you can.
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  479. N95 is literally 100 times better but hard to breath through because it is actually filtering the air if sealed around your face properly. So consider the pros and cons and more importantly try to spend a low amount of time in high risk areas.
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  480. The best part was him squirming at having to acknowledge the Democrats in his state did an excellent job. It wrecks the entire narrative that all Democrats were " in on it" .
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  481. Yes 1,000 people commit a crime and lock up 1,000,000 people for re education, that makes sense and is an abuse of human rights. If China only locked up criminals nobody would say anything.
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  482. What are you talking about? Western media as you put it is far more critical in it's own countries than others on this type of issue.
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  483.  @jarnylagrata6064  China is more authoritarian and you can see the videos of the lockdown so yes, however many deaths would have been missed in the early stages most likely as would be the case in many countries. I don't bother using China in my arguments generally because people just say they are lying, haven't really had the same responses regarding Vietnam though which is also communist but not really an ally of China since they are in conflict over ownership of some islands.
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  484.  @jarnylagrata6064  What lie in the beginning? As of 31 December 2019 the Chinese authorities informed the WHO they had an epidemic or WHO informed the world. So what was the cover-up or lie? On 15 January a case was discovered outside of China so every country watching was aware.
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  485. Hey Cai ignore those in the PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region, in the Western Pacific region of WHO it's like we are a different species or something, 14 days compulsory quarantine in all countries versus 10 days voluntary quarantine in the Americas and same with European WHO region. Because of geopolitical reasons it appears we don't want to point it out how well our region has done as in a country like mine Australia will never say China has done well and visa versa, when it's pretty clear to me actually the overarching policies came through our regional office of WHO so we all agreed and behind the scenes actually working well with each other, or it's a remarkable coincidence with a probability of occurring less than winning lotto. Please get rid of that current outbreak, currently it's great , an Australian can travel to Singapore without quarantine only have to wait a day or whatever for negative test but need hotel quarantine on return, it'll be good when ( I hope ) can have more than just Aus/NZ bubble.
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  486. You've removed the vast majority of countries from the map apparently. Asia gone, Oceania gone, Latin America gone. Since I am in one of the regions could you please reinstate us to the world.
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  487.  Go Caps  The irony of your response to a Kiwi , New Zealand is all open mate just like Australia will be soon, one state to go. Travel restrictions exist but other than that internally open and as normal as can be.
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  488. Every country in the world will call it Gulf of Mexico. It'll be interesting how everyone will react if Google maps changes it as they have said they will.
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  489. I am from Australia , we are tough on restrictions but generally fair. If this variant is no worse than Delta hopefully they reopen to whatever extent was open before. Best of luck and take care.
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  490. I wouldn't worry too much, I think Biden if he gets in will surprise. He is slower on his feet so to speak because he's old but that doesn't matter, it's a managerial role not a reality tv show. Best of luck from Australia 🇦🇺
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  491. Well South Africa has internet and the people using social media can read English so that Antivax message can spread freely from the US and visa versa.
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  492. Australia less than 10% of the covid 19 deaths in Serbia on a per capita basis. Maybe it has something to do with our approach and one current approach is all non citizen entry to the country must be vaccinated, hospitals already struggling, we don't need to fill them up with unvaccinated foreigner. One rule for all.
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  493. You have no idea how people vote, especially younger ones. I am in Australia and previously drove a taxi. I remember having a conversation with some 18 or 19 year olds about an upcoming election and asked who they were voting for and got an answer then I asked which policies they liked and the answer was I don't know any of the policies I just don't like the look of a certain politician and it became clear also they didn't even know at that point which party that politician was in. You will certainly have young voters just like Australia.
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  494.  @user-mb3dx5fl9f  Nobody can solve China's internal issues but China and I don't see things being as dramatic internationally as you think. I am Australian and we are the fourth largest individual exporter to China and this will dramatically affect us but it's nothing we haven't been through before being a country built on free trade and commodity exports, maybe Australia has a significant recession soon. China will still be exporting stuff, it's just there domestic market is in for a downturn.
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  495. Their outbreak was Alpha actually not Delta. Nobody has contained Delta over 100 cases a day in a jurisdiction so far, China did contain it with low numbers in different provinces but extreme measures, testing entire population in an area for example not possible in almost any other country. Edit: Taiwan did have a Delta outbreak while dealing with the Alpha outbreak, possibly very fortunate timing because already in a reasonably hard lockdown, if the Delta was the initial outbreak things could have been very different.
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  496. This is going to sound a little cruel but I wish the US media should report on US cities in the same manner , or to be honest only in the local areas. 10 deaths in a week or so for a population of 8 million or so, that would be record low crime in any large US city. Look inwards people but also don't ignore the outside such as this because you are a superpower.
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  497.  @karlhawkes  I am in Australia so I am calm but I feel for people in other parts of the world who's governments decided on a different approach.
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  498. A military coup de'ta isn't the answer.
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  499. A big contrast between the interview rooms, first one looks like a living room, second one a sound proof box which would make me fearful.
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  500. Has the ratio of covid 19 deniers versus the realists changed? I was not aware.
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  501. Political violence is the definition of terrorism. The US has a lot of terrorist sympathisers and supporters.
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  502. Well done USA, it's some lighter news for once. From Australia 🇦🇺
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  503. Different state, however if the laws are equivalent then by rights these people should receive greater sentences, much greater in fact. I am talking relative , a few months is enough for any of these crimes, white collar criminals get far less generally if anything at all.
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  504.  @MutedAds  You seem not to be American, I have made it clear with my screen name and using the term "your", I am Australian.
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  505. He was directed to and he at least followed that direction. If he didn't follow that direction, then next thing police in the US do is draw guns on the driver, they don't know if he's armed.
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  506. Even my country and China are not getting along as well as could be I am certainly on the side of the Chinese commenters. Most Australians think what the US and many European countries have done is terrible turning literally hundreds of cases from China into millions and with intent, no intention to stop any spread. Trump actually encouraged spread and to put it extremely politely he is a despicable man, happy to kill 400,000 citizens for a great stock market. The excess deaths are far greater than the Covid 19 deaths alone.
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  507. I don't think it's fully authorized but undergoing trials. I think unfortunately there's some geopolitics involved with how our government is treating that company.
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  508. It's not only Australia, it's an international effort which includes Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Zealand in a small capacity. Of course we shouldn't break a treaty agreement. The Solomons has no military which I expect is part of the reason for the treaty that we would provide help if requested. There's no large scale deployments , just enough to calm things down.
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  509. The majority did, those who voted for Trump and those who didn't vote.
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  510. You are correct in one sense. Scientists can't give all the answers because they don't know. People want immediate answers like what is the mortality rate if you get the virus. This question can't be answered , only an educated guess. But it can be said for example that 0.16% of the New York population has died from this so far, debunking the 0.02% mortality rate suggested but then they say every death in New York has been counted as this virus. That can't be debunked because it's saying every doctor in New York is dishonest. No way to prove anything to that person now. Some conspiracy theories thrive on this because they can say the scientific community doesn't know.
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  511. As an Aussie it's great to know there are Americans who support us and or others around the world.
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  512.  Rob Russell  Well your country and it's behaviour has killed at least 300,000 people who didn't want to die to protect your rights, so you got your wish , I hope you are happy.
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  513. Well Mitch Mcconnell and William Barr both said he incited the events, a direct kill order isn't required. Now if you think it's ok to encourage people who you know to be violent to do something that will lead to violence what more do you need. The rioters themselves have said Trump incited them. It was openly being said on this social media platform youtube on Trumps own channel that if Trump isn't reinstalled as president there would be a civil war and that the right has more weapons etc. so they will win. It really can't be much clearer what occured.
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  514. It's sort of first there was Rupert Murdoch and then there was Elon Musk. Here in the Southern hemisphere we do sometimes send our worst as Trump has alleged.
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  515. Well as far as I am aware, not a single symptom exists if you get HIV, whereas this virus causes mild to extreme symptoms directly for it's estimated 80% of the population. Obviously without a test these 80% may well have another virus so of course a test is required to know if it is covi sars2.
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  516. The term conservative often doesn't translate well in different countries and has different local meanings according to individual issues. In this case if you compare NZ Labour to Donald Trump you will find NZ Labour is a fiscal conservative government relative to the Trump administration which is big on tax cuts especially corporate and government borrowing. So what I am saying is one should not assume anything and just look at an individual party on any particular issue and the position of that country overall.
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  517. Lucky your neighbour bought the flag and pole before tariffs kicked in.
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  518. Technically flag burning is peaceful but provocative.
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  519. Stay safe the best you can.
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  520.  @totheworkshed7915  The pandemic response plan was set up to have global monitoring and stockpiles of the necessary equipment by Bush and then continued under Obama. Trump is certainly an outlier even withdrawing from the WHO as a blame game move. While he does have a valid point the Chinese contribution was way too small , better to ask them to pay more and possibly reduce the US contribution to pressure China, not withdraw. So actually until Trump came along it was never a partisan thing. I am Australian and if you look at the differing responses by our states you will not be able to distinguish which side of politics is in charge because the responses overlap, it just came down to the individual governments decisions. It's sad to see what's happening in the US and if Trump literally did nothing and let those tasked with doing things actually do it, the outcome would probably be not as bad.
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  521. Reading through these comments in this thread, oh my gosh. An average US citizen is most likely in reality working 1 day per week to pay for medical issues as in I expect medical care would have jumped from 16% to 20% in total of GDP including both public and private healthcare, public healthcare in Australia is less than 10% last time I saw the numbers. In Australia it's truly voluntary if we want private healthcare and the publically funded healthcare costs less than the US and is universal. Talk about medical tyranny, the US is number 1. A few of my fellow Australians are a bit tougher than me, we've done pretty good with over 90% of adults double dose vaccinated and don't hold it against some groups including our indigenous community who unfortunately have been strongly influenced by overseas antivaxxers as the Chief Minister of Northern Territory indicated. The Queensland health minister indicated very similar a day ago saying that there's problems with people in some communities not even believing the virus is real at this stage. US citizens, give up your medical tyranny and just get vaccinated, taxes and private insurance that cost a bloody fortune are not the right path and to the majority in the US who are vaccinated sorry you are literally being oppressed by the non vaccinated due to the universal costs imposed upon everyone.
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  522.  @semyonbudyonny1895  really strange question, first I didn't speak of masks and secondly you would be aware that small l liberals is our centre right party. Please clarify your question.
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  523. Not at all for the big cities, so Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne are certainly no different to many European countries and all US states except the big 4 New York, California, Texas and Florida. US is actually slightly less urbanised than Australia and had they closed the borders like Australian states all the states excluding the ones I mentioned could have just as easily had Australian results. The US and Europe still to this day have nothing like the West Pacific standard border quarantine. The US still has voluntary quarantine at the border and so does Republic of Ireland along with most of Western European countries.
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  524. Stock feed and wheat will get cheaper because other countries won't want US produce. So you can eat GM soy with some pasta very cheap.
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  525. There are very few if any low income covid 19 denier countries. Don't disparage low income countries and also many people from those countries don't like the term 3rd world, say developing or low income. Just a suggestion or name directly the poor country killing it's citizens with intent for this particular matter.
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  526. It's 9 hours now after estimated oxygen, it's unfortunate but unless they got their numbers wrong which is extremely unlikely because this type of calculation is literally a routine part of the job, they are gone. Can hope for miracle but giving false hope is not a good thing.
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  527. How is your ginormous prison state lol? I am in Queensland a softer version but our Premier seems to cop more flak. In the end the closures of all borders except New South Wales and Victoria in the beginning probably saved us because if every state was like Victoria 2 months ago they wouldn't have the extra federal assistance which certainly has helped.
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  528. Would have dig deeper in the data, they might be coming in for other things but could still be caused by the virus, need to know are the hospitalizations above average or not and what the other issues are. I had covid most likely and herpes and tinea flared up and conjunctivitis I couldn't open my eyes after waking without manually removing the stuff gluing my eyelids together. Never had these issues in such a severe way previously.
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  529. For Americans what is not typical is a Prime Minister announcing a resignation. Normally they don't see it coming and get kicked out , the process typically takes 2 hours or so when parliament is sitting and they can have a party room meeting. Unlike with a President in the US system removing a Prime Minister is an extremely simple process and doesn't indicate anything about wrongdoing, only that someone is considered better for the position.
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  530. Far left and right share more ideology with each other than centre left and right.
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  531.  @nomad7540  it had already spread inside China at that stage and the 20 Jan closedown of Wuhan was not a secret. Countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia , Australia and New Zealand just happened to do things differently. 4 of those countries are now virus free most likely and in Australia's case we have one state that's having some problems due to stuff ups. That state would be rated maybe number 3 in success if it was a US state. The US failed and to be fair not entirely Trump's fault but he didn't make anything better.
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  532. At least 50% of any adult population in a Western country has a comorbidity, so yes evidence points to it works.
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  533. Sorry mate you don't get it the border is still open with only voluntary quarantine, no enforced hotel quarantine. If I am wrong and it has changed in the last few weeks let me know.
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  534. That would be number of shots not totally vaccinated, they are different things.
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  535. Quarantine or self isolation are interchangeable words so not sure what you mean. If you are in England a person from New York can fly to England , tell immigration they will be staying at your place for 14 days as the self isolation address, then they can catch a bus or taxi to your place and start their 14 days. You may continue going to work or doing whatever it is you do while following any local restrictions. This is England's version of quarantine or self isolation. The UK and US are in line, the Swiss cheese quarantine and isolation policy. I am in Queensland Australia, if you come from Victoria Australia to Queensland you will go into 14 days mandatory government supervised hotel quarantine largely at your cost $2,800 AUD for individual, you will be tested twice while you are in quarantine, if you refuse testing you need to stay another 10 days , not sure it will cost extra but I would expect so. I think at this point all states in Australia are about the same plus NZ which I think has identical quarantine procedures. Both Australia and New Zealand are not accepting people who are not permanent residents or citizens at the moment. Do you see any difference between us and UK and US?
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  536.  God Emperor Elect  I am Australian and see the benefits of socialism designed to protect vulnerable people versus the US model which is to protect industry. I see the great benefits of allowing non competitive industries to fail. There was a lot of crossover of Bernie and Donald voters because of their socialist credentials. If you look up socialism in the dictionary it says controlling the means of production which is exactly what industry subsidies and protection is. So yes I am speaking as an Australian that is doing fine with our and our regional partners approach to free trade. The US can be more protectionist without as much harm due to the massive domestic economy. Consider the 4 most free trade countries in my region Australia, New Zealand , Singapore and Hong Kong ( not sure what will happen with HK though as the communist party takes over). In relative terms our domestic markets are miniscule and we need free trade to maintain our living standards. See Economic Freedom Index by the Heritage Foundation as a pretty good indicator of socialism. I do still believe it's in the US interest to reverse direction again towards being more free trade orientated , however that's up to Americans. We will wait and see what happens in US politics over the next few years.
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  537. Best of luck hope it goes well.
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  538. I would say it's a case by case thing. Those are deep in the cult can't be reasoned with. Those who are having second thoughts might be open to being reasoned with and considering non propaganda news which they probably haven't seen for years.
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  539.  @just_chris1630  I think biosecurity is basically standardised between Australia, New Zealand and Japan. I looked up out of curiosity about dogs quarantine and all needed a rabies vaccine which takes about 6 months from first shot. Once a dog has been in one of these 3 countries plus a couple of other countries for 14 days the dog can travel freely between the jurisdictions. Interestingly at one point in time for people returning they had to spend 14 days in a few low virus jurisdictions this year, so returning travellers were treated like dogs. The irony is a dog can travel between these countries easier than a human, I looked the info up while Victoria was not accepting international flights which is the only dog quarantine facility so some dogs travelled via NZ at that time. The dates of updates on the international procedures was around this time in all 3 countries. I look forward to being able to travel as easy as a dog next year and yes a vaccine is ok just like the dogs.
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  540.  @peoplewatchingtoday7231  I know the majority of the population might not be like her but 20% of the population is large enough to say normal. One in 5 people give or take are like her. In some states it's possibly over 50% and the majority. I am not saying the majority are like her , in the end Trump didn't get re elected.
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  541. Well if you think that way you had better get the Democrat voters out in force. At the moment the polls suggest that which ever party gets more voters to vote wins.
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  542. Fluorescent lights give off some UV light but no idea how much effect it might have because would be far lower than sunlight for example. The old incandescents can produce some heat but I don't think any UV . LED lights produce no UV and very little heat so probably the same as being in the dark as far as the virus is concerned.
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  543. How does she get to call herself a doctor or alternatively not get her authority revoked. Pretty sure one or the other would happen in Australia. If I am ever in the US I won't trust your doctor's, 99% are probably great people doing the best they can but if someone like this can call themselves a doctor without authorities taking immediate action there is a serious problem.
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  544. Every little bit can help.
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  545. In reality the foreign support can only help a little bit especially if cases keep rising the situation doesn't change at all.
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  546. Maybe they should turn the Whitehouse into a nursing home, it doesn't matter who gets elected the facilities might be needed this time round.
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  547.  @zacharycraft2129  really ? And the occupants are entitled to shoot back under stand your ground laws. I suppose if you want police killed along with the occupants. Under stand your ground laws the police are probably innocent because they were legally entitled to be there. This is really wild west justice.
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  548. The problem in the US is the capacity to deal with large numbers of hospital cases has actually reduced and healthcare in general is more stretched than at the beginning of the pandemic in part from people quiting. Moral is extremely low by all accounts and that's not good.
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  549. Good evening Wumao , hope all is well with you.
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  550. The M67 grenade used by the US army has 180gm of high explosive and a kill radius of around 5m. The GBU 39 has 16kg of high explosive , this is not a small explosive if you are protected by a tent , it's only small when compared to the massive bombs Israel has been using to collapse buildings.
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  551. Quarter of a Trillion would just mean US government debt increasing 1.75 Trillion per year, wouldn't actually help anything. Raise the corporate tax rate to 30% makes more sense because billionaires primarily pay tax this way. Also cut spending on healthcare and raise coverage by paying market rates for medicines. Cut spending spending on the military by a few hundred billion.
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  552. If you followed it deep red and blue were declared by pollsters that is, with only 10% of the vote.
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  553. I am an Aussie but interested in US politics. What ABC Australia does is as far as possible non biased. Unfortunately US news pretty much always has a strong left or right bias.
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  554. Comorbidities and age might very well have a 90% + correlation. If you make it to 85 years old you will probably have something wrong with you. So they can both be correct because they occur in tandem.
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  555.  @Brian-qg8dg  Strange comment, did you realise you are referencing world wars, it wasn't the US versus the world and actually the US was slow to join both and if compared to Australia lost far fewer troops on a per capita basis. Look up John Monash, he was even given a medal by the US, it's a pity that some modern Americans don't appreciate their allies. If you read the story of John Monash you will realise he saved US servicemen's lives while under his command because he cared more for the troops than was normal at that time and an excellent strategist. He is on our $100 note currently.
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  556. I'll put it this way, you are a very diverse bunch.
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  557. The scariest alignment in the world is between Putin, Xi and some Republicans. If such a Republican became president it might not be good. I don't Trump directly aligned with them however he wanted to emulate the president for life status of the other 2 and seems to admire their achievement of president for life.
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  558.  @rajanthakur696  why? I notice many police chiefs are black and that doesn't change anything. Some mayor's are black again that doesn't change anything. How about best person for the job at the time. Obama on average was good for US and a suitable choice. Trump has some good points but is too inflammatory and likes to cause division. So on that basis I think he is on average not the best choice.
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  559.  @bootburner4544  you are being ridiculous, no other Australian state has had to lock down again. Victoria needs to be sure there isn't 100 cases out there that they don't know about otherwise it's all for nothing, the rest of Victoria outside of Melbourne isn't in lockdown as of tomorrow or something.
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  560. I would respond to that actions speak louder than words. One shipment of one type of weapon means nothing.
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  561. Probably has a back up generator.
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  562. Nah that's free speech which is a requirement for a functional democracy. Other things are required also.
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  563. I am not American and not christian but I think you have the right message for all actually not just christians or religious people, it's a human thing.
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  564. It's relative, let's take US versus Australia, 6 years less life expectancy now in the US compared to Australia but that concerns very few people there. If Australia's life expectancy dropped by 6 years in one go so maybe 5% of the population or something over the age of 40 dead in one year or so we wouldn't look as calm as the US right now with exactly the same life expectancy.
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  565. Hey QLD population 5 million and 7 deaths , yeah things really out of control here right?
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  566. All the smaller territory should maybe get a partial vote or grouped together, Puerto Rico should just become a full state. For presidential elections just direct vote run by the federal government or at least the federal government makes the rules because currently eligibility criteria differ from state to state , no electoral college.
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  567.  Sandy Allen  are you serious a multi billion dollar industry can't afford a device such as you just used to store a backup?
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  568.  @inglis7086  hope all is well now, take care. I most likely had covid 19 and in my case symptoms worse than your first vaccine dose. You did the right thing, risk isn't 0 but much less than the virus.
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  569. Actually they were lost to modernisation. Are you really suggesting Americans want to work in sweat shops making clothes for example?
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  570. He's got nothing on him. Putin didn't suggest dividing up Ukraine and sharing it with the US. Trump did. Trump's goals for the US are the same as the other expansionist countries, Russia, China and Israel. He envisions that the US can expand so long as he allows other countries to do the same.
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  571. I don't think so, I am thinking is it possible he does a runner with air force 1, land it in Russia or something and go into exile giving the plane to the Russians. I know my conspiracy theory is unlikely but I don't think something like this is impossible. He did say at a rally if he didn't get elected he might leave the country and I think he might have been thinking aloud. So without the stealing air force 1 I think he is considering leaving to a country that is sympathetic to him.
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  572.  @Kevin-cw8of  We have a trade stick bigger than any other individual country. At the current rate of steel production China needs our iron ore. Australia produces over 50% of the internationally traded iron ore and China buys 69 % of the internationally traded iron ore, Brazil comes in at 20% So in a hot trade war if Brazil and Australia sanction China by stopping iron ore exports China's economy in it's current form will collapse.
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  573. It's a bit hard in the case of Facebook because of their international footprint. People in other countries often don't care about who the service is supplied by.
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  574. I hope things go ok with your daughter. It's completely abnormal for a person your daughters age to have any real interest or knowledge about politics other than who the president is (exception rare individuals who might find it interesting at that age , however they won't be name calling others if that's the case).
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  575. No evidence the school knew he had a gun already. The parents however knew he had it on him most likely, I don't believe any of their excuses.
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  576. That's good now you can buy cask wine and get off that $70 a bottle stuff and not know the difference.
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  577. Better than nothing, however the ALP is still too cowardly to implement their policy of recognising Palestine for now.
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  578. If they were Mexican strawberries buy up.
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  579. He wasn't sure who they are, Canada and UK, you would think he would know sounded like an Irish accent and the UK is a pretty big and close neighbour.
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  580. Please look at the WHO Western Pacific region countries where mandatory enforced 14 days hotel quarantine mostly or other enforced 14 days quarantine. It seems it was a regional approach and the European region WHO office and the Pan American Health Organization region, both seem to have open border policies with voluntary quarantine. There is a 100% correlation with outcomes for the regional approach, the 40 worst affected countries in deaths per million population come from these WHO regions, South Africa is a bit over 40 I think. Obviously the regional WHO offices would be run by the members so can't blame the WHO as a whole it's countries in your region that made the decisions. My opinion is if people are serious the the West Pacific WHO should take the lead in the future , however European and American countries probably don't want that, so here we are and likely to reoccur with same geographical areas of failure at some point in time.
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  581. Based on another report those in the Republican Party who won't vote for it because they want more cuts not higher taxes for corporations. It's possible what does get through could be even worse.
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  582. Which flu, it could be bird flu by then passing human to human.
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  583. Actually the best way is functional well regulated as free as possible market . The exact opposite of Trump's protectionism, non functional markets , tariffs and selective industry subsidies.
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  584. That goes back to a case where for a while that was the case in a Pennsylvania district from memory. All that it was is someone entered the numbers into the wrong district so there were more votes than voters. Obviously the error which changed nothing was corrected.
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  585. I was thinking that actually, it's a naturally imposed lockdown, but when things clear up you might see big spikes.
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  586. Maybe it's because the ancestors escape from China for various reasons. 600 million in China live on $5 USD per day according to the CPC as of last year. Maybe the plan didn't include them.
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  587.  @SuperPrototipas  I am Australian and some years ago visited the Philippines . I got sick of people openly calling me Americano ( mostly kids to be fair). So some truth to your comment. In Thailand which I have frequently visited, I am Farang which is short for farangset which means French speaking. I have asked why I am not called a foreigner to many people and what is a Farang and they can't really give a clear answer and ironically I have no idea what they call an unidentified Asian person, I think they do the same thing and just make a guess, if light skinned foreigner should be Chinese or Korean or Japanese.
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  588. I guess after jobless rate rises due to his trade wars and possibly a stock market collapse he might reconsider his actions. Things have to get pretty bad before he will reconsider his crazy plans.
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  589. What stood out with that remark is Trump wanted to be thanked personally. Zelensky has thanked the US many times. The dear leader wanted to be thanked personally, not the US.
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  590. While he is biased towards Israel it's unfair to say it's a racial thing, he was against the Iraq war.
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  591. Actually they are going from a less infected country to a higher infected country. They could help to transfer any central American strains though. The supreme strain of covid 19 will always have a home in the US, this is where the UK and South African strains can battle it out with the multitude of US strains.
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  592. Only half way through this clip but it's obvious they are nuts and love to claim to be victims. The wildest comment so far is that Trump will stop division unlike other Republicans and Democrats. That sort of made laugh.
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  593. I am 47, truth is I got taught all that stuff as a kid washing hands etc. , but never been a problem and I have been completely ignoring it. The personal hygiene in certain middle income countries is probably better than many high income countries because they have seen problems in their own life time. So totally agree but it will depend on country and even area of a country. To a New York kid that walked past a hospital each day with trucks lined up to take bodies from the hospital it was very real, but another kid who has seen nothing it's not a big issue.
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  594.  @marahbadrian  I am not American but I would say if you don't like BLM , Antifa, Proud Boys and Trump you are probably somewhere in the centre.
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  595. There are 100 billionaires in parliament in China. So what do you think about that?
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  596. Twitter is going broke, it's doomed in my opinion.
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  597. I read a statistic that indigenous children at age 5 have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world at 96.9% , so while there are still issues and lower life expectancy in that group we are trying. The overall national rate at that age is 94.8% .
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  598. You shouldn't have irrational fears because it's unhealthy from a mental health point of view. Just be careful about how quickly you give out personal information and look at risks according to how high they actually are. Chatting over the internet anonymously is basically a 0 risk activity.
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  599. Sorry US citizens, this is a disaster for you, the antivaxxers will gain further traction. It's great for the countries that don't have a major Antivax problem so thanks from Australia if it works.
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  600. Truly depressing however I think it's important to let the video run its course to help the algorithm. The more people know the truth the better. One day a major political party from a high income country is going to object to the apartheid state of Israel .
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  601. They were always open, the UK strain didn't jump across the pond.
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  602.  @painrdf7988  Well mate here in the virus free land of Australia all us stupid sheep did as we were told and guess what everything is open except the border. Obviously our governments were far more effective and took freedom for the many long term versus freedom for the few short term with no clear end until a lot more have died. It's unfortunate and I am guessing you are a socialist Trump supporter and you just don't get it. Trump is a protectionist who loves industry subsidies, pity he doesn't care for humans too much. Whether through intent or incompetence the US has committed the largest peacetime killing this century so far not caused by a natural disaster. Let's hope the vaccines work because you have nothing else.
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  603. They just voted fairly recently to allow recreational marijuana smoking. So soon they all going to be dope smokers but tobacco is prohibited.
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  604. Surprise surprise, yet another border quarantine failure, Trump can blame Japan though, why not.
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  605.  @laureebee5226  well there's a lot of Apples in our part of the world, the West Pacific. Australia , my country, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and New Zealand. Call us the apple countries if you want , Western Europe , US and other Americas countries are the Oranges.
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  606. Be careful with that too.
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  607. That part of the story happens in all societies where people have a lot of control without enough safeguards, think back 30 years in any Western countries and the catholic church and orfanages and disability care and of course prisons however prisons were probably fixed about 50 years ago. This unfortunately is human nature and while no systemic in the camps it would depend on luck just like all the places I mentioned above. I think China would be trying to stop this behaviour however they want to cover it up also.
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  608. Nowhere is "quick enough" , except maybe Israel and a couple of others, most countries it's realistically 6 months before all at risk people vaccinated and maybe 9 months for majority of population. There is also the mutations which would still be occurring which is a significant risk in my opinion.
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  609. I know, if I just watched this without any knowledge I would think 4 of Australia's large cities are overrun by mice getting into homes , hospitals and all food sellers premises. For the grain growing community of course it's terrible but for the rest of us we wouldn't know.
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  610. No the 95% is 95% less likely than if unvaccinated, so if it's 10% chance of hospitalization in an unvaccinated person then it's only 0.5% chance in a vaccinated person.
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  611. I hope you recover quickly, best of luck.
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  612. Good puns
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  613. Get back to me in 6 months when he has tanked the North American economy. Australia will be ok , while it will hurt us too it won't be anywhere near as bad as North America.
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  614. I don't understand why they do a live fire exercise. It can all be simulated these days.
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  615. In answer to your second question, the US essentially did nothing to stop the spread, voluntary quarantine counts for nothing. There was even and still is actually an automatic spreading mechanism built into how the very relaxed restrictions work, if you don't like the restrictions in your state or county just go to the one next door where you can take your infection anywhere you want. Total madness. Early on though by the end of February 2020 the US had conducted 500 covid 19 tests, South Korea with about 1 sixth of the population 100,000 tests, Australia my country with 1 thirteenth of the population 10,000 tests. The US was asleep, still is actually cases yet again rising rapidly with hospitalized rising and I think even deaths are rising yet again in the middle of your summer.
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  616.  @yingyang1008  hell no but try crossing the Western Australian border. Not all draconian efforts are identical but they can be equal in intensity. A rich Queensland politician made a court challenge against the state of Western Australia that basically the state was unreasonable to stop the entry of him. The court found in favour of the State of Western Australia. From a comment of a Western Australian apparently 3 people currently serving prison terms for quarantine type breaches.
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  617. There is a benefit though that might save thousands of lives. It's the first time to have celebrities in our region advertising containment policies noting what Australia does is the same in all West Pacific countries. Maybe some other countries not in our region might consider having a quarantine scheme. See the death toll of over 2,000,000,000 population in the region with the same policies is less than the UK. One has to say maybe containment policies work and hard lockdown as required noting also higher internal freedoms on average than constant mitigation lockdown lite which is still nowhere near finished.
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  618. The irony all those rich kids touring "red tourism" while living off the labours of the poor noting according to the CPC itself 600 million people living on $5USD and 100 billionaires in parliament at the same time. China is the most far right major country on the planet pretending they are some sort of Marxist.
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  619.  @yeshiyangzom8532  you haven't answered my question
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  620. So there's a Qanon Sharman in Brazilian colours by the look of it. Brazil plus US is less than 10% of the world population but have over 25% of the world's covid 19 deaths. The Americas now starting to make Europe seem not to bad because in most European countries people are at least getting vaccinated, in the US and most likely Brazil they've lost the plot and want to fight a virus head on with massive rallies of unvaccinated people.
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  621. Your comment is inappropriate. One should not gloat when seeing others suffering.
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  622.  Underbitelover  Strange comment of yours it's the open border policies of many countries is why this problem continues. Everything would be open including international travel had a different policy been in place.
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  623. It's a simple bait and switch. Privatisation of your medicare and medicade will show financial benefits. Costs will get lower for a while, but what US medical oligopolies are really good at is simply raising their prices above inflation without any government pushback regardless if Democrats or Republicans are in control. It's an absurd situation that i can buy a drug in the free market in Australia even if the drug was produced in the US cheaper than the US government pays. It's actually a massive government subsidy pretending to be capitalism. The higher costs will take time to eventuate so don't jump the gun, inform people of the methods about to be used so people understand the pain will come in a fews time , not immediately.
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  624. Historically allies didn't exist countries or groups would continually go around trying to conquer each other to create an empire. That behaviour sort of ended after WWII with only a few exceptions.
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  625. True they end but can easily come back with a less favourable mutation. Flu pandemics in Eastern Asia in particular during 50s and 60s killed a lot of people. If Omicron completely takes over which it hasn't yet that would be great because will give a lot of people some immunity for the next mutation.
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  626. I think he believes it which doesn't make him terrible but misguided or a useful fool.
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  627. I think because people in many countries don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. People also like to simplify things down to a single concept. Mask wearing is an example, from a public health perspective it is actually the last line of defence. So pro maskers and anti maskers want to argue about that single issue. All evidence points to masks slow spread but in no way will stop spread. People rationalize lockdown to mean one thing only that is direct measures against the individual in an area without considering travel restrictions, quarantine , contact tracing etc. From observation a draconian but partial lockdown does more harm than good. However a draconian full lockdown is highly effective and has overall support where it is done , for example in Victoria Australia or New Zealand. Most other Australian states did also until things under control, draconian travel restrictions still exist and sometimes go too far but better to overdo than underdo.
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  628. The US is terrible at quarantine. They still permit sales of raw chicken manure.
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  629. Glad to see a Queenslander is now home, or at least close to home.
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  630. I thought the Iranian Professor was much like John, very good at explaining difficult concepts in a way normal people can understand or at least understand a bit.
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  631. They accuse the rest of us as being sheep, particularly regarding covid 19 . Australia and our sister nation New Zealand are the lands of proud sheep with no virus, yep still have the conspiracy theorists here. Qanon is amazing in one respect, it managed to become international yet it's dear leader is Trump. We can say that Trump is spiritual leader of the conspiracy world.
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  632. He's Australian not American, what treason?
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  633. That's sad.
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  634.  @Petertrottierrealtor  It's not "Western Civilization" it's the US , the only wealthy country to have such problems on any scale. I am in Australia, there are more homicides in cities like Chicago or Philadelphia than a country of 25 million.
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  635. Every other wealthy country on the planet is safer than the US by a significant margin. So your theory is clearly not correct.
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  636. AIPAC only has 3 purposes in reality, that is arms supply of any weapon requested , US assets like aircraft carriers to stay in Middle East for protection and cold hard cash. So spending $100,000,000 to get back $20+ billion in cash, weapons and protection recently is a pretty good transaction.
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  637. I knew one had done it, but now they've all done it , that's gonna hurt. It doesn't hurt a single Canadian though, choice of brand doesn't matter.
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  638. That's good and lucky I would suggest.
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  639. They haven't identified the stupid gene yet but one thing is clear this gene can appear in any racial group
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  640. Fair enough can you say Isreal should release the 1,000s of hostages held in Isreali prisons often being tortured?
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  641. One thing very sad unless the English language is difficult , the young lady is Bangladeshi British rather than British Bangladeshi. Accept you are British not a foreigner. I realize it works both ways and both are to blame, as in racist UK people play a similar role.
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  642. Well certain states in the US would not meet the modern criteria to be considered first world already.
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  643. Even just truck them across the northern or southern land borders. Both those countries would appreciate it I think and seeing them being dumped will annoy them.
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  644. I like our region check per capita deaths in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Australia. All below 10 per million.
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  645. It's going to be strange when Mexican products will cost more in Texas than Australia because they are included in one of our free trade agreements which will have declining tariffs over time and probably a lot of tariff free items already.
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  646. It doesn't surprise me the state that you mentioned. They delayed data in October up until after the presidential election, said it was about checking their systems for reporting or something. The date it occurred must have been a remarkable coincidence.
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  647. The numbers are scary. 60,000 had died back then , now look at the numbers. Get vaccinated people.
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  648. The numbers are inline with those that have already taken the vaccine, so don't trust the poll , just look at the vaccination rates.
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  649. You mean trade surplus, they have a deficit now.
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  650. A Mexican doesn't require permission from the US government to travel and the US isn't providing any sort of law enforcement inside Mexico. Israel as a welfare state of the US having received at least $200 Billion USD over the years and because money is fungible it could be argued the US actually paid for your vaccines it would be nice to see Israel be a little nicer to the local authority of Palestine which as you know isn't in charge of much at all, much like a city council. From a security perspective Israel would be better off helping with vaccines.
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  651.  @ofeknahon7579  Israel controls the borders and is the authority who actually polices things like drug smuggling, that's in the same agreement that states Palestinian authority vaccinates people to the world standard, this current situation is different because there is no world standard and it's more akin to providing an ambulance, both the Palestinian authority and Israel must provide ambulance to anyone in need regardless of what the patients citizenship status is. Israel carries out all autopsies and the Palestinian authority must hand over the body of anyone killed suspiciously, all this stuff is in the health section of some agreement signed years ago. It would just be sensible policy to help with vaccines anyway whether or not legally required which is disputed and unclear.
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  652. The cost of steel roofing just went up. Australia's ex prime minister explained how it's cheaper for California to import from Australia than from the Midwest due to transport costs. Now there's a 25% tariff on these products, so maybe builders will buy American at a higher cost and most likely with delays as the US producers would need to ramp up production.
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  653. Completely different company, Murdoch sold the English Sky News known just as sky News a few years ago. Search on Wikipedia if you're curious who owns it now.
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  654. That's good but what about Japan it has problems in that area also.
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  655.  @rushlimbaugh4641  so you think an elderly person in a developing nation should die so that a 25 year old American can get a vaccine first? It's a difficult ethical problem however I personally think it should be given according to need.
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  656.  @unstoppableExodia  Yes Pauline Hanson does say identical things to Trump , however she will never be Prime Minister , she is far more honest though. Pauline Hanson is a benefit to the Australian political system just as the Greens are because all voices should be heard. In the US the political fringes are embedded in the duopoly of political parties and they still don't think they are being taken seriously hence the violent extremists from both sides on the streets with guns literally killing people. Both political parties in the US do turn a blind eye to what is occurring and just blame the opposing party. What amazes me is in the US you can "peacefully" with a semiautomatic rifle designed primarily for military use. Even in the recent case a 17 year old , it's complete madness.
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  657. There's worse countries out there. Of course to wealthy people in free countries it looks bad and is by our standards but the same can be said of about 100 other countries. Look at life expectancy of North Korea and it's not too bad by world standards.
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  658. The day before my father died of something completely different, he was totally coherent and speaking and breathing well, watching someone speak tells you nothing of what is happening to the internal organs.
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  659. Happens in every country by every race. Nowhere is perfect.
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  660. @BostonBruins 88 not sure what you mean, are you comparing some scumbag small time gangsters who used the chaos to burn buildings and loot to Trump. I certainly agree with you Trump is at least as low as those individuals however he was president of a super power nation so not sure you can put him in the same category.
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  661. It's worse than that. Misinformation can be used to incite violence etc.
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  662.  @phyrestorm999  a clear majority stops any challenges and provides a sort of higher legitimacy to whoever might be president next year.
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  663. @nuqwestr  so as a hospital patient with no means of transport you just walk out the door that is if you can walk. Sounds like a great plan for a sick person.
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  664. It's sort of playing the victim. Saying he has to is suggesting he is being forced.
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  665.  @nivlz  You are talking to people who don't understand the concept of a lockdown because they have only ever had partial lockdowns. The concept to your average American of a lockdown is the local bar is shut and if I have the means I will just go to another state where things are open. What the US CDC recommends in an emergency situation would have someone in Australia doing prison time in most states at least. In Australia as you know if a single staff member in a nursing home or hospital is infected, within 24 hours the entire staff will be replaced and have to do 14 days quarantine. There it's a recommendation to continue business as usual, just like those sent into nursing homes sick earlier on was also a recommendation of the CDC because they would overflow hospitals as occured in New York and a few other states. It's sad to see that people couldn't do a proper 2 month lockdown and open slowly like Australia did.
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  666. I love that US term "out of an abundance of caution" , doesn't mean the same thing in my country. The US has a homicide rate about 5 times Australia and yes that's per capita and noting the only other time I have heard abundance of caution is covid 19 restrictions, your per capita deaths are about 40 times on that one. Question to American, when would a situation actually be urgent? Australia was considered to have a laid back attitude, you guys are in a coma if you think an abundance of caution creates such results, maybe throw that recent saying in the dustbin out of an abundance of caution because coma like complacency doesn't work.
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  667. Also government services are better than many other states.
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  668. Even if legally that might be correct, there's no possibility the provinces would do it without federal government giving approval.
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  669.  @ljo642  0.16% of New York state population is now dead from it. Your number is not correct and still people are dying but at a much slower rate. My opinion have a little more compassion or even be selfish, more dead is bad for business in medium term based on previous and current information including the Spanish flu 100 years ago.
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  670. No evidence of that at this stage and the driver has an Arabic name. Let's just wait for the case to be heard. Sabry Nassar is the name of the accused. Has also been involved in another road incident in Lakemba , the suburb with a major mosque in Western Sydney.
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  671. The 10 days was adopted in part in the US because the "quarantine" is/was voluntary, so the thinking was there would be higher voluntary compliance. It was never intended to stop the virus just slow it down a bit.
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  672. The tech bros because they compared to business size don't import or export tangible goods, they also make major profits internationally.
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  673. Even if you drop dead with a fever it'll take your body half an hour or so to reach normal body temperature, so unless you wacked someone in an ice bath it can't be just a moment.
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  674. There is one positive I can think of. The economy will boom. Think about it, the only city where drugs will be traded openly without fear of prosecution. It could diversify the community too with more Mexicans and Nigerians , maybe even Italians.
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  675. Complimenting Trump is actually effective. A different approach doesn't mean one approach is better than the other in both cases Trump has been told it's bad and we will retaliate. So actual policy is the same, just a different tone.
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  676.  @jerrymarasco8878  you're bloody amazing, your country has conscription or the draft in the constitution, so you can legally be sent to die on a battlefield. You are being requested by some Americans to not be a bloody idiot and try not to infect them and crying about your loss of freedom. What a sook.
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  677. Wouldn't really consider them media. While they are entertaining, they are activist channels not media.
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  678.  @xponen  I disagree with the last part of your statement, actually the Western Pacific WHO region we all did the same thing regarding borders, 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine. PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO region countries all opted for open borders eventually. It's either a billion to 1 coincidence or the WHO region had a lot to do with it. Australia had that one occasion for a 3 weeks period regarding India because we didn't know how to deal with large numbers of a very contagious variant coming in, look at New South Wales now and Vietnam and Taiwan, it was the right decision. In the Western Pacific WHO region 3 countries stand out as having the toughest quarantine restrictions normally regarding food and agriculture, Australia, New Zealand and Japan and also the experience with SARS which hurt tourism in the whole region. So it's not a Western thing but more about the particular WHO regional offices I would suggest.
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  679. What about the millions of sheep following Comrade Tucker Carlson who just yesterday got them to believe that the US is funding a bioweapons lab. Even showed a clip of Zhao Lijiang , the propaganda mouthpiece of China running similar conspiracy theories. Now that Trump's gone they might have the phone numbers of Zhao Lijiang and Sergei Lavrov to make sure they are in complete alignment. It's funny countries banning CGTN and RT but still allowing Fox to operate.
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  680. He might be looking up himself, he and or his companies might actually be the number 1 receiver.
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  681. Keep the protests peaceful and remember rank and file police and military are people too, keep some distance from them , being surrounded by thousands of people who don't like you can be scary which can lead to accidents if one feels in personal danger.
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  682. I wonder if Musk has considered adding an extra 0 to his government payments.
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  683. Hang in there and look overseas, Melbourne looks much better than London at the moment. I understand you are angry but there is light at the end of the tunnel and the problems appear to have been fixed with a very low death toll by international , not Western Pacific standards. You are right about the contact tracing which was a much bigger issue actually because other states and New Zealand had outbreaks from quarantine breaches even if the actual breach is unknown without the problems of Victoria. It should be over in a few weeks and you can go back to less restrictions than Sweden soon after that I expect. The point John made is about getting back in control has been done well and it has.
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  684.  @daverok1113  yep so urgent to change testing method they are waiting for 5 months. They want a test that detects both SARS COVI 2 and flu at the same time. Your statement that the PCR is not working is incorrect.
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  685. Well to be fair it's definitely a trickle. Can't call it flooding down.
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  686. It worked with South Africa.
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  687.  @conorwhite2889  Due to interventions the virus has barely spread in many countries. What's happening in Europe though is interesting. What John says is correct, that we don't know many things.
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  688. They can't in areas where hospitals fill up and lots of evidence it's harming the healthcare workers mentally. I am in a country where the virus has been contained and my observation is in some countries including the US the medical staff are not being cared for or recognized as much as they should be.
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  689. The US is a strange country, basically the toughest vaccination requirements on the planet for entry into schools especially in Mississippi being the toughest of tough rules. Then Covid 19 comes along and Donald Trump politicizes it and supports antivaxxers who support himself undermining his only achievement on the covid 19 response making that fail too. The US was the fastest to make vaccines available and has ended up with the world's lowest vaccination rate for a wealthy country (Hong Kong being an exception and failed even worse getting aged people vaccinated however I expect they are correcting that now). Things could have been so different, US people aren't intrinsically different to say UK or Canadian people it's the government that's intrinsically different where almost one entire side of politics will watch hundreds of thousands die and support the conspiracy theories because they think it's politically advantageous. If Trump handled covid 19 better he would still be president. So that's your only consolation prize, a different president.
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  690. But not many deaths.
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  691. No, you really want the US to become more lawless. Careful what you wish for. The point is only relevant at sentencing. He shouldn't get a harsh sentence, however I am a believer that if you commit a crime of assault then you should get some sentence in most cases including this one. You can't have vigilante justice that's madness.
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  692. Hard to say, it's possible Trump will increase farm subsidies like he did last time but given what's going on now it's possible he won't.
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  693. It was the gap that mattered, not sure which dose they eventually went with.
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  694. I was thinking Americans don't even have a high income country standard of healthcare, maybe a hospital or something would be a good idea.
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  695.  @deborahhebblethwaite1865  when you reach 0 cases it makes no difference if your population is 1 million or 1 billion, how quickly a quarantine breach or an infection from an unknown source is identified and how quickly containment actions occur , that's all that matters in any urban area.
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  696. I think you might be right, pretty hard for the US at least to now give him an exemption. Don't know about the other 2 countries entry requirements however with France requiring people to be vaccinated to eat at a cafe I would be surprised if foreigner can enter unvaccinated.
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  697. It'll take a while depending on the product because some imports into the US from countries other than Mexico and Canada have quotas, it's after the quotas get used up things will hit big time.
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  698. Trump was shouting and it was 1 and half hours. If Trump was shedding a significant amount of the virus at the time Biden was in a high risk situation. While I don't have much sympathy to Trump because he knew the risks , I will have deep sympathy for Biden if he gets it.
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  699. Blaming the pandemic is ridiculous. That was world wide, excessive violence in a wealthy country is exclusively the US.
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  700. Well it's lucky QLD is one of the toughest jurisdictions and they are free to protest for the moment because no lockdown. The irony.
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  701. Maybe modify them and put around the prison industrial complex in the US . Maybe they were pioneers . The land of the free with the most prisoner in a high income country.
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  702. I don't think they can deny the appointment, they could however create a diplomatic incident and expell him after he arrives.
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  703.  @davidscully2414  I'll correct you pretend lockdowns with free travel and voluntary quarantine are a total disaster. Look at Western Pacific region of WHO out of 13 countries (ones over 1,000,000) 53,000 deaths with a total population of about 1.8 billion, worst performing country is the Philippines with deaths a bit over 200 per million. The evidence is in clearly lockdowns do work if done properly and less effects on economies on average and less deaths from other causes also because on average proper lockdowns are far shorter than ongoing pretend lockdowns which only hurt local businesses. Length of lockdowns is the killer the effectiveness of lockdowns has no relevance or very little in how many other deaths occur, probably hard lockdowns are less harmful because at least from a mental health perspective people can see an end.
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  704. Gage King Trump mentioned several times that maybe he'll get a third term and if you haven't noticed he still hasn't conceded his defeat yet, the first US president not to do so, he claims to be the president in exile right now. You must be aware of that fact right.
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  705. And now what? You've discovered that these rideshare companies are literally seeing how low you will work for and probably adjusting for things such as age of driver and marital status etc and with all the data collection they will keep you on a subsistence income and of course they doing it to passengers too.
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  706. I think you should qualify your comment, SA is actually monitoring and collecting data better than some 1st world countries. I hope you are all ok and if you have had it twice plus a vaccine should be pretty safe but nothing is 100%. Best of luck.
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  707. In a parliamentary system it's impossible for him to become a head of government. This is the clear benefit of a parliamentary system over a system like the US where you basically elect a head of government and head of state in one person who picks an unelected executive cabinet, basically a King or Queen for 4 years with absolute power, not like King Charles who has no power.
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  708. I don't agree with your reasoning, it's about trade versus human rights etc. Vietnam and Laos certainly don't agree with democracy so impossible for them to support democracy, Thailand although different situation is currently a military dictatorship. Some other ASEAN countries while being democratic can't be described as highly functioning free democracies. I am not saying that the approach is wrong, the hope is that as most notably Indonesia and the Philippines have gone from dictatorship to reasonably functional democracies others might follow one day. Truth is outsiders can't really force this, can only talk. More vibrant economies are more likely to become democratic so having ASEAN as a functional free trade block will help this.
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  709. You can be both at the same time, I had an iq test done and put me well above average however one particular test I was considered borderline as in bottom 10%. So I am sort smart but slow at routine tasks or something like that. It actually makes sense to me know because doing things like copying what a teacher wrote on a blackboard I couldn't keep up but most people could.
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  710. NZ please accept Victoria as a new province. Australia is willing to hand it over so long as you accept "as is" in the agreement.
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  711.  @jackboot3946  Australia is not in strife , the other states look upon Victoria as a rogue southern state.
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  712.  @tritter15  no the original comment was very specific the "new world" and clearly directed at white colonialism. Is it so bad for me to point out that it's got nothing to do with race?
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  713. Still too high, it might even be making a loss by now.
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  714. With glass you are burning gas and or coal, it's not the solution unless reused at the personal level which isn't going to happen, meaning refilling your Glass container at the shop with new product. Glass is far worse for energy use.
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  715. Some provinces do fairly well, not as strict as Australia and any new variant they will all have troubles.
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  716. That's a comment I start to reply to those advocating criminal behaviour. About a third of Americans don't vote.
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  717. Australia has no reason for emergency approval which is what is occurring in the US and UK. They are basically saying it seems good but doesn't meet our usual standards at this point in time but doing nothing is a higher risk.
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  718. I can just imagine the household conversations in that village, "husband when are you going to get vaccinated that annoying nurse is coming again and not so keen on you talking to her every week". The nurse is great she would cause me to get vaccinated if I was hesitant, sort of like some scary nurse in some old movie.
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  719. He keeps talking about religion. There's no major religion that forbids vaccines. Seems to me people scared of vaccines are using any excuse.
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  720. You are wrong, let them talk. The idea of more self censorship in your media is really really bad. How partisan do you want your media to be, aren't CNN and Fox partisan enough for you? Shouldn't interviews be to find out in the case of politicians what they are thinking?
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  721. Let's just consider the 3% , this is the number who still apparently believe Trump won according to some survey. So this 3% believe anything Trump says. They are ignorant and highly adaptable as far as beliefs go. I watched a few Trump rallies and Trump would often say that Biden will cut some socialist program , either an industry subsidy scheme or for example medicare, at those same rallies with an approximately 20 minute gap he will say how Biden is a socialist and will turn the country into Venezuela or Cuba. So logic is a deficiency in these people. If you can simultaneously believe your social welfare or subsidy will be cut and all your wealth will be taken to provide for others, I'll put it to you how can you not vote for Trump if you believe this?
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  722.  @stevegraham3817  it's extremely hard to envisage but not impossible. I want to see from my covid free state in Australia some jurisdiction make the move , possibly Republic of Ireland or Wales, get it under control on a path to elimination and stuff those who want the borders "open" without enforced quarantine. I am working on the domino theory which certainly worked in Australia. Victoria Australia to this day has never put in interstate travel restrictions , but they have been the most infected state, if a major outbreak occurs in another state I think a stop watch to count the seconds of how quickly they become one of the rest of us willing to impose restrictions should be used .
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  723. I would say that's one of the most problematic issues with USAID because it often destroys the value of local crops making them worthless. Food should be purchased on the open market and only if food can't be found relatively locally as in a neighbouring country or whatever should it be imported from far away and then ok to advantage American farmers because in the end the US is paying.
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  724. I love your cane trick, not all ages can do that but it's great it seems to do the trick for you.
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  725. Astrazeneca vaccine is a modified virus along with a few others but it can't replicate. Creating a virus that spreads could go very wrong, many conspiracy theorists believe that's how covid 19 started.
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  726. If you get a visa based on false information it can be cancelled, that appears to be what has happened.
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  727. Singapore is an interesting case because had an almost identical position to Sweden in the beginning, wash your hands and she'll be right mate. Singapore is the only country I think to do a complete reverse turn on policy and I am very happy you did.
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  728. I am Australian , we had done around 10,000 tests by end of February , so we were a bit slow off the mark. The US had done around 500 tests by the end of February. This is the time period you needed to act, South Korea had done something like 100,000 tests by the end of February. You can't turn back the clock, the CDC et al. were asleep at the wheel to the end of February. When they woke up in March it was too late Trump had already kept advising people the virus would go away.
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  729. This reminds me of a similar event in a tunnel if my memory is correct , in Mecca. Religious people should think about safety a little more.
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  730. It's not entirely unlikely, the Taliban script seems to have been written by China because the Taliban rhetoric is remarkably similar to CPC rhetoric regarding having a one party inclusive state.
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  731. They are future lawyers, their job will be in the future to prove why a particular law or rule didn't need to be followed.
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  732. It's extremely likely is correct, I think there border restrictions even stricter than Australia or New Zealand. If nothing else North Korea has had decades of practice at controlling people's movements even inside the country.
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  733.  @FordesBreakingNews  Have you even bothered to look at the PNG situation, the antivaxxers are literally attacking healthcare workers trying to get vaccines to people. Australia has sent significant aid to PNG to help with the situation including some vaccines, medical teams and medical equipment. Although slow Australia's total commitments on a per Capita basis to deliver vaccines is the second highest in the world behind the US, so we are doing our part.
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  734. They think it was a possibility but pretty sure they never found out anything other than it was a strain present in Victoria Australia and UK and a person who tested positive did work in a warehouse with frozen food imported from Victoria. So tests were done on the site but they didn't find anything that would suggest it was spread by the frozen food.
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  735. Exact same techniques used by antivaxxers every time there's a story about a covid death or government advertising using genuinely sick people, oh they're actors. America unfortunately has 1 million actors that can't perform any more.
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  736. Actually before it was named by WHO media did call it the Chinese or Wuhan virus. The problem now is nobody going to remember numbers so they use place discovered names. No need to be offended, the Indian variant is only 1 of many.
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  737. There's a fundamental difference, everyone knows that too much alcohol, sugar and fat are bad. There is no misinformation on this. The other issue is my smoking , drinking and bad eating habits aren't going to cause the death of someone else.
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  738. MHRA logo looks scary, that bottle just makes me think of poison, and then a needle and a row of something to experiment with, 4 possible cures or whatever. Someone in the UK tell them to change it , if people are slightly sceptical that logo will terrify them.
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  739.  @lisag1153  Population density with 0 restrictions means nothing, Mississippi is one of the least densely populated states in the US as in urbanisation rate and the worst death toll per capita from covid 19 of any wealthy jurisdiction on the planet. If Florida was a country and you ignore other US states it would be the worst wealthy country on the planet. As you would be aware Florida is subtropical which has its advantage of not having major spikes in transmission and you would also be aware by the statistics or from DeSantis himself that cases actually have a small spike in summer, come summer Florida will likely overtake New York in deaths per Capita and it's way ahead of Texas and California already. As far as Floridian being a bit older than average, so what , deaths per million in Japan, South Korea and Singapore with as old or older populations are at about 200 per million compared to 3,300 per million for Florida. If that's not failure I don't know what is. Wealthy retirees which bring the age up in Florida are very highly vaccinated also , educated rich people get vaccinated that's just how it is. It's how well a jurisdiction gets the vaccine hesitant vaccinated that counts and DeSantis and his hand picked propaganda agent for Surgeon General have actually done nothing to encourage and to some extent discourage such people to get vaccinated. Anyway I guess you can cling to well at least Mississippi and a few other mostly Republican states will always look worse when compared to Florida.
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  740. It's exponential everywhere, look at my country going from covid 0 to 30,000 cases or so today in Australia, about 10% of our overall cases and of course not accurate anymore probably is higher with testing delays and encouragement in every state and territory I believe to not get tested if no symptoms. I am lucky , my state is majority Omicron but one of our states it's probably majority Delta and unfortunately looks like more dying there due to that. Sorry to ramble on (I've had a few), hope all goes well with you and your family, take care.
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  741. Unfortunately what was demonstrated in the clip is what separates you from many countries. In any other wealthy country on the planet you wouldn't have high profile politicians behaving in such a manner. In Australia if he was in either of our major political parties he would be disciplined most likely as in told to shut up in no uncertain terms.
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  742. The crisis occurs after, this is only a few thousand, but if they get in easy can become hundreds of thousands.
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  743. It's called a precaution and they afraid of course it could happen again, just normal human nature.
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  744. New South Wales is the state most reluctant to lockdown, that's what happens when lockdowns are slow. They did however get away with it until the Delta variant. I am in Queensland, we lockdown at the drop of a hat, so far about 12 weeks lockdown since start of pandemic and mask mandates for about 7 weeks. Lots of extra sporting events moved to Queensland from the states that don't like lockdowns. Victoria previously was like NSW and they both spent 6 months along with the federal government demanding Queensland keep it's border open to them. They don't say anything anymore for some reason. So yes lockdown is benign if you assume which has been the case in every country that lockdown lite for over a year is far worse. Lockdown lite in itself has probably killed a million people worldwide.
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  745.  @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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  746. The US is now the best at testing by number of tests even on a per capita basis calculated daily I think. Unfortunately I have heard in one state you might get a result in 3 weeks.
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  747. But it's showing both sides. It's just analysis, not saying it's good or bad just presenting facts. Also giving both sides a chance to speak. Actually quite balanced. I think you might prefer one sided news.
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  748. It doesn't matter now, it's spreading through the US, maybe will or won't outcompete the B117.
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  749. You have just made me realize the problem. When you defeat an enemy you must make them submit. The north didn't bother finishing the war. Ironically there are better relations between the US and Germany or Japan than internally at this exact point in time. How many in the US are clinging onto very old history I don't know but it's clearly an issue. Also to ask someone to denounce their ancestry is ridiculous. Go back 150 years through the family tree the entire population of the planet has been wronged by someone. Most people don't know their family tree that far back that's just for curious people.
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  750. Some countries are. The US is like a virus stud. Creating new strains and everything. A great breeding property.
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  751. It's the job of a lawyer to "act in their clients interest", nothing about telling the truth. Any statement made will be looked at in light of evidence. All evidence points to they were doing a runner.
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  752. This is critical of the EU and slightly positive on this matter towards Russia and China. Seems we saw a different news report.
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  753. Hit and run can be sort of nothing to manslaughter. Was the hit and run incident nothing or something?
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  754. Billionaires make very little money relative to their wealth. The corporate tax rate in the US is 21% now and proposed to go to 15%. This is where the Billionaires can be indirectly taxed but the proposal is to tax them less. Americans knew this and voted for it, along with increased taxes on middle and low income people through tariffs. Not sure why they did this.
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  755.  @aengusmacnaughton1375  I know it's actually getting more and more bizarre, especially the wearing a mask might kill you one. It's true proper N95 masks are annoying and hard to breathe through, not gonna kill you though, but all that's being requested in most countries if not all is a cloth mask. Bill Gates is great , a pity not every billionaire was so generous. I do hope there is an effective vaccine , that's safe. I think everyone wants that regardless of how their country has done so far.
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  756. The time period is a really big problem, a year or 2 maybe not 13 years.
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  757. She's a chip off the old block. Tough as hell basically accusing her father of being stupid but much better looking and yes very attractive from my male perspective, a strong young lady.
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  758.  @anfieldreds_1892  if the Western Pacific countries did the Swedish way there would be approximately 2,000,000 deaths in our region spanning from East Asia plus ASEAN plus Australasia. You have to remember secondary deaths also and that lockdowns would occur when hospitals overflow because people demand it. In other words it's not going to happen and even a partially effective vaccine will give the population the same level of protection as has occurred in places with many deaths and still counting and back into lockdown in most cases once hospitals can't cope like many European countries and US soon I expect.
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  759. Depending on people's general behaviour around the world especially if Trump starts a world trade war as threatened, most people I would think will boycott Tesla because Elon supports hurting everyone in the world except some rich Americans.
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  760. If you are of working age and have high skills you would be welcome in Australia or New Zealand.
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  761. Hello scammer
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  762. Well based on 2018 numbers West Virginia, Alabama and Mississippi have lower life expectancy than people in Mexico and Mexico isn't exactly a great performer on this measure either. China will likely overtake the US life expectancy number in the next few years if it hasn't already due to the US covid 19 response. Because the US doesn't look at it's peers as in other wealthy countries this will be significant because the US does like to compare itself to China.
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  763. This gentleman is as cool as hell. He represents the good of humanity which unfortunately isn't as good as it could be.
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  764. LoL one of 6 major countries on the planet virus free and we are too relaxed? Truth is quarantine breeches will occur it's impossible to stop them, just remember we are importing far more cases than those other 5 countries combined because Australians travel a lot. Queensland alone has imported twice as many cases as Taiwan.
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  765.  @jesmmifs  As of a month or so ago slightly lower than previous year. I am from Queensland and actually we are in general far worse with a far higher suicide rate historically. In Australia you might see suicides decline overall because much attention and funding has been put into this because of the concerns.
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  766.  @Maybelove88  it shouldn't though, she is probably a dangerous cult like figure to her followers, and if she does have a significant following, then first of all they won't take precautions to prevent infection and secondly will just take her recommendation of hydroxychloroquine and zinc if they get sick instead of going to the hospital where they might be injected with an anti religious vaccine. In other words she might cause people to die. I think Trump by his words has indirectly done this already because people follow him.
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  767. He most likely thought he would make him unconscious but not kill him like the other 44 times this occured in that jurisdiction over a 5 year period.
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  768. The scary thing is where you are speaking this from. Western Europe completely failed in the beginning just like the US , but decided something had to change. Western Europe and Canada are the examples that even if you failed in the beginning the ongoing outcomes can be changed. If any vaccine that most likely will come to market isn't highly effective for whatever reason including mutations of the virus this could continue for 2 or 3 years. The conservative approach is to assume the vaccine won't work. Hope for the best but act as if it won't happen. The US currently has no game plan if all vaccines fail.
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  769. Do you consider George Washington to be one of your founding fathers? Well he mandated smallpox vaccine for the military.
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  770. That's about 80% of all populations. The fact she said it means she is now in the minority 20% . I think it was quite brave of her actually, any Qanon friends she had before and are still in that think she is something like the devil , even talking to CNN would be like a high crime. Hope she's ok and any crazy ex friends don't bring her harm.
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  771.  @Isaaca932  look at the West Bank, many being killed there too but no Hamas. Israel should pull back to 1967 borders first and then seal the border with a highway between Gaza and the West Bank. As far as the war in Gaza it's not a proportional response. Just like Iraq war II or Afghanistan war. Both complete failures as will this campaign by Israel.
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  772. You have difficulties even leaving Western Australia now because the government super strict. I am in Queensland so a little less strict and the freedom all Australians has given up with travel is better than being in Europe or anywhere in the Americas.
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  773. The US in particular but many other countries also need to learn the hard way, his death as suggested by other comments will save lives, some who believed in him and saw him die will now go get a vaccine. It's a pity that certain political parties in some countries are causing more deaths than need to be.
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  774. She put up a dam good fight for a severely disabled person who can't breathe through a handkerchief.
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  775. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. As an outsider I would suggest leaving anyone who is attacking Trump or Musk alone, truth is they can do more damage than you probably ever can if you are anti MAGA. Anti MAGA also includes never MAGA Republicans and ex Republicans and Independents.
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  776.  @tigergoat7006  What is wrong with you? Maybe you should seek help if you are this angry. We know Trump listened selectively to the media , Fox News. In Australia actually decisions were made primarily by the Prime Minister and state Premiers and health ministers guided by the state or federal health officers. In my state of Queensland Australia mostly the health officer just allowed to do her job and police commissioner also for enforcement purposes. I am happy my state in particular but Australia in general ignored the continuous ongoing calls from a certain media company Sky News Australia , another Murdoch media outlet, we would be like the US.
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  777.  Heschewingonit  You are spot on the money. While some European countries are much more socialist , less socialist countries like my own Australia direct our limited socialism towards the needy not corporations and expecting the socialist trickle down effect. Although to be fair it does "trickle down" it doesn't really flow down. See Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation and you will notice the free market economies as rated all have universal healthcare as an example.
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  778. Time for a name change i think. CDS (Centre for Disease Spreading)
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  779. I hope whoever our next government is tries to develop closer military ties to South Korea , Japan and Philippines. Those countries are now at threat from China and so is Australia to an extent.
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  780.  @JP-ks9nh  You know why NSW hasn't had 15,000 deaths, because they kept eliminating the virus but this time looking different because of Delta you know all this , I don't believe you are stupid. You even commented that thousands will still die when Australia opens up even if high vaccination rates.
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  781. There's no fixed numbers and the government response and the behaviour of the citizens of every jurisdiction will be different along with demographics, population density etc. so have different outcomes. That's why comparing countries and jurisdictions within countries is very difficult.
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  782. He could have been a bit more diplomatic and answered at least one Indonesian reporter rather than only blow ins.
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  783. Not exactly, one of those people is a Trump devotee who endorsed him.
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  784. Last 2 questions I don't know but we can say to the first question historically this personalized targeting could not occur previously due to the technology not existing . Pre 2000 it can't have happened and pre 2010 not on this scale. This is in part what the story is about , the sophistication.
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  785. I always wonder if Rupert Murdoch wasn't given US citizenship which he needed to create Fox News etc. in the US and he was still in Australia would things in the US and Australia be different. Murdoch does control a lot of media in Australia but only Sky News Australia is sort of equivalent to Fox and doesn't have quite the same following I think.
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  786.  @douglas_gemini  the mask bit is correct but Sweden does have restrictions including a 50 person gathering limit which I believe is still in place. Florida is in it's own league, they even have covid 19 nursing homes where they put all the infected ones I saw it on one of the governor's speeches. I have admit as an Australian I think Sweden has gone down the wrong path , but Florida is just B*t shirt crazy.
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  787.  @takodasherman2433  World of Aviation is probably a believer of Q, not much point arguing at this point in time.
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  788.  @michaelowens7792  With regard to the US vaccine scheme it is good. A vaccine company directly especially in the context of US liability laws which are probably the most generous on the planet a company will just fight forever. It is known that even the best vaccine on the planet might kill for arguments sake 1 in 1,000,000 people. So a vaccine that could save for arguments sake 10,000 lives and one person dies is good to use and as the scheme itself says was set up so people using a vaccine know they have an easier recourse than taking on a multinational corporation directly yourself at your cost. As the scheme states if you disagree with the compensation you don't fight the government you take on the company direct, but you must go through the scheme process first. So you lose nothing it doesn't remove any rights you have. As far as are any compensation payouts appropriate or not it would seem they are because otherwise I would expect to see news to the contrary if it wasn't the case. The scheme also helps people in other countries because it would set precedence. Unless people are complaining of the 75c price tag I can't see what the issue could be. If a company acted negligently or forged trial results for arguments sake they are still liable, this is for the rare cases of serious adverse reactions including death which are unavoidable. Most of what I stated is on their website. The rumour as stated by the original commenter that it's impossible for a company to be held directly liable is incorrect.
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  789. It's about procedure and there's no rush as such because they've already charged him with something so can arrest him. In retrospect though he should have been monitored before he went on the run.
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  790. A sovereign country are you serious?, Israel and the United Nations don't recognize Palestine as a sovereign country. The borders of Palestine as they are are controlled by Israel, for a Palestinian to enter or exit requires the approval of Israel. Not sure where you are from but do you personally live under such conditions imposed upon you by another government?
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  791.  @charliefoxtrot5001  No the military enforces nothing, tagging along behind a policeman with a pen and notepad or whatever with no powers. Sydney is a city within Australia, it is not Australia. No different if I see something happen in a US state , it's not the country.
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  792. Comments from some Canadian's here surprise me, it's almost like you would prefer an extra 15,000 dead people in your country and to follow your neighbours.
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  793. One big difference, the US is funding and supports this, they don't support Myanmar or China etc.
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  794.  @ashroskell  Fox plus Trump and as you say certain people working for Fox have done more to advance the cause of the Communist Party of China internationally than anything that China could ever achieve on it's own. I am Australian and the changing of the guard to China doesn't concern me a great deal however it's a lot better if the US is a strong counterbalance. Militarily that should remain the case but in other ways the US is in relative sharp decline, take the key measure of life expectancy, China will very soon overtake the US. This might wake the US up because the US refuses to compare itself to it's peers as in other wealthy countries but likes to look at China. Anyway best of luck, we will see what happens over the next few years.
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  795. Blockades and stopping others going about there business isn't peaceful in any way. Peaceful is go sit in a park chanting something but leave others alone.
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  796. The US is great in respect to being the largest high income country and still for now the most powerful military due to higher technology than China which is catching up fast in my opinion. The US isn't great and never has been to any great extent regarding being a moderate socialist and well regulated capitalist society often referred to as social democracy.
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  797. I am going to give you a few pro's and cons to getting vaccinated in an effort to encourage you. 1. Selfish pro on my behalf QLD currently has the least deaths per million on the planet for a jurisdiction of over 1 million outside of a Chinese province and I want to keep it that way, your elevated risk of potential death from covid 19 could assist in making that so. 2. We have to beat WA, they're not far behind us in deaths per million and they are pretty cautious to genuinely open their border. Also want to beat SA. 3. If you are a permanent employee well you can pull a couple of days sickies whether you need to or not, just don't go overboard. 4. Your risk of dying from a vaccine is far lower than the virus , this is well proven unless you are a female below 40 and choose Astrazeneca, just go with Pfizer if you are concerned because dose is half that of Moderna and because you stated "in the last 20 years" you can't be very young. 1. The con, you might feel crook for a day or two and extremely rare but possibly something worse than that, no matter how you travel to work each day your risk of death on that daily journey is higher than the vaccine. Best of luck and hope you consider my reasoning or at least I give you a laugh. Happy Christmas.
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  798. Skimming through this thread I noticed some still don't understand what capitalism is. For the best guide look at the economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation. You will see the US isn't particularly high which actually makes sense. The US model of limited socialism and government borrowing until it eventually blows up is to support corporations with direct subsidies and protectionism, never let business fail. Trump even talked of bringing back dead end factory jobs through protectionism and subsidies. Compare to my country Australia , virtually no agricultural subsidies and very limited protectionism for manufacturing. Now compare US versus Australia regarding healthcare and other welfare, the US spends more as a proportion of GDP on publically funded non universal healthcare than Australia does on universal healthcare, life expectancy the obvious key measure is almost 5 years greater in Australia than the US. A part of this is governments in the US paying "free market" rates when a free market can't exist, in other words to support the corporations running hospitals, if you have a heart attack and want urgent care it's the closest one there is not a choice , so the hospital can just rip off the government. Overall direct welfare payments for the needy in the US seem to be smaller than Australia but it has nothing to do with the size of the government budget, money is going elsewhere in the case of the US. Anyway my main point is don't blame capitalism when you actually mean socialism for corporations and lack of social welfare spending on humans. When you look at China it's similar to the US in this respect actually, they are however improving slowly overall.
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  799. Most countries do.
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  800. He sings country music so he must be ok.
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  801. Well that's not really true. The US produces only about 4 agricultural products in excess, corn, soy, pork and chicken. Those products are cheap. Basically everything else is supplemented with imports. One clearly common misconception is that the US is a beef exporter when it's a net beef importer. It could go in 2 different directions for US beef producers, they make more because of higher prices or they make less because people with less money end up buying less beef and more chicken and pork.
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  802. It's true and it's not, the combination of Trump and Fox "News" is a propaganda rival to the Communist Party of China and just like Wumaos, Trump Republicans only believe their trusted sources which only includes one MSM channel Fox News. Trump supporters and Wumaos are very similar in fact, they both hate Australia, they both believe the "facts they have researched" many of both groups are outright racial supremacists.
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  803.  @jamestiberiuskirk3277  Your comment doesn't apply to all countries or even all people within any country, unfortunately the loud minority cause a lot of problems and political leaders have made a big difference in both negative and positive ways, negative is sometimes unintentional and sometimes because it seems they don't care.
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  804. The failed audits in the DOD has nothing to do with waste. Not valuing assets properly which is the reason why audits failed says nothing about waste. I am sure there is a lot of waste but that's not what they were looking for.
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  805. Different climate means different behaviours, nobody is dining and drinking outdoors when it snows for example. If Florida and Texas were countries they would rate as being in the worst 10% in the world based on deaths per million. Being in the worst 10% does seem to prove something because of the remarkable consistency in the US.
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  806.  @KBTadieh  Genetically they are closer to European than sub Saharan African. They have a lot of Denisovan genetics.
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  807. That's because you're in the middle of the pack or the grey man, in the 5 EYES we have Australia and New Zealand doing well, Canada doing reasonable and everyone knows about UK and US.
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  808. Obviously you don't have a chronic disease, while it might be a choice for some , mostly it probably isn't. Even doctors don't understand this because the medical establishment isn't able to even diagnose a lot of chronic disease and have a general healing rate of about 2%, mostly they are drug pushers that relieve symptoms only.
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  809. Except for the separation of kids thing you could have been talking about Queensland Australia. We put all positive cases into hospital, sort of forced because they in border quarantine to start with so I think no choice, but if cases in the community which haven't happened for quite a while other than a couple of hotel quarantine worker I think encouraged strongly to quarantine in hospital. The thing is though it can only work when cases are minnescule.
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  810. You just aroused my imagination. I can just imagine it the lab technician and scientist in the genomic testing centre. "Hey Bob you know the public is going out of lockdown next week and if cases explode they're gonna blame us" Bob :" Oh crap get those machines running would you what's with these 15 minute lunch breaks anyway, we need to find another variant and now. "Overtime for everyone today and no that's not a request."
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  811. Maybe that person would be dead now if not vaxxed, they are alive and the virus hurt them not the vaccine. Vaccine is only about 90% effective we know this. Singapore has less than 3 deaths per 1,000 cases, possibly the lowest infection fatality rate in the world. It is actually a model of what works. The obesity rate is very low also which helps.
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  812. China has had a 2 child policy since 2015, so not sure when Biden had this conversation.
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  813. If your government leader ( assuming it's the president) gets infected it's an ominous sign, others infected include government leaders of Brazil, UK and US , not known for the best response.
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  814.  @klonowskierklartrohrleitun4241  In 3 cases Perth and Melbourne Australia and Auckland New Zealand, at certain points in time those cities surrounded by checkpoints to stop any unauthorized travel out and China does similar things of course. So saying it can't be done isn't true if checkpoints everywhere noting that the ratio of military personnel and police to overall population in wealthy Western countries will be similar , the resources required in a relative sense are the same. In reality very few people get turned around because people just comply , why bother waiting for arguments in a 1 or 2 hour queue at a checkpoint knowing you will be turned around and you know you don't need to travel.
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  815. Nah Queensland 7 deaths for a population of 5 million the best followed by Western Australia and then New Zealand but watch this space as positions can easily change. China's eventual response was really good after initial failures. Australia the states ran their own show , so Queensland shouldn't be lumped in with Victoria and New South Wales.
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  816. The plan is elimination, they just don't want to say it because certain publics don't want hear that because think impossible and also the plan might not work. The plan is almost a carbon copy of what we did in Queensland Australia a year ago but far fewer cases and no vaccine. The 5 week gaps are not only scientific reasons but to give people something to look forward to and also to hopefully achieve better results than required for each measure. So keep your chin up this plan seems real with a good chance of success.
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  817. Take care the best you can young lady, I wish you the best of luck.
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  818. Really, 600,000 body bags and a life expectancy in the US now less than China which is a middle income country and you think this is great and pointing out any fact is propaganda?
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  819. But why? The Thai protestors were not calling for abolishing the monarchy. I am Australian so in a constitutional monarchy and it works fine. Constitutional monarchies are on average more stable and prosperous. In countries with directly elected presidents they often have more real power than monarchs in constitutional monarchies. Thailand it can be said hasn't fully moved to be a constitutional monarchy but it isn't an absolute monarchy either, however I expect even if it's slow it will move towards a constitutional monarchy.
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  820. Well there's 7 billion or so people on the planet, bound to find a few idiots.
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  821. There is proof in about 50 other countries. But your point is correct because the US is divided and a large number of people won't follow rules so maybe it can't work in the US because of citizen and government behaviour.
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  822. Exactly and a precedent internally as well, where restrictions exist for unvaccinated people, can just claim the Novak rule.
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  823. That's not confusing, just means you aren't a rusted on political supporter. Rusted on political supporter means you will never change your vote no matter what if you were unaware of the term.
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  824. So? It's a different time isn't it.
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  825. Delta airlines is happy, it hated sharing that name with a virus.
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  826. I wonder why there's a serious obesity epidemic in the US.
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  827. It's urbanization rates that matter , however as we have seen in the US even states that are about 50% rural it might slow the spread but if you do nothing at all those states such as South Dakota and Mississippi end up just as bad eventually. The other thing that matters is demographics, I think age is actually secondary to socio economic groupings, poor and especially recent immigrants live on top of each other with housing, wealthy people have their own stand alone residence or a large condominium with few people in it and tend to be more health conscious.
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  828. I am reading comments and they are a little crazy. The initial comment only says black people are also doing it and it's unacceptable. People are now trying to justify each race doing it because it's not a racial thing. Like really. I support the original comment nobody should be doing it.
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  829. Trump wants a Treasury Secretary who is happy with running up government debt at a rapid rate.
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  830. It's greater than that, they don't trust people in the next state let alone foreigner and they don't trust their own state government.
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  831.  @tazz3663  I am from Queensland, everything open here, but we have no cases, opening up to travel is going to be difficult. Vaccines are saving lives but as far as stopping spread they aren't that good.
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  832. The Australian and New Zealand TGA is independent, are you suggesting the Australian or New Zealand governments should unreasonably interfere? There is no emergency use requirement in Australia or New Zealand or the Pacific nations we will be assisting and likely use the ANZ TGA as their general guide I would expect. It's not typical because look where we are versus the emergency use countries that failed to contain the virus. Australia did 10,000 covid 19 tests by the end of February, UK around 13,000 but no lockdown and US 500. Per capita however we come second at that point with 100,000 tests in South Korea. Don't bag your own country/s. Proactive actions is why we have very few cases.
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  833. Her words are right. It's continuing to happen, your suggestion is that it's past tence and therefore is no longer occurring.
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  834. Because his chance of death is about 4 to 5 % and her 0.02% with plenty of leeway if her condition goes down hill.
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  835. In response to the headline, no kidding. It would be shocking news if he didn't. Putin saying sorry I got it wrong would be akin to Trump saying that Biden won the election fair and square.
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  836.  amanda handscombe  Amanda please read her comment again without prejudice. The young lady has said nothing other than providing an informative comment. If you want ask her opinion on something and maybe she will answer you.
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  837. Well done hasbara team, you've flooded the comments with rubbish really quickly.
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  838. I always wonder why Americans fight to pay high taxes for publically funded healthcare and expect so little in return. I am Australian so lower public healthcare costs and a 5 year greater life expectancy. Somehow the rest of the world are called communist because of our healthcare systems by certain US groups, so they want to pay more tax and buy private healthcare because they don't trust the healthcare they just paid for. Seems messed up to me and you are pretty relaxed about the situation, if the US healthcare system was imposed on just about any other wealthy nation in the world we would be rioting.
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  839.  @SiFunag99  Surprised Trump didn't blame China for US gun violence because they did invent gun powder, maybe they didn't tell the world how dangerous it was .
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  840. As an Australian I can tell you we won't be letting North American or European s in any time soon. Some Asian countries will probably be ok in the medium term and New Zealand will open up possibly the same time Australia stops all internal border restrictions.
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  841. It's quite a long walk so they are fit healthy middle class people.
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  842. January 23 Wuhan was locked down completely, no commercial flights. The number of cases outside of Wuhan was really low so no more than 100 cases would have got out through other air flights and also it was known it was around the world on January 21 anyway. The majority of cases to leave China would likely be repatriation flights , that is governments evacuating their citizens and then not quarantining them. Could China have acted a little quicker noting that they locked down Wuhan when it got 600 daily cases, UK and US never locked down anywhere.
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  843. Probably not much because as a general rule it's really hard to sue a government. Not impossible but more difficult than if it was a private corporation or individual.
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  844.  @neocodexx  no it's not the same percentage, Germany Is at 1,200 deaths per million versus 2,400 for US so exactly half at this time based on worldometer.
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  845. The hasbara bots were quick to get their comments up on this video.
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  846. Most of the comments here have forgotten about China , it's authoritarian and on the political spectrum right wing and nationalist. It's actually a billionaire factory and has more billionaire as a ratio to GDP than USA, it also promotes Chinese racial superiority internally. Nothing to do with communism any more , maybe people can understand when you know which country has the name People's Democratic Republic of Korea and how well that name fits with reality.
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  847. Which state or territory are you in and are you in a big city or not. You can't say it's the same everywhere in Australia because it isn't. If you are in a big city and really struggling go to the emergency department of any large hospital and refuse to leave, if they have a mental health unit you will eventually be locked up there for a while. I hope you get better over time with your issues. Best of luck.
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  848. I listened to Osterholm's latest update which is on youtube and he said the B117 or UK variant is now 30 to 40% of US cases so it's a race between that variant and the vaccine currently, he predicts cases will increase soon because of this.
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  849. I am observing from afar and truth is the US hasn't fully come to terms with it's colonial past let alone slavery. The estimated 50,000 convicts sent from Britain in the colonial days have just disappeared after an inaccurate speech or writing by Thomas Jefferson (fake news just after independence who would have imagined). The convicts were treated the same as the black slaves but in theory would get freedom after their 7 or 14 year sentence. Because of their class I would think their would be quite a few descendents of a combined heritage of black slave and white convict. Common sense says that these convicts when in private hands may not have ever got their freedom.
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  850. Of course not, Trump wants an anti Labor person for the job.
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  851. Every strain is in the US, completely open border to US citizens with a voluntary self isolation scheme. UK 8 months after West Pacific countries started doing hotel quarantine is now going to do it but only people coming from some countries and 10 days instead of 14, so full of holes.
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  852. They missed one, there was at least one other murder committed by an antimasker who punched some guy which killed him because he requested the murderer wear a mask.
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  853. I reckon Christie might be at more risk than Trump due to his weight. Yes too much political correctness going on, obese people should be told outright you have a comorbidity, don't rely on your age as to your true risk and if you can losing weight at this time wouldn't be a bad idea.
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  854. This mask burning stuff is just like book burnings in history
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  855. Well the US should treat drug use as a health problem and drug dealing a criminal problem. While it differs in different states my impression from the outside is overall drug use is treated as a criminal problem in the US. Not saying that would solve everything because it wouldn't but improvements could be made.
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  856. It's better the conspiracy theorists are here because then they aren't learning new conspiracy theories and less likely to become more radical. Also some would be going through a phase and therefore when reality hits them at some point they can adjust more quickly.
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  857. They are actually the same they feel powerless and this is what they think will help, they just tend to support different political parties , that is the main technical difference between them.
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  858. Impractical and very expensive so no point.
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  859.  @moon_struck6573  They can demonstrate that more antibodies occur after a vaccine than by natural infection on average, this doesn't prove what you are asking but it means it's highly probable.
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  860. Take care and stay safe the best you can.
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  861. Good documentary but missed out speaking in broad terms of the current weakness China has in relation to resources, currently need to import some food, oil, some coal and natural gas along with majority of it's iron ore requirements. The second a war breaks out all these supplies will be cut including natural gas from Russia , not hard to hit pipelines to disrupt supply. China does have stockpiles of things like food but after 6 months they would need to go vegetarian. The other thing is that all the countries China hates in the region are trade surplus countries to China as in China has a trade deficit with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia. Collectively we aren't replaceable and any evacuation of Taiwan will involve taking microchip technology with them to Western or ASEAN countries most likely. Does China have the stomach to put it's population through pain? It's not the 50s with Mao anymore.
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  862. Only part way through but this is crazy. I am a middle aged bloke but even when I was younger I would consider all these girls attractive as they are, they shouldn't go through non required surgery unless in a rare circumstance they actually are required to do it for a million dollar contract or something and the contract is signed.
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  863. I think the MS thing would be correlation not causation. There are no high income countries on the equator other than Singapore.
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  864. Well if you look at it objectively both sides have lost the plot , the lefties last year in the US opened the door for such behaviour. Remember BLM riots in the middle of a pandemic even got some group of doctors saying go ahead, while it actually didn't increase spread because riots were better than any pretend lockdown at getting the majority to stay home the intent was killing people is ok. Then we saw Trump doing it with his rallies and same deal. Now the situation has changed again with the righties making the move. It's all incremental and the partisan divide has gone to a dangerous place noting the killings by both groups in 2020. When multiple killings don't cause alarm then your country is a developing nation, you have money but civil society is poorly developed. The homicide rate is 6 times that of other wealthy nations and yes on a per capita basis. The underlying issue is probably the immense amount of political influence by business lobby groups on the functioning of your country. People are literally fighting to keep bad outcomes and generally using the catchword socialism to prevent any change. No idea what the answer is, it needs leadership from both sides to condemn their own side when something wrong is done and not likely to happen any time soon.
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  865. He isn't, he wants to be one though.
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  866. She was because not scripted at all, the CPC doesn't want the message that the Han are blatant racists getting out.
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  867.  宇宙無邊大法神教銀河系賞善罰惡不死不滅護教聖使一字並肩王驃騎文武大將軍  According to Chinese media there have been no terrorist attacks since 2016 in Xinjiang. That's not frequent if hasn't happened for at least 3 years at time of recording.
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  868. Trump is the exact opposite of a Libertarian which is in a broad sense a free market capitalist and left wing on social issues. Trump is a far right protectionist (AKA national socialist) when it comes to economic issues and all over the place when it comes to social issues.
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  869. But the high vaccination rate countries a lot less dying even if a lot being infected. Compare cases and deaths in UK versus US, while the case count in the UK is probably more accurate it wouldn't be so inaccurate that what is being observed isn't correct.
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  870. Then it would still be unsustainable. In fact even more so because wealthy people live longer on average, the current system already favours high income people because of this reason.
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  871. Millions dead is crazy too.
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  872. The key word was "unquantifiable". In other words just like with tobacco smoke you can't give an exact risk and can point out that other lifestyle factors also contribute. Based on what was presented in this documentary although it's unquantifiable like tobacco it would seem that it certainly increases the risk , all other factors being the same. It's actually the exact same techniques used by anti covid vaxxers but in the opposite direction.
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  873.  @susancheer5981  Are you including Ted Cruz in that?
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  874.  @VSchwarcz  Yes anyone entering Australia from anywhere has mandatory 14 days quarantine. But if we managed to travel overseas many countries will let us just walk on in. In practice it's very hard to get out of Australia unless you enter into a lease in another country saying you intend to stay there and obviously it's really hard to find a commercial flight to most countries from Australia.
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  875. Seems like overkill to me.
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  876. India's deaths per Capita are much lower than most of Latin America. US and most of Europe are similar to Latin America.
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  877.  @gore1089  what on earth are you talking about NZ has had quarantine breaches also, it's impossible to eliminate the risk entirely. When vaccines are available the hotel quarantine workers are on top of the list with the very old and medical workers , however this still won't eliminate risk because the vaccines aren't 100% but should dramatically reduce it. Another point is the states run the quarantine hotels , both political parties , not the federal government.
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  878. Should be any country leader, not a world leader which cuts out all the smaller and or poor countries.
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  879. What are you talking about?
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  880. Another Woodstock is fine. If they want to wallow around in mud on a private property let them , so long as they don't effect neighbouring farms and stuff.
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  881. Here's the problem, DEI can mean encouraging minorities, however it can also mean affirmative action by choosing the preferred race or sex over the most qualified. First definition is fine , second definition isn't fine because it literally discriminates against certain groups.
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  882. I don't believe Hamas propaganda about the extent of the tunnels in the first place but even if they were extensive they need electricity for lighting and ventilation to be of any use for a large number of people. They don't have electricity so it's impossible.
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  883.  @stormbreaker008storm6  Yeah I don't know how you do it, even the US with it's open border policy doesn't get such premium results on the matter you described. It's like London is a first class distribution center or something.
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  884. That's a little unfair, how many cases and deaths per million? Maybe you can say regarding vaccination plans , that might be fair. Also if you are in Thailand remember this part of the world speaks a different language, if you fail to look at the numbers and just the rhetoric you would think things were always out of control in South East Asia , East Asia and Oceania. If you then selected certain media groups in North America and Europe you would think they were having no problems , only problems with politicians over reacting.
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  885. If he was very overweight then high risk
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  886. Well this time round most " Western" vaccines were tested more on Western people than others because infection rates higher. So this reason shouldn't apply to these current vaccines. I am Australian and we don't need emergency use or at least not yet. Emergency use means not guaranteed to the normal standard, you are effectively in a phase 3 trial.
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  887.  @BobWidlefish  depending on the infection rates of a country , you might find if you are talking about governments that they are just like Australia and New Zealand, no need for emergency use of a vaccine at this point in time if they have done fairly well. Africa as a continent would have the highest rural population and they do take precautions so the virus spreads pretty slowly. I would just hope governments act in the true interest of their citizens and the ultra cold Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are probably not suitable for any low income countries because the logistical and higher vaccine costs probably can't justify it. Being in Australia I am happy for us to wait for further data etc. , I am also guessing our government is realising having vaccines could be a curse because everyone will want all travel restrictions gone and it's not going to happen all the travel restrictions will remain the same until either the virus is gone internationally or everyone vaccinated and vaccines truly are 90% plus effective which I am sceptical of and also if the vaccine looses efficacy after 8 months or so pretty pointless most people taking it unless it's decided to be a permanent 2 times a year thing. Sorry for raving on.
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  888. He's giving a recommendation to buy shares in Hasbro instead of health insurers.
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  889. I love the comment "identify the Jihadist" literally spoken by a Jihadist. The meaning of the word jihad however it's translated can also apply to some christians.
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  890. The problem in the US with illegal immigration has built up over decades. It makes much more sense to have an amnesty and path to citizenship for people who have been in the US for a certain period of time and deport anyone with a record of violent crime or signs financial crime. Then properly secure the border from illegal entry and be far more selective about who can get a visa. I don't know why some Americans object to using the military to protect land borders but totally ok to use the military as in the coast guard i think it is in the US to protect sea borders.
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  891. I think from the quarantine issues and opening too quickly. The abattoir which had 40 cases detected after a known case after a month showed a failed contact tracing regime. Pretty sure Victoria opened more quickly than QLD. So several factors I would suggest.
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  892. Was that speech before or after it was found that Novak broke Serbian law by not quarantining as required by law when infected?
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  893. Definitely however I'm not convinced that Iran won't have an explosion of Omicron cases, to me it looks like it just got in. I'm in Queensland we had 40 cases or so about a fortnight ago (mix of about 75% Omicron and 25% Delta), look at our cases now. Happy New Year.
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  894. I wouldn't go that far but on the international stage he's far far better than Trump and has united countries rather than trying to divide and insult everyone. Biden is a true diplomat and listens to other world leaders. One recent meeting stands out, he called a virtual meeting of the Quad , leaders of Japan, India and Australia and himself. Pretty sure questions were asked of the Indian PMs position on Ukraine because of their abstention on the UN vote condemning Russia. Whatever was said in that meeting we don't know, if it was Trump assuming he didn't green light the Ukrainian invasion which he probably would have he would be bad mouthing Modi , that's how Trump is.
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  895. Maybe but can you imagine putting in "compulsory voting" like Australia which is technically compulsory to collect a ballot because what you do with the ballot is up to you. This mob of protestors would certainly protest any voting mandates.
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  896. The irony is the US in certain states has the most sharia law in the Western World, it's being run by Christians in areas such as free speech, women's reproduction rights and LGBT rights. Another one is having to swear allegiance to Israel if you work for or with certain state governments. Interestingly Allah is used by Indonesian and Malaysian Christians, some Islamists objected but they didn't get their way.
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  897.  @delranson2389  sky news Australia is part of News Corporation which spun off Fox News a while back, both controlled by Murdoch family , something like that. Sky News in England was sold off so completely different company.
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  898.  @SUPER8ALTERN8  Australian economy has performed far better than UK, US and Canada at much lower cost to government. Maybe you should ask that question to your own country whichever one that is.
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  899. The F35 started under Bush and only now is being ramped up in production after going into service towards the end of Obama's term. Technically Trump's comment is correct but nothing to do with Bush or Obama, he just wants the glory for something he had little or nothing to do with.
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  900. Interesting concept.
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  901. The Trojan horse was a gift and didn't need to be paid for this university is a debt to be paid for. I am going to think of Hungary as Cambodia in the West, Cambodia blocked ASEAN from objecting to China's activities in the South China Sea which effects 5 out of 10 ASEAN countries.
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  902. Really you do because otherwise they remain victims as well holding anger for the rest of their lives.
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  903. I know what is being implied. First of all she is American. Second point not all people in Israel agree with their government. The moderates in both Israel and Palestine will prevail one day. It could be a long time but I believe it will happen. edit: a funny thing but actually it's not funny , in both Palestine and Israel it's far more safe than the US normally. During conflict that's not the case but look at the US currently.
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  904.  @davycrockett8886  It might have greater longevity but it's still something that I would expect to collapse one day, maybe I am wrong. It's all based on psychology and people wanting to use it.
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  905. Sorry but you Americans having to literally pledge loyalty to Israel is insane to work for an American government. As far as i know unless you are in certain positions you don't even have to pledge loyalty to the US.
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  906. Well if you have a health problem already then you get covid 19 in a hospital due to the prevalence of the virus and die as thousands and thousands have how is that supportive? That's failure in my opinion.
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  907. Placing those bombs under the road was a very bold action. Because it's an open area they could easily be spotted by drones, so they must have monitored the drone activity for days to know when the drones aren't flying in that area.
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  908. Then it would be the UN -5. None of the 5 permanent security council members are likely to give it up without a fight.
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  909. Israel military is funded by the US. The US doesn't need to do that and Israel might listen when funding cut because they can't afford it.
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  910. Of course he is, the Australian one too this time around it seems.
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  911. Good to see Qanon has reached Indonesia and the Philippines. At least the conspiracy theorist are international now.
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  912. This sounds like Putin.
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  913.  Boon Huat Tan  Mate go to Florida or Texas, or Brazil and see what you think.
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  914. Add to that those who didn't vote , they are happy also apparently.
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  915. I do think once it reaches a certain infection rate and containment if that was the policy which it wasn't in the US then it's a valid point. Countries that have gone down the containment path in the beginning and acted quickly are in a very different position and are opening up as quickly if not quicker than the US on average.
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  916. That just makes you the same as , the Americas ( almost all countries ) and almost the rest of Europe, so unfortunately you have a lot of company. In Western Pacific countries we all have 14 days hotel or other enforced quarantine for entry , most have policy of elimination, South Korea and Japan a little less so but towards that direction and even countries that didn't do as well like the Philippines or Indonesia much better than your group of countries.
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  917. Without complimentary efforts closing the borders would have achieved nothing. The virus was already in all major countries on the planet at the time of the Wuhan lockdown. The countries who succeeded all had detected more cases than USA on February 20, that's the approximate crossover date when the US started to overtake other countries case numbers. Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Thailand officially had the largest case loads with 15 or more cases and the US only 15 cases. There is a direct correlation with a small number of countries carrying out all required measures and other countries carrying out one measure partially, eg UK and US still haven't had a lock down by successful country standards to this day with borders still open and no supervised quarantine. It only takes one case, about 15,000 cases in Australia came from a single quarantine breach in Victoria and they know this from dna testing the strain. The main failure was not the quarantine breach because it's happened in Queensland , New South Wales and New Zealand also, the failure was to detect the breach contact tracing and acting very quickly. So quarantine at the border would be useless without proper lockdowns and internal travel restrictions with a massive contact tracing and testing effort by the end of February. Some countries were not particularly aggressive with all these measures officially but if you look at compliance levels of voluntary measures you will find they are much higher in some non Western countries so not as much enforcement required.
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  918. Kathy's comment is silly, the US spends loads of money on health and science that goes with it, the problem is the effectiveness.
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  919. Chicken and egg argument, lower socio economic areas have higher crime and tend towards the left politically so guess what it will always be the case , Republican areas by rich country standards are dangerous places for the most part. The US has 5 times the homicide rate of virtually all wealthy nations. That shows Republicans are useless too using your own argument.
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  920.  @Tigerhearty  So the cull in Sweden has slowed down for now. How is it killing 0.12% of your population is now something to be proud of? Florida has been lucky and I am thinking it's because of a couple of factors including older people in that state being wealthier and better weather for controlling virus spread, South Dakota with pretty much the same policies now over 0.2% of population dead.
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  921.  @tomjohnson4681  You sound like you are American, Australian life expectancy is about 5 years longer than the US and we are happy to keep it that way. Fortunately we spend less than the US on a per capita basis on public healthcare, so we live longer on the cheap.
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  922. Rather than getting defamed and fired. That's the usual MO of Trump and his loyalists.
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  923. You reckon in either Wuhan Institute of Virology or Fort Detrick depending which conspiracy theory you prefer they have a whole batch of variants not greater than 24 ready to be released, hence why the Greek alphabet was considered sufficient.
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  924.  @graceashe2974  the fact it appears to be the only allegation means on probability it's likely true. If there was 20 allegations then it's likely untrue. Something that happened 50 years ago isn't really relevant. The question is only is he doing a good job.
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  925. @Elleanoire age group mostly.
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  926. He's literally killing people internationally by cutting off USAID.
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  927. Not mandatory but more restrictions if the "green passport" idea takes off.
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  928. Ignore Investigative Audit.
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  929.  @wleng  Thanks I will
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  930. Don't be mean.
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  931. Don't worry, those fruits and vegetables will still be coming in from Mexico.
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  932. That's simply not true. Maybe you want it for every 5 year age gap bad luck the lowest age grouping the ABS publishes is 0 to 44. Australia's life expectancy is in top 10 countries in the world, maybe stop worrying too much. US ranks 40 something.
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  933. He raised money to save the NHS now the shoe is on the other foot. Let's hope he gets better.
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  934. All you non socialist out there who do you think is paying the hospital?
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  935. But the version from China was like a domestic cat , this is now a Liger (lion and tiger crossbreed).
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  936. Be careful what you wish for, he might win if Biden is not popular by then, now Biden is in honeymoon period.
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  937. His condition now is meaningless. Wait at least 10 days from him testing positive. Trump knows this too but he is just going to keep speaking positive and hope he doesn't become very ill which for his age and condition is probably a little under 50% chance. He is however receiving intensive care when an ordinary person wouldn't even be in hospital and this must help.
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  938. In Australia's case and for Taiwan too it's just annoying because we have no cases, however if in Taiwan it stops them from getting vaccines at all that's bad, Australia has the AZ vaccine in production here with enough doses over time to cover our entire population with some leftovers if we don't go to vaccinating children.
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  939. You just got your account 3 hours ago. I guess you were born yesterday as your comment indicates.
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  940. Over the next year there might be 4 or 5 vaccines available. If you are concerned choose whatever one uses the oldest technology which will likely be like your flu shot.
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  941. Thankyou for your comment, you have basically confirmed the general story and subtly don't agree with what's occurring. I hope one day China stops all "re education camps" regardless of who is being sent there.
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  942.  @devrusso  Yes many people in wealthy countries have lack of empathy about what it means to potentially starve or die because no medical care. With both North Korea and definitely China they remember the 90s when there was mass starvation. While China often has ridiculous outright propaganda they also tell the world what they are doing in relation to social welfare. It's only been 3 or 4 years that nobody fears starvation anymore and basic schooling is now a right. I watched a couple of clips about this on CGTN YouTube channel, the people saying now my children get to go to school and have some income, the Chinese way is to provide a state sponsored job at a very low rate not just cash handouts. So those people particularly in rural areas of China are happy because they better off than before, city people have been doing ok for a long time. It's often about trajectory, a US citizen might be far better off but many have been left behind with modern industrial and communications revolutions so they are unhappy, they want that dead end factory job with fairly good income back but it's not coming back.
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  943. It's a bait and switch scam. Privatise everything they can, it will show savings. Then next step is so simple it's not funny charge government at an increasing rate higher than inflation. This is exactly what the pharmaceutical companies have done in the US, it's an oligopoly that charges above free market rates. One proposal i have heard already is to privatise Veterans Affairs. So Americans you can expect to see results and by the time you're getting screwed you will likely have forgotten and the lobbyists for these government privatisations will own the Republicans and Democrats just as the medical industry oligopolies do now.
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  944. Police are being attacked violently also. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
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  945. "it's rounding the turn"
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  946. Hopefully your government does a lockdown and get back to 0 but every day of waiting it gets much harder. Thailand has done well to now but when cases are over 1,000 per day very hard to turn around.
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  947. 1,000,000 dead according to your CDC in excess deaths since pandemic begun, let's say a reasonable response occurred, that would be only 200,000 dead maximum. How is the million lost souls making you happy and excited?
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  948. You mean the principal who has clearly changed thousands of lives for the better is the problem? She certainly isn't the problem.
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  949.  @captaindak5119  China is doing to poor nations what the US did last century, load them with debt which ends up with resentment, China's belt and road will be no different, China to maintain those relationship will need to forgive debt or seize assets (still creates resentment) or give actual aid like other countries do currently. Some of the infrastructure might be viable economically but a lot if not most isn't, it just helps Chinese companies, much like the food aid that the US gave to Africa helped US farmers but destroyed local food production because they couldn't compete with free food floating around.
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  950. According to Trump's previous comments any number less than 2,000,000 is a good job and many lives have been saved.
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  951. Sounds like a protest or 2 that have happened in Brisbane Australia , one was about a week ago and at that time we not in lockdown, everything open , just some mask mandates. Not that many attended apparently. Last year we had one and again not in lockdown and the government even said ok go ahead just social distance. I think that would have annoyed some of them because they wanted some argument or fight.
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  952. None of the vaccines stop spread, only about 60% or so efficacy in stopping infection with Sinovac a bit lower. They do seem a bit more effective at preventing death but it's very hard to tell because other factors can be at play. According to Chile which has used Sinovac and Pfizer the risk of severe illness is about 8 % with Pfizer and 14% with Sinovac if my memory correct. That's a big difference actually but that's with the Lambda Variant so the numbers could be very different for the Delta variant in either direction.
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  953. @xMaGuSx888  I think based on reporting your point is significant, seems any employees working on enforcing laws again Elon's businesses have for some reason lost their job just like anyone in the FBI who worked on J6 cases are no longer required.
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  954. I doubt it , look at history with people like Hitler or Pol Pot and many others. They can convince the majority of a population under certain conditions.
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  955. Don't include Australia in your list thanks, look at Australia and Singapore and our extremely close relationship and general policies. The closet bilateral relationship of Singapore is Australia, they are one of 3 countries permitted to do military training in Australia and have a permanent training presence here. The trio of Australia, Singapore and New Zealand lead the way in free trade deals and this shows up in the economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation, having top 3 positions currently. Between these 3 countries the bilateral plus multilateral trade deals stack 4 high between each country, so almost impossible to remove ourselves from this arrangement. I would agree that G20 countries tend to have more diplomatic issues, but this is a factor of a few things such as smaller countries know to be more diplomatic because no choice and even if they stuff up nobody noticed, for example if Singapore has some dispute with Malaysia it will only be local news, if it's between say Australia and China as is currently occurring it's world news especially in business. The Singaporean PM said China might be going down the wrong path which isn't good for them, it was diplomatic speak I think referring to how China bullies with trade which causes instability. Almost all of ASEAN plus Australia and New Zealand, have similar relationship with China and US, a balancing act.
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  956.  @cancangirl2888  If you look at the most successful countries in dealing with covid 19 it's the Western Pacific region of WHO and we all have 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine, Europe WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization regions all have 10 days voluntary quarantine for arrivals ( some exceptions recently with Canada and UK) . The West Pacific WHO region includes China down to New Zealand, ASEAN countries are split between this region and South East Asian WHO region which includes South Asia, probably second best performing region. Either remarkable coincidence or it's the regional WHO offices that made the difference, can't blame all WHO, the consistency of results in the regions. Singapore initially had a policy like that of Sweden but they changed course. Stopping free unquarantined travel is a must have component in containment of covid 19, about 250,000 people have been through hotel quarantine when returning to Australia, any country could have done the same, without this the virus will keep coming in in an uncontrolled manner, many of the deaths in Europe and US now are the UK variant, so more people dying from the more transmissible and seemingly more deadly variant that didn't have to be there. So can say regional culture , but has nothing to do with being "eastern" or something, virus respects 14 days mandatory quarantine but doesn't care about 10 days voluntary quarantine.
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  957.  @George-k6o9t  that's a pretty good analogy.
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  958.  @Zandiv  I checked the TGA and Sinovac along with about 5 or so others from China, India and Russia are not approved for use in Australia yet but will be recognized as being vaccinated for the purposes of cross border travel. I wonder if China will comment noting they only recognize there own unless it's changed recently and Australia is the declared enemy yet we seem to have recognized these vaccines before our geopolitical allies.
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  959. I remember many years ago my sister not sure her height but maybe 170cm and me a 185cm male she way out eated me and I was surprised at the time. Maybe I look like the guy that might be unprofitable but actually that's not the case.
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  960. Actually everyone knows, the US has a homicide rate 5 times that of every wealthy country just about, so it can't be nobody knows. You can say that the US political situation is conducive to not fixing it. In other words the real root cause is the lack of functionality of the US politically.
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  961. Reagan started the negotiations for NAFTA. Trump is doing the exact opposite. They might have similar views on taxation for the rich but that should be where the comparison starts and ends.
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  962. Laws in countries that support free speech people can say anything so long as it's not inciting violence. I am Australian so same thing , however many things occurring in the US now are supported by one party or another which would receive bipartisan condemnation in Australia and any extremists kicked out of whichever major party. In the US this is not occurring at the moment.
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  963.  @chrisstevens8431  Florida has the 7th worst death toll per million in the union, if that's success what would failure look like? Great their cases happen to be lower now but that doesn't change the facts.
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  964. Trump makes some dictators look good. At least some dictatorships are more functional.
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  965. I take issue as an Australian regarding your comment that a US Liberal believes in [free market] capitalism, they don't and Trump is even worse. They believe in crony capitalism and protectionism which got a lot worse under Trump and remained unchanged under Biden. There's a reason almost everything in the US now costs more than Australia with inflation really high despite the fact the national US minimum wage being half that of Australia's minimum wage. Things objectively should be cheaper in the US based on wages. As far as Kamala not being a friend of the Palestinians, it really doesn't matter, Americans must make a pragmatic choice of Harris or Trump or a protest vote or not voting. The position on Israel/Palestine isn't going to change any time soon and even if 99% of the rest of the world recognised Palestine i would bet the last 2 major countries to change position will be the UK and US.
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  966. I find this show to be far more about politics not policy. Also if you notice many factors that currently exist in the US don't exist here and a very different system of government.
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  967. As per other response I would suggest pet fish whether you on 1000 acres or in a tiny apartment you can do that along with talking to family , friends or calling a help line if you are really not feeling well and need to talk to someone. Hope all goes well with you but it will probably take time.
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  968.  @mndlessdrwer  Fauci already has FBI body guards I think it is. Not normal for a long term public servant who has worked under both political sides without incidence until recently.
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  969.  @jamber782  China doesn't control the UN however for a security council resolution to pass needs all 5 permanent members to agree, that's USA, China, Russia, France and UK. Normally it's the first 3 that veto stuff.
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  970.  @galaxydust7267  I understand your emotion however as stated in my previous comment it's the 5 permanent security council members who decide that. Unfortunately military interventions rarely end well and it's not time yet. Diplomacy will hopefully achieve some results and I am sure the threat of force if civilians are killed has been made. I wish the best for Myanmar and hope it doesn't come to worst case which is peacekeepers fighting a war inside Myanmar and your comment sort of agrees with this by saying"do anything to stay in power".
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  971. I think there's a large segment of "pox on both your houses" voters but this group is called "undecided" which is correct but there'll be a lot more than average of primary votes for minor parties and the real decision of which major party is put last.
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  972.  @alisonhoyte7608  So that along with evidence in NZ of slightly reduced suicides and evidence in Australia of the regular flu dropping substantially , means countries who contain the virus are likely increasing life expectancy at the moment, especially if there is actual statistically significant drop in infant mortality. I think they don't want to emphasize the point though because those who would still prefer the mitigation policies of Europe and US use this as an argument . It amazes me that I think although not many is still a significant number. I was chatting on one of these forums to someone I discovered was from NSW and he or she seemed to be a fan of the Swedish model, funny thing is other than border restrictions there is slightly less restrictions in NSW than Sweden or at worst maybe the same. Some people always think the grass is greener elsewhere no matter what.
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  973. I don't think so, the European death tolls per capita are up to double that of the US as a whole. The US is probably less than half way through this and Trump will have to give a new death toll estimate and advise the populous yet again of the excellent job he has done.
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  974. I think you mean 1,000,000
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  975.  @mrsai4740 the US has the worst covid 19 death rate per Capita for a wealthy country and the lowest vaccination rate and highest obesity and lowest life expectancy and most expensive healthcare. Do you see any correlation or pattern here? Maybe the US is disfunctional. Seems vaccines if people take them actually do work in other countries, etc., etc.
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  976. Of course they do, let's say GM builds a car in the US, after Trump gets in if he follows through all imported components of that vehicle will be taxed making the price of the US made vehicle higher.
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  977. I agree because it's not good if he gets millions of emails and we know unfortunately many emails to public health professionals and politicians are not particularly nice.
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  978. One thing it does do is increase vaccination rates. Look how quickly Sydney and Melbourne got vaccinated when in lockdown. Yes longer than 10 days though but the starting point in Western European countries is better.
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  979. ​ @BericD I think you should add Gaza seige to you list which has been ongoing for 17 years approximately.
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  980.  @Rik77  a little out of date but I did find a number for 2012 and Australia's per capita imports were higher than UK in value. It's a false argument, and has no basis in reality, policy has overridden all other concerns, small islands like the island of Ireland and even Malta have performed badly and populous nations with lots of land borders like Vietnam and China have performed well. There is 0 consistency based on geography and political system and trade and wealth to a point. Your PM is just making excuses, consider Philippines, 100,000,000 population with the most overseas workers in the world and poor country with lots of imports, worst performing country in the Western Pacific region of WHO at about 10% per capita deaths of UK.
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  981. It's a degree of self censoring I believe , because it's inconvenient to compare the US with other rich countries on several metrics. Best of luck to you.
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  982. As bad as things might be in your country terrorism isn't the answer.
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  983. A quick summary, we are broke and sick so we will continue the spread with bars , restaurants and gyms open and if you need to go to a hospital for another reason the medical professional might infect you, but we have a high level of freedom if you aren't on a hospital bed.
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  984. If it actually occurs there will be no official crime statistics, so on paper it'll be the safest city in the US.
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  985. It's been disheartening to see the behaviour of Trump , Bolsonaro and Modi. Leaders of 3 very large countries that seem to have encouraged the spread of the virus. If the comments I see are true about holding rallies at this time that does certainly put him with those other 2 leaders. Trump is gone of course, have to see what happens with the other 2 at election time.
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  986. You point out a potential problem which is probably partly brought about by messaging, maybe people are less likely to seek medical help if they have been vaccinated because it's considered unlikely a healthy person would need medical help.
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  987. Got vaccinated with AZ yesterday, I most likely had covid 19 a bit over a year ago and similar symptoms regarding aches and pains and slight fever and chills much less than when I was sick though. Hopefully at least my 5g reception should improve.
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  988. We don't know for certain and nor does John, as Fauci said once if you knew for certain everything was fine there would be no reason to do a trial. Also things must be very highly controlled, there are 2 types of thalidomide one perfectly safe and that's what was tested, the other has one atom or something like that in a different position in the chemical chain, that's the one that caused the problems. I expect standards are higher now as a result of that ocurance and whatever is tested will be 100% the same as all product put out as vaccine if it's successful.
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  989.  @laughingachilles  life expectancy is about 75 and you stated an average of once a generation. The other thing is if you know a little about probability the chances of pandemics occurring will keep increasing because the population has quadrupled in the last 100 years and that doesn't mean the probability multiplies by 4 , it will be greater than that, factory farming of animals also can increase the possibility of outbreaks. Compared to 100 years ago when it would take months for an outbreak to spread due to transportation at the time it now takes about 2 weeks to travel to every major country in the world if it's infectious enough like covi SARS 2 was. So to me there's nothing at all out of the ordinary.
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  990.  @hairydude1950  yeah blame the Canadian government for saving 60 thousand lives. That's the truth of the matter the number of protestors or revolutionary taking risk by very illegal activities is just a fraction of the Canadian lives saved. Look at the deaths per Capita in the country south of the border compared to Canada.
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  991. I am a bit of an alcoholic so for entertainment purposes only i wouldn't mind having a drink with Hegseth.
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  992. The only cases now are imported and they would unlikely to fit into the category of likely to need hospitalisation because otherwise they couldn't fly here.
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  993. Did you see the Vietnam graph in the clip, their approach and success similar to Australia but at 1000 cases a day in only a few weeks they are in trouble. So they are right to be freaking out as you put it.
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  994. @jerrymartin3965  Do you pay into your government pension scheme? The reason I ask is because your Social Security payout needs to be cut when you reach that age. It's currently operating as a pretend self funding thing when it's actually a government run Ponzi scheme that will run out of money in 2035 if nothing is changed according to their own actuaries. I hope you support cutting your own future income to be consistent assuming you are covered by the scheme. I have little knowledge of that scheme because the US is the only country to run a social welfare program like that.
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  995. You break restrictions or enter Queensland Australia with a false declaration you go to the slammer for a bit. Good old fashioned enforcement works. The people who break the rules here receive no pity, in fact the opposite people want them to get maximum sentence because they cause or potentially cause lockdowns.
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  996. No they aren't, but not being states constitutionally they are slightly different. An example might be police, the ACT uses Federal police but the NT uses their own police.
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  997. @annboyle8490  I know he did the right thing, I am just pointing out personally I couldn't control myself that well.
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  998.  @KMcKee-qn6bo  In fact it's the smart educated ones that are most dangerous, dumb people can't make a bomb without blowing themselves up or fly a plane. If you look at the successful major suicide bombing campaigns all around the world, there is always a smart chemist in the background which is always the number one target of the authorities because without that person or persons they can't do the bombings.
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  999. Got burnt in hours if not minutes, Sir Tom was a great bloke though and helped community spirit.
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  1000. It's not always a choice.
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  1001.  @TebTengri  I am Australian so if I didn't follow things I the US I wouldn't know. The term i most recently heard to apply to all southern states (I think) is sunbelt states. Is that usual or was it just the reporter or is it technically a little different again?
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  1002.  Anonymous  well can NZ please accept Victoria, we are willing to give you that part of our country as long as you agree not to litigate.
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  1003.  @Christmascancelled  My guess what they say is cold would be like me in Brisbane Queensland, maximum below 22 Celsius which looking at a couple of South African cities it is. Not sure English people would consider it cold as in things are relative and behaviours probably are too. Also they might mean cold for the season not cold compared to winter.
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  1004.  @lacdirk  No country has acted truly honorable, some worse than others maybe. I am not angry or anything about Australia waiting a bit longer but it certainly annoys me that the vaccine rollout of any available vaccines is delayed for no good reason especially in countries that still have high cases/deaths. I hope the EU improves it's approach towards itself more than anything, can't help other if you can't help yourself.
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  1005. Israel will never agree to a ceasefire, they are literally occupying the west bank and have no intention of ending that illegal occupation.
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  1006. Trump was in the 10% , he was hospitalized or did you miss that.
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  1007. The US is certainly a superpower. Not very good at managing internal issues but a military like no other (China is getting there but isn't there).
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  1008. The last part of your comment is relevant, so far we have no idea of motive.
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  1009. I don't need this show to tell me 0.06% of Americans are dead from covid 19 and the homicide rate is 6 times that of Australia, Federal government debt over 100% of GDP and accelerating under the dear leader before covid etc. etc. If you want to vote for Trump that's up to you. Biden's tax plan will favour more jobs going back to the US because the relative costs after tax would move a little towards making profits inside the US. Biden's tax plan won't exactly fix the massive deficit but it's a conservative move in the right direction. If you are in that group earning over $400,000 per year ok poor you might have to pay more tax.
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  1010. The Flu isn't news unless it's a major outbreak, go search the CDC if you are interested in deaths involving the flu which is far lower than normal.
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  1011. The US banking system is the largest socialist experiment in the world. It's interesting that they aren't going against this blatent socialism. Get rid of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and student loans guaranteed by your government. DOGE is clearly a right wing socialist organisation, the absurdity is amazing.
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  1012.  @jeffanderson7591  I agree Trump defected to the side of the virus after a 2 week soft lockdown he started pressuring states to reopen, from memory it was actually that quick because had to reopen by Easter at the latest. In Australia we held out against the virus for 2 months and all but one state succeeded in no more harsh lockdown, the remaining state that had a second lockdown harder than the first has now succeeded and only 17 cases of community transmission confined to 2 states in the last 7 days.
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  1013. He's busy, he does 20 or 30 executive orders a week and all but 1 tend to be stupid.
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  1014.  @andrewrichardson3135  what makes you think China lies about it's numbers, the deaths are consistent with known cases? The lockdown if Hebei province is as a result of cases, impossible to lock large cities down without any cases because even in a 1 party state people would ignore the directive. If there were provinces and cases were being covered up they would be like Wuhan was before in no time.
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  1015.  @andrewrichardson3135  I am not saying it's a free country or anything , just about this subject and authoritarian countries that took the virus seriously are very successful so that's consistent too, Vietnam and Taiwan are fairly authoritarian, same with Thailand. You don't have to be an authoritarian country to succeed however, Australia and New Zealand with higher levels of general freedoms of the above mentioned countries are successful too. No evidence any of these countries cover up numbers. The only place where numbers have been covered for a period and this is documented is Florida USA that withheld case numbers during the month of October last year to apparently check the numbers or something, after November 3 this problem was solved.
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  1016.  @tweedy4sg  while most of what you say is correct one thing at the time that wasn't known that well was how many the lockdown itself would kill. In a population of 10,000,000 or so with such a hard oppressive lockdown you can expect quite a few people to die. Have to remember all medical care completely halted and even if an ambulance can get to someone on time for an urgent issue for a while no vacant ICU beds. This number has not been published as far as I am aware but it certainly occurred and would be more significant than any other lockdown in the world. In Australia in the first 6 months of the year had 1200 excess deaths and they showed a graph and the only time excess deaths occured was during lockdown and only about 100 deaths from covid 19 so it was not the cause. The causes of death that increased was heart attack and diabetes. The US CDC published excess deaths for January 26 to October 3 and it was 300,000 and only 200,000 were covid 19 deaths, so the rest is the lockdown lite and failure to contain the virus stressing people and less routine medical care I guess, not sure which causes of death rose. So the extra urns due to other deaths was a real thing because it happened virtually everywhere else and we don't know the number because they have not released it. It's things like that that cause some to be sceptical of China.
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  1017. Lee universe I look forward to seeing all the naked Americans shortly because apparel taxes have apparently stopped people from buying. This is what you just stated.
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  1018. @audreywellham2413  Matt is a lawyer so qualified for the position of AG. Pete has a Masters of Public Policy so he is certainly qualified as an administrator. The US is the only democracy in the world where for some unknown reason they have historically chosen ex generals for the job. Probably goes back to the civil war or even war of independence. It's in no way a legal requirement, it's only a tradition.
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  1019. Who is these people? And what do you mean by want it to go away?
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  1020. SAR1 far more deadly as in survival rates and probably no a-symptomatic people so very easy to trace. The asymptomatic spread of sars2 makes it more deadly because far more difficult to trace so can keep spreading.
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  1021.  @SimonKnight1023  Of course vast majority are fine, but almost 0.3% of population dead and having to pay enormous taxes and health care insurance if working in a reasonable job can't be good can it and yes what about the 0.3% that's already died both directly and indirectly?
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  1022.  @Morning404  You make a good point but it goes much deeper than that, every 5 EYES country all knew the risks as of the end of January, what Trump said to Bob Woodward on tape on 6 Feb I think it was, was certainly known by the rest of us and what the potential risk was. This doesn't necessarily mean Johnson is to blame if the information wasn't passed on by the public servants reviewing such information but it's very unlikely that occured. Now look at the results , while noting Australia and NZ already take quarantine issues more seriously, Australia and NZ virtually virus free ( unfortunately one Australian state doesn't seem able to get to 0 but they haven't gone above 10 cases a day for a long time and have excellent contact tracing), Canada about average by work standards, US and UK down the bottom somewhere and would rank in the top 10 worst responses for a country. It doesn't change anything now and one can only hope the " freedom to infect" and voluntary quarantine and isolation are seen for what they are which is absolute failures. Australia is criticised for imprisoning some serious offenders regarding health orders which if not stopped means entire populations going through on again off again house arrest. In fact the most common call for such offenders was lock them up for maximum sentence applicable, because people here really don't like the actions of others to potentially shut their business down and put them under house arrest. It's like we are in alternate worlds.
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  1023. That's if they have a job. If I worked in a business with a lot of exports or imports I would be afraid of losing my job. If Trump puts tariffs on the entire world every country will be forced to retaliate. Exporters are probably more at risk than importers because the US isn't going to start making small electrical items or basic clothing, it's just not going to happen unless imports are banned outright for certain goods like Trump intends to do with electric vehicles it seems.
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  1024. While Qatar might be close to an absolute monarchy al Jazeera is a good news source unless it's talking about Qatar. Both things can be true at the same time , just do a quick search on criticism of Al Jazeera on Wikipedia, a lot of countries come up and over half the countries with criticism are majority Islam countries.
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  1025. As an outsider I agree it's technically possible but unfortunately highly unlikely. If Democrats keep the House and Senate that would be great.
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  1026. It certainly did, non peaceful is building fires going at least 50 metres in the air or a minimum of 3 burning vehicles in the background behind the presenter. That's my standard maybe you can suggest an alternative standard and haven't quite considered about the brick versus can of soup situation, haven't seen the canned food riots yet.
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  1027.  @kace4160  that sounds like a mess, if it's organized and they do it I think fair enough but what you describe is disorganized and like in other parts of the US the vulnerable are not always being vaccinated first, people joining queues for hours or driving long distances to get there aren't the most vulnerable generally. I am quite impressed by how the UK is doing it and hope Australia is similar but we aren't in such a big rush and the EU has slowed it down a little anyway. It's good your grandparents got in, hopefully it goes smoothly.
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  1028. Democracies often have kings. It's the role of the king or president that matters. I am Australian and our king plays no role in government functions and our prime minister isn't an absolute ruler and can be removed in about 15 minutes when parliament is sitting. Unfortunately your president is much closer to an absolute ruler than anything Australia has, they even choose the entire unelected government as in secretaries/ministers. The US should wake up to itself and copy a better form of government where nobody has too much power as your president does , it might be better than an absolute ruling king but it's far from best practice in the world. Your elected officials are simply lobbyists of their donors, hence your high spending on heathcare with lowest, high income country absolute outcome. The concept of an unelected executive government to me is completely absurd, very absolute ruler like.
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  1029. The main reason for SARS 1 "dying out" is extremely easy to detect in a relative sense , 10% death rate with all getting significant symptoms, the same reason Ebola is relatively easy to control. Look for really sick people , contact tracing job done. Sars2 look for someone who might have had contact no symptoms greater than hayfever or a runny nose from a cold temperature, really hard to find. Someone with Ebola isn't likely to spend a week partying spreading it to others because fairly quickly they are really sick with an approximate chance of death at 50%.
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  1030. The problem is people are using veterinary ivermectin and hurting themselves, it's approved for clinical trials only in most places and that is the position of the WHO. Seems to me it might offer some limited benefit but a vaccine no matter brand is far superior.
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  1031. It aint gonna shock me. Been through it.
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  1032. With LED actually that's fairly bright.
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  1033. Well the American far right or at least the Trump supporters are certainly on that side.
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  1034. He likely has dual citizenship. However he obtained citizenship illegally because he had worked illegally in the US previously making him an illegal immigrant at that time.
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  1035. And when was Netherlands last mass school shooting?
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  1036.  @LiliLawless  I have 2 feelings, that's bad that it happened then and hopefully now things are good. Can never be a risk at 0 but can be extremely close. The US unfortunately it's still significant risk and unfortunately politicians on both sides not looking at all the underlying causes.
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  1037. As John said it could be a very minor factor. As there is only likely to be 50 to 100 undetected cases in Victoria and New South Wales and 100,000 undetected cases inside the UK it's fair to say the risk is higher in the UK compared to our only infectious states regardless of the weather.
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  1038. @TheDoubleLibra go check your figures FL 653 deaths per million, France 485 deaths per million. If Florida was a country of plus 1,000,000 people it would be the 7th worst in the world for deaths per million. Wait for 4 to 6 weeks you will see deaths increasing again because that's the approximate lag time.
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  1039.  @tovsteh  okay I will but in with a genuine criticism. Trump gives intoxicated mariners a bad name, he is the worst US president in recent history on this matter and not a fiscal conservative at all. The US gov debt to GDP was already over 100% and rising rapidly prior to covid 19. What is Trump's plan to fix this issue of crazy government spending and or not collecting enough in taxes to pay for government functions?
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  1040. Probably worse than that, if people believe their pesos are now worthless inflation will get even worse.
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  1041. We are diplomatic. In the short term the trade war if it happens is actually going to benefit Australia. Why would we attempt to become involved in the trade war as a combatant against the US? We need to look after ourselves or Australia first.
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  1042. Damn, I'm only double jabbed and I thought my 5G reception would be great so Bill can track me but I have found no change. Is it the third jab that's needed for triangulation of all the chips do you think?
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  1043. Please remember Australia is about number 4 as far as vaccinations go , the US is about 60th most vaccinated nation. Australia is in a much better place and can afford to not put so much pressure on the public about vaccinations.
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  1044. The editorial is free, the government can't interfere with editorial. Because it's run independently from government and it's not commercial, I would say they have a left slant but nothing like say MSNBC or CNN for example where they would be seen at too far to the right.
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  1045. @AG They probably are safe but need to do trials first because different age groups and sexes react differently. With the Astrazeneca vaccine for people below 60 there is higher risk and women below 40 highest risk of major side effects. Pfizer is apparently close to getting approval for 2 - 11 year olds and I know Moderna wants to do trial for that age group in the US and Australia. So looking like the MRNA will be fine for kids but J+J and AZ won't be so probably they won't even do trial.
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  1046. ​@tiawarren5403 Well actually two thirds of you, people who didn't vote wanted this too.
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  1047. 0.25% of New Jersey population already dead from covid 19. As far as comorbidities well 36% of Americans are obese, add in other comorbidities and you will find especially in older age groups many have comorbidities probably well over 50% of the population.
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  1048. I am thinking about your disfunctional Federation. I think only constitutional changes can stop these types of events reoccurring.
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  1049. It's a good sign. In most other democracies without a powerful autonomous president the leader usually a prime minister is often removed from the top position. Your president is closer to a king than a prime minister even choosing who runs the country being an unelected cabinet who they can personally fire like Trump has done on numerous occasions. The 200 plus year old constitution is out of date.
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  1050. I am not in Europe but simply put in many countries people are older and fatter and even the advice given by South African authorities they don't know about older age groups yet.
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  1051.  @paulbozikis4645  Many years ago I voted One Nation in Queensland state election, that time they became the second biggest party for a bit. My reason had nothing really to do with policy but the way Pauline Hanson was treated as in "the cancel culture". I think certainly some vote for Trump for the same reason in the US, "Trump's Republican Party" is very similar to one nation actually, America First has same meaning to One Nation in ideological terms. The difference is One Nation is a minor party , not a major party that could very well be back in power in 4 years.
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  1052. Colorado anyone can carry a gun, it didn't help them.
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  1053. As BYC said and probably again in January but different mob.
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  1054.  @BroadwayJosh  Rupert Murdoch has been a proud American for 35 years and not an Australian citizen. He's all yours mate and we don't want him , our Murdoch owned Sky News Australia is bad enough, sometimes as bad as Fox News.
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  1055. You mean liquid nitrogen probably. Dry ice is -25c
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  1056. No you don't need to know because if it didn't kill them the first time as in wipe out the vulnerable ones it's unlikely to kill those who already survived subject to age over time and other infections happening simultaneously such as flu or other conditions like cancer. Obviously the vaccine won't kill off the vulnerable ones in the first place, so with waning vaccine immunity they will become vulnerable again over time.
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  1057. I liked the British Colombia politician location for his speech with sea ports in the background giving a not so subtle message that things can be exported elsewhere.
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  1058. Almost all white racists prefer Trump and almost all black racists prefer Democrats. It doesn't say much at all actually, most people will not vote for one party or another based on this issue alone. There is clearly a number of white and black people that would prefer segregation in the US. So this might be your only issue but if you are totally against racism then you can't really support either party by your own standard. I am not American and thank goodness my country Australia although not perfect isn't that bad. Ask yourself why Hispanic people of any race including a white immigrant from Spain that just got off the plane or a black person from Africa might be able to access programs involving affirmative action in the USA. If you can answer my question with logic you have lost the plot, as your country has. I wish you the best of luck.
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  1059.  @tritter15  no my response was to the commenter above and it still stands , the African and Asian colonial past and even present in some cases is just as bad. Suggesting that current events in parts of Africa and Asia should be ignored because white man is bad is far worse.
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  1060. You forgot that people below that age can't be college graduates because they are too young.
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  1061.  @lisafairbourn7798  Masks help to slow spread, not stop it.
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  1062. That surprises me , are you sure not the other way around from Melbourne Victoria to Perth Western Australia?
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  1063.  @betsyslaughter76  That makes more sense, it's probably under a business safe covid plan which is already in place and the company whoever they are just keep it like that so if anything changes it doesn't cause disruptions. If for arguments sake someone on the plane had covid 19 and it was discovered a week later then they would need to start a 14 day quarantine at that point in time, also it means the border won't shut on them because it's already operating under an approved plan. If 5 cases were discovered in Perth tomorrow the border would shut immediately to most states to anyone coming from Perth without hotel quarantine or possibly hard shut and they have great difficulties entering if not deemed essential.
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  1064. Hey did you know that every single covid 19 vaccine doesn't make a person immortal. People die every day from all sorts of causes and about 1 in a million of vaccinated people might actually die from the effects of the vaccine itself. All the other deaths are just coincidence, someone has heart attack for example, they were in bad health before and after getting a vaccine shot but happened by chance to have a heart attack very shortly after getting a vaccine, this isn't even a correlation because it happens at the same rate whether people vaccinated or not.
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  1065. Who knows what he wants to do, he ran a pretty high deficit and gave a lot of handouts when the pandemic hit.
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  1066. I prefer our West Pacific herd mentality which says keep that virus the hell away from me.
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  1067. If you can find any government on the planet that hasn't made some silly rules or done something really stupid at one point or another regarding covid 19 let me know. So that old catch phrase of a year ago which has wained "we are all in this together" , does hold some truth to it.
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  1068.  @nurismail_  The main thing was actually the initial response. Malaysia never allowed it to get out of hand and tested and traced more in the beginning like many other countries in our region. The US has completely abandoned containment and only can do mitigation now. One thing that baffles me at the moment is why did governments in our region take it seriously and North America and Europe didn't in the beginning.
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  1069. It may well become the US virus because they are likely to eventually have their own dominant strain. Maybe just the US strain.
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  1070. Sky News Australia is ridiculous, they love Trump and hate Dan Andrews despite the fact even Dan Andrews has done better than every mainland US state regarding covid 19 at this point in time I believe and Hawaii catching up fast. Trump is like many sky News Australia commentator's holy prophet or something. Trump has showed them the promised land and I guess the "plague" as Trump sometimes refers to the virus when not calling it the China Virus is some sort of biblical thing.
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  1071. Running up debt like he did last time.
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  1072. The numbers you refer to as low are not, slightly below national average certainly , about the same deaths per capita as adjoining states Georgia and South Carolina but at the moment significantly more than California and significantly less than New York. I think weather variability plays a big role along with population densities. Florida retirees that came from interstate are well to do so they are less likely to die than some poor pensioners stuck in some welfare accommodation. People lock themselves down naturally if they are at risk but comparing US states is like comparing the fitness levels of contestants entering The Biggest Loser reality tv show, a pretty low standard to compare against. Killing 0.1% of ones population is nothing to jump up and down about.
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  1073. Reading these comments, there is some truth to both "Western" as a political term means the Americas and Europe but sometimes means wealthy members in those areas and can apply to Australia and New Zealand but not necessarily depends on ones own definition. What has stood out and I have never seen it spoken is the Western Pacific region countries of WHO have cooperated and acted in unison with the number one requirement of containment and that is 14 days mandatory enforced (usually hotel) quarantine for all arrivals, the worst performing country in our WHO region is the Philippines however it would be a stand out success in European WHO region or PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region. Both those regions have come very close to acting in unison with a policy of open borders and 10 days voluntary quarantine. People who blame the WHO should blame their own country and or neighbouring countries the peak body of WHO makes no decisions and to blame them is silly. The Western Pacific region includes China all the way to New Zealand with ASEAN split between 2 WHO regions. We are probably the most diverse WHO region on the planet , having still largely tribal lifestyles in Papua New Guinea and some of the smaller Pacific Island nations to Japan and China, different political systems, different cultures, but for this purpose we worked well together even if due to politics we won't acknowledge it. On general quarantine issues many of the countries especially Japan, Australia and New Zealand along with smaller Pacific nations are very strict to start with which I do believe helped because the culture already in existence.
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  1074. A bit of Oyster nationalism going in this thread.
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  1075. The decent education thing is not the issue. If a child misses a year of school so what. It's about psychology issues of the parents and the children.
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  1076. Anyone who worked/s in the Trump administration needs that proof of being fired by tweet or whatever so they can get another job in the future. Guliani can never get another job I would think, he couldn't be on a committee of a local library.
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  1077. Let them out but not in. The hold outs will be the trouble makers.
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  1078. Soft sanctions can have some effect, this is just sanctioning leaders personally, hard sanctions like trade sanctions never work or virtually never and usually make dictatorships stronger because they can unite the country against the foreign enemies hurting them.
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  1079. In answer to your second question you certainly are , he is a complete tyrant who thinks he should control everything hence stopping private enterprise from having there own policies for example the Cruise industry which is in no way essential and the employer now has no right assuming the order is legal to protect crew or passengers and the costs involved with evacuation etc. of sick people.
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  1080. Unfortunately that's basically impossible. There's reporting in Australia how our use of that service for remote areas is a risk. It might be time for governments to get together to get an alternative service on national security grounds noting the US and Musk are aligned with Russia, China and North Korea.
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  1081. It is hard apparently, in your country you can send someone to war or alternatively imprison them as happened in the Vietnam war but apparently all quarantine and mitigation and or containment measures for a virus are unconstitutional, easy solution, draft the entire population which is allowed under your constitution and require them to follow orders. Only joking about that , just pointing out of course public health orders are legal although nobody is going to love them. It's not like Australians and New Zealanders enjoyed the restrictions but getting to where we are now was worth it.
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  1082. Fair enough, what's your reasoning for Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia and Australia. Are we superhuman on this side of the planet or could it be possible reacting quick did the trick. But as noted by the NZ prime minister it's not over for any of us just so far we do well all with deaths below 10 per million.
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  1083.  @davidpaz9389  Are you vaccinated?
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  1084. A bit of a jab at the US for getting out of the TPP. Hopefully Biden changes that.
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  1085. Really, the US has the lowest life expectancy of a wealthy nation? Seems the population over there is just changing from one junk food to another.
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  1086. It's not hard to believe at all, about 30% of Americans believe Trump won the election and that's with completely free media. Of course it's sad though and before the Trump thing I probably wouldn't have believed that could happen.
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  1087. You are probably right but it isn't really clear to who. Importers exporters and retailers in the US will get poorer if Trump's plans are implemented. Probably the biggest beneficiaries will be tech billionaires with major sales outside the collapsing US.
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  1088. It sort of doesn't taķe away his megaphone but can make fun of him. Anyone can run conspiracy theories on YouTube.
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  1089. He's not a Prime Minister, he gets to hang around for a couple of months.
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  1090.  @WTlufd  You seem to have misunderstood my comment. Most us don't like it is not like those protestors. The protestors are a small minority. Of course nobody likes lockdowns etc. but vast majority are happy with our governments except maybe the New South Wales government because they slower to act and let things get out of control.
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  1091. The signatories to that are nuts, no jurisdiction on the planet has had high cases while protecting all vulnerable and keeping everything largely open, it's impossible basically. Protecting the vulnerable means nursing homes become old persons prisons indefinitely while the virus is rampant with no chance of visitors.
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  1092. Don't be Australia had that too only one I think and there was a breakout and people were killed. At the time it was considered the right thing to do and in reality if a war was to occur today it may be seen as necessary, because allegiance would need to be determined and I know in Australia not all would hold primary allegiance to my country. Of course if that was to occur today it would be managed better and a proper determination made if it was necessary or at least I hope so.
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  1093.  @joshuaacosta5671  I have read a few articles. Several actions have been taken, a larger better equipped force is one of them even if less police in the area normally, stopping open drug markets on street corners, nocking down derelict buildings. Along with as you suggest non police actions. So better management in general. In Australia we have state police only and federal police for international type crimes generally. I do think that municipal police forces is not the way to go, because they are too small and too easily become corrupted and training will be a lower standard. So actually the number of police available seems to have gone up and were probably used when they clearing drug selling areas. If looking objectively it's better than before but still really bad.
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  1094.  @silverbladeTE  I am not from there but they are my countrymen so I am going to speak on their behalf " we of Darwin Northern Territory Australia are getting tired of being associated with idiots , no cases of community transmission for 90 days and everything is open , even can travel freely to some other Australian states now, If the world could become virus free like Darwin then they might deserve a prestigious Darwin award".
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  1095. I hope people seeing this consider it carefully. The US is one of the least democratic countries of a high income country. This is by choice, the number of people who don't vote and then complain about the politicians get what they want and deserve.
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  1096. He was kicked out of his job is my understanding, put on administrative leave. It wasn't the asking questions that was the problem, it was trying to access the system as in can I have all the passwords for everything.
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  1097. Chinese can only dream of peaceful protests covered by international media. Well done South Korea for remaining free.
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  1098. No annoying relatives or friends, just enjoy it.
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  1099. I hope and think Norman is wrong about who will win. Looking in from the outside it's preferable that Trump doesn't win even if the alternative is not exactly perfect.
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  1100. Lucky it's not a spelling contest, too as in too much or whatever has a double o.
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  1101. The Australian New Zealand TGA ( therapeutic goods administration ) sees no reason for emergency approval which is essentially telling people you are a part of a phase 3 trial as it doesn't currently meet the usual standards. I am totally supportive of not rushing and if efficacy isn't high after 6 months it would be pointless doing mass vaccinations now which would take over 6 months to complete and restrictions won't be reduced in the mean time other than possibly travel to low risk countries, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and possibly a few others in our region along with all of Australasia, after taking a vaccine. Europe and US won't be low risk any time soon. 5 cases of community transmission or whatever it is in the last week , your daughter is at a lower risk here without a vaccine than being in a country with high infections with a vaccine. The indicative date to start vaccinating health care workers and the vulnerable is March and that is assuming approval , my thinking is the TGA has indicated that they might have enough information by then for limited emergency use or full general use. Have to wait and see, I understand the dilemmas of telling too much information , it just breeds conspiracy theories and not helpful for those countries with emergency use to point out too much what that actually means because even if some are injured or killed from vaccines overall they will save lives in countries where the virus is rampant.
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  1102.  @itchynscratchynutz3699  kinder gentler law enforcement does work, Australia my country and many others are far safer even a lot of poor countries that don't use heavy handed extra judicial tactics are safer. While the penalties are harsh in Indonesia which is certainly a comparable country they don't run around do extra judicial killings and the country is much safer than the Philippines.
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  1103. I think some cities just have these problems, density and movement patterns. Hard to know exactly but I know from my part of the world 2 cities can have an almost identical response but one has cases rise and the other not, restrictions fatigue may also play a part. Highly variable weather seems to be a disadvantage also.
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  1104.  @debbiebrown7140  Virtually nowhere would be locked down if you followed the West Pacific.
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  1105. Those 2 lovely young ladies in the last story are so sweet and caring, if I was ever in hospital I would certainly want them to be one of my nurses after they finish that training.
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  1106. You taught me something, will probably forget and I think most people are unaware of that because English pronunciation of CH is different normally.
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  1107. I am in Australia but in an apartment, so while it's not highly visible the Palestine Flag can be seen from the street. If I was in a house I admit I would probably be too concerned about vandalism, depending on which community I lived in.
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  1108. "the former president Brendon" , I had to re-listen 4 times. It's a classic, well done Chuck Todd for slipping it in there and nobody batted an eyelid. About minute 34.45 .
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  1109. No the agreement is P5+1 and EU, it's one agreement which the US decided to end and put sanctions on Iran. EU can say whatever they want but if the US still has sanctions , why would Iran agree, it's pointless. European international companies deal with the US of course so they can't deal with Iran because the US will sanction them. The US is a superpower both economically and militarily.
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  1110. Australians use whatever, nip, pop duck , dash out are all ok.
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  1111.  @angrybrit7331  you have to cancel other care of those people with comorbidities when the virus is rampant otherwise you kill more of them with the virus. See nursing home deaths, hospitals are the same perfect spreading grounds. You can't have it both ways.
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  1112. But cases of UK and Indian variants already got in, unless those chains of transmission have been eliminated it doesn't make much difference. Originally less than 1,000 cases ever left China based on all data available. Wish you the best of luck and hope Canada does eliminate those variants.
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  1113. Teegee you can get out of your siege mentality now, Victoria won't let it happen again and has moved from many errors and an initial relaxed approach to being probably the second most strict state after Western Australia, have faith and relax a little. The weather makes no difference really , only the ability to contact trace etc and react to any new outbreak matter. I am in Queensland and know your state has made it, just have confidence, to go from around 500 cases a day to possibly 0 now is a massive achievement. Hey if the vaccine is really 90% effective that's great news. You take care.
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  1114. You take care, if you live to 70 years missing 2 years is not that bigger deal. Hang in there and get help if you need it. You'll be ok.
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  1115.  @yogibbear  down to 4 cases yesterday in Victoria, really for a population of 6.5 million but 2 weeks could do more harm than good.
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  1116. That's an overreaction. Just don't buy new ones and don't pay to use their chargers.
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  1117.  @nanbuben.arastar  don't hold your breath, while it appears rates of infection have stabilized , it might be the case it just keeps going for another 6 months to a year at the current rate.
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  1118. It's terrible, that's what collapse is.
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  1119. Maybe Corn Republic should be the US nickname.
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  1120. You can only send a 48 day eviction notice so be a little patient and have to wait until the eviction notice is certified.
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  1121. There are sometimes I don't feel good about my country. We agree too easily to the US, Assange committed no Australian crime ( maybe now he has because we probably changed the laws ) but we don't protect him from the US International laws which apply to every citizen of the world. It is wrong and over reach. Just a quick search revealed he is charged with espionage, how can this be, he carried out no covert acts on behalf of any government. On this basis if I had US classified material I can just give it to anyone in the world and they have apparently committed a crime by opening the package. Same goes for Snowden effectively reporting unlawful behaviour according to US law by the government, well if he reported it to police (FBI) they would have presented it in court theoretically so what crime did he commit other than presentation of wrongdoing by government while Bush and Obama were in charge? Not divulge secrets should not include secrets about criminal activity based on a persons position.
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  1122. That sort of baffles me how someone can believe that putting taxes on imported goods will cause the US to produce those goods at a lower cost than the imported goods were previously being sold at. One has to jump through quite a few logical hoops to arrive at Trump's conclusion as he stated previously.
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  1123. Maybe so but we aren't going to get the lunatic policies of the US. Also adult Australians median wealth is far higher than the US so we aren't doing it anywhere near as tough. I checked the prices at Walmart versus Woolworths for some basic goods and mostly Woolworths was cheaper and our minimum wage is double that of many Americans.
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  1124. Look at Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand as proxies if you don't trust China, all these countries have exactly the same policy 14 days mandatory enforced ( usually hotel) quarantine along with swift lockdowns and containment policies if the virus gets through quarantine until elimination. Strangely enough follow the same policy successfully you will get the same results. The European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region countries , virtually all followed the open borders with 10 days voluntary quarantine policy successfully and got the same results. It's actually not rocket science.
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  1125. The negative pcr test only slows things a little by catching whatever percentage but missing a certain percentage, I think it's standard practice now for international travel a negative test less than 72 hours before catching a plane but as you can see every variant pops up in Australian quarantine.
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  1126. It was a choice made by region, the European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region countries almost universally agreed to open borders with 10 days voluntary quarantine and got the expected results but supposedly much more freedom and less mental health issues ( that is the official stated reason in the EU and US at least). The West Pacific WHO region countries decided on limited travel in most cases only allowing citizens and permanent residents to enter with 14 days mandatory enforced (usually hotel ) quarantine. This region is from China to New Zealand and all countries in between , ASEAN is split between 2 regions. The worst performing country Philippines is at less than 10% deaths per capita compared to poorly performing US and most Western European countries.
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  1127. US exporters of certain goods will be hit very hard. 100% chance Mexico and Canada will coordinate there responses to achieve maximum problems for the US. There will be certain manufactured food items that the US exports to both countries as an example.
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  1128.  @janpacana6293  never use the crime rate because it's completely unreliable other than homicide rate. Homicides don't require any reporting. If I get robbed but not harmed I probably won't report it unless for insurance purposes, it's not like I can get anything back.
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  1129.  @windandsun9615  Many if not most democracies of a reasonable size have a Senate or equivalent which ensures smaller states or equivalent get more of a say, it seems to work quite well actually. I do however think the US presidential race should be by popular vote and include Puerto Rico residents along with preferential or automatic run off voting where the candidates are all voted for by numbering 1,2,3 etc.
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  1130. In relation to comments in this thread, the Australian stimulus isn't particularly large by international standards, probably somewhere in the middle. A budget deficit of 7.5% or so is certainly large and it would be great to do as good as South Korea at about 4.5% however it's probably comparable because Australia "exports" of tourism and education have obviously been hit really hard and South Korea I suspect that this is a smaller proportion of their economy. However if we compare to the countries that took least actions to stop the virus such as UK , US and southern European countries they all have deficits over 10% with UK and US around 15%. I'll take virus free and half the budget deficit over doubling our current deficit and killing 0.15% of our population. Only business going through great upturns is big end of town retailers and the funeral business for US and UK. Of course Australia is spending billions on vaccines for our own country and to help surrounding countries as are all wealthy nations to differing degrees , so definitely nothing wrong with that.
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  1131. Every one knows what a semi automatic rifle is when you give the AR-15 example. The information the media has probably only says semi automatic rifle.
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  1132.  @defeqel6537  overall health they probably are but at least the obesity rate has increased slower than Australia as an example, we've overtaken them. The actual dietary advice is fine but approximately 30% of people even come close to following it. Every country pretty much recommends the Mediterranean diet. It's a whole lot different than actual diet majority of people follow. The soft drink tax in UK does seem to have worked, maybe a small gain but better than no gain.
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  1133. Congratulations to Neil Coventry, number 1 troller in today's comment section.
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  1134. In 50 years time it will be in US history books about a mini dark ages event in 2020/2021 where people abandoned science and reality causing an intentional peacetime calamity killing off significant numbers of the elderly.
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  1135. At the moment I think you might be correct. I am Australian, we aren't divided like that now and I can't think of any federation around the world with such internal divisions.
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  1136. It wouldn't have served any purpose
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  1137.  @I.amthatrealJuan  Thanks so it's similar to Westminster system but president instead of governor general or in the case of England itself the Queen or privy council.
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  1138. Yeah that's why you didn't use the word has instead of is.
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  1139. Have you heard of Florida or Texas? I am Australian and even I have heard of these states and they have Republican governors to my knowledge. This is not a left or right issue, it's a competency issue of government and leaders and the cooperation levels of citizens. The initial response from the Federal government was a failure. Most cases were missed in January and February, this however can't be changed, it's history.
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  1140. Just being diplomatic. I think Justin's approach is actually better than Claudia's. If you annoy Trump publicly he likes to retaliate.
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  1141. Nobody has ever won a trade war at least in the modern day. Like the vast majority of modern wars both sides lose.
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  1142. It's dear leader sort of stuff. "God we thank you for blessing us with President Trump", paraphrased but that's approximately what was said.
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  1143. A bit cruel but sort of representative of a large number of people.
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  1144. This clip said nothing about gun laws so what is your complaint? The US has 5 times the homicide rate of all similar wealth countries except Canada, so clearly something is wrong. You wish that everyone undergoes weapons training and buys a gun , this in a country where people can't even wear a face mask. A gun is totally useless in the vast majority of homicides, if I want kill you I just kill you, I am not going to warn you , it's not a Hollywood movie. So for the mass killings maybe it would save a life or 2 but a big maybe the US already has the most liberal gun laws in the developed world and the vast majority of mass shootings. Keep your beliefs if you want but looking at evidence might be a better place to start.
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  1145. Unfortunately that is untrue, on a street protest one pro Palestinian protester crossed over to the pro Israeli side and hit someone with there loudspeaker causing them to fall back and hit their head on the pavement later dying in hospital. The student protests the pro Zionist side has been more violent particularly at UCLA.
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  1146.  @OldManMatty  I am sorry but killing someone is a violent act.
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  1147. We did see it in Northern Italy and New York. If a homeless person dies on the street in New York it isn't even a story, so the refrigerated trucks lined up outside hospitals and the mass grave shall have to do for you. With Italy doctors saying they were refusing treatment for many because the hospital couldn't cope another good indication. What is it you want to see? Those 2 places were like Wuhan hit quickly with no preparation, other places have prepared and put in restrictions to reduce spread at least enough the case loads don't become overwhelming. Still 1,000 people a day dying in the US like a smoldering fire instead of a blaze.
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  1148. Technically of course it's a lynching which means extrajudicial killing.
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  1149. I am not American but both sides are just as bad and the political enablers have something to answer for.
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  1150. No it's had a month to spread, could be 4 cases removed.
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  1151. There are many factors to consider, Greater Brisbane area plus Gold and Sunshine Coasts has about 4 million people, this is completely different to Adelaide which is completely different to Hobart or Darwin. The other issue is genuine hospital capacity and the logistics of that, WA, NT and QLD at least from a spread out point of view are in the worst situation. All our state leaders and federal government have done their best and a damn good job, NSW and VIC would still rate in the top 2 or 3 % of jurisdictions around the world. What John has shown us is we still have a great approach.
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  1152. Interesting I just looked up Queensland data and it says 0.1 times the 5 year average year to date for hospitalisations. So it would seem the Victorian restrictions had a much greater effect. Just stop that other virus now, very close and I think it will be achieved.
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  1153. Take care of yourself especially mentally.
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  1154. Why shouldn't it be?
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  1155.  Am Pat  you seem to be referring to 5,000 people who have to do quarantine, the choice is 5,000 quarantined for 2 weeks or 2,000 dead people, something like that and ongoing restrictions like the case is in the US. Choice seems simple to me, it's not my state but every state in Australia now has the same approach as does New Zealand. Any outbreak stop it ASAP.
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  1156. In what way?
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  1157.  @larryo6874  You got it wrong too, no you have had a 0.24% chance of already dying from covid 19, your chance of dying using that metric keeps increasing you can't bring those Americans back to life like resetting a video game.
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  1158. From Australia, I agree, without going into details as I could because I followed things in the US for a year, you need a new constitution and for the President to no longer be the leader of the government. The US was excellent 200 years ago, however now you have an elected king who is really difficult to remove, a Prime Minister can be removed in 15 minutes when parliament is sitting, just a simple party room vote . Also all ministers which you call secretaries are elected representatives not unelected officials chosen by a president. The rules for party registration and that political parties are state sponsored as in the government actually runs the process is problematic and the hurdles to register a new party in every US state is enormous and probably in reality next to impossible. The mantra of " protect the constitution " doesn't bode well for a total rework , because it's almost like a religious text to many it would seem. Best of luck.
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  1159.  @lohphat  in 1918 they actually mostly died of bacterial pneumonia, we have antibiotics for that now so unless we have a concurrent bacteria outbreak that evades antibiotics it can't happen again in the same way at least.
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  1160. I don't really see the point, just recognize it as a part of China and follow all the trade rules in the FTA and RCEP. Taiwan can do likewise , no need to officially sign anything I would have thought.
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  1161. Karen as far as I can establish is a racist term for a white lady who complains in an inappropriate manner. Are you suggesting this issue is all the blame of white ladies and men?
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  1162. Yeah and I think you would find certain fertiliser or other chemicals and compounds used in farming like trace elements will come from China. Farmers are going to love Trump this time. Last time they weren't hit with tariffs on their business, this time they will be.
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  1163. Well they are actually more direct than US people. Ask yourself who are the 330,000,000 +1 who don't go to the toilet? All US citizens and Kim Jong Un. Scott Morrison was very direct when he became fully aware it was really a problem in March talking of seeing a lot of death in poorer countries which will be uncomfortable, meanwhile Boris Johnson at the time and Donald Trump saying don't worry about it. If I was told a year ago Australia and New Zealand would be standout performers and the US and UK complete failures if such an event occured I would think that's ridiculous. Happy I am wrong about us.
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  1164. Please understand we don't all support what is going on, even in the US the majority don't seem to support the apartheid state of Israel noting I don't recognise Palestine because that potential country is completely occupied. I hope things change but a blanket condemnation of people in western countries whatever that means is unhelpful.
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  1165. One US saying that I find strange is you say "the president could care less about covid19" in Australia and I think UK we say "the president couldn't care less about covid 19" the way you say it means he could care less than he does now so it doesn't make sense it means he cares at least a little bit (not commenting on your president, just an example) Am I correct or have I just noticed typos?
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  1166. Every country that does significant trade with the US is preparing, that's just natural. Have to remember he has threatened tariffs on all imported goods.
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  1167. Stay safe and best of luck.
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  1168. Here's an interesting little fact , in Australia the term ice when not referring to frozen water is used to describe high concentration Meth Amphetamine because some dealer i guess thought it looked like ice.
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  1169. It's still a small minority. We aren't at the level of the US.
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  1170. I am in Australia and I can't imagine someone confronting me for wearing a mask if there is no mandate at the time. In the US 3 people have literally been killed over mask wearing that I am aware of and one would think Tucker would also be aware of being in the US media. On another occasion not mask related but covid 19 restrictions on seating at food establishments a lady shot 4 people at a McDonald's luckily not killing any of them. Antagonizing an already volatile population at the very least is unwise and unhelpful even if it's not illegal.
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  1171. You need to make an adjustment for the welfare payments. In Australia they have been very generous so only business people have suffered. Many low income people or people already on welfare have more money if they are out of work. The question in Australia's case is what happens in 3 or 4 months when the extra welfare payments cut out, that is when problems are more likely to occur.
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  1172. Don't be paranoid. It's only 3 days unless it turns out it has spread.
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  1173. You looking forward to tariffs on your countries goods. Each to their own i suppose.
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  1174. Appointed by politicians is normal but the highly partisan alignment of the judges isn't. With Australia's equivalent the High Court the Prime Minister advises the the Governor General usually with the Attorney General input but not actually required.
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  1175. What do you think of the 100 billionaires in China's parliament?
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  1176. It's their job to get the information as quickly as possible, after listening to many of these calls this involves being polite, keep saying Ma'am or Sir and getting through the questions as quickly as possible which he did. A slightly aggressive tone and interrupting the caller to get to the next question is the fastest way to get through the questions. So the dispatcher did follow all the protocols and did a fine job.
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  1177. Shutting down trade somehow isn't coercive, when a country does that it's considered an act of war.
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  1178.  @jonsmith3945  I am Australian, not my government. However I watched a clip on Fox News Michigan , certainly not government sponsored media and it was clear goods not getting through and as of 2 days ago $50,000,000 in estimated lost wages on the US side. There was no arguments about the facts. The fact that a trickle of goods were getting through is neither here nor there. That's like saying North Korea is trading no problems because some trade occurs but we know that's not the case.
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  1179. That I believe is probably the average cost on the mainland. It'll likely be double that at Guantanamo Bay. All food needs to be shipped in and barracks made for the guards on top of an extra 29,000 beds, probably a new power generator, a desalination plant most likely as not much water available and sewage plant to cope with 35,000 people or so (depending on guard to detainee ratio). Mess facilities and toilet and shower facilities. The other thing of course is maybe they build this facility costing hundreds of millions or even billion plus depending on security levels required and the courts say you can't send people there. Common sense says find out if it's even legal first however that's not how Trump rolls.
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  1180. It's not a bad ad for alcoholics, me being one of them , I trust yeast so that vaccine should be ok.
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  1181. One reason I believe it has been made clear [at this moment] that the US will not put boots on the ground or in the air is because it would give Putin heaps of propaganda when planes get shot down etc. to say it's the Americans and other allies, UK and Australia would automatically agree to provide some support based on recent history but which country would want to be targeted because wherever those planes flying from would then be a Russian target. I can't see any small Eastern European country wanting that.
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  1182. He didn't answer a direct question whether the actions (other than it went too far) were against the rules and talked about humanity. I am suspicious the training is lax. It has been suggested there are systemic problems of police brutality in this jurisdiction the Chief is ultimately responsible if this is the case, he's running the show. Lack of resources might be an issue and that would fall on the police chief and the mayor.
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  1183. I asked and the nurse at a GP practice said yes ok and said no problems when giving the vaccine, I didn't watch because I don't like needles but I think she did it. I am surprised the reaction your husband got, I am guessing that's the exception not the rule.
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  1184. There's a reason for that. He can cause a lot of damage or in other words it's a powerful weapon and he has the power to use this weapon without obtaining any authority. After Trump is gone and done his damage the US should consider removing these remarkable powers of the President (4 year King).
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  1185. I don't know where you get that idea from, minimum age of 18 is the only limitation legally. In practice though it's unlikely someone Trump's age is likely to be elected head of the party in our major parties.
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  1186. The other point is most if not all hospitalisations are actually quarantine of positive cases. Not sure if all states and territories have adopted this but I remember Queensland mentioning that quarantining people in hospital was considered an option. I think it's a good idea because it reduces the risks of people breaking self isolation or the virus spreading through a designated quarantine hotel. Hospitals in theory will have the highest ability to carry out quarantine to a higher standard.
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  1187. There might be provisions to stop anything ending up on the black market and that sort of thing but other than that why would there be any conditions?
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  1188. Well being Australian I wouldn't by a Chinese made Tesla, I would buy a Chinese made and branded vehicle because they are cheaper and just as good for transportation. Seems Musk really wants to kill his own brand for some unknown reason.
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  1189. One thing Netanyahu is telling the truth is they are warning everyone, they want to kill people by starvation and disease and infections. They think that killing people in a "non violent way" is good for hasbara and every male Gazan above maybe 12 years old is hamas.
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  1190. That's exactly what the Great Barrington Declaration supported. Good to find the first dissenter in the comments section.
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  1191. The European lockdowns are half arsed at best for most countries, a lower level of half arsed approach gets approximately the same results. The one problem with the US is 300,000,000 people with absolutely no travel restrictions, even internationally. Apparently the voluntary quarantine upon entry will become less voluntary as in the government might monitor it a bit and give out fines according to Biden plan. But we know that's probably not going to happen because who's going to do it, the national guard is the only possibility. The classic I saw is someone flying from Argentina to Florida to get their free vaccine, an Argentinian of course. So every virus strain on the planet gets to compete in the US. As far as rioting that's normal now, Antifa types still rioting in Portland after Joe Biden is in, they do wear sturdy clothing, masks and often goggles though , so at least they got something right even if it's for the wrong reason.
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  1192. How about the Bible it apparently suggests God will punish the sins of the parents for 3 or 4 generations. Maybe wait another hundred years. But what I have just pointed out is what many BLM supporters want, every white person to feel guilty even immigrants after slavery ended and when you think about it forgive the African slave traders who sold the slaves in the first place , noting that some descendents of these slave traders being more wealthy of course would have migrated to the US. A strange world we live in. So guilt is determined by skin colour and the guilt is intergenerational.
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  1193.  @pohmoh3590  yes you're right many factors to consider and also the vaccination rate might be high in a state but there can be very low vaccination rates in certain areas. This is even occurring up to now in Australia, not completely for the same reasons though, many slow to get the vaccine because they have seen it as unlikely the virus will come anywhere near them, plus all the conspiracy theory stuff but I don't think that number is particularly large. In our 70 + age group 88% have had at least one dose.
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  1194. Actually they only ever dealt with one outbreak before, they overestimated their abilities or underestimated the Delta variant. Same can be said for New South Wales , Australia which is having big problems now but not totally out of control like Ho Chi Min city.
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  1195. Totally agree and publically previously it was said everyone is working together. I am also uncertain how more researchers having knowledge around the world would affect the US response.
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  1196. They broke guidelines effectively because there is no legal penalty which they said has now been corrected.
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  1197. Trump is national socialist actually. I am not saying he is a Nazi however. But putting tariffs on everything imported and handouts for certain industries fits that terminology.
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  1198. If you focus on death metrics the US and UK aren't looking good compared to most Western European countries.
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  1199. At least he said he would leave, that's a start.
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  1200. Duterte said it himself, does anyone really think he would be a passive Vice President or do they think he will be like Putin previously and eventually aim to change the constitution anyway which it looks like can be done if favourability rating is 90%. Maybe if time permits and he has the numbers he will go for the constitutional change before a new election.
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  1201. Technically the indigenous Americans are from immigrants too humans came from Subsaharan Africa but mixed with Denisovan and Neanderthal when leaving Africa and only migrated to the Americas about 20,000 years ago.
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  1202. Trump was mates with Putin, Xi,Kim, Erdogan etc. How is that not weakness?
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  1203. You had better remove yourself from modern life, cameras everywhere even in country town businesses , you need to go bush outside of phone coverage, some tribal village in Papua New Guinea or Africa somewhere, you might be disappointed on occasion when they pull their smart phones out and take your picture.
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  1204.  @MrRiproaring  I think Go Surf might have been a speech writer for a previous Australian PM who said a policy was dead buried and cremated, of course a year or 2 later the policy came alive again and was brought into law.
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  1205.  @avengingmime  it's still sharia which roughly translates as religious law.
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  1206. The US is a net beef importer. In the case Trump puts tariffs on all imports you can say good bye to reasonably priced beef.
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  1207. That's just silly. You can talk about a particular conservative government if you want but don't include Australia where the left and right side of politics took exactly the same approach and supported each other, noting that many state governments are the opposite party to the federal government and looking at this particular issue only you would not be able to identify which party is which.
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  1208. Well he's better at reading than Trump, even Biden is despite him being older. The teleprompters are great.
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  1209. Nah can't have him destroy the English language. Sayings like "I can Trump that" or "you've come up Trumps" or " I've got the Trump card up my sleeve" Maybe my last example has already been destroyed and people might think I am planning a violent attack , let's not let him destroy anything more. Maybe you're right and at least in your country and maybe elsewhere these sayings slowly died over the last 4 years.
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  1210. You not even in the correct country unless the US has invaded Canada and nobody has heard about.
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  1211. Wrong country.
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  1212.  @CharlesvanDijk-ir6bl  other than some areas in New South Wales and Victoria of course, I think we all have about the same internal restrictions, maybe minor variations with pubs and restaurants that's about all.
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  1213. North Korea might do that, very effective though, I bet they have no cases.
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  1214. An encampment doesn't hinder other students, so I am glad you agree that the protesters actions don't violate anything.
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  1215. Well you would advocate 15,000 dead Australians so that a few protestors don't get hurt feelings along with other issues associated with lockdown lite which are just as harmful as a proper lockdown?
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  1216. Uhm but it has never shut to US citizens with a voluntary self isolation scheme or guidance in place, so what are you talking about?
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  1217. @t nonyabusiness You appear to be from the US and calling Australia authoritarian, your country if it is the US has about 400,000 health offence prisoners which is more than double Australia per capita. You made a note of one event in one state of Australia, while it wasn't handled that well so what? Your country has literally millions of people on limited house arrest whether through orders or it's the only way to protect themselves from a virus which is rampant, you also have thousands of businesses forced to close because of health directives and you come up with a single incident where nobody hurt and nothing happened. The 400,000 effectively thought crime health prisoners are persons found with drugs. As far as Australia being communist please check the economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation and you will see your country is more socialist than mine actually and Trump increased this with his trade war with China and increased industry handouts, which is not what free market capitalists like to see.
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  1218. Take care.
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  1219. The day after opening up it will rise to 1.3 or something, happens every time.
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  1220. Best of luck, I am sure you will enjoy your trip.
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  1221. Strange comments in this thread, let's take USA and Germany, life expectancy rankings of 40th and 20th in the world respectively (Wikipedia based on WHO). Strangely enough the countries in the top 10 for life expectancy have high to very high vaccination rates for Covid 19. If we specifically then look at the region of WHO those countries are found in we get even more stark data, the wealthy countries in the Western Pacific WHO region are Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. We all over 75% double dosed and being from Australia I can say we haven't even started the 5 to 11 age group. Deaths of all these countries from covid 19 up to now is around 10% of that in Germany on a per capita basis. What did our region do different? Well our scientists and doctors etc. decided that genuine quarantine for travel was a good idea, also our vaccine rollouts were all slow to start and not done in as rushed a manner in most cases which gives higher public confidence. Our life expectancies are all in the top 10 countries except New Zealand in the mid teens. Maybe just maybe listening to scientists and doctors is a good idea. The social scientists won the day in the European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region by elimination of quarantine because it would cause too much damage to society apparently. Could also be argued it was populist politicians who refuse to tell the truth, voluntary shortened quarantine (as in not quarantine) was never going to work.
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  1222. I am guessing the policy same to Australia and that is won't cooperate if it involves Capital punishment. I am guessing but don't know it may also apply to corporal punishment. Nothing to do with race that's just ridiculous. Same would apply to a criminal that might get the death penalty regardless of country the crime is committed and the US is obviously one of them.
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  1223. Only Melbourne and Singapore have done this before, however I do share your optimism but it's likely to take another 10 weeks like it did other places. Hundreds of cases a day only 3 places have got back to 0 which is the 2 I mentioned above plus Wuhan.
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  1224.  @soulsphere9242  I am from Queensland so not Victorian but the piling on by the Federal Government, NSW Government at times and Sky News Australia it would make me a bit defensive if I was Victorian and actually push me towards Labor in Victoria. I voted for QLD Labor in the election last year because I didn't trust the LNP , first time I ever put Labor as 1 in a state or federal election.
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  1225. Not missed but more vaccine hesitant so requires more time and resources to convince them.
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  1226. If you look at the offender race with homicides by those categorized as black it's about 4 times that of white offenders and as such the rate that a gun is pulled upon a suspect based on race is entirely consistent. Racism is not the primary issue, the primary issue is who commits crime more as a group. If course the US needs to fix it's policing issues but a bigger issue is the homicide rate is 5 times that of comparable countries and in many inner cities it's more dangerous than many poor corrupt countries.
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  1227. They know the mutations to be concerned about based on number of changes and they have identified some changes that have occured in isolation of each other meaning that change is beneficial to the virus. But to your point the more cases around the more chances of mutations and with say the UK variant it's probably already mutating again somewhere.
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  1228. There's 2 of them apparently and one has gone public.
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  1229.  @tovsteh  At the time there seemed to be no other choice about what to do with nursing home residents, the hospitals were over flowing in New York, brought about in part thousands of infected people rushed in from Europe due to Trump's policy. In both cases there wasn't any bad intent but errors were made. What is currently occurring in Florida is with intent and if you see what's happening there it's terrible.
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  1230. Why would someone want to live in a deep freezer?
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  1231. In simple terms it's legalised gambling that some rich people are profiting off. Trump was correct previously when he said that bitcoin is for money laundering and drug cartels or whatever he exactly said.
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  1232. Probably referring to dual citizens.
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  1233.  @skepticalbadger  life wasn't cheap but if you look up life expectancy in 1918 it's only about 40 and most likely compared to know the major cause would have been bacteria through pneumonia or diarrhea for children. Some of these problems still exist in poorer countries often compounded by civil wars and especially now because of covid 19 disrupting everything. We in wealthy countries are extremely fortunate.
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  1234. This is really tough now, without slowing them down i could easily be fooled by some of those videos except i suppose them being too perfect as in the AI keeps creating supermodel type looks with absolutely perfect skin. It's no different to most people now creating AI images of themselves using photoshop type images of themselves.
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  1235. So you going to blame China for American antivaxxers? How did you come to this conclusion?
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  1236. So you going to blame China because Americans are antivaxxers. Please explain the logic to me.
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  1237. Your description sounds like some part of a horror movie, I know maybe wasn't meant to but I get the vision of sick people being wheeled in by these military personnel and no one coming out.
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  1238. Remember when they compared it to a wildfire or bushfire , now the US and Europe in general look like California or Victoria Australia in a very bad fire season. It doesn't help if the bloke in charge is a fire bug.
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  1239.  @---fc2ph  technically you could be right he could become vice president indefinitely or until he's dead and nothing really stopping the president of the day handing over to the vice president as acting president. But alas I think he'll be gone by 20 Jan sometime during that day.
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  1240. Best of luck wherever you decide to move to.
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  1241. Right wing racists would love it. People burning their own neighbourhoods down. An out of towner would not be leading this mob because going into unknown neighbourhoods might get you killed.
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  1242. Totally agree with your last point , Japan, Western Australia, China and New Zealand seem to be the last covid 0 holdouts, better they let Omicron in/spread but in a semi controlled manner.
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  1243. The US is possibly the most religious wealthy nation in the world and it also has a homicide rate 5 times that of all comparable nations except for Canada where it's 3 times the homicide rate or something like that. Religion is irrelevant.
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  1244. Sounds unfortunate.
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  1245. Don't pick Australia or New Zealand, we lock down too quickly. But I think the 300,000,000 in the US with no travel restrictions is a better option than UK because even if they put loose international travel restrictions you still have those 300,000,000 people working internally on the spread, the governments even put in policies to even the spread by locking down counties or states but allowing their infected population to travel to other states or counties without lockdown, it's rather well done. A bioterrorist could not plan it better.
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  1246.  @bungkusi2432  They were just reporting, they didn't make up the information, Indonesia has the statistics and the policy of giving a Moderna shot to health workers as a booster. Don't shoot the messenger , it's not helpful. Just as they have reported on AZ problems, this isn't some conspiracy theory.
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  1247.  @DulceN  Nah many like me came here to read crazy comments.
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  1248. I am a smoker in Australia and pay approximately 10,000% tax on tobacco, without tax 50 grams should cost about $1 but costs over $100 AUD. I am paying for many other hospital beds and from purely a user pays basis smokers are cheaper because they just die it's the non smoker non drinker normal weight person that costs an absolute fortune , health care and pension costs into their bloody 90s.
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  1249. Strange comments in this thread it's not an either or, should be vaccinated and if low on Vitamin d or zinc should take supplement and evidence does suggest it helps.
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  1250.  @donbell4583  I am ok with us getting vaccines a little slower because others do need it more but on same token and this applies to Australia moreso we shouldn't be condemned for draconian measures, applies to Australian border especially. John doesn't condemn us and probably most viewers on this youtube channel don't either, so not talking of this group as a whole. If that Indian variant is as bad as it seems it might be some countries with fairly high vaccination rates could have yet another wave of cases and deaths, so we have done the right thing. I hope that possibility doesn't occur but prefer our countries treat these new variants as completely new viruses.
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  1251. Ignoring your first 2 paragraphs, thanks, although I am not in New South Wales I have confidence they will get it under control, hopefully within the 2 weeks lockdown period they have now. I have heard the communist term towards any country that is successful but not from media, from comments on youtube from people in countries that didn't do so well.
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  1252.  @davidt9238  They tried to and parents refused as far as we know. Teachers shouldn't have to be policemen and lawyers. There's probably some ridiculous procedure they would have to follow calling social services etc.
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  1253. Well Italy had 2,000,000 available for itself at the time and only distributed 21% of them, Italy's population is about 2 and a half times that of Australia, so sending 250,000 doses to Australia was already a go slow. Until all border workers, hotel quarantine workers and certain medical workers are vaccinated effectively we are at risk of further outbreaks which cause lockdowns. I am uncertain if all those mentioned above have received there first shot yet but hopefully they have with the Pfizer one. My point is ok fair enough we get it a little slower because other countries failed but be reasonable and consider the other countries in our region, it's Australia and New Zealand that will help the rollouts in our Pacific neighbours. Good thing is if reports are correct the vaccines are all ramping up quickly and the timelines now look achievable.
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  1254. Unless you refuse all covid patients and put them in covid colonies to die with no interventions having covid 19 rampant means other healthcare suffers.
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  1255. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. We don't know if Delta or Lambda or something might mutate and the mutation appears out of nowhere like omicron but unlike omicron keeps it's deadliness. If it really occurs which I doubt, that all people are either infected with Omicron or vaccinated ok it might not be a big issue but if not then things will continue for a while. I of course hope your optimism comes true but I prefer to be cautiously optimistic, certain countries with very high vaccination rates should be fine regardless but those countries with still significant aged people unvaccinated the problems may continue.
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  1256. I am an Aussie and I am joining the boycott. Hard boycott on US products and soft boycott on US companies operating in Australia.
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  1257. That's all good and well and both through being fortunate and luck you are doing well for your age. However you will be less capable than you were 20 years ago.
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  1258. If you're American you already went through that, covid 19 deaths in India so far are still far less on a per capita basis. The US might have fancy looking hospitals but for 500,000 people and their families it means nothing.
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  1259.  @Lybrel  on the US CDC website it indicates 335 deaths of 0-17 year olds involving Covid 19. Certainly it's a small number but it's not 0.
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  1260.  @AbbyViewss  I hope all goes well and you get extradited home for compassionate reasons. Unfortunately as you probably know most Australian states reduced their intakes recently due to in part the more infectious strains in the world.
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  1261. Yeah but subsidies aren't necessary. Abruptly cutting them isn't a good idea , phasing them out over a 10 year period or so would make sense.
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  1262. Unfortunately my guess is printing presses are running hot in India at the moment.
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  1263. The risk to children is still low, traffic accidents kill more. This is based on US data. If vaccinated as in over 5 and up to 18 it's really not worth worrying about unless the child has significant other issues. So yes take reasonable precautions but shouldn't become overly worried about the situation. It's the 50+ age cohort who refuse to get vaccinated that's the real problem for societies and to an extent those in that group that refuse to get 3 doses also, indications so far indicate extremely good protection after the third dose.
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  1264. Imagine if Australia retaliated and cut off iron ore supply, I think you would change your position and say no agreements should be followed.
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  1265.  @isorokuyamamoto8423  Australian iron ore exports represent over 50% of the internationally traded iron ore and China imports around 70% of the internationally traded iron ore so for all intensive purposes Australia is the only seller. Australia has no intention to retaliate , if it did however it would have no effect on the general economy as in probably not even a single job lost, our mines are highly efficient and quite automated, for example one person will operate 6 dump trucks from a computer in Perth. The Chinese economy however would be devastated in the short term, the only real driver of growth is the command economy construction with an estimated 50,000,000 vacant apartments, China also exports around 7% of it's steel production. Everyone knows that the good times from iron ore will end sometime and if China changed to a free market economy tomorrow they would suffer a massive collapse and iron ore requirements would plummet. Interesting a person with a Japanese name is pro CPC and China. Japan and South Korea and others in our region could easily replace the Chinese exports of steel, I think that wouldn't be a problem, obviously the US due to it's location and the location of steel mills wouldn't make sense. So in summary Australia has no intention to retaliate as of now and if we did in a direct sense it would do little harm to us, it would just be bringing forward the inevitable which is eventually China will stop putting up ghost buildings and cities. Australian government debt is only about 45% so pretty low by international standards and the government although it certainly loves the revenue generated from iron ore can and eventually will have to survive without the current windfall brought on by China's policies.
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  1266. You are doing well, cases down about 90% from peak, freedom awaits you , but have to still be patient and vigilant for now.
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  1267.  @KlausJLinke  Good attitude, being furious is like worrying it serves no purpose on its own. Stay safe the best you can.
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  1268. A different system of government, removing a PM literally takes a couple of hours, removing a US president needs to be for misconduct and have 2 thirds senate support. Since the Republican senators for now are showing total loyalty it can't happen any time soon.
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  1269. The federal government has nothing to do with testing other than paying for half of it. I watched QLDs treasurer give part of the covid update for boxing day I think it was and QLD has a budget deficit of about $ 1.5 Billion and he took a jab at NSW saying that they have a $20 Billion deficit. So my guess because your budget position is really bad they are taking short cuts out of desperation which unfortunately compounds problems, seen this play out in many countries around the world. NSW does have a very high vaccination rate so should be ok but things may not go smoothly. Hope you recover no problems, take care.
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  1270. The title is wrong it's hardcore "woke" legislation. Excessively worrying about how one race or another might feel is the definition of woke.
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  1271. Those 2 countries are very highly vaccinated and lower obesity rates than countries like UK or US.
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  1272. Strange comment, Australia is a top 10 trading partner of China and most likely the highest per capita trade of the non Chinese partner. Taiwan and Hong Kong excluded.
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  1273. Unfortunately you are absolutely correct. Are you for Putin or real democracy?
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  1274. Hey NZ isn't that far from Australia and you would be aware 3 places have had lockdowns with 1 case, Queensland, Western Australia and NZ. Australia as I thought you would be aware has states that run the show, the federal government is only involved in the rules for international entry.
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  1275. Hang in there the best you can, I know conditions would be difficult in the Philippines. In many ways I feel more sorry for your country and Indonesia because like neighbor and at least you try with limited resources. The US has plenty of resources and a proportion of the population actually fight against success including the big one Trump. I do have empathy for Americans also, especially the majority it would seem that do try. But small majority can never succeed , vast majority is needed. From Australia 🇦🇺
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  1276. Taxes could go down if done properly. Australia has universal healthcare and we spend less money per capita on government funded healthcare than USA.
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  1277. I agree with everything you say but on this occasion I think he might be right. It would be better coming from someone else because nobody trusts him.
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  1278. Comparing the Israel lobby to Cuban and Chinese lobbies is ridiculous. The covert operations of China are similar but the overt operations aren't comparable. In some US states you need to swear allegiance to Isreal saying you don't support BDS to get a government job. Also nobody will be criticised for saying anything about the Chinese government in an educational institution however if someone criticises the Israeli government at an educational institution they are now labelled antisemetic by law and subject to possible punishment by that institution. Nobody should downplay what the Israel lobby has achieved by comparing it to any other foreign lobby inside of the US.
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  1279. Well a few million have died.
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  1280. Take care the best you can.
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  1281. Nice and good anecdote but really you should have been checked out for brain injury. Obviously it didn't occur but if it had you might not be here. Good to hear your good luck story though.
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  1282.  @bchollis1451  It's not a no brainier actually, doing some half arsed measure will achieve half arsed results or delay spread a tiny bit from imported cases. China only ever exported 5,000 cases to the world if that and the US has managed to grow the virus very successfully. 14 days enforced hotel quarantine is the only proven successful method of dramatically reducing virus coming into countries or jurisdictions like states. Quarantine breaches will still occur occasionally but see case numbers per capita in Australia versus the US which are both federations where the states control the response within their borders. Australians normally travel internationally on a per capita basis a little more than Americans so nothing to do with size.
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  1283. Once you hear the words "I don't know the answer to that, I'll get back to you" in one of these types of press conference you can relax. It's probably the most common line used in jurisdictions across the world except for China and previously the US ( still applies to many US states though I suspect). China it's all prearranged so journalists don't get to freely ask questions so I think you can never hear that. US it was for outright deception when Trump spoke.
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  1284. The 9/11 terrorists were reported on and they weren't white as such, seems your assertion is incorrect.
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  1285. You are another country that was looking good but now looking out of control. I wish you the best of luck, take care.
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  1286. I am from Queensland Australia and I am still coming to terms with the concept that people after being tested in some US jurisdictions according to reporters are not required to isolate until results come back. If in some cases as reported it's a week and you can run around Willy nilly , you could very well be positive at the time your negative result comes back. Then because you are really not feeling good you head to the test centre again but this time reinfecting others as you wait for the result.
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  1287.  @Jakob_DK  I didn't make myself clear. I was describing the situation in the US in some areas according to reports when talking about testing delays. I'll edit my comment.
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  1288. Wrong country mate. Those paramilitary police and military walking the streets and another video of someone being killed every few days is the US buildings and vehicles on fire and they call it peaceful. Our only entertainment is watching Victorian covid 19 restriction protestors scurrying around when the police come . If they started tear gassing em and rubber bullets that might liven it up but better not to I think.
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  1289.  @taffshep1  No that was other states plus Northern Territory other than essential goods and transport of course. Western Australia had several intrastate checkpoints in the beginning to ensure people don't travel around their state. There is very good reason however because if covid 19 got into any remote community and the capital of any of the large area states had a problem then they are dead simple as that. If a reasonable hospital might be 1000km or 650 miles away really what can be done if problems everywhere.
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  1290.  @michaelwilliams3861  maybe UK plus Republic of Ireland and throw in France for land area and maybe 2,600,000 people. Area doesn't matter though because mostly they live in Perth , not scattered throughout the desert.
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  1291.  @PonderingLifeToo you have to think of the different Australia states as different countries if you are from Europe or North American. From a technical but not logistical point of view travelling to London or Western Australia is very similar, not sure which would be easier. I would need lease on my proposed accommodation in either case to get either entry permit to Western Australia or travel permit to leave Australia. We are like a communist country, we need a permit to leave. An illegal immigrant from Victoria that snuck into Western Australia got 6 months prison. Western Australia might have only minor internal restrictions but try getting in or out if you are not transporting goods or for work.
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  1292.  @rijamor  100,000 dead people and you consider that a success? What might failure look like in your opinion?
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  1293.  Xandrew Xandrew  I hope you read my edit on previous comment. So ok it's about power and whoever has the most power has the right to bully according to you. Australia doesn't take this position, unfortunately we did it on one occasion on one product to Indonesia however it was short lived and an error. Australia won't do that to our trading partners whether or not they are more or less powerful, if we slapped trade sanctions on a country everytime we had a disagreement on something we would have a lot of trade sanctions happening.
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  1294.  @fatdoi003  That's just common sense, I am certain China wouldn't allow some big US company run their 5g network. I do think we could have been a little more diplomatic when saying no but the decision to say no is the correct one. Huawei isn't banned just not for the public 5g network. Imagine if at the flick of a switch another country who you are not certain about had the power to shut down communications and cause absolute chaos, it would only be 3 days or so and people don't have money because it's all electronic and banks would be incapable of going back to manual.
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  1295. I have seen it before with Thaksin supporters in Thailand. Thailand is actually doing ok but it has the problem of poorly distributed wealth like the US.
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  1296.  @JoeDeglman  you don't know what per Capita is do you and how to compare, let's make it simple. In Australia 0.008% of the population has died from covid 19, In the US 0.25% of the population has died from covid 19. Do you understand this concept and how restrictions certainly played a part?
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  1297. One little mouse lol that I have seen. The tennis players and crew are the scary possibly diseased ones. Rodents can catch it but no idea how difficult because they ran tests on them earlier on.
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  1298.  老人香港  Huawei isn't banned, just for public infrastructure. If a company wishes to use Huawei they can but a Chinese company wanting to buy coal can't. My preference would have been Australia just says as a precaution we have decided to go with 5g equipment suppliers from allied countries, something like that but I not the foreign minister or prime minister. Of course China spies as does everyone however that probably wasn't the main concern, up to companies and government to use secure communications. The main concern would be they could shut it down in a conflict or even a heated trade war. Shutting down a countries communications is extremely powerful so better to not take the risk. China wouldn't allow a foreign company to supply their 5g network either, China isn't stupid.
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  1299. You haven't noticed a distant country of Australia?
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  1300. In the scheme of things that makes him the most honest and decent. And suggest people take his advice.
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  1301. Compare the death rate in Serbia to Australia, it's a pretty big difference and although Serbia not bad by European standards some European countries over 3,000 deaths per million, that's terrible.
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  1302. While he sort of spoke in a condescending manner he would be correct in what he says and actually stated things in a non biased way "we don't know what's in those closed documents" . It can be the case which I would suggest it probably is that the law itself is wrong , shooting the messenger changes nothing. He wasn't there to comment on the merits or lack of , of the law itself.
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  1303. Cattle farmers will be ok, the US is a net beef importer, have to see if Trump does a blanket tariff on beef imports. At the moment Australia's largest export market for beef by weight is the US. However even if Australia doesn't get hit with tariffs we have a quota which would likely get used up if other countries are tariffed by the US.
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  1304. Your last sentence, think about what you are suggesting. Do you want armed guards and a prison style fence or wall put up around every school and metal detector or scanner and frisked to enter. That's what would be required. A sharpened piece of bamboo or wood is good enough to stab someone and it gets worse from there, a screwdriver or a knife are completely concealable. Better monitoring of children's health well being might have helped.
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  1305. I am happy to be Australian, if I was in school at the times and places these policies were implemented I would likely be in prison or dead by now. Terrible policies have consequences.
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  1306. Australia gives aid as in dollars with no strings attached, China gives debt with strings attached. So it's sort of apples and oranges, politicians the world over have a habit of short term gain for long term pain and that's difficult to compete with when providing cash and China's economy is a little bigger than ours, they can afford to give the loans no problems and not care if they don't get paid back any time soon so long as they get some fishing and mining rights. It's the same playbook China is using in Latin America and Africa, dominate the world.
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  1307.  @ykook7000  I agree with your last statement, I am in QLD and same applies to WA we both locked down with only 1 known community case of the Delta variant and a high compliance rate I believe. That variant terrifies our state officials.
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  1308. They do in a small way , Media Watch criticises anyone including the ABC itself.
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  1309. A complete waste of time but the public thinks it achieves something.
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  1310. Don't know about that, I reckon Trump would keep tweeting even if put into an induced coma, it's become a bit like breathing or a beating heart. Only death will stop the tweets.
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  1311. Yes we can't change the past and I agree with you however being from a covid free state at high risk I don't like the rhetorical pressure being put on us to open up at some unknown time by the states that are in lockdown. While it's nothing like as divided as the US all significant government public division is bad.
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  1312.  @thomasgrabkowski8283  interstate relations just like international relations have nothing to do with democracy, NSW and VIC bullying QLD at various times is just that. Being a bully is nothing to do with being a democracy, non democracies are just as capable of it.
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  1313.  @FPScanadaPC  Suicides aren't up in countries that locked down. I think you mean the cowardly tyrannical partial lockdowns that never end. It's unfortunate that perceived political advantage comes above life and doing a job properly.
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  1314. @Will Reddish Biden is soon to be a president, this was not a federal crime and absolutely nothing he or Trump for that matter could do about it. Whatever the law and policies in that state is what it is. Your president isn't an all powerful God, states do actually exist and have certain jurisdictional issues.
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  1315. Not sure about that, stupidity kills. I know what you mean but you cover a whole category of risk takers who do die. Having a calm demeanor might be a better way to describe it.
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  1316. How about banning children having guns so they don't go and shoot up schools. That might be a bit better and no a voluntary code of conduct with gun ownership doesn't actually work as can be seen in the US.
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  1317. It's about disfunction. The costs to the US on a per capita basis are going to end up well in excess of best practice. Go hard go fast and be serious in the beginning. Now you seem to be past a point of no return. People are not going to accept all wearing masks closed state borders and serious quarantine. It was not acceptable in your country when it could have made a difference and it won't be acceptable now. I just say take care of yourself the best you can and best of luck.
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  1318.  @barbarawalsh6576  Doesn't mean she doesn't like Florida or it's people, a politician isn't a state. I am Australian and can see crazy behaviour by lefties and right wingers in the US, while I don't have any plans , maybe one day I will visit your country, your politicians aren't going to deter me, your crime rates might or at least it would deter me from going to many locations inside the US.
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  1319.  @jackdalton8031  We get nothing other than very close allies which would likely still remain , nothing also means no harm and no costs. I voted yes to a Republic in the referendum we had however if it isn't just effectively a change of title for the governor general to president and the vote is for a different system of government I would vote no because we certainly don't want a directly elected president with powers more similar to an absolute monarch than the current status quo with no individual with any real power greater than another, governor general and prime minister about equal power except prime minister can be removed by his/her own party in about 15 minutes if the parliament is sitting and everyone there.
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  1320. Hate to break it to you but they're American Trump supporters mostly. Trump stated that Putin was a genius when the initial invasion into Eastern Ukraine happened a couple of weeks ago.
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  1321. I don't have a child but if I did I would say "son/daughter I hope you have learnt your lesson and don't attack police" as the first part of the video indicates this.
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  1322.  @CarolReidCA  Part of your comment is correct but most of it isn't. If China had known earlier they would have locked down Wuhan earlier so clearly they didn't know until January 22 when over the next day they did a complete lockdown including all flights to anywhere which remained in place until April 14 . The flights coming out of Wuhan were evacuation flights requested by other governments which for obvious reasons couldn't be denied. It's not either possible or the responsibility of China to do anything with those people once they are in another country. All the evidence I have seen indicates less than 1,000 cases ever got out of China prior to January 23 and more likely around 100. I have not heard of a single confirmed case going from any other Chinese city to outside China so even if it did occur the number would be minnescule. But the number is completely irrelevant if countries chose to do nothing other than watch the spread , like the US did and no enforced quarantine to this day. Biden talks about doing it but I don't think it has been done yet and if it's not in a hotel it can't work anyway, even with hotels breaches will occur occasionally. Partial lockdown as practiced by every US state is largely pointless because as you pointed out no travel restrictions. I take it one step further the US actually has a spreading mechanism built into policy because if you lock down one state or county with high infections people just go to the place with low infections that are not locked down. Australian hotel quarantine is almost exclusively for returning citizens so can't avoid that one.
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  1323. No it's not, this is how they behave, just like Trump.
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  1324.  @vietnam1978  It's not about being honest, Dr Campbell is trying to look at too many things at once and if course can't understand all peculiarities in every country. Good to hear it looks like you have got rid of it again in Vietnam.
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  1325. It's not about in the military as women have always dominated in the nursing field for example but combat roles. While it might not apply so much these days due to how modern wars are often fought, a big concern was/is if a woman is captured she would likely be treated worse than a male especially regarding sexual violence.
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  1326. The old man had days in which he could have contacted police about the scammers but he did nothing. These scams can't be done instantly because the victim needs to prepare the money. Given his age hopefully he goes to prison for the rest of his life. If he believed the phone controlled a $20 million military drone capable of blowing up his house he had already neutralised that threat. Sounds ridiculous right however at 81 one can quite often become quite delusional.
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  1327. Yep and 400,000 of them ironically are in there on health offences as in drugs which causes no direct harm to others.
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  1328. I do think this ad is particularly heavy hitting because it's a man that is universally seen as a good guy. I am not American and I think he is a hero in the true sense.
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  1329. Let them die on the street and refuse them healthcare? This would be leaving them alone , I am not sure you have thought your comment through.
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  1330.  @dessssssss  many doctors but not universally are terribly arrogant and some nurses also although they tend to be better.
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  1331. Really? Australia is the only country declared to be an enemy. If they owned us why would they call us an enemy, they don't even refer to the US as an enemy.
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  1332.  @davidjohnpaul333  Totally with you David, from Queensland we have picked up some in sewerage as a possible early warning too which is great it means those areas monitored closely and seeing if it's a new outbreak versus someone shedding dead virus, meaning much less chance of significant local lockdowns. In Aus/NZ we have it down pat now I think with every state plus NZ in full communication and learning off any errors of others .
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  1333. Not from what I can see, just 3 days stopover in a government approved hotel if entering by air which is somewhat pointless, another Swiss cheese approach to quarantine and will slightly slow spread , no intention to stop the spread. Maybe you are speaking of some proposal not yet in effect, my source was the Canadian government website so pretty reliable I think.
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  1334. Close your border, 14 days mandatory enforced hotel quarantine for anyone entering other than goods vehicles with tight restrictions.
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  1335. I think he is actually delusional and believes in his ideas.
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  1336.  @patriciafarrow9586  I agree with you but mostly if it was a leak from a lab or as some conspiracy theories proclaim a bioweapon the chance of it being so effective is almost 0. The other thing is every single day there are probably 1,000 or whatever zoonotic transfers of virus to humans , 999 either die within minutes of infection or the person becomes ill but passes it to no one, 1 case passes to a close relative or something and it goes no further. All the talk about stopping it from ever occurring again is silly because it's impossible, we can only minimize risks and prepare. The pro China conspiracy theories are just as bad as the Western ones.
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  1337. China can be replaced as a market pretty quickly actually and if you know about resources they go up and down like crazy without any wars. China exports significant volumes of steel, countries like Japan, South Korea, India and many ASEAN countries can replace the Chinese export portion of steel and I would suggest far quicker than one might expect.
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  1338.  @just_chris1630  It's not a curfew, just the time pubs and restaurants have to close. They use terminology very different and as a sceptical person I think it is partly to mislead. California at least has capacity limits at bars and restaurants but other than that feel free to spread the virus. I think they have shut some business types in some county's but again feel free to go to the neighbouring county if it's open. Melbourne and Auckland had lockdowns proper and police checkpoints to stop people escaping if they're not allowed. Hey great job in Victoria if you are from there, I think start of next month Queensland will open its border to Vic.
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  1339. Which one, the UK virus, the South African virus, the Brazilian virus and of course the yet to be discovered US 1 and US 2 virus ( the US don't do much of that genomic stuff yet, something about testing and number of strains, if you don't test you don't have cases)
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  1340. The problem with that theory is a genomic sequence that demonstrated that virus came before the A and B types in Wuhan should have been found somewhere. I think it could have however been what you say but extremely low levels and not contagious at all, needs to be lower enough levels to have never been detected and sequenced as in hundreds or thousands of cases only worldwide.
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  1341. Yes according to worldometers Hungary is the worst country in the world not just the EU for deaths per capita.
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  1342. Nah , China is closer to that position than the US.
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  1343. What they have done where I am in Australia but I am guessing in all Australia and New Zealand a supermarket chain shames people. The mask mandate in my area only for 2 weeks and ends on Saturday hopefully. I noticed although the vast majority of people are wearing masks a couple of times I saw people not wearing a mask and a message comes over the loudspeaker reminding people that by law they are required to wear a mask, I think it's triggered by staff whenever they see someone without a mask. One guy did have a guilty look so I think it works.
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  1344. That actually wasn't the real problem, everywhere has had quarantine breeches, it's impossible to have 0 spread in quarantine hotels. The problem was the slow response after the breech was known, 3 cities have gone into lockdown once a single Alpha case has been discovered in hotel quarantine staff, Auckland, Brisbane and Perth. Clearly this didn't occur in Taiwan, with prior variants rapid contact tracing and mass testing was good enough in most cases.
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  1345. But that's what the US did, exactly what you are saying they should have done. The US never locked down, just shut bars and restaurants at times that's about it.
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  1346. More likely a video game Martin Bryant Australia's and the world biggest mass shooter at the time, it was said he performed far better than you would expect any trained military person. He was the catalyst for gun reform in Australia about 25 years ago, haven't had any incident like it since except by an Australian who travelled to New Zealand to take advantage of lax gun laws to commit a massacre, gun reform to align New Zealand laws with Australia is in process. Maybe one day the US will realise the benefits, nothing to do with second amendment, automatic weapons are already banned under Reagan a republican president, now move to semi automatic.
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  1347. One thing about this case is I still don't know what the motive was.
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  1348. You are incorrect. The word martyred or at least as translated has subtlety different meaning to English. They say babies are martyred also and nobody thinks they are fighters.
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  1349. Well in your country the unvaccinated are disproportionately showing up in ICUs and some of them being transferred to body bags after that. Unfortunately society has to pay for that choice , ICU beds aren't cheap.
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  1350. As an Australian and obviously allies to both countries I am thinking sort of good having a bit of distance between both northern allies. The language in this thread is almost as ferocious as that against Australia on CGTN. The CPC laughing their heads off as they read through these comments.
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  1351. As long as you give it a wash it'll be fine, I wouldn't want that furriness on my tongue personally.
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  1352. Not really, white people ended slavery long before it ended in Asia or Africa where in actual fact it still exists to an extent much larger than in predominantly European countries.
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  1353. The cartels will have more smuggling opportunities, imagine the value of a smuggled load of avocados or car parts.
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  1354.  @omar-uu8qo  the problem has been around for almost 50 years and Republicans have been in power about half the time, how do you figure it's one party's fault?
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  1355. Hepatitis B vaccine is 2 or 3 shots , it's normal.
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  1356. Actually a smoker who eats healthy has a much greater life expectancy than a morbidly obese person, encouraging really bad eating is worse.
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  1357. I have observed that occurring in US states many times, my guess is voluntary measures to protect oneself dramatically increase after hospitals are seen overflowing and refusing patients on the news, it becomes very real.
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  1358. They sort of don't have a choice, especially Mexican and Canadian leaders.
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  1359. To get consistent terminology Hurricane Katrina was windy light shower that caused some minor disruptions.
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  1360.  @jeschinstad  All Western Europe and US still have to this day have no enforced quarantine, all the West Pacific from China to New Zealand and all countries in between do. We clearly have a different cultural attitude to such matters. Even Singapore started with a Swedish type approach , it had the ability to change approach, one thing most governments have failed at is to change policy even if they know it works. Japan has done ok but they also slow change and maybe they have lost control now, have to see 5,000 cases a day means contact tracing doesn't work properly any more, they protect the border well though so shouldn't get the really contagious strains but if they do then big problems. Thailand I think will regain control, maybe I am biased because of personal relationship there but they could go either way , Malaysia did really well as well for a long time but lost control. There is no other way to do it and I wish other countries outside our region would follow and at a minimum protect their borders from new strains but they won't, just half measures. Africa I don't follow but seems that they have kept the spread relatively low except for South Africa.
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  1361. I am not American but some of this does amaze me. There are out of touch politicians everywhere but if Joe did say poor kids can be just as smart as white kids. What the hell was he thinking. Just a quick internet search shows that numerically poor white kids according to poverty line outnumber poor black kids by a factor of approximately 2. The rate in the black community is on average maybe a little over double that of white people but there is a far larger white population. If I was one of those white or black people in that situation I think I would consider voting for Trump not because I like him but because the other guy offends me more.
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  1362. Russia is the biggest supply of arms followed by China. If Singapore has supplied anything they are way down the list.
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  1363. Hello scammer
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  1364. Yes I agree nothing to do with UK, protests occured in Melbourne last year but lower numbers. Those people are potentially an extremely big problem if the virus spreads amongst them because they will likely ignore all restrictions and not get tested unless they need to go to hospital.
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  1365. It doesn't exactly work like that , a household that becomes fully infected can be over a longer time. It seems consistent with Melbourne Victoria when they lockdown hard cases continued to rise for about 2 weeks from memory. Maybe with the Delta variant it will be a little quicker. So opening up the same thing it can take a while for the spread to accelerate. My guess is cases will increase because the efficacy of vaccines against infection of Delta is only 60% or so. This one I think will know next week.
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  1366. I agree at this point in time it looks like his job might be impossible when he takes over. But wait and see, maybe he will do better than seems possible now.
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  1367. Think of the Taliban as the Republican Party, they aren't all the same, some Qanon/Trump followers would be quite happy with a military takeover of the US with Trump anointed as President or in other words what the Taliban has done so far is in full alignment with the methods of the Taliban but the Taliban will have moderates also and unlike with Biden the ousted president of Afghanistan was seen as illegitimate by many and seems there was widespread support for the Taliban outside of the major cities, just like Republicans actually. I think worst case scenario isn't going to happen however it won't be as inclusive and moderate as the educated city people want.
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  1368. Maybe BBC will be a little less critical of Australia having a short term direct travel ban from India.
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  1369. That's good but just remember it's a marketing campaign. They probably plan to sell 100 or 200 million doses of the vaccine at $20 a shot. Nothing wrong with it but if India ends up overpaying for vaccines the small gain now might not seem so great in the future.
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  1370. There is an advantage if the food is horrible you can dispose of it without being caught and still say how beautiful the food was. So think of it as having certain added advantages.
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  1371.  @Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes  I think you mean coastal QLD, not going to be normal at Roma or Mt Isa I think.
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  1372.  @vietnam1978  It's a state issue, my opinion is that certain other states are far stricter.
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  1373. Another Aussie, I'll put my 2 cents worth, I think both candidates and political parties in the US are basically mad and disfunctional. The only thing to really consider is who might do more damage than the other. Best of luck US citizens.
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  1374. Yeah Hasbara works overtime on this channel because of the number of subscribers.
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  1375. Still have to pay to put them on air or youtube or wherever they are to be shown
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  1376.  @tenderbrown74  your comment is interesting, hopefully those in your state dig a bit deeper as in how much energy and at what stage those untaxed corporations get cut off from electricity. Chances are unfortunately while paying no tax they have the cheapest and most reliable electricity. I am not saying that's the case but if I was Texan I would be looking in that direction.
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  1377. They don't own them but "appreciate " the $1,500 per man woman and child they are likely to receive soon.
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  1378. We realise that and it's not the issue, use the term cultural genocide if it makes you more happy. The term genocide is being used according to the UN definition and doesn't have to mean killing everyone, it can mean stopping their culture by force.
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  1379.  @americanpatriot2448  Yeah mate, it's all about guns. Everything relates back to you owning a gun. Do you know how ridiculous you sound?
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  1380. If you ever watched a Trump rally he got within an inch of saying universal healthcare, every rally before the election he said Biden would cut this welfare scheme or business subsidy and he wouldn't, 20 minutes later he would be calling Biden a socialist or communist. The crowd would cheer both contradictory ideas.
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  1381. Looking from the Australian context, I don't think Americans are in the center at all. Your idea of center is far right or left and has been forever basically. While you might rate reasonably high you don't really believe in free trade and rank 25 on the economic freedom index. You give handouts to heaps of big corporations in various ways using tax dollars especially in healthcare. That's far right , the center gives handouts to humans in need which the US doesn't like to do because corporate donors to political parties are too important to consider the people. You have far right wing everyone has the right to semiautomatic weapons to kill as many people as they want until the good guy with a gun takes you out which is often after 20 deaths or so plus many others injured. This is not a second amendment issue otherwise fully automatic weapons could not have been banned but in effect they are. Then like recently with debt forgiveness of student loans you lean to the far left. There's nothing in the center in the US, constantly leaning far left or right and creating a complete mess for a wealthy country, highest homicide rate, median adult wealth not even making the top 20 yet somewhere about number 5 for average adult wealth , lowest life expectancy despite by far highest overall spending on healthcare. The US is simply the wealthiest most powerful developing nation on the planet.
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  1382. In Vietnam and Thailand that's sort of happening in various industry sectors, Cars for Thailand (Japanese and American brands) and Smartphones (LG and Samsung) in Vietnam as examples.
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  1383. It's random, just like some kids getting Kawasaki Syndrome, no way to predict which little kids that might happen to. Bad health obviously increases the rate of problems but good health doesn't make one bullet proof.
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  1384.  @NibbleIT  Not in the tropics, seasonality makes little difference over time. Brazil is in the tropics and hasn't done well. Israel itself hasn't done well, they are just doing well at distribution of emergency approved vaccines.
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  1385. What you describe is so backwards, why are they using tests known to give many false negatives and positives. There are so many things wrong with what you describe. Not saying this is the case in your state because it seems no precautions are required, in Queensland Australia every single person to come in contact would need to quarantine 14 days regardless of PCR test outcomes. A few weeks ago a fairly small hospital I guess a nurse tested positive, the entire 181 work force was quarantined and replaced within 24 hours I think. A little different to the procedure in your state.
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  1386.  @kirim8621  How so, take Australia plus New Zealand , 30,000,000 population and not sure but let's say 20,000 tests a day in total. In the last 3 weeks maybe 10 to 20 positive cases per day with less than 10 representing 19,500 tests give or take per day in the community and the other tests of people in quarantine arriving internationally showing that there is a much higher rate of infections overseas. It's true the tests are not 100% however the 99.99% correct positivity or whatever it is, is good enough. The rapid tests aren't used outside of the US that I am aware because they might be 90 or 95% accurate or completely useless in stopping an outbreak in layman's terms. So totally agree with you , can never get to 100% accuracy.
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  1387. About vitamins and general health advice virtually no country is doing that unfortunately. Every jurisdiction that has had large case numbers has struggled, that's universal.
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  1388.  @VictorCopeland  Trump evacuated people from Wuhan and didn't quarantine them. Achieved nothing , in fact probably jump started the spread. To be fair in the beginning Fauci was singing from the same hymn book. The second superspreader event was all those people rushing back to the US from Europe mostly through NY because flights being stopped soon.
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  1389. That's good but experiences are not the same for everyone. I hope you continue to be happy and do well.
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  1390. Contrary to many comments here it might be a good fit, India and EU are both protectionist regarding agriculture so it probably increases the chance of a deal, Australia entered into negotiations with India 10 years ago and still no deal, my bet would be on agriculture being a significant sticking point.
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  1391.  @pakde8002  Not really, the same way New Zealand or South Korea or Taiwan or most states in Australia have done it. But the initial Wuhan lockdown was nothing like anywhere else in the world. Catch it before it gets out of control keep vigilant and cross your fingers but outbreaks are expected to keep occurring unless you shut borders tighter than North Korea.
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  1392. Huh?
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  1393. ​@vg7985 You're wrong, it's fear of the unknown. Australia has universal healthcare, it might not be perfect but our life expectancy is top 10 for a country. Guess what, we spend less on government funded healthcare than the US both as a proportion of gdp and absolute on a per capita basis. Are you telling me people want to pay more taxes?
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  1394. So why should a rich black kid have affirmative action which is the case currently in many cases?
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  1395. @faraibamu405  data to support what? Affirmative action based on race or based on language are criteria and if you fit the criteria you can have an advantage. How many white immigrants of Spanish speaking background or rich black kids take advantage I do not know, only that it of course happens.
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  1396. Go to Sky News Australia or Fox News or CGTN, they might be more your style.
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  1397.  @dragondescendant1  there is a thing called the Indian subcontinent, which includes Pakistan and Bangladesh. In many respects both from a geographical and cultural perspective it's as much a continent as Europe which has a mountain range separating it from Asian. So for consistency everything should be the Eurasian continent or it should be separated into 4, Europe, East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia ( the Indian subcontinent) But even defining what I just said will have problems as will any method.
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  1398.  Lo La  Technically you are incorrect I think. Many but not all slaves were enslaved in Africa well before being exported. Slavery was not an imported concept into Africa , it was already there. Unfortunately slavery still exists in Africa .
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  1399. What stands out with your comment is that John is acting as an untrained journalist and actually doing quite a good job at it. Maybe he can be a health journalist on a reputable media organization and get paid.
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  1400. Americans like a few in this comment thread love high taxes for lower services as long as their perceived enemy misses out. The US for example spends more on publically funded healthcare than Australia on a per capita basis as a proportion of GDP yet it's a non universal healthcare system. Why people enjoy higher taxes for lower outcomes is beyond me, the US life expectancy is 5 years or so lower than Australia which obviously the easiest key measure to go by.
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  1401. Reading through the comments I can understand why an American might actually be less likely to know what is going on in their own country, it's partly size, very high homicide rates and other violent crime and what's news worthy. If it's not local news it's hard for most stories to reach even regional news like a statewide news bulletin because let's take Florida as an example, 2019 there were 1334 homicides which is 3.65 per day, in the whole of Australia with about 20% more population in 2020 there were 396 homicides. So just using this one statistic in the 22 minutes to 30 minutes news bulletin Florida can slot in a murder into every broadcast, then there's gun violence not causing death which can be another story etc. etc. but in Australia we can't find either of those events on a daily basis so it's quite conceivable that things that might even make the Australian news about an event in the US might not make even the state news in a large US state because there's a lot more "interesting" stories. Also violence is normal in the US having a homicide rate about 5 times that of the average wealthy country, not much can be shocking under such circumstances. The size of a state probably makes a big difference also, the 4 big US states have so much going on. If talking nationally in the US there were 21,570 murders and non negligent manslaughter in 2020. You could literally have a 24/7 murder channel and probably still couldn't cover every case in depth.
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  1402. I agree with your general premiss but not sure about the very last statement.
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  1403. You've got Dr Michael Osterholm, he's good , just search Osterholm Update on youtube.
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  1404.  @Wombbatts Public healthcare provides all emergency care in most states, not sure about Sydney or Melbourne but anywhere else if you are having a heart attack you will be going to a public hospital. To say that sucks and it's a low standard considering Australia is in the top ten in the world for life expectancy is a stretch and read my previous comment also in conjunction with this one. The US is about #40 in life expectancy, some middle income countries overtaking them now.
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  1405.  @enrobsorussell  I smoke and I drink and have had benign non melanoma skin cancers for over 20 years now. Nobody is harmed by my smoking or drinking or whether or not I go in the sun. Mum always used to say Queensland was the skin cancer capital of the world, not sure if we are still the worst jurisdiction in the world for that but that's people's lifestyle choices and I do support government information campaigns on not getting sun burnt or not getting fat or my vices but can't and should not interfere with personal freedoms as much as is possible. Containment of infectious diseases is totally ok. Not sure where you are from but under normal circumstances there are biosecurity quarantine zones within Australian and within state boundaries themselves. I think this partly explains the success of Australia and NZ because quarantine measures are just a normal part of life. Dealing with humans as the carriers is a little different of course but the same general concepts apply.
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  1406. But you look like you are a cat.
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  1407.  @ahish  Bolsonaro was quoted as saying people should stop whining in response to people complaining about the death rate I think it was. I think that's pretty hard to beat, I am not from one of those countries but I put Trump, Bolsonaro and Modi all in the same boat along with some others that get less attention because their countries small.
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  1408. Harvey Norman is stupid , they will lose more than $20 million profit from lost sales. This will especially occur in Sydney I expect.
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  1409. The NAZIS had magazines , films and radio broadcasts. The media type doesn't matter, for Trump it was Twitter, Qanon and Fox. That last one is a bit depressing actually because they changed from conservative to a Trump mouthpiece. CNN unfortunately although not quite as bad is like a Democrats mouthpiece. I have seen both of them pushing news messages by omission of relevant facts to mislead in a story. The problem with the internet is everyone can do it and it's really fast.
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  1410.  @duttateyadalai4610  The communist party in those respective countries is the religion. The party in a somewhat forceful sense does the same sorts of things a country with Sharia law might do, an example is in North Korea probably to this day describes the types of haircuts a man or woman are permitted to have and dress standards, how is this different to the way a lady must dress under Sharia law or how a Sikh man for example if religious can't cut their hair?
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  1411. It's a serious problem in the US in general. People on the Democrats side are only slightly better. The current situation in the US was done in a bipartisan manner. It would be good if US people could look outside the US, even if it's just starting with Canada and realising some things are better there.
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  1412. Maybe have a Terminator model, just make sure the facial recognition pretty good.
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  1413. US mannerisms. The US has 6 times the homicide rate of Australia.
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  1414. Modern medicine makes all the difference, most of the Spanish flu victims died from bacterial pneumonia which a simple dose of antibiotics can cure now which didn't exist then. Certainly no intubating back then, lucky to have clean water probably.
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  1415. You forgot Mexico.
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  1416. Of course, many vaccines are a 3 dose regimen.
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  1417.  @davidbarlow350  Ok smarty pants, explain the grand plan you are asserting in having Queensland Australia the lowest deaths per Capita in the world at 7 deaths for a population of 5 million for a major jurisdiction just behind most Chinese provinces. Are Queenslanders the chosen ones or something? Great if we are but I don't subscribe to your views it's just something about saving lives and being successful. I await your response.
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  1418. I think he got the hospital number for VIC and maybe NSW. I just looked at Victoria's covid 19 dashboard page and it shows 564 in hospital which is very close to the number John presented so maybe previous day or something. Just my guess.
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  1419. Trump is just a nasty vindictive person. He doesn't care how much he hurts Americans as long as he hurts others.
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  1420. The more deaths is historical and I would suggest public healthcare in the UK would increase hospitalisation because many depending on personal circumstances in the US would be afraid of getting a big hospital bill so delay and just go if they get really bad. That's my hypothesis.
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  1421. That's not the problem , it's on the other side, has Biden maintained his base and will they vote?
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  1422. ​​ @mickeydecurious organic farmers first off need the farm clean of synthetic herbicides and pesticides for 10 years. Of course organic farmers use chemicals and fertiliser, it's just it needs to come from a natural source and not be some synthetic chemical. These things along with lower yields often due to pest losses etc increase the unit cost. With crops that don't require pesticides the price difference can be a lot lower. Like say coconuts which would often be organic anyway but just haven't been labelled as such.
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  1423. It's always been airborne in Europe and the Americas, plenty of planes flying the infected around those open border regions.
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  1424. There is a limit, if they want to stay a member of 5EYES intelligence network they need to be trusted, of course they have the choice to leave unilaterally if they want.
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  1425. It's probably more have you seen pictures of the destruction.
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  1426. The US never locked down by definition, free travel without quarantine and some state or another open the whole time, that's not a lockdown.
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  1427.  @seaneendelong8065  That's not what the CDC says, excess deaths from January 26 to October 3 were 300,000 , so unless nobody died after that pretty difficult to have 1,000 less deaths per day. Pretty sure Americans are still dying of covid 19 and other causes, flu deaths will be down however because less flu around.
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  1428.  @moon_struck6573  If you consider peak health bodies in multiple countries to be biased then obviously I can't convince you. This was the advice given out even if you have had covid 19 we still want people to get vaccinated.
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  1429. For most of us we don't want and no offense , those stupid masks. Hey it's good you and some others have found it's beneficial to you during certain seasons I am guessing. Best of luck.
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  1430. @ you need mental healthcare.
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  1431. Is there a checkpoint at the border and one needs to apply for a border pass before entry , penalties in $1,000s for anyone breaking the rules? If not it's just a guideline and pretty pointless.
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  1432. Looking from Australia, Canada has proven proof of concept however never takes that last step to elimination. In other words you have the technical capability but seems not the will. I was extremely impressed when Canada went from about 5,000 cases a day to around 400 cases a day around 6 months ago when Melbourne Victoria Australia had 500 cases per day. I thought Canada had done it they are going to eliminate it and Victoria was stuffed . The problem is Canada wants to fly close to the sun and wonders why it keeps getting burnt. The quarantine measures are relaxed or using the true definition which is " prevent "or "stop" diseases or pests from getting into an area , Canada isn't doing this so national border measures are actually slow the spread mitigation measures. Quarantine in the same house as your family is living isn't quarantine and isn't in any way enforceable, I can't imagine in the majority of cases a husband or wife returning after 3 months apart and they never touch or great each other closely , of course they will and likely they will end up in the same bed. The 3 days at a hotel is really just getting one negative test, according to governments in Australia it can take up to about 5 days after infection for a pcr test to be able to detect the infection, so incubation period sort of. The highest risk of catching it is actually the trip the airports and plane and any other stops on the trip, so that test on day one it appears will miss all the most likely cases. Of course I wish your country well but am sceptical because as stated measures are in most cases only 90% when you need 100% to stop new variants entering for example. Borders both national and provincial are the most important thing. Half of all breeches in quarantine in Australia have been the UK variant, whatever province that is in travel should be stopped to other provinces without proper hotel quarantine because it's virtually impossible to stop it's spread. Best of luck and take care personally.
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  1433. Losing taste means it's messing with your brain. Not ideal
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  1434. I am human and I have, I didn't know how many crazy/impatient humans existed, now I am aware it's a billion plus. Not sure how this knowledge helps me but I have learnt something.
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  1435. Don't know what they use these days but real tear gas is yellow and much stronger.
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  1436. It doesn't matter the 7 days moving average is the normal number used and it's as high as it's ever been.
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  1437. It's morally corrupt but not legally.
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  1438. They require loyal police and military though and preferably a few judges in their pocket.
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  1439.  @anjaoldnettle2841  30% of the electorate not believing the election results, 6 times the homicide rate per Capita of other wealthy nations, lowest life expectancy of a rich country which has even dropped below that of China a middle income country etc. etc. If you don't see anything wrong with what I just said then you are representative of how a person in a developing country might think about their country and that is that failure is the best we can do.
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  1440. Bars and restaurants are still open , stay away from those places to protect yourself, family and friends. I would think that wearing N95 masks versus cloth as many use. For long time periods though surgical masks are much easier to wear and fairly high efficacy. Proper masks would help more than goggles and difficult to wear goggles all day I think.
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  1441. Wait, all they have is preliminary stuff really.
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  1442. Why is China intent on proving it came from the US through conspiracy theories?
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  1443. I think that's exactly the plan.
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  1444. They will never be known accurately in some places like the situation in India now many deaths and multiple causes.
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  1445. This might sound like a hard thing but just tell her based on previous variants including Delta which is still circulating about 10% chance she dies if she catches it and about 1% if vaccinated based on her age(Omicron probably less). Then just don't worry about it, at that age she could die tomorrow from anything. In other words respect her wishes even if it ends up killing her. I say that based on her being very old. Hope you don't find my comment offensive and best of luck.
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  1446.  @m.sankararameswaran5239  no the cats kill snakes and goanna ( monitor lizards), and lots of small native animals. Maybe can have a plague of snakes next , better than cats anyway.
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  1447. This original comment certainly brought out the partisan hacks. Maybe you should watch the covid 19 press conferences by our state leaders, they are extremely transparent. They can't predict the future, maybe start your own Nostradamus Party. Each state has its own unique issues, capital city size and population density, weather, available health services etc. They all agree the only way is high vaccination rates and that along with some luck with Omicron has served us extremely well. No Australian politician is fear mongering with Omicron, just reserved optimism noting our limited hospital capacities in most states and territories.
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  1448. But 0.08% of the entire US population has died already from this so your survival rate can't be correct and now deaths are approaching 2,000 per day so it hasn't stopped.
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  1449.  @cornishhh  your opinion is based upon failure, if you were in a virus free jurisdiction you would most likely like it to stay that way with everything open.
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  1450.  @Martyntd5  the problem is what you suggest can't be done unless you are totally locked down hotel quarantine style and no matter how hard they try the virus will enter nursing homes if the virus is prevalent. Every time a healthcare worker gets infected they can't work for a minimum of 2 weeks. In hospitals elective surgery becomes impossible with reduced staff and a lot of measures needed to stop infections. The UK excess deaths in the most recent week available shows 500 excess deaths and 100 covid 19 deaths. So when you think through all the effects of large infection numbers it isn't as simple as protect the elderly and sick, because you can't fully protect a person who is sick from another cause due to reduced hospital capacity and an ever present risk of infection.
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  1451. There is one fundamental difference with Australia and US. It is bipartisan policy to ,after we discovered it's possible, contain the virus. With the US there is bipartisan agreement that all borders remain open and there policy is mitigation as in don't over flow hospitals. No jurisdiction anywhere in the world has contained the virus with open borders. If you have enough money and get a government permit to travel you can travel from Melbourne to New York , London or Paris and you will just walk through the airport as an Australian, no quarantine, nothing. But as you are aware come to Brisbane or Sydney from Melbourne without an exemption, it's 14 days mandatory government supervised quarantine partially at your cost. A big big difference.
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  1452. Trump far left protectionist and isolationist and borrower. Social issues he has no position.
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  1453.  @matthewn1805  You the same documentary as me. Some great commander named Tom Cruise was working under an assumed name and defeated them. The US looks alien to us in the West Pacific.
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  1454. Lots of MAGA in the comments apparently liking what they see. You people are nuts but hey not my country thank goodness.
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  1455. ​@bobcosgrove3235 Actually we do if tariffs are put on our exports to the US.
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  1456. Depends how many people have the virus.
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  1457. I think building military bases in the South China Sea after explicitly saying they wouldn't counts as an aggressive action and certainly lifting a finger. China often claims territory is theirs based on hundreds even 1000 years ago because imperial China had lots of colonies at one point or another. I would certainly be concerned if I am Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines which the same notions regarding parts of their countries apply to. Chinese colonialism in Tibet, Xinjiang and inner Mongolia is somehow noble but Western colonialism which actually no longer exists is bad even though it doesn't exist anymore.
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  1458.  @qaz120120  your comment is interesting, where are you from and do you believe agreements reached longer than 20 years ago are now invalid? I find your screen pic to be an interesting choice for someone who wants to be taken seriously.
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  1459.  @scottbentley2825  You missed out the collusion of 200 countries and millions of people. The US isn't the world even if some Americans sort of think it is.
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  1460.  @MJN3013  There's something seriously wrong with the weapon or the person. Could be it was used to kill someone or could be they were a terrorist. As long as they catch the person I expect we will find out. The gun being cocked loaded and apparently no safety is crazy in itself.
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  1461. QLD should build a border wall to keep Mexicans out I think, maybe the federal government can pay for it.
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  1462. Hope you are getting better now.
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  1463. I think Q might have been involved in conveying the CDC message. Q is very effective at information dispersal.
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  1464. While it's clear that China was a fairly big customer of US made cars, the bigger effects might come from other countries especially wealthy ones with a good free trade set up. Australians for example can buy cars made anywhere and we don't make any domestically. We've been hit with the steel and alumina tariffs. I won't surprise me if Australians start boycotting US brands especially Tesla which happens to be Chinese made. BYD has a far better value electric vehicle line.up in Australia than Tesla does anyway. I can see Ford and GM brands being affected accross most of the world and other than for Canada and Mexico it won't hurt any of us due to all the alternatives.
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  1465. ​ @334honda  Your comment is silly and unhelpful.
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  1466. The strange thing is they end up radicalizing themselves. I watched a few recent clips from that YouTube channel and actually generally they are in full support of Biden's actions because they actually agree but then try to pretend they don't agree or the former guy could have done it better. If viewers actually listened to content they would be saying hey great even that channel agrees with our government on this issue at this time. Exception to the rule of course is Comrade Carlson who is assisting the the Russian/Chinese misinformation campaign about the US funding hundreds of secret biological weapons labs around the world. Look at the vaccination rates in Ukraine for Covid 19 , that tells you biological weapons can't be useful because people won't get vaccinated against anthrax for example.
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  1467. Ironically The Australian newspaper seems balanced if you compare it to Sky News Australia.
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  1468. That's great.
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  1469. The entire Western Pacific WHO region was proactive from China down to New Zealand, not all managed elimination however the worst performing country Philippines has less than 10% the deaths on a per capita basis compared to US and much of Western Europe.
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  1470. You're missing the big picture you are 5 times as violent as your average wealthy nation based on homicides. Surge or no surge you are the most violent wealthy nation and also have the title of most locked up citizens yes on a per Capita basis for a wealthy country. Clearly building bigger prisons isn't working. Your social welfare system needs changing and cultural issues.
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  1471.  @marlenebuls9535  I am confused, 50,000 people give or take alive today compared to countries like UK and US on a per capita basis. So should we have killed those people like the US and UK to keep some people happy? Please enlighten me.
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  1472. Well if you are able bodied and don't mind picking fruit for a couple of weeks then all states in Australia are open to each other excluding NSW , ACT and VIC but the hardline state of Western Australia will still lock up a virus free Queenslander for 2 week even if willing to work. Can travel to Tasmania just for holiday but then 2 weeks quarantine and costs. Better to pick some fruit.
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  1473.  @H_A_L_7  I assume you mean Queensland . I am not highly knowledgeable but I think Bananas will be all year in northern Queensland but expect they will have high and low season. I think apples are about this time of year and have relatively small planting I believe in Stanthorpe area. Citrus season would be finished or maybe small amounts somewhere. Around Bundaberg have a lot of small crops so I think would be largely all year round. Strawberries can't remember when season is and pineapple I don't think relies on backpackers. If really you are interested search about what I have said , probably my info not very accurate.
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  1474. According to reporting it's not difficult to remove them from their positions. Under such circumstances it makes it very difficult.
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  1475.  @chocolateking1143  hell no, I don't think you understand agriculture. You let your cattle get sick they can no longer be sold for human consumption, maybe can be cooked pet food at 50c per pound.
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  1476. Cenk Muslims are in no way associated with the left. All religious conservatives are right or far right whether they be Jew, Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist. All religious conservatives don't like atheists and people of other religions or even other sects.
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  1477. If you listen carefully it's still covid 0 actually, still have quarantine and contact tracing and possibility of lockdowns, it's a change to European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region approach but still far more stringent. They had 10 days voluntary quarantine from the start pretty much and I emphasize "voluntary" as in not actually quarantine. We will still have 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine but instead of inside a hotel being highly monitored it is intended it will move to the home, they will have problems with apartments though so have to see how they manage that. Yes NSW , VIC and ACT have pretty much accepted it's endemic now however if the modeling is correct then especially ACT and very likely NSW and VIC will go back to covid 0 when vaccination rates are 80% plus double vaccinated above 12 years. Although it hasn't been discussed much they keep shutting schools or quarantine large numbers in the rest of the world in those open countries so it's somewhat fanciful we won't do the same which is going to mean in effect covid 0 is still the policy. Parents care about their kids I am not a parent but understand the concept, even if it's only 1 in 10,000 my child badly harmed with long covid or worse I wouldn't want that and why accept that if we don't need to.
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  1478. From a foreigners perspective from Reagan to Obama , there was a lot of continuity and they would talk to their closest allies not megaphone diplomacy, basically seeing how many countries they can offend. Not everything Trump has done internationally is bad but his approach is all wrong. His point that allies should contribute more costs regarding military defense is valid but shouting it out publically and trying to humiliate every other country for his base is the wrong way to go about it. What Trump does internally inside the US is even worse contributing to violent left and right mobs instead of trying to bring calm, supporting conspiracy theorist and being the antimasker Infecter in Chief. Trump doesn't lack intelligence , he is just a risk taker who seems to truly not care his actions are likely increasing the number of deaths from covid-19 and certain types of violence. From Reagan to Obama even if they didn't get everything right which is an impossibility, they at least cared and that's the true difference regardless of party offiliation . Best of luck whoever wins, from Australia.
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  1480. The irony is Australia is probably number 3 in the world now for free trade and extremely limited industry subsidies. I think Singapore and New Zealand beat us slightly.
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  1481. If they just found it now then that makes another easier to transmit strain. For places that have contained the virus it makes it more scary because if it gets into a population with no immunity at all it becomes more and more likely it might be unstoppable.
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  1482.  @glennw7118  The lady who was shot was in pajamas without a weapon, certainly like you say if you have a weapon you have a reasonable chance of getting shot because it understandably makes the police nervous.
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  1483.  @beenjammin7187  Why? Most of Australia has no cases also, it can be done but must be fast, NSW was really slow by other state standards and China has an advantage, 10% of the population being CPC members effectively a volunteer workforce to enforce restrictions etc. so they can go harder. So whilst the original commenter notes the population density is correct it's not all one way, in Australia we need voluntary compliance through good messaging from the Premiers, we don't have 10% of our population on call.
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  1484.  @kristalmarshman3475  well good for you, however you must be a rare case, a quick search reveals that both LG and Samsung manufacture most of their mobile phones in Vietnam. It would surprise me if no components were made in China although not impossible. Chinese wages are going up relative to many countries so the trend away from China and or more automation will continue, just like most exported clothing being a low cost manufacturing item with a high labour content is made outside of China now.
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  1485. I hope you are doing fine now in a relative sense.
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  1486. @candiceberg5232  you're kidding right?
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  1487. Basically he agrees with the UK position, however Fauci doesn't and he seems to be calling the shots in the task force. It would seem Osterholm wasn't invited to be in the taskforce , only the transition team. I think was probably a political decision because it was known Osterholm takes a harder line on interventions.
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  1488. Not if you have a containment strategy and get numbers low enough, see West Pacific countries.
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  1489. Probably you.
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  1490. Most Hispanic who choose to identify their race in the census it's white, Hispanic is just a broad ethnic term not a race.
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  1491. That's what I thought.
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  1492. You already know their answer to that , more guns and arm every teacher.
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  1493. If you've gone gluten free the alternatives to wheat are generally lower in protein, just a suggestion keep a close eye on your protein intake. I am a very different situation and I do like a drink, I have found dramatically increasing the protein ratio of my food I can maintain a reasonable weight despite low activity and alcohol consumption.
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  1494. No because infection rates are so low. Australia has same approach and is slowly opening some years in most states.
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  1495.  @anonymousJAN2024  There is relatively, what you consider to the right or left is adjusted according to your culture. This is a personal view but I consider any government that spends over 50% of GDP far left socialist government. So countries in your region are the most socialist in the world. I would not want that for Australia but if the majority in your country or like countries do then that's your decision. Democracy and freedom of speech etc. trumps personal ideological views.
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  1496.  @Ladybird41  it wouldn't be a top hat because that represents the elite. Maybe the iron because that could be working class.
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  1497. @emilogborn4097  I didn't blame obesity on the government in my previous comments. However if the government feeds children junk food for school lunches as has often occurred in the past and probably still does then the government is partly to blame because those children will grow up to be obese. Do you not agree with me? Japan also has school.lunches but they are always healthy with very little junk food and the obesity rate in Japan is very low, there is a cause and effect.
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  1498. Hopefully the air con isn't on recirculate otherwise it would literally be concentrating the virus. But regardless it's still irresponsible because now he is sending a signal that quarantine isn't necessary.
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  1499. More than willing , yes certainly, but to openly speak that today means more than usual death threats for the day. Consider his position and what he is going through.
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  1500.  @richardcogbill6791  You seem knowledgeable on the matter and actually I have compared all those statistics previously to my country Australia and unfortunately the US doesn't compare well. If I was to pick 3 issues as the biggest contributors it's the healthcare system (you have the best healthcare in the world for some and your governments , state plus federal spend more than most other countries ) but it has significant inequalities and ineffective spending, lack of a consistent social welfare safety net, with drug and crime issues it's about how the matter is treated, countries like Australia or Western European countries treat drug addiction as a disease or health issue and dealers as criminals, the US tends to consider them all the same and outside of a few states rehabilitation doesn't seem to happen which leads to violent crime and overdoses etc. Rural suicides are generally higher in all countries I think , Australia would be similar in this regard. The question is how can the US change trajectory which is what matters, I have no idea what might work but it must be possible. The pandemic has probably had a net positive effect towards national cohesion in Australia, it's certainly done the opposite in the US or it's exacerbated underlying issues.
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  1501. To answer the question in the title, almost none as cargoes are going to be "inspected" by Israel.
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  1502. Certainly but there's no plan to do that.
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  1503. So how does a black Hispanic fit in Bidens picture? Will that person be the diverse Hispanic person or the you ain't black if you don't vote for me person.
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  1504. That's the day of the notice , not the possible eviction.
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  1505. There is none, just like Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand with Japan and South Korea not far behind. None means if an outbreak occurs it remains small and is eliminated quickly.
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  1506. Actually it's Qanon Trump supporters who wanted the military to imprison or kill Biden and install Trump, they certainly have some things in common with the Taliban.
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  1507. Only one city Adelaide has active cases other than those from international arrivals, all other states and territories no cases in excess of 14 days, some virus being detected in a couple of sewerage samples in Victoria, on high alert but it doesn't indicate any active cases because people shed the virus after the virus is inactive. Travel restrictions and probably significant internal restrictions in Adelaide South Australia. When case was detected Adelaide went into an immediate 6 day lockdown to establish the possible spread, seems not wide spread but need to keep testing etc. to get every case. All borders shut to South Australia within 24 hours of detected cases. This is how it works in Australia, immediate significant actions , no state Premier wants to be the state with borders shut on them for any length of time.
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  1508.  @SUPER8ALTERN8  You literally just said other countries killed thousands of people so that natural immunity could be achieved and the extra monetary cost to do so was worth it (paraphrasing your comment). Omicron seems to be less deadly , so much better to get whether vaccinated or not than previous variants so no , all evidence points to many lives saved which has value in it of itself.
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  1509.  @donnam2012  Allowing an outbreak in a single nursing home in Queensland prior to vaccines would have created a far greater death toll to date and I believe more than half the QLD deaths so far were actually imported from that cruise ship in Sydney.
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  1510. The first 3 or so days after being infected the test might not pick it up and of course can be infected on the actual journey.
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  1511. There used to be a saying "whinging POMS" , all the bloody whinging of Aussies now who clearly don't know how good they've got it , I think we can't say Whinging POMS anymore. 50,000 less dead people than responses in other regions, this great and now Omicron we really dodging a bullet.
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  1512.  @markm4623  Mark the problem with you is you are desensitized, you accept a low standard for your country. You don't care BLM burning cities last year and the insurrectionists on Jan 6, you don't care the homicide rate is about 5 times the rate of any other wealthy country, you don't care the life expectancy in the US is now lower than China, you don't care your public healthcare system is more expensive per Capita or as a proportion of GDP than Australia or New Zealand , so you even happy to pay extra tax. Best of luck to you seems you are happy with your society and don't really care as long as you perceive you are personally safe. A compassionate person would say I hope NZ can get through this , I know the vaccination rate is less than anywhere in the US so it's going to be tough. Anyway you are happy and Australian and New Zealander are for the most part happy with our approach so we are all happy right.
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  1513. Take care and try to stay well during this difficult time.
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  1514.  @davidmacfarlane1763  The irony is everywhere is opening up slowly and protestors particularly in the Canadian situation are slowing the process down, as far as international unvaccinated travel it's not going to happen any time soon in most countries so protesting about that is just ridiculous.
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  1515.  @VerySadButTrue  There are laws everywhere and the peaceful protestors in the park not breaking serious rules were left alone the previous ones were breaking the law and some got arrested, peaceful protestors not interfering with others or the government aren't being touched. Do you support the peaceful ones essentially following the law or the ones breaking the law. Pick a side.
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  1516. @Anne Flynn  LOL, seems any crazy story goes.
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  1517. If you ran a nursing home or hospital would you want any unvaccinated people working there, they can get work elsewhere if they want and come back after the virus is gone, however I think there will be virtually no objections in medical staff.
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  1518. Because in the beginning the US didn't take it seriously and has remained one step behind not keeping up with case increases. The US will probably end up doing more tests per capita than any other country by the time this finishes.
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  1519. Why bother hospitalisation of them too because 50% of medical costs on average are the final 6 months of life? Maybe spending $100 on them for a vaccine is reasonable.
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  1520. Thailand might have "a mountain of debt" however for 2020 the government had a lower budget deficit to GDP than the other countries you mentioned and have a lower debt to GDP ratio than the other countries you mentioned. It's true the tourism sector was hit extremely hard and made up a fairly high contribution to the economy previously. So I think your premise or at least what you inferred was incorrect. Better to compare most European countries to a country like Australia actually because closing borders for most of those countries would have produced a better balance of trade, Australia's trade surplus actually increased and a contributing factor was we are a net importer of tourism as in spend more traveling outside Australia than tourists entering Australia. The UK I am pretty sure would have had similar results in that sector if they followed the same policy because they travel to cheaper destinations also.
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  1521. I agree, I fairly recently worked out I wasn't getting enough protein. I enjoy alcohol so was getting plenty of energy and I am not so active, I was trying to maintain a healthy weight but what I was doing is starving myself of protein by eating cheap food that can give an illusion of protein, for example cheap sausage with cheap bread or a meat pie has a low protein to energy ratio. I still drink a lot but having much more protein than before I am much better, not a beacon of health or anything but not too bad.
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  1522. I can't catch your bad health from you eating Macca's and you can't catch alcoholism from me. A virus is contagious cough on me with Covid 19 you might kill me.
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  1523. Disinfectant is poison designed to kill living cells. If it is breathed in it can't be healthy.
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  1524. The wording is correct, it doesn't say suddenly appeared yesterday or something. The holes did appear you can see them.
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  1525. Unfortunately they will meaning herd immunity may not be reached and the current situation continues longer than it should.
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  1526. @tooltalk  every country in the world with an auto industry subsidises that industry in one way or another, but quite often through a minimum of 2 methods, tax breaks and some protection measures. Australia only benefits from this. Where we don't benefit is for example competing against subsidised US agriculture. Many countries significantly subsidise agriculture but it doesn't affect Australia because they aren't exporting.
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  1527. It's similar arrangements as the AFL Grand Final in Brisbane it seems, some people were annoyed about that. People will get over it and it makes sense. Our governments don't have unlimited funds and this is cash flow positive overall I expect. To me it's a good idea, losing money isn't going to help anyone and will actually make helping more people more difficult.
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  1528. If done properly , an effective plan. Problem is Trump is considering this idea most likely without compensation.
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  1529. Boy the US media is bad when a leftie channel like this one doesn't push back on anything an Israeli representative says.
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  1530. You mean LNG, LPG is a completely different thing.
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  1531. It's irrelevant because the trial has partisan jurors, that is Republican senators. Jurors even in a court room can't be charged with anything for deliberately letting someone off. They can only get in trouble for lying when questioned during jury selection, however this does no apply to the impeachment.
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  1532. Why on earth aren't they connected to the national grid? That's just plain stupid, in fact if they adhere to free market principles why haven't they been lobbying for connection to Mexico's grid also. However wouldn't have helped right now because Mexico is in the same situation.
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  1533. The guy running conspiracy theories, he doesn't need others to make him look bad, go look at all the comments along the lines of "all the current outbreak is as a result of the Southern US border and Biden is sending infected illegal immigrants into all the red states". DeSantis is a dangerous nutter, the US is a violent nation and making violent people with guns angry through conspiracy theories isn't good. If you say but Americans will kill each other over minor issues anyway , not the politicians fault just like the January 6 tourists to the Capitol well ok you will accept anything.
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  1534. You forgot the elephant in the room which is most illegal immigrants are visa overstays.
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  1535. You may well be safer staying in that smallish town than going to the city to get a vaccine. Not recommending what you should do but something to think about.
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  1536. And that's exactly what the county coroner concluded
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  1537. Anecdotally or here say someone who worked in a covid ward and seemed genuine said deaths weren't appearing in the stats. There is a political campaign on at the moment so unlike that person's opinion of a cover up , it's half correct, they are likely reporting slowly which can't be proven, the numbers may very well become more reliable in a week or two, depends how long for the election result. You can still trust the numbers just not the timelyness . So most recent preliminary data is way out, pretty sure India with all it's problems has more timely data.
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  1538. We do and it's like watching paint dry. Take COVID19 , there are nursing homes in the US with more victims than any state in Australia. Now take the "BLM" tag along protests in Australia , out of about 70,000 protestors in Australia one incident at a train station in Sydney where 3 people got pepper sprayed. US building on fire in the background and CNN reporter saying how peaceful the protests were people being shot at with rubber bullets etc and police on occasion being shot with live bullets. Boring is good.
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  1539.  @TREXX8111  I agree and think our system is much better.
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  1540. In fact putting people on oxygen comes way way before one is put on a ventilator. This is the current standard practice.
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  1541. I like him because he's humble, occasionally he gets things wrong however he will later admit he was wrong. In some respects he tried to look at too much at once and too quickly, doesn't apply so much now because he is quite knowledgeable of different approaches in the world and the different outcomes. Best of luck for you in Ireland.
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  1542. Everything is radioactive to a point, so yes there are standards. In theory it seems ok if it's diluted enough but not an ideal situation. I don't have opinion either way without knowing more whether this is concerning or not.
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  1543.  @peacefuljourney4994  the vaccines were never going to be mandatory, however I am sure if you don't take it then it will restrict you as opening up of travel for example occurs. If for some reason certain personal in certain jobs don't take it they might be shifted to another job, we can't afford lockdown of entire states just because some border or hotel quarantine worker is scared of a vaccine, that's no freedom at all.
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  1544. You can't say that, less likely to have problems is more accurate and anyway everyone over 70 is unhealthy pretty much , old age does that to you and 50% or so of the population below that age is overweight, a full 35% of the US adult population is obese which is very overweight. I have just recently lost some weight, I am down to about 75kg, I was 95kg at one point in time and certainly not healthy but 105 kg is what is considered obese for my height of 6'1" .
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  1545. I hope so but have to say he is extremely brave going back.
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  1546. I think this one seems better because of price, supply chain issues because normal fridge temperature, number of doses being available much quicker with it already being manufactured in multiple countries by different companies.
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  1547. They do already.
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  1548. Not entirely, he was talking about more than just the president.
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  1549. Sorry Rupert Murdoch is all yours, he renounced his Australian citizenship when he gained US citizenship.
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  1550. Looking from afar the biggest fear munger is probably DeSantis , he is a true tyrant, he believes in control of private business, the exact opposite of a conservative. Imagine if you were a cruise ship owner and the government says by law you are not permitted to protect your crew and passengers because the dear leader doesn't allow. DeSantis peddles the fear that the other side will do what he has done to the cruise industry, that is government control and interference in private industry. The most amazing thing is nobody in the US seems to have blinked an eyelid at such behaviour which would be totally inline with something that might occur in Beijing.
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  1551. I know he's just managing to not laugh out loud at Trump.
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  1552. You're nuts, how on earth Australia got on your list of bad and Brazil on your list of good is beyond me. Brazil over 50 times the deaths per Capita and a President similar to Trump versus Australia with a bipartisan approach that while not perfect has produced one of the lowest death rates in the world. It's true the US and in particular Republicans have made the overall US response one of the worst in the world for a wealthy country, certain individual states have been caught covering up or delaying data for political gain, nothing like that has occurred in the list of other "bad" countries according to your opinion. Australia and UK have both reported people catching covid 19 in hospitals and dying, this is complete transparency which certainly doesn't exist in the US with no known cases of this occurring apparently except to staff.
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  1553.  @NJ-wb1cz  I looked up the urbanisation rate for Russia and it's about 75% so mid range I guess and this can reduce the R number but it won't stop it. If you look at North and South Dakota they less urbanised than Russia but they did absolutely nothing until it became a full on disaster and the numbers show this. I think wealth plays a part because if you are poor and rural you won't go to town often. Another thing is Americans think the healthcare system will save them , I suspect but could be wrong in Russia and certainly a lot of poor nations people know that the public healthcare system isn't good and take more precautions, they know they are on their own. Whenever hospitals have overflowed in US states cases have dropped soon after, it's only a correlation however my thinking is it gets real for people and they take precautions but could also be some herd immunity in superspreader type populations. There are so many variables so it's always hard to know exact reasons without a lot of study of an area, even the strain types might be a big factor now, that seems to have been the case in the UK.
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  1554. I can't help laughing at America's fixation on eggs. If one is worried about the cost of eggs, there's a problem.
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  1555. The original comment and comments in the thread suggest , it's certainly not a given the claimed efficacy, the countries you list are disaster zones.
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  1556.  @gasaxe6056  Yes India hasn't done too badly, but you must compare to similar neighbors, I'll be honest I am sceptical of anything coming out of the Americas and Europe except for the vaccines. The areas covered by PAHO (Pan American Health Organization which doubles as WHO regional office) and Europe WHO region did nothing other than a few countries to stop the spread or contain the virus, everything was looking for a quick fix. In this video it claimed that taken as a prophylactic it would stop infection by over 90% , this means if true because herd immunity is estimated at 50% to 80% the virus can be gone from the planet in about 2 months if everywhere with any significant case rates have at least 85% of the population take this medicine for that period. Of course I am highly sceptical never has this been a achieved in the history of medicine, only have we achieved such results with vaccines. Do I think that invermectin might be helpful based on this video, yes but I have never seen such a cure for a virus so I will remain completely sceptical on the numbers presented.
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  1557. Send them to countries who will appreciate it.
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  1558. What rules, there are none, voluntary guidelines of do whatever you want don't count as rules to me.
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  1559. Biden "is" incompetent. Is , is the key word , Trump is literally saying Biden is the president.
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  1560.  @HH-iv6mf  I'll go with your number. So if your number was correct and everyone got infected annually and 2% of the population died annually life expectancy would drop below 50. About 6,000,000 would die each year to get to that number. It's likely about 1% or even less mortality and determined by age and health condition. So not as bad as your number but if 1,000,000 were to die this would be bad for US society. Think of the mental implications.
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  1561. The problem is in the US and some other countries people have lost the plot, both sides misleading.
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  1562. Surprise surprise, Russia is a little bit on the nose now. If Australia my country just decided tomorrow that we're gonna invade New Zealand because they are much weaker than us and we don't like their government pretty sure we wouldn't be hearing about Australian war heroes for the sake of balance we would be hearing about vicious Australian killers who need to be stopped.
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  1563. @rustyshackelford9414  Clearly you're a conspiracy theorist because according to insurers that assess risks electric vehicles have less fires than internal combustion engine vehicles with hybrids having the most which makes sense because they have the risks of both the batteries and engine. Literally billions of lithium batteries are produced each year and a small number are faulty and catch fire. If the batteries are in vehicles they are much more highly regulated and would generally have lower risks than the less regulated uses.
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  1564. Are you suggesting classism doesn't exist in "Western " countries? I can assure you it does.
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  1565. The problem is the government that was just removed didn't treat the Rohingya people well. Maybe it was driven by the military however the civilian government didn't object. So under such circumstances what is the international community supposed to do?
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  1566. Disagree about someone saying "Zionists should be dead" getting kicked out of a university. They didn't even incite violence. Why is it plausible genocide supporters are free to hold that view and they are definitely supporting ethnic cleansing but nothing is going to happen to them.
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  1567. It's only really risky for females below 40 and even then not high risk, I am 47 male and had one dose of Astrazeneca, my brother a year and half younger wants to wait for Pfizer. It's better though if more people get vaccinated because it will reduce chances of lockdowns because it will slow the spread significantly allowing contact tracing to probably work and just quarantine some.
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  1568. Heaps of people have become infected and died through catching covid 19 in hospitals however as the now old saying goes " if you don't [genomic] test then you don't have cases" . The only cases I have heard of are in Australia, Vietnam and UK, an interesting mix of countries that have had this problem and no apparent problems in the US because they managed the pandemic response perfectly.
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  1569. 1 rule for all, to get into a bar, nightclub, restaurant and a few other high risk settings I need to be vaccinated in the State of Queensland or a genuine medical exemption. Similar rules in Victoria I believe. If I as a citizen have to follow rules and some sports star doesn't I will be furious. It's not Australia's job to cater to foreign antivaxxers.
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  1570. Here's a challenge for Jon Elmer, why does the propellant exhaust change colour, is this happening with the non cloned rockets. Is it a cost reduction technique for the last push of the rocket or insulation as in it's just flour or sawdust or something to stop the explosive getting too hot and burning as the lowest cost option or third option does the black smoke provide some sort of issues with the Israeli military tracking? Yeah I know a complicated question but hey let's challenge the Electronic Intifada to make them stronger. The first white coloured smoke is almost definitely gun powder.
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  1571. This ad was powerful and well made.
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  1572. Trump is the number one DEI hire as an old person. DEI includes giving everyone a chance including old people.
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  1573. They are tracking the mutations and letting it rip.
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  1574.  @billboon  lol, hang in there things are getting better and will continue to. Victoria took a relaxed approach previously and now has changed course with some difficulties. There is one Queenslander and one Western Australian doing hard time now for breaking rules. Victoria didn't introduce decent penalties until recently. You will be free like us soon which I expect still means annoying interstate border restrictions that sometimes go too far but sometimes are needed. Take care you'll be ok and keep your sense of humour.
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  1575.  @user-km2bz8iy5o  While I am not up to date on exactly how immigration is working exactly right now and excluding the effects of covid 19 which would have largely stopped it, part of the plan is to attract immigrants to rural areas to make those areas more vibrant because the rural population in Australia is generally on the decline, which is why Australia is highly urbanized, that's it's own Australian born population moving to the cities. I watched a show a while ago and what they were doing was trying to bring migrants who are originally farmers in there country of origin so that they would be more likely to stay after they get citizenship. They showed a couple of successful examples and these were small towns where literally half the population were immigrants from one or another country. So they would be likely to stay there until the kids grow up at least and maybe the kids after growing up move to the city, but some will stay I would expect. Dispersal is also probably the wrong term, better to say not have communities that are 100% immigrants of one group that only interact with themselves, 50% Australian born and 50% foreigner together is fine, they won't be isolated in their own community and for example children will mix at school.
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  1576. She's already fine with everything based on this clip. I would suggest she's more than fine because of the unexpected attention.
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  1577. Yes, submarines are like guerrilla warfare, cheap in a relative sense and you can't see them. China will consider more carefully if they want to occupy more South China Sea. Whether it stops them who knows but it's certainly a deterrent.
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  1578. I don't know how effective measures are inside India but if you adjust for population about 20 countries had 1,000,000 plus infections per day during their peak, if India manages to have 500,000 cases per day maximum with the UK variant and possibly the Indian variants being able to spread at about twice the pace of the original virus.
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  1579. If China put trade sanctions on a G20 country Australia just over words , what do you think some company means to them?
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  1580. I think because monitoring them and deleting comments would both be problematic because some will claim partisan censorship and need to pay people to do it. Because this isn't about Australia it can't be seen as political here in Australia although some cry babies want to still whinge about left and right even though the issues are rarely applicable to Australia. 4 Corners is always controversial so can't seem them allowing comments.
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  1581. It's about the coverup which is corruption. If they instead just said we lost the money and replaced with permission openly probably no problems, but some discipline.
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  1582. Isreal is a legitimate nation whether it should have become one or not, we can't turn the clock back. The issue is the continuous oppression of it's subjects. If it's subjects were given freedom in a 1 state democracy or freedom including freedom of movement in a 2 state solution it would all end. It might take time however the solution is literally that simple. Think of all the ex colonies in the world and some current colonies, we don't have these extreme problems because those that have been colonised are largely treated with equality within the framework of that country.
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  1583. You can't even troll properly, your other comment on this same video indicates you are MAGA.
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  1584.  @Suongchieu12  Sometimes there is that misconception, it's based on the countries you mentioned having mostly middle class migrate. So of course migrants will always outperform locals if the migration is this source.
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  1585. It's tough , you take care of yourself , family and friends the best you can. Best of luck.
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  1586. According to a decision about 100 years ago in the US and the Australian constitution itself quarantine measures are permitted so long as they are reasonable. So a direct answer is not according to Australian and US authorities because breaking quarantine rules can kill people.
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  1587.  Adolf Hitler  While Biden is certainly getting on a bit I expect he will still be alive in about 4years. The guy is as tough as nails.
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  1588.  @thach8956  Do you mean those still inside Vietnam or those who get to US or another country as refugee before?
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  1589. It's about the law allowing for locking people up based on race as was used for Japanese internment camps. Trump is probably considering doing it to some US citizens, he speaks as if he is.
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  1590. ​ @kpmmsupervision1297 because we have a very high voter turnout due to compulsory turning up to vote our politicians listen to us more than in the US where it's more about fear mongering to get a large turnout.
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  1591. How on Earth can the BBC destabilize China? Never knew a simple media organization that can't be viewed in China or at least heavily censored can cause anything.
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  1592.  Lee Smith  your question is a little silly when you think about because already answered the vaccines are about 95% effective at preventing deaths. If you would have lived anyway there is no evidence vaccines will reduce this chance.
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  1593. Yes and we should open to mainland China the only other country virus free at this point. Politics will stop it though.
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  1594. The reverse Midas touch.
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  1595. Australia has been successful at forcing them to pay taxes, this is a different issue about media companies who spend money on journalists etc. and Facebook or Google get the revenue because people search for such things using those platforms and it's presented without the media company receiving any revenue. I don't know details but that's the basics, the traditional media companies want some of the revenue that these platforms earn with their content. Facebook is pretty aggressive it would seem and we will see what happens.
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  1596. Alcohol and tobacco are late paleo age so that's fine and just use honey to keep with the Paleo thing, refined sugar came much later.
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  1597.  @omarkhan3310  We don't hate America but look in bemusement quite often with domestic issues. Australia has a controlled border and maybe 0.5% of the population illegal overstayers, the US has about 3% of it's population who are illegal immigrants. That's just one example, healthcare we think the same with the US spending more on public healthcare for a non universal healthcare system when compared to Australia. The list is a lot larger. With foreign policy generally Australia supports the US and has committed troops to every major conflict the US has been involved in for the last 100 years or so unlike any other country. As far as Trump versus Obama people in any country outside of the US will have in general people prefer Obama because Trump likes to insult people and other countries, Obama is diplomatic. Trump doesn't care his audience is his supporters not foreigners. All politics is domestic.
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  1598. You don't make sense , you just said it's below market price and then went on to say it would increase prices. It can't be both.
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  1599. Without prejudice what US authorities did was far worse, Trump was involved in a six month cover-up and he was the leader continually saying it's harmless and his followers the lemmings followed him off the cliff. The Wuhan government did the same thing and got sacked which media doesn't ever mention. Trump got sacked I suppose but that's a lot of bodies later and him along with others allowed the virus to spread to every state and territory knowingly. Trump told blatant lies and we know it was intentional from the Woodward interview.
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  1600. I have a feeling you weren't in the crowd anyway.
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  1601. Could go one better "if a violent crime is in progress please press 1 to be transferred to your local militia group"
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  1602. Some of us convict stock sent from UK and Ireland. So maybe being a prison colony previously we knew what to do.
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  1603. So higher taxes for lower services? The US spends more on publically funded healthcare than Australia, probably a hell of a lot more now with covid 19 yet it's not a universal service. Oh well you want to pay more in taxes or run up government debt to receive less, to me that's counterintuitive but hey just like Australia you are free to have an opinion.
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  1604.  @3brainer  If the US could copy Australia's model , which I don't believe it could anytime soon you'll pay less tax. There's several reasons why you won't copy it because even if it's better half the US population don't want it no matter what, they are extremely influenced by fear campaigns for one thing. Healthcare most likely around 20% of US GDP is an extreme burden on your society and it has the lowest outcome at the highest cost of any wealthy country based on the key measure of life expectancy.
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  1605. That doesn't look bad now, pretty good actually on the scale of things.
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  1606. Burning trucks instead of buildings maybe.
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  1607. The English translation was "piss them off"
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  1608. Remove one 0 and your numbers will be correct 2.5 chances in 1,000 of being dead already from covid 19. That's not the chance of dying but the chance you are already dead, people are still dying you know at about 1,000 per day.
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  1609. There's fairly good evidence that oil prices aren't likely to increase above the rate of inflation as more and more people go to electric vehicles which are a game changer in many ways. Trump will take credit though for affecting the international oil price. To give one example 10% of new vehicles sold in Australia are full electric. As electric vehicles improve and become more trusted the trend is likely to accelerate.
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  1610. He is in the US.
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  1611. Looking at this thread I am totally confused. Seems she is a popular leader who has dealt with covid 19 well. I am in Australia and will vote for the Labor party (similar political alignment) candidate in my state election because of the same reason. Many of our friends in North America and Europe are jealous.
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  1612. While that's interesting history the countries that contained the virus like Australia, New Zealand and China have very low levels of mask mandates, only outbreak areas and some public transport. Get rid of the virus and be rid of the masks , if it was some grand plan China would keep everyone wearing masks.
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  1613. The scientists and doctors can't make predictions either , only models which have a large range of potential outcomes based on unknown assumptions, such as how would they know what percentage of people are unvaccinated even in a place requiring a piece of paper saying vaccinated which anyone with a printer can forge. Human behaviour is impossible to predict but we can say one thing because 100% correlation when local hospitals overflow then people more willing to get vaccinated and take precautions.
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  1614. Hey mate , don't you get TV over there. Being technically one of 2 countries in the world with a population 5 million or more that's covid 19 free, I would suggest that's not too bad. Don't worry if there is a quarantine breech measures will be put in place and just like here in Aus very high compliance and we can get rid of it again.
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  1615. What I say is a little strong but please consider it. You clearly have been hurt and also want to warn others. Consider doing a do the right thing ad in some way shape or form if you feel up to it. Maybe a simple Youtube video or maybe talking to your local government saying you want the message to get out and if the families approve the photos of those who are gone would be extremely powerful. I hope I haven't made your feelings worse and you consider my opinion. Take care and if need be seek help if you need it. Best of luck.
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  1616.  @japhetomari5757  Empathy is the biggest problem all around. Actually the current trade war between China and Australia has only been possible due to both countries successful dealing with covid 19, and we are both wrong.
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  1617. You reap what you sow, ex President Trump has often stated " you know what the second amendment is for" which for those who are completely ignorant means for political violence when stated in that manner.
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  1618. @JB-lp9xr  While you are correct the rural population actually receives cash mostly in the form of agricultural subsidies not services. Under Trump previously those subsidies were increased and that's likely to occur again when Trump launches his trade war against the entire world. Not sure if he will do that but I do think he wants to.
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  1619. Your comment is absurd. You would also be aware according to the Torah vast majority of Jews are converts and didn't come through some fanciful lineage as described in the Torah. So we just have religious converts of similar beliefs making ridiculous claims.
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  1620. Australia is 90% double vaxxed for above 16s. Is Canada? Demographics wise Canada is probably very similar to Australia but not like South Africa. They have to be cautious. Edit: just looked up our vaccination rates and about the same, but one very big variable is the weather and opposite seasons but looking at what is likely you should be fine.
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  1621. Sportsbet Australia paid the win for Biden as president the day after the election. They didn't have to but chose to do so.
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  1622. If that's true it will essentially end in 2035 because that's when administrators have worked out it will have a 0 balance.
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  1623. We are unified, NSW would do the same to Queensland if the situation is ever reversed and everyone understands. Nobody wants a repeat of Victoria.
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  1624. Charge for what? Shoving someone is hardly a major offence. How many prosecutions are you aware of for such actions? My guess is 0 and thousands of protestors could be charged.
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  1625.  @sudhirchopde3334  that's not entirely the case, it's the ability to handle the likely number of positive cases and as experienced a few times with the UK Variant difficulties in stopping it spreading to other guests (prisoners) and staff. The spreading to staff should be less of a problem now due to vaccinations but not eliminated.
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  1626. I think you will find the Australian New Zealand TGA is making the decision , not our politicians, the best way to increase scepticism is for our politicians to overrule our transtasman agency, it would be even worse if one country followed it and one country overruled it. We have no where near enough vaccines for the 36,000,000 million people in our stated area of responsibility , all of Australasia. You might find our politicians have even greater problems when the vaccines start to roll out because at the earliest based on what we are told August might be when travel restrictions can be significantly reduced but possibly the vaccines could reduce quarantine for travel but this is uncertain and of course unproven. We will be ok , Australian or New Zealand complacency is not a serious issue , NZ won't even let Australians from covid 19 free states in, arguably too strict. Brisbane my city did a short lockdown without a single case of community transmission a first in the world apparently, just a hotel quarantine worker got the UK strain but seems didn't spread it. All Australian states plus NZ have absolutely open and comprehensive data sharing including all failures etc so we can all learn. So don't worry, just if restrictions put in obey them.
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  1627.  @richarddeckard9804  Thanks for that info , so if I feel like Chinese food before my white supremacist meeting and don't want to stand out at either establishment it's good to wear a t-shirt with 88 on it, it's good luck or good fortune for Chinese superstition. Good to know if I ever encounter such a dilemma. Also probably confusing to each of those groups as it was to me until you told me.
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  1628. They are obviously still friendly both keeping roles and working together or as you say good at hiding it. I think the former. Regardless they are both good generous people.
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  1629. Then you and Trump are complete imbeciles I would suggest. Continuing to tell people that they have been robbed of their rights and knowing some of these are violent people threatening civil war openly even on his own Youtube channel, yet it didn't occur that anything might happen?
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  1630. In a country of 40 million that's bugger all.
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  1631. The camps for illegals isn't uncharted territory because of internment camps in WWII, however the conditions prisoners need to be treated has probably changed. Creating large homeless camps might not be legal especially if done by force and whether or not such camps will actually be prisons.
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  1632. The 1st amendment does not apply on some elses private property. So i wish they would stop bringing it up when talking about universities. The question is an internal policy one for each individual university of what restrictions should in place. Nobody is literally arguing that free speech as accepted by the first amendment should accepted. Otherwise you could have clan rallies as an example or for that matter Zionist rallies calling for the expulsion of all Palestinians from the occupied territories.
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  1633. Modern technology it should be ok, individual QR codes that identify the person and details. Anything less there will fakes everywhere. It could be connected to a physical passport so the airlines or authorities just check it on a secure network.
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  1634. Because the leadership abandoned them. You can't have an army that is leaderless and the soldiers aren't even getting fed properly. Look at the number of police and army that died over the last 20 years, they were certainly willing to fight.
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  1635. Fight metaphorically not like the US insurrection. Fight with words and peaceful actions only.
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  1636. For agricultural products and mining products you should be fine as China cuts out US supplies but with oil it's very difficult because infrastructure doesn't exist to get it all to a port.
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  1637.  @jennywindsor9100  I read the article, inappropriate behaviour yes probably but giving someone a kiss isn't exactly rape. His suspension is for not reporting that he was under investigation as is obviously required, not for the alleged offence which never proceeded.
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  1638. It's the same anywhere, you lose tourism and all of Australia relies on population increase to produce demand through immigration which obviously isn't occurring now. Without commenting on our economic model in general terms clearly the longer this continues the more economic damage in the short to medium term. The countries least affected have low international tourism and don't rely on migration.
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  1639. It's the same anywhere, you lose tourism and all of Australia relies on population increase to produce demand through immigration which obviously isn't occurring now. Without commenting on our economic model in general terms clearly the longer this continues the more economic damage in the short to medium term. The countries least affected have low international tourism and don't rely on migration.
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  1640. But taxes on her are likely to rise due to tariffs. Maybe she has a lot of investments but that's probably unusual for most working in medicine (except maybe doctors) who tend to start working with a large student debt.
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  1641. I would guarantee behind the scenes Mexico and Canada are organising a coordinated retaliation to cause the US maximum pain with minimum damage to themselves.
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  1642. Sorry not everyone bows down to your dear leader.
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  1643.  @truthteller99  Well I eat Kangaroo, Beef, Pork, Lamb , Chook along with veges and wheat. You stated I am what I eat, to me that means I am some sort of science fiction mutant and not sure if that would mean I am handsome or not.
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  1644. Western Pacific WHO region countries, less than 10% per Capita deaths of PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO regions. So actually many countries didn't fail, this doesn't mean 0 deaths and no problems of course.
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  1645. @Pronto the entire WHO health region you are referring to, Western Pacific WHO region.
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  1646.  @johnwang9914  It's sort of looking like this virus will take longer to eliminate or at least get very high immunity levels in certain wealthy countries over the medium to long term and poorer countries in general are less vaccine hesitant.
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  1647. Interesting arguments, to the anti vaxxers you probably don't wear seat belts because although it will save 999 lives it will cause one death due to causing one to be unable to exit the vehicle when burning or under water. I understand the logic but you are increasing your chance of death. I am sure antibiotics have killed people occasionally too but it is the primary reason our life expectancy in wealthy countries has increased to about 80 along with vaccines versus about 40 during Spanish flu times. Because of these factors you can live your entire life without taking vaccines or using antibiotics because others do creating herd immunity where outbreaks are stopped dead in their tracks quickly and if it's microbial despite your resistance I think if you thought you were about to die you would go to hospital and willingly accept some deadly chemical being consumed or injected into you , an antibiotic in other words. If you are selfish and or scared of a vaccine don't take it until you aren't scared and possibly never depending if your actions require it. Let others create the herd immunity but don't criticize them for protecting yourself the scaredy cat.
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  1648.  @alwayscensored6871  Well if you are both old and fat you are high risk of serious problems if you get the virus so take of yourself the best you can and if you can make lifestyle choices to try and reduce weight then do so. I hope you stay safe.
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  1649. The problem is police data in that jurisdiction showed what occured was standard practice and would appear to be inline with the police handbook guidelines and well known to the police chief for example. In a 5 year period 44 people out of 237 were made unconscious, unconscious versus death is a very small difference I would think and if the health, including intoxicants , at the time of the other 44 was the same as that of George Floyd, how many would have likely died. Effectively the authorities have accepted the guidelines were wrong and have since changed them. If I was the defense lawyer this would be my line of argument and that my client didn't know the risks and is a simple policeman with no medical training other than basic first aid who put his trust in the guidelines which have been in effect for however many years.
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  1650. Wrong way around I think, "stand back and stand by" was what he actually said.
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  1651. Jasmine Crockett is a great young lady (it's a relative term , I am 51), cherish her. I am Australian but I can see talent and her along with AOC etc. should be your future leadership.
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  1652. @JCTiggs1  Everyone who has successfully finished primary school maths knows that cuts in spending aren't going to balance the US budget without tax increases on corporations and most likely blocking loopholes and crazy deductions in corporate taxes allowing many profitable companies to pay no tax.
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  1653. There is a problem however. For the US to get out of the hole it is in requires the corporate tax rate to be are 30% or so and for benefits to be cut over time as in increases below inflation rate and healthcare system to be overturned. You can't improve things by digging a deeper hole and neither of your political parties are going to do whats necessary until it's too late. 125% government debt to GDP isn't something that can be fixed easily, most countries would have collapsed already with that problem, the US is somewhat protected by the USD being the major reserve currency but it won't protect you forever.
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  1654. If you outnumber "them" then there is simple answer just vote.
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  1655.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  really, all pregnant women about to give birth can just go to Israel.
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  1656.  @rbb.828  and how might they get there?
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  1657. The price South Africa is getting the Indian produced AZ vaccine under a different name is double what the EU is paying. This doesn't mean it's not at cost because the cost structure could be very different.
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  1658. Trump's policies are often contradictory. He wants an alternate currency or currencies at the same time saying he wants the USD to remain dominant. Well which one is it?
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  1659.  @faecal_transplant_donor  Greg lives in a cupboard and hasn't seen or heard any world news for 6 months, I think we should let him know a bit below 1,000,000 dead around the world from a virus and the daily toll has flattened a little so it's a constant ongoing problem with no signs of stopping with out a vaccine.
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  1660. But Trump's department of justice might choose to not defend the case. If it's a jury trial the Jan 6 people will lose, but if it's judge only they might win.
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  1661. The overall rate for the world could be 0.30% as suggested. In Kenya maybe 0.04 due to demographics and a wealthy country 1% or even higher when you consider life expectancy in South Asia is not that much higher than the Kenya number I think and the population there about 1.5 Billion.
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  1662. You need a preferencial voting system or automatic run off , same thing but has different terminology in different places. But you also need one vote one person and for the Federal government to run it because eligibility differs in each state. Until those issues are fixed almost no candidate will be considered legitimate by all.
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  1663. It's sad to hear that, you take care.
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  1664. That's not the case in Australia, maybe is for the US and here's a question for you, even if everyone gets vaccinated and it's worked out 5,000 people will die would you enjoy saying we are opening the borders this will kill 5,000 people? The US still has 2,000 deaths a week it's just they ignore it, Australia's population is one fifteenth of the US. If Australia now started having 150 deaths a week which would be equivalent almost everyone would get angry.
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  1665. It is and it isn't, it's about priorities, I would say outside of Victoria Australia if you go to any other small community of less than 50,000 you will not be able to get masks on any scale, however in Australia's case because we don't have any current ppe issues because no cases a stockpile could be sent along with any medical staff required within 24 hours. It's different if supplies and staff are low.
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  1666. Search chasers war on everything osama bin laden impersonation. It's an old skit where they actually breached APECs security perimeter. No idea whether Chaz is personally left or right leaning but this show was a spin off of that show in some ways. They used to do a segment about the US sometimes. Australians do consider some Americans as entertaining with their weird and wonderful conspiracy theories etc. The fact Trump getting elected is testament to this being the highest profile Obama born somewhere else conspiracy theorist.
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  1667. You are just making fun of someone's English, he just unsure with his wording. He correct though can't call any vaccine the best because depending for who and what situation a country is in. The Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is cheap and Thailand has managed well in containment of the virus so a very high efficacy as suggested but expensive Pfizer vaccine that's unavailable is not the best for many countries. While Australia will have a few different vaccines, the Oxford Astrazeneca one manufactured here will probably be the one we use the most.
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  1668.  @rickkarsan4491  I love it. So emulating the Chinese leader by increasing term limits. You are right though that Trump certainly is in the race to win presidency for a second term, the polls suggest neck and neck. If more Republican s turn out he will win based on current polling numbers.
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  1669. What are you talking about I just checked, RT alive and well on YouTube.
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  1670. Really , so the government's of Texas and Florida are lying to the CDC? Truly remarkable.
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  1671. Other than her clearly being far left she was spot on with everything else.
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  1672. This is a pretty forward question so only answer if you want, why is Mississippi so bad, the deaths per million are like South Dakota (sort of know South Dakota's reason) above 2,000 per million population and both with low urbanisation rates so in theory should be low case and death rates?
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  1673. I am Australian and my biggest observation is that both sides are using poor people and socialism in the form of handouts as a direct tool to buy votes along with direct misinformation designed to get the bases angry so they will vote. BLM and a certain group of Trump voters not particularly the ones shown are actually the same people and both groups have exactly the same views on actually looking at data etc. , it's made up by the respective propaganda machines including most of your media. Until people call their own political party out for it's disgraceful behaviours on both sides by pandering to extremists by not condemning them , things can't truly move forward. Best of luck to y'all.
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  1674.  @jd_7906  So if a country has one of the best performances in the world they shouldn't compare to other countries, why is that?
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  1675.  @te_ure_nui  Thanks for the warning about nutters in Sydney.
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  1676.  @fauxque5057  it seems the most recent subvariants spreading in the US likely originated in the US and sorry you aren't genetically superior or anything, no reason variants won't emerge in the US if they haven't already. Get the population vaccinated, particularly the elderly, it's the only game in town which the US has failed to do compared to best practice.
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  1677. That's madness. It's like the US stays 10 steps behind where they should be at all times. If 1% of the current effort was done in January and February and interstate border restrictions were imposed your country would look similar to Australia or the states of Alaska and Hawaii who are geographically isolated. No idea where you go from here now.
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  1678. Who is running the response in South Africa, is it the National government or Provincial governments? This makes a big difference, in Australia and US it's the responsibility of each state to manage the response and people say Australia this and that but they are talking about one state actually. Victoria has 95% or more of the current cases and 25% of the population. Border restrictions exist in all states now which is why the major problem is contained to one state. I think without travel restrictions if your province does well it won't help much because infections will continue to come in. Keep up the good work, it would be a hard time for you I expect.
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  1679. I don't think he understands the way it works here, while Victoria might be taking a minor risk it's virtually no risk to other states because if it became 10 cases a day every other state would shut the border. I think the presenter doesn't realise travel between New York and London is easier than interstate in Australia if any real outbreak. The state opposition leader was just being opportunistic and would hold the tournament too , but about the only benefit of being in the opposition a comment like that can only have benefits politically if something does happen and if nothing happens it doesn't count against them. In Australian states if there is between 1 case to about 10 cases depending on the state restrictions get put in "out of an abundance of caution" , have watched some of the state governors in the US and it's like if there state has hospitals at 90% capacity with hundreds of daily cases they do something "out of an abundance of caution". Australia , New Zealand, Taiwan, Vietnam and to a similar extent South Korea and Japan speak a different language to the US and most European countries.
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  1680. He has indicated that he won't bring them back early which gives Trump time to do something again.
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  1681. What is the maximum prison sentence if you lie? It would take a complete amateur 5 minutes to print a document that looks like a negative test.
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  1682. For those who don't understand the basics of law the enforcement is in common language a request. The courts are requesting that the federal government stop breaking their own laws. The only real enforcement action available against the executive government's actions as a part of the government is a political one as in impeachment. We haven't reached that point yet and based on Senate confirmations are a long way away from that. If the Senate chooses not to impeach no matter what your country is a dictatorship already.
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  1683. I am Australian and thinking something along the lines of that but not quite as strong. What the US is asking is Iran unilaterally follows the deal and the US will then change the deal and once the unknown changed deal comes into effect the US will lift sanctions. Although China won't talk to Australia about it's trade sanctions on us for the moment, ( we actually don't know the exact reasons but many demands have been made of Australia ) , it gives the green light for China to do the same to us , even if we complied with all demands which isn't going to happen with things like , in effect removing foreign investment laws and foreign interference laws , China could just say ok you are following our demands thanks for that we aren't going to lift trade sanctions here are are new demands to consider lifting trade sanctions and legitimately argue this is now the new order of things we are only following US leadership. Not saying China trade sanctions against Australia are anything like that of US on Iran, just the principle is the same.
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  1684. These responses are just silly. Ireland is similar to New Zealand as far as being an island with low population, so why couldn't they do it? Also just look at every state in Australia and Taiwan and Thailand and Vietnam ( although Thailand might get problems soon with political unrest) All of Western Europe and US don't have quarantine, so they can never get rid of the virus it's an impossibility. It's not about the size or population of a country if you have a city of 1,000,000 or more. Puerto Rico it should have been far easier than NZ but that's just another US disaster. Don't disregard the successful countries because they did things your country refuses to do.
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  1685. That lady is directing them towards where police can get them easy. Go do it on wall street is code for you want to take on the police do it in the open. It's difficult for police to arrest in neighborhoods because upon arrival the vandals will mingle and no way to know who is resident or vandal.
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  1686. The group is loosely bound together and some members are racists, however I think far right extremists or nationalists is a more appropriate term.
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  1687. The murder if it happened probably wasn't in Florida.
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  1688. @mistercohaagen  I'm Australian so I don't have any strong opinions on the matter other than Trump will stuff it up. I was in the military a long time ago and nobody would stop volunteers doing that job. Maybe in some units there might be peer pressure not to do it, that's as far as it will go. If anyone tries to stop them from the military they would be looking at charges so it's not going to happen. Civilians might protest and disrupt things and if that happens I guess we will see how it goes. The military personnel probably will only be able to do certain jobs like checkpoints for example and ICE has to do any arrests etc. There's a lot of legal issues when military personnel are used.
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  1689. Probably not actually. We haven't heard what the police dispatch might have thought or asked. If someone says I am being threatened by someone recording me it sounds sus. If someone is truly threatening they won't have a spare hand to record stuff.
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  1690.  @edyann  Well I am Australian so Mexico would be mysterious to me , but probably to anyone in the Americas it isn't.
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  1691.  @ericsutton9853  China and Papua New Guinea go to 21 days mandatory enforced hotel quarantine now, but still going to have problems of spreading while in quarantine except maybe the purpose built quarantine facilities in China.
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  1692.  YoutubeInsistInBanningPeople  You don't get out of quarantine until proven virus free because it's quarantine, yes some can end up much longer, 14 days is only if no infection. In my state Queensland everyone infected goes into hospital to finish quarantine regardless how sick, in New South Wales I think especially now because cases too high they hire out a whole hotel or motel to put all the infected people who aren't that sick and can't isolate alone as in have family living with them, like a modern day leper colony.
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  1693. Sawadee
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  1694.  @trishgrant2715  The subculture of Australia and NZ with trade and quarantine issues we are certainly Asia.
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  1695. You are wrong, for almost all people who support Trump it's true. There is an excuse for every number. The US tests more, our numbers are not rising ( for a week or 2 now), Other countries don't count the dead people, every car accident in the US is labeled as a covid death, other less well off countries are incapable of testing, the tests don't work that's why our positivity rate is high and others low, Other countries all have an easier time containing it because they are small and compact or more spread out, the cases are skyrocketing in Japan and Australia (sky rocketing to the point they might see a death toll per capita like that of Hawaii if triple the numbers of deaths, actually somewhat likely. Hawaii and Alaska actually haven't done that bad so far, distance from the mainland is helpful I think), the main stream media, China, WHO are all lying. I think my list isn't even exhaustive yet, I am sure I missed a few other theories, so the US is doing great.
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  1696. Speaking with a little bit of tongue in cheek , Australia gave you Rupert Murdoch who produced Fox News and now we give you a bisexual Superman. I think you people will never be happy , what exactly do you want from us?
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  1697. Yes a bit of a mis statement however the real number 10's possibly 100's of thousands is good enough and the 50 or so people around the world that might have died is unfortunate but the benefits certainly outweigh the risks.
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  1698. Even though you don't know why it's possible you are correct about injecting the infection. If you look at survival rates from anthrax infection there is a far greater survival rate if the infection is through a cut in the skin versus through the lungs. It's unfortunate they don't do such an experiment with this virus in such a manner , healthy correct weight 20 to 29 year olds who have the lowest risk.
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  1699.  @galaxydust7267  well just to check I looked up about real peacekeeping by UN and it requires the parties to consent or in other words both the military government and protestors of Myanmar want them there, I don't think this is the case. Such a deal might be worked out with international pressure but we aren't there yet.
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  1700. 60 to 70% of American want a ceasefire according to polling. So don't blame all American, blame the Zionist politicians pandering to AIPAC.
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  1701. You get more bang for your buck mate, 2 superspreader events in different settings should maximise the spread.
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  1702. There's another 6 days before hotel quarantine comes in for some countries, still time for many to rush in.
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  1703. I have read through the comments and think people are a little confused. Australians and Americans are not homogeneous groups. The diversity in the US might be greater but this has also been demonstrated in Australia recently. The political system in the US is conducive to what is occurring, in Australia if our leader the prime minister stuffs up according to the ruling party they just replace him, he might generally choose the cabinet by conventions within a party not the law which really gives the whole elected party the choice but the ministers (secretary of whatever) are elected officials. The King chooses them in the US and no need that they are elected and he can fire them at will. To remove the King (president) it's a lengthy process of impeachment, in Australia sometimes removing a leader even half the elected representative are unaware until hours before. The cabinet in the US and Australia is the government, one elected and one chosen by a king. We are all just people and largely a product of our environment.
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  1704.  @scotttiger3864  how is an actor/ess important?, they are completely replaceable, I mightn't be the most handsome or have the best voice or actually any acting skill but I can read a few lines off a piece of paper and people can still understand the story.
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  1705.  @ayanda1271  Russia and China are not open democracies , they are like Myanmar currently and would be fed misinformation anyway. Under such circumstances why would citizens of those countries object to anything?
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  1706. I have been arrested in Queensland Australia about half a dozen times, never had handcuffs put on me. My arrests were in my younger days mostly for drunk a disorderly. Calm down US police or change the policies to be more discretionary, most people aren't going to be a problem.
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  1707. After 2 years of covid 19 you haven't worked it out yet. After a PCR test confirms it. How many places are capable of doing such a test , hard to know , it's not exactly something that's regularly tested for.
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  1708. A conspiracy theorist would think the airlines and vaccine companies have some quiet symbiotic arrangement to keep the status quo.
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  1709. It's a bad idea to half do it. Either do it properly or not at all. Anyone who can afford it can fly to Doha or Dubai and then on to Europe or US and undergo voluntary quarantine in the case of the US, being voluntary compliance is extremely low when it needs to be 100%. If one case gets in and spreads to 5 people it's game over and that's probably already happened in many countries but not detected yet. 90% of all Australian cases originated from 2 individual cases.
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  1710. Nature boy would have certainly supported imperial Japan and Germany about 80 years ago because there was no risk to the UK right. Not our business let's do nothing. History proves that to be a bad idea and also incorrect. The Russian empire will stretch as far and wide as the British empire previously did and German and Japanese empires tried to if everyone just says we don't care. Down with outright colonial expansionism, thought this had been sorted out 70 years ago, it's bad and should never be allowed to occur again.
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  1711. Read Looneylacy's comment. You are expecting too much, if Biden brings 2% more of people like Looneylacy accross the line that's an achievement. Don't think he should change everyone's mind, that's impossible.
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  1712. They'll be fine, they probably have advanced knowledge of virology and know that if they infect just one or 2 Whitehouse staff or preferably the US president they have the perfect bioweapon delivery device.
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  1713. Fire was pretty slow actually, any decent sized animal can just run away unless they have tree dwelling animals.
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  1714. It gets the highest levels of intelligence, the 5EYES compares to nothing else in the world. If NZ was to become traitor they certainly wouldn't be considered an insignificant backwater. The likely interaction behind the scenes is Australia being told by the US that they aren't sure NZ can be trusted what do we think and then Australia saying hey NZ you have to demonstrate you are with us because the US is getting nervous about you.
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  1715.  @akshatsrivastava6193  Sean Wu is a nasty piece of work, try to ignore him.
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  1716. It's tough but necessary. I do think WA is a bit over the top but in the end it's their choice.
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  1717. You are not giving Trump enough credit. As a leader in a Western democracy you can consider him a verifiable expert at the blame game. Name another leader in any country as good at it as him.
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  1718. I sort of laughed at that, cellulose is the actual product no matter what the paper was made from, I am wondering are they DNA testing the fibres or whatever to determine the source of the cellulose. And the Somewhere south east in Asia, maybe Indonesia lol. Really don't think they could give a dam about who in the Whitehouse.
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  1719. People are getting scared, there's going to be a mini spending boom that will abruptly halt once Trump puts tariffs on things, especially if done to the entire world. He could possibly cause a recession in his fisrt 2 quarters in office. The idea that it will be slow and gradual isn't correct unless the tariffs were slow and incremental, that's not Trump's plan. From the free trading nation Australia 🇦🇺 where we get higher wages, better social security, close to universal healthcare and cheaper consumer goods including many basic foods. Housing costs are a bit high here, that's our main problem. It feels funny to be on the same side of an argument as China against the US.
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  1720. The bottom 3 countries can be described as currently in civil war so can't really expect them to have no corruption. It makes sense that smaller countries can be less or more corrupt because the leadership will make a big difference versus bigger countries where the leadership can't have it's eye on everything and either be completely bad or good due to resistance.
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  1721. SkyNet going to start in Singapore, the Terminator movies were actually a documentary sent here by a future being.
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  1722. @Ronald Jpones You're still alive, while there's no way to tell if you would've died without the vaccine personally it does reduce your chance of death by about 90%. So if your risk was 5 % because you are 80 and obviously not that healthy given your age your risk changed to 0.5% which is good I think.
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  1723. They have indicated probably a little less effective but have to wait and see.
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  1724. As far as I know he hasn't been president yet. He was vice president for a while and seemed to do ok.
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  1725. You are all ignoring the Western Pacific WHO region countries, it's like we don't exist. Look at evidence and you see that these countries have lower government deficits on average and economies not too bad, the socialist countries in Europe (those with 50% of GDP being government spending normally) have done ok economically because don't have to adjust much but they would have probably done even better without the virus. Rich countries with normal government spending at about 35% of GDP with the virus are basket cases.
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  1726.  @covidfatalityrateinunder7076  not sure what years or numbers you looking at but for the calendar not financial year it's estimated that the Australian budget deficit at 7% which is extremely high but compare that to say UK and US at 15% it's certainly much better. The net debt which is the real number to look at isn't quite as bad as you say at about 40% at the moment, however you are right it's better if we don't go down the path of US and UK with net debt it would appear at about 80% , interestingly and I guess you get from Wikipedia it shows our net debt will be only 20% approximately, so don't know how the IMF works it out because our own government number is about double.
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  1727.  @davidh8781  what are you talking about? I am totally confused, the US gave very significant sums of money to Japan and South Korea. These are countries that for all intensive purposes don't permit migration because they are outright racist. Singapore was a colony of Britain as I am sure you would know and they didn't want to be with Malaysia when getting independence based on race. Both HK and Singapore built there countries on the sweat of very cheap foreign labour with 7 day work weeks. Please tell me which white controlled nation has behaved like any of these countries in recent history? Vietnam was communist and the US seemed to hold a grudge for a long time, other white nation's didn't and for example Australia and New Zealand resumed diplomatic relations in 1975 versus US in 1995.
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  1728. I don't see 20 million protestors in Canada, the protestors are a small minority.
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  1729.  JM Sabatino  Australian states don't have even 10s of cases a day, maybe the person commenting is a fellow Australian. The five months reference I am guessing is Western Australia and relates to community transmission because they get imported cases of course.
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  1730. So you're blaming a free market guy for a crazy protectionist? Also Reagan while I think he reduced corporate tax it was only down to 35% not 21% like now. Reagan also raised the federal minimum wage once at least. Trump and Biden both didn't raise the minimum wage, also while not making things worse Biden was a protectionist low taxing high deficit president. Most of the US problems particularly with government debt have occurred since George W Bush and every president since failing to change course regarding economic issues and invading both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  1731.  @cybourne5910  That's just being small and of no threat, G20 countries are expected to pull their weight, New Zealand can just stay in the background and offer moral support to the other 4 eyes. I think everyone is happy with this arrangement.
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  1732.  @nanaholic01  China is still a colonizer, what do you think Tibet and Xinjiang are? Xinjiang Chinese Autonomous Region. Tibet Chinese Autonomous Region. These don't sound like normal names to me. I don't think they are particular what the name states that they are.
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  1733. Have you actually read the self isolation policy, even if you follow it you can spread the virus. You can go and stay with someone already in the UK and they don't need to isolate with you, you can also catch public transport. Every country Australia , New Zealand, Thailand, South Korea, China , Taiwan, Vietnam, it's 2 weeks compulsory hotel quarantine. Most of Europe and US all just a voluntary unsupervised scheme which is absolutely meaningless, the fine in the UK for breaking the rules is less than the cost of hotel quarantine when payment is required if they ever bothered to fine anyone which I don't think they have.
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  1734. @M J the main reason for not letting people out of Australia is the capacity to quarantine isn't very high. We can leave for certain reasons , but extremely strict and in general only allowed if you are leaving for a long period, one way it states is having a lease at the destination.
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  1735. Based on 2010 census the urbanization rate in South Dakota is 57% so similar to say South Africa if we assume that urbanisation has increased by say 10% in the last 10 years. South Africa is at 330 deaths per million and South Dakota 606 per million ( source worldometer) . It's far to say South Africa is a low to middle income country. It's a pity people seem to be dying more quickly than she can keep track. She did however take responsibility saying that she liked the ability for the state to manage the situation, so credit where it's due. In Australia our worst state performance Victoria is around 115 deaths per million and far more urbanized. Some might say unfair to pick an African country because probably more developed than South Dakota , so Nicaragua has a similar urbanisation rate and it 24 deaths per million. I looked up urbanisation rate and didn't cherry pick it was a coincidence possibly. South Dakota has failed badly given it's demographics and assuming it is located in a high income country makes it look particularly bad.
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  1736. Not entirely but in lower and middle income countries putting that much effort in for 1 person wouldn't happen, if you add the wages his shot probably cost £300.
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  1737. If it was the early 70s he would probably be in jail by now.
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  1738. Great , so many millionaires watching a DW News clip.
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  1739. It's a technical impossibility. Third world means non aligned to USSR or USA. Maybe the term developing nation is more appropriate. The US actually led the way in things like welfare way back in the 1930s but hasn't bothered to improve things since in some respects.
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  1740. Not similar, it's the same. Ok isn't trading in endangered wildlife but many if not most of the "wild" animals in Chinese wet markets do actually come from farms.
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  1741. He stole number 5 from Trump or visa versa.
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  1742. Did you listen to the clip, if this blockade lasts any longer the farmers will be losing money.
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  1743. Although a few months old based on December last year I believe it is indicated a 75% approval rating which is extremely high. If that is even close to true he can behave like a dictator and no one can touch him because other parliamentary party members would silence and support demotion of any one who criticise Modi out of own self interest.
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  1744.  @khop502  it's one way to get international attention. Don't they say all publicity is good publicity.
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  1745.  @pamdeshane1289  I am not American but my observation is the duopoly of political parties at the moment you need to make a personal least worst option decision. You might consider different party for different positions and best local candidate in the non presidential elections
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  1746. Hello scammer
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  1747. Every scientific theory is based on a belief. So if I was a scientist I conduct an experiment to test my belief , however my biased observation because I am human I might reach the wrong conclusion, so there is peer review , if I am the best in my field the peer reviewers will have a bias towards accepting my theory. Scientist are human too and often accepted theories turn out to be wrong when someone later disproves it , look up Barry Marshal , stomach ulcers and see what you think. This is just one example, science and medicine isn't infallible and relies on belief in the first instance, being scientific means being able to change that belief when evidence says that belief was wrong.
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  1748. My girlfriend is there and very concerning because no travel restrictions in reality, so now like California close bars and restaurants in one province and people will just drive to next province. On paper there is travel restrictions but no enforcement, she travels each day for work via train from a restricted province but no checks anywhere. I am very concerned for that country which was like Australia virus free until about mid December I think. Search New Years Eve party Chiang Mai, it looks like a scene from Florida or something and apparently it was a spreading event. I hope they get it under control but not looking good if no further enforced restrictions I think.
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  1749.  @VieleGuteFahrer  You really don't know what you are talking about, Australia as an example spends far less on government funded universal healthcare than the US spends on its public healthcare as a proportion of GDP. In other words US citizens are being taxed more for a healthcare system that might not care about them.
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  1750. It's not actually true the Western Pacific WHO region actually has countries with the highest obesity rate on the planet, certain Pacific Islands and New Zealand and Australia aren't exactly obesity free , we are fatter than 100% of European countries.
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  1751. Just watch the Florida Experiment, they have no restrictions and they aren't Sweden. We will see what's going to happen in a month or so. Unfortunately a super spreader event was apparently cancelled, they wanted 90,000 to watch a football game but 21 players were infected so they cancelled it. This would have been a much better spreading event than a Trump rally because of the shear numbers. To any Floridians I mean no offence and take care the best you can, you are unfortunately truly in an experiment.
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  1752.  @andrewbarker3210  got a question for you, is 50,000 dead people and a 15% of GDP government deficit better than 30,000 people waiting at any point in time to return to Australia and a 7% government deficit? You can only make one choice.
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  1753.  @johncarlaw8633  One thing that never gets mentioned to keep the calm every person who goes through quarantine probably costs the government $3,000 , the $3,000 people pay is just the regular hotel, cost, if it's a compassionate flight probably more than triple because most probably wouldn't pay anything, so chartered plane , accomodation and pre flight testing ( in the case of India now, they described it as Qantas pays but who is paying Qantas, probably a mix of government and the people flying) hotel quarantine all costs. If people realised what these costs were anyone who left after being told not to would get a lot less sympathy than now.
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  1754. The US political parties don't like Australia on this issue. Both US political parties know that what we did even though successful to date doesn't suit either agenda and also embarrassing. We and NZ for that matter successful and we are free democracies with similar demographics. In the end US citizens have ended up with longer and more draconian restrictions than Australia. The only freedom they kept, the right to travel everywhere internally spreading the disease.
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  1755. The masks only slow spread, what's happening in the US? It's like collective self destruction from a unified country with both political sides at the grass roots level in agreement with everything but masks. Masks won't save a mob crammed in like sardines. Maybe because Trump set the bar below sea level nothing matters anymore.
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  1756. One factor regarding the case fatality rate is the generally lower life expectancy than average meaning not so many in the high risk category.
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  1757.  George Mburu  The number you suggest doesn't match what I can find. Where would I find this information? Even on the WHO website it states life expectancy in Kenya (2017) is 64 for males and 68 for females. I would think this is a reliable source.
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  1758. Thumbs up for excellent editing, I watched the full clip of Brad Hazzard on ABC and much of the time the Premier was nodding in the background. People need to know the truth and that is why our vaccination rate is number 3 in the world and our deaths are in the bottom 10%. Thumbs up for the editors 👍👍👍
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  1759. Technically costs are already being accrued. The next store fitout if done after tariffs come in will cost more. This cost needs to be recovered and also sales volumes will reduce when tariffs come in, need to increase margins or spend less on wages just to make the same profit.
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  1760. The furniture might be the same if rented furnished, however something should seem out of place including furniture placement.
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  1761.  @SnackAttack6  They would be fairly high ranking members of the party so close enough, maybe they are in government but that doesn't mean much when you have a supreme leader. Whenever I see video of the Chinese or North Korean government meetings , I always think what are you all doing there, only one guy makes all the decisions, you are just window dressing.
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  1762. Not sure if trade policy will change but Trump is annoying on this matter to the US allies. He is also annoying because he says things to other countries whether they ally or not in a similar fashion to his debate and rallies. In other words he thinks offending everyone but his political base is a good idea, Obama was the opposite acting in a diplomatic fashion to allies and in a more considerate manner towards those that are not. On military issues Trump has produced continuity and a little less aggressive or more isolationist which is the one significant positive thing about Trump in my opinion.
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  1763.  @Cytoplasm4508  well we will find out soon who wins I guess and if it's Trump Australia can expect more trade disruptions I think. China doesn't really care who their farm is and Trump insists it should be the US. The only way to achieve this is to reduce purchases elsewhere to make space. One of those somewheres is Australia and also it serves a dual purpose with China sending a message to us or applying a little pressure. The biggest thing Trump actually did domestically is reduce taxes , particularly corporate tax and run debt up even quicker than Obama. I don't know how it all ends but eventually something has to happen a country can't continue to borrow or print money for ever with no effect, but because the USD is the world currency it seems it will keep going for a while and every government in the world ex China has spiralling debt at the moment which can't be good. I think China is watching closely and for the moment just try to spend US currency buying assets around the world as fast as they can and non stop construction inside China which requires imported coal and iron ore.
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  1764.  @Cytoplasm4508  you are suggesting Australia should have an all out trade war with China and exit the WTO. Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? After we had exited the WTO China would have no rules and they could put trade sanctions on us which they could certainly sustain without any major effect on themselves. I don't know if you've noticed but we import quite a few things from China. Anyway your idea is never going to happen. You might like Trump's megaphone diplomacy, well Australia has never had that style of diplomacy and we aren't going to start now.
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  1765. They don't know because many aren't recorded because cases are not followed up everywhere so they can either estimate or just count the cases that are followed up. It's not political reasons, the US system is broken.
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  1766. Most of Europe plus the Americas all have open borders and voluntary quarantine so of course it's everywhere in those regions or soon will be unless the B117 outcompetes.
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  1767. What do you want him to do, cause a global collapse so the world oil price is as low as last year?
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  1768. Maybe you haven't been near a 5g tower, just wait lol. Sorry to say if robots were controlling those who got the vaccine why is the US still crazy as anything from an outsiders perspective, maybe the robots malfunctioning.
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  1769. I am wondering the same thing also. Maybe to let the antivaxxers know that they have minority support.
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  1770. When it comes to China, evidence is the damage is already done. The rate Trump threatened is 70% not 10%. It's 60% across the board last time Trump mentioned a number and 10% on top until the US wins the war on drugs. China isn't waiting around , it's probably not a coincidence that the final trade restrictions on Australian beef have been lifted. China will be looking to in laŕge part Brazil, Canada and Australia to replace agricultural imports from the US. If Trump doesn't follow through a lot of damage has already been done and some of that damage will be very hard to reverse.
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  1771. Only if a country has a choice, where the virus is rampant maximum speed is required.
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  1772.  @johnsonpaul1914  yep South Dakota a small population less than 1,000,000 people and 40% rural has managed to kill 0.18% of there population, about the 4th worst jurisdiction in the world behind New Jersey, New York and Belgium I think but since it's small and significantly rural on handicap it comes out as the worst jurisdiction on the planet , well done South Dakota.
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  1773. I agree, it's best for the government leader to take it on the first day. Australia will have less problems with vaccine hesitancy because not rushed so much.
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  1774. In about a month the health system in the US will really start to crumble, Trump is still in power at that time regardless of the election outcome. When the body bags start to pile up something will happen, maybe states will largely standardise restrictions which should have occured in March. Everything is on a vaccine which no one knows if they will work, results so far are only determined in a test tube, need to see phase 3 trails in real world conditions. I hope a vaccine does work to a high enough standard.
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  1775. Yes behaviour will be similar.
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  1776. Throw in pretty much the rest of Europe, they're all open border voluntary quarantine countries like the US and UK. The South African and Brazilian strains are probably spreading through most of the open border countries, good luck to all of you because if the vaccines fail on any one of these to a high degree you might be back at day 1 with not all that many cases of the strain but wait 6 months.
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  1777. Thanks
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  1778. Very few cases of the virus came from China to the US. If another 5,000 cases were prevented from reaching the US it's meaningless, the virus spreads to uninfected people and doesn't care. So probably 5,000 (extremely high estimate) cases from China, why didn't the US stop it then, other countries did?
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  1779. The US doesn't do much genomic testing, they'll find it when some state has 1,000 cases a day of it. Like the now old saying goes "if you don't test you don't have cases".
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  1780. My guess if they win this , they might consider others. I don't think they will go after Trump who was just as bad because some Republicans love him too much so won't be able to make any future sales in Republican led states would be the concern.
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  1781.  @zeyzey4903  The West certainly does share information about the middle east and many Australians don't agree with what Israel does and we have protests against it when hostilities heat up. You must be living in a bubble or ignorant of what freedom is because yes some agree with Israel no matter what. I don't like many things Israel has done and don't like what Russia is doing. Any person with a decent amount of humanity knows that both are bad , however many people believe lies in both cases and accept things that are wrong. Not in Australia but in the US many are supporting Putin's expansionary ambition, President Trump and Tucker Carlson a top 10 current affairs media personality. Why can't you accept that Russia is doing wrong when you claim Israel is doing wrong for very similar and I would argue almost exactly the same reason?
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  1782. Ultra Violet light will kill all those things you mentioned but whether it's 100% or not would depend on the power and the air being very well filtered to start with I would expect, because a particle of dust might encapsulate a microbe which doesn't get exposed to the light. I would think the seller would be able to provide documentation about the effectiveness of whatever they are selling.
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  1783. Everyone's missing a big number. The number of big people ( obese) people, the rate of such adult people in Sweden is 20% , Australia 29% , USA 36% . Source CIA world fact book data based on 2016. If adjustments are made for this the final death toll for the US is likely 900 per million or US is less than half way without adjusting for other factors like virus becoming less deadly and better treatment and people's actual behaviour. Also this is based on current per capita toll in Sweden of a bit over 500 per million , Belgium already pass 800 per million.
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  1784. Tucker omitted an important part of the conversation he had with other generals, talking about procedure which if not followed would make any order Trump gave bi-passing the chain of command illegal and anyway if it came down to it Milley would have said that's an unlawful order, the US is party to agreements and can't just nuke another country for the hell of it.
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  1785. But they haven't stopped, it only applies to non US citizen.
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  1786. ​@markcoomber8222 yeah with an overweight and obesity rate of 70% plus I don't believe all the "he /she was completely healthy" comments.
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  1787.  @Idontwannahandl  Are you talking about the same US I am aware of with 0.2% of the population dead from covid 19 and still around 2,000 per week dying and a government deficit of about 15% and last year cities literally burning and a homicide rate about 6 times that of other wealthy countries, 5 year lower life expectancy than Australia, etc. etc. ? Check the economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation for a guide on how socialist countries happen to be, it might surprise you. With our extra 5 years of life maybe we can afford to relax a little.
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  1788.  @danpictish5457  That's tough, I hope you are doing ok and take care of yourself.
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  1789. What are you talking about in Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand? The US isn't doing anything in any of these countries.
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  1790. They have called for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi , so what were you expecting?
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  1791. Not really, the US seems to be leading in all categories. Poor old Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia certainly doesn't like the namesake association. They are Covid 0 and for an Australian state or territory actually quite highly vaccinated.
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  1792. In Georgia the cut off time for international votes coming in just occurred about now. That is US citizens overseas not Russians and Chinese unless Trump got the military votes diverted for alteration. Maybe someone should just start a ridiculous conspiracy theory against Trump along these lines.
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  1793. Even al Qaeda wasn't that extreme (ISIS maybe), more like the purge or whatever it was called by Pol Pot in Cambodia, just start killing people.
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  1794. Trump ran the biggest deficit by far in history. So you think Trump wastes money then. Trump is also increasing taxes on the poor with tariffs. So you support taxing the poor more and rich less. You have an interesting view.
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  1795.  @Didier0002  I watched the video you sent and it wasn't built for covid 19 but repurposed as I previously said. It's her own stupid fault no wonder she lost her job all she had to do was just tell the truth in the first place and she could have home quarantined. A spoilt little princess and the conditions at Howard Springs are pretty good actually, many people have been quarantined in hotel rooms with no balcony and can't leave the room at all. She even got paid rather than having to pay like most, I have 0 sympathy for her.
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  1796. Not a big problem. If most Australian states Thailand , South Korea and New Zealand can gain control quickly each time with restrictions over relatively short periods then Victoria can too after this experience. The biggest thing is the time in identifying the first case and acting fast. I watched Dan Andrews maybe a week or 2 ago and they had contact tracing interviews occurring within 4 hours of a known positive case 80% of the time. Previously an entire abattoir was infected after a person was tested positive and it took a month to look at his workplace. Victoria has gone from continuous failures to probably being as good as any other jurisdiction.
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  1797. Not technically, a conspiracy theory is a theory that a conspiracy is occurring whether true or not. But I guess common usage it implies that the theorist is wrong and usually is and the use of the word theory means it isn't proven.
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  1798. Guns might not be the underlying cause however a violent population like the US with guns becomes even more violent.
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  1799.  @corny5128  well of course a vulnerable person is vulnerable but saying that they would have died anyway is incorrect otherwise there would be a decrease in total deaths compared to expected because of the measures that reduced mortality and this didn't occur.
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  1800.  @ewrock7635  If you are genuine in your comment, I would suggest life has to move on, unfortunately can't save those who refuse to get vaccinated and can't keep trying to protect them when they refuse to follow rules anyway. I am in Queensland Australia and we went from Covid 0 to opening up and very few mask mandates left, just vulnerable settings such as hospitals and nursing homes. Of course it's sad to see so many dying.
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  1801. That's still going ahead, hopefully India changes it's mind at some point.
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  1802. There is chaos on the US / Mexico border, for anyone to think an internal border in another nation would be less chaotic is a little unrealistic. If you get on a plane you are automatically in a rich developed nation with government support so regardless whether one fears the Taliban or not the pull factor is enormous. Let's hope the Taliban isn't as bad as previously, there is zero hope of getting the majority of the highly vulnerable out which is poor Afghani women and children.
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  1803. Very true, look at median adult wealth by country and average adult wealth. You will see my country Australia is about the same for average wealth, US a bit higher I think but median wealth Australians are more than double that of our US counterparts.
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  1804.  @andrewrichardson3135  you don't have to be, there are more internal freedoms in Australia than the US currently and sorry to inform you but you are more authoritarian than Australia already. You have 400,000 health prisoners which is possibly the highest rate in the world and certainly more than double the rate in Australia. Being a drug addict should not be considered a crime in my opinion however it's a difficult issue and not entirely against imprisonment if treatment occurs also. So freedom to infect but being a junkie that hurts nobody should be imprisoned apparently , does that make sense to you?
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  1805. It depends on the US state, eligibility even for their federal elections varies a lot, Colorado allows certain prisoners to vote, other states bar voting when a person is still serving a non custodial sentence as in probation. In Australia our federal elections we allow anyone with a prison sentence of less than 3 years I think it is. The worst part about the US federal election is the states having different illegibility because it means not all votes/voters are equal.
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  1806. But the Delta variant spreads no matter what, look at Indonesia which is all tropical so not much seasonality.
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  1807. What a silly comment, many countries have programs like this and they aren't all "Western".
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  1808. Thanks for the only compliment in this comment section I have seen so far, some comments are a bit funny they live in some jurisdiction lockdown for a year cases through the roof etc. and feel sorry for Canberrans who have had one week lockdown in a year with no restrictions for the rest of the year.
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  1809. It amazes me how little people know about tariffs. It won't just increase the cost of imported goods , it also pushes up the prices of domestic goods because every major business uses imported goods. A new store fit out for a Walmart is about to become more expensive because it's not believable that an entire store fit out doesn't use imported goods at all. Things like light fittings, cash registers, refrigeration systems and security systems will all have imported components if not be fully imported in some cases. Walmart needs to account for this and start recovering those costs now to ensure that they don't lose major money noting their profit margin is less than 3%.
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  1810. You don't want an antibody test, they are useless unless you only want 99% accuracy which isn't good enough if you want to stop the virus. Australia and New Zealand won't use them, I think they might have some in hospitals or ambulances for emergencies however with so few cases probably never been used.
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  1811.  @clarejohnson9265  at least your country as a whole is still doing a lot better than the US. But as we know that can change quickly if some of the faster transmissible strains get a hold, best of luck.
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  1812.  @shehannanayakkara4162  Early voting starts in Queensland tomorrow I believe. Even though under normal circumstances I wouldn't be keen on Labor getting a landslide, if NZ is anything to go by it's going to happen here. Since my previous comment my mind has been made because I heard Campbell Newman on Sky News Australia saying we should follow Sweden when they have higher restrictions than us except for travel. He might not be involved with politics directly now but I am acting with definite prejudice and guilt by association.
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  1813. Gilead has licenced the use of the patent for Remdesevir for developing countries free of charge. They are not being greedy at all. Search Gilead Remdesevir License and you will find the info.
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  1814. The US is the testing ground for all variants and how well vaccines do, large population that travels all over the world without restrictions.
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  1815. Civil war versus invasion
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  1816.  @suphatrachaiyasit7531  Hey don't criticise another state too much, they are all doing their best. I am from Brisbane, I can remember a 6 month period last year when Victoria, New South Wales and the federal government just wouldn't let up telling us to open the border, it only stopped after Victoria's long lockdown/Clive Palmer losing the federal court case. At the time I thought of NSW and VIC a bit like you talking of NSW , I was wrong , they are all doing their best and even though QLD has done extremely well we are only a week or 2 away from disaster should one error be made, the Delta variant is a new virus compared to the original Wuhan variant.
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  1817.  @Andrew-ob5ij  Yes the classic is the authoritarian Florida governor banning cruise lines from protecting their crew and passengers. Normally employers/business is required by law to protect customers and workers and some tyrant has turned that on its head and it's not a critical business in any way shape or form.
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  1818. That was/is Sweden's approach. Multiply their death toll by 2.5 to adjust to Australian population or multiply by 0.65 for Victoria and see if you like the number.
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  1819. It's already in production in the US along with many other countries including China. Because of its cost and widespread production I think if it is effective it's the game changer.
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  1820. I don't think the PM would be personally approving advertising. Australia has done pretty good at both state and federal levels and virtually no politicisation. Expecting perfection is unreasonable.
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  1821. The draconian laws make no difference, it's other factors. The US is the most dangerous wealthy country on the planet and they have draconian laws including the death penalty in many states plus federally.
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  1822. Trump will likely pardon them all the day before he leaves office. If for some reason his term is cut short JD Vance will do the same.
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  1823. New Zealand has for a short while, Australia as far as I know not a problem. Have to remember in both countries and others in Western Pacific WHO region it's 14 days mandatory enforced hotel quarantine. All our border workers and hotel quarantine workers would have had vaccine by now I expect so the risk is now lower than a few months ago. Entry is only for permanent resident and citizens for the moment in almost all cases.
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  1824. Just because you're a girl doesn't mean you're always right ( except for your partner ) but actually tend to agree, it's too fast a little slower wouldn't hurt.
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  1825. Have you ever heard of China? They did the same thing as Australia.
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  1826. Not a commercial truck, a boys toy truck.
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  1827.  @SimonKnight1023  I have to admit because of my bias towards Americans in some respects I didn't actually recognize your sarcasm, if you were British or Aussie or Kiwi I would have picked it up more quickly I think because more of us behave that way.
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  1828.  @christinewelford1842  So you don't believe a country has a right to decide who enters or in other words you want an open border, you would be replaced by lower cost workers. Yes the US requirements (and almost every country in the world) is need to be vaccinated if you are a foreigner to enter. I don't understand how you see it as both sides.
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  1829. Hey why did they put Gorbachev in there, he was a good person ending the Soviet Union. He wouldn't endorse Putin's behaviour.
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  1830. If feeling too bad go to hospital or at least call some information line in your area.
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  1831. Risk of overdose and rare complications, also risk of change in behaviour resulting in more infections. Nothing pretty much is risk free, however it would appear the risk benefit ratio is good, just like vaccines, we know on rare occasions all vaccines have the possibility of killing the person but the number saved is 1000s times greater than lives lost through vaccines.
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  1832. It's not intelligence level's , it's culture. A gang banger and an accountant might on average have the same intellectual ability. Which one is more likely to succeed even if you weight the intelligence in the opposite direction to common thinking? Looks help in certain roles but not all. Einstein was no oil painting.
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  1833. Seems more like a diplomat, both sides are right.
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  1834. I smoke and drink alcohol, I will likely live about 20 more years and I am 48 now, this is a different level, maybe similar to fentanyl. One can calculate the risk and trying to get a record for the lowest base jump or close to it is an extreme and immediate risk.
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  1835. I don't see why not, Trump blamed everything on other countries all around the world. But you can thank Biden for cheap softwood timber because as Fareed reported previously Biden wacked a tariff on it, no good for your loggers and timber mills though.
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  1836. It's cultural, the US is high in all crime metrics when compared to other high income countries. Incarceration is as you point out through the roof so that's not working. It should be noted however not all states are high, some states have crime rates in line with high income countries.
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  1837. No, contain them. Expelling them just means they spread it everywhere. Campus lockdown, no one in or out.
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  1838. It's only low by Philippines standards, by world standards the crime rate is still very high but less than the worst countries in the world.
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  1839. It's more powerful if it comes from within a race if racism is the issue. Applies to all races.
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  1840. I think without their world leader (Donald Trump) it wouldn't have happened because the conspiracies wouldn't have gained traction.
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  1841. He wasn't following because there were 10s of thousands and only 1 or 2 thousand ever made it into the building, he technically was one of the leaders as was everyone in that building.
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  1842. At the moment can't be sure because it's a race, virus spread versus the vaccine rollout in countries with problems and could some mutations evade the vaccines before rollout complete.
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  1843. As an Aussie there's a bit of irony here, an Aussie PM would likely have about 2 local cops to protect him or her.
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  1844. If NYC was a country it would have the second highest homicide rate of a high income country in the world behind USA.
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  1845.  @uncleraze3427  I don't think so, it lost contact and they believe it has or likely has sunk in water of about 700 metres. They wouldn't deliberately go below the rated depth.
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  1846. @wilsonas53  yes lower prices of certain goods due to lower exports will only be temporary.
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  1847. Anything more than preferential treatment of mining companies in Europe, Canada and US is wrong. I am Australian and even though Australia is a mining powerhouse I would understand if we were treated less preferentially because our contribution has been relatively small.
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  1848. It's not hearsay because he said he heard it, hearsay is someone told me it happened, but it holds no weight because it's contradicted by others, don't know who to believe.
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  1849. Nobody wants you Yank tanks as they are sometimes referred to (large vehicles that are inappropriate) or Tesla's. Get over it produce what we want or have 0 overseas sales.
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  1850. You don't even have hotel quarantine at the UK border and never have had, just some voluntary scheme that nobody checks with relaxed rules that can spread the virus anyway. The fine is less than the cost of mandatory hotel Quarantine in most countries that do it and has probably never been imposed.
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  1851. The business owner in this case was in agreement. What you say is true though, Australia is reopening and the US looks like it's a game of mitigation and not overflowing intensive care units. Australia is not the only country doing well and political system etc makes no difference, it's just a case of countries that are functional and not for this particular issue.
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  1852. Kopkun Krap
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  1853.  @anomarnamloh7444  Don't have to go to no junk food AKA ultraprocessed food. The current rate of junk food consumption in the US is over 50% of the diet. So change no junk food to get it down to 20% or so and there would be massive improvement. No country in the world has managed to reduce obesity, not even 1. I am in Australia, we are 10 years or so behind. Don't know if you ever saw the 2004 film Supersize Me but there was extreme obesity in Mississippi at the time, 25% of the adult population. The entire adult obesity rate in Australia is now over 30% and US over 40%. 2004 Mississippi at least in respect to body size looks pretty good right now.
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  1854. So running up debt is fine. Trump's your man then, 8 Trillion in 4 years. Maybe he can run it up faster this time if he wins.
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  1855. It's not because he won by a lot but that he had an approval rating probably around 40% approval when he left last time, coming back from that and winning is remarkable.
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  1856. Nobody will be using any such thing for entry into Australia unless New Zealand possibly where no virus anyway. To let people coming from virus rampant countries with one test and no quarantine would be madness. One test only indicates not having significant viral load at one point in time , it doesn't tell if the person got infected yesterday for example or infected in the window of being tested and getting on the plane. 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine with tests on days 3 and 10 is the only proven quarantine method that works.
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  1857. It didn't come off well however I do think he meant at the same rate as the general American population. Have a go at him for other reasons but I don't think this is one to be overly annoyed about, Biden has had similar slip ups on occasion, doesn't mean he isn't genuine.
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  1858.  @puesbien  Looking at the current ages of people in leadership positions in US politics, I do think they could do with some younger people, 40s to 60s I think is the ideal age range, over 70 maybe still be a politician but probably shouldn't be playing a key role, exceptions do apply of course.
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  1859.  @MedicalMinutes6334  it's much worse this time in India because of variants, if you look at UK data around about November and December the "UK variant" was increasing during lockdown and all other variants were decreasing, so the lockdown worked on old versions of the virus only and only slowed the rate of increase of the new variant at the time. India has the UK variant and a local variant which might be even more transmissible. It's probably only a matter of time that it spreads throughout India and neighbouring countries, take care of yourself and family.
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  1860.  @MedicalMinutes6334  I hope what you say happens but I am not optimistic. The only slight positive I see is that demographics should make people less susceptible than say a country like the US in proportional terms. Younger overall population and a lot less overweight people should mean the infection fatality rate is much lower, but it's not a certainty.
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  1861. It is more noticed in wealthier nations and has a lot to do with trajectory. People who lose businesses and go bankrupt later in life often suicide. If they hadn't lost everything regardless of the reason they lost it they would be fine. In countries that haven't handled the pandemic well these cases will occur at a faster rate than normal. The converse is a laborer who gets very little in a poor country gets a pay rise from $5 per day to $6 per day will feel good about the situation even though to a large segment of the world being put into such a situation would cause serious depression.
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  1862. It's called the weather, Florida and some other southern states catch fire in summer, NE in winter. This was even observed in 1918 so not exactly news.
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  1863. You'd be surprised how ignorant or conspiracy theorist your fellow citizens are. I chatted on this platform to one of you who doesn't believe the CDC death numbers and apparently there are more gun deaths in Australia versus USA on a rate basis.
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  1864. That's probably the best rollout plan cities first, because the virus can't spread easily in rural areas if people take precautions.
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  1865. I have heard the Astrazeneca one should get emergency approval in Indonesia soon.
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  1866. What's that supposed to mean?
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  1867. More than distancing, saying that they should be imprisoned as terrible lawbreakers.
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  1868.  @dianad1968  Just a note should always say "Sky News Australia" because Sky News is English and sold by the Murdoch's some time ago and in the centre I think but not sure, Sky News Australia is almost a conjoined twin of Fox News.
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  1869. I disagree in part, while mental health services probably are an issue in your country the underlying problems are the function of government and some people feeling that they don't have a voice. Lack of an effective social welfare safety net is a big issue and the most affected young black and white males feel they are being treated unfairly and there is some truth to it. I am a white male in Australia and the same problems here. If you look white males are most likely to suicide along with indigenous people in both our countries and young black males in US dramatically more likely to be involved in gang type violence and young white males in school shooting type violence. As a caveat a significant number of suicides in both these groups are older people. If you look in a patriarchal society female suicide rates are higher than male for example South Korea. Obviously you are a girl but just think about why the males in our countries think like this, especially the young we feel worthless with constant criticism against our demographics tending according to political leaning, eg. right considers black males a violence problem, left considers white males the same. It's not an easy problem to solve if no one listens.
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  1870. I wish you the best of luck, take care the best you can and if things decline don't be afraid to go to the hospital. Having a doctor you can call is great.
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  1871. You make sure you take care of yourself and if it gets too much seek help. Most people appreciate what you do however commenters in places like this tend to have conspiracy theorists outnumbering the rest. Take care.
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  1872. Unless the Canadian military is very different to other modern militaries he would have had 10 different vaccines already and using his uniform and rank to send an anti government message along with not getting vaccinated is serious insubordination. His only hope of not getting a dishonorable discharge I would think would be to get the vaccine and plead guilty to any charges, even that mightn't be good enough.
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  1873. It won't until the left and right side of politics start being reasonable and work on outcomes instead of ideology. But I wish you luck and hope for your sake it's sooner than I think.
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  1874. It's not a cure and excessive amounts can be harmful. Ask your pharmacist about safe levels for anyone or doctor if you want more details and possibly higher doses if recommended.
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  1875. Well based on your name you'll be fine, staying cool and hydrated and growing slowly, never in complete darkness or direct sunlight. Stay cool.
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  1876. Actually we are cooperating with each other , extra resources go to the states with problems and a lot of federal money to pay handouts, doesn't mean we in the covid 19 free states are going to open our borders to the diseased states. I am in Queensland and they slowed down even interstate arrivals because those Mexicans just keep coming even you make them quarantine for 14 days and pay $2,800 AUD. (Mexicans is nickname for people from New South Wales and Victoria because they keep migrating northwards to Queensland).
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  1877. 100% Everyone has gone quiet on it now but I am from one of those terrible authoritarian states, the state of Queensland Australia where if you do the wrong thing you might get prison time, funny thing you only need to lock up one person for a couple of months and most people get the message, Somebody decided to have a party 2 nights in a row during lockdown and got 2 months prison. In another case one group of girls who brought covid 19 into our state are looking at potentially 5 years prison for lying about where they had been previously, case is pending to January now. The most common reaction to those girls is hope they get 5 years, I don't think they'll get much but it shows if someone takes your freedom, possible lockdowns and business closures you aren't popular in my state, other states in Australia similar. Everything is open and we only had 8 weeks hard proper lockdown.
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  1878.  @justinbailey1239  Public amenities not publically owned property which is private property under the law, the presidential palace , oh I mean white house is directly owned by the government and likely held by treasury, try exercising your perceived freedom there on that public property if you consider it to be that.
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  1879. I think of it like the Hepatitis B vaccine , that requires 3 shots. It also doesn't always work just like all these vaccines but preliminary data suggests 3 shots is far better than 2.
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  1880. Eventually they will be able to work out excess deaths but this won't say what the causes are and many dying from lack of care for other medical issues because hospitals reducing all other treatment as well plus lockdown causes extra deaths too. India is in a dire situation, I wish you the best stay as safe as you can for you and your family.
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  1881. There are a couple in China at phase 3 and it's expected if all goes well the University of Queensland /CSL Australia one will go into phase 3 trials early December. It's my state so proud of that, even if I don't have the scientific knowledge to identify a test tube personally. There are actually about 20 or so at a similar stage I believe.
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  1882. Victoria Australia, a true curfew makes enforcement of restrictions easier. If restrictions aren't comprehensive and enforced it won't achieve much at all.
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  1883. In part it was because we have the highest number as a proportion of our population compared to say a country in Europe or US , are immigrants so it meant had to be fairly strict because we travel a lot. To put it into perspective Queensland my state had about the same number of imported covid 19 cases as Taiwan but only 1 fifth the population. Other nations did have significant travel restrictions, it wasn't only Australia.
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  1884.  @bonnie7898  you are right , truth is over 50% of the world's population can only dream of travel and probably never will their entire life.
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  1885. Wasn't England a Roman colony some time around then, don't think English language as we know it existed.
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  1886. Your description suggests that the virus would have killed you, stay safe, takes a while for immunity to fully kick in apparently.
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  1887. At best Trump is a sociopath , but given his actions probably a psychopath. Americans are still in denial and giving him the benefit of the doubt, he is happy with the 500,000 people killed by the virus because he could blame China. The US allowed the virus to spread to all major states and territory, in fact every county has had a case. Ok maybe 100 cases came from China however this was known on January 21, just not the extent of the problem. 100 cases plus the cases from Europe which were let in without anything but voluntary quarantine still in place to this day. How is it 100s of thousands dying and Trump encouraging infections didn't alert anyone to who this person is? Now everyone tiptoes around the issue of the insurection , maybe the guy talking like militia members who claim it's their right to overthrow the government should have been a giveaway but apparently not, maybe his obvious delight that a real threat of death occurred to the Michigan governor should have ring alarm bells, he was laughing when his rally mob was chanting lock her up after yet again stoking the flames. Wake up America.
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  1888. It's a Canadian company.
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  1889.  @victorruiz922  Yes and no to your comment, clearly the UK and France agreed to a statement by the UN security council with China and the US vetoed it, this is what the Chinese Foreign Minister said. So it's not that clear cut and a strong alliance means in diplomatic terms talking behind closed doors, even if one of the other countries in the 5 eyes doesn't agree with the US we won't say it publically. We all agree with Israels right to existence but that doesn't mean we agree with Israels actions and certainly we know many individuals don't agree, me being one of them.
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  1890.  @lindahibbs5906  So you support Israel expansion, well can never have lasting peace.
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  1891. The first movie of the current remake is one of my favourite movies. The military and political aspects and conduct in that movie is actually more realistic than all realistic looking fiction movies in this genre.
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  1892.  @TheKonga88  Not if every country adopted the West Pacific culture and wanted the virus gone. European countries and the US want to keep it, cross fingers and hope the vaccines do the job and no other plans other than lockdown lite if hospitals overflow. Fancy discussing after 1 year whether or not to have quarantine for travellers and close the border to non long term residents. Give it another year if the different strains gain hold despite the vaccines and they might discuss it again.
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  1893.  @thinktransnational  you missed Vietnam a pretty big country with a border with China.
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  1894.  Hugh Mungus  In Australia we shut state borders, there are only 4 states in the US with particularly large populations so let's ignore New York, California, Texas and Florida. Actually no change most likely, the US still did pretty bad. Search Dictator Dan Victoria on Youtube and you will likely get the Murdoch controlled sky News Australia, watch whatever video and see what actions they had to take to realise a comeback. The virus doesn't care if you are on an island hence Hawaii and Puerto Rico doing so badly despite them having a combined population similar to New Zealand.
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  1895. Just make sure you ask first because the vaccines might not be recommended for you at this stage. Have to remember it's emergency use so vaccines may not have been tested on people like yourself.
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  1896.  @rebeccafowler7074  It's actually good news, just remember the cases of the Queensland girls who went to Victoria and infected some when they returned back to Queensland went undetected for about 2 weeks and took a while to contain. This seems like it is similar but contact tracing has improved a lot since then . High cases quickly is good even if you look at the Victorian lockdown Mark II cases should go up when failures start to be rectified. I don't know details but one current case was in QLD but not for a long period. They understandably want to keep privacy unless they are offenders lying to authorities or breaking rules substantially , so often things seem mysterious.
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  1897. The argument that the military can't be used is ridiculous. The only legal arguments are what powers the president has in the case of a hostile state that won't for arguments sake declare martial law or some other sort of declaration. Can a US president declare martial law, this is uncertain because it's never been tested in court. Martial law has been declared 50 or 60 times in the US and the most often reason was to crush unions. Many more times the military as in national guard has been used, particularly against protestors. The national guard is military reserves. Do i think Trump declaring martial law state by state is a good idea if he is able to, probably not but we will wait and see which method Trump attempts to use and find out whether it's legal as there's 100% chance the big blue states, New York and California in particular will challenge it in court.
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  1898. Chances of dying of gunshot wound in the US over the next year approximately 15 out of 100,000 and possibility of dying from a covid 19 vaccine complication over the next year, well actually we don't know but seems like 1 in 20 million or so. Please don't get shot and then hopefully you will survive the vaccine.
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  1899. Lol
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  1900. The place most likely to have that data would be the US CDC. Not saying they have it but they are excellent data collectors even if the DC (disease control) part they aren't crash hot at.
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  1901. Go and watch Fox, OAN and Newsmax for 1 week 5 hours a day plus a couple of hours on private Facebook groups of the Q genre. No other sources of information permitted. Next week you'll be telling me how your current statement was all wrong and how you have seen the light. Unfortunately the damage does cross borders, an example is the conspiracy theory which was started outside of Australia regarding relatively remote indigenous people but they all have access to social media and they became terrified that the Northern Territory government was taking them away to be killed rather than quarantine to save lives, I actually stumbled accross a clip of an indigenous person who felt like this was happening to other community members and was genuine as far as I could tell. While the majority would not think like this can you imagine thinking that way, that you are being led to your death.
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  1902. Q stands for Queensland, we are running the world and don't you forget it.
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  1903. Billionaires and big business not affected by tariffs and retaliatory tariffs will be the financial winners.
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  1904. Many years ago in Australia there was a referendum to change the government to constitutionally a republic without changing anything other than the Governor General to become the President as chosen by a minimum of 2 thirds of the parliament I think it is. It obviously failed and interestingly the lower socio economic group voted against it. The US system of government has the president akin to a king or queen in an absolute monarchy. At the time when compared to an absolute monarchy it was better but I would suggest a constitutional monarchy where no individual has too much power is a better model. If a referendum was to be held tommorow in Australia for a Republic with a directly elected president I would vote no. I voted in favour last time around with no change in the operation of government. The governor general in Australia has veto power but I don't think it has ever been exercised.
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  1905. As the last part of the explanation said all they did is look at it and say what it is. No hacking took place just a technical observation. I could buy a tomato from a patented variety and do the dna sequence and tell the world too I haven't broken any law (if I actually had the resources and New how to that is). If a scientist had the ability and resources he/she could produce the vaccine for personal use so themselves and family, just like you can regrow a patented plant for personal use.
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  1906. They specifically said the people of Istanbul, not other parts of the country who probably favour it because they think it will bring them money. Damn sure I wouldn't want it going through my city when a route already exists.
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  1907. The UK and US never had a lockdown, just lockdown lite or a basic mitigation lockdown. See Taiwan , Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand where lockdowns occur until virus contained and quarantine at the border. South Korea and Japan not far behind but maybe flying close to the sun because while the virus isn't out of control in those countries if cooperation levels drop in getting tested and following guidelines they could have big problems. They do seem to "live with it".
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  1908. There is a silver lining which you just alluded to. This complete failure in containment, not only in the US but many countries will see new medical research and some of could never be done with low case numbers. Hopefully there is a somewhat effective vaccine but the number of mutations happening all the time it might not be highly effective.
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  1909. Nobody knows, they just said it was an estimate or in other words a guess. It could be more or alternatively it might be all gone and that's why the forcing her to work if that's what has happened and fighting like hell to keep control. It only takes an hour to lose $1 million in a high rollers room or even quicker on the stock market, 2008 was an interesting year for the stock market to say the least. March 6 2009 was the market bottom. If I was to bet I would bet a lot of money was lost and ever since they have covered it up, my guess Britney doesn't even know her worth.
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  1910. My perception from Australia which has an almost identical vaccination rate is that your provincial Premiers and Federal government are a bit timid to open up because of previous experience, Australia seems on average a little more open however it's our summer so that's a big difference, don't know what will happen in our winter but at the moment most parts of our country doing fine in a relative sense.
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  1911.  @Campbellteaching  The real James Bond , the birdwatcher or the character created from the name because Ian Fleming apparently liked birdwatching and James Bond? I reckon you could be either.
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  1912. I am surprised the number of comments like yours indicating a fairly high level of denial in Indonesia, maybe like USA or something.
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  1913.  @dinhnguyen9273  40 years ago 0 foreign investment accepted in China or close enough to it.
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  1914.  @donm5354  that line of cases going up was some modelling by whoever he said it was, he didn't do the modelling. He states he thinks the modelling is likely in his opinion, you can have your own opinion.
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  1915.  @ezbody  they are already doing it , apparently the spread of the virus is all down to in a relative sense a few foreigner crossing your Southern border, nothing to do with the unvaccinated or for that matter all the US citizens traveling around the world with no quarantine either which is totally ok. Apparently the virus must do a citizenship test before infecting someone. This is literally the logic people are arguing with and there's a direct link to comments by DeSantis and most likely others.
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  1916. You don't say. There are more slaves in India currently living as ever were in the US. Most slavery these days is by black and brown people against black and brown people. Leaders don't endorse it but it doesn't get stopped.
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  1917.  @Andrew-ob5ij  I don't think you will ever get through to Qwad.
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  1918. I think it's time now to officially change the term for elbow to viral particle diffuser.
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  1919. It's partly a language thing, I noticed in Australia we tend to use strain quite a lot. So I don't think there is any clear definition or if there is even health officials don't know it.
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  1920. The problem is HK people over 70 were only 30% vaccinated. 15k in HK versus 120k population adjusted for Korea, Korea is better off with vaccination rates above 90% I think. Australia with half the population of South Korea peaked at 200k or so official cases per day.
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  1921.  @gatewaytobeing  I think that's a good thing because we have no idea what the next variant might be and vaccination specifically against omicron which appears to be a bit less deadly would accelerate the coming of a new variant. The current vaccines actually accelerated the rise of omicron over Delta based on data from Denmark because the vaccines far more effective at stopping delta's spread so the vaccinated were actually more likely to get Omicron at a certain point in time than the unvaccinated because they were largely prevented from getting Delta. Whatever authorities do it might appear wrong but have to consider what would happen if things were done differently and could that be worse.
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  1922. It's a difficult issue especially in the case of the US because of your unusual banking system with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Redlining should exist in a free market banking system. Banks shouldn't be forced to make loans in areas that are in decline. The US issue was that the government was redlining what amounted to handouts previously. In a way it's still being done with education being primarily funded at the local level instead of the state level meaning poor neighbourhoods have low quality schools.
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  1923. Oh no the Australian economy is going to collapse because we didn't let one antivaxxer in.
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  1924.  @MrRawMonkey  Are you serious, the risk of dying from AZ vaccine about 1 in 1 million , let me know when the annual road toll gets down to 25 in Australia or to be fair 100.
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  1925.  @msgofast  You can't blame the WHO , maybe regional offices which means you're own country or countries in your region. There is a reason the death toll in the Western Pacific region of WHO is less than 10% per Capita of PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO regions, open borders versus quarantine and other actions. If every region did what the Western Pacific region did it would now be over and very unlikely to have all these variants.
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  1926. I didn't realise space force went operational yet.
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  1927. If that's true then almost definitely, only a couple of thousand cases if that ever left China and see how many cases now. This is harder though because no way to find it in the background of hundreds of thousands of cases per day world wide.
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  1928.  @Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo  I think the concern is that the mutations in another species are more likely to be greater and potentially more deadly.
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  1929.  @Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo  I am not a scientist but a more deadly to human mutation might spread without harm through another species and then if it's back in humans be just slightly more deadly like 0.75% mortality versus 0.5% mortality for arguments sake. If the initial mutation was in a human it may behave differently. I am just speculating on why they would be more concerned. So I don't know why it's the case but do trust the scientists have a good reason to be more concerned.
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  1930.  @everyonedeservestogohome2949  it's good they threw the gun away instead of using it at least
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  1931. In the environment somewhere , either remaining in tact for long periods like anthrax for example or being carried by some type of animal.
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  1932.  @its_Today_  I am joking about the blaming Victoria bit. I just checked the current cases for NSW and at 77 with 30 or so in the community they are in trouble. QLD has the border shut to greater Sydney since June 21, so I think that policy has served us well. It's slightly more relaxed than previously when the entire state would be considered a hotspot other than border regions , so a little more risky but so far so good. I am glad Victoria has a hard stance now and never wants what happened before. I don't know much about Greater Sydney lockdown so can't really comment other than to say I hope you're somewhat wrong.
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  1933. If what you say is true that's deeply concerning and also what about some poorer and especially older people who might not have a modern smartphone.
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  1934. Knowing the constitution will help nothing. In the end it's just a bit of paper that sets out parameters. Under those parameters as has been decided large corporate donors can literally buy a politician and get them elected, knowing the constitution won't stop people voting for the candidate with the most money for advertising with high quality and focused ads in many if not most cases. Also many Americans are basically superstitious, that's why the antivax rate is so high, no matter how much evidence in front of them they won't believe it. The US form of limited socialism directs a large amount of social welfare through corporations so they can get their cut. Think of the US publically funded healthcare system, more expensive than Australia's universal healthcare system and life expectancy in the US about 5 years less so on the easiest key measure to go off more expensive with a much lower outcome. Channeling public money through big pharma and hospital operators with little accountability reduces the outcome and puts costs up.
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  1935.  @allangibson8494  ok I'm wrong a bad memory.
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  1936. It's interesting comparing the Japanese PM resigning last year without actually doing anything wrong to Boris, seems a little bit of a different approach.
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  1937. Increases pain shouldn't be an issue at least for adults, maybe with small children it's an issue because they might flinch causing other problems.
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  1938. No, 40,000 people still alive today because of taking the matter seriously.
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  1939. Why do 30% of US citizens believe they are living under a dictatorship run by Biden who didn't win the election? If you answer that question you realise a lot of people don't know and their emotions take over.
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  1940.  @paulyoung4422  I don't know about that, I wouldn't try to catch it if I was you , age and health depending to some extent but if I am not putting others at risk and in a very low risk group I wouldn't worry about catching it too much. I am 47 probably got it a year and a half ago and wish I never got it. It's an each way bet, based on what Dr Campbell has said in other videos catching it might provide better protection from a new future variant if a variant starts to get around vaccines more effectively.
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  1941. Trump and those around him have openly said that the military would be used for mass deportations. The only way this can be done is using martial law. The US population has voted in favour of martial law, that's just a fact. You might argue Americans are ignorant, maybe, but how do you get 70% of people in favour of this , it's not believable 70% of people are that ignorant. Have to remember those who didn't vote approved of Trump gaining power.
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  1942. This guy is nuts. Of course Hamas won't release the hostages without a permanent ceasefire, aid restoration and hostage exchange noting all the extra hostages taken in the West Bank and Gaza and i am only referring to outright hostages in administrative detention or detention after tortue obtained confessions which are completely unreliable not those who might have thrown a stone or something at an IOF members direction and got years of imprisonment. Another point is as food, water and medical treatment systems have been destroyed the remaining hostages that haven't been killed by IOF or died of other causes are in danger just like every citizen of Gaza. They are also in danger of being bombed or shot while the offensive continues.
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  1943. To reduce the spread rate by 90% in theory and depending on the policy of the particular government maybe elimination. Europe and US seem to want to keep the virus if the vaccine doesn't remove the virus from society by itself. The rhetoric keeps being maybe have to vaccinate for years. I think a bad policy especially as I am Australian, we won't change course.
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  1944. Take care.
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  1945. Please see previous al jazeera clip it shows Rohingya are protesting against the military also. Also remember the military is autonomous and the civilian government never had any control over it, the defence minister must be from the military. So if you care for the Rohingya then support their cause.
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  1946. In reality no reaction it happens somewhere in the US every few years.
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  1947.  @kerrenburges1983  I intend to for the first time ever as I can remember put Labor above LNP in my state election which is this month. Almost any political party who has succeeded in producing good results regarding the pandemic will be re-elected while this is still an issue in my opinion and Trump looks like he will be toast in a few weeks but the US has many other serious issues so not a certainty there.
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  1948. I hope that lady has US citizenship because the way she spoke if she had to go to China she would be punished in some way or another.
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  1949. It's been found in Michigan I think, but as the saying goes if you don't test you don't have cases, some states do virtually no genomic testing.
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  1950.  @punkgrl325  What you say simply isn't true. The vast majority an estimated 90% of slaves sold to Europeans from Africa in the Transatlantic slave trade were sold by Africans, there's a very practical reason this was the case because the life expectancy of a white person in Africa was 1 year because they would get diseases and die, much the same thing that happened in the Americas and Australia when white people arrived, most deaths were from disease carried by the white people not through active killing. I don't know many details from many countries however I do know that up to Rama (King) V in Siam they certainly made slaves of the people conquered in Isaan formerly a part of the Laos Kingdom, how do we know this was extremely common because to this day the people of Isaan are extremely grateful for the freeing of the slaves by king 5, it's suggested he didn't entirely do it out of humanity but because he was concerned over the bloodshed that would eventually occur like it did in USA as in a civil war. The idea you will probably counter with is but the Chinese colonizers of Xinjiang for example never had slaves and the people of Xinjiang wanted to be conquered. Well if you think that Chinese are god like people who never had slavery and that goes for the rest of Africa and Asia you keep believing that myth. A slave doesn't care I suspect whether the owner comes from 100 km away or 10,000km away, they are still a slave.
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  1951.  @ALFgold  It might be a "game changer", what I am curious about is, do people have some immunity already from this new variant because the body recognizes the part of the protein that has come from a common coronavirus most likely? If the answer is yes then it's really good and greatly reduced deaths and severe illness.
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  1952.  @Linda43  Those home made rockets cost a few hundred dollars, possibly a thousand or 2 each to manufacture , give me the blue prints , raw materials and show me how to do it , I could become a rocket maker. Think how little money has been spent, population 5 million and so far only 3,000 rockets, that's less than a days food for the population in money terms, if they spent hundreds of millions on weapons things would look quite different now.
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  1953. It applies to the entire west Pacific WHO region, certain actions taken here were not taken elsewhere, having no quarantine and free travel was not needed and achieved little. The 40 highest deaths per million countries are all in PAHO ( pan American health organization) and European WHO area. This is not coincidence in my opinion it was a choice. While doesn't apply to all the open countries the 3 worst government budget deficits estimated so far UK , US and Canada, so the open borders didn't help much.
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  1954. Curious to know what should Biden do to get people vaccinated? Because that's what you are talking about.
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  1955. Well you have the other guy, another old fogie who the same can be said.
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  1956. Your statement is irrelevant, what's your age and BMI? If you tell me you're 23 and not overweight , well that's to be expected regardless of variant. If somehow you are 75 and obese , ok that's surprising, would expect more symptoms.
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  1957. Likely because of people retiring going to live in a cheaper area. It doesn't mean much.
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  1958. What a silly comment, some of them were " black and brown" . So if you are going to make such a silly comment say I think if the majority were black and brown maybe it would have been different. I would suggest however color had nothing to do with anything and the person calling for the fighting and never backing down also had control over the response. Funnily enough Trump wanted a soft touch on his Trump supporters who he literally sent there. He could have easily had 20,000 unarmed (riot gear and batton only) national guard troops surround the building to protect it however he was the instigator of the riot not protector of the electoral process.
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  1959. Different statistics and the extremely short report didn't go into details. It could be 5% of firepower used up which is a lot, stretched is more of a logistical term. Pretty useless if 10% of firepower is in Siberia or Eastern Russia. I am not saying my random hypothesis is correct , just that we are looking at 2 different metrics without proper context.
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  1960. Really, then why does China refuse to talk to Australia? China has a grievance with free media even, they complained about our media having bad reports on China. This is only one of the 14 grievances but apparently we have to improve first before China will talk to us. Should Australia shut down it's free media and institute China's way of doing things?
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  1961.  @quincycamo7577  Let's hope it never comes to the military bit, China is the same to the soviet union before, they might have less nuclear weapons but their conventional military would come close to rivalling the US, and give it 10 or 20 years it probably will. Personally I fear for those nations bordering China, they are taking the sea and maybe they have terrestrial ambitions as well, they always refer back to distant dynasties to justify colonies of Tibet and Xinjiang, parts of Myanmar, Laos , Vietnam and Thailand can also fit that description. Not saying they actually are considering it but on the other hand don't think it's impossible.
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  1962. PCR false positives are extremely rare, look at test results in Countries or jurisdictions with high testing regimes and 0.1% positivity rates. So they can't occur even 0.1% of the time unless there is some serious failure in carrying out the test , not the viability of the test itself.
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  1963.  @mehere8038  I remember reading way back maybe a year ago how they were very particular about everyone leaving details at bars restaurants etc. for contact tracing which seems was abandoned at some point according to some comment to me and also a news article. If people paid by card they can be traced and likely be fine with that but those who pay cash are probably the ones who don't want it on a bank or credit card statement because their partner might see are the ones less likely to come forward. So under the circumstances I totally agree.
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  1964. I think you will find anything said in congress is absolutely protected free speech, you can't sue them. I am Australian and that's how it works in Parliament. I think it's completely standard worldwide as it actually should be so people in government can do their job without fear of being sued by billionaires for example who could just keep you in court forever stopping you from doing your job.
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  1965. Why no mention of the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine? That's being produced in many countries at cost until the end of the pandemic.
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  1966. Just do one properly. Partial lockdown shutting local business so people travel to the next county or state. The US has an inbuilt spreading mechanism in its policy. It's madness. Australia stop people traveling from any outbreak areas without quarantine, US don't worry if your county locks down go infect the neighbor county where the restaurants are open, the California governor even demonstrated how to increase infection spread personally. With government leadership like that and the let's infect everyone states like South Dakota with 0.19% of the population dead despite it having a rural population of about 40% , total population of less than 1,000,000 and therefore no big city. They've either found a way to kill the urban population quicker than anywhere else in the world (other US states excepted) or they've actually found a way to spread the virus efficiently through rural populations. If US states were countries South Dakota would be the 5th worst just behind 4 other US states.
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  1967. @Gina Giant where are you? Australia rates much higher on the economic freedom index than the US so if we are communist what does that make you? With a homicide rate about 5 times that of Australia you sort of already look like you have a low level civil war. They went straight back on the streets in Portland Oregon smashing stuff, what's with that? And that's after Biden takes power, yes no state in Australia would allow that behaviour and if you think we are Authoritarian based on a single arrest which I agree was misguided versus all the people being tased etc. in the US even they aren't a threat so be it.
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  1968.  @IsaiahConte  I hope you are joking but if not don't do it, things will get better in time.
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  1969. We have become like other places in one respect, all rules about mask wearing outside and in shops but go into a bar packed with hundreds of people at up to 1 for 2 square metres for a 100 square metres establishment and you can take your mask off. I live in the Valley and most wearing masks in the queues outside nightclubs with social distancing of 30cm. So the masks on this occasion I would suggest are about being ready, keep the troops (citizens) on standby.
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  1970. Some truth in what you say and agree with you about US because even after it realised the initial response was a complete failure there was no change of direction, just not overflow hospitals but don't really care how many die.
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  1971. Your problems aren't about free trade, if it was then Singaporeans, Australians and New Zealanders would be poorer than Americans. We actually are poorer but to give my country as an example if you remove the top 10% of wealthy Australians and Americans Australians are way richer our median adult wealth is about double that in the US. Wealth distribution in the US is the problem and that wouldn't get fixed by protectionism. Maybe going the other direction of more free trade helps people and a higher federal minimum wage. A free market in pharmaceuticals also wouldn't be a bad idea, is protectionism in the pharmaceutical market good for US citizens, do you really want to protect insurers and middle men and pharmaceutical companies themselves. There's a reason drugs cost so much in the US and it's the most protected industry in the US. Protectionism to any great extent doesn't work.
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  1972.  @GL_4457  How do you explain Australia? We have neither except for occasional outbreak due to quarantine failures we jump on.
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  1973. Look at history of Melbourne Victoria Australia getting rid of it, this is what you are in for, unfortunately your government seems to be underestimating the difficulties in getting to 0 cases from this position and they can't even get tests done within 24 hours which dramatically hampers contact tracing. I think you will get through it but harder than people expecting. Hearing that they are putting positive cases into hotels is good, that has been an approach by Queensland and New Zealand and other Australian states also to differing degrees. Don't worry too much about the vaccines they can't really help you at this point because takes minimum of 3 months or so for any serious effect.
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  1974.  @2547shan  I don't know about how much population density has an effect, greater Melbourne is 5 million people and greater Taipei is 7,000,000 people, Wuhan 11,000,000 . Interestingly at the moment Melbourne with 49 active cases on hard lockdown for 1 week unless extended compared to Taipei, it appears no distance travel limit in Taipei compared to 5km in Melbourne and allowed outside residence whenever you want in Taipei, Melbourne it's for shopping maximum 1 time per day and 2 hours for exercise. Maybe I just couldn't find the information about Taipei or maybe it's a soft lockdown as appears to be the case. I couldn't find any contact tracing alerts for Taipei so don't know how people know if they might have been exposed. If people are traveling freely around Taiwan then of course the virus will spread everywhere. The government restriction settings versus population density matter more until you get to slums, I don't think Taiwan has slums but I could be wrong.
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  1975. You're a bit slow, I saw that a week or so ago.
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  1976. Yes China is selling items to India. India has decided it doesn't want to accept aid from China. So no aid has come from mainland China it would seem, only some from Taiwan which India seems willing to accept.
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  1977.  @KayyHong  I am Australian , but anyway tell me which news website I can find alternate information. I did read exactly what I just said on what seems to be a reliable source. It stated that India has not accepted aid from China and equipment mostly by the private sector of Indian healthcare it would seem is being purchased from Chinese suppliers. You indicated India has accepted aid from China I can't find this anywhere.
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  1978.  @chrisj2053  Did I say China was overcharging , no I didn't. Why is it you people always tend to respond to something I haven't said. It seems pro China people are concurrently running 2 stories, that is the Indian government has not accepted aid from mainland China and that it has , only one can be correct and other than in comment sections I can't find any evidence that India has accepted aid from mainland China.
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  1979.  @chrisj2053  Hong Kong isn't mainland China, did the mainland Chinese government fund that aid or was it funded from Hong Kong government, I don't know do you?
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  1980. The initial peacefulness is a bit scary. In the US now people are threatening civil war if their dear leader isn't confirmed as the next president. Hopefully doesn't go the same way as in casualty, it can't go the same way as in which side wins.
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  1981. Nice to see the not so subtle back down about Australia's vaccine efforts. Yes those in the UK and US were effectively phase 3 guinea pigs, if some disaster happened because of the lacking data and extremely short time frames it should have been picked up by now, fortunately it didn't happen. Also observation of logistical problems etc with rollout where the US is really patchy with some states doing well and others making a mess of it, the UK seems to have done well on this measure, another bonus for Australia is knowing what is the theoretical longest time between doses without reduced vaccine effect.
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  1982.  @GregorRenkoMusic  Canada's life expectancy is 82, in the US it's 78. Healthcare isn't a big issue just die younger like the locals. Many methods to chose if the method doesn't choose you, drug overdose, homicide, obesity etc.
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  1983. Because nothing they can do about it without a very serious renovation costing a lot.
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  1984. He's a prophet now is he? I think most Christians would consider your statement blasphemous.
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  1985. To your second part , why on earth would those in the Commonwealth want to dissolve it? The will for that doesn't exist at all, it's not forced upon any country.
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  1986. They are better than nothing, P2 or N95 are the best , then surgical masks followed by lots of cloth layers , homemade or reusable.
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  1987. I disagree with Americans are the angriest people in a wealthy country in the world. They have become tribal and somewhat superstitious about the opposite tribe. Both sides in US politics on non social issues are actually far closer together than Americans realise because very few Americans have knowledge outside of the US. The US is developing into a socialist country that helps billionaires and picks industries. Some refer to that as fascism which I suppose it is. There are successful countries that lean to the right, free market economy countries like Australia and New Zealand and there are countries that lean to the left not very open economies with lots of subsidies for agriculture as an example like Northern Europe and Japan. I am Australian and think the free market is the way to go but can understand those other countries preferring something different. But one thing we all have in common is a generally better welfare safety net and better healthcare than the US does for a not well off person.
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  1988. I searched on internet about the victim and it seems he might be a petty thief. My comment to that is so what? Even the harshest Islamic Sharia court in the world would only cut a hand off and not kill the guy noting in this particular case he might have been casing a joint looking to see if anything worth stealing which is not even a crime.
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  1989.  @rijamor  Well it happens all the time, a small but significant number of children do miss a year of school due to things like illness, is there evidence that these people underperform the general society? A fairly large number of people get held back a year because of migration and learning a new language and these people on average I believe outperform locally born populations. So where is your evidence that missing a year of school assuming that the household situation is good causes any harm?
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  1990. A part of it is the vaccine manufacturing companies set unrealistic expectations, partly to increase sales it would seem unfortunately. The Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine will probably be the closest to realistic numbers because many manufacturers and price controls.
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  1991. I'm Australian and one Premier of our largest state by population lost his job over an undeclared bottle of wine he received. The irony of this story is that same government wrote the rules on the matter. In most free democracies the threshold for losing your job regarding gifts or other ways of receiving money is actually really low.
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  1992. This didn't age well.
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  1993. Please send 1,000,000 doses already paid for by Australia to Papua New Guinea as Australia is officially requesting. Papua New Guinea is a developing country which is in need so there shouldn't be a problem if the argument was Australia has less need which is correct.
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  1994.  @JazzyScat  Well in the clip the old veterans did agree to guard it. It's not entirely clear that all the people removing that fence were mandate protestors, one appeared to be and another didn't comment.
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  1995. Great you know, you must be a genius with some unknown power. If you were listening they claim to know nothing, they are presenting a hypothesis and just saying they think it's likely.
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  1996. Well they are the 2 most powerful people on the planet, they can speak as equals, not like us who are peasants in a relative sense. Just like you wouldn't see doctors in a hospital walking around calling each other doctor, however depending on culture nurses might.
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  1997. Vlad do you not believe the official death toll numbers of states that have a Republican governor?
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  1998. Even if done it's only half way there. Need to nationalise most hospitals and stop paying non market rates for pharmaceuticals where they currently pay well above free market rates. It's not going to happen.
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  1999. So you're that toilet paper hoarder or are you actually using it all?
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  2000. Well plenty of illegal weapons exported from the US, you can send some blood for the damage.
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  2001. I love your comment, good luck my fellow Australian.
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  2002. Time for US citizens to wake up. Defending the constitution is defending this behaviour. Nothing Elon is doing is unconstitutional or at least not in any way punishable because your constitution specifically grants anyone to be above the law if less than 2 thirds of the senate object. The reason for this is your president has absolute pardon powers with no constraints or oversight. Time to not necessarily tear up your constitution and start again which would be ideal but probably impractical but at least do some amendments removing the powers of a president preferably making him/her only head of state and not head of government.
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  2003. Nobody says that , not even US people.
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  2004. Spying on an opposition party or candidate is actually standard practice in any democracy in the world to differing extents. It's only if that spying extends to hacking or other forms of theft, maybe like the Russians did to The US Democrats that it's a problem. The whole world must be fraudulent including the Republican Party , Trump is the only one we can trust, Blessed are we to have such a great leader of the free world.
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  2005. My exact thoughts and also good to see because goose stepping would be pretty hard on those military people.
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  2006. No they are different things, the symptom tracker you enter you personal health symptoms daily and big data analysis estimates how many people infected. Track and trace is in theory if you are close to another person for a certain period who also has the app and if they get the virus it notifies you, not sure it's actually ever worked in practice.
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  2007.  @SherSpirit  I do understand your reasoning, however it's not true , the US has a king or queen elected every 4 years who nominates thousands of people into his or her cabinet , none of them are elected. So if you want to not have a temporary monarch then a parliamentary system is better. Nobody in Australia has real power, a Prime minister is only 15 minutes away from being deposed when Parliament is sitting and can't choose unelected ministers, have to choose from elected officials.
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  2008. Which state does the watermark procedure? Whichever one does that has an extremely secure voting system and should be congratulated under the circumstances because most states probably don't.
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  2009. A little jealous, I am 47 so a long wait. Admittedly I want it for travel. Good to hear though because best all or near all border, hospital and nursing home workers get it first because that's the main problem areas.
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  2010. No need for him to come to Australia either.
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  2011. ​ @SoloAuxz You will pay more in taxes from tariffs but same in income taxes, that money required for whatever will be put on the government tab , raising the debt.
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  2012.  @txrick4879  Speaking as an Australian in a generally right leaning state totally agree with your assessment. Regardless of party every state will keep it's character, which is a good thing and why a Federation can be successful. Leaving any one party in power too long causes problems because they become lazy and don't care, this is human nature, if nothing else good make the Republicans fight to keep the state. Also I think doing that one box per county crap will backfire big time , if something like that was done to me I would make sure I vote against them now, it would certainly motivate me big time because it's not acceptable. Best of luck from Queensland Australia.
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  2013. ​@RichardKatchuik I am Australian and intend to hard boycott on US goods and a soft boycott on US companies. The only food items Australia tends to get from the US is out of season fruit and a few things like sauces. So it's really easy to boycott US goods but difficult to boycott US companies as they dominate certain manufactured food in Australia and New Zealand.
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  2014.  @TheJabbate1  that is the success of Trump he has created devotees like Trump himself is a religious figure. Or in a way fairly close to a cult.
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  2015.  @jharris1397  Thanks for quarantine versus isolation terminology that is being used in your country. The example I gave of a person travelling to England from the US is the actual policy, but interchange Paris France with New York is probably a better example because it's only a drive away. The UK and US have what can be considered weak voluntary guidelines, because a £1,000 penalty even if you break the extremely relaxed procedures is nothing really. How many people are being fined anyway? I can tell you from Australian experience about 20% will break the rules until enforcement happens unless people in the UK are far more compliant. Between 8 June and 27 July just 10 fines issued, I found an article. I will give an example in my state a person threw a party breaking the rules at the time in April, they were issued with a $1,400 AUD fine. They thought they were smart so they did it again the next night. Police issued the with a summons to appear before court for a more serious penalty. They got 2 months gaol. The UK as US have no real intention of stopping the spread. If you are going to only do mitigation as in try to stop hospitals overflowing probably the continuous lockdown lite restrictions of Sweden is better and seems a bit more honest with the population. The restrictions in all states of Australia except Victoria are the same or less than Sweden's restrictions currently excluding travel restrictions. On Sweden the per capita death rate is just about to be overtaken by the US because Sweden seems to be having only about a death a day at the moment. The US population is a lot fatter though with an apparent adult obesity rate of 36% versus Sweden 20% so more deaths can be expected.
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  2016. That's a first , registered mail ( certified mail) to inform someone they are possesed by the devil. What's wrong with ordinary mail.
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  2017. Early on in the pandemic a Russian doctor raised money to distribute PPE because hospitals were short. The people carrying out these charitable acts were getting arrested because it went against the official state narrative of no shortages. So while it's good about their vaccine , the government be considered compassionate at all.
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  2018. Fox did it before if my memory is correct. The virus truly doesn't care which incompetent government is in charge, it just does virusy things like jump from person to person through small droplets or contact with surfaces followed by touching mouth , nose or eyes.
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  2019. A pity you and Trump don't care about the 500,000 dead people due to his leadership. Please remember to count those killed by continuous lockdown lite as well.
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  2020.  @christopherrobinson7541  what you say is interesting, however if based on what we know there are about 6 strains that are significantly different, 2 or 3 inside the US undiscovered because not enough sampling that's about 1 new one a month (90% or so of infections in last 6 months). On this basis you would need to add an extra strain every month. So that doesn't seem feasible while cases are so high. I am talking of the US situation because it accepts all new strains into the country.
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  2021. The media represents the people and non biased discussions seem difficult in the US. US exceptionalism which means superiority is a problem because actually sorry but being rich and a big country doesn't make you superior but many seem to think it does. It's ok to be a bit nationalist and proud of your country but to rarely look outside and see how others are doing better or worse on whatever issue is detrimental. I think electing one person to form a government out of unelected officials doesn't really help either. Whether you pick Joe or Obama they will choose those unelected officials and you don't know who they are. There are various reasons for the problems and no easy fix, right now if unbiased news is presented, it doesn't sell.
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  2022. Well done Red States, now you're spending more on healthcare for an essentially preventable disease.
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  2023. What are you talking about?
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  2024.  @thepoormangunchannel2411  Hey I just searched Wikipedia and it states that all PM's have been "Republican" since 1972, I was born in 1973 so that's 50 years isn't it and never had a referendum, the will of the people can remove the Queen of Jamaica at any time but seems like your politicians are cowards. If you support a democratic republic in the true sense well you've had 50 years to vote on it but decided not to. In Australia we had a referendum on the matter in 1997 and I personally voted in favour but now I become a bit of a monarchist because I don't trust my politicians that much and can always change it at any point in time should the Queen of Australia actually do some bad thing rather than leaving us alone to govern ourselves.
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  2025. Some comments are strange, why would a felon purchasing a gun privately inform the seller they are a felon? Of course they won't and as it's a private sale the seller doesn't even have the capability to do a background check unless they make it not private and go through a gun shop.
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  2026.  @jackhenner968  Your comment is tough true and fair. Millions of people looking at this case, many people don't believe in unregulated borders around the world.
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  2027. Well now they are reversing the trend making minimum wage earners live in literal poverty.
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  2028. The allegation is they made a mistake, all the Chinese trolls through the comment section say France went there spending billions of dollars to kill a couple of dozen random civilian. They could have sent a team of 6 special forces to achieve the same goal for $100,000. The problem is China and others are running such narratives just to make the situation worse. In China these allegations are the CPC party position. Time to ask China to put boots on the ground and see how they go.
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  2029. Actually the opposite regarding the pandemic response is my observation from afar, there are no Chiefs , the states blame the federal government while not taking charge. The thing is the general policy parameters of both political parties towards the pandemic response was identical pretty much , open borders and no quarantine, just let it spread and if hospitals overflow introduce restrictions and beg for money from the federal government. There is divergence now regarding vaccines however.
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  2030.  @dilligafwoftam985  actually Australia has shown successful operation of a federation, the US shows what happens when no one takes responsibility and keeps everyone happy with their body count apparently.
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  2031.  @dilligafwoftam985  what you say about the interstate stuff is true, as tough as it is in Victoria now things would be getting much worse if they were a US state with no federal support and an incentive to literally give up. Dan Andrews and the rest of his government obviously completely failed with contact tracing but I think it's fixed now and Dan Andrews did do the right thing as in clean up the mess created under his watch. I mentioned contact tracing because we have had possibly more quarantine breaches but dealt with very quickly. Having significant quarantine measures which will fail on occasion and contact tracing are the most important of all. Proper lockdown if things out of control like Victoria. Getting out of control cases down by 90% in however long it took is extremely impressive. We will have covid normal soon with NZ a few other countries in Asia that have contained it. Hope we can travel between each other without too much restrictions soon.
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  2032. 15 minutes for a simple majority vote. Clearly the party still has confidence in him. 15 minutes by the way isn't a long time.
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  2033. Australia is fine. A very different system of government with nobody as powerful as a US president makes the chance of moving towards authoritarianism far less likely but not impossible.
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  2034. Every hospital has so called death panels, just Americans turn it political. If a person is old and frail they will be more reluctant to treat and advise the person themselves and or the family the situation. Most people don't want to keep a family member suffering longer just so they are alive if no realistic chance of meaningful recovering. But what is occurring in California , was occurring in NY early on and elsewhere but not reported is a different story because it's going way outside of the norm I mentioned.
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  2035. It's over and every other loser of the presidential election had conceded by now in the case there is no dispute of the result. Trump disputing the clear evidence that he lost doesn't count. The 500 vote margin in one single state in 2000 does count.
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  2036. Trump is pretty much as far away as you can get from libertarian.
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  2037.  @axllaw427  That's sad to see, Malaysia was parallel to Australia the we had the Victorian problem and now if what you say is true Malaysia is very close to losing complete control. I wish Malaysia the best.
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  2038. To me it looks like just accept 500 deaths per day for the foreseeable future because they know large groups won't get vaccinated.
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  2039. They are synonyms, just a different tone.
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  2040.  sunrize601  That's not true about right or left government. The virus doesn't care. Look at Australia, where both left wing and conservative state governments have had both failures and successes and no possible way to identify who is who based on the response if you didn't know.
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  2041. If you understand the US system you will understand why it can happen in the US and can't happen in Australia. The US is to the left of Australia on freetrade, to the far right of Australia on industry policy, to the far left of Australia on border security. On social policies the US is both to the right and left of Australia depending on state. So to an Australian the US is radical no matter which direction you are coming from.
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  2042. The US performed worst for a high income country on HIV because in that case they let it rip through the intravenous drug users taking years to hand out needles. There are certainly comparisons to be made and the outcomes are consistent.
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  2043. They say when a politician opens his/her mouth they are lying but is on a whole nother level. He makes politicians in general seem rather honest.
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  2044. That's no good, Victoria Australia , New Zealand, Vietnam and South Korea , Thailand, Malaysia all having problems again. It seems it's really difficult to keep a really high vigilance level. Oh well we can hold on to Taiwan. I think the countries I mentioned though will all contain it again. Every country has gone beyond the point of no return. I think it's impossible for any country to change from a containment model to a mitigation model or visa versa. How would the population react in a containment country if we just gave up and decided all the actions to date were a complete waste of time , let's let it spread like the US or Europe.
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  2045. He did towards the end of his speech supporting the UN resolution to do exactly that.
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  2046.  @mildredobrien517  The why can be many reasons, I know I don't want to wear a mask or cloth mask but I will if the government requires it. I am in Queensland Australia and we have had a total of 225 cases of close contact or community transmission officially in a population of about 5 million. I live in a small apartment and did get very crook in March I think and some backpackers from Europe were about 6 metres away on the balcony while I was on mine, I think I did get the virus but could have been another virus no certain way to know but only tested when it was open to anyone who wants a test and all symptoms gone by then and was negative. I did wear a mask when shopping when I was sick and never touched a product unless I am going to buy it because I knew I was sick with something. One aspect based on many comments I see is that people who haven't seen it personally seem to believe it won't affect them, especially people from the US and of course the president probably contributed to this. Also if you are in a rural area it can seem like it's somewhere else, however it can spread through a small town no problems but it will be slower. People who get it but not bad symptoms also might never tell anyone because they feel stupid for not listening. In Australia the people that have taken it the most seriously are remote indigenous communities so they wanted to be cut off from all but essential government workers from the outside and have been. Their fear is reasonable they might be 500 km from the nearest hospital and if things got out of control generally they would be extremely vulnerable. Of course they aren't wearing masks but about how seriously people take it. I live in the city I am 10 minutes drive to 3 different major public hospitals, if I was 500 km away I know for a heart attack or something probably I am a gonner because even the flying doctor will be an hour or so minimum if an airstrip is close. So people's perception of their own vulnerability would play a big part in behaviour I think.
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  2047.  @Juliukas101  Wait for the UQ/CSL vaccine , that's some other type but will be a while off yet and no guarantees because not in phase 3 trials yet. It is just a protein from my understanding it doesn't mess with you like the other ones so in theory less scary.
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  2048. It's tough, if you are having major symptoms just say no I guess, but if minor and working with covid 19 patients basically you are needed. If it's with other patients make the decision that's right for you. Take care of yourself and your mental health the best you can. Good luck and hope you recover no problems.
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  2049. You stand for open borders, well good for you, under Trump and Biden a controlled border was and is not a threat. Lefties love uncontrolled borders.
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  2050. Yes the presenter could soften her tone a bit, she seems like she is angry and yelling.
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  2051. It's if have enclosed lifts and are the bars and restaurants open. Skiing itself wouldn't be risky.
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  2052. China is mad because the plan failed, they thought if they increase the bullying we would back down but instead we stood up to them. I say increase the bullying because it started about 15 years ago with iron ore, if you don't sell it to us below market we will find another supplier, that didn't eventuate obviously. Australia probably wasn't even an issue to China on its own , it's a message to other countries in the region but now it's probably had the opposite effect, affected ASEAN countries are more willing to stand up for themselves in most cases I think. This is why almost every comment by China comes with it that ASEAN shouldn't trust us and we are a colonial power and lapdog of the US etc. etc.
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  2053. It's called question time and the US doesn't have it. Australia is very similar. The US has a completely different government model, all your secretaries which we call ministers are unelected bureaucrats chosen by the president. The ministers are the people are asked the questions by both their own side and the opposition including to the Prime Minister. I do think that ministers should come from elected officials, the US system in a way is like an absolute monarchy but you vote for the monarch who then chooses whoever he or she wants to actually be the executive government and it leads to lack of accountability and not doing their job properly because the one that hired them can fire them so can apply pressure.
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  2054.  @luphuong5239  Wrong Korea.
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  2055. Read through a few comments, you know you Americans are not normal right? If that was Queensland Australia we would be hunting him or her down almost as urgently as a covid 19 carrier, but you guys see it as getting back to normal and somehow reporting on some mass shooting is fear mongering. Should they only report if 10 victims wounded mortally or would that still be fear mongering? Maybe 20 plus.
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  2056. Really, US media is now the same as CGTN? Just go back to normal reporting with humans , not text.
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  2057. Basically they have been abandoned, they have to protect themselves the best they can.
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  2058. Well we fall into 2 categories, Melbournians and others. Melbournians were like the people being flogged in the town square as an example to others, us others are there is no way in hell we want that situation in our town or city and Melbournians certainly don't want it again.
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  2059.  @maureenrhysjones4643  I like to have a sense of humour about it and truly as one of about 10 nations on the planet of 5 million plus population give or take that are truly containment , wipe it out again sort of countries we have done well. We fight the virus with our brains like our fellow travelers not some other method like being cannon fodder to achieve herd immunity.
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  2060. Hopefully no more cases and they are satisfied enough people tested and you are out of lockdown but if cases in Victoria increasing it will make them more nervous.
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  2061. Seems like month on month there was actually deflation and if that's the case no more rate rises for now.
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  2062. But they haven't. If they have a world class response they wouldn't have a virus out of control needing to use emergency approval for vaccines.
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  2063.  @dabestest1387  being extra cautious, AZ vaccine which is being manufactured in Australia only for 60+ age group now and having few cases increases vaccine hesitancy, also if you are successful you get put lower on the queue for imported vaccines.
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  2064.  @mackdaddypeypey1  So you must be a physician with dyslexia or some other issue when looking at statistics, it would scare me if you were to prescribe any medicine. Certainly vaccines don't stop spread however they dramatically reduce hospitalisations and deaths. Australia is sitting a little below 100 deaths per million compared to 2,500 deaths per million in the US and actually the gap is still increasing for now with only 10 or 20 deaths per day in Australia with 1 thirteenth of the population compared to around 1,000 deaths a day in the US. Australia might end up with 10% of the deaths of the US on a per capita basis would be my guess, yes opening up and living with the virus is a challenge but high vaccination rates make it easier.
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  2065. Louis Tully thanks for information about the Deep Blue states, I have compiled a list which you can feel free to use of states with more than 3,000 covid 19 deaths per million which I guess you consider Democrat run high restriction states. Arkansas 3042 Tennessee 3057 New York 3088 Louisiana 3224 New Jersey 3271 Arizona 3346 Alabama 3356 Mississippi 3511 Feel free to use this list for the next few days, after a while I expect a new entrant of Florida sitting at over 2900 now.
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  2066.  @aishabintabubakr4944  Yes what about Howard Springs, 10 times better than hotel quarantine and good enough for our entire Olympic team to pass through. It's an ex mining camp.
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  2067.  @ymehair  I just think if you are talking about others being stupid better to spell properly otherwise you might look stupid.
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  2068. Ignore Joe he's an idiot
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  2069.  @Gajafar  while Australia is less dense than most European countries, not all. Consider the island of Ireland a population similar to Victoria and far more rural Consider all but the largest 4 states in the US which has a lower urbanisation rate than Australia. On paper there is no difference in most areas. But they have kept the borders open with no restrictions, if Australian states did the same between each state and internationally with no hotel quarantine we would be the same. They have one plan and one plan only don't overflow hospitals ( mitigation lockdowns not designed to contain the virus but to keep cases below hospital capacity) and hope vaccines do the job. South Korea seems to not have internal travel restrictions so while they do everything else right they can't get rid of it.
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  2070. In reality some will be mistreated however hamas leadership will have directed everyone to treat hostages well. Another thing is hamas might not be the only group holding hostages.
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  2071. Trump lied and many more died, only Wuhan government lied regarding what was happening and they got fired, even if China not entirely honest they haven't lied about cases or deaths. In the US however have Trump lie , Florida health lie by delayed data in October , fixed after 3 November and possibly New York health lie about number of deaths from nursing homes. It is unfortunate anyone lies but more people listen to Trump than the removed local government of Wuhan and fair to say maybe Trump should be held to a different standard to that of some local government in a developing country.
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  2072. I wonder if the federal government will give us some military personnel for the border again, but we want them armed this time.
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  2073. Have you ever heard of rule of law, extrajudicial killings are just that and involve killing innocent as well as guilty people. Is it ok to gun down someone selling an ounce of cannabis, many countries that drug is actually legal?
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  2074.  @lechatel  where are you from?
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  2075.  @nothere9551  Are you completely ignorant or only talking of Victoria?. Hundreds if not 1000s of healthcare workers have died. Name the other problem you speak of that has killed 1,000,000 people in a 6 month period despite very major interventions to stop it occuring and on a world basis but still an extremely low infection rate. Ebola is pretty much harmless at a population level yet you bring it up along yes with your favorite y2k because you acknowledge that was harmless. If you are not in Victoria or a like jurisdiction in US or Western Europe, then you shouldn't speak .
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  2076.  @777sweet  Do you mean Ugg boots?
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  2077. Sounds like the Western Australia hotel quarantine does have an issue and doesn't immediately remove positive cases from the hotel, maybe not the case but just my guess.
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  2078. How did your comment sneak in here?
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  2079.  @LizzyC-nf1sv  That's what your governor said. So maybe it's changed or at a different level. There was a game planned at the Stadium affectionately known as the swamp, according to Wikipedia the official capacity is 88,548 but it has often held over 90,000. Unfortunately due to 21 members of the football team testing positive to covi sars2 a game was postponed but the coach was clearly reported as having said he wanted to see 90,000 fans. So in this particular case it would seem the Covid safe plan as it's called in many jurisdictions was to overfill the stadium. Let's just say a rather unusual restriction and plan.
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  2080. If you compare to best practice or at least attempted best practice if you add East Asian and South East Asia and Australasia together, it's a population over 2,000,000,000 and less than 1,000,000 cases, compare that to the US. Unfortunately some countries like Philippines and Indonesia probably can't stop it but they are low income countries with crowded slums where it's near impossible to stop but at least they have achieved slowing it down and tried.
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  2081.  Alexander Van Burk  We can leave as long as we stay away for a while. The way to get travel permission ( escape ) is to lease a property in another country indicating that you'll be gone for a while. Things have got better though we can travel to different parts of our vast island now, before we had convict guards at state borders to prevent prisoners from moving freely.
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  2082.  @MidwestFarmToys  Your point is jurisdiction specific. In New York it's likely spreading in high risk settings like bars and restaurants quite quickly and in theory at least they are all vaccinated. It will simultaneously be spreading in lower risk settings where these rules don't apply and spreading much quicker through the unvaccinated population in such settings. Then there's the behaviour of the local population which is somewhat unpredictable, I am in Queensland Australia a population of 5 million and we are just transitioning from covid 0 to allowing it to spread but hopefully slowly. We just had 59 cases yesterday, the highest number since March last year. My prediction is it will spread more slowly here partly population density, our main city is fairly spread out and people covert no lockdowns noting internally during the whole pandemic about 14 weeks or so of lockdowns and the rest of the time just some minor restrictions other than travel being heavily restricted to keep the virus out. Doing it at this time of year our summer is also an advantage. Currently our major restrictions are like New York need to be vaccinated for restaurants and bars and masks to be worn inside shops and vast majority do follow the rules.
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  2083.  @MidwestFarmToys  That just demonstrates that you are easily swayed by propaganda. A few minor incidents in a country of 25 million. We are also a federation and all the clips you might have seen came from 2 cities , obviously not from my state. Some people are rent a crowd though, we actually had a couple of anti lockdown protests while not in lockdown and vast majority thought they were idiots. With vaccination rates in those cities/states that had more problems the first dose adult vaccination rates are above 95% so the literally "hate" the government and went protesting spreading the virus or supporting that would be below 5%. I don't know why you think people hate success, it makes no sense does it. Of course nobody enjoys restrictions but it's about doing what needs doing.
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  2084.  @angrybrit7331  Where the data is available a significant number of people have caught the virus in hospitals and it's killed people, so to reduce the rate of this all but the very most urgent hospital care is delayed. What is crazy about what I say? In the UK they have acknowledged this occured, in the US they don't even bother investigating but it has certainly occured. In Australia and Vietnam hospital incidents have occured. If the UK had decided on an elimination strategy and successful then other care would be normal, however this strategy was never adopted, so that's why you find yourself in the situation you are in.
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  2085.  @bolnol5419  So places like China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand don't actually exist?
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  2086.  @Liitebulb  The civil right to infect and kill another human shouldn't be a civil right.
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  2087. Lol
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  2088.  @mstewie9718  yes it probably has but they want to be certain, 4 cases yesterday.
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  2089.  @DragynGirl  rural Victoria had different rules, that was for Melbourne, and rural rules will be a distance or nearest essential service or anywhere for medical attention.
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  2090.  Peter Mortensen  search Osterholm Update and you will see or at least hear.
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  2091. It's likely to be mandatory to enter a country. In other words voluntary, if you don't want it don't come. For citizens voluntary however if you go to another country they will probably want it. Mandatory for certain jobs especially military because the government owns your arse.
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  2092. This looked like a CGTN clip. The music and subtitles and of course because of the length highly edited.
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  2093. I wonder if American product was boycotted by accident because McDonald's and Burger King selling French Fries.
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  2094. While I agree with your general sentiment, I don't necessarily agree that it could have been stopped, the CDC and Fauci initially didn't take it seriously. But after Fauci basically admitted errors were made when he said if lockdowns were put in place earlier it would have saved lives, which is certainly true in NY because hospitals were overrun. The problem is Trump ignored the changed position of the organizations which caused the original failure just as much as Trump. He has kicked a home goal now with many considering him to be completely responsible when he wasn't really in the beginning, it was a joint effort.
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  2095.  @filipasales9291  I am not American but my observation is the US president is between an absolute monarchy and constitutional monarchy. He chooses the entire unelected government, all the secretaries called ministers in other countries and he can veto any law single handed without any requirement in practice to consult others. He can ignore laws on the books and just do nothing but he can't spend money that hasn't been assigned and granted to him and his unelected government for particular purposes although I think this is a grey area and if money was spent for an alternative purpose I can't see how this could be stopped.
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  2096. Boris was honest he didn't say it was for containment, just slow it down a bit. I don't know why the reporter used the word containment. US media and politicians and even medical professionals sometimes are basically acting like sales people and claiming things that aren't true.
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  2097.  @pakde8002  as my screen name suggests I am not American. You are a keyboard warrior just like me lol I have seen your comments around lol. Your concept of nothing suggests you are American , the background noise at the moment of 1,000 deaths a day from covid 19 makes a riot and a street on fire not the top story anymore. The homicide rate in the US is 6 times that of Australia and yes that's per capita, nothing happening in the US by wealthy country standards is there is absolute chaos. A street on fire and angry mobs on both sides of the extreme political spectrum mind you with weapons and the occasional killing of the enemy is not nothing. So nothing isn't nothing by my standards and yes the Covid 19 deaths do overshadow what you refer to as nothing. Will any of this cause absolute destruction of the US no of course not , US people are used to the current standards which are way better than say 40 years ago but still way behind other like nations.
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  2098. That's only about 6c per citizen. Even though symbolically it's sort of terrible it's not really that costly.
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  2099. Finally, while it doesn't fix every problem or even come close at least one part of the public healthcare spend in theory is going to be at market rates, not drug companies setting non market prices.
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  2100.  @marylee4553  I don't think you understood my point Trump did actually say the problem with testing is more positive results or words to that effect. Flagged as in like the saying that's a red flag particularly used in investment language like the CEO is selling down his or her holding indicating he or she doesn't have confidence in the company which is a red flag.
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  2101. He is certainly not a fiscal conservative, the gov debt is probably running up faster than with Obama and that's before the virus.
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  2102. All other states other than New South Wales had harder lockdowns initially with borders closed quickly at the objection of Victoria and New South Wales and the remnant of it is still there with a Queenslander and a few West Australians doing hard time. Victoria's original fines were barely a deterrent and Victoria has come inline with other states now , brought kicking and screaming by a thing called reality.
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  2103. With all the strains floating about in US, UK and Brazil , the virus hubs for transmission. I think not impossible however the reduction in cases for US and UK with the vaccines being rolled out is positive. Deaths lag cases so should see deaths coming down soon. Personally I think the crossed fingers approach that strains won't evade vaccines so don't worry about trying to contain any particular strains is a high risk.
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  2104.  @jerrymiller9039  CPC supporters support the Taliban , just like they support the military dictatorship in Myanmar. The person you are talking to appears to be that. The unlawful killings of 39 Afghans by Australian troops did occur as per Australian government investigation, Zhao Lijiang alleged that effectively that the killings were on orders of the Australian government. Many CPC supporters want to see a blood bath committed by the Taliban when foreign troops pull out, they are not nice people. The same Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson for China that alleges their are 200 secret US bioweapons labs around the world and that Fort Detrick in the US was where covi sars2 was created and brought to China by 3 servicemen. He is even extreme by Trump's standards but has 100s of millions of shares with his social media messages.
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  2105.  @timothyjennings9520  China conquered Xinjiang about 250 years ago, this is in feudal times so pretty sure invading army was like any invading army back then not dissimilar to what was occurring in the US. Xinjiang means new territory. China has sort of eliminated the fact that it was ruled by brutal kings with slaves in the 19 th century and before. Almost like it was some land of milk and honey where everyone was treated so perfectly.
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  2106.  @hotchihuahua1546  just to correct you on something so you can argue better in the future the virus is named covi sars2, covid 19 is if it makes you sick. It's unfortunate the 2 got mixed up , that's why China readjusted their numbers because they were only counting covid 19 cases in the Covid 19 statistics, and changed it to the incorrect manner in the manner other countries were counting it , putting all covi sars2 cases as covid 19. Things like this are great.for the conspiracy theorists.
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  2107. Americas, there corrected for you.
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  2108.  @MFranklinstein-vw2tn  No vaccine provides immunity to all people and they generally wear off over time, so when the data becomes available you could find out and depends how you define immunity. Truth is everyone has had vaccines before and never questioned the efficacy. Could you tell me the efficacy of any vaccine off the top of your head?
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  2109.  @dreamweaver1603  Well there's been 10s of thousands killed in the US because they caught covid 19 in hospital. To give an example some old dear trips over and breaks her arm, guess what she's gonna go to hospital, then she being old and vulnerable catches covid 19 and comes out in a body bag. Regular testing plus being vaccinated is the only real way to reduce risk to patients unless full PPE for all hospital workers whether they be at reception or a janitor. No point keeping staff on that are a higher risk to the patients in many cases than the reason they came to hospital, of course nursing homes same applies.
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  2110. A constitutional monarchy is actually a good system, look at the political stability in such countries in the majority. Places with an all powerful president (elected king) tend to be less stable.
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  2111. Feeling crappy versus being in an intensive care unit sounds good to me. It's true the vaccines aren't stopping spread and only slowing it down a little bit.
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  2112. I was told by a person in Macao a little after both handed to China that the plan is by 2050 HK and Macao will be intergrated into China and the borders will open. I don't think it was intended that in 2050 China will become a democracy. China is playing a long game. Just take one freedom or bit of democracy each year. A tried and true method of control is to charge any opposition with unlawful behaviour, not only China does this. China is the most successful propaganda machine ever seen in history. They use non physical violence which gains much less attention. Re education camps with estimated 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 largely comprised of the Muslim minority, but includes anyone who disagrees with the Communist party. The wealthy in China don't care for the others and refer to them as immigrants when they come to work in the cities. They don't receive the same basic services such as healthcare compared to the non immigrants. China won't be changing in my lifetime I think.
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  2113. No pilot said it never caught fire so didn't have to use fire fighting system. Both can be true.
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  2114.  @deborahfreedman333  I will ask you one question. As it is required by law that a refugee living in the Gaza strip or West bank , territory controlled by Israel needs permission to travel from Israel the authority of the land and Israeli citizens can travel freely how is this not apartheid? You might say that Israeli citizens include some Muslims but if they marry someone from the West bank or Gaza they can never become an Israeli citizen unlike the normal practice. Something isn't quite right I would suggest and if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck ..... Many Israeli citizens don't agree with their government but it seems Americans must support Israel no matter what even they are the biggest recipient of US foreign aid over time receiving $200,000,000,000. It's interesting how US first policy didn't extend to that country and as money is fungible I hope you are happy vaccines have rolled out far quicker for Israel citizens than US citizens. US is not my country and I do believe in free speech but you might want to explain to poor Americans on the left and right why the US has looked after citizens of another country more than them.
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  2115. LOL join Australia better, we covid 19 free just about and with extra iron ore we can have a monopoly and charge more to China.
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  2116.  @michaelchang4914  if what you say is true that's alarming and highly criminal because it will kill some people who think they are vaccinated but aren't.
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  2117. You've got it the wrong way around. Consumers are the ones in charge, if for example you want no added sugar full food breakfast cereal, go and buy it, the company doesn't care what choice you make. They are just making what you want to eat for the price you want to pay. It's not the job of corporations to tell you what to eat because you will just go and buy junk from an opposing company if they tried that. I own shares in one of the large supermarket chains in Australia, same thing applies I don't care what you want to eat I just prefer you buy from my supermarket. If you want to buy a bag of vegetables or a bag of chips it makes no difference to me, you are responsible for your choices, if the junk food aisle shrunk due to lack of demand I couldn't care less it'll just be filled up with healthier alternatives which still make the same money.
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  2118. Israel did apparently.
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  2119. And 1 YouTube comments statistician.
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  2120. Many did enter legally, this isn't about method of entry.
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  2121. Megaphone diplomacy to try to embarrass someone isn't always the best approach. Now Trump has to follow through with tariffs on Mexico to appear tough.
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  2122.  @rebeccahart6770  It might be news to you but people aren't being put on ventilators because of a positive pcr test, the pcr result is not being used for diagnosis. Strangely enough if someone is sick enough but only if they are sick enough or for quarantine purposes a person is admitted to hospital, when in the hospital other diagnostic tests will be carried out to determine disease and a course of action. Why do you find this difficult to understand?
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  2123. In France and if it happened in the US rubber bullets and gas canisters flying through the air. And that's not after shutting down 30% of cross border trade that's just standard operating procedure. You have no idea what a police state looks, France and the US don't even reach the level I would consider a police state. A group of a few hundred people literally demanded that they install themselves as the government, that's what a police state would look like if they got their way.
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  2124. If you see it through like Victoria Australia and close that border with 14 mandatory quarantine except for goods transportation, but you need cases down to 50 cases per day or so to have any chance of success of containment otherwise it's keep doing the same thing over and over until herd immunity or a vaccine.
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  2125. Now Republicans in this comment thread want to compare themselves to countries that are usually very poor and or at civil war. Really , so not being at civil war and having a semi functional government is now the new American exceptionalism. The only wealthy country in the world which literally has people who compare there country to countries at civil war and think that's a great achievement, in fact exceptional.
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  2126. The only vetting is has the cash been paid.
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  2127. Close borders to all foreigners, lockdown properly get cases to 0. Forced quarantine at border 14 days plus 10 days at their cost if refuse to be tested. Institute large fines and preferably prison time for major offences. All the measures I state are common to China, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand. Maybe slight variations but the 14 days enforced quarantine at the border and lockdowns as appropriate is 100% required. Nowhere else will do this now because the vaccines are coming out, but I suspect not getting cases to 0 will cause ongoing problems especially if the vaccines only work 6 months or so which is unknown.
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  2128. A pat down, very simple.
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  2129. The polls have weightings according to likely voters in each demographic and also what each demographic is likely to vote in percentage terms. Polls can be way out especially because the drop box issue would encourage a larger Democrat turnout and a swing to the Democrats because not everyone thinks that behaviour is acceptable. Texas is in play but still favours Trump.
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  2130.  @Rayblondie  A partial lockdown , in other words not a lockdown with open borders , complete free travel and voluntary quarantine is pointless, the evidence is overwhelming on this one. If you aren't going to do the job properly there is some evidence just decide ok we will kill 0.2% of the population get over it. The UK still has an open border policy without quarantine , just picking on very high case countries which is pointless when you need 0 cases because 1 case can become 1,000 in a week under the right conditions. Edit: on the vaccine front it does look like the UK will be one of the first country of more than 10,000,000 ( Israel) to reach herd immunity through vaccines and that's great, US although vaccinating at a similar rate is less certain because of vaccine hesitancy. This of course is if no variant evades the vaccines and is looking like they won't but not a certainty.
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  2131.  @damianpos8832  Places that had lockdowns (Western Pacific region countries) are mostly completely open internally. I couldn't find the episode of that person you talk of but I would suggest, almost 2,000,000,000 of the most diverse populations on the planet would indicate that border quarantine and lockdowns work fine and leads to much less lockdown than lockdown lite jurisdictions that never lock down. Death rate per million in the worst country the Philippines is still less than 10% of US and most of Western Europe. Here's some demographics, Fat people Australia and New Zealand and fattest in the world some Pacific Island nations, skinny people Japan the thinnest rich nation on earth, Poor people in Philippines, Vietnam and PNG along with others, rich people in Australia , New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Japan. Dark skinned people in Melanesia and some South Asian immigrants in other countries, Light skinned in East Asia and elsewhere, Sun loving in Australia , New Zealand, Philippines etc. , hate sun females in east Asia to keep skin like K-pop idols. Weather, temperate with Snow East Asia, Tropical Singapore right on equator, and everything in between. Surely out of all these variables someone in our region would be at risk. We all have one thing in common and that's border policies, internal policies do differ somewhat however 5 major jurisdictions are virus free and the worst in our region is still far better than elsewhere in the world.
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  2132.  @Rayblondie  I am sorry you have the government you have but I just looked up the so called red countries, missing all of Europe and all of North America, so if a UK citizen or permanent resident wishes to return to the UK from these areas then no problems, just 10 days self quarantine with family or friends who are already in England who have no restrictions other than normal. That will stop nothing just slightly slow the spread down and as we know the US only has 10 days entirely voluntary quarantine from any country as long as US citizen. With an open border (no requirement for hotel quarantine) with any country, the virus can spread freely between those countries. As of about mid January Australia had put 215,000 people through hotel quarantine so I expect over 250,000 now which is 1% of our population. About 50% of the hotel quarantine breeches have been the UK variant, it spreads super easy. Hopefully we won't have that problem any more because hotel quarantine and border workers would all be vaccinated I expect. I hope your country gets back to relative normal soon and truly fingers crossed no variant that can evade vaccines. Australia is well behind you guys on vaccinations so going to be a fair while before hotel quarantine ends and I guess depends on if vaccines stop spread to an extent, which is entirely unknown at the moment.
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  2133. I was thinking, sort of glad she's not my relative, but then again maybe I'd be dead and unaware so it wouldn't matter.
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  2134. All these MAGA Americans wanting their skilled labour and higher socio-economic people to leave. You want to keep your unskilled migrants apparently.
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  2135. They had a choice, normally Australian states have open borders too, they needed closing at times, I don't see how it's easy to close a state border than the border of a country. If we didn't close internal borders as required extremely high chance we would be no different to the Northern hemisphere, the Island of Ireland has the same advantage but did nothing and got the same results, look at Malta or Cyprus even, look at Hawaii and Puerto Rico. If you talk of land border countries then Singapore, Thailand, China and Vietnam. My point is the open borders with voluntary quarantine was entirely a choice nobody force the EU and others to keep there borders open and not quarantine people.
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  2136.  @Unitedflyier  Australia has 3 advantages and being an island isn't one of them, as far as people in my region being more compliant , other than Japan and China it's not really the case. Japan recently resorted to enforcement in the end rather than just require people to do things and if they don't up to them, so even Japan realised enforcement is required. The 3 real advantages are being somewhat ready, we found more cases in the first month as in towards the end of February than any European country, Italy was totally asleep only found a case on February 21, secondly regional culture regarding quarantine in general, we normally have the highest quarantine standards in the world especially Australia, New Zealand and Japan with South Korea and China not far behind I think, this also most likely translated to the entire West Pacific WHO region countries adopting 14 days enforced quarantine, the other advantage is our own internal political leadership. I saw how some Eastern European countries actually compared to us then they opened the borders and thousands dead, if I was one of those nations I would at least threaten to leave the EU because they pressured countries successfully to open borders and kill their own citizens, no different to Donald Trump. If you followed what happened in Victoria then you would know luck doesn't play much of a part, the hardest lockdown outside of China other than maybe Italy in the beginning, however Italy just reopened and decided not to finish the job, Victoria decided to finish the job , the only place to do so at the time with cases reaching about 500 per day, outside of Wuhan. Victoria had more cases than Canada at the time and Canada has the exact same advantages as Australia, they shut the US border so what's their excuse. The only genuine excuse is my government failed to act effectively for any rich country. If EU is a country because it acts like one then that government. If you want to include WHO well your regional office is run by countries in your region. PAHO ( Pan American Health Organization) and European region WHO countries have almost universally performed bad and followed the open borders, 10 days voluntary quarantine protecols or done nothing.
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  2137. The US and UK have had borders open to each other during the entire pandemic, on this matter you might as well consider them the same country.
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  2138. He's about 65, a lot can happen in 20 years and consider the age of your current and previous president. His political career could easily rebound over that time period.
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  2139. Same law every country, need a permit to mine. This especially so as it seems to be public land.
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  2140. Over 50% of people have other diseases many of whom don't know. That seems to be your main point. Age makes a big difference though as your statistics obviously show if you are very old you have a disease unless you are immortal. I would argue that they missed many diseases of the 90 plus.
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  2141. Give it a few weeks, it's just got in by the sound of it. But even if it spreads if the infection estimates plus vaccinations plus Omicron being less severe there should be very few deaths.
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  2142. It's better to get someone to have a glass of fruit juice they will drink than tell them to eat a fruit that they won't. Public health policy has to look for the best outcome and consider whether anyone will actually follow it. Everyone knows fresh fruit is better than cooked fruit juice with fibre removed or at least should know unless they've lived under a rock for 30 years.
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  2143.  @defeqel6537  Fortunately you aren't running public health policy in the UK. While things are mixed at least their health decline has slowed a bit compared to Australia for example, we have overtaken them for fat and obese. You sound like your an American actually, all or nothing, just pay high taxes for hospitals and drugs, don't even try who cares got to keep big pharma, medical care and insurance companies happy.
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  2144.  @crichardson4789  if you do decide to complain I think best to write to them directly by email or snail mail and put your view forward giving 2 weeks for a response before considering going elsewhere.
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  2145.  Ronald Farley  Without knowing what country you are from, actually smokers are the only patients who actually contribute to the healthcare costs along with alcoholics to a lessor extent through taxes and smokers on average cost half the amount to take care of in the end of life scenario because they die more quickly requiring less hospitalisation which is about 50% of the entire healthcare cost of a lifetime on average. If it's about money and personal responsibility then fat people are cost more and pay no tax, it's a slippery slope if care is decided arbitrarily according to some moral code.
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  2146.  @coreyn8272  totally agree with you. When I was 13 but probably looked older I was running in a park in the early morning this is back in the 80s in Australia. An unmarked car stopped beside me and 2 big gentleman wearing shirt and ties got out. They stopped me and asked me what I was doing and my name. I guess I would have given them my school id. Then one of them went to call it in on the radio and yes just like the movies I saw a gun in his sock. For me that was a bit scary at the time. There is no possibility I would have started swearing at the police. Arbery wasn't scared he swore at the policeman first and was the aggressor and the policeman got annoyed and a bit scared and swore back initially but didn't swear after that and called for another policeman. I am a white male.
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  2147. In a month you might look like Sydney, do you really want that?
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  2148. Why? US citizens are humans and as fallible as other humans. The fact some and possibly many US citizens believe in American exceptionalism demonstrates complete arrogance and a feeling of superiority. Those who actually believe this can't look outside of their own border for the best solutions because if you are superior and the rest are inferior then stupid to look right.
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  2149. I heard some analysis that we as in the coalition members didn't train their armed forces, we trained soldiers but remained as commanders , you can't have an army without commanders, so when the commanders (foreigner) left there was no trained commanders plus they lost logistics control on top of that.
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  2150. If Chicago and many other US cities were a country they would be in the top 20 for homicide. A homicide rate of about 20 makes it about 10 times Canada's rate and 4 times that of USA. But they want a one party city this is sort of bound to happen. This applies regardless of the political party but just maybe 85 years with a mayor from the same party is an issue. The party has run that city longer than the communists have run China. Who says a one party system doesn't work?
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  2151. No it wouldn't because a child born to a citizen automatically becomes a citizen, this is standard around the world in countries like my own Australia that doesn't have birthright citizenship. We used to effectively have birth right citizenship but we changed the law. The US is different because it's not under a regular law but under the constitution and therefore difficult to change.
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  2152.  @explorer0213  of course Palestinian will continue to resist but no foreign power has been willing to stand up to Israel.
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  2153. Lots of disgusting comments so far. Americans your MAGA friends are gleeful about California burning.
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  2154. One big difference Star Trek fans know it's fantasy and a bit of fun, this mob thinks Q is real and a violent revolution should take place.
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  2155.  @user-ul7li5mu1s  I am confident we won't, while things aren't perfect they aren't too bad. Look at the second BLM rally in Sydney after it was not permitted maybe 30 or 40 people turned up. If that was in a US city of similar size it would have been completely different. Also the language used during that weekend when protests went ahead significantly different, no violence and sticking to state related incidents only , none of the I am in Brisbane but am going to protest about something that occurred in WA. Protesting about an issue in another state is ridiculous, what is the state or territory government supposed to do about issues in another jurisdiction. It doesn't mean keep an eye on issues but things are way different than the US and as I said seems unlikely to go down the US path.
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  2156.  @maggie6  You hang in there. I am not Victorian so I can't claim to know how it feels but I know you are doing it tough. Also good to hear that it would seem to only be the fringes making it a partisan issue.
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  2157.  @user-ul7li5mu1s  I am from Queensland I just used WA as an example, noting the protests in the US go accross state lines. Due to the BLM protests I did learn that in WA and NT there is cases against a policeman in each state causing the death of an indigenous person and they are or were both facing charges. So actually no issue in my opinion, the law is taking it's course. I don't think saying CCP virus achieves anything, as you know the number of jurisdictions in the world that could contain the virus is in the minority at this point in time. So they couldn't contain it initially, this is not a surprise and could they have done better in the initial stages I would say they could have, but based on evidence could they have contained it to Wuhan without a single case getting out or going overseas, I think that's unlikely. You have more in common with Margaret than me because you are both going through the same situation. I understand you are doing it tough and you seem like a decent person. Hang in there and try your best to be calm, it's not a partisan issue, my government is Labor also and currently in a very different situation. Take care, the rest of Australia wants you to succeed.
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  2158. Best comment so far, apparently fear of not being able to wipe one's bottom is greater than the risk of death by some virus so I think the same principles should apply here.
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  2159. @davidpaull7612  I love your response
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  2160. Here in Queensland it's hard to comprehend the the failures of New Zealand, a population of 5,000,000 like NZ but only about 450 cases of internal transmission versus whatever ridiculous number occured in NZ. Taiwan only had half the number of imported cases compared to Queensland or New Zealand so not a fair comparison. Deaths in Queensland the lowest at 6 deaths. We can argue all day who is the best but how about a truce and accept done good is done good, even Victoria that by Western Pacific standards hasn't done so well has done extremely well by world standards and a month or 2 ago had more daily cases than Canada but look now. Western Pacific is just the best part of the world we shouldn't argue amongst ourselves who is superior and acknowledge we aren't perfect either.
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  2161.  @KiwiGirl1111  for sure, it might be a small step but Australia and New Zealand open to each other will boost moral which I think is important.
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  2162. You take care, it's unfortunate what is currently occurring but hopefully something good comes of it, my personal opinion is constitutional change is required in the US because having one person select an entire unelected government cabinet might have looked good more than 200 years ago but now looks outdated.
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  2163. Unfortunately I believe you, they can't however cover up deaths but they can delay the reporting time. A few days from when a death occurs would be quite normal in the US due to the case load , but from what you say the delay seems much longer than expected. They can't get in trouble though because proof would be required that the delay in reporting is intentional . I have a suspicion that many cases will be reported in certain states after November 3. Best of luck to you and I know many appreciate the work you are doing even if some don't. Stay strong and seek help personally if things get too much. From Australia 🇦🇺
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  2164. That's a choice, Queensland is a state in Australia why we along with most states have no cases but NSW getting 400 per day now.
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  2165.  @khatpe2580  Everywhere has problems unfortunately, it's unpredictable what might happen next. Best of luck to you.
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  2166. I don't really think so it's just a matter of speculation which they shouldn't do because it only confuses people more. It would be better if they said the basic medical stuff and just say The President is in a stable condition and note that hospitalisation normally only occurs after 2 weeks or so and death a significant time after that. It would be unwise to speculate what condition the president will be in after a week because we simply don't know, we only know he is currently in a stable condition with symptoms that would normally not require hospitalisation and this measure is only precautionary at this stage. Because what they have done now is speculated that he will not get very sick and based on probability he won't but if he does everyone will get annoyed.
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  2167. While those taxes are significant nowhere does state plus federal government taxes add up to over $1 per gallon, where is gas less than $2 per gallon?
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  2168.  @Rik77  but given the extremely low case numbers I would suspect it was imported in from elsewhere. If it is spreading elsewhere it will be picked up but might take time depending where it is.
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  2169. Leadership combined with success shows you can win but winning doesn't mean no complaints, no single decision by governments has 100% support. Consider the level of support in Australia for the containment/elimination policy, it's apparently at over 70% and pretty sure NZ , Vietnam and mainland China at same or higher levels.
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  2170. Most Zoonotic viruses that cross to humans they do find the source but it can take from weeks or months to many years, SARS1 took about 15 years to find the bat population that it came from, Hendra Virus which is a location very close to me it was instant that they identified it was transferred from horses to humans because the outbreak was in a racing stable with lots of sick horses and I think it was fairly soon after that they found the virus in bats, it's actually a very common virus in bats so probably it killed the occasional person for decades and was only discovered due to the specific outbreak in Hendra , Brisbane, Australia. Most Zoonotic viruses would probably be undiscovered, it's only when there is a major outbreak they get noticed. With Hendra virus there is no known case of human to human transmission which of course is the key normally to having a major outbreak in humans.
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  2171. Actually it's highly regulated, open market or free market prices are far lower everywhere else. Otherwise an American could simply import these drugs from other countries for much lower prices.
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  2172.  @kremun  cultural genocide, not killing people.
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  2173.  Don Drumpf  Take care.
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  2174.  @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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  2175.  @kenelisseou9944  I know what Trump was thinking when he said that, ok if we slow the testing down people won't be so fearful and economically it's better. Should he have thought about it before he said it and especially informed the world what he did, yes and I do believe he told people to slow testing down. In that respect people don't need to wait for leaks, just keep listening to him and he will tell you. I did follow his campaign 4 years ago and also looked at his ads on his YouTube channel. English speaking ad stop China and Mexico taking jobs, Spanish speaking ad stop China taking jobs. It's so blatent it's not funny and if his opposition got their act together they could actually use his ads against him, no need to edit other than shortening it and putting subtitles so it's totally clear.
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  2176.  @laurencefraser  You are basically making the point of local culture and conditions. People often miss that point. What might work in one place may not work in another. Political leadership I believe plays a big role too. If people are willing to listen to the leader they comply much better. The leader also must seem credible.
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  2177.  @BigRevKev82  With Andrews I do agree with you, I have watched his press conferences for a while, because he has changed policy from being the most open state to the current situation. He also until the current lockdown kept saying how their might be good reasons for the breaches. No doubt some listened to him so they can break rules using his excuses. But to give him credit he says he takes responsibility and was willing to change his let's open up everything and every state should drop travel restrictions, even if other states have put the pressure on, especially NSW who has abandoned the alliance with Victoria against all other states in favour of travel restrictions themselves.
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  2178.  @MuhammadIdris-jb6jv  I am certainly not joking killing someone is a violent act.
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  2179. Italy, Spain and UK don't tell the world they are exceptional. This issue is technically no different to the US homicide rate for a high income country. A lot of Americans live in their bubble with an air of superiority. Even now it's rare to hear them talk about all the possible vaccine candidates around the world because they believe they are the best. It's true if a vaccine does work or more than one that the US due to shear numbers will be on the list but it doesn't make them superior just equal. On a personal level if someone looks down at you and treats you as inferior will you have the same feelings to that person when compared to another person who considers you or at least treats you as an equal?
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  2180.  @kbthegoat824  American exceptionalism is another word for superiority. I did qualify my point saying many not all. I don't have an issue personally, Australia is your equal , just our country is smaller.
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  2181. ​@CFX992 Assuming g word you are referring to the modern definition. They all succeeded, this has been going on for 1,000s of years by many Eurasian Empires. Interesting how you decided to choose one empire only. No population wise natives in the new world weren't wiped out through direct violence even though many massacres occurred , however a large number died from Eurasian diseases. So it's not a question of will a colony succeed, the question is more along the lines of should recent colonies commit g word any more. If you take the legal definition then China is the worst offender by population effected, they aren't killing people but they are trying to eliminate the free practicing of Islam in Xinjiang and Buddhism in Tibet. Ireland was more a matter of ethnic cleansing, the Australian population identifying as having Irish ancestry is half the population of Ireland approximately, a lot more of them in North America.
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  2182. A hot spot or an ember. In Australia we only use the term outbreak. Victoria has an outbreak it isn't a hot spot. We use toilets too, not bath rooms.
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  2183. It's not only the US , Australia for example has problems but it's the extent of the problems. With regards to Australia versus USA with policing and our justice systems there is significant differences. The most alarming thing I have seen other than the actual event is the mayor telling the FBI to charge them. In both our country it's accepted (I think) that church(religion) legislature and judiciary are separate. No public official outside of the judicial process should be interfering in this case , the FBI and whatever their judicial process is. The mayor should have just said it's in the capable hands of the FBI and they need time to do their work please ask them any questions you want as it would be inappropriate for us to comment. This action could keep those people out of jail for years whether they are guilty or not because now the case has been prejudiced and to find an appropriate venue for a potential trial will be difficult. Edit: and apparently a shop owner shot someone in the riot so yet more violence and death.
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  2184. The jury believed her, what are you talking about?
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  2185. The US has never been on the red list, it has had open borders to all countries the entire time with voluntary 10 days quarantine. Seems all political to me because all variants if that is an issue of consideration are in the US.
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  2186. If it leads to an increase in the oil price that helps jobs for all the incumbent oil producers inside of the US. Don't think Canada would be happy though, their southern neighbour is a bit erratic. 11,000 jobs out of 150,000,000 or so for total employment isn't exactly significant other than for those individuals.
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  2187. Only if you're area isn't a densely populated area, in a big inner city area I would suggest that's no where near enough especially if children aren't vaccinated. No idea which type of area you in, just making a point.
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  2188.  @anthonyd4341  Yep it's called the "freedom to infect". Truth is on the US side that actually rang true because there was only ever voluntary quarantine or in other words no quarantine. The US now has the highest per Capita deaths from covid 19 of any wealthy country in the world.
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  2189. I think you mean discuss with, they are both doing a similar style of thing. John is more for the lay person in general I feel. Dr Mobeen tends to have some very complicated lectures I guess you would probably call them which are quite technical and people without knowledge like myself find confusing. In general I think they would both be in agreement on most things. But would be interesting to see if they don't agree on some things. I think these people are helpful for anyone who wants to know more without politics thrown in.
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  2190. A large number of healthcare workers got the virus previously, so what percentage of the so called antivaxxers aren't antivaxxers at all? If you just had the virus within 6 months previously why would one get a vaccine now?
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  2191. @jerry xulin it's like the US, other countries just look on and think what's that all about.
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  2192. No idea, I am from a part of the world where the vast majority believe in doing what has to be done to protect our society. We are referred to as the [communist] dictatorship of Australia. There's a lot of irony in that statement, Right wing Communist Party of China has plenty of racial supremacists and has declared Australia to be the enemy, the US is referred to as a country that they want to work with. The enemy of my enemy is my friend comes to mind. Trumpers and CPC loyalists actually agree on a lot of things especially when it comes to Australia. For more info go look at the main CGTN channel on YouTube and read through comments whenever Australia is mentioned.
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  2193. If they relax restrictions you will have over 200,000,000 cases in the next 3 months or so. I live in Queensland Australia and when we changed from covid 0 to opening up 20% of the population approximately got infected in a few months. Also the vaccination rates in China are far lower than they were in Australia when we opened up. So it's either covid 0 or opening up, there's no in between as many European countries and the US demonstrated.
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  2194. What normally happens in recent years at least is travel bans of any high officials. Have to wait to Jan 21 though because he is still legally the president for now. I expect Trump will go but the internal damage he is doing currently to the US is significant and a pretty bad look internationally.
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  2195. Plausible genocide happening in Gaza and the people in the comments section afraid of a few peaceful protesters at universities. What a bunch of scared little cowards.
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  2196. The opposite of liberalism is authoritarian. Are you proud to be supporting authoritarianism? Do you love Putin and Xi who are successful authoritarians?
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  2197. I like your word Covidians
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  2198. Well soon very few Americans will be able to afford Steak or Shrimp and have to stick to eating eggs.
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  2199. It's the times we live in. Presidents and Prime Ministers know that when dealing with the US have flatter the Absolute Monarch of the US.
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  2200. US passports enable the holder to become immune from covid 19, those holding most other form of passport are diseased low life peasants that should be kept out.
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  2201. He didn't , the clip you are referring to he said paraphrasing " a pandemic of some sort will occur during Trump's presidency "(because they happen every couple of years on the planet somewhere) In brackets is the context of Fauci's statement. On the planet because he was referring to the US role internationally like assistance with the Ebola outbreak in Africa. This channel is funded by the German government if you wanted to know.
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  2202. Hope your parents get over it without any major problems.
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  2203. Outside of vaccines actually there is a lot of cooperation. The policies are by WHO region, the regional decisions however are quite varied. The Western Pacific region of WHO all countries have 14 days mandatory enforced (usually hotel) quarantine for all entrants , while not every country has been entirely successful the Philippines the worst performing country in the region has deaths below 10% of that of the US on a per capita basis. European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization almost all 10 days voluntary quarantine (actually not English dictionary definition of quarantine because not designed to stop or prevent disease in this case covi sars2 form entering, just reduce rate of spread), some minor increased mitigation strategies recently in some countries but still the same policy actually, UK for example has 0 European and North American countries on red list. One has to ask why did governments in these regions need to change the definition of quarantine, one could say that they are deliberately deceiving their own citizens and I have actually seen people in the US for example and this is a highly qualified person state that the US problems is something about messaging because everything else they are doing the same, he didn't mean the message was completely deceptive but the wrong message. He himself was a victim actually of his own country propaganda.
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  2204. The evidence from what I understand is in a stable household where a parent has time and not short on money the child can do better , but what happens if it's a single working mum, the child is probably on their own mostly assuming not too young because mum's working and tired when come home. Also the mother might not have a high level of education herself, can hardly be a good teacher then.
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  2205. The Chinese companies haven't even tried to get approval in Western countries, the Chinese government is either arranging for them to be sold in developing nations or buying themselves and donating some. Will be curious when the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is approved in China, it is being produced there but I think not extremely large amounts.
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  2206. If any variant is found in Australia , South Korea and Japan it's everywhere, it's just because we genomic test all cases and these would be picked up at the border. As the US has an open border and virtually no genomic testing it can spread freely. The US will be the virus's testing ground for strains, a largely willing population to get infected and spread the strains to find a winner.
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  2207.  @aaralynledridge9686  can't remember most of that because I was born in 1973 but segregation is still alive to some extent even if not written into law.
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  2208. Pol Pot did that but with ruthless efficiency killing all the academics.
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  2209. Sweden is less dense and also higher compliance of voluntary measures, Sweden isn't looking too bad but the culture of the population makes a big difference.
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  2210. That's more than a circumnavigation of the planet going the long way around the equator.
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  2211. Any Australian who wants a republic with a directly elected president is a fool. I was a soft Republican previously but now I am a monarchist because I don't trust our politicians and the Queen does exactly what I want a head of state to do and that is leave us alone.
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  2212. I did see a New Zealand news conference and they do know the strain of the virus is in the UK and Australia as said by the government's health guy.
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  2213.  @chrishayes5755  Also in the survey 60 or 70% don't approve of what they are doing. I am not Canadian but I actually sympathize with them because they are completely wasting their time and being led to do stupid things , as far as the border goes that's up to the US and internal restrictions inside Canada will still come off at the same time they were going to anyway. Some of these truckers will only achieve hefty fines for themselves and possibly in some cases losing drivers license or whatever, making their own life harder and gaining nothing. If you think all provincial and two national governments are going to cave into 1,000 or so truck drivers you are delusional.
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  2214. Possible but the exact opposite is just as likely.
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  2215. We know the lady in the story was told indirectly at least , he's going to die. The doctor may have assumed the wife was smart enough to realise organs shutting down means death but it didn't click in her mind. To me the only real issue is she wasn't told directly as if talking to a child and she actually acknowledged that by saying if he had told me that would have been a different story. So long as "the organs were shutting down" is correct a Tylenol wouldn't have killed him quicker too , just not as quickly.
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  2216.  @ratedxxxable  I am talking about the difference in use of terminology regards this outbreak between essentially containment countries and mitigation countries. I don't mean any offence, I am in Queensland and the 25 or so active cases is referred to as a serious outbreak of great concern, something along those lines. It's unfortunate the errors that were made in Victoria but it's good to see your government is now getting things under control. Hang in there all of Australia wants you to succeed. Take care.
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  2217. I am sure they are discussing both trade items they can purchase from each other instead of the US and retaliatory tariffs and how they can coordinate with each other to have maximum effect.
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  2218. According to the world bank you spend 1.3% of GDP on defence and Germany is the same (2019). So stop freeloading, Australia is 1.9% as is France so almost at the 2% level.
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  2219. It's impossible to help it actually, it's instinct. Same way if you meet a person of your same culture and or race and or type of job one does. This is exactly why con men/women are charismatic and tend to target as I described above , people who will have an inherent bias towards trusting them. A part of this show actually demonstrated that directly, all the people saying how safe and friendly the place was and how they thought it couldn't happen there, implying it happens in other parts of London.
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  2220. Some evidence that China has arranged this hand over of power.
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  2221. It would be extremely likely to catch it in transit especially at airports bus stations etc, so not necessarily the case but we know buying an official looking negative test result wouldn't be that hard in a place like India and the Australian government isn't going to follow up because not exactly the right time to be using up time of Indian hospitals and testing centers making inquiries. So my guess a bit of both.
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  2222. I think you mean Chinese, if not your comment is ridiculous.
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  2223. Very true Malta is an island with about 450,000 people, fortunately they have only had half the deaths of Australia but they are running neck and neck with case numbers. Vietnam on the other hand 3 land borders and about 4 times the population yet about half the cases. It all comes down to policy, land or sea borders are completely irrelevant unless a government is incapable of controlling them or in other words a failed state for all intensive purposes.
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  2224. That's why military forced to shave , comes from having to have gas masks if the Germans did chlorine attacks.
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  2225. Just be a little patient, main thing is the first phase, that should greatly reduce the chance of the virus entering with all border and quarantine staff getting it first. It's not like if you get the vaccine you can travel overseas any easier, that's a long way off. Just chill, when large numbers of doses are available pretty sure Australia's rollout will go fine.
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  2226.  @qualicumwilson5168  0 chance of the 14 days mandatory enforced hotel quarantine going any time soon other than maybe other countries with no or extremely few cases.
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  2227.  @jocelynjohnston8257  sky News is English and owned by some American company ( Murdoch sold out years ago ) , Sky News Australia is still Murdoch controlled and from some things I have seen not sure which one a bit more extreme but my money on the Australian one when it comes to supporting Trump, amazingly Trump supporters flocked to it when Fox was out of favour.
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  2228.  @imfunaplaymahgames8880  I hope things get better for you at some point in time.
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  2229. I am thinking that bloke isn't popular with his congregation anymore, god ain't going to pay those fines.
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  2230.  @NathanW5555  so what if herpes flared up from the vaccine because body immune system suppressed because fighting the vaccine. I had covid 19 and herpes flared up big time for maybe a month. Those who had that issue with the vaccine should be glad it's probably only for a few days. Obviously a vaccine can't give you the herpes virus.
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  2231. Go to CGTN youtube channel. Yes it's a Chinese propaganda channel however they don't misreport stuff even if editorial is sort of propaganda-ish. There is no coincidence that the Moderna and Biontech Pfizer vaccines send out promotional material before everyone else because they are pure for profit. By promotional material I mean releasing results rather early before peer review or even a complete analysis. Notice how the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine they actually tested subjects in the trial but Biontech Pfizer didn't bother they just said get tested if you have symptoms.
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  2232. Or Zeteo
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  2233. Trump's plans will increase debt, not sure why you think differently. Can you not remember Trump's last term and how it raised the debt as a proportion of GDP more than any other time in US history outside of war time?
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  2234. I think you mean the US. I can't find any other country funding them.
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  2235. I have a similar view , has a guy with a cat that plays video games taken over the world or something.
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  2236. They already are.
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  2237. People comment about vaccinations too much, they have no real effect for a couple of months assuming a really quick roll out. Right now they just need to lockdown until cases gone, 2 weeks is a ridiculous time frame, 12 weeks from now is more likely if things go well.
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  2238.  @sksimmons1336  search Mauritania slavery. Slavery is a current issue and a government not acting regardless of the reason is support of slavery. A slave has no care why they are in the situation they are in or the laws on the books.
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  2239.  @hexum7  I don't think so , but that it was no big deal over 200 years ago. What was acceptable to all at that point in time, is only acceptable to certain countries now.
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  2240.  @newyorkhardcore3353  but you left the door open
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  2241.  @DvonAntonio  Socialism covers a wide spread of ideas, all that different socialist ideologies have in common is the government interfering with outright free market. The far right are socialist, but they direct socialism to creating big corporations and protecting those corporations from trade as in protectionist, this is the US way actually and China is doing the same. The US has a poor record on social welfare.
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  2242.  @equious8413  what would you consider the National Socialist German Workers Party, left or right? What would you call protectionism as in trade tariffs , left or right and is it a socialist action? Both far left and far right support protectionism. Protectionism is directly controlling the means of production as in socialist I would suggest. Did you ever wonder why many Bernie Sanders supporters actually supported Trump over Hillary? Well I would suggest because of those protectionist leanings. Both far right and left are also quite happy to subsidize non economical production in one way or another.
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  2243. Well many countries have allowed 2000 or near to that per million die from the virus, so even if every single person is vaccinated think about the death toll 330 versus 550,000 for the US and that's only so far.
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  2244. When travel "opens up" it will be segregated world at least to begin with, vaccine or no vaccine you won't be entering Australia from a high case country unless you are Australian and go through quarantine, 90% isn't good enough. Hopefully with New Zealand and our smaller Pacific neighbours with no cases we open up with vaccinated people.
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  2245. I would actually argue the opposite, it's remarkable how similar the responses have been according to WHO region, all the Western Pacific WHO region countries had 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine. All of European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region countries had 10 days voluntary quarantine or in other words no quarantine. Deaths in Western Pacific region less than 10% of the open border regions. Obviously there's more to it but internal policies matched that of border policies. The divergence in the Western Pacific WHO region is very recent actually with Australia trying to open fully like Singapore did but then put restrictions back on and China, Japan (Japan shut to foreigner) WA and NZ all staying largely shut. The question is can Australia not falter with reopening especially in a state like QLD when some deaths start occurring.
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  2246.  @jimmysprinkles1738  to be honest not the young part but she does seem to have a similar allure. So she does look strong and attractive but don't know much about her.
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  2247.  @vanxz7511  You are wrong, the 100 are members of the NPC (National People's Congress) or parliament, they meet once a year normally to vote on legislation. 100 of these are worth over $1 billion USD, 200 of these are worth over $300 million USD. You might be confusing the general members of parliament with the executive members AKA ministers and deputy ministers in most countries and Secretaries in the case of the US. Pretty sure there would be more billionaires in the CPPCC as well if you wanted to add them to the list. So one group of billionaires controlling another group of billionaires it would seem.
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  2248. While there is a small element of truth there are not massive numbers of Thais being arrested and it's a very different situation without vast majority support, there are no counter rallies in Myanmar, in Thailand there is.
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  2249.  @leogeek  all countries have double standards because can't be 100% on anything and must be realistic.
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  2250.  @peruano-quichwa---aymara8611  I agree
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  2251.  @min1670  no country has no corruption so that part of your statement is ridiculous.
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  2252. Russian army entering is about 150,000 versus 44 million inhabitants. Which one is the ant?
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  2253.  @mooselodge3881  think of the original commenter. We don't know everything but we know they are not young and if lung capacity is 46% the chance they die if they get this will be a high percentage. If they don't live in self contained accommodation and can't afford to move they are literally a sitting duck. The border restrictions of the state for quarantine purposes are a matter for the government and it's the choice that the commenter us complaining about. There is no wall with Canada either but I am guessing illegal travel across that border is pretty low. Have some compassion for those who might not have the means to do as you suggest.
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  2254. Peter D gives a good explanation, the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is being produced in many countries worldwide, basically Astrazeneca gets nothing other than a nominal amount for anything that they produce for the duration of the pandemic. Any reputable vaccine producer can access the recipe and sign an agreement to produce it as long as at cost. At cost will have some sort of formula of what it actually costs so something like ingredients, wages, capital costs, and interest. The cost of different manufacturers will be different so it shouldn't be expected that they all cost the same. The EU agreements are those manufacturers that they signed with. They can't demand the product from India or Australia or China because nothing to do with them even though it's the same product.
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  2255. The very low urbanisation rate of 27% compared to rich Western countries around 90% and higher will make a really big difference to the overall rate of spread. The problem is of course if nothing is done to stop the spread although the spread might be slow there is nothing to stop it from continuing. I hope I am wrong and some county governments are doing a great job but from your comment plus from John this doesn't seem to be the case. I wish you and your country the best.
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  2256. No that's a bit much.
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  2257. The girl in the video was only referring to her area. She knows in other places black people are doing this, let's not assume the girl is stupid.
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  2258. So money laundering hits an all time high. Good luck USA.
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  2259. You are correct but the problem is America has a superiority complex so can't believe their own eyes even if they see it's different in other countries.
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  2260. You must be rich then, good for you.
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  2261. The failed response means other healthcare issues can't be responded to properly because a lot of health care resources being put into covid 19 including extra measures required when patients are admitted for other reasons to try and reduce the chance of giving them the virus. I wish you the best of luck.
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  2262.  @dntodo6749  Morrison is in no way a Trump wannabe. The contrast in approach by Australia versus the US couldn't be more stark. The pressure he puts on the states to open up and the states in reverse pushing back has been extremely successful. He hasn't rubbished the state Premiers but would prefer a different internal approach. The border quarantine was the Federal governments doing and without that we would be no different to the US or UK with there ridiculous no quarantine policy other than a weak voluntary scheme. Just remember Dan Andrews and Morrison were the most closely aligned criticising mostly Queensland until of course Victorias contact tracing failed and Andrews went rather quiet on the issue and the other state in the duo New South Wales shut the border on them breaking their pact.
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  2263. Slavery only really became non state approved about 20 years ago. There are still millions of slaves in Africa and South Asia, it's just not state sanctioned. Whatever might happen I don't think any country will go back to sanctioning slavery however due to disfunction in the regions I mentioned it will remain a reality for a long time to come. Of course slavery isn't eliminated anywhere in a large country but governments do try to stop it. Your point about WWII etc. sort of isn't relevant to most, they can't forget what they have never seen or experienced, seeing some old documentary one thinks that can't happen again.
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  2264. No they don't want that, they want to be independent but if need help ask under the treaty arrangements.
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  2265. So you are unhappy that 60,000 Australian alive today? That's about how many extra deaths occurred in the US adjusting for population and that's so far noting their poor vaccination rates. Also if you were in Canberra you were only ever locked down for a month or 2 throughout the whole pandemic, nothing compared to most of the world. Sounds like you're not from Canberra or not the one in Australia because saying locked down for 2 years is ridiculous.
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  2266. Life expectancy rose in the US in the downturn years of the great depression, so without data there is no evidence of your claim.
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  2267. If the disinfectant works it is poisoning the person or at very least killing the top layers of skin and if breathed in guess what someone following Trump's thought bubble
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  2268. If anyone can be bothered using Google the 4 states with the highest number of illegal immigrants are the four big states of New York, California, Texas and Florida. There's a higher concentration in Florida and Texas because those states population added together is less than California plus New York and both red and blue states in this case have a similar number of illegal immigrants when added together.
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  2269. They can't see that happening any time soon though and the second in line DeSantis seems like the same but smarter many describe him as
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  2270. Deep state = public servants including military? Who ever is against this deep state an American term only I think should ask themselves , do I hate every public servant even those selected by Donald Trump? If you answer in a certain way you are delusional, it's true the public service is disfunctional by high income country standards but that's as far as it goes. If I was a conspiracy theorist I would think Trump is the deep state leader, done more for functional authoritarian governments than any other person in the world in recent history and because the US is biggest and most well known given all Democracies a bad name.
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  2271. What confuses most about the peaceful protestors is what they actually want. I haven't heard them indicate what law it is they want changed. I haven't in the case of Minneapolis heard a call for either the police commissioner or mayor to resign, these are the ones in charge. I think that the protests could end up lowering the standard of police officers because who wants to be shouted at and considered guilty of misconduct due to the actions of others.
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  2272.  @joyphillips1821  you know your argumentative style is that of a hardened BLM person because you think that rules don't apply to you. Like the BLM protestors that basically said it's ok for them to protest but not for the equally stupid anti maskers. A position is a position and any person can stand by their position regardless of anything around them. It may or may not be the case Trump is a lame duck president, a vote soon will decide that. Many Americans hate Trump because of the 200,000 body bags which is certainly equivalent morally to errors made with Benghazi. Some would argue more so because dealing with covid 19 was not you have a few hours to make a decision, a decision could have been made at the end of February so over a month to get things right, now look at the US. I am not American so none of my business but I do understand what is decent and honourable and what is not. Making an error versus what is occurring now is different in my opinion.
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  2273. The statement by the commentators is contradictory, by it's very nature emergency approval means a short cut has been taken , that is it isn't absolutely certain it is safe over a long period however the benefits outweighs the risks and lives will certainly be saved on average ( maybe a vaccinated person dies from the vaccine but 100 more people live )
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  2274. You are fortunate you and your family are "living" a normal life 100s of thousands of Brazilians can't say that.
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  2275. They just focus on a few major country including Germany because the publisher is German
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  2276. Had to sort of laugh that the US is very efficient at transferring suspects or prisoners. The US while not being a fully police state would only be competitive against China for the number one position of state efficiency when dealing with suspects or prisoners. To US or Chinese are you proud of this?
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  2277. No the number is 80% of eligible Australians and we still quite a long way off that.
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  2278. You are wrong, they want social welfare services and police to get the problem away from them. Other than a few psychopaths all business people want what I described.
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  2279. I checked the English version and at the rate the UK strain is increasing in about 5 weeks if it continues it will go to 90% of cases. Of course lockdown measures will reduce the weaker strains much more quickly.
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  2280. Here's a question for all in the thread (even those that don't agree) why do you think killing is ok when it's completely unnecessary? Why does the Philippines still look to failed US policy and now taking a look towards colonial China who wants your sea territory. Become independent look for the best systems of government not just who is powerful and clinging to the old colonialist the US who destroyed your country economically previously. The US has changed however so having good relationship on the international scene is fine or I would argue good actually, just stop copying their failures. I am Australian and visited the Philippines maybe 15 years ago, at that time I still saw dairy products for example from the US despite New Zealand or Australia being cheaper and other trade items it was similar, I know you have kicked that off at least as trade figures show, keep going forward as an independent country that makes good decisions and doesn't either reject or accept things on a whim based on historical issues.
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  2281. Romania certainly isn't short of hospital beds and ICU beds in total, in fact they are very high in both. Life expectancy in Romania is only about 1 year less than US. Maybe things aren't perfect but they aren't really bad either going on the data. The deaths from covid 19 are through the roof and it's probably mostly down to vaccination rates. Other Eastern European countries with low vaccination rates are consistent with deaths per million so doesn't seem to be anything about reporting.
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  2282. I think what you say is a possibility.
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  2283. You need a lesson in either geography or economics, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore are on par with Taiwan thanks. Ok Singapore started with what is commonly known as the Swedish approach however they managed to keep it out of the older population and few died because when it ran through a large number of migrant workers not many died because of age mostly I am guessing. Singapore did change it's approach obviously. Also check which countries are in Western Pacific region of WHO and compare to PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO region countries, it appears the approaches were mostly determined by these offices , it's only the Western Pacific region which has 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine, the other 2 regions all 10 days voluntary quarantine and the results show.
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  2284. You're one up on me, plenty of comments in particular responses to other comments deleted but never got a warning as far as I know.
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  2285. Up to the party room, a 15 minute vote and he's gone and replaced as PM.
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  2286. I hope she does ok.
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  2287. Check the current per capita deaths in Sweden, I think the US might be able to catch up. You only need about 40,000 more deaths give or take to have about the same mortality rate as Sweden.
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  2288.  @samoak123  that means 30,000 deaths if vaccines are as good as they say considering our vaccination rate. When fully vaccinated yes probably , maybe only 5,000 die or whatever. Singapore is discussing this.
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  2289. Everyone crying over a Russian asset. What has become of some Americans?
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  2290. Just ask whoever is giving the vaccines , they should know or your doctor.
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  2291. Well not really, prior to civil rights era it it wasn't good for African American people and since then wages haven't gone up in real terms. The US currently ranks lowest for life expectancy, fairly poorly with education and the highest homicide rate about 6 times the average (when US is excluded) for a wealthy country. Yes people from very poor often more violent countries might look up to the US but not people from comparable countries as in other wealthy countries.
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  2292. Which is a small minority and on top of that Trump got a 53% approval rating recently. American are loving Trump 2.0 , that's just a fact.
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  2293. He's also got a thing about the Northern Hemisphere. You notice so far he hasn't insulted any country in the Southern Hemisphere since being elected. Which is fine with me living in this part of the world.
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  2294. 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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  2295. Wind power isn't baseload and they know that actual capacity in normal times will range between maybe 10% and 80% and Texas isn't stupid are they, they knew the risk. The majority of the cuts in power production are from gas apparently and on top of it all the infrastructure fails even from an icey power line falling to the ground directly or due to a tree branch which normally can fix in a few hours but guessing that's happening everywhere. Then whoever supplies Galveston water didn't have a back up generator because no need , what's the chance of no power and freezing temperatures. Gas production reduces because workers can't get there and seems something freezes up , possibly the water being injected into the well and maybe some gas well infrastructure running off mains power etc. etc. No point blaming any side of politics but not connecting to the national grid is just stupid. It's like the general EU European and US response to covid 19 the stuff ups end in exponential damage because each problem causes another problem to occur. The US had higher homicides, higher suicides (not confirmed but reporting suggest that), greater non covid deaths caused by lockdown lite, a 16% to GDP federal government deficit causing pain into the future plus of course the 500,000 dead from covid 19 directly.
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  2296.  @julieyork7605  I didn't start it just comment on the other comments about partisanship in the US. Yes your country is in a weather induced lockdown in many states.
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  2297. @analuizafms_  of course you have the right to feel angry. However in a robust legal system the defence or the prosecution have the right to speculation regarding anything. There's also many cases of false accusations on the side of defendants also. I hope you on a personal level are doing well now and have largely forgotten your traumatic experience. No system is perfect unfortunately and every major crime affects many people.
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  2298. The US is becoming an old fashioned feudal system and nobody is doing anything about it. Corporations are literally buying up housing stocks and even trailer parks and charging as they would say what the market can handle. Or in other words how much can we charge before too many people decide on homelessness instead and hurt our bottom line. The youtube channel a better union is very good at exposing US corporate greed at any cost. Not sure who originated the term but the bean counters are very well employed right now. To those who don't know what a "bean counter " is , it's an accountant that calculates whether or not causing people harm even up to death is cheaper than doing the right thing from a purely financial perspective.
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  2299. @Ebrahim Samirali Your comment is strange because you don't identify where you apparently were, Australia only locked down for about 8 weeks in 2020, the rest of the time lockdowns were only local as you would be aware if you were actually ever in Australia and you strike me as a person who wouldn't spend $3,000 AUD for 2 weeks quarantine and what exactly were you doing here , foreigner couldn't just enter at will , you would need to have close relatives who are dying or something or an essential worker.
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  2300. Actually they come from hens not chickens.
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  2301. @dewdrop533  actually it is apparently a baby chicken is a chick, but I always thought of chicken as being a non adult.
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  2302. The US economy is doing great, distribution of wealth is the problem.
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  2303.  @Cinemaphile7783  Wine is by the vineyard, some quality wine in California and Australia and also they both make the cheap mass market stuff.
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  2304.  @Cinemaphile7783  lol ok, I thought you were having a go at Aussie wines.
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  2305. Best of luck and hope you are doing ok. If John's style is what you like I would suggest Osterholm update, he's American and focuses on America and an infectious diseases expert. Similar calming type person in my opinion.
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  2306. He's the sweetest guy you will ever see whether you consider him a badass or not.
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  2307. Except of course the people that died. I find your statement rather strange.
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  2308. Our GDP is doing fine. Just because in USD it might not look crash hot it might surprise you we have our own currency which for all intensive purposes floats freely. Obviously a low Aussie dollar is good for exporters. It's true we have housing problems and a high homelessness rate.
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  2309.  Steven Moore  I am not necessarily saying that SAs quarantine is good or bad and whether or not improvements can be made , just that no matter what you do it's impossible to have an airtight quarantine procedure without very extreme measures which would be unacceptable and too costly. Extreme measures is quarantine everyone on an island somewhere and nobody leaves until everyone tests negative for 2 weeks, that would work but people including the staff managing it could be stuck there for 6 months.
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  2310. No, other than maybe NK, China and Vietnam where discussion will be limited every other country in the world will debate such matters in parliament.
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  2311. Look up the definition of King. I think you will find it really does apply to the US president. I am Australian and we are a constitutional monarchy under the Westminster system of government, no individual has as much power compared to your president. The government has ministers (secretaries) who come from the parliamentary pool of elected officials, a US president selects the entire government and has absolute discretion in doing so and can hire and fire as he wants. I consider the US system to really be elected absolute monarchy to a large extent. He has the power of Veto which actually gets used frequently, the governor general in Australia does too but I am unaware of it ever being used. It seems the powers of an Australian governor general are technically similar in many respects except nominating ministers, only putting a prime minister in power in the case of a deadlocked election where no party can gain power which has never occured because minor parties will always support one of the major parties in the case of no party getting a majority. I think the worst problem is the president controls the entire government that is selecting all the ministers and then if they don't do as he says he can just sack them. Too much power for any individual in my opinion. I actually voted for Australia to be a Republic with the current system in place , but if the system was to change to something similar to the US system , I'll keep the constitutional monarchy thanks.
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  2312. Based on history in a few months time their North East will get a lot of cases but they are more vaccinated than the South so it might give some good indications of how much difference the vaccination rates make.
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  2313. It's actually not an anomaly, 10% of people going from India to Australia when their outbreak was bad tested positive so we shut them out completely for 14 days. The testing window for flying is 72 hours so can be caught it after that or fake negative test papers if that's possible in South Africa.
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  2314. The problem is however bad messaging, Australia we have similar measures but the vast majority of the community brought along. Need to have community leaders help the government, especially ethnic and rural communities in most countries.
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  2315. I had a life changing experience yesterday, I smuggled 200 Mexican eggs into the US. I was able to pay off my Australian mortgage with some left over for investment.
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  2316. The technical ability and wealth of today versus 1918 is completely different. In theory this time should have been relatively easy.
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  2317. If these people want to become unemployed and lose their trucks because they can't pay the mortgage with thin air then so be it.
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  2318. I notice you along with everyone are downplaying the fact that the US has threatened to invade and annex no less than 5 countries. This is one thing i will actually agree with your ally Putin, the US is as bad as Russia. Right now North Korea is the least bad in the axis of evil because at least they don't have an expansionist policy.
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  2319. In the areas with riots people go into lockdown voluntarily, they found this to be the case in the US with the BLM protests/riots.
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  2320. Less chance of getting covid not no chance. Social distancing etc. Reduces the chance further.
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  2321. He hasn't supported the current state of affairs so if he doesn't actually support the current mob he wouldn't support an alternate mob. I do like him though The 5 should be called 1 versus 4 .
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  2322. You are missing something called human behaviour and being fussy, people in the UK for example would get the Astrazeneca knowing if you are young slightly higher risk than Pfizer, some young Aussies are getting Astrazeneca but many prefer to wait because no urgency and some older people want the Pfizer as well just for the extra couple of percent efficacy. When there are thousands of deaths around people are more urgent. As stated the other countries successful in containment also slow roll out. Pfizer is in limited supply and only a small amount of Moderna coming soon. I expect Australia will eventually get high vaccination rates but it will take some extra time because of the covid 0 issues making people especially in Western Australia and Queensland unless we have a major outbreak very complacent.
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  2323. No chance they allow anyone in without 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine unless no cases in the other country. The problem is the new variants , Indian and UK are so much more transmissible, they get through strict quarantine in Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and Taiwan. Vaccinating the hotel quarantine workers and border workers can help and ramp up of quarantine measures, especially hotel rooms being negative pressure and delays between meal times so people not opening door at the same time.
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  2324. Cheapzer wants to consider the US a superior failed state. How low can one go. The US is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should be judged amongst it's peers which is other wealthy countries.
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  2325. Yeah I've followed some of that on YouTube and even medical professionals saying it's not your fault. I am a recovering alcoholic, maybe it's true I didn't know how to stop drinking which included major diet changes since alcohol was a significant part of my diet but I know in the end my drinking was my fault and those addicted to junk food it's their fault too. It is true that fast food chains and packaged grocery manufacturers have made the food more addictive but there's still the option to buy unprocessed food, even something simple like baked beans, you can buy the beans and tomato paste and make it yourself without adding sugar and salt to the amount one requires. Even simple things like eating nuts instead of cheezles or something is a massive improvement and available to everyone.
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  2326.  @StephBer1  I don't know your sex but hey I love your response Ma'am or Sir. Federal health has bureaucrats that aren't physically practicing medicine, yes many of course will have medical qualifications. One of the least deaths, best advanced economy economic results. What is it you want? I voted Labor QLD for the first time putting Labor first from my memory. All Australian governments have done a great job, NSW and VIC unfortunately acted with hubris and didn't act cautiously but still by world standards they are also way up the top compared to other jurisdictions in the world. If you want to vote whichever party state/territory or federal well do so, I don't have an opinion on how I will vote in next elections , my issue is about lack of rights with owners (me) of strata title properties , zero rights compared to listed investments where the rights of billionaires and portfolio investors are looked after along with the incidental investors like me previously (still have listed investments but significantly a smaller proportion of my overall investments) . As far as covid 19 I am now confident with either party at either level of government. Anyway best of luck, hope my comment explains something to you.
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  2327.  @iinnovations  Fair go , in Australia and New Zealand ( I assume you mean Western Democracies and include USA Canada and us in the southern hemisphere ) . Australia's Prime Minister made it very clear in March a lot of people are going to die in poor countries and it will be hard to watch and we need to lock down impose travel restrictions etc. etc. As results prove . Only criticism he must have meant poor as in poor incapable governments and not the economically poor.
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  2328. The percentage of the world wide vaccination rate is completely irrelevant, no tennis star hasn't had access to a vaccine. So you think the Association of Tennis Professionals is wrong in it's decision, well good for you , go tell them.
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  2329. Just one question why would the left want to overthrow a presidential election where a Democrat candidate won?
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  2330. Australian and not a lefty , if I was American I would fit into the category of Republican Voters Against Trump, they even have a youtube channel , maybe you should check it out to see those crazy arse lefties or the Lincoln Project.
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  2331. Can is probably a bad choice of word, of course he can the question is will he and the answer is probably not.
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  2332. So far actually nothing too bad has occurred. If and it's a big if the Taliban keeps their word it has actually improved things, girls can go to school and university now. Intelligence by the US clearly failed and US presidents aren't capable of fixing that problem which is actually the real problem. I think it's arrogance and the new superpower China exhibits some of those same arrogant behaviours already, they will probably do a little better than US neo-colonialism but it won't be plain sailing. Some significant evidence based on the Taliban rhetoric that they are following China's advice, words to the effect "the Taliban government will have all members of society in it and the Taliban will have meaningful consultation" paraphrased of course but that's the identical rhetoric that the CPC uses with all the unions other parties who all support the CPC being leaders. Whether the plan occurs we just have to wait and see and see if the Taliban turns on China in the short term to medium term.
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  2333. He doesn't believe they are corrupt, he only believes they can make mistakes in good faith.
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  2334. Look at South Korean girls versus North Korean girls . Then watch a KPOP video male or female. The link to colonialism is wrong. The term blue blood relates to wealthy people who didn't farm going way back. But now in Western country nobody really cares but if they do they actually want tanned skin not white. It reminds me actually of a light skinned Asian girl in Australia who used a tanning bed and got cancer and it killed her , she left message for people not to do this which is so sad and she wasn't old at all. Search Clare Oliver if curious. People should just take care of themself and be ok with whatever you've got.
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  2335. The problem with that court case was that in the judges opinion "no reasonable person would take him seriously" paraphrased. This leads to one of 2 conclusions, either Tuckers viewers are not reasonable or the judge got it wrong and applied his/her standard of reasoning which clearly doesn't happen with 10s of millions of US citizens.
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  2336. I would think that's an atribute if they can pull it off. How is it dishonest?
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  2337. @taefravis  a pee tape is literally nothing compared what he has been found guilty of including sexual assault.
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  2338. Novavax is likely to become available early next year if you don't want J&J or MRNA vaccines and sounds like you are not at high risk of major problems given your mild symptoms previously.
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  2339. Regardless of your arguments about the merits of assistance to Ukraine or not you are completely wrong about healthcare in the US, you spend more per Capita on publically funded healthcare than Australia with a genuine universal system. It's not about the money it's how the money is spent, throwing more money at something when the problem isn't about the quantity of money in the first place will just burn more money, probably make the situation even worse. The US is now down to about 46th highest life expectancy , the lowest of any wealthy country, so all that public spending and not counting private spending is achieving a poor result.
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  2340. It could , depends what type of Republic they choose, currently the head of state is the governor general representing the queen and the head of government is the prime minister just like all other commonwealth countries that still retain the Queen of Jamaica in this case to be the head of state. If a Republic is chosen along the lines of China, Russia, US, Venezuela etc. where the head of state is also the head of government and therefore no oversight the risk of dictatorship is far higher.
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  2341. Looking from the outside some of this stuff is pretty funny and other stuff scary. Waiting for him to rename the Pacific and Atlantic oceans to be the West American Ocean and East American Ocean.
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  2342.  @sandraheaton1084  You wanna bet on you assumptions? People in Australia became remarkably civic minded when the leaders of our country and states took it seriously, for the few left over fines and or a bit of prison time brought about near universal civic mindedness , they can put their frustrations on social media but tended to follow the rules. Prison time for serious or repeat offenders is a good idea because it tells the public we aren't mucking around. Small or non existent fines and mandated requests are only good in a very highly compliant society, public shame brings about high levels of compliance in these circumstances, that seems to have started in the US but too little too late and everyone including you is resigned to more failures and lot's of people are broke so don't care anymore.
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  2343.  @imathumb  The sad thing is when cases were about 500 per day in Victoria, I was thinking they might be doomed, I don't know if you followed things much but slow action and contact tracing was the reason not the headline reason of a single quarantine breach which has occured in other states and New Zealand without it getting out of control, but Victoria came back better than any other jurisdiction outside of mainland China after reaching such case numbers and getting them to 0 . Canada at the same time was below 400 cases a day I think, I was impressed with Canada and thought they had done it but seems they relaxed. I think it's extreme to constantly put entire populations into lockdown lite indefinitely and the number of deaths people in Europe and North America accept is terrible. Of course Canada is far better than the big neighbour but that's basically comparing arguably the worst practice in the world for a high income country. What is most harmful to mental health is uncertainty in my opinion, if people know the outcome they will do there best, of course Victorians at the time would have felt terrible because every other state open with very limited restrictions and everything open and they are in hard lockdown, but conversely they can see an end and what the end of the process looks like. I am of course talking of the majority because some will always disagree but if you were to ask those same people now other than the conspiracy theorists I thing they would acknowledge having everything open including the state borders was worth it and deaths were not as bad as they would otherwise be. Best of luck and take care, at least vaccines are on there way but a few months before any real effects I think.
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  2344.  @brianfretwell3886  it only takes one case to get in, I searched to see if it has been detected in Australia yet, couldn't find that answer but an interesting article popped up , Australia has maximum variants (largest number of different variants of concern detected by any country I think they mean). We genomic test every positive and if it's detected in Australia it's already spreading in Europe and US as a general rule, but in open borders countries a variant has to show it's worth because of all the competition.
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  2345.  @ianbcnp  I don't mind daver ok that much, at least he doesn't actually personally attack those with different opinions and as long as it isn't a screen name of a prime minister or president or something he does no harm in my opinion. His points are generally technically valid, however often like a positive test doesn't mean someone has the disease which is correct but completely irrelevant because people aren't being put on ventilators because of a positive pcr test, they get put on a ventilator because a medical person observes that they are dying, others are told or forced depends on the country to quarantine so they don't spread it if the person is still infectious.
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  2346. No we're fine, we are battle hardened and any quarantine breech is jumped on like the Adelaide cases.
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  2347. Myanmar has had 70 years of military dictatorship, they never at any point relinquished power completely, under the "democracy" for a few years they were autonomous with the defence minister must be military, it was a power sharing arrangement but they want to share no power so back to absolute dictatorship for now.
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  2348. Yes then I can join the Olympics because all the real athletes would be eliminated, I can run 100 m in maybe 15 seconds, better for the audience an extra 5 seconds , 10 seconds is too quick.
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  2349.  @SionynJones  The responses have been bipartisan in just about every country including the US when it comes down to it. The relaxed approach or mitigation policies of the US and most of Europe doesn't really have any opposition. Same can be said in containment countries in the Asian region. Different policies leading to currently very different outcomes. The countries with very large populations and lack of resources to respond effectively in containment haven't succeeded with containment but on a per capita basis have less deaths etc. than the alternative policy by far better of countries with plenty of resources.
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  2350. From what they know but no high value data on the matter both are greatly reduced so it's not for nothing and so far all the variants can't evade the vaccines but the vaccines are a little less effective on them
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  2351. In many respects Vegans and Vegetarians tend to have less deficiencies in wealthy nations because those groups deliberately watch their intake of certain nutrients, in average population less people do this.
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  2352. Even Americans don't know how each other think , hence the at times violent left and right wing mobs.
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  2353. You've also got to remember all exploration would have been shut or at a minimum on a go slow in 2020 and 2021 because prices too low.
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  2354. So Tucker Carlson is now clairvoyant or a time Traveller because the chart has the numbers for 2022. Good to know , maybe Fox News can advertise the fact that they can report news before it actually occurs.
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  2355. If the US reduced funding it would be unaffordable. Maintaining settlements in the West Bank is extremely expensive and only achieves anger.
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  2356. Put her in charge of Space Force so she can control the weather and start fires with the lazer satellites.
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  2357. How the hell did you get here, out of 181 total comments and I skimmed through every first comment so a bit less you are the only one to support Biden or in other words not support North Korea, Eritrea, Syria, Belarus and Russia. It's amazing who Fox viewers now identify with.
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  2358.  @CharlesvanDijk-ir6bl  Interesting, in Queensland it's 1.5m rule which I thought was standard throughout Australia but apparently not. With the legality of border restrictions/quarantine measures there is no argument actually about the interpretation of the constitution which actually has quarantine as one of the issues and Australia already has 20 quarantine zones give or take if you actually looked at every single agricultural quarantine area for every single plant and or fungus. In general it isn't enforced with personal use such as someone hopping on a plane and flying elsewhere in the country with a piece of fruit or a mushroom, it is however enforced very strongly on farmers etc. and they will know the rules in their industry. Quarantine zones of course can pop up in days of any outbreak with say anthrax for example an entire district will be immediately quarantined and all animals tested and destroyed if they have the bacteria. The question therefore is, is the quarantine measure reasonable and if they tried a blanket challenge against WA again I think they will lose , however if the challenge was I as a person in South East Queensland with no cases for sometime would be a high enough risk to refuse entry if I was willing to do 2 weeks quarantine because I want a holiday in Western Australia. WA can argue even with quarantine breaches have occured in VIC, NSW, QLD and WA itself and to produce perfect quarantine is a technical impossibility and any breach could lead to 100's of deaths like Victoria, the counter argument is the probability is so low and WA is being completely unreasonable, then up to the judges to decide if that's reasonable. So I think WA probably is a bit unreasonable but overall not and really who would want to be the judges that helped cause 100 deaths, they would have to be pretty much dead certain this can't occur to rule against WA. So the process will favour the state imposing the quarantine/restrictions.
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  2359.  @loveisthemostpowerfulforce1397  Have you read your second comment back to yourself, you are saying 99.9% of the time the virus has mutated in the US that strain has survived. If you meant people clearly you are way out maybe 20% infected and already more than 0.1% of the population dead. South Dakota has about 45% rural population so not that dense and the city not a big city and they already get to 0.17% of their population dead, either they are killing the city populations at a massive rate or have actually worked out an effective method of spreading the virus in a rural population. Any bad actors will study this state to find out how it achieved such a result arguably the worst jurisdiction in the world, even worse than Florida because it has big cities.
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  2360.  @brendaburns1016  People who planned what are to blame for what?
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  2361. Having watched many true crime documentary, it's probable the murderer was at the vigil. That's why the police recording the event in detail.
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  2362. Indirectly that's not beyond the realms of possibilities if pulling troops out of some area causes fighting to recommence.
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  2363. Shouldn't commit to never voting Republican again. You are calling for a 1 party state and that never ends well. Unfortunately some US jurisdictions are effectively 1 party rule and it's generally bad. It's not a problem unique to the US.
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  2364. @nancychandler367  I am Australian so doesn't affect me directly. Like it or not the US has effectively created a strict 2 party state and I understand and totally agree at your federal level the Republican party is terrible, applies in many US states also. How long it takes the federal Republican party to stop being crazy stupid, I don't know but it will happen one day.
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  2365. I am wondering if you are being sarcastic or not? Hard to tell given comments going around.
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  2366.  @r.a.6459  I was wondering what was happening in Malaysia because looking like how Victoria Australia was a couple of months ago. I hope your country can succeed especially because you were doing so well before. Best of luck and look at Victoria it is possible to turn it around, they went from about 500 cases per day to now around 15 cases per day. Best of luck and I wish your country well.
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  2367. Who is "we"? Trump lost the election so what are you talking about?
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  2368. There are no cases or so very few, mostly imported cases for a long time. They do have 2 vaccines I think with at least one in phase 3 trials. They have vaccinated some medical workers I think but phase 3 trials need to be done elsewhere where there are high infection rates. Australia has virtually no new cases but we only have 1 vaccine I think in phase 2 trials. Good thing is out of about 10 vaccines or so looking fairly good some will hopefully turn out to be really effective.
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  2369. Primarily age demographics and travel and entertainment patterns.
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  2370.  @samsmith962  Darren will be a supercomputer soon controlled by Microsoft.
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  2371. ​@hummingbirdg7361 I agree, just let him eat it.
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  2372.  @LundBrandon  Locking down 11,000,000 people and not allowing them to leave there apartments and then building a hospital in a week at emergency speed , seems pretty dangerous to me. Not sure where you get your information from Xi Jingping going to the area with a mask on indicated danger also , Trump seems to have been your adviser that you were listening to or even Fauci early on, Boris Johnson in the begining and Brazilian president the same and a few others. Maybe your country should have been looking at China and the government behaviour there and you wouldn't have any cases in your country now.
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  2373.  @I_SuperHiro_I  China I think you could call socialist has year on year economic growth and less socialist countries have to varying degrees economic collapse. So it's nothing to do with socialism.
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  2374. They shut down non urgent medical care because people were getting covid 19 in hospital and it was killing them. Unfortunately tens of thousands in the US died because of this. We will never know the number in the US because as a matter of policy such investigations were never carried out to even get a rough idea. We can however look at the statistics in nursing homes which is essentially the same thing.
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  2375. I think embarrassed given all the testing that goes on they were totally arrogant. They know nobody else has access to such resources but they still managed what would be considered a significant outbreak in many countries.
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  2376. It's an interesting plan, cut government services for the less well off and tax them more meanwhile cut taxes on the wealthy and corporations and run up government debt quickly. The fact about a third of eligible voters consider this a great plan is amazing.
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  2377. Can't see how liver failure would have anything to do with a vaccine.
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  2378. Prime example of gun rights in there current form being a stupid idea but majority of Americans support his right to have guns.
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  2379. Think of this quote " The government is afraid of the guns people have because they have to have control of the people at all times. Once you take away the guns you can do anything to the people. You give them an inch and they take a mile. I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. ......." That quote is from Timothy Mcveigh. I have seen Trump supporters paraphrase this over and over again and the rhetoric itself is remarkably similar to what Trump said at his rallies, "They are coming for your guns ... Joe is going to turn the US communist" So my question is why would Trump speak like Timothy Mcveigh, surely he knows this will anger gun owners who are paranoid. Add to that after the election telling them that they were cheated and the election was fraudulent and you get what we see.
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  2380. Looking at the thumbnail i thought this was about hairstyles. Only joking, however i as a middle aged man find this young lady very attractive.
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  2381. Is YouTube not Western? A very strange comment indeed.
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  2382. The first "official" conspiracy theories came from China on 12 March 2020 regarding Fort Detrick, Trump got into the act a few weeks later.
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  2383. Yesterday according to Australian government covid 19 dashboard 13 new cases coming into the country and need a negative test less than 72 hours before boarding plane in most cases. A plane flight somewhat direct from any point on the planet to any other point is a maximum of 24 hours, it takes days before a positive test result and symptoms will show after initial infection in most cases. 13 cases might not sound much but have to remember numbers of people coming in restricted because of hotel quarantine space, so it's out of maybe 2,000 people or so.
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  2384. No , you can say you hope they get voted out. Trump tried doing what you suggest actually but the military didn't go along with it, be thankful that is the case.
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  2385.  @cupcake125  Actually because it was the UK government taking action it could be because the UK won't do that regardless of which country the person is from, so if the person was Singaporean maybe the same, it's possible not relate to Canada at all , although I suspect same policy
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  2386. He's threatened all exporters to the US of steel and aluminium. Australia is in the fight now if Trump follows through and probably even if he doesn't boycotts of US products will start just like the Canadians and Mexicans are doing. Australia has a trade deficit with the US, so no idea what he's thinking threatening a blanket world wide tariff on something.
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  2387. A hospital is like a nursing home as in the virus can spread really quickly in such a setting, is sending at risk patients into a high risk setting a good idea? Obviously getting rid of covid 19 in the first place and then hospital care can be relatively normal is the best.
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  2388.  @RadhE-ug6on  Hope you don't blame Queensland as the origin lol.
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  2389. I am Australian so certainly doesn't apply in my country at any time, this is a cruel point but likely. I bet you gun sales up up year on year last month , there is a proportion of the US population whenever they become afraid they buy more guns, gun sales are like the main street version of the VIX ( volatility index for stock markets)
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  2390. Every body dies after having a vaccine because nobody is immortal and you don't vaccinate dead people. So far no evidence that any vaccines have caused people to die, strangely enough people in there 80s and 90s die quite often so just by random chance hundreds are dying around the world within days of getting a vaccine.
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  2391. It's already spreading in the US unfortunately.
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  2392.  @anthecrawford3957  Queensland was in the middle for strictness before but this time we announced border closure quicker than NZ and WA I think, wasn't quite as bad as other times at least gave 24 hours notice I think it was.
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  2393. Tested with a pin prick or swab up the nose?
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  2394. It's a minority but yeah a bit embarrassing.
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  2395. You have double the vaccination rate of Russia and that helps, however watch out for summer , it gets hot there and people congregate indoors and watch Mississippi one of the worst per capita death tolls in the world and they have one of the lowest vaccination rate in your country.
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  2396.  @deniseg-hill1730  I haven't heard the comment yet in the video but what you describe is normal. No truly rural area has town water anywhere in the world. You must either drill a bore or a rain water tank. If a town centre has 2,000 people or so then it should have town water.
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  2397. For those saying the US gov should cut spending, you are correct however that's not really the plan. The plan is likely to be to cut welfare payments only, that's about it. Musks own car business isn't intended to compete in an open market in the US and Trump is the main advocate of absolute protection against imports. But will subsidies directly given to US buyers to purchase electric vehicles disappear. Well Trump seems silent on the matter. Is there a plan for the government to pay market prices for medicines, apparently not. Is there a plan to privatise education loans so bankers won't put people into ridiculous debts, apparently not and that is sort of a government expense because some people die with a loan guaranteed by the government. So don't believe Elon when he says he wants to cut expenses except at the very margins.
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  2398.  @johnwang9914  In short you are saying the Western Pacific WHO region policy is the right one, for all member countries that is the policy , 14 days mandatory enforced (usually hotel) quarantine, no matter which country someone comes from. Philippines has done the worst but less than 10% of deaths per capita compared to US and most of Western Europe.
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  2399. There is another explanation people are not considering. The prison operators who are often private have an incentive to look after their prisoners. More sick people , more costs, more dead people, less prisoners. I would imagine that most contracts would have a payment for prisoner numbers.
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  2400. Oh well party in summer and lockdown in winter might be the new norm.
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  2401. They do have that right in Colorado, so in the case of Colorado clearly not many.
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  2402. I hope wherever you are now you are happy.
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  2403.  @tongobong1  Listen to a Trump rally, he certainly is a socialist handing out money to farmers and medical companies at the moment. He isn't a communist but definitely a socialist. A socialist isn't against all capitalism or visa versa. The majority of all people and all but one country who is high income agree with the "socialist" universal healthcare. I am Australian and we object to the socialist agricultural subsidies of the US because they effect us.
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  2404. I have to say it, do you mean people like Trump, he is fat and old?
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  2405. I would like from Thailand because they are at a tipping point and looking like will lose control with current outbreak. My girlfriend in Thailand so personal interest also.
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  2406. There's completely different rules of engagement, do you think militia groups will keep records like the military and video records?
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  2407.  @jeffreyjordan9650  No because every case is genomic tested and it would have shown up at some point in time. Maybe they only do one a household now because no point if a house is full of infected people.
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  2408.  @JP-ks9nh  After vaccination it appears not that bad otherwise New South Wales was looking at 15,000 deaths, that's a conservative estimate using a lower rate per million than most European and Americas countries. Yes 15,000 deaths and other healthcare suspended is significant.
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  2409.  @melmorrison1400  No I just look at places with comparable demographics to Australia and preferably comparable weather which actually doesn't seem to play a major part. Take Florida it would be somewhat comparable to my state Queensland, warm weather and not highly variable (almost everyone live near the coast). They have deaths per million approaching 2,000 and they have rolled out vaccines far quicker than us , so no reason we couldn't have had a similar or a higher death rate, we aren't genetically superior or something. I look on worldometer which seems pretty reliable and the open border countries with minimal restrictions in PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO regions mostly have deaths between about 1,500 per million and 2,500 per million. If you look at Western Pacific WHO region the deaths are less than 10% per Capita compared to those other regions, actions make a difference and at the regional WHO offices policies seem to be highly consistent between member countries especially border quarantine or no quarantine. The Delta variant every country now struggling, China, Vietnam, Australia but never struggled before. China has a reasonable vaccination rate but given the size of the population things can go very bad very quickly, the policy of testing entire city populations can't really be done anymore because have 30 cities or so with outbreaks. The good thing though is populations at least partly vaccinated except for Vietnam with a very low vaccination rate.
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  2410.  @sudhirchopde3334  not a bad saying, interestingly no problems like that in Australia, the states have decided to use there powers and keep ignoring the federal governments request that borders stay open more often than they do. Eg. outbreak involving 5 cases most states will immediately shut border with that state or part of a state. Most of the population supports our state leaders because we don't want any unreasonable risk of infections coming in and locking us down.
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  2411. They're blowing everything up and I can understand why little Marco is stressed, he's been put in charge of seizing the Panama canal. He might not be around much longer the Panamanian's aren't exactly going to hand it over, they might partner with China for protection and I don't blame them.
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  2412.  @Me-ou5tc  what have you been smoking the US spread the virus to every state and territory, not a single county in the entire country without a case. To this day voluntary self isolation for international arrivals. The US did nothing of consequence to this day other than vaccine creation. Edit: misread your comment, sorry about that ignore my tone above.
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  2413. So are you suggesting 1800 deaths per million so far in Sweden is the best? How about South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand with deaths in the few hundred per million? Also China doesn't have the Swedish healthcare system so maybe over 2,000 deaths per million so far in China had they adopted the Swedish policy or 2.5 million dead people. The problem is about getting elderly people in China vaccinated, those countries I mentioned that are all open now with minimal restrictions had vaccination rates above 90% double dose, China's elderly population if reported correctly aren't even close.
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  2414. Have to be careful and basically put tariffs on things that won't effect business. So for example can as you say put extra taxes on internet entertainment services and any food imports like cherries for example when it's northern hemisphere season. Shouldn't put tariffs on things like mining or heavy agricultural equipment of which the US produces some of the best products. Trump's tariffs will be ill considered blanket tariffs but the countries retaliating will only put tariffs on goods they can buy elsewhere. Basically Trump's trade war puts the US at a big disadvantage because he doesn't care about US companies especially those that need to import certain goods including manufacturers.
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  2415. Let's think your parents or grandparents generation, a world war, does this really compare to that and they turned out ok? I don't doubt what you say where you are but a lockdown with food on the table isn't exactly bad compared to what many people in the world are going through right now or last year, homicides were up in the US last year which has a homicide rate 6 times that of Australia based on 2019. Australia is great but not perfect and I agree with another comment in this thread the self harm is from other issues, we have it so good in Australia it's not because of the harsh conditions.
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  2416. Check the transmission rates of HIV in the US versus Australia, it worked. In fact the current issue is quite a good parallel.
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  2417. I was thinking that media outside and inside the US don't really know what's happening inside the US and even if they do the internal US media is about as biased towards their favoured political party as NK State TV.
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  2418. Well 100 were invited to one of the "business meetings" and only 30 showed up, seems to me in that instance 70 seemed to know it wasn't proper.
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  2419.  @davidjohnpaul333  Border quarantine is every containment countries Achilles heel. China, Taiwan, Singapore, NZ we all have the same issues.
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  2420. A US cultural phenomenon where it's ok to kill others when you suicide, the more the better and you get your 15 minutes of infamy posthumously.
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  2421. Not a problem Ebola is much easier to trace and can't spread so easy because everyone gets very sick. Also people listen more when something has a circa 50 % mortality rate.
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  2422. You must have seen a different video, quite a few obese people in the video I watched, this is not to say nobody is hungry at all but starving population certainly isn't the case.
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  2423. The "red list" of countries if you look at the UK government it's truly bizarre. All of North America and Europe not on it and only UAE in the Middle East. Must be they all did a good job at containment of covid 19 not to get on Santa's naughty list.
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  2424. Hey Katie you by your own definition are not Jewish. If we carry out a simple calculation there can only be somewhere between 100 and 10,000 Jewish people on the planet.
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  2425. The Astrazeneca vaccine is produced in many countries, you can add Australia, China and US to the list and there are more than just those countries.
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  2426. Well pop down to Coles or Woolies the plain brand aluminum foil sells for 10c a metre hopefully that'll protect ya. Let's hope Bill Gates hasn't put chips in the foil.
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  2427. Full lockdown containment and elimination is best if a country can achieve it, however for most places and densely populated slums it's impossible to get there now most likely because the populations will just riot.
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  2428. It's about European trade with West Pacific and Asia. Supply chains are global so if a ship with just a single component needed for a major good like a mobile phone or computer is held up, that can cause major problems. The oil price is global so anything affecting it will cause an effect here. The price of petrol in Brisbane is $1.67 generally and at at least one place probably several on Sunshine Coast $1.25 . The petrol prices these days are very much based on location. You remove tax and the original cost of oil from my above pricing it's an incredible difference.
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  2429. He shouldn't say it , should be we are doing everything we can to try and ensure its the last lockdown. If some new variant evades vaccines and spreads around killing people of course back to lockdown. This scenario not impossible but hopefully unlikely.
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  2430. A few tariffs on a few steel items and a few others 104 items in total , is a trade war. The US put tariffs on 35,000 items but not a real issue? Seems a little inconsistent.
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  2431. I think how they use it now is if it shows up ignore it but keep checking that it doesn't dramatically increase at that collection point or nearby.
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  2432. Some of you have said has it always been there under the surface and the answer is of course, look at any dictatorship in history but especially Japan and Germany because we all know them from WWII , think how those populations behaved with probably 90% support. In other words only a small minority of us are capable of withstanding brainwashing, you will never know you are that way unless you become brainwashed but at some point realise that was the case and consider yourself stupid which is psychologically very hard. So vast majority have it in us, stress and having no control over something is apparently a precursor for believing in conspiracy theories, so for many covid 19 has reinforced there support for and belief in Trump.
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  2433. No loop holes in Australia, depending on a court case whether all our restrictions are legal.
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  2434. @Chris Koczka looking from Australia it's interesting and disturbing at the same time. The US has become so polarized, I doubt that these things are occurring in Australia to anywhere near the same extent. It's hard to see how the US will change course at the moment. Of course I hope it does.
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  2435. Those issues are unrelated. A large amount of homelessness in any wealthy country is people with mental health and or addiction problems. So offering free healthcare would help to some extent in the US. Free healthcare however needs to be run properly and cost effectively. The Republicans and Democrats are against this idea for now and in that context $40 Billion doesn't go very far.
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  2436. I have never heard Trump apologise. It's just not a thing.
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  2437. You look young and healthy so on a personal level you'll be fine almost certainly.
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  2438. If what this clip suggests is true, it's time for the US to change it's constitution regarding federal elections so that all voters regardless of state are treated equally. Also that electoral college votes are distributed in the same way noting a few states go on proportionality but most states go on winner takes all , proportionality is far more fair.
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  2439. If this officer and other attending officers were trained properly and taught that then it could make a significant difference to the charges.
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  2440. Australia, Singapore and New Zealand are already free market trading countries with numerous free trade agreements. The only region you mention that Australia doesn't have a free trade agreement with is the EU. The EU other than internally isn't really a strong proponent of free trade.
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  2441. Opening at the same time is for fairness.
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  2442. Why should they do such a silly thing?
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  2443. Not fair for bigger countries, Queensland with the same population of Singapore and New Zealand has done better in my opinion. Proud Queenslander.
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  2444.  @fionalorimer4127  the main thing the legislation does is prevent rich people ignoring the ban, 99% of people in India currently would have no hope of bypassing the ban but if you have money you can find a way, private jet comes to mind if really have money or private yacht or a group could charter a plane.
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  2445. You may not like it but they are the government. Change the government. Democracy doesn't prohibit government from doing anything along these lines, however they normally don't act in such a politically divisive manner.
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  2446. Dr Who is good. Yes it's all blown out of proportion and just like Dan Andrews getting criticism over the tennis , much of the public are out with knives against our politicians even though they have done an excellent job regarding covid 19 so far. Only a handful of nations have been as successful.
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  2447. He said could be wrong, one has to be wrong because contradictory. He is going with his gut that a larger data sample might be more accurate.
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  2448.  @alanjm1234  Nothing to do with the quarantine issue actually , it's all about contact tracing, QLD , NSW , SA and NZ all had quarantine breaches if you look internationally same for Japan, South Korea , Vietnam and Thailand. A quarantine breach is any cases entering the population. The contact tracing is fixed in Victoria big time, 2,500 people still employed according to Dan Andrews in press conference yesterday or day before. The original relaxed approach of Victoria was problematic with nothing more than a $100 fine compared to prison time in other states. $100 if I am the sort of person to break rules I don't care, prison I think twice.
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  2449. You do realise that the nitrogen fertilizer is generally made from natural gas right? Apparently they have worked out a way of doing it with electricity but it's probably far more expensive otherwise conventional plants would be shutting down.
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  2450.  @Hoss-ro5cd  no there's a balance, yes the US should be less interventionist, in this case they intervene with the UN stopping even a statement and continue to supply weapons and moral support to anything Israel does.
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  2451. China has a higher vaccination rate compared to other low case countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Japan , Australia and New Zealand, but none of us anywhere near being able to open up, that's next year maybe if variants don't outrun the vaccines and those vaccinated now remain somewhat immune. So lots of buts ifs and maybes.
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  2452. Only to a very limited degree regarding a country like China. Chinese wages aren't that low any more by world standards so production of high Labor low cost goods is moving elsewhere. I am Australian and we believe in free trade. So we have access to cheaper goods. Is it really in the interests of the US to effectively ban Chinese made vehicles as an example. I am not in the market for one but if I was I would buy a $20,000 USD BYD electric vehicle over a Tesla.
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  2453.  @cerebrix  I think it's about subtlety and nuance, Dr John is sort of saying that doesn't really work now given how transmissible this variant is. He isn't advocating while infected to not care and put others at risk. I think he could have said that if such a decision is made to increase ones risk that they should be vaccinated first, unfortunately antivaxxers will read this as a good idea to get infected and unfortunately some might/will die.
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  2454. Mostly rode the China wave. We are opposite to USA , China is our biggest export market (iron ore , coal and agricultural commodity mostly) and by far biggest trading partner. The US doesn't really sell anything to China just import stuff, a change is afoot but only minor so far, a tax put on Australian feed barley exports and US given preferred supplier status by China within 2 days of each other. In other words China has to stop imports from more competitive country to get more US imports in, I am guessing not only Australia. So Trump has achieved something with the trade deal but of course means others lose.
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  2455. It's pretty hard politically to kill your own population and save the lives of people in other countries. The Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is the best as in it is produced in many countries at low cost. It's unfortunate that free travel was valued above life and this would appear to be the regional approaches by WHO . PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO region had this policy and the results speak for themselves. Western Pacific WHO region has quarantine for people entering the country and the worst performing country the Philippines has about 10% of the death rate of US. If you want to say there is evil which is a bit too strong then you should be saying the Americas and Europe are evil, both rich and poor countries because they both did the same.
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  2456. Actually what you just said is what the polls are saying. The likely vote for Biden is far greater than his approval rating.
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  2457.  @snapon666  Strange thing is in the US they vote against universal healthcare and end up paying more taxes for it. The cost of public healthcare in the US is higher than many rich countries universal healthcare.
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  2458. Has Ireland annoyed Russia or China recently?
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  2459. @Foul Gerbil abandon local police because in many cases they are not viable and can't possibly have accountability. 18,000 separate police forces. That's probably more than the rest of the world combined. Maybe Trump can use that, more police forces than the rest of the planet he is strong on law and order and it wouldn't be a lie. Go to a state based system like Australia, I wouldn't trust my local government to have police. In the US maybe big city can but need one rule and by state should work.
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  2460. The comments refer to those who can be vaccinated not those who can't which is an extremely small number anyway.
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  2461.  @pnhnut  the problem is many antivaxxers lie so people are suspicious, try not to take it personally and think from their perspective and also consider those who lie because they are the reason behind the problem you experience.
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  2462. It applies to any Republic where the President is the leader of the government and the head of state. In other words a person who has been given absolute power. A parliamentary system is better because the head of state and head of government are different people and the head of government can be removed in a matter of minutes by a majority of his or her party parliamentarians.
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  2463. Not entirely, Tesla is international and gets subsidies in various ways in many other countries.
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  2464. Although it would have been better if Iran didn't start enriching Uranium to 20% , it's a bit rich for the US to say anything, they are saying for the moment at least Trump is gone and there is a new president however no change in policy actually, the US uses it's superpower status to even ignore it's allies for the time being and complains about a country not following a deal that no longer exists because the US broke the deal. The US needs to regain some credibility and this doesn't help.
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  2465. You must be in NSW or VIC, other states had exactly the same policy as NZ the whole time. I am in Queensland and it's true the language was a little less direct but the policy was certainly the same.
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  2466.  @tillykelp9744  Victoria and NSW both agreed with the federal government on open borders and opening up more quickly compared to Queensland. To be fair the quicker opening up in both states actually didn't cause the problem, other than some nursing home in NSW but it just indicates level of caution. Both Premiers had some well chosen words along with the PM about our Premier. For about 6 months the open the border pressure applied to QLD was relentless, it only stopped when Clive Palmer lost his high court case about gaining entry to WA. Victoria only had one big failure and that was contact tracing and being slow to lockdown when the problem was growing, NSW kept having quarantine breeches but somehow got away with it for the most part and had excellent contact tracing. I am not really critical of any of our leaders, combined including the federal government who obviously agreed to the Western Pacific WHO region approach with quarantine at the border. We are all doing well now , that is every state and our country region as a whole. Any election in Australia over the next year at least the incumbent government will win because overall even if not perfect people are happy with the results. One thing I give a lot of credit to Dan Andrews is going in front of the cameras every single day during the second very tough lockdown and reading out the case and death numbers, very few leaders in the world did anything like that.
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  2467. Nothing to do with genetics.
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  2468. It's a pity the Republicans in your state stopped even signatures being checked on postal votes until after the election concluded, this would have sped things up a bit. It's also unfortunate the USPS run by Trump couldn't guarantee timely delivery of mail, because it meant the court decided 3 days extension was reasonable under the circumstances. It's not likely those votes will be needed anyway for a Biden win which is a good thing because it will remove all doubt of any significant impropriety. Of course individuals from both parties will commit individual cases of fraud and that's unfortunate and impossible to stop, can only try to catch them if they do it.
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  2469. They are not contradictory, many well educated people join cults for example and in the rest of their life they are entirely normal. If polls are correct then 50 million adult Americans believe Trump won the election and they can't all be stupid it's statistically impossible.
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  2470. I remember playing that game many years ago, I liked building heaps of airports to watch all the planes crashing.
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  2471. If they are Muslims don't tell the Americans it will just be another Qanon conspiracy theory.
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  2472.  @Larissa-of3qt  that's a great response lol
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  2473.  @awaleahmed8698  It's taken a while but I think Victoria will get rid of it and you will be permitted to rejoin the rest of Australia. Good to here you personally didn't get it. Hang in there with the lockdown it should be reduced soon unless a major out outbreak.
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  2474. I hope you can make it home to Australia soon if that's what you want. You look young and fit so the virus itself shouldn't be a problem for you even if you unfortunately get it. Best of luck.
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  2475.  @chiefrocka680  The measures taken to get to where Victoria is now had 70% support according to polling. The statement about mask wearing in Australia is misleading, it would be more accurate to say masks have been worn in Australia when required. Of course Victorians were angry because contact tracing failed so every other state opened up and they went into hard lockdown. If Victoria was inside the US with the current political climate they couldn't have got to where they are. Being Australia meant Victorians for the most part could see the light at the end of the tunnel. 36 cases of community transmission in Australia in the last week most of which were in Victoria and a couple in New South Wales, all other states had no cases other than imported cases. Quarantine breaches will continue to occur because impossible to stop that, but if vigilant and caught early can contain and get to 0 again as Australia and a few other countries have experienced.
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  2476. @Boch Gole Fair enough compare to Hawaii an island with less than one third of the population of New Zealand and 8 times the death toll that's a fair comparison, can use Alaska or Puerto Rico also if you think the Hawaiian government was particularly bad. Can choose any mainland state. It doesn't matter how you compare NZ it's done well. I in Australia and our worst performing state will soon be equivalent to your best performing state on a per capita basis because it seems almost eradicated in Victoria now.
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  2477.  @mikealbert2527  don't know the number of Chinese that travelled to New Zealand but over 800 imported cases of the virus which is close to double the imported cases in Taiwan. It's all relative and the per capita importations of the virus would be higher in Australia and New Zealand than the US, the virus is truly home grown in the US, not a single state in the US has imposed 14 days mandatory hotel quarantine supervised by the government so don't say anywhere in the US took the same measures, California was stupid for keeping it's border open to other states without restrictions and just imposing restrictions internally. All but one Australian state border was shut as hard if not harder than the US / Canada border.
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  2478.  @danielw.8356  Compare to any West Pacific nation you choose from China to New Zealand and all in between, the US has performed very poorly.
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  2479.  Paolo G  One thing you are not fair to compare death rates directly when small numbers, we could compare QLD to New Zealand and New Zealand looks terrible and much more community spread, it's whether or not can get it under control and contain any outbreaks, so even Victoria as you know had some serious failures but now hopefully has it under control, same basic stories in South Korea and Vietnam and can happen in Queensland or New Zealand again because absolute perfect quarantine measures are impossible , New Zealand just had a breach with a port worker but looks like contained almost immediately.
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  2480.  @beentheredonethatoriginals5673  well why didn't Hawaii , Alaska and Puerto Rico do the same as New Zealand then if it's so simple? They don't compare well to New Zealand or Australia or Indonesia or actually every ASEAN plus Australasian plus East Asian country. Pick whatever country you want.
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  2481. @Boch Gole One strong candidate vaccine is being developed in Australia by university of Queensland it's in phase 2 trails so a little slower than some of the overseas ones from China , US and Europe but it's not so urgent in my region in general as it is in the Americas or Europe. Sometimes the quickest isn't the best and the population of Australia plus New Zealand is only 30,000,000 so of course on a per capita basis one would expect on average less than 10% of the breakthroughs would occur here versus the US that's just normal.
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  2482.  @tomterrific9459  the problem with the term socialism is it's such a broad term. If you look up 5 different website definitions you will get approximately 5 different versions. A good social welfare safety net isn't contradictory to a highly capitalist society. If you look at the social welfare safety net of Australia and New Zealand it seems better overall compared to the US, many think that this means we are socialist compared to the US , however to give one example we spend less on publically funded healthcare, so that doesn't make sense , spending more tax money on public healthcare would mean leaning further towards socialist in my opinion. Some people the ideology seems to override common sense , no way would I want to be forced to buy private healthcare because I don't trust my public healthcare that much and I have to pay extra tax for that. Private health insurance in Australia gives some extras in some cases and shorter waiting times if it's elective surgery like say a hip replacement. There are several factors why the US health system is expensive but the socialist concept is less of an effect than other issues. I know from Joe Biden and previously Obama what they aim to do is bring in universal healthcare by small increments because going directly to that can't get voted in favour of. Extremely strong resistance to the government being the single buyer of drugs and other pharmaceuticals. Sorry if I rambled a bit.
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  2483.  @knight9925  no mandates have found to be unconstitutional anywhere in the world, you must be an alien or deluded.
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  2484.  @knight9925  All military personnel must be vaccinated by whatever vaccination is required. Veterans weren't fighting against vaccines at all , that's just absurd and currently military as I said are highly vaccinated. The test in the courts will be about if a particular measure is reasonable not the constitutionality of mandates in general, so it's possible a particular measure might be seen as unreasonable. Governments being able to govern will remain intact.
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  2485. Because there's always a surge in one state or another in the US, I bet you in November or so when it's getting quite cool and vaccines wearing off to some extent there will be a surge in the North East of US.
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  2486. Elon is probably right about the capital amount being a big exaggeration. Why does he bother to point it out i don't know because his cutting $2 Trillion in spending is a ridiculous exaggeration also. Government deficits are likely to increase further as they did under Trump's first regime.
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  2487.  @isorokuyamamoto8423  Nothing to gain out of retaliation unless it had an effect, China will likely keep trade sanctions on Australia for a long time if not indefinitely, best to just ignore it in actions but still object verbally unless something else occured like China invading another country or being any more agressive in the South China Sea. The CPC is popular in China now in general terms because even if 600,000,000 living on $5 per day as indicated by the CPC itself last year it's about trajectory, getting $5 a day better than over 20 years ago you might starve and now your children get to go to school which was not the case previously in the poorer regions which is why much of the adult Uyghur population couldn't speak or literate in Chinese for example (ignoring other issues there). As long as China keeps that trajectory things will be ok and relatively stable. The US on the other hand although getting wealthier and actually less disparity between rich and poor than China is for the average person going backwards as they see it which makes the US unstable to an extent like we saw on January 6 and the BLM protests last year with city blocks on fire, that wouldn't be possible if there wasn't a high level of discontent and the language about beating China does verge on at China's expense rather than China will do better but we will still do better than them, in other words negative rather than positive rhetoric. If China was to go backwards and the US continues to decline socially due to government disfunction it's not good for the rest of us because they will not only take it out on each other but somewhat on other countries also and can be crossfire with trade etc.
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  2488. That's only the UK and the ONS number is the real number based off death certificates, no idea why they do the 28 day thing because it only causes confusion and or scepticism.
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  2489. I can only tick 2 of those boxes but I probably already had the virus and to some extent maybe I am lucky because I am 47 but not the healthiest lifestyle. I am not overweight which I think is the biggest risk factor directly or indirectly and not too old which is the number 1 risk factor.
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  2490. It will depend if the virus gets eradicated country by country or the vaccines don't work and New variants keep evading them, only time will tell. Countries with no cases aren't going to stop quarantine any time soon, need full population vaccinated first. Maybe they will relax quarantine a little, shorten the days or something and or home quarantine instead of hotel if it turns out can do that. High case countries will open more quickly and never really closed to start with.
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  2491. Not sure if you use the same term over there but alcoholic drinks are often in six packs, maybe whoever made the decision was having a few beers purely for research purposes and came up with the idea when they went to the fridge to grab the next 6 pack , but thought ok , rule of six because six pack could be called sick pack too easily. That's my theory and I am sure you agree it makes a lot of sense.
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  2492. Totally expected because older people vaccinated first and a 70 year old vaccinated person is equal to a 30 year old unvaccinated. If you're over 80 even when vaccinated you are still relatively high risk. People below 18 almost never die vaccinated or not and there's a lot of these cases recently.
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  2493. @Miapet Dragon  on your last point I 100% agree. Here in Australia in the states but not territories there will be active euthanasia laws in place by the end of this year. Most states already it's the law but waiting for a couple more. If you live in a state that doesn't have euthanasia laws if you have the financial ability consider moving. Best of luck and hope things go as well as they can given the circumstances.
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  2494.  @cynsini9211  4 March was the original inauguration date, so there is always an element of truth. I think you guys should get rid of all the official waiting time stuff, to quote Trump it's the 21st century things should be quicker. You could have got rid of him quicker. There is no traveling for weeks on foot and horse to reach Washington DC, do like other countries once the result is known new mob comes in and between the election and a result being known no legislation to be passed but it's only a fairly short period normally.
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  2495.  @greenbrain8725  I would suggest they are hangers on, take Trump away and even the modern MAGA supporters don't care, they will crash and burn. I say modern MAGA because it's a slogan originally from Reagan and that was mostly not the same.
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  2496. Jeffr I know exactly what Fauci did because I can compare it to the Australian messaging. Our messaging was we don't want people to run out and buy masks because they are needed for healthcare workers, when Australia's chief health officer was asked further details about the decision he explained that if people wear masks and become complacent about social distancing it could make things worse so this is part of the decision. We were advised if we are sick to wear a mask but otherwise not. Fauci and Australia's chief health officer had the same information. For whatever reason he did the same thing to Birx and either cut them both slack or condemn both of them, my feeling is under the circumstances they did the best they could noting Fauci and Redfield along with the rest but particularly them can be considered absolutely negligent or incompetent from the January February debacle where only 500 tests were conducted versus 10,000 for Australia and 100,000 for South Korea and on February 26 Fauci was asked why the US had so few cases [relative to Asian countries] and he said because the US had great healthcare and the contact tracing was working well. He never investigated otherwise Australia having 15 cases detected with other countries like South Korea a few more and Japan , Thailand, Malaysia all similar to Australia and the US 15 cases also. The probability of this being correct is about 0%. Obviously we all missed cases back then but you would find Australia probably detected 50% and the US 10% of cases if that noting the US population is about 15 times that of Australia. Those percentage just example nobody really knows except that Italy and US had the worst early performance.
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  2497.  @hurmur9528  Certainly India's official deaths and cases are significantly undercounted but it's unlikely that they are undercounted enough at this time to have a per capita death toll like that of Sweden, 10,000 deaths per day right now from covid 19 in India is an entirely reasonable guess. It's true Sweden has certain things that made handling the pandemic easier and not so bad in overall performance compared to other like minded countries. Being fairly socialist country with high government spending to GDP and a good government balance sheet with good public sector healthcare and a good social welfare safety net. The thing is though with such a good starting position to handle such an event Sweden has not performed well at all, you even sort of stated it regarding India and how much better Sweden's healthcare is to start with. The approach by WHO region made the most difference actually up to now but this might change in the case of South East Asian WHO region (South Asia plus a some ASEAN countries) took a middle of the road approach overall. Undeniably at this point in time Western Pacific WHO region has outperformed all others, Philippines is the worst in that WHO region and is at about one eighth of Sweden in per capita deaths.
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  2498. The US has never shut the border to anywhere as long as US citizen and no hotel quarantine, so no change in policy so far, talk about enforcement of self quarantine but not going to happen in my opinion and can still stay in a house with others while in self quarantine, pretty pointless actually, Australia, New Zealand etc. can't prevent occasional quarantine breeches at hotels so impossible people live together and nobody gets the virus.
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  2499.  @Thephilpw99  What's your comment got to do with anything, Australia did well too handling covid 19 and American for the most part don't hate us for it.
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  2500. Nah don't do that, just ignore them or speak something back , violence is certainly not the answer.
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  2501. Cover up? The police footage is in the international media, hardly a cover up.
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  2502.  @cjg1532  what a silly comment, our bodies were made to live to an expected age of 40 without modern medicine, that was life expectancy 100 years ago. That life expectancy hadn't changed all that much for 1000 years but with antibiotics, vaccines and modern farming it doubled.
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  2503.  @tg2535  How was Trump fair to the 500,000 dead from covid 19 and associated issues under his watch?
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  2504. That is not what was said. Only thing said 79 reviews. Certain incidents would be reviewed automatically I would think but really depends on that police department policy. When there is 0 cases of reviews in a high crime area that's when people should be concerned.
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  2505.  @NinaSaneHFX  black and white supremacy don't really exist, it's an ideology. Powerful people have power over less powerful people and some abuse that and some of those do so along racial lines. So you can say it exists on a localised level if you want.
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  2506. Looking on besides the excessive punishments and parole denials I don't think prisoners should be working in private enterprise, should be for public things like maintaining parks or schools or whatever, Looking after public assets, not effectively providing super reliable private employees who can't leave under threat of punishment.
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  2507. I have looked through the first 50 comments or so, only one had anything to do with the clip and that was to do with the US welfare state of Israel. US people don't seem to know what's happening in the world or even the stark difference between Trump and Biden. Many countries are thinking we got our ally back again , particularly 5 eyes nations and NATO.
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  2508. Distancing and 2 masks isn't complete safety, the risks indoors for example can never go to 0, maybe it's less than 1% but if what is standard 1 person per 4 square metres in a room with 50 people and bad circulation for 2 hours, if 5 were infected that would be a very high risk setting masks or not.
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  2509. After literally more than 1 year of Trump misinformation you really don't understand the purpose?
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  2510. The biggest problem is it wasn't designed as a commercial vehicle. A commercial vehicle should be low cost and highly functional. But it's been built as a show off vehicle and expensive, way out of the range for genuine commercial use.
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  2511. In response to most comments in this thread, do 2 wrongs make a right? Burning down city blocks and the January 6 insurrection were both really bad and not condemned by the side they came from, do any of you agree or is your violent mob somehow superior?
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  2512. As an outside observer they aren't as bad as Fox but yes still bad. In the places that had BLM riots that should have been called out for what it was not "mostly peaceful protestors". Not all BLM protests were violent, 1 thing that surprised me was Alabama and Mississippi were actually peaceful protests and I expected the opposite given the history of that part of the country.
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  2513. Silly question, they don't have to , they prefer to stay in the dark.
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  2514. It's not.
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  2515. Well all the scientific and medical personal in the WHO seemed to be European and Americans, why do you think that the Europeans and US loved their open borders so much because it's upon their own advice quite possibly the advice of the regional WHO offices, because all in the Western Pacific Region of WHO 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine for entry, every country I think from China down to New Zealand including about half the ASEAN countries, so be sure to blame the correct people in the WHO.
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  2516. Depends which state you are in, can't generalize Australia. Australia has NSW which is completely open with extremely minor mandates (mask wearing indoors in some places) to WA which is still locked away and Covid 0.
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  2517. That's what I have thought, the allegation is China is far superior and chose to first have it spread in their own country and allow it to spread to others directly even killing their own citizens so they can kill others. Doesn't make much sense to me. How about China stuffed up initially and the US stuffed up initially also and has continuing ongoing stuff ups, that makes more sense.
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  2518. The problem is if infection rates are high hospitals can't function properly and can actually become an area the virus spreads killing the already sick. Applies to lots of other issues also. Containment is best however , next best is probably something like Sweden however that might not work in a big country because of lower compliance with rules and completely free travel. People in the US are literally making the virus spread more quickly people holiday in low restriction states and bring the virus back to their own states because no travel restrictions. The US is almost a perfect model of how to ensure the virus continues to spread with lockdowns that can't achieve much because of no travel restrictions. A biological war protagonists dream.
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  2519. The "crazies" can't be ignored, hopefully they are monitored. Many say even on platforms like this that they will start a civil war. Now places like this because it's public will get monitored but as we know the most successful terrorists aren't usually public and in your country weapons are more freely available than healthcare. I wish your country the best and hope it doesn't happen.
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  2520.  @jutau  I am dinosaur, but now work out how to slow video down and seems not Asian , at normal speed can't tell
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  2521.  @019208237  The US is using bird names, they don't want their states to have tarnished names I think, a bit like China. Search Covid 19 Pelican variant and you will see.
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  2522. That was the age of the electric babysitter (tv). That was certainly an issue for some.
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  2523. Australian should be a little nervous, even Western Australia and Queensland keep borders open this time so far. First time I think of an unknown outbreak and certain borders don't shut quickly even for the known local area of infection. I think Australia will be fine but it only takes a few cases spread to a few states and half the country will be on lockdown for a bit.
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  2524. Unfortunately it's the same in every country on earth that a normal person can't challenge a government, however I expect the deportation order to stand.
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  2525.  @aylbdrmadison1051  Hey I am guessing you are from the US and in some states or with some people not wearing a mask has been a signal of protest against the state government and a show of support for Trump. Trump is not a conservative first of all and outside of the US or at least in Australia the health response to the virus has not been political at all as in side of politics other than minor disagreements about restrictions. I would consider myself conservative and if it was a requirement in my state of Queensland to wear a mask I would. I was ill many months ago most likely with covid19 and the federal government said if you are sick wear a mask and I did along with making sure I spend minimal time buying groceries so that whatever I had was not infecting others. At the time to get a test was virtually if you aren't a healthcare worker or about to die of something then no test and I didn't think I had that particular virus but in retrospect looking at my symptoms I almost definitely did. Ok back to the main point it's not about political beliefs left versus right and from other comments I see you make i know you are definitely going through a hard time and are a bit angry. Hang in there and stay safe and if you want to be angry consider who to be angry with. Take care and I think you will be ok.
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  2526.  @jayd.b.9729  If you think getting pneumonia from covid 19 is a comorbidity then there's no convincing you of anything. According to the CDC 6% of death certificates had nothing on them other than covid 19. Edit: of death certificates involving covid 19. Happy now?
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  2527. Probably not as different as you think. Does your mum eat junk food daily and over 50% of her diet is that food. This is the average for a US citizen now. Diet is the number 1 issue including intake of alcohol , drugs and tobacco. My guess your mum doesn't do these things , maybe alcohol in moderation that's it.
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  2528. I am not going to be some loving agreement comment, what a load of crap. Yes NSW has problems , mostly because they went to 0 restrictions and back to restrictions. Deaths are low and given what you are referring to is only 1 month how on earth is it effecting things so much. Get over yourself everything is open in your state including the international border. If you were in any jurisdiction in the US or UK with a large city there would be a minimum of about 13,000 deaths based on NSW population. Best of luck to you even though you don't need it because Australia has a life expectancy at least 5 years greater than the US and 2 years for UK.
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  2529.  @bigfletch8  What's your comment even supposed to mean.
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  2530. If you've seen the whole clip the very first thing Zelensky did at that meeting was say thankyou.
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  2531. It's a small minority but that small minority can do a lot of damage, especially in Sydney because the virus widespread there already so likely had infected protestors spreading it to each other who will on average disregard other restrictions much more than others.
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  2532. Conservative is the opposite of radical. So radicals like the fellow in the clip are smart, could have fooled me.
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  2533. I think he might have used a forged document or something. Of course it was going to be checked and the doctors contacted.
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  2534.  @piconano  Might not be perfect in every way but Australia overall and every state in the end has done a good job on Covid 19. History will repeat itself, those that took the strictest measures will recover more quickly , like the American states that did better during the Spanish flu. Don't know where Canada fits on the spectrum, maybe somewhere in the middle.
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  2535. A typical margin for a mass retailer is 2 to 3%, a typical margin for mass manufacturing especially of low end goods might reach 5%. Even if manufacturers and retailers wanted to absorb tariffs unless those tariffs are well below the margins it's a technical impossibility. I don't know what MAGA people think these companies margins are but clearly MAGA people are delusional.
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  2536. The social security thing is just a data base of everyone who received social security, nothing to do with whether they are still receiving any money.
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  2537.  @soinmeditation3310  I agree with you
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  2538.  @M9dq76  There is a thing called quarantine, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan all have no cases just occasionally a quarantine breach , of course it's not normal and difficult to have high numbers of people, only repatriation . After vaccines available maybe if they are as effective as suggested then no need for or can reduce requirements for 14 days hotel quarantine.
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  2539. The US is more like Europe in its entirety, John put many of the worst performing European countries. The US has some states where the state government is doing nothing and letting the virus run out of control and others that have kept doing something since day 1. So the US is probably very much the same as Europe and same open border policy with no enforced quarantine in most if not all European countries.
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  2540. @chantal995  I know and that's sort of why I am saying Canada and Mexico should have an independent trade deal.
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  2541.  @IamJohnCullen  We already have worldwide data about the numbers of deaths if a country does lockdown lite and open borders, PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO region fit into this category and deaths have been an average of 0.2% of entire population. In the Western Pacific region of WHO we have deaths around 0.02% of total population (excluding China which would make the number lower) on average with border quarantine and other restrictions. So look at the results , of course if nothing is done then it's much bigger problem.
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  2542.  @IamJohnCullen  So you're suggesting the entire Western Pacific region of WHO got together all 28 countries from Mongolia to New Zealand geographically plus some protectorates and territories and decided that we wanted Malaysia, The Philippines and Fiji to look bad and the rest of us look good. It had nothing to do with border controls and hard lockdowns for the purpose of eradication? This would be the most amazing collusion in the history of mankind, do you really believe China and Australia would lie on behalf of each other, China has said indirectly that Australia is the enemy? Do you really think Australia would lie about China's success considering we called for the WHO investigation into the origins of SARS covi2 and China at the level of government hasn't had a single interaction with Australia since that time. Now let's assume you are correct how on earth would our entire WHO region hide everything from the rest of the world? How could Australian, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan in particular stop the entire medical community and media from telling the truth? Just think about it for a few minutes and consider same actions and similar results within the 3 WHO regions I mentioned.
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  2543. Well they're down to only 656 deaths per day in the latest CDC 7 days moving average. Near enough is good enough I guess.
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  2544.  @Midwit_Madness  it doesn't work like that, are you going to participate in the economy and risk killing grandma or alternatively do you think this is a great time to expand business. If hospitals fill up are you ok with just letting them die on the sidewalk because it would affect the economy to put restrictions in place. If you answer yes to all 3 I hope you aren't an investor.
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  2545. Guessing he meant historically although anything on Fox difficult to know, we have the ex president and Tucker on team Russia.
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  2546.  @TiqueO6  thanks for telling me what 4th estate means. Now after a couple of searches I understand the Canadian 5th estate tv show naming. I had no idea what it was and just thought weird name. In Australia I have never heard of these "Estates" . Seems it might be North American language only if in English, my search indicated some French origins also.
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  2547.  @yoshipham1941  which white people, you are guilty of what you accuse of others. Not all white people around the entire planet are completely ignorant , so your comment is a very ignorant one on the scale of your allegation.
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  2548.  @tinypuff5217  So what do you call a light skinned Asian of unknown origin? You said there is a word for it. I do know there is a word for foreigner but who does that get used for? So Farang means white person regardless of country of origin, so a Russian and a South American and a South African and a US person and a European from Europe and an Australian all Farang if have light skin? So we are all the same to a Thai. I know that and that's the point.
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  2549.  @gingerbreed3  No need to be sorry, in reality every country does the same but to differing extents, can be large differences by region etc, city versus rural for example.
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  2550. The comment thread doesn't recognize history, what the US in particular but UK and France as well did 60 years ago China is now doing. It's history that shapes the fears of those countries already burnt and of course there is a difference England was the country to stop international slave trade against the US as it was at the time who complied quickly and the Spanish who wanted to keep it. To give a stark example would it be ok for China to reinstitute the international slave trade? Well China isn't doing that but is pretty close to behaviour of US and some European countries fairly recently which ceased 20 plus years ago.
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  2551. HIV falls into the description of such a virus, there are many other sexually transmitted infections that also do and they might kill some and with HPV for example some get cancer and die other virus no symptoms for some people but they might become infertile. So what is your actual point other than different people are affected differently?
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  2552. Austin Texas has never hit 120 Fahrenheit according to a quick search which is 49 Celcius. So quite rare as in never recorded.
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  2553. For certain goods yes but for certain goods the US and Canada are stuck with each other, especially steel, aluminium and oil ( due to current infrastructure). It's like Australia and China with iron ore, our trade in that product is around 85% of Australian export of that product and about 60% of China's import of that product. Of course over a 10 year period countries might be able to change such arrangements but it's not like finished goods or agricultural products where it's just a matter of changing a shipping destination.
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  2554. The value of Tesla is based on corruption premium, I have seen that in another country where I outperformed the market at the time by ignoring the corruption premium and buying other companies based on intrinsic value.
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  2555. Banknotes would actually be fairly high risk because they don't see much UV light and stay humid in men's pockets at least, the temperature would reduce the half life survival though. This could also be good news for Australian and New Zealand chilled foods because very low risk compared to our competitors for certain chilled but not frozen meat or seafood. Any outbreak costs governments millions of dollars to contain so reducing all risks can be worth it.
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  2556. They are given approximately proportional equal time, possibly more time on the Israel side, one side 7 deaths, one side 16 times as many deaths so I would expect 16 times the coverage.
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  2557. Cruel but probably true.
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  2558. So Republican Party are progressives? I am not American so please explain this to me as I thought some members of the Democratic Party were considered progressives.
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  2559. It's a 4 minutes clip. You are asking why isn't this a 2 hour documentary explaining the history and problems with Ukraine since being post Soviet Union. Well the answer to that is my original sentence.
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  2560. The worst thing about Patel is he will use up resources on witch hunts and there'll be a lot of people resigning or being fired who won't go along with the agenda. The FBI will then be less effective at what they are supposed to be doing.
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  2561. Free media interviewing someone on the very same government owned media organization a real propaganda media CGTN often uses for clips. Seems like you don't believe in balance because you are happy when the story on this very outlet says something that agrees with China's position. I have followed CGTN for 6 months and have yet to see a story either critical of the CPC in any way or acknowledging that any country other than China has ever done anything good, not a single positive story around the entire world.
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  2562.  @neutrino78x  the state might be blue but the voters in agricultural areas regardless of state voted red.
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  2563. I think he has good chance because apparently the majority of votes left are in cities and mail in votes. Or at least they are about even with 36% left to count.
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  2564. Australia wasn't perfect, however a hundred times better than most of Europe and the US. Also depends which state one was in the 2 big states had basically all the big stuff ups. I am in Queensland and we did pretty well.
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  2565. China is 50 years behind wealthy countries in most things, look at development of Taiwan, South Korea and Japan under different models , I certainly know which one I wouldn't pick.
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  2566. The talk about sugar in this thread I disagree with. The problem with concentrated high levels of sugar is highly available to the body so converted almost entirely to usable energy unlike more complex carbohydrates that are contained in a vegetable where the body must first break through the protein protecting the inner cell in the case if it's uncooked and then break that carbohydrate down to sugar. But the biggest issue is the desirability an 11 ounce or 330 ml can of cola is equal to about 450 gm or a pound of cabbage. I can tell you eating 450 gm of cabbage is a bit more effort than drinking that can of soft drink but approximately same energy content but my body will take hours most likely digesting that cabbage even though half the energy is sugar just the same as the sugar in the soft drink. My body will expend a certain amount of energy digesting the cabbage so the net energy will be lower but the soft drink sugar goes into my blood at a rapid rate within minutes of me drinking it. If one truly wants low sugar you shouldn't cook food because that creates sugars, cooked cabbage would have a higher percentage of sugars. The desirability of cola as my example is the problem along with how easy it is to consume or in other words too easy to have too much but inherently the sugar is the same as that in a fruit or vegetable. Fruit juices with 10% sugar like apple are pretty much as bad as soft drink, same high energy and just as easy to consume which people don't realise because we or at least me thought it was healthy from years of subtle brainwashing.
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  2567. The big deal is we might have a border open soon and as far as students go think of the ones that spent a year away from the University they are studying at, nothing to do with what you're talking about and there will be courses or particular areas of studies that might not be available at those Singapore universities. People who do it for prestige go to US or UK usually.
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  2568.  @gojb1998  It's sort of an unfair system, foreign paying students can get into Australian university with a lower standard than Australians. Not sure how much that applies now but previously if you are foreign and pay you are in pretty much.
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  2569. LOL I am from the Eastern province of North Korea Queensland, good to hear our strict Western province is fine. How are your covid restriction violator convicts?, we only have one in our province and I guess near end or finished term. Truth is majority of our populations feel sorry for Victorians who have less problems than most of US and UK.
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  2570.  @taffshep1  I am not in Western Australia but know the rules so to speak. I don't know exactly but with transportation of goods the companies doing that would have rules. To get to Western Australia from Victoria have to pass through another state which has none or next to no cases. Some is luck though because quarantine breaches did occur in Western Australia but people not infected. I just looked at the West Australian government website and seems they have no intention of opening border any time soon. Maybe when all the rest of Australia 0 cases they will.
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  2571.  @taffshep1  You have been watching Fox News or CNN too much and assuming you are from the UK you are peaceful like us and don't forget it. If you are American just stay away from big cities if you can.
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  2572.  @michaelwilliams3861  Don't complain about it. That's good for now then.
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  2573.  @helloitsme1158  You can go to Tasmania freely now and we coming into summer so not just cold and wet. If you live in certain areas you can come to some areas of QLD. It works both ways though. As a Queenslander it looks like South Australia plus Tasmania and Northern Territory are our travel bubble without the costly and annoying hotel quarantine. So 3 states plus a territory have open borders lol. I wish New South Wales well in joining the free states soon. Victoria and Western Australia are going to be hard for different reasons.
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  2574. Jews , Christians and Muslims all worship the same one true God. Note I am not religious but I know it's the same god.
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  2575. If you are driving there, drive safely and wear a seatbelt because that's your highest risk of injury. Seatbelts do increase the risk of being drowned if your car was to end up in a river so be aware of that increased risk along with others , the seatbelt reduces your chance of death by 100 fold but increases it in certain rare circumstances. Like a vaccine really but the possible increased risk of certain events by a vaccine seem rather smaller than the seatbelt. So don't worry you will be fine.
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  2576.  @mail2vw  you're comment is strange, if they are sending the full 60,000,000 doses to India which I doubt could it be something to do with the 1,000s of daily deaths?
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  2577.  Xandrew Xandrew  We do criticise all , Australia is openly calling for an end to the death penalty for example, China , USA and Iran are the countries that like to kill their citizens so clearly we are free to speak and do.
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  2578.  Xandrew Xandrew  We haven't sanctioned anyone, China has sanctioned Australia. Edit: clearly talk against China isn't cheap, even having a free media is considered an offence against China , it was actually listed as a grievance the unfavorable reporting of Australian media to China, yet on a daily basis our media reports unfavourably on own own governments both state and federal.
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  2579.  Xandrew Xandrew  Australia actually takes a quiet approach generally and sticks to our region, for the most part if the issue is further away than ASEAN or East Asia we don't get involved at all, however we do support the US and follow them into any major conflict regardless where it might be. The whole world and all countries including your beloved China have bias in who they criticise. China as you would be aware criticises Australia more than the US , a definite bias in favour of the US.
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  2580. Hope you are doing ok and making some sort of recovery. Take care and best of luck.
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  2581. Sounds like you're talking about the US which isn't highly capitalist. Outside of the financial sector and payments associated with covid 19 lockdowns Australia will let any company fail and there's no bankruptcy protection law, an administrator goes in and sells any assets and then pays as much liabilities as they can and that's it.
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  2582. Last time I had raisin bran in Australia maybe 30 years ago it was toasted unsweetened bran flakes and raisins not sugar coated. If they've been Americanized now I don't know but I would hope not.
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  2583. On the Australian health website it publishes the imported case numbers for the last 7 days. Also just quickly search news on the matter because all cases of community transmission are national news, the US it's become news only if it's a high level politician or Trump associate, the news picks 1 case out of the 2,000 deaths for the day.
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  2584.  老人香港  in local media I can assure you that we criticise each other, Trump was considering applying his trade war on Australia, that wasn't reported favourably in Australia, we have a deficit with the US so that probably helped and we weren't hit with anything. With the thermal coal issue it may not be what we think and even with metallurgical coal, China produces a vast amount of coal, it might have just been simple protectionism to support Chinese coal producers not doing so well, there is a glut of thermal coal worldwide with many mines running at a loss, no reason Chinese mines wouldn't be in the same position, so could be to push the internal price up a little and also other diplomatic purposes for example signing some deal with Indonesia. So I don't put coal in the same basket as barley, wine, lobsters etc. which has nothing to do with protectionism as far as I can tell.
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  2585. In America anything is possible, so maybe. In Australia I think much less likely but not impossible when it comes time for that for us.
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  2586. There are rich areas and people in African countries too , just like any country.
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  2587. They actually do, the reason for eggs being the most expensive in the world in the US is actually the same reason healthcare costs are the highest in the world. Pro price gouging governments of both major US parties is the reason.
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  2588. While Ebola is much less deadly due to it being much easier to contain, I find the information you provided interesting. The US failed like Europe in the beginning, but now looking like they will come out better in the end just like Canada which got off to a bad start. I am from Australia and we had great start, but now one state having problems. It's so easy to fail , in a month one undetected case can turn into thousands.
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  2589. Deaths are only up 10% or so, 90% would have died anyway. Reading comments though one would think it was opposite way around.
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  2590. It's only 6 stocks in the S&P 500 that moved the market, if not for them the market would be way lower.
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  2591. Your comment cracked me up, normally anyone describing those symptoms would be asking if they might need to go to hospital.
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  2592. The headline is terrible and misleading, nothing was resumed due to pressure, they stuck to the schedule and compassionate flights the government pays, we already had compassionate flight/s from India in January or February and now they crying racism. China loves this , they say we are all racist and now have the BBC supporting their cause which is to cause disharmony.
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  2593.  @carletouk  Be careful what you wish for and have a look at directly elected presidents. Although I actually voted for Australia to be a Republic in 1997 I think it was , (the model was to just change the name of the governor general position and remove the monarchy) I would even be cautious doing that now and if anywhere on the ballot it mentioned direct election and or a change of government operation I would vote no. So I guess I am a soft monarchist now.
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  2594.  @nickymcauley3589  there is none , it's not over 3 weeks of significant cases. Could be worse or better no way to know yet.
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  2595. Teenagers or not much older wandering around armed and talking about possible insurrection doesn't sound that funny to me.
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  2596.  @OnyxLynx6  Did you know the Everglades were drained or at least an attempt was made by introducing an Australian plant Melaleuca or paperbark or whatever you refer to it as. Sometimes draining the swamp doesn't go so well and it's considered a terrible weed now. Another species from Australia I think has had mixed results the Rupertuos Murdochas that created Fox along with an international chain of conservative media. Just be careful next time you consider draining a swamp, maybe the method is worse than the swamp itself.
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  2597. If true that Biden has stated something to the effect as said here that he's against Brexit that's no good, Brexit was a democratic action and to speak anything regarding it now as a world leader is to not accept or to undermine democracy.
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  2598. Lol the Chinese government propaganda machine CGTN investigated themselves, ok it's all good then.
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  2599.  @DJCayne  Rich countries can from a technical perspective contain the virus and so can some middle income countries. However politically it seems impossible in many countries, I am from Australia and 2 cases of community transmission last 24 hours. If you look at the broader region East Asia plus ASEAN plus Australasia which has over 2 billion population and I think approaching 1.5 million cases , so not even 1 in 1,000 getting it so far. If there is no effective vaccine we might have a sort of segregated world for a while. Some ASEAN countries look like they probably can't contain it and 2 might fall into that position because of political disruptions.
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  2600.  @DJCayne  Most if not all countries in my region have enforced 14 day quarantine for any arrivals including interstate in Australia's case if there is an outbreak. Usually hotel quarantine but I think some might allow at home but still enforced. Contact tracing is international here if an arrival tests positive then the country they came from will be notified. In the case of a potential risk heading to another state or country they will be informed like a cargo ship when someone has tested positive and the person removed but the ship continues on the destination to give an example will test the crew prior to arrival, I have a feeling one jurisdiction does this as a matter of routine. You can never contain a virus if you keep letting it in with nothing more than voluntary quarantine as is practiced throughout Europe and the US, up to now anyway, a couple of jurisdictions in Europe I think are considering border restrictions for example Wales in the UK and maybe Republic of Ireland, have to see what they do next.
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  2601. Says the person with an account opened today.
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  2602. Here in Australia it was made very clear in the beginning we wouldn't be able to contain it and we prepared with at least 2 field hospitals built and plans for a temporary morgue and field hospital in Sydney. But when we found actually we could contain it and that became the policy. In my state of Queensland with 5,000,000 we have had around 300 cases of transmission inside our state. Border restrictions from other states put in place fairly early on and we did build one of the field hospitals. My observation at the time of the US is why aren't all the US states without any problems preparing to deal with the cases considering in NY there are refrigerated trucks outside the hospitals. Did they think it wouldn't affect them? What were governor's of other states thinking?
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  2603.  @Opinionsrnotfacts574  I am not I am an observer from Australia, I understand from a technical level Trump's support but from an emotional level I think how can people be so callous, because I think once he lied to people, indirectly but intentionally killing his own constituents, that should Trump everything else except maybe a communist which Joe Biden isn't and as I stated appears actually to be to the right of Trump, he certainly is more fiscally conservative if nothing else.
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  2604. Rather telling. A normal response would be of course there will be a peaceful transfer of power if the other guy wins don't be ridiculous. This doesn't however mean legal challenges , recounts and increased scrutinization won't occur if the results are close.
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  2605. Democracy Now is similar and on YouTube also.
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  2606. Forget about water Australia still has states and a decent population. The irony of your statement is you are suggesting as a country you are more afraid to close/strong restrictions an international border than Australia states between each other. Over the last year there have been more internal border disputes in Australia than in the EU. How is it Prime Ministers or Presidents so scared to do anything?
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  2607. He actually did say that but I am unsure when.
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  2608. Lol
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  2609. Surprises me too about the age thing. What surprises me is in the US and Canada dual citizens are allowed to be politicians and secretaries/ministers. How can those countries know which country one is loyal to.
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  2610.  @ryand7828  Australia has many states with different approaches. Victoria and New South Wales were the more relaxed approaches first time round compared to other Australian states which they both criticized particularly my state Queensland. Victoria has gone quiet on the issue and NSW has decided border restrictions are a good idea all of a sudden.
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  2611. Rudi had a lot of orange make up. His bodyguard type looking people also had make-up but only one went with orange.
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  2612. Yes and no, depends which country, in Australia the universities are allowing encampments in the US they are cracking down in all universities it seems. So the US students are risking much more. The US seems only second to Israel in crushing any dissent regarding this issue.
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  2613. Is there even evidence you can get covid 19 by eating it? Can get from breathing it in or through the eyes but unlikely to survive being eaten unless you have a cut or something in your mouth.
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  2614. That's probably a good thing, the construction should be very sturdy.
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  2615. The Jan6ers might very well become vigilantes hunting down illegal immigrants. If i was a legal or illegal immigrant in the US i would be afraid of these people.
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  2616. I wouldn't take too much offence. The term first world originally meant opposed the Soviet Union and it's allies which were second world and all other countries 3rd world. It's true the US doesn't look outside their own country for inspiration much. Compared to other 1st world countries they are at the bottom in many respects. You mentioned life expectancy, check the life expectancy in Alabama or Mississippi and compare to your country, you might be surprised. The US is diverse with some states having high standards and others low.
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  2617. You can but it will only be symbolic, it can't achieve anything.
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  2618. First of all you don't lockdown everyone , that would be silly, you prevent it from spreading to the entire country. It's got nothing to do with population size, in fact take closing an airport as an example, one person gives an order that's it, so it's the exact same job whether the city has 500,000 people or 10,000,000, same applies to closing a road or a factory or whatever, you only need a ratio of people to do what needs doing, that ratio doesn't get exponentially bigger it probably gets smaller.
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  2619. The second a political leader or political party becomes arrogant and populist the game is over. The best approach has been if politicians keep people in a realistic level of fear and then they will overwhelmingly comply with directions and enforcement is possible if required. Take care of yourself and your family and friends the best you can. It's unfortunate you are in many ways like certain areas of the US or other Americas countries and to a lesser extent other European countries.
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  2620. I think building military bases in the South China Sea after saying you wouldn't and putting trade sanctions on Australia noting grievances such as unfavorable media reporting by Australian media and calling for an investigation into the origins of covid in the WHO could be considered highly agressive , maybe not assertive you are right actually.
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  2621. I remember after joining the Australian army having it explained about how vaccinating was so important and how battles and wars historically had been lost due to disease.
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  2622. In 4 years time the US government debt will likely be $45-50 Trillion. I don't believe either political party will fix that. The free market will however at some point in time and it will be painful. I think the main reason nothing has happened yet is because the USD is the main reserve currency of the world.
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  2623. Well looking through the first 50 comments or so the BBC got one thing right , a lot of angry Dutch people. Calm down the UK isn't about to invade you, just a news story which obviously you think was done poorly.
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  2624. This is not correct, the entire population must go through re education for the purposes of learning Chinese and to stop extremism , nothing to do with whether a person had committed a crime. I remember seeing an interview and a person's mother who was a communist party member and a teacher was still sent to a re education camp. So it appears like mandatory 1 year prison which it is regardless of the reason.
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  2625. The Republicans are half right. The US is in trouble, the only reason nothing bad has happened yet is because USD is the major reserve currency in the world. Taxing the poor more with tariffs and cutting welfare handouts, medical , food stamps etc. isn't the answer. The answer is to tax corporations at an appropriate rate and stop corporate welfare mostly in pharmaceuticals and healthcare and agriculture.
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  2626.  @bicanoo_magic3452  SARS 1 was far more deadly and therefore easier to contract trace because everyone gets sick and 10% died. Covi sars2 this current disease only kills about 1% give or take and half the people getting sick it can be like a mild flu, so you can continue to work and spread the disease. Another point I just checked 'cause I thought I might be crazy, sars1 was in 2003 so what Obama had to do with that I am uncertain.
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  2627.  @bicanoo_magic3452  Your first comment gives us Aussies a bad name. Your second comment you are correct in some of your statement, but completely wrong about CDC US and WHO, we never had enough cases until recently to have data on the issue, we rely 100% on their information. Australia and US did exactly the same things at the same time til mid March. We got serious closing state borders and all international borders with compulsory quarantine. The US now still haven't done any of that. Interestingly Canada is now where we are because of Victoria's failures. Canada started bad but not as bad as US but now same to Australia. Without border closures internally we might be in the same situation as US because of Victoria. The actions in the US in the beginning were complete failures when towards the end of February the US had discovered the same number of cases as Australia, clearly they were totally inept at that point because they certainly had more cases than Australia. Please compare Australia with Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and NZ, we all successful so far but not without problems in Australia, Japan and South Korea.
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  2628.  @larryfroot  yes the 147 was the last published number of average daily deaths over the previous 7 days for the UK based on death certificates not that died within 28 days thing which no other country uses. The UK is at 2,100 deaths per million and US at 2,400 deaths per million now according to worldometer. The gap though is likely to keep getting wider because there's no evidence that the unvaccinated in the US will change their minds without being forced to and doesn't look like that can go much further. The numbers are crazy in both countries, I am from Queensland Australia which is still a covid 0 state but borders opening soon so pretty scary.
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  2629. In most countries that occurred.
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  2630.  Johnny Appleseed  What's wrong with you, talking about the roll out of the vaccine which is not being done very well. The UK in a similarly disastrous situation due to extremely similar policies is at least doing this part better than the US.
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  2631. The pre eminent Q representatives are actually female. They are spearheading this.
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  2632. If Israel is any indication , it's more likely it stays flat , however the Indian variant is still an unknown as far as vaccines go because no large infection rate in countries with good data on vaccinations. John indicated it's doubling every 2 weeks in the UK but that might be misleading because of the 10 days of mass movement from India to UK without quarantine.
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  2633. Take care and get a vaccine if you haven't already.
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  2634.  @markgriff9053  2 points Hunter Biden isn't running for president and Trump is a known liar so maybe he's the boy who cried wolf so can't have pity on him. That's my view from afar.
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  2635. They are Australian so it's not their neighbourhood being burnt to the ground etc. It means have less personal emotions involved and same applies to me. Thank goodness my country is in a better position at this moment in time.
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  2636. Really?, So ASEAN can say goodbye to the South China Sea.
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  2637.  @greatasia606  It won't , China will be contained.
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  2638. Well the UK has just changed direction, they are going for elimination but not calling it that.
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  2639.  @toby9999  the opening up isn't that quick and every week over 1% of the population gets vaccinated which is likely to accelerate. I give them a reasonable chance of elimination if the time line is stuck to.
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  2640.  @athel7764  I watched some of the riot clips from the US and I can assure you it was equal opportunity on both sides, didn't matter who owned a business and all races except maybe Asian or just too few to notice , didn't see them participating , getting involved in the free stuff.
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  2641. @marlo2853  what are you smoking, Trump got about 33% of the vote from eligible voters. However add in those who didn't care and didn't vote it's a bit below your 70%. Yes they voted for tariffs and an economic downturn hurting lower income individuals disproportionately. That was a silly thing to do.
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  2642.  @roshelltannen9698  I am not black or American and I agree extremely offensive. To say to any group is extremely offensive and is to coerce in a way. I saw a black Republican congressman, I think he was, talking on the issue. He said he has been called Oreo on occasion I think for being Republican and is the same thing. People should not do this.
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  2643. I would say Australian but slightly modified by Israeli accent I guess.
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  2644. It's tough for you guys with lockdown again after last year but at least the deaths both in NSW and VIC are extremely low if you compare to the US. I am in Brisbane and so far so good but it doesn't take much to lose control with Delta. Best of luck and hoping we see cases come down shortly in the affected cities as the weather warms up.
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  2645.  @qjtvaddict  What rubbish, Australia and New Zealand , virus free other than imported cases and the occasional quarantine breach. We speak English in this part of the world too.
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  2646. Based on history absolutely pointless because both UK and Canada already have it and will not contain it, UK might be ok with vaccination rates but with Canada it's battle ground for the variants.
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  2647. It can't be worse than the US president running around holding covid 19 spreader events
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  2648. Yeah maybe call them the developing southern territory, calling the US a province would be too polite.
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  2649. It applies to both sides and will be ignored.
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  2650.  @clarejohnson9265  a localised partial lockdown that encourages people to travel from infected areas to areas of low infection is perfect. The virus could not have thought of that, let's boost the spread. Maybe they could actually name the policy " increase the spread to share the burden".
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  2651. What pandemic, I am in Queensland Australia, we are unaware of this situation. My calendar has been stuck on 21 February 2020, no pandemic has come come here mate. Caveat , border opening soon to enforced self isolation only no formalized monitored quarantine, a bit scary for us mob here watching everyone else and realizing we're probably next.
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  2652. The emergency use is about time. They can't say for certain no long term or rare effects because not enough time, also they don't know how long the effects will remain, maybe 8 months need another shot.
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  2653.  Mdmchannel  yeah on eBay off the looters. Still the rioters on foot have to run a lot. They will need new sneakers.
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  2654. The reason for saying what the US/NATO is not doing is so that Russia can't run false propaganda so easily. One of the stated reasons for this war is basically have to attack first or NATO will attack. Unfortunately Russia does however have access to Tucker Carlson s show and runs his propaganda with honest translation and no editing.
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  2655. It's cheaper to just give the vaccine out than a laboratory confirmed antibody test I would think.
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  2656. Your comment is remarkably similar to Australian politicians about us opening up and "living with covid" , "we need to push through and it will be hard and deaths are going to happen" paraphrased. The number 1 thing is that the community or country is united, even to this day I believe that Australia and Sweden although very different responses and somewhat different circumstances the vast majority support our country's response, the US unfortunately it's probably still below 50% despite a significant government change.
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  2657.  @jamesflaherty9250  The US as a whole is now 7th worst country for deaths per capita from covid 19 in the world for a country of more than 1 million people and you are correct the UK is slightly worse , which until a month ago ran an identical policy to the US even down to keeping the US and UK borders completely open with voluntary quarantine. Not much has changed other than the UK will have hotel quarantine for some countries now and the US still 100% self isolation policy for overseas arrivals , however Biden says says people might get fines or something one day. A partial quarantine scheme full of holes of course can never be successful. If you are proud of being 7th worst at this point in time noting it's not over well I guess your standards are not the same as mine.
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  2658.  @stucumins8511  Read what I said 6 months of less strict lockdown in Victoria, one of 2 states with cases complaining about the rest of us closing our borders. The lockdown to end the lockdown in Victoria for 3 months in the end was stricter than all other lockdowns in Australia because the virus was out of control then at 500 cases per day. WA had intrastate travel restrictions enforced by police during it's first lockdown and Victoria an open border whinging about Queensland with it's border policy , the initial lockdowns are just not comparable. Victoria to it's credit did the best comeback outside of Wuhan, so far being the only jurisdiction in the world to have about 80 cases per million people per day and getting it to elimination.
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  2659. I think he was implying that.
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  2660. @Cameron C no I watch CGTN a Chinese propaganda channel and communicate with CPC followers on that channel and often on DW these people talk freely. How do I know that they are Chinese , because of what they say and the consistency, I also am aware of the exaggeration on the western side, sometimes intentional and sometimes not. The methods used by Trump and CPC quite often are identical as this report claims , that is to provide conspiracy theories to the public through official channels while not actually making the claims directly.
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  2661. I would think eventually yes. Because Pfizer and Moderna are very expensive when other cheap candidates are available you will probably be able to choose them because governments even though sometimes they seem like it are not money pits. So you buy them yourself.
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  2662.  @LynnS-gd8wq  then they can get the J+J shot if that's their concern.
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  2663. They might actually move more production there because exports can still exist. With the US when Trump starts tariffing the entire world the US will be isolated.
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  2664.  @iwonalenik2547  If you're not making things up the test is now in reality to find out who doesn't have the virus yet because over 50% are positive.
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  2665. Wang why do you want to annoy people, do you like China to be hated? Of course you are correct but why do you want to provoke people, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore all have about the same results due to following the Western Pacific WHO region plan which was 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine for all arrivals, other countries although not completely successful like Japan, South Korea and the Philippines still only about 10% of death per Capita compared to the poorly performing regions. If it wasn't planned it's a truly remarkable coincidence that literally 150 countries in the different WHO regions all followed the same response, in PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region and European WHO region it was 10 days voluntary quarantine and they all got same results.
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  2666. The cheapest meat in the world is fish, so from a monetary perspective it's the right way to go.
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  2667. You take care.
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  2668.  @emd3271  most people don't get gunned down even in mass shootings in the US which has the highest rate by far in a wealthy country and most people don't die from terrorist attacks, however those 2 things I just mentioned why bother doing anything it affects less than 10% of the people affected by covid 19 so far yet I bet you are totally ok with having police. If you are a US citizen yes you accept deaths easier because your homicide rate is around 5 times that of all wealthy countries except Canada which is about a third of the rate. You accept compared to Australia that you will pay more for publicly funded healthcare yet have a 5 year lower life expectancy. So it's true people from different countries have different expectations and certain countries , in particular the US accept a low standard compared to it's peers of other rich countries. I don't know where you are from but in part your view is probably formed from your personal experience.
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  2669.  @emd3271  which country are you from?
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  2670.  @emd3271  anyway you take it easy.
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  2671. Why do you care? If you look at the US population about 80% have co-morbidities. 69% are overweight and anyone over 70 has health issues of some sort, that's what happens when you get old. The healthy and genuinely fit population is really small.
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  2672. That's not the issue. Only in the US do they have these time wasting activities and it achieves nothing. The US has the lowest life expectancy of a high income country. Clearly your observation of what the problem is is incorrect. Choosing ministers from the pool of elected representatives is the standard way it works outside of the US and it seems to work better than one person the president choosing who ever they want.
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  2673. Adams used identical language to Trump about being a victim of the Biden administration. They are bedfellows.
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  2674. France has these protests just like the US quite often, so they develope a sort of standard operating procedure which tends to be one size fits all.
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  2675.  @statikskynl  based on your response pretty sure you will be fine.
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  2676. That's good to see, it's the only possible way to keep things under control and hopefully eliminate from at least some areas if not all.
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  2677. So you support tariffs? You must be rich and it won't affect you.
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  2678. In response to the responses, ok compare South East Queensland similar climate to Florida (also nicknamed the Sunshine State) population around 4 million in a 50km by 200km corridor versus around 21 million in the entire state of Florida, deaths adjusted to Florida population, Queensland 40 deaths Florida 45,000 deaths. Ok yeah right , Florida has done a great job. It's true shouldn't compare to Canada because of the weather, better to get a jurisdiction with the same weather and similar demographics.
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  2679. So you don't believe the US should have a border. Interesting perspective and a rapid change of position based on your tone. Stop all restrictions at the Mexican border is what you are calling for, mandated that foreigner must be vaccinated should end right. Why stop there if you think there should be no rules just open that Mexican border completely.
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  2680. Reduces chances of spread because fewer get sick and for a shorter time, not eliminate it. It's like wearing a seatbelt in a car it's doesn't save everyone but most people agree that wearing seatbelts is a good idea don't they.
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  2681. Yes it was a Reagan ad and Make America Great Again was a Reagan slogan, I think what it became would have him turning over in his grave but he would be ok with this pro Biden ad and can rest in peace now. Search for the morning in america ad you should be able to find it.
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  2682. Wrong flag
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  2683. Well Australia as the country that has opened up with it there's no intention to stop it, it's either Chinese style lockdowns which aren't acceptable in any country outside of China except maybe North Korea or let it spread with as few restrictions as possible. It's still early days but say Australia and Singapore will be able to live with it soon, have to accept some will of course die but society has to continue. Singapore did try to open up fully a month or 2 ago but then put restrictions back in, I just checked, they still don't let Australians or anyone I am guessing but they did for a brief period. Watch this space.
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  2684.  @matildam6354  if you test positive you stay home and reduce spread.
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  2685. Same everywhere.
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  2686.  @jonaseggen2230  I have observed during this global event a lot of people don't understand that they lack empathy and want a one size fits all simple one action solution. I am Australian and have noticed some Australian people saying the most bizarre things. They think that you can just put another countries policy here because in their mind they have done better. Even you point out hang on a minute I don't want Sweden's policy because it will mean more restrictions in my state than currently exist , border restrictions are tough but necessary. Then they say it's all about mask wearing and there should be no other restrictions and nothing else needs to be done open up your border to every state and just forget about it. Queensland is my state of 5,000,000 people and have had 254 known cases of transmission inside our border. Some people consider this a failure and Sweden has done better. A sense of denial I suppose. Anyway a bit off track there , the vast majority of Queenslanders are happy with our governments job and there is a snowballs chance in hell that we will open our border to a state with an outbreak without the current mandatory 14 days government supervised quarantine. I have a suspicion though those people are from the 2 states who haven't done so well even when they say they aren't. We were a relatively hard lockdown state who wanted to open up slowly, the current problem state wasn't like that and always wanted an open border. Reminds me of the US states, put your state in lockdown then those who can or live close to a border just cross the border spreading around possibly more quickly than just doing nothing.
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  2687. Could the Europeans and Americans please stop creating new varieties of the virus.
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  2688. Truly bizarre original comment and responses. You people are so brainwashed.
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  2689. No it just wouldn't be helpful. It would be completely counterproductive. Biden will have a hard enough job, if his subordinates start talking of the past it will only be harder. Very sure Biden would have made this clear.
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  2690. Yes it's very true, the 2 cities greater area of Melbourne and Sydney Australia are both 5 million or more so extremely difficult to contain an outbreak of Delta as we can see now. It doesn't really matter how much desert and broadacre farmland a country might have, virtually nobody lives there. The wealth of a country matters when calculating density though, slums in a low income country are completely different to say Sydney or Melbourne where the living space per person will be a multiple of a poor slum area in another country. There are so many factors to consider and if you adjusted Sweden's per capita deaths from COVID-19 to the US using underlying health of the population and obesity as the indicator you might find the deaths in Sweden are worse than the US because adult obesity rate in Sweden is about 20% so very low for a wealthy nation and the US it's around 35%.
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  2691.  @cinderelladevil1687  There are lockdowns and then there are lockdown lites. Don't confuse the 2, lockdowns work , lockdown lite does little. Pick any country in Western Pacific WHO region and compare the deaths per Capita to virtually all European countries that didn't have a single lockdown only lockdown lite, Spain is still lockdown lite just a different version to Sweden. The outliers do overlap so Norway's deaths per Capita would be similar to the Philippines but if you compare Norway to a country that's demographically similar say New Zealand you get to see the difference. If you can travel freely without quarantine , only a voluntary scheme , then you by definition aren't locked down.
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  2692.  @waiyan76742  you need defectors from the real military and or police, don't respond to me, people might be reading. Be careful what you say even here.
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  2693. I think there are enough communist countries in the world. Argument about tax rates etc. fair enough but not talk of revolution it always ends badly.
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  2694. Conner Productions if you look at the age adjusted homicide rate for Florida it's more than double that of New York for 2019 according to the CDC. If you just use absolute rates without adjustment for 2020 Florida has a higher rate than California or New York. Clearly Florida does allow criminals to roam the streets as you put it.
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  2695.  @bexdkolimited1889  Well done you just said China is a bully, you just said nothing will stop them taking the maritime territory of 5 ASEAN nations. Well if China does anything serious the entire world will turn against them. By the way the "useless freedom of navigation" is what the Chinese spy ship does in Australian exclusive economic zone to watch the naval exercises every couple of years, they like to come via the Torres Strait to make sure they get real close.
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  2696. Actually it's not funny really spraying people with disinfectant also as we saw people around can't be good.
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  2697. New York did it too in it's subway system. Some comments said China did it, so what? Melbourne Australia didn't do it and got back to 0 cases from around 500 cases per day. It's hard lockdown that works not spraying chemicals, nobody eats off the ground and even if they did saliva might well kill the virus. There is a big difference between correlation and effectiveness. Some Wumaos said you need to be communist to be successful, no correlation there actually.
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  2698.  @LitlMiraclePupnPony  I checked and you're right it doesn't kill this virus. Eating the virus and catching it that way would be extremely rare though , mostly it would get swallowed and die in the stomach.
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  2699. Well if the economy as a whole is anything to go buy far better than most countries. The lockdowns overall have been far less on average than North America or Europe. In 2 weeks this one in Sydney hopefully finished.
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  2700. The unvaccinated Americans should panic and go get vaccinated. 1,000 deaths a day many of them preventable and filling up ICUS can't be a good thing.
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  2701. ​@dilucragnvindr130 using your logic I could just say I demand land in Sweden or Norway based on my genetics. Ridiculous argument that because some ancestors lived somewhere you can now claim land such as the expansionist Israel in the West Bank and now most likely in Gaza. Almost every country on the planet doesn't agree with Israel settlements.
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  2702. They often have better stuff. Many years ago I stayed with a heroin addict, he was trying to go clean but couldn't and ended up suiciding which was hard to see. He always had brand name stuff. One thing I found after his death was basically a map of where he purchased drugs. I gave this to the police and I am pretty sure it was useful.
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  2703. Just make sure no state gives away a gift pack with all 3 items, it might be a bad mix.
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  2704. I just found a petition at change.org to put Dr John Campbell as head of WHO, I wonder if he is aware of it.
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  2705. They are a welfare state of the US and others, cut their funding for both groups and they are more likely to sort things out because no choice.
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  2706. It's got little to do with spending amount. If you think it does please explain this US versus Australia, Australia spends less on publically funded healthcare than the US as a proportion of GDP but has a universal healthcare system and we have a 5 year higher life expectancy. Double down what I just said with the covid 19 response, the US government had a deficit as a proportion of GDP roughly double that of Australia for the 2020 calendar year and economy shrunk 2.7 % as opposed to 1.1%. Throwing more money at a problem doesn't fix it, fix how the money is spent. While military spending in the US is fairly high it's also designed as an industry subsidy creating jobs to an extent, also helps exports, I don't know the values of these things but the amount spent on the military is not the main problem.
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  2707.  @pakde8002  it's relative not meant to offend in any way. Indonesia and Philippines are struggling and when vaccines start to become available I am hopeful that these 2 countries will receive a high priority by the other governments in the region like Australia. Australia can really take it's time and if the vaccines are as effective as is suggested there might never actually be any real need for mass vaccinations , I think if we just vaccinate medical staff and possibly the at risk old people that would be enough and everyone entering either quarantine as now or vaccinated, most will choose vaccine versus paying to be locked in a hotel but can't really force Australian citizens I think , but can force foreigners entering to have a vaccine as a condition of entry.
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  2708. If you are in a regional area the risks are far lower as in easy to stop an outbreak, the big cities are the high risk areas. Depending where you are I would suggest that's a possibility.
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  2709.  @newto4361  The only country that has done well in containment of the virus and a reasonably quick vaccine rollout is Singapore. Reality is if you have no or low cases imported vaccines become almost impossible to obtain. The other thing is it's not actually urgent other than for border workers , hotel quarantine workers and certain medical staff. So I am willing to cut some slack to the state, territory and federal governments on this one. Reality is can't vaccinate everyone until next year sometime it appears and we don't know for sure how long vaccines will be effective. I am 47 and waiting for my age group, I will get the Oxford Astrazeneca if I can because should be easier to get given the recommendation that my age group be given preference to other vaccines. The only real reason I want it is for potential travel.
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  2710. Only Australian citizen can enter without being vaccinated, all foreigner except maybe permanent resident must be vaccinated or a genuine valid reason why they can't be vaccinated.
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  2711. As far as more people getting diagnosed with autism it's simply because more people being checked and expanded criteria. As far as Americans not being healthy, that's due to cultural reasons and people eating too much junk food and a poor healthcare system including preventative healthcare. Look at the Japanese school lunch program and compare it to how kids are being fed in the US, very different. You might want to watch a couple of videos on the matter to discover why Japan has one of the highest life expectancies and the US the lowest for a wealthy country and it's got nothing to do with availability of junk food which every high income countries people can afford.
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  2712. Unfortunately even the experts making various potential vaccines qualify their remarks to say that they are hopeful and things are looking positive. No scientist is going to say it's a certainty because it isn't. Trump unfortunately will promote the idea that a vaccine is a certainty. If an effective vaccine is produced by early next year that's great, but at the current rate the US will have another 100,000 deaths or so without a highly viable treatment. If a vaccine doesn't come then as the professionals in this clip said it just keeps going.
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  2713.  @just_chris1630  My biggest observation is so many places don't finish the job and leave one particular big hole which is border quarantine being done on an honour basis. The UK now seems like they might start enforcing it and have filled in a ridiculous hole that existed in the previous regime which was you could enter England and go straight into a household and other members of the household could continue going about their daily business. Ireland now has very similar rules to Melbourne before but keeping schools open and the entry quarantine is super relaxed and appears to be entirely voluntary referring to it as guidelines we request people follow. So they have shut down all but essential businesses but allow infected people to continue to enter, total madness not to do the job properly. For countries 5,000,000 or more Australia and New Zealand are now the leaders with China , Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand. South Korea isn't looking too bad but Japan with about 2,000 cases a day isn't so good, it's not large compared to their population but getting compliance in any population will reduce over time I suspect making things harder and harder. There are some African countries and other countries spotted around the world doing well too but I am not following every country. Canada 2 or 3 months ago had less cases than Melbourne and I was thinking at the time Canada is going to succeed and Victoria might be doomed, very happy my concerns with Victoria turned out to be unfounded but sad to see Canada is now about 5,000 cases per day.
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  2714.  @jelenastevanovic5314  Killing 1% or 2% of the hosts makes no difference at all, it's still going to spread. So if it becomes twice as deadly it just means more die in the unvaccinated group at least.
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  2715. You do not no the index case was in China because it hasn't been found , we know that the first major outbreak was in Wuhan that's all. Is it possible a Chinese tourist was in another country and caught it and brought it back to China. Unless you have discovered the particular strain that is almost identical from a bat in China and tested bats in neighboring countries to eliminate that it's common in more than one country you don't know. Did it probably start in China certainly but that only probably. Just like the UK strain, did it start in the UK we really have no idea , it's a country that kept it's border open and it could be the UK index case of that strain was imported. Search Hendra virus disease CDC. Hendra is a neighbouring suburb to me only 10 km away. If you find that CDC page it has a map of the likely distribution of the virus based on the carrier species of bat and also where the virus has been identified and actual outbreak cases in horses ranging from northern New South Wales to Far North Queensland. The known cases have been a across a distribution of about 2,000 km. The outbreaks usually are in rural areas, it could just be luck that human to human transmission has never been observed although from the very small known case numbers in horses and humans the mortality rate has been about 70% so maybe the person generally gets too ill to spread it. Given the range of Hendra virus it's quite possible that the precursor virus to covi sars2 that made the jump to humans if carried by a widely distributed bat could be in many countries. All we know is when this virus hit Wuhan in B strain it went crazy. That's all we know for certain, the rest is speculation based on probability only.
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  2716. You are still in one of the top 10 jurisdictions in the world if we count mainland China as one jurisdiction.
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  2717. As far as economic and health responses go the US will spend more on both , so looking at headline numbers doing the most. This is not the issue, the issue is about functionality and real results. I have a Thai friend and she said to me Americans not have enough food and Thailand is lucky no problems in that area. Again not actually a food problem but seeing miles of cars lined up waiting for food handouts in a modern day style of soup kitchen does look strange even to many in low and middle income country.
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  2718. You aren't censored as far as I can see.
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  2719. There are advocates of disbanding in the BLM movement. One I saw backed away a bit to that is now aspirational. It's as you can see extremely unpopular and Biden especially doesn't want to be seen as one of them but at the same time not offend them.
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  2720. Ridiculous idea. Nobody is forcing anyone to eat junk food.
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  2721. Lovely couple and so young. I noticed the showing of looking after bats. They would have had rabies vaccine I expect for Australia Bat Lyssavirus. I wonder if for example if in Australia zoo the Hendra virus another common infection in bats was to mutate to a less deadly disease so that it can spread and outbreak was to occur would reaction be same to current situation. Hendra virus would appear at least as deadly as Ebola based on a small number of known infections but no known cases of human to human spread.
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  2722. It seems the is the UK variant wave for Malta. Unfortunately this seems to be happening in many countries, same predicted in the US in a few weeks with that variant increasing at a rapid rate.
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  2723. In Queensland Australia a common definition of an outbreak is maybe 5 connected cases. What is an outbreak in the US in common language? Just a number would be fine.
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  2724. If that's the case distilled water wouldn't stop the problem but reduce it because the fungus can still get it's growing material from dust in the air, distilled water might reduce the nutrients for the fungus a little bit.
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  2725. I don't believe it's accent, it's a different language, I know my country Australia has AUSIGN . I don't know any sign so no idea how different the various sign languages are.
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  2726.  @GlobalDrifter1000  ok interesting, what do you think is the main reasons for rollout delays in, it seems most if not all states?
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  2727. Take care.
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  2728. How that possible if no test in December?
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  2729. Can't be certain of that, if didn't do it wouldn't someone else have emerged in the same space?
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  2730. I don't believe the timelines for a second. Australian government aims that everyone who wants a vaccine gets one by the end of 2021, that's quite a different timeline to our northern friends in UK and US who have proven to run the most effective responses to covid 19 in the world. Like investments previous performance is not an indicator of future performance, but we shall see.
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  2731. If it's an entire lifetime then it doesn't matter. Ignorance is bliss. The problem is if the ignorance is broken in one way or another.
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  2732. Sabiya is very smart, I guess she is a law student and will be a very good lawyer.
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  2733. So CHAZ is just an upper class Autonomous Zone. Seeing the tents at CHAZ is now meaningless it's normal.
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  2734.  @whpaul8628  Where is the source or give me the headline, I can't find anything that says India has rejected or accepted help from China. I can only find less than 2 days ago China made a vague offer.
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  2735. Looking from Australia, the problem is you are a country divided who has no trust in your own governments regardless of leaning. You have segregationists both black and white who are prominent. A sizable proportion of your country doesn't even believe in a controlled US border but supports a controlled North/South Korean border control spearheaded by the US. Your homicide rate is more than double of any comparable country. Trump makes Obama seem like a fiscal conservative running up government debt like crazy to pay for tax cuts. Both political parties have made a point that protesting yourselves and spreading the virus is important. You have a low level civil war occurring with left and right extremists actually killing people and not being condemned by the side that extremists are on. Both parties extremely guilty of this under the circumstances. Cities in fire but "only a few blocks" is actually an argument I have seen, along with both sides protesting in paramilitary kit and killing people and government workers the police. If you saw 3 blocks of any large city in the world being taken over by a vigilante group and other vigilantes somewhere else supported by the opposing political party and supported by a political party you would think what's wrong with that country , wouldn't you? Government officials not condemning such behaviour is the same as support because they are deliberately subverting the rule of law for political gain.
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  2736. That's fine, they don't want their identities revealed anyway.
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  2737. Why? It's state sponsored terrorism, to make everyone live in absolute fear. The videoing of it is no different to an ISIS video of the same behaviour.
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  2738. The US and UK are doing the same thing essentially. Some parts of the US already backtracking putting restrictions back in again. Best of luck.
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  2739. Biden hasn't said that. What a presenter says on TV so what.
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  2740. There is no indication of violations, only that use of force has been reviewed a number of times. In the context of where he works we know nothing. Maybe that's normal because a high arrest rate in a high crime area.
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  2741.  @YouREsoBEAUTIFUL00  Well compare the deaths in Australia to the US on a per capita basis, Australia is below 10% of the US. If you can find anything refuting this I would be surprised and despite Australia's most likely greater infections per Capita currently when compared to the US our deaths are still lower per capita on a weekly basis.
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  2742. I think can't have Osterholm because he is on Biden's taskforce but you never know.
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  2743. I am an investor who has been punished by both state and federal governments for renting properties. But let the disease loose it's even worse. Look at Victoria or US or UK not what I want for Queensland. Victoria is much better than US or UK, they will be ok in a month or so.
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  2744.  @sunshinelizard1  See my comment 2 above yours. The original comment isn't a lie it's completely misleading though and as you pointed out it's pro COVID-19 disease statement by using information out of context. Unfortunately your media actually does it too, I have never seen discussion about why the US has a homicide rate about 5 times that of any comparable country on a per capita basis. Comparable country is all the other wealthy nations in the world.
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  2745.  @sunshinelizard1  Yes it's sad seeing what is happening in the US. As far as vaccinations go one man could have changed everything, most Governor's in that party will follow his messaging no matter what, like little puppy dogs, the ex president has done too little too late and now all those governor's can't change their messaging even though ex president has subtly changed, still not far enough but better than nothing. If people behaved like this about 250 years ago it would have taken a lot longer before independence came about and the US wouldn't actually exist, it would be a group of ex colonies that never would have united/been conquered English, Spanish and French colonies. As far as constitutional freedoms, no such things exist regarding health, quarantine and other health measures were found to be constitutional 100 years ago in the US, the only argument is the health order reasonable and vaccination requirements are very common in the US actually, probably more so than Australia except for the covid 19 vaccine, however there hasn't been a need for childhood vaccine mandates because a very high voluntary rate. Australia is a little different with our constitution written in 1900 it actually specifies quarantine. I think things will be over in the US relatively soon but slower than many other countries and much more painfully.
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  2746. Paper is still the most secure method. Any electronic method can be hacked. Try forging 20,000 signatures. I am not suggesting electronic methods might be better in some ways but you need an equal amount of enhanced security for the same level of efficacy.
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  2747. Stay safe and do the best you can.
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  2748. Trump proposed a 15% corporate tax rate. Are you sure they want to extend the 21% rate? I tend to believe they want to cut it.
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  2749. Best of luck
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  2750. They want to go backwards , some states are considering mandating leeches for certain ailments. Qanon wants to bring back witch trials and if you consider what they say about Democrats and all foreign leaders drinking kids blood etc. they are basically being accused of being witches.
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  2751. To the Japanese public the games might as well be in Africa, they can't attend the events and the virus spread has nothing to do with the Olympics but it would seem the public don't like the games still going ahead.
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  2752. I reckon, whether it was perfect judgement or not , stating this is equivalent to killing a few million people in concentration camps is a bit over the top. The comments about why Victorian government openly endorsed BLM by saying openly there will be no arrests is a fair comment and inconsistent behaviour has caused problems in Victoria. Victoria after all was the most "open" state of all criticizing the harsh border restrictions etc. particularly in QLD my state and opening up quickly. I do respect Dan for one thing though he says he takes responsibility, not a single politician in the US has done so as far as I'm aware and there are over 50 governor's plus the president. president.
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  2753. True, he promised tariffs. That wasn't a surprise.
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  2754. I mostly agree with what you say except one thing. Israel would stop if it stopped getting US aid and stopped getting munitions from the US and UK and possibly other countries. They can only keep going with outside support.
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  2755. I think he doesn't, but not impossible he does. He runs all the conspiracy theories for the CPC. The best one is that the US has 200 secret bioweapons labs around the world. He's a spokesperson actually not the foreign minister. They have a few spokesperson, seems they play different roles, this one plays agressive conspiracy theorist.
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  2756. How did your comment get in here? Reading through the comments I thought it was exclusively for Antivaxxers.
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  2757. In answer to your questions , the states are currently in different positions, NSW and VIC have outbreaks and quantity of vaccines is most important, QLD and WA can at this point in time be a little more patient and not push as hard but as we have seen it only takes a few weeks and things can change.
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  2758. You are correct China will be hated by many countries when they own everything, resources all sent to China while local population stays poor and debts to China that they can't pay, exactly why the US is disliked in many countries because they did this in the past.
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  2759. Time to revise your numbers 0.284% of New Jersey USA population already dead from covid 19 and they are still dying and this is with significant vaccine rollout at this point in time. A couple of European countries also hit 0.27% dead of total population.
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  2760. I think the legal proceedings were correct but think he is probably a serial killer of 2.
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  2761. I know if he was in Australia or New Zealand and an election was held with Trump being the leader of a party, noting our different system that party would be crushed to the point of becoming a minor fringe party. He could never become leader of a major party though because he is very inflammatory and divisive.
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  2762. That's a part of the illusion, you have laws which allow journalists to do there job to a reasonable extent and then in practice stop them. The public then believes that the media isn't that restricted.
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  2763. Not for a while, wait until every country has tariffs on it and then beef costs will rise putting up the price of a US made Whopper. However Burger King could offer a pork choice to keep prices low.
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  2764. 1200 per day isn't particularly low I would suggest.
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  2765. I ask you a question how many US citizens caught covid 19 in hospital which caused their deaths, we know it happened to 1,600 healthcare workers and we also know such events have been documented in Australia , Taiwan, Germany and UK. It's an impossibility it hasn't occured inside the US , yet not a single report of it. Is that a cover-up or is it ok because these matters have never been investigated inside of the US, just count the nursing home deaths yet nothing is done, hopefully many get vaccines now but my suspicion is in many states maybe not. Trump did the biggest cover up by telling his followers it was harmless and doing something about it is a Democrat hoax. Bad as the local Wuhan government was , they are a local government not the leader of a superpower and they got sacked, pretty sure they are not popular, Trump maintains a high level of popularity.
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  2766. It's not possible to give a good answer to the questions because certain things can't really be defended, the only thing he could actually say is at the end we should compare. As an Australian my response is ok fair enough mate, but unless Australian plus New Zealand governments change course and deliberately infect the population it's not really looking like the UK could be seen as better at any point in time.
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  2767. My fellow Australian is in a very small minority here. Most Australians think of Trump if they follow nothing about the US how has the US failed so badly with covid 19 , what is wrong with these people. Trump being the president must have something to do with that. If people actually followed things they would realise the US courtesy of both political parties has completely failed and Trump was the infector in chief, literally telling people at some rallies to get infected. Anyone who heard the Woodward taping of Trump knows that he is a pathetic individual misleading his population. In March Australia PM did a speech when putting Australia into lockdown supported by all state Premiers ( like governor) he said , " you will see a lot of deaths in poorer countries and this will be hard to watch", Trump ok did some speech saying have to lockdown however it was far less intense and 2 weeks later he was encouraging his supporters to " liberate " Democrat run states. Liberate is a term only used normally for armed conflict and removing a dictator, the Michigan governor understands this with the heavily armed protestors going into the state capitol building, Trump said they were good people. What a nasty human literally encouraging his supporters who he knows are armed and can be dangerous to act against political opponents. All Trump has achieved is the largest peace time killing in US history, somewhat like Americas great leap forward. Now I have worked out the Trump supporters call themselves Patriots based on Trump's new idea of a political party the Patriot Party and they say there will be civil war, some of these people are potentially very dangerous, spouting rubbish about the entire planet being communist. They often refer to Australia as a communist country because we haven't killed our citizens with the virus and took measures to protect people. To ordinary US citizens we know you aren't all that bad but Trump cult and Qanon followers are. Inherently most of them aren't bad as such but the brainwashing has made them like that..
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  2768.  @katesmiles4208  you won't be catching it any time soon, the Australian border is only slightly less secure than North Korea and in Queenslands case any suspected infected person is hunted down like a criminal and quarantined. It might sound harsh to outsiders but 7 deaths out of 5,000,000 people it was and is worth it for now.
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  2769. It's not unlikely.
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  2770.  @barbarawarren9443  All the borders in PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO region were open almost throughout with very minor hiccups like some Eastern European countries who didn't want to but towed the regional line eventually. 10 days voluntary quarantine is an open border. The countries in the Western Pacific WHO region all have "closed" borders throughout 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine, China has now gone to 21 days. Not all countries in that region have done that well but the worst performing country , the Philippines has still done far better than most countries in the aforementioned regions. If the world had the same approach as the Western Pacific region it would probably be over now eliminating it from the last few countries, the variants wouldn't have evolved or not spread noting no variant of concern has originated in the Western Pacific region.
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  2771.  Omni Service  Well it has been a decision that Australia will support the US in any major conflict (declared war I guess, not like the drone strikes and special forces stuff the US sometimes gets up to) for about the last 100 years or so and the only country to do so, a completely reliable alli for that matter. You picked the one I personally thought we should sit it out. To your original point multiculturalism does work in many countries, it might not be perfect but no system is, monoculture has its drawbacks too.
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  2772. Cut the primary inputs for a month I think you would reassess what you just said, without foreign oil and iron ore China has a great difficulty.
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  2773. Rupert is getting on a bit, even an old diesel engine eventually dies.
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  2774. It needs to go to at least 3 state courts first before any federal court challenge if the situation remains the same. I think pretty unlikely 3 out of 4 states 2 with Republican governor's and 2 Democrat governor's have somehow colluded to kick Trump out.
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  2775. ​ @horaceharris1855 The original comment wasn't personal, the US is threatening to invade other countries. Nobody wants to be invaded or see someone else get invaded.
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  2776. Yeah , Italy should do the same and claim most of Europe.
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  2777. It's males in the vast majority of cases and it's also a cultural thing, there's more of this particular type of event in the US than the entire rest of the world in total not rate. Ready access to weapons for all as the US policy is doesn't help the situation either.
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  2778. I think over time they will be able to put adjustments in if the polling is always wrong in the same direction by approximately the same amount. The problem of course is mobile phones which is very different to the landline with no number display which people would usually answer. It could also be because they use robocalls quite often now and not a real human which might skew things. So for now I would say polls are not highly useful but they will return to being more useful over time I would expect.
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  2779. I think you are right because the Oxford Astrazeneca trials were done better because they tested people to see if they got the virus , not just wait for people to ask to be tested. Not sure if they tested everyone but better than the other method.
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  2780.  @salfordladsclub4966  I am Australian so we not in a rush however if we were I would far prefer the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine over the Pfizer and Moderna ones that make my own cells grow virus proteins. Maybe it's all ok but it's just my personal concern and when rollout occurs in Australia I will go for the Oxford Astrazeneca one because will probably need to be vaccinated for international travel.
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  2781. It's not about lying, it's the official numbers are tested positive. Every country has many that have not been tested. Indications are about 20% of NY got the virus so the testing only picked up a small percentage actually. This is the same everywhere. There is no way to know accurately. If you want real estimates of cases detected the percentages of tests positive at a point in time will be a good indicator. If that number is above 5% then many cases are being missed I would think.
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  2782. I don't think it's a big problem until you consider transporting it internationally but it will certainly drive up distribution costs very significantly. Making refrigeration units capable of producing dry ice isn't difficult but probably costly in the scheme of things if they have no use after the vaccine distribution ends.
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  2783.  @robinirons541  no that 92% number doesn't stop infections, the vaccines only stop the infection of Delta variant by about 60% so some households after vaccination will still all get infected it's statistically impossible it doesn't happen at all unless the virus dies out.
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  2784. If it was a Florida jury I wouldn't be so sure.
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  2785. Two old brothers arguing about what happened in 1968.
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  2786. The tolerances are so small, Victoria and NZ were tracking each other fairly closely but the last 2 days cases jumped up in VIC. I think NZ is better off because VIC had a long lockdown last year and after each lockdown anecdotally at least people become less compliant or as they say pandemic fatigue.
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  2787. I hope all goes well for you. Unfortunately it's likely you are in for a very hard lockdown to bring it under control. You are in the same position as Melbourne Victoria Australia 8 months ago which took 14 weeks of very hard lockdown to contain, possibly worse. You case numbers look much worse because this is the Indian variant it would appear , however on the positive side compliance in Taiwan I expect to be higher than it was in Melbourne at the time. I wish your country the best, just be prepared for what might be happening soon.
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  2788. Don't underestimate the Hasbara. They even have Jewish Zionists in Australian universities saying they feel unsafe. This is not to say there hasn't been any attacks on Jewish people in the whole of Australia but there hasn't been any at any university and they tend to have police and security on site in Australian universities to genuinely keep the peace so very unlikely an attack would occur.
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  2789. Laura probably can't see the display, she just reads from a teleprompter. It's some other staff who made the mistake.
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  2790.  @DavidHembrow  Obviously you haven't heard of Queensland Australia, same population as NZ and 7 deaths to date and a land border that those Mexicans keep wanting to cross ( Mexican is nickname for New South Welshmen and Victorian's because they keep migrating north to gods country Queensland). New Zealand, Western Australia and Queensland are actually very comparable and very similar policies and results, vaccination rates a bit lower though mostly because of lack of urgency I think.
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  2791.  @DavidHembrow  Until Delta not a single Western Pacific WHO region country completely lost control, Japan and Philippines were the ones that struggled them most but deaths still below 10% of the European average. Fiji in deaths per million has as of know had the worst performance because when Delta got in it spread really fast, they have managed to get the vaccination rate up fairly high now so they should be ok as anywhere. Containment policy of our region with 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine has worked, the results are overwhelming. I hope but am sceptical that this policy is adopted worldwide in the future because the performance other than being able to produce vaccines by European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region has been comparatively bad and we wouldn't even have had Delta most likely if containment was a worldwide policy. That's my thoughts anyway.
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  2792. No cases no need for masks, common sense actually.
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  2793.  @tarunmathew88  Island has nothing to do with it, yes a controlled border just Like China or Vietnam which aren't islands.
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  2794. The deaths lag cases by a few weeks. In Victoria Australia when they did the lockdown to get to 0 cases there was a week or so when deaths per day were about half the number of new cases per day.
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  2795.  Dems 4 Dinner  Are you joking? He isn't the president.
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  2796. Who has been charged with crimes relating to USAID? Obviously you know so let others know.
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  2797. Trump has managed to push Australia out of certain Chinese markets. 2 days after the barley tax on Australia the US was the preferred supplier. Not a coincidence I think.
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  2798.  @robinlanganasanga6691  If as you argue certain countries could do with help developing education systems, they just need to ask, Send a message to Australian or NZ government instead of cash aid we want some spent on helping us with Educational systems or hospital management or whatever your government is having problems with and willing to accept direct help rather than cash.
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  2799. Usually the first 2 numbers of a barcode is the country the product was made in, however not sure but it could also just be packaged in.
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  2800. Don't worry if Trump's tariffs happen you'll have less money to spend or put in another way your money will buy less goods.
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  2801. "We are slowing the spread and opening up again" that's a great quote, he's a miracle worker. It's actually true in some states to be fair but it has nothing to do with the federal government that discourages mask use and encourages high risk behaviour like rallies.
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  2802. The California strain will give it a run for it's money, total infection numbers it seems to be ahead because of the US population. Probably that strain is in the UK already. As a friendly bet I reckon Australia, South Korea and Japan will all detect it within 2 weeks but Australia is now demanding people returning have a negative test before travelling here so maybe not.
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  2803. It's nothing to do with trying to balance a budget. Keeping taxes low for billionaires isn't exactly going to improve anything. Simple math.
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  2804. @Helmut Schmacher  it might be possible to tell order of shots from blood evidence plus, bullet evidence plus the video footage, maybe not we don't know the evidence but if the last bullet passed through the body it can be identified because it will be in the ground at the point of exit wound.
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  2805. I am in Australia and in response to comments on the original comment , I don't trust what they don't trust , emergency use means the benefits outweigh the risks but risks are far more significant than we like so it's not getting general approval yet , we need more data and time. In effect the vaccine roll outs are phase 3 trials. I don't blame or think there is anything wrong with the emergency use in countries where the virus is rampant and on the basis of the emergency use it will save many lives.
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  2806.  @annettezaleski  Actually there are a few other nations with large numbers of conspiracy theorists similar to the US being Brazil , Russia, Indonesia and probably some smaller nations that don't make international news so much. I am a bit disappointed in my Indonesian neighbors , that surprised me a bit , however some of the misinformation seems to come from a similar source, some Mosques in Indonesia just like some Churches in the US.
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  2807. As a foreigner totally agree that a larger proportion than should exist of pure nationalists exist inside that party. An interesting thing that I had never realised is the far left and far right actually meet on certain issues, this is why Bernie Sanders voters voted in large numbers for Trump because of industry protectionism and industry handouts. Those who are extreme especially regarding protectionism hate all foreign countries and everything is some other countries fault. The US has great potential, the problem is a very high level of political disfunction and to be blunt socialism directed to corporations not a social welfare safety net. An example is the CDC it completely failed at the initial response to covid 19, yet on paper the plan seemed no different to Australia in the early days, in fact some indications we followed you, but when testing was completely failing from the CDC nothing was done and the response continued to go downhill from there whereas Australia continued to improve it's response , with 2 states being somewhat problematic , they fixed the problems. It's sort of like once adversity hit, the US and most states just gave up and the CDC and FDA were unable to react quickly.
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  2808.  @destinationskyline07  the US contrary to popular belief is fairly socialist. The problem is the US is not good at spending money. ( Or too good) depending on perspective.
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  2809. You have crazy right wing Americans literally hiring a rent a crowd to overthrow the government of Canada. I am surprised by the lack of outrage actually. Crazy right wing Americans are more in number than the entire population of Canada hence why they can easily raise so much money so quickly especially once their dear leader Trump offered support for the cause.
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  2810.  @cheaze69  what's wrong with you my screen name clearly indicates I am Australian. The protestors stated intention was to overthrow all governments of Canada technically because they would be calling the shots a on health policy in every province and federally. What on earth that has to do with me in another country is beyond me. Maybe you personally support the rent a crowd and that's up to you. Canada and the US certainly have free speech.
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  2811. Obesity is well known, other factors you mention might make a small difference but getting to a reasonable body weight is the number one thing.
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  2812. They have youtube analytics which would give a fairly accurate count of who the viewers are.
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  2813. Urine is often gold coloured. Welcome to your golden age Americans.
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  2814.  @solomondavis1032  If you were a part of the bot army getting 50c per post you will be a millionaire soon, I could post 1 comment every 15 seconds or so if I was set up and paid for comments. Hey thanks for volunteering, that vaccine is in production in Australia all ready based on the expectation/hope it gets approved by the Australian/New Zealand TGA .
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  2815.  Dave Smith  You can comment as much as you please. Everything is open in Australia with very few restrictions, not sure what you mean by police state. Maybe you are thinking of El Paso Texas or something where they have a curfew and they've brought in the refrigerated trucks just like NYC did before. Maybe you are thinking of the paramilitary police and or military ( National Guard) in Philadelphia recently. Good luck where ever you are from and enjoy the level of freedom you have.
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  2816. He has criticized the UK many times about travel.
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  2817.  @the_merc9918  There were protests in Australia estimated 70,000 people country wide and the totality of incidents was 2 people pepper sprayed in a train station by police for being idiots and someone put an Aboriginal Flag sticker on a police station. A second protest in Sydney was stopped by police because they were in lockdown and some leeway had been given on the first protest anyway. Like I said different countries it's completely different. I am unaware of any buildings being burnt down or shops looted or people killed in Canada. That's a US problem which also notably had the same problem on January 6 2021 from another violent mob. The US is a very violent for a wealthy country having 5 times the average homicide rate of other wealthy countries. Don't think other countries are the same because they aren't unless you want to compare to disfunctional low and middle income countries.
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  2818. Yeah the number of people saying his is right wing is amazing.
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  2819. A lot of genocide supporters in the comments and by the commentators. Hitler was elected as well, being elected has nothing to do with being or not being a criminal.
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  2820. Depends what you mean by serious, 6% of deaths recorded in the US had covid 19 only as cause of death, and considering the age group of those who die 90% of them have comorbidities or in other words getting old.
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  2821.  @wasidanatsali6374  You don't seem to understand vegan, it's not only eating but technically nothing that uses animals or even insects if strict. So honey is off the menu. I am not vegan or anything , just understand the concept.
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  2822. Well if I asked you a year ago if you would be ok with 1,000 preventable deaths occurring each day in the US what would you have responded?
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  2823. I have made a comment on this matter, it's almost impossible that Katie is Jewish according to her definition because there can only be somewhere between 0 and 10,000 jews on the planet according to population growth between 2000bc and now.
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  2824. Yes and nods and then looks away and shakes his head. The look into the camera and nod is directly for the conspiracy theorists.
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  2825. Just watch out for any serious side effects, rare but it can happen.
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  2826. Don't say the world, you mean developing nations including the US. No other wealthy nation has anywhere near your problems although some Western European countries could go down the same path in a relatively short time.
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  2827. I think it's mauve at the moment.
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  2828. He can enter on his diplomatic passport, however France could expell him which would create a diplomatic incident.
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  2829. She's vaccinated though, so as long as she has had a third shot she should be ok despite her weight and because she doesn't look too old. The problem is the unvaccinated, doesn't mean things will all of a sudden be perfect but in Australia we likely have similar case rates but deaths are so far , far lower on a per Capita basis.
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  2830. It's good, it's going viral, Al Jazeera covered it also.
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  2831. Well received is a relative term, in Australia it means yeah whatever piss off, In the US it's we are going on peaceful protests and promise not to kill anyone or burn buildings or vehicles, in the UK it's, are you gonna shut the pub?
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  2832. That's incorrect, you can dislike something however accept or respect the process. This is something many US citizens could try to learn. You've seen BLM burning city blocks to the ground in some places and the Jan 6 insurrection. Also a few killings by terrorists on both sides. You fear outside terrorists but you have them within and on both sides.
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  2833. ​@chilkat_river actually it would likely be the opposite. Returning middle class people will benefit those countries. You have to realise in many cases skilled workers leave poor countries to go and do unskilled jobs in the US because they are illegal and or qualifications not recognised.
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  2834. Nothing hidden, many governments have paid for likely candidate vaccines to be produced. I am guessing if the vaccine doesn't work it's probably at cost and if it works then at profit.
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  2835. Sorry but 1st amendment rights don't exist on private property unless the owner permits it. Given the excessive force used however if you got physically injured I think you would have a good case to sue especially as all these incidents are being filmed.
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  2836. Well sometimes John is wrong or wrong emphasis when relating possible reasons for various countries success or failure and not holistic enough. He is trying to understand too much too quickly and of course can't read every comment because too many. As one example. The discussion over masks should compare Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan, not UK. I am not saying masks don't help in the case of an out of control outbreak, they do. Taiwan never got to that stage, and nor has all states in Australia plus New Zealand, other than Victoria . So there is no concrete evidence that masks do anything other than slow the spread and possibly cause a low dose or alternatively different initial infection point which maybe reduces the chances of major illness or death. Those countries that contained the virus, even if at a latter date had problems all successful at initial detection of the virus, contact tracing, effective public messaging and draconian enforcement of measures if the population required that. In Australia it was certainly required, Victoria took a little different approach and didn't want to fine anyone and keep stuff open including borders. It's not entirely a coincidence Victoria is having problems in my opinion. So masks are really the last line of defence after all else has failed in my opinion, they can't stop an outbreak. Correlation is not causation, other measures created the success , not masks. If masks were 100% effective healthcare workers would never get infected and they are trained to use proper N95 or P2 masks and still get infected even if at lower rates than the general public.
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  2837. If Biden doesn't get in the government debt will likely continue to accelerate, the current corporate tax rate is not sustainable.
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  2838. The funniest one China has said is Australia bully China. I don't think they understand the concept otherwise they think many countries follow Australia. Whatever the case is , it's a bit amusing actually.
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  2839. You used the word inferior, Trump implies they are superior to the US because they could stop the virus but the US couldn't.
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  2840. If it's concerning you , you should talk to a doctor because there can be other reasons you are low. Search on the internet and find a reputable website and it can give you other possible causes.
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  2841.  @coffeebucket54  I am happy in my country of Sheep , Australia and in my state no need for masks because no cases. I think one state requires them because they are in the tail end of cleaning up a major outbreak. Anyway not looking too bad 9 cases total yesterday for a country of 25,000,000 and at least one is an imported case. How is Florida doing they don't wear masks either and close to Australia s population?
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  2842. Does it matter? Pretty silly comment actually, both left and right leaning people have carried out murders in the last year based on actual ideology. This was nothing to do with ideology as far as we know unless he targeted people based on political leaning.
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  2843. Well the US is pretty broke, it mightn't be a bad idea to look for anything to sell.
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  2844. I feel for you. As you know my country did things differently so other than Victoria we have had it pretty good.
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  2845. Without modern medicine this would be the same to Spanish flu because most died from Spanish flu plus bacterial pneumonia and no antibiotics back then.
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  2846. You are why it can never spread and no sporting event in Australia or New Zealand has been a problem. The multi agency investigation into a single person hotel quarantine breach is of no concern, because it's being treated like a murder scene , the US CDC allows infected healthcare workers for example to look after covid 19 patients. In Queensland any single quarantine breach every staff member of hospital, nursing home, quarantine hotel goes into 14 days isolation themselves within 24 hours and staff replaced. Don't worry too much our governments around Australia have it under control, the intransigent keep borders open etc. etc. states of NSW and VIC have changed their ways , even they only take 5 minutes for a lockdown now, although NSW seems to have too many quarantine breaches they are much better than before.
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  2847. If you communicate with Trump diehards and CPC diehards they are the same brainwashed people who can't listen to reason.
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  2848. Nah, they had a mask mandate for a while.
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  2849. I know nothing about insulin pens but 25 times (five packs of five) 3ml pens containing 100 units per ml costs $183 AUD in Australia free market price including postage, about $140 USD. Product is 70/30 mix by a company called Novo Nordisk, brand names for possibly the same products seems to vary by country. Tried searching for an open market price in the US but they just have phone numbers to call and ask.
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  2850. I have no idea who anyone else is but the Z guy.
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  2851. I have no idea how your comment relates to the clip.
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  2852. And in other breaking news West Pacific ( East Asia plus ASEAN plus Australasia) reported almost 10,000 cases and possibly up to 200 deaths , one of the deadliest days so far. With a regional population of more than 2 Billion this is a devastating blow with some countries looking to be at risk of things getting out of control. Last statement I say in all seriousness.
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  2853. Normally that's the Communist Party of China with their social credit system, not sure about Singapore but a concerning trend.
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  2854.  @passiflora1014  No you are wrong, all countries are reporting cases that are official and involved a test, earlier on some cases were reported as probable. All countries are reporting the death tolls the best they can but once you have hospitals reaching capacity in hard hit areas testing dead people for the virus is not going to be an urgent concern so cases will be missed. The numbers of reported deaths in countries like Australia, New Zealand , Vietnam and others with low numbers will be highly accurate, but still likely not 100% accurate, maybe 98% or so. If one old person catches in an outbreak area then travels back to their home town and dies and that's not an area of infection it probably won't get picked up especially if that person lives alone because no reason to think they died of it.
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  2855.  @passiflora1014  With this virus I think it's evident that either you get it when active cases are less than 1000 give or take otherwise it's out of control and Vietnam would not have high cases otherwise it would look like Brazil and it doesn't. I don't know what country you are from but containment can work. Your country most likely never even attempted it going by your comments and you don't comprehend how other countries can do it. Pick your country or form of government, it makes no difference. Australia is a democracy and so is South Korea and Vietnam isn't but we all took the same actions, in particular stopping it early. One jurisdiction in Australia it's true has backslid but all other Australian jurisdictions (states) seem to be doing ok with less than Swedish restrictions other than travel as I am guessing is the case in Vietnam outside of the outbreak area.
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  2856.  @passiflora1014  I didn't think the game was real and people just started saying Plague Inc. So there you go you broadened my knowledge. Those comments I thought were made up weren't and such a game does seem to exist.
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  2857. They have over 7,000 deaths and probably a similar old population to Australia. Just because the media doesn't show it doesn't mean things are perfect, there are around 200 countries in the world , you would need a 24/7 covid 19 channel to cover them all.
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  2858. No
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  2859. They aren't moving overseas, only to another violent US state. If Idaho was a country and you exclude all US it would be approximately equal most dangerous regarding homicide with Canada for a wealthy nation.
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  2860. Your economy is fine, the problem is wealth distribution and a low federal minimum wage. I assure billionaires are happy with their current situation, however many aren't keen on a trade war but keeping quiet about it.
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  2861. Hopefully an effective vaccine will help a lot but if not then it will be some time. Hang in there.
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  2862.  @agriperma  If you look historically many Jews were for Hitler in the beginning. I remember seeing some documentary and the person speaking was a child at the time of Hitler's rise and there was old film or photos of him in his pint sized NAZI uniform. Trump is certainly good at propaganda and like it or not many Hispanic people listen to Trump saying Biden is like Castro and will turn the US into a communist country. Normally a reasonable person would just say that's ridiculous but go and look at a Trump rally in Florida , some people believe him or at very least think it's ok to make that argument.
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  2863.  @agriperma  thanks for that, interesting. I am not American so don't really know much.
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  2864. Are you suggesting China is going to start invading other countries?
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  2865. I am not American but I do agree with you. While I don't wish anything bad upon your President I also care for him as he cared for your fellow country men and women.
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  2866. That's made up too, the countries people refer to often didn't actually exist at the time of migration whether that be from Africa or Europe. Search a world map of 1700 or so, it won't be recognisable in a broad sense.
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  2867.  @orlandovelastegui1391  that's only if you personally know them , if you saw me walk down the street , what would you call me? , I am a white Australian, but you don't know that. The only thing you might observe is I am a tourist if I dress different and have different mannerisms.
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  2868. I saw that news clip, it's the same as Wuhan , NY and Northern Italy before. I would suggest it's true.
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  2869. That last line or 2 was significant, basically said I sort of agree with him but he is also going about it the wrong way and (indirectly) I do believe the queen cares a lot even if things aren't perfect.
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  2870. As Islamic terrorists are often converts the same is true of people who change from far left or right to the opposite, they are the most radical. Funnily enough diehard Trump supporters are genuine bonafide socialists, they loved his anti free market rhetoric and how the US was going to fence itself off from the rest of the world. Unfortunately the Biden position seems little different.
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  2871. No not Australia, we contain any outbreak from quarantine otherwise it stops at border quarantine.
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  2872. Who cares about hospital, hospitalisation has many factors to it, insurance or lack of, wealth or lack of, public healthcare or lack of. Count the body bags that's what matters, according to some comments in this thread highly vaccinated countries like Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand should look like some apocalyptic movie and US being the least vaccinated should have barely any deaths. Count the body bags you will get your answer.
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  2873.  @helenporter7584  Ok get your point about timeline, so can only really say it's inconclusive regarding Mexico and whether or not ivermectin works or not because so late and also vaccines coming into play. If you actually look at Europe, some of the Eastern European countries have ended up the worst, kept borders shut had no cases and then due to political pressure opened the borders ending up with the worst death tolls per capita in the world. I don't think they can explain many things and that's one of those things but could be because the variants have progressively become more infectious so those that failed right from the start (or chose a relaxed policy) actually ending up better than those that failed later. So even if ivermectin does make a difference it will often be hard to distinguish.
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  2874. Are you suggesting that the US should invade Myanmar?
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  2875.  @lindaj5492  how so , he was including himself?
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  2876. It's not mutually exclusive. Whether it's his decisions or bad luck will never be known.
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  2877. You should look at data in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan ( possibly Germany) where the testing regimes have picked up a far higher proportion of cases. The countries where a very high proportion of real cases were never detected means the case fatality rate looks far worse than it would if most cases detected.
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  2878. We have Trumpers here but fair to say they are a small minority I think/hope.
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  2879. This contradicts the previous video. If it's been circulating for a while then should be multiple strains at the point in time when the virus was discovered which hasn't been proven. Listened to the whole thing now, the hypothesis is BS. I am Australian, we couldn't have gone to covid 0 in most parts of the country if it was correct. Australians travel overseas much more than US citizens and have a far greater ethnic Chinese population as a percentage and officially actually we had more covid 19 cases up until February 20 approximately.
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  2880.  @essanjay8604  that's a very sensible question and the answer could be yes but all jurisdictions in the world are doing it to some extent. However containment or slowing the spread has saved lives because treatment has improved. If a widespread vaccine comes in about a year or so the countries that contained virus will come out the best. If a vaccine doesn't come most if not all countries have no plan B. I have heard Australia , Sweden and US and I am sure many other countries saying we are waiting for a vaccine and no alternative plan mentioned because I think there is no other plan other than keep doing the same thing.
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  2881.  @enrobsorussell  What you speak of regarding limiting healthcare is only occurring in Victoria , not the rest of Australia. The rest of Australia has less restrictions than virtually any country in the world other than travel. In Australia we cherish what we have and Victorians for the most part want the freedoms as the rest of Australia has and can see this is preferable to continous lockdown lite as many seem to prefer. Victorians aren't fleeing to Europe or even suggesting they would want to. They talk about fleeing to the original hardline Australian states, that have less virus problems.
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  2882.  @peterderidder6549  yes broadly speaking there is 2 policies throughout the world , mitigation which is like you say prevent hospitals overflowing and make some effort to protect the elderly and containment which is get the outbreak to 0 and any new outbreaks attack very swiftly, testing and contact tracing and try to get back to 0 again. I think police in these jurisdictions are becoming highly skilled at tracking people. I think after this is finished the police will be able track criminals better too.
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  2883.  @martincahill5622  Your comment is spot on, truth is the messaging by numerous governments where the policy is to only slow the spread is completely misleading. The classic one is changing the definition of quarantine to mean reduce spread of contagious pathogens while countries like Australia, Taiwan, China etc. it still retains it's original meaning of to stop or prevent spread of contagious pathogens. This has had the effect that people even professional have wondered why certain countries at least before the Delta variant could contain the virus and keep going to covid zero when without looking at details everyone doing the same thing except they weren't because definitions were changed. In Australia now we having discussions about opening up and we have the inverse message being widely spread , learning to live with the virus is the message but the underlying policy is still covid 0 but with a lower emphasis on containment as in lockdowns less likely and enforced home quarantine as opposed to hotel quarantine and still continue with contact tracing and quarantine of the infected. The infected states as I call them are largely in lockdown and complaining about my state at the same time because we don't give assurance of fully opening border when 80% of eligible people vaccinated, quite premature and for the domestic state audience because if your state has the virus rampant you have nothing to lose by opening the border to a virus free state , your population gets more freedom possibly at the expense of another states existing freedoms.
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  2884. Dead virus test. There was a case in Australia some time ago a person tested positive and due to time from when he wanted to get tested to be tested and no symptoms at the time they did determine that the virus was dead but no idea how or what the test was , just that it has been possible for quite some time.
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  2885. Israel is much safer than the US with homicides at about 1 per 100,000 just like most of the rest of rich countries in the world, US is at 5 probably more in the last year. It's interesting that Americans don't want safety in their own country yet provide full protection of free arms to another. The US can't even secure it's border or provide decent healthcare for it's citizens with a life expectancy 4 years less than Israel, some US states actually have a life expectancy lower than the occupied Palestinian territories. I am not a US citizen but this situation would certainly make me unhappy.
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  2886.  @carylhalfwassen8555  US citizens are slow learners , give the vaccines to other countries that will appreciate it , trying to convince a hard core Trump supporter isn't really worth the time because they won't change their minds.
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  2887. I hope they recover soon.
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  2888. Nobody, everyone is going to lose, possibly a world wide recession.
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  2889. All I have seen is a phase 2 trial of 50 placebo and 50 getting the medicine. Not a large enough sample to mean anything much and the placebo group had about twice as many people with heart disease or diabetes. It doesn't say if those 3 that died are in that group of comorbidities and if they were it might be nothing more than random. A basis for a phase 3 trial maybe but nothing to be excited about yet unless the date of publishing in the lancet was November 12 so phase 3 trials with a decent number of people hasn't been done yet. There have been 10 or 20 drugs considered game changers but none have been. Treatment changes like not intubating too quickly as was practiced in some countries has had a greater effect. I would also bet that patient staff ratios make a big difference, overwhelmed intensive care units sometimes operating out of quickly repurposed car parks or storage rooms as practiced in parts of the US can't be good.
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  2890. Well I hope India accepts the offer from China and China follows through. It's the only country that can have a major impact. Other countries yes we send something's but none of us have the same capability other than maybe US if it had it's situation under control which it doesn't.
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  2891.  @AnuragSingh-wi6mf  I understand if the situation doesn't deteriorate then maybe the small amounts of current assistance from other countries will be enough, however if new cases per capita increase to levels like it has done in most of Europe and US and Brazil at certain times then what you are seeing now in India could be the calm before the storm and this is only the beginning. An unknown is the real cases per million currently, but if it's reasonably accurate on a countrywide basis then India's current rate of new infections is only about 1 third of that of the peak in the US for example.
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  2892. The Chinese tariffs are cleverly designed not to affect the Chinese people. They might be a dictatorship but they also believe in freetrade more so than the US does under Trump. There's also the non tariff measures they will quietly take. Because of the way the Chinese system works they can just encourage importers to source agricultural goods in particular from other countries. China has free trade agreements with ASEAN, South Korea , Australia, New Zealand and a few Latin American countries and Pakistan. The Trucks and machinery tariffs against the US do no harm to China in almost all cases similar high quality products can be purchased from Japan and i would bet that China has kept any specialised equipment than can only be purchased in the US off the list.
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  2893. I think she's a bit too young for that, maybe few terms later. Better for her to be leader in Congress first.
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  2894. Every country has that problem to a point, even Australia. It's not our politicians breaking rules but allowing movie stars and performers to quarantine where they choose instead of the cattle class hotel quarantine for everyone else.
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  2895. Basically all West Pacific countries have been doing it since about March last year.
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  2896. Then compare the per capita rate of deaths in New York and you will realise this is not like the flu.
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  2897. No they don't. Can't refuse based on race, religion and disability for example if rules say no dogs a seeing eye dog must be accepted.
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  2898. Why is everyone having a go at Phillip , he isn't a fundamentalist who disagrees with science. I am an atheist but should a bhuddist or muslim or christian say something nice to me , I just think that was nice. I don't need to point out anything. I hope that religious people do the same to me and most do and not expect I should agree with them.
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  2899. That's a good quote and appropriate, the more people protest and spread the virus the more restrictions as a rule.
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  2900. Correction: "partial lockdowns make covid 19 stronger" Full lockdown appropriate to outbreaks eliminate the virus.
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  2901.  @ripvanwinkle4532  there is no travel restrictions and in fact the US model all states has an inbuilt virus spread accelerator. You lockdown business in one state or county with high case rates to encourage people to travel to low infection areas, the virus couldn't ask for anything better and the best example of how to spread a virus with a partial lockdown. No state or national border in the US has hotel quarantine. As far as the partisan arguments variations in weather and densities make a big difference. South Dakota is probably the worst jurisdiction on the planet for killing it's citizens with no big city and about 40% rural population yet 0.18% of population dead, I think they found a way to infect farmers. Lockdown countries with border quarantine include China, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand, other countries maybe falling of the rails but same policies in general South Korea, Japan and Thailand. None of these countries have anywhere near the deaths per capita of continuous lockdown lite countries and on average are actually lockdown less, just restrictions as required. My city Brisbane Australia went into a 3 day lockdown over a weekend without a single case of community transmission, the reason was because of a quarantine breach with a cleaner at a quarantine hotel, I don't think they found any cases and lockdown lite up to the 14 days period need to wear mask. Population highly compliant back to normal in a couple of weeks most likely. About 450 cases of community transmission in a state of about 5,000,000 and 7 deaths I think, so full lockdowns certainly work and partial lockdowns especially the US model ensures spread throughout all major states and territory even Hawaii , Alaska and Puerto Rico that are geographically isolated, done better than almost all mainland states but by international standards given low level of difficulties very poorly.
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  2902.  @patrickc3419  The first 2 certainly didn't occur in Queensland and the other things you mentioned occurred all over the world. You are a rather ignorant person who doesn't believe in property rights at all because you do not respect property owners right to have conditions of entry. Are you a communist because that's the only people who don't believe in private property?
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  2903.  @gameshot586  It's relative, you are aware only 1 in 7 businesses last 4 years right and your personal example was just News Corporation consolidating, nothing to do with pandemic whether or not they used that as an excuse. Queensland's economy is far better than others in Australia and better than virtually every "open" country which aren't open actually , they still having lockdowns in Europe. As far as inflation of petrol actually nothing to do with QLD, that's world oil price and tax. You have to remember nowhere has had a boom and yes some businesses have failed just as they did in Sweden. We could become socialist like Northern European countries with government spending over 50% of GDP or run on debt like US , Canada and UK, do you favour either of these options? Everything is open , I am not saying QLD should lockdown so your last comment is just absurd.
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  2904.  @gameshot586  Oh and I am unaware of the Aussie Coup d'etat when the military took over and freed people from the leper colonies. The great leper liberation movement. I thought they ignored the lepers and fought against Japanese and Allies, Germans and allies and communist North Korea , Communist North Vietnam. Anyway look forward to this history I was unaware of. Leper colonies were far worse than any covid restrictions.
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  2905.  @ArialAElise  ok I misunderstood you. I know other than at the beginning and when Victoria Australia had serious problems all cases are genomic tested, but no idea how long that takes. About overall effectiveness of contact tracing , it will be very low where cases are high. I know in the case of Victoria when they got to about 500 cases per day it couldn't work at all in a state population of 6,500,000 and about 2,000 contact tracers. It was stated when Victoria basically developed a lockdown plan to get to very few cases that they were only confident that they could effectively contact trace 50 daily cases and anything higher the risk of having another major outbreak was too high, 90% confidence was given at the 50 cases per day that contact tracing would succeed. Contact tracing in Australia is track down everyone who was for example in a supermarket between certain times and encourage them to be tested etc. and then contact their close contacts for testing. My impression is contact tracing where the virus is rampant is just people that are close contacts as in household and work without bothering about looking for others and forget about secondary contacts without another known positive test result. Because of our fear in Brisbane of the UK strain the people at supermarkets where an infected person visited were declared close contacts and must get tested and isolate. So all supermarket staff working at that time would be going through self isolation and all the other customers they could find that were in store at the same time. These would normally be considered potential contacts not close contacts and maybe that with the 3 days lockdown is a bit over the top but better to do more and didn't have to than not do enough.
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  2906. It doesn't matter because Trump says you can't believe the data of any other countries, but he can't say anything because we are allies. He actually said that about South Korea but to a Trump devotee all the countries in the West Pacific including Australia my country and New Zealand are lying and don't test much. Of course we don't test much if it's only precautionary in many cases. We are advised in Australia and NZ and I am guessing other countries also any symptoms no matter how small please get tested.
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  2907.  @ExileRicochet13  Australia is a long way off the high vaccination rates of Singapore so will take some time , probably about when you say. NSW is in lockdown so a bit premature for them to talk about anything, they aren't allowed into the next suburb in a lot of cases.
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  2908. Unfortunately your comment is ironic, the fact that is needed in your country and it is appropriate shows you are not free, that freedom is an aspiration. Best of luck however and hope the FBI now considers every open threat on social media as real. People were openly making threats of violence on Trump's Youtube channel so it wasn't exactly hidden.
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  2909. It's not hypocrisy , this is about now, Australia doesn't deny what happened and that it was wrong and we had the national apology.
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  2910.  Susie Goodwin  what are you on about, this guy if he pulled it off would only kill one. Australia to be fair might have the same per capita number of serial killers but we have virtually no gang killings and we don't really have mass murderers other than the event in Christchurch NZ or the Tasmania event more than 20 years ago.
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  2911.  @KnarfStein  gloves help in an indirect way for the healthcare staff because someone wearing gloves less likely to touch their face which is how they can get infected.
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  2912. Until I see a single state shut a border for all non essential travel it's not going to happen. The US is a Federation like Australia with states running the health responses and without state border restrictions we would be like you most likely. Currently if you put restrictions in a high infection area , the infected go to a low infection state or county with fewer restrictions. The US response is designed to keep the spread going. One could not plan a better response to spread the virus. A state will not be rewarded for going virus free while it accepts new infections across it's border.
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  2913. Include Australia and NZ , so Australasia as well. It's not only about human diseases. The successful countries also take agricultural outbreaks , food safety and security seriously also. It's the same thinking and often the same types of control measures.
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  2914. I am curious what your concerns are, are you concerned about criminals?
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  2915. Look up "Battle of Brisbane ", that's my home town. Since you haven't attacked or annoyed Australia directly yet you'll probably be ok in Australia now. I would watch myself if I was you and in Canada because unless you live close to the Canadian border they'll know your American by you accent and at the moment the Canadian sentiment is probably not so different to the Brisbane sentiment in 1942.
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  2916.  @kennyz6271  Hong Kong is just one small province, nothing like the Myanmar situation, however if no punitive sanctions that destroy the country soft sanctions can work, such as South Africa. It's not a given either way in Myanmar but personally I am slightly optimistic.
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  2917.  @alejandropalazonurtubi3520  your comment is a little strange, you are implying countries like Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Thailand etc. have extremely good tests because positivity as low as 0.1% . So if you think a select group have good tests and your government is basically incompetent to the extreme get the evidence and tell the world. Which country are you referring to having useless tests?
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  2918. You have come to that conclusion that lockdowns don't work based on never seeing one occur. If it's not done properly and comprehensively it will never work as you want it to. A mitigation lockdown not designed to get rid of the virus but not overflow hospitals is pointless is the conclusion I have come to. I am living in Queensland Australia a virus free state with almost no restrictions except travel restrictions if coming from an infected country or state 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine.
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  2919.  @williamhornabrook8081  the AZ vaccine is made all over the world, UK, Belgium, India, Thailand, Australia, China, USA, South Korea and others I believe, if France has the capability which I believe it has the government had to step in and provide funding to a local firm to start making it , also of course the local firm would need to agree to the "at cost " terms etc. from Astrazeneca and Astrazeneca gets nothing until pandemic I guess declared over by WHO to be over. In Australia for example the government paid for expansion of vaccine production capacity by CSL our local company. To me the EU can't decide if it's a country or group of trading/security partners, so in a way I don't think France is totally to blame as an individual country, but collectively the EU seems to be a country, taking away the rights of it's membership. The open borders policy in the EU seems slightly tougher than what individual Australian states in Australia can and have done to protect themselves. I saw some EU person naming countries that have shut their borders to whatever extent the EU deemed wrong. To travel interstate in Australia if a state has a lot of cases need a pass and an approved reason to travel and if not an emergency like urgent medical care which is generally exempt 2 weeks hotel quarantine for about $2,800 . So the EU and US (including no enforceable interstate restrictions) open border policies have of course ended in the same results. UK and Canada same too but at least finally put in some fairly relaxed measures. Certainly have sympathy to you as an individual but totally disagree with the choices made on your behalf.
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  2920.  @AlienLivesMatter  90% less covid 19 deaths per Capita in Western Pacific WHO region compared to European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region and less other problems. Success doesn't mean perfect.
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  2921. If the UK Post or whatever it might be called is like the USPS especially if results are sent back the same way you should get an answer around May or so.
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  2922. You are mistaking failed policies versus successful policies. Every government on the planet has socialised medicine other than failed states in civil war. To remove politics means no more public health and no more grants for research and absolute trust in the market and voluntary donations by individuals or business for those that can't afford any care. Absolute trust that all drug or vaccine companies would voluntarily act in a truly ethical manner. This would be a Utopian dream in my opinion.
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  2923. I think you will find Australian life expectancy will increase this year with other containment countries.
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  2924. He didn't search for drugs which is what he was talking about , he checked for weapons. That seems pretty straight forward to me.
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  2925.  Tanha Dil  no lockdown in your country probably means 1,000,000 cases a day, possibly more. The economy can't operate well under such circumstances. The longer it takes to lockdown the worse the effects, if you look around the world many countries or jurisdictions only locked down after the disaster already happening and a lot harsher lockdown. Support for the poorer people is needed at the same time.
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  2926. Be concerned but not alarmed. If the people willing to get tested gets too low in one week 1 can become 100 cases and 3 weeks later same to Victorias dark days. I am in Queensland and same applies here it's important any outbreak is caught early and our contact tracing can work like crazy to yes even though apparently a dirty word now eliminate it until the next outbreak.
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  2927.  @simonfrederiksen104  although I get your point even that isn't guaranteed, look at South Africa as an example I am 47 , that place has never been peaceful in my lifetime, except maybe a short time in the beginning of Mandela's presidency. It just changed from one type of violence to another. South Africa is just one country, many are like that, I just chose that one because it happened to change to democracy.
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  2928. That's political suicide if you are correct.
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  2929.  @SchiwiM  Depends how you define danger, in physical danger not really, in danger freedom wise certainly.
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  2930.  @johnsradios484  You've probably said the most sensible response in this thread. I would add to your comment that some US journalists because of what you just said often put themselves in the story and start arguing in a partisan fashion while interviewing rather than just ask questions and get answers , narrate it later, but first get the answers.
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  2931. Whoever made that decision won't openly admit to it any time soon unless it's just a mortality rating thing.
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  2932. That number you mention from the NHS is silly but the actual number from ONS in the UK is good because it comes from death certificates.
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  2933. Masks slow the rate of virus spread, not stop it. The problem is if people wear masks but change behaviour and less social distancing it can theoretically increase the rate of spread. So the behaviour of the wearer is the most important aspect and this will be different in different cultures, including differences in rural people versus city people. Rural people naturally stand further apart and interact with each other less so the rate of spread will always be slower in rural areas.
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  2934.  @PassifloraCerulea  Be quiet passionfruit. No there's no grand conspiracy especially with home testing available in the US it will push numbers down , not up because they aren't recorded unless they get hospitalized.
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  2935. We are free of covid 19 community transmission, one of only 3 nations of 5,000,000 or more to be so. No point wearing a mask when there is no cases.
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  2936. The issues Raghad raise about an apparent high number of conspiracy theorists with vaccines and the virus etc. seems to be far worse in certain countries. Quite surprising for me that US , Indonesia, Iraq and Russia all seem to be very similar in this regard. I am in Australia and have some people like that but I don't think it would be as high proportion. The fires in hospitals are tragic and totally understand that reducing confidence a lot.
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  2937. In Australia all elections are run that way, We call it preferential voting, has other names also like instant run off. It's better because then especially in the US case a third presidential candidate who every knows won't win could still get 10 or 20% of the vote and show the big party's how many don't actually prefer either of them but all those votes will count towards the second most desirable candidate. Another thing is for state and federal elections we have compulsory voting although the term is inaccurate actually it's really compulsory attendance and get your name crossed off and do whatever you want with the voting paper because it's secret anyway, there's always bins around voting booths for those that want to bin it and or the how to vote cards political party's try to hand out. Most people in reality if they are there will vote but the informal votes (that's either deliberately or accidentally not voting properly so it doesn't count) can go up to 5% or so if people really annoyed with all politicians. You would need at least legislative changes and maybe even constitutional changes to adopt similar voting methods to a country like Australia.
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  2938. How could covid relief funds be spent on something else? I would think those funds would need to have been spent on certain items only.
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  2939.  @paulklp8262  destroyed is a bit strong, reformed if possible in both cases, not saying it's possible or not I don't know. Personally I think the Republican Party will change over time , less likely the CPC.
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  2940.  @thisisisabella3634  A far right socialist crushes the workers in favour of the corporations. In totally free market no regulations would exist for workers and employers which doesn't work that's why every country on the planet has a minimum wage and most places will limit how easily a boss can fire a worker and how easily a union can strike. China has 100 USD billionaires in parliament , they are considered part time and they meet once a year usually to vote on legislation. From memory called the standing committee or something like that. Think about that number of billionaires and how many in US parliament which you call congress. I know people from the US tend to think of socialism as social welfare only but corporate welfare is fine and protectionism is fine. Having higher levels of corporate welfare like agricultural subsidies and less social welfare normally ( not counting pandemic handouts) doesn't make a country less socialist. If you look at the US in the economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation the US is fairly highly rated but still a long way from the top, this index is the best guide to how socialist a country is, however it does include corruption which isn't a socialist or non socialist thing which might skew things a bit.
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  2941. As an Aussie it's an interesting concept because Australia was created as a penal colony. It's not entirely a bad idea however it's contradictory to Trump's policy on trade. He doesn't believe in free trade but now wants to use foreign countries to lock up prisoners, in other words extreme free trade for incarceration services. It's really strange.
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  2942. The unemployment rate in other states about the same, have to see after all handouts are gone which will be a while. Business failures in countries like Sweden also occured. No country or jurisdiction outside of possibly North Korea has been spared.
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  2943. Well it's now crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, maybe it was aimed for India, who knows.
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  2944. The US is in a bad predicament regardless of Party. The US is actually a developing country. Lowest life expectancy of a wealthy country, highest homicide rate of a wealthy country. Highest total healthcare costs of any countr on a per Capita basis, the US spends more on public healthcare than Australia on a per Capita basis. So spend more and get less. The disfunction of US governments is the primary underlying problem and healthcare in the US is literally a fascist regime where the suppliers tell the government what to do and outright price gouge the state and federal governments and public.
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  2945. China is being just as political, you seem one sided in your assessment.
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  2946.  @anguswilliam2141  Yes I could probably go but a lot of uncertainty, maybe stuck there for a long while and costly for hotel quarantine. I have had one dose of AZ , need 2 and should be able to not go through hotel quarantine in Thailand. Obviously paying hotel quarantine at both ends extremely expensive.
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  2947.  @westhouse4641  I looked at the clip you provided, well 4300 positions is a lot of positions. Let's hope he makes suitable picks , but this is the problem in your democracy , the job of president is too powerful and too extensive. In a democracy like Australia , my country nobody has anywhere near the power and what you call secretaries we call ministers and in your case all picked by one person , in our case they are chosen from elected representatives, these are the people who actually run the show. So you elect one person to run an entire government whereas we choose in general terms a party to run a government. Best of luck.
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  2948. Most of Europe has parliamentary systems where you don't have a person who is head of state and head of government and picks his/her entire unelected cabinet. That level of power dramatically increases the chances of a dictatorship.
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  2949. Wait until the old fat unvaccinated people start getting then we find out. There's a large number in that category in the US and it's then that we will find out if it does spread as quickly or quicker than Delta.
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  2950. I totally agree actually. If Delta variant gets into North Korea they're stuffed, Delta variant can't be contained without extreme measures or jumping on top of it really quickly and probably North Korea has no vaccines because they trust no one.
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  2951.  @justme2423  You just made the point that the US is not united because you just said it is all the fault of Democrat voters in cities. If you were united you would not be blaming one group. They do the same and blame everything on Republicans. I am Australian so just an observation.
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  2952. You can put travel restrictions in place as NY has now done. The choice to allow infected people in without forced quarantine is exactly that a choice. In Australia every state now has border restrictions at least to some extent. That is why if you look at our state numbers the state that failed has over half of the total cases at this point in time. To leave that state you must go into quarantine of some sort for 2 weeks, in my state that is 14 days government supervised at your cost and plus 10 days if you refuse to be tested.
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  2953. Neither, he said he's an Israeli Jew, his position is normal for those people.
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  2954. They don't lose too much , maybe some political power. It's not like if the civilian government is reinstalled there will be any significant retaliation, observe the people they are protesting peacefully, it's not like the angry mob heading off to hang Mike Pence.
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  2955. Correct idea but urbanisation rate is better and also consider that New York City is a large city unlike whatever South Dakota has.
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  2956.  @Chuanese  It might help but if you have noticed there are many black police commissioner including the Minneapolis one. Nobody has called for his resignation, he's the big boss supposed to be running the show. I agree with you in principle but it's far more complicated than that and treating minor offences in the same way every other other Western country does would achieve much more. The burden on the police to both arrest and handcuff should be high. This is the most notable thing about US policing, the ease at which someone can be arrested. I don't know what country you are from but in Australia I think it would take hours for the police to come over a $20 note if they come at all and no chance of any arrest they might want CCTV footage that's it, and ask the suspect where it came from at some stage.
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  2957. I noticed that mistake about the medical worker deaths understanding.
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  2958. You take care and best of luck.
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  2959.  @topologyrob  If you are from Sydney or Melbourne I have great sympathy for you and totally agree the protestors might keep you in lockdown and or harder restrictions for longer. I am in Brisbane so our protestors making up things to protest about like vaccine mandates because they weren't restricted from doing so. The funny thing is vaccine mandates have existed for decades in certain settings and for certain international travel.
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  2960. You could have done exactly the same thing as Australia and the vast majority of the country would have had no more than 4 weeks lockdown, all the lower population more rural states could have kept it out pretty easily because they had an extra month or so to get it right and it spreads much slower in such settings. What happened in February was a sign of things to come, the US tested 500 people as apposed to Australia about 10,000 tests. The past can't be changed , let's hope the US gets it's act together and goes for elimination when the vaccines are widely available.
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  2961. Not if you live in one of 11 states where more than 0.2% of the population already dead from covid 19.
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  2962. ​@christopherrobinson7541 your assertion is probably a contributing factor but it's not only that.
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  2963. Well at an estimated $88,000 per head it will cost a lot. Trump isn't going raise taxes for it however, it will be debt funded. His tax increases will only be on imported goods affecting the poor mostly.
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  2964.  @azrahostetler571  Those Abrahamic religious people , not all of course, hate each other, the only thing that they hate more is non Abrahamic religious people and down the bottom the atheist like me. Atheist have more to gain by religious freedom because vast majority of the time China and North Korea are the exceptions it's religious people imposing their will upon others even if the others actions do no harm to them.
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  2965.  @france1945  You say you have made it on your own , so I do wonder what you do. The following industries receive government socialist interventions, All manufacturing, All farming, all real estate, all banking, all insurance, most healthcare, consumer staples like Walmart. So it's great you have made it on your own without government support. It would seem you are a Trump socialist, a big fan of a closed market (protectionist) and industry subsidies but not a fan of a decent welfare safety net including healthcare. Australia is less socialist and more free market orientated and most likely we spend less on public health care than the US at the moment noting the absolute failures of the Covid 19 response. If you doubt me see the Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation. Why you want higher taxes or government debt to support corporations versus humans is confusing to me. Look forward to your argument in favor of the limited socialist model of the US versus Australia going head to head. Also why do you subsidise farmers and then use illegal labor, is this to crush farmers in the very countries the workers come from?
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  2966. Reading the comments in this thread it appears that mind altering drug sales are prevalent in the US.
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  2967. I think wait a bit, once Omicron starts to spread they will get large case numbers.
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  2968. Take care, most people appreciate you. It's unfortunate not everyone does but that's how it is.
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  2969.  Priscilla Falzirolli  For the person personally it's not a problem, but even if they are a-symptomatic they can still spread it. Have to remember of the total world population even if the official cases are half the real cases only 1% of the world population has been infected, or even if that's 5% still a long way to go if it can spread continuously.
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  2970. The one that confuses me as an Australian is our former colony of Papua New Guinea. They gained independence in 1975, it's surprising they don't want Palestinian independence for some unknown reason.
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  2971. I would think it will be exponential as the BMI gets higher because pumping blood around and breathing will get increasingly harder. I am sure you would have found your weight loss already makes it much easier for example to walk up a flight of stairs. Anyway keep at the weight loss thing and try to never go backwards. Best of luck.
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  2972. Not really, the US has been pretty constant at about 20,000 cases per day. It's interesting to watch the media in different countries. In Australia an outbreak is 5 people infected, in the US an outbreak in a nursing home is only newsworthy if 50 people dead then it's an outbreak.
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  2973. At a Trump rally it probably does lol.
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  2974. Any of the Murdoch owned media is outright far right propaganda and hasbara in the case of Israel. So don't trust anything on the issue of Israel if it comes from Fox News, Sky News Australia (not sky news uk which has different ownership) and talktv UK. Same applies to any Murdoch print media. Seems the Murdoch family are Zionists.
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  2975. My gosh what sort of authoritarian are you, you are suggesting that anyone who has a different view to you should leave , that's pretty nasty and clearly you hate free speech.
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  2976. Of course and you don't want the jury to know either.
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  2977. The "it originated in Africa" comment in the last video. Maybe it came from middle east or Europe or South Asia.
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  2978. Nora you haven't made it onto the list of canary mission, they are scared of you I guess.
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  2979. The world is crazy, how is prosecuting people who clearly suffer mental illness a good idea, they need help. It's like the old vagrancy laws which are still used to clean up streets for international events.
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  2980. And drugs more so smuggled through the ports by people or trucks legally allowed to enter.
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  2981. Calm down, there's nothing anyone can do about whatever it is that's bothering you.
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  2982. Speaking as an Aussie, some of your candidates for significant government positions are as scary as hell. In Australia we have some who are a bit crazy but actually I support them, they aren't from the 2 major parties and will never have real power but keep free speech alive so that they can be rebuked. Just saying I guess actually vote for these crazies if they aren't from a major as in 2 party system otherwise be scared as hell they could actually be governing you.
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  2983. The CPC in its list of grievances against Australia was bad media coverage by Australian media companies. They want us to shut down free speech or something. They'll chat to us again one day especially if Biden keeps giving them the cold shoulder.
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  2984. Be careful with your cleaning products, I personally react to laundry detergent, dishwashing detergent , toothpaste, leather and shampoo. I live on my apartment balcony and am at the whim of my neighbours hanging out washing which causes me to vomit. Starting initial plans to move to the countryside which fortunately I can afford for now. Doctors refer to my issue as depression because I don't reach any other clinical definition at this point in time. So vomiting is apparently caused by depression. Look into using bicarbonate of soda and vinegar or lemon juice for cleaning, it's possible you have environmental issues. Reduce chemicals in bedroom first so you can sleep properly. Some people have issues with formaldehyde which is basically in all modern furniture chipboard or plywood glues. I am 49 year old male.
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  2985.  @frogwart2298  not white people another group, read again.
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  2986. I don't think you can put a time on it, depends if and when tariffs come into effect increasing the price of everything including some food items.
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  2987.  @maddoo23  The coal one is misleading that was just protectionism applied slightly unequally. Trade sanctions on Cotton, Barley, Wine, Timber, Beef and Lobsters. Designed to make sure every state of Australia feels pain, a divide and conquer strategy by hoping the state Premiers suggest a different course, 2 state Premiers did actually speak in favour of Australia taking a softer approach so it partially worked, but it didn't work, no change in position federally. Another was although it means nothing now because of covid 19 saying Australia is dangerous because of racists and that maybe people shouldn't study here. Chinese citizens tend to follow what the government says so I expect when things open up again we will get less Chinese students.
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  2988. I am not American but that's unfair to judge an entire group or in other words act with absolute prejudice. I would encourage you to look at Republican voters against Trump and the Lincoln Project. Not all Republicans support Trump even to the point of saying pick the Democrat we just need this guy gone.
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  2989. In response to the replies, we can't change what has already occurred and my opinion is should have done one or the other , partial restrictions of the US achieved nothing. Let's look at economic impact at the government level a budget deficit last calendar year of 15% of GDP for the US and 7.5% for Australia which had strict travel restrictions and real quarantine. For the social and health including mental health impacts they have actually been worse in the the US compared to Australia. If the US was going to not care about a virus spreading rampantly better to have never had the partial restrictions at all , although the best policy was harsh restrictions for both health and economic outcomes, the Western Pacific region of WHO has less than 10% of the death toll on a per capita basis than PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region even if you eliminate China in the statistic. Economically on average we have performed much better too. This was known at the start of the pandemic, one of the US Fed reserve people pointed out that the states that had harsher restrictions during the 1918 flu pandemic recovered more quickly.
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  2990.  @yingyang1008  you mustn't have heard of Western Australia or New Zealand.
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  2991. It seems your media and government have declared it's all over despite 3,000 deaths in the last week and 20,000 new cases a day from memory. It's fair to say things are looking positive as in going down fairly quickly but that actually happened last summer too without a vaccine.
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  2992. It's not about the kids they are low risk unless other problems, it's about teachers like one interviewed, she is overweight and high risk. Putting her in a class room is playing Russian roulette with her life.
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  2993. Many countries bars have to close around that time normally. Sounds like a fakew to me.
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  2994. Interesting conversation on the Hasbara battlefield which is certainly real.
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  2995. The thing is the technology exists now, it just requires significant investment, truck drivers might drive the last few miles but be automated on highways.
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  2996.  chocolate milk  You seem to refuse to look at evidence, the US , UK , Spain and France and other European countries have tried what you say. They have hospitals overflowing and restrictions in place often referred to as lockdown, In Australia and New Zealand plus East Asia and many ASEAN countries everything is open deaths are low , hospitals are functioning normally and people are not dying from secondary causes related to the restrictions and healthcare situation. You are literally advocating the deaths of millions of people in my region given the more than 2,000,000,000 population. So it's not going to happen we will not be following the US lead in this matter. You can say that we should kill members of our population ok that's your opinion not shared by the vast majority, who are ok with 14 days enforced quarantine at the border for people entering, which is the only restriction of great significance.
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  2997.  @renatocm2881  Well I am from Australia , Aussie is shorthand for Australian. Australia is a federation also. To your point do I believe North Korea , well not really however there's no reason that they would have cases if they have kept the Delta variant out, many countries could do that but not with Delta, the states of New South Wales and Victoria in Australia being examples of that. The deaths per Capita in the Western Pacific region of WHO are less than 10% of the PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region or Americas, the policies were completely different with open borders and no quarantine in the Americas and 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine for arrivals in all Western Pacific WHO region countries. The results speak for themselves and the Western Pacific WHO region is from China down to New Zealand so actually a diverse group of countries with differing wealth levels, differing cultures and differing political systems. It's true that the Presidents you mention are not entirely to blame but it's also true regardless of who else is responsible those presidents are partially responsible. There's a reason I mentioned regions in the first comment and yes it's about regional policy.
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  2998. Population has nothing to do with anything. Canada imports things like vehicles and machinery from the US and exports a lot of primary products. Remove 1 product oil and Canada has a trade deficit.
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  2999. It will likely explode, check the US in 2 weeks to see if thanksgiving has caused a spike noting higher restrictions in many states at the same time. If the US goes up despite higher restrictions think about what would have happened if restrictions reduced at that holiday time.
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  3000. I am hoping Australians will boycott Tesla. We are a free market economy so plenty of Asian and European brands of electric vehicles that are better value. The only thing good about Tesla is it's a sports car but for an average person it's not suitable. A BYD Dolphin electric car costs about $20,000 USD in Australia, it has 2 thirds of the range of a Tesla and takes an extra 2 seconds or something to go from 0 to 100km per hour, for most people so what.
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  3001. Australia has very few restrictions and New South Wales there are virtually no restrictions at all , businesses can require masks and some places are still required to check in with their app. Yes cases skyrocketing over the last week or so in NSW. Everywhere else in Australia has slightly more restrictions and cases haven't increased yet, more coming into my state of Queensland but not really spread yet only a few cases but expecting omicron to spread. Hospitalization and deaths are the numbers to look at , cases don't matter that much and we are highly vaccinated.
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  3002. Americans will likely be more affected than Canadians. Of course Canadian businesses will suffer but the retaliatory tariffs are designed not to hurt citizens, things like alcohol doesn't need to come from the US and nobody harmed. Same with some food items they can either be manufactured in Canadian or imported from Mexico, getting the supply chains working to avoid the US on such items might take a while but probably not a long time. Canada and Mexico also have to send freight by ship because trucking through the US might get blocked.
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  3003. But you guys sent some infected person to Victoria, I'd be a little more humble if I was you, I am not Victorian but feel for them that last time.
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  3004. The "domino theory" is correct in the opposite way to the theory itself that more and more countries would become communist. In fact the dominoes are falling in the other direction even if it's slow, apartheid in all its forms is slowly falling next domino is probably Palestine/Israel. Capitalism is slowly taking over previous communist countries even if still ruled by an oppressive communist party. Free Palestine don't give up students especially in the US, the only country that provides such a large donation to a high income country with better healthcare than the US itself. Also try to broaden support if possible, while it's unlikely you will agree with them on other issues the MAGA base hates giving money to Israel, just don't talk about other issues, make sure this remains a single issue protest.
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  3005. He didn't say it's not reflective entirely but that the accuracy will be lower, he isn't suggesting numbers are 10 times as much or that's my impression.
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  3006. According to the ABC you are correct with case numbers but deaths were only 900 and something. So a long way off.
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  3007. The real problem is it undermines confidence. Thailand a bit different to the European countries because low cases and not such a rush.
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  3008. That's about policy. In Australia still need a warrant to arrest someone, still need a warrant for a search warrant, exactly the same as USA, it's the US chooses not to and couldn't do it if it tried. Trump is trying but will fail, impossible to remove 10 million people or 3% of the population especially as many have been in the US for decades, some since being small children and they don't know any other country.
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  3009. The guy is nuts. He says trade deficits cause government debt. They are completely unrelated. Also and this has already occurred, Canadians are boycotting US products and holidays. The US can't boycott Canada as much, are Americans going to boycott gasoline and Canadian lumber, well of course not. Starting a trade war you are guaranteed to lose is just crazy.
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  3010.  @oslo162  You're all over the place in your comment and clearly are unaware of Australia being a federation of states. That's great your country whichever country that happens to be is open, good for you. Melbourne is not Australia and it is a part of a state called Victoria that's where the 200 days number comes from , nowhere else in the country. If your country had 1.1% economic growth and a government deficit of around 7% last year or better that's great and clearly you are not from US or UK or Canada or anywhere in Europe pretty much so I am curious where you come from because not many countries doing better even if they are opening up a little earlier that debt from last year needs to be paid. South Korea and Japan are struggling too at the moment and Japan has a higher vaccination rate than Australia and South Korea similar. Look at the situation in Alabama and Mississippi which have higher vaccination rates than Australia plus significant natural infections on top of that, New South Wales and Victoria would be far worse than those 2 US states if they were to just let it rip, it's not an option, having people refused hospital care is a bad place to be along with all the people who get killed from catching the virus in hospital.
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  3011. Coming from the covi sars2 virus free world , we wonder why other countries from the diseased world, especially wealthy one don't just lockdown properly for 12 weeks or so and be done with it, and keep border shut without hotel quarantine. Waiting for summer would theoretically make it easier but who knows with these diseased world super strains.
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  3012. The rule is correct , however it's based on always being one step behind in testing capacity. In Australia it went from pretty much unless you work in a hospital or nursing home or think you're about to die you won't be tested, to the current position which has existed in all states I think for a few months, anyone who wants a test gets one and even if you get a runny nose in an area where cases might exist please get tested we appreciate it and results within 48 hours everywhere I think. My impression is many US states can't even guarantee a result in 3 days and as Bill Gates has said in a few interviews the reimbursement system in the US is wrong because companies still getting paid the full amount for a result a week after the test (paraphrased).
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  3013.  @calvinsylveste8474  Your comment is the perfect ad for the 400,000 and counting excess deaths in the US, the largest peacetime killing this century not associated with a natural disaster. Maybe China's great leap forward could be considered in a similar light except the Chinese do acknowledge the failure and the US is yet to acknowledge the failure alongside many European countries.
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  3014. If you are referred to as a team member rather than an employee you are probably getting screwed.
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  3015. $30.54 per hour for average wage? I am Australian sounds like US people are making a killing. I am thinking there is a 10% group which is way overpaid, starting with CEOs because nothing else in the key data seems to match.
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  3016. It would be your first reason I expect.
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  3017. Sounds like a dead man walking to me, in a metaphorical sense of course.
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  3018. Run with their own argument against them, pretty sure Republican states on average spend less on healthcare and education than Democrat states. However the Republicans are big spenders when it comes to their higher prison populations on average. When locking people up is the policy in it of itself something isn't right.
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  3019. The comments here are a bit strange, so many calling for open borders. Look at your own country and consider is your open border if you are a US citizen popular, actually it's not other than to a few far lefties. At least half of the US population would prefer Australia's border policy.
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  3020. It would be extremely harmful for the student if a teacher dies on them when they at school.
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  3021. I am in Australia and these people are all over the English speaking Western Democracy world , UK, Canada, New Zealand. I believe our Australian centre right government is hoping their leader is not re elected. They can never say it directly of course but I am sure they are thinking it and if you compare UN speech to the general assembly we aren't on the same page on many issues. If you see someone comment from Australia that they support Trump there is a reasonable chance they believe this crap. Don't blame the Trump followers because they know no better and most are harmless like the ones interviewed, be a little afraid though if Trump loses the election in a close battle, some sort of terrorist attack killing a few or 10s of people is not out of the question. Take down the leader and hopefully the loose network of qanon goes backwards worldwide because those terrorist risks are not only in the US while they have their leader.
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  3022. If he didn't leave that receipt he would have probably got away with it for some time depending on what he decided to do with the girl.
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  3023. It's a living thing when it replicates , a human egg isn't living either, it does nothing just like a plant seed until it receives the correct temperature and moisture levels.
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  3024. If just a surgical mask most likely makes no difference the filter is still the same, just look funny.
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  3025.    Unless a country has an insecure border then they are an island because the virus can't cross the border without a host. Trade has nothing to do with anything and if it did then the US and many European countries should perform better than Australia. It might come as a surprise to you that interstate trade does occur in Australia. If you look at Malta it's performed at about the same standard when considering deaths per capita to Victoria Australia and only less than 500,000 people versus 6,500,000, Norway on the other hand to date has done better. It's up to a country or state what it decides to do and if they are a wealthy country then the capacity to contain the virus is the same, obviously if you have a large population you can hire more contact tracers. As far as road transportation you quarantine the truck drivers so they never come into contact with the local population other than say a defined quarantine fuel station for example. A country has to do what it has to do. Closing state borders in Australia was not easy but had it not occured I believe we would be in a different position.
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  3026. You know how Trump gave the nickname sleepy Joe. Those who detest this guy should start up the nickname "CHAMELEON GRAHAM". I think it would have a decent ring to it and quite accurate.
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  3027. It really comes down to will the US continue to follow it's agreements. A lot of country don't have nuclear weapons because of agreements of protection. Would the US be safer if approximately all G20 countries all started getting nuclear weapons?
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  3028. While you mightn't have intended it you are sort of implying if you think someone who is victimizing another is of the same race you would ignore it.
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  3029. Unions have a place and it's their job to protect their members, to fund defence in the case of an officer being charged. It's not the unions fault if mayor's want to listen to everything they say. The union is not more powerful than the government. Unions are normally aligned to the left side of politics. Crushing unions for what purpose? So it's easier to prosecute police meanwhile , criminals get the benefits of state funded lawyers.
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  3030. ​ @JerichoSteele Ask him why he wants Australian exporters to the US to be hit with tariffs as Trump is proposing.
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  3031.  @streamylc  Looking from afar , sorry but you are certainly calling the pot black. Both sides of your politics have nutters in them and enablers. If you think I am wrong show me the large and continuous condemnation of BLM/Antifa riots (yes not all did that I am referring to wherever looting and burning city blocks to the ground occurred) , any defund the police advocates and the condemnation of Jan 6. Problem is the supporters of all those 3 things still support those 3 things and haven't been told that's very wrong by their respective sides. Migration trends will usually be from high cost places and or dangerous places to lower cost or safer, there's more lower cost Red states as you call them and they are more rural so perceived to be safer and often are, so you can't read too much into that. Another thing is having Democrat control of small failing jurisdictions is a symptom not the cause quite often, middle class flee and the poor left behind who are more likely to vote Democrat. Anyway best of luck and if you can be critical of both sides it would be good, but unfortunately need the majority to do so for change.
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  3032. The problem with the US in a general sense is ineffective government, regardless of taxes. The public healthcare bill for the non universal US system is well in excess of the Australian universal healthcare system. Life expectancy is probably around 5 years longer in Australia so it's not like we get a substandard service in general terms. If you look at the last year obviously the public healthcare system in the US totally failed because "business" was considered more important than life and got neither only a giant deficit and lots of dead people compared to WHO Western Pacific region countries . PAHO Pan American Health Organization countries failed in general and headquartered in Washington DC. I think the US was most influential in the PAHO regional response to covid 19. I have waffled on a bit just making the point taxing and spending is irrelevant if the government is disfunctional in spending that money.
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  3033.  @chrisstewart9191  are you suggesting that people are being declared dead in the US however they are still alive to bring the life expectancy number down? That's a pretty bizarre claim. The US has higher suicide, homicide, road fatality rates and whatever you want to call it those people dying with covid, so naturally the US life expectancy is lower, it's really simple maths, basically just count the dead people and find out how old they were.
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  3034.  Chris Stevens  Here is a list of lockdown countries Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. Please specify which country you are talking of. No other countries have had a total lockdown only partial measures. I have left China off the list because you are unlikely to believe their data.
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  3035. The guy also has a pretty good weapon. Not something that could be done lightly. If the man didn't drop the weapon to arrest would require tasing at least. Then all over news man tased over footpath tile. The police nervous it might be staged to break through the line as well. One was heard saying hold the line.
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  3036. There's literally half a dozen clips on the matter on this YouTube channel. Do you think they are only allowed to report on that until you give them permission to report on something else?
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  3037. I believe suicide rates have increased in many places. Videos of refrigerated trailers lined up outside a hospital to take bodies away isn't particularly good for mental health either. Having parents die in their 40s and 50s also isn't conducive to mental well being and then where it truly got out of control lockdowns anyway. There is no perfect answer to this and the data will only be known in maybe 3 or 4 years. If you look at New York about 0.16 % of the population is dead. Suicides in Australia are around 0.01% of the population per year in recent years. It'll take a hell of an increase in suicides to catch up to covid 19 deaths in a poorly managed area. Also what I said need to compare at some time in the future when it's all over.
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  3038.  @puffthemagicdragon9534  maybe 1 in 1 million. Queensland has had over 3 million tests and 1770 total cases so even if you assumed every positive test was a false positive it's only about 1 in 2000. Obviously we have had cases just like everywhere so of course can't be all false positives.
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  3039. The easiest countries for Americans to go to if they're skilled is all the other high income English speaking countries, Canada, Ireland, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
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  3040. You're becoming paranoid, just hope he doesn't bite you.
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  3041. 172 cases is like when Victoria had 500 cases, this is a new variant, 8 weeks seems optimistic.
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  3042.  @Theorimlig  Dan Patrick of Texas has come close , suggesting older people should risk dying to save the economy. He is old himself to be fair.
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  3043.  @axetwolf8676  Hey mate look at the positive , Melbourne had a hard lockdown for covid 19 , at least you avoided that. I hope for you and everyone this de escalates and after Biden is hopefully sworn in can go back to something similar to the original deal that Trump tore up. From Brisbane Australia. Not sure of your plans or whatever but the weather is better in this part of Australia than Melbourne.
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  3044.  @techuniverse749  USA, has 0 discipline. They just had a policy of wait till the vaccines save us. Still border open to every country in the world without any compulsory quarantine, just 10 days voluntary quarantine. They have stopped foreigner entering from some countries but it would appear the virus never checks the travel documents of a person before infecting them, such a disobedient virus will not obey the mighty United States.
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  3045. In Australia it has become quite sophisticated, the standard test just gives a positive case and then every case goes for genomic testing, they can actually tell whether or not transmission is direct or a few cases removed even within a variant because it would seem very small mutations happen all the time.
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  3046.  @danam.5433  NT and WA have their unique problems which don't match with other jurisdictions other than QLD partly, they will join the rest of us but they need more time due to vulnerability. Edit: you do realise QLD has had about 90% of deaths in the last 2 weeks right? If not consider that because you don't seem to care about deaths from your comment, only cases.
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  3047. Not all Christians are bad.
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  3048. Your screen name is appropriate for you.
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  3049. Maybe it's someone can't have everything, I consider her very attractive physically but nuts.
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  3050. Poverty in the US isn't the same as poverty in China, you are using completely different measures.
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  3051.  @finn8248  calm down if you can for your own sake. Things will change I believe , but only if American look outside of the US. If the majority which still seems to be the case accepts some of the highest healthcare costs for a government because uneven social medicine is good versus the communist cheaper option adopted by all other OECD countries. Note no country prohibits people travelling to the US and buying the possibly superior non emergency care. The federal voting system is crap because you don't actually have one, eligibility is decided by state. How about having a government run by elected officials rather than the elected king chooses the unelected executive government. The US had possibly the best democratic system for a nation about 220 years ago. At the time a musket was a sophisticated military weapon and having a wagon with true round wheels was the state of the art. Your democracy is like those other examples, don't hang on to it, appreciate history and move on.
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  3052. To either confess or to remove suspicion. He knows the police will be looking for him if not now but soon, he's obviously a person of interest given his relationship.
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  3053. China already declared Australia the enemy in an around about way. They listed 14 grievances and the person from the Chinese embassy giving this list to a journalist said "if you want China to be the enemy we will be the enemy" paraphrased. So naturally China is always angry with us until we comply which will never happen because some grievances were outrageous like Australian free media doing unfavorable stories about China. The Australian government can't stop our own media complaining about themselves, how would it look if they cracked down on them on behalf of another nation.
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  3054. Nah the claim is that some secret command and intelligence centre. If it's to harass the media which I think it is, best to make a claim nobody can disprove. Also it hampers efforts in the future for media organization, forget about the conflict, if you are a building owner would you rent to a media organization there. I certainly wouldn't, wars are generally not covered by insurance so if you rent to media that company bankrupt if Israel targets it.
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  3055.  Zan DeWolf  They have hit more than one, they have taken out 3, how many buildings do you need to see it happening to before it looks like it might be a pattern?
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  3056.  @BeegirlsHoneyHouse  If you actually have an effective biological weapon you need to vaccinate your population against it, Russia, Ukraine and the US could never get 100% of their population vaccinated, not even close. An anthrax vaccine does exist and potentially anthrax could be used as a biological weapon if you could vaccinate everyone in your own population.
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  3057.  @Palesaist with the crime issue I am implying that the government has other ongoing things of great concern so more difficult to deal with and decisions need to be made. No different to resource allocation in New York and northern Italy. Decisions at the peak of the problem are made to let older people die in favour of younger people. I don't know SA current situation but when it comes down to it if doing a certain thing for example a hard lockdown causes greater harm because if an already fragile situation then maybe better not to do it. It's up to each country what they do. It's also possible that certain actions in one country don't work in another. The amount a less well off country can spend is lower. I am fortunate I am in Australia and so far looking good. A good example is some Asian countries decided to tell everyone to wear mask and Australia we haven't . Our case numbers and deaths are almost exactly the same as South Korea on a per capita basis. The key is the initial response. I just had a quick look at a news article and it says there was or is a tobacco and alcohol ban. Very bad idea. I consume both of them and if you did that to me I would probably protest too.
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  3058.  @Palesaist  and the other point about people following the instructions is to do with a higher level of fear. They know if they don't have money they don't get the best healthcare. A quick search indicates the wealthiest 10% in your country can afford private healthcare. Also if you are wealthy you can protect yourself easier living in a big house a distance from others. A person knows if they are vulnerable and usually will make greater efforts to lower risk.
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  3059. I would put it another way, probably about a year to the day that Trump did it. " I give up" The policy if shortened to what it really is, " the CDC will no longer provide any guidance, local and state governments you take the lead, we absolve ourselves of all responsibility"
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  3060. It won't be unless you are in the military. However not being vaccinated might restrict what you can do and almost certainly international travel. Have to wait and see, with significant restrictions the number of people needed to be vaccinated to eliminate the virus will be much lower.
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  3061. @ChrisWhite-et3xb  but on that basis Jesus was woke. I am in no way religious but I have nothing against Jesus or his teachings, it's unfortunate you do.
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  3062. You never heard of cricket?
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  3063.  @atriacharya2967  Not really, think about it for a few seconds, if the UK was talking about Australia my country will just say our close ties. Historical acknowledges it's not perfect or that close. Sort of neutral to slightly friendly in a way.
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  3064. While Israel is highly vaccinated they are not that high, at about 60% of total population double dosed, US at about 50%. The other point is that the vaccine efficacy is waning , that's not a reason to not take it, unfortunately it's a reason to take it every year most likely. Obesity rates based on a very quick internet search are fairly low in Israel for a high income country, Brazil is similar to the US on this score and we can see what has happened there.
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  3065. Because Republicans do better in rural areas.
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  3066. It's a combination of the government and the people. I am in Australia and we have done well but without good government leadership with majority of people cooperating we would look just like Europe or North America , our demographics are very similar. I wish you and your country the best.
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  3067. Sounds to me the "modification" , is putting parts of the human genome inside the pigs genome. Like they are doing for lab mice. It'll be interesting to see when it's highly advanced , given the speed of technology that might only be 50 years away, because you might be able to produce a half human and chimpanzee, at what percentage will it become an ethics issue.
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  3068. Keeping citizens safe is a reason you wouldn't visit Australia, that's bizarre, in the US about 20 times the deaths of Australia on a per capita basis, maybe that's the culture you would prefer, even Canadian are more close to AUS.
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  3069. Stop using the word they. In your political system Trump can appoint whoever he wants as secretaries (ministers) or other positions as long as they are only acting. He did it before. You elect a temporary king with executive powers to form the entire executive government made up of unelected people. In most countries all executive government positions are filled by elected officials.
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  3070. From memory you come after health workers in the UK who are after the elderly, so I would think months away, however doing the one dose first to as many as possible might make it sooner than expected. I wish you luck and stay as safe as you can until your time comes.
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  3071. Give it 6 months it'll be like number or license plates in the Greek alphabet. Maybe should have used standard English alphabet.
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  3072. It's at completely different levels in different countries, I suspect the Universities being partly funded by pharmaceutical companies however is probably near universal because that model of partnership is everywhere I think. One thing you forgot to mention and I'm guessing you're from the US , your insurance companies push prices up too. It's a fallacy that they care about healthcare costs because it's a commission business , if healthcare costs rise they put the premiums up by the same percentage, the bigger the pie the better, if healthcare in the US cost $500 per person per year it would be a disaster for the insurance companies, they could only charge $550 maximum with an excellent margin of 10% but only $50.
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  3073. The material cost of a missile is only maybe $200,000. That's not much for a country with 20 million people. Have to remember the wages of those to produce the missile won't be much.
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  3074. They can never know without genomic testing.
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  3075. @Bob Lawblawblaw not a bot likely an American Trump follower because the language is the same and takes no responsibility for their own country's response. The US cover up by Trump is worse than the Wuhan government because one is a local authority which got sacked which is probably good, Trump however is all powerful under the US presidential system , as is the president of China but national Chinese government acted and the US executive government run by a single man didn't. The executives in the US government , secretaries or called ministers in other countries are non elected officials chosen by the dear leader including family members in Trump's case.
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  3076. Any bank that has a major private banking division are full of crooks. HSBC just seems to be the biggest and most efficient.
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  3077.  @lowkey2923  totally agree with , I probably think your comment was a bit soft. Technically there are about a million under his indirect command . He is commander in chief right and considered the head of the military. It's true that if he did something too crazy ( not saying he would by the way) like let's nuke North Korea and Iran , hopefully military people would disobey his order. They can be imprisoned for doing so though , so making up your own mind can be tough sometimes.
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  3078.  Ares  Trump is only far right on social issues , but even that he doesn't hold the beliefs. On economic issues he is to the left of Biden most likely because far more protectionist and doesn't care about budget deficits and constantly states how he will subside industry more than the Democrats. However don't know if he believes any of it, just for power quite often. His supporters love the protectionist ideals of Trump and yes industry subsidies (socialism) and like his unfriendly rhetoric to all other countries who are somehow to blame for the entirety of US problems, his attack on the WHO is a standout, only leader in the world to behave in such a manner. Best of luck from Australia.
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  3079.  @RussCR5187  It's not about freedoms at all, the same people who argue about masks tend to be fully in favor of holding 400,000 health prisoners who's crime is to ignore a government health direction, drugs. A drug taker does no direct harm to anyone. This is about control of ideology and or convincing one's self that they are in control . They just want to show that they are more powerful. I am in Australia and no real partisan issues here. Yes a few antimaskers but not a lot. Where I am have only had a mask mandate for 2 weeks out of the entire time but when it did exist the majority complied.
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  3080. If 50% give or take still get infected then the virus is endemic and will mutate all the time just like the flu each year. Also like the flu some years will be worse than others due to whatever the dominant strain/variant is because mutations are completely random.
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  3081. Sort of true trade sanctions not coming off any time soon and won't be talking to our leaders. One of China's grievances was our media having negative stories about China.
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  3082. We already do plus a few other countries, it's called CPTPP. Was originally TPP but Trump didn't join and Biden followed Trump's protectionist ways and didn't join also.
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  3083. The new daily cases per 100,000 in Portugal was and maybe still is the worst in the world. Maybe Czech it has been more smooth and overall looks worse , I don't know.
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  3084. Every country with low cases has had a slow vaccine rollout, the Victorian premier speaking today said there were thousands of bookings available for vaccines. The sense of urgency is never really there until hospitals overflow and or a person you know dies. Even in the US vaccination rates improve as each wave goes through killing a few more and stressing hospitals. Biden and the CDC pretty much declaring victory a few months ago probably didn't help the situation. In Australia there are also the fussy people especially referring to the older people who want to wait for Pfizer. It's almost like people want to learn the hard way no matter how much the government warns us and how many disasters we see in other countries.
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  3085. I notice the most common comment of people on the left and right is an outright childish argument . 2 wrongs make a right , both can have their rallies spreading the virus because it's for some higher cause with groups of doctors on both political sides promoting the same. For those who don't like either side deliberately inflaming things regarding race and deliberately spreading the virus because of the "nobel cause" my comment doesn't apply to you but you should speak up more often it almost looks like you don't exist in the US.
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  3086. All the countries mentioned have public healthcare I believe and social welfare systems so of course they are liable to that extent. If we were talking of poor countries that might not be the case.
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  3087. They are run by countries, which countries should be rejected?
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  3088. Question for you then , how many countries recognize the Taiwanese government?
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  3089. Well I'll answer my own question directly, every country in the world recognizes the Taiwanese government including China I am pretty sure because everywhere accepts passports issued by the Taiwanese government. Stephen no idea why you ask if I know where Taiwan is and the ethnicity of their population, stupid question.
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  3090. Wait for the UQ/CSL vaccine which the Australian catholic church has said is preferred however they aren't against use of those other vaccines if it saves life. Australia's rare condition of being virtually virus free means waiting is ok. Our timeline is March it's expected we start to vaccinate. The vaccine I speak of , if things looking ok go into phase 3 very soon so a while off and no guarantees.
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  3091. Maybe, maybe not. Very hard to know after they're destroyed.
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  3092.  @MrBlue-dm5li  Hopefully they never take over, but almost every government on the planet looks like it's run by the far left at the moment and our left wing parties have moved even further to the left. Not into the conspiracy theory stuff though. Yes China shouldn't be trusted and be careful with them buying assets or directly interfering with government but nothing more than that. Hate how China treats minorities or religion but really we can only complain.
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  3093. Yet another US citizen wanting Venezuela socialism with the government subsidizing fuel. It's really amazing how many communists support Trump.
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  3094.  @scottharrison699  No it's not, unless by majority you think Republicans should all now fall behind Trump and Qanon. People are elected to lead in my opinion otherwise what's the point of them being there.
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  3095.  @JOE-DAN  they would be in cars so no problems, plenty of social distancing.
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  3096. It should calm down after holidays but yes not so good for the "open" borders. Hopefully QLD will accept the much less reliable rapid tests, full opening up even though risky has to happen eventually.
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  3097. Dying in hospitals then buried or burnt. Others less affected are spreading it and they can't be identified because no gravely ill. Do you ask such questions when 30 people murdered over a weekend in Chicago?
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  3098. For those that believe in the 5g thing please ensure to wear your tin foil hat, you need the metal antenna to catch the radio waves, the bigger the better, make a top hat or a witches hat works best.
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  3099. We're Australian, we don't even call our own Prime Minister by his name sometimes, SCOMO is acceptable. In other words we are far more egalitarian. It's a difference in culture get over it.
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  3100. The threats etc. to hospital staff are far worse.
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  3101. You are wrong in NZ at least, they are checking the strain of virus for each new case so they aren't false positives.
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  3102. Try blocking the tunnel to France and see what happens since you enjoy watching chaos in another country.
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  3103.  @coreyworthingtonii9230  Feel free to leave Australia if you don't like it.
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  3104.  @marleneholloway7775  What on earth are you talking about, you can hate your country like the other person should you wish , Australia is a free country. If you haven't saved enough money in your lifetime to hire a plane and go to a country that will accept people like you , that is unvaccinated well don't blame others. There's unlikely to be a vaccine mandate in a couple of years so you can leave then if you have at least enough money to support yourself. Couldn't care less what you think of WA Labor, got nothing to do with anything. The policies of ALP and LNP are identical, some variations by state. Anyway best of luck and hope you don't get covid, your age group a percent or 2 chance it will kill you assuming it's omicron, slightly higher for another variant. Not sure if Corey is an antivaxxer so maybe they could catch a regular flight.
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  3105.  @marleneholloway7775  Yes you did say you hated Australia, referring to it as a sh*t hole is hate and you agreed with the other person who said that. If you want to backtrack and just say I have felt anxious during this time and afraid of governments or whatever ok that's different.
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  3106.  @marleneholloway7775  I sent another message but it did not get through, I will repeat that message from my memory and maybe adding a bit without using language which might have got it deleted at some point in time but not now , this is a direct comment. Technically the language was softer than the comment you responded to and ok you are a person who thinks that saying that the country is a sh*t hole is something to be proud of , so patriotic. You indicated 2 things , one you rely on handouts because you can't leave the country and you are incapable of looking after yourself, it's not about fortune if you decide to put $1,000 away and invest it per year you would be better off , you didn't do that so you say and can't leave the country you hate so much. For a 78 year old not understanding that calling their own country a sh*t hole is not patriotic I have to question who you are. I don't believe you for a second. You are a very fortunate one, my dad died at 70 and mum 66 , for you to ask for pity is pathetic considering you want other people to die while thinking you are invincible.
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  3107.  @marleneholloway7775  Hey best of luck and consider getting the vaccine, I know you fear it for whatever reason but the evidence is it reduces your chance of a bad outcome and as you would be fully aware the chance of a bad outcome in your age group is a few percent, with vaccination less than 1%. Just remember if we compare numbers if Australia didn't do what we did would have 50,000 souls lost and if WA hadn't been so hardline like every state actually other than VIC and NSW which both had long lockdowns in their capitals. How could you have wished that WA had that, much tougher or completely open like Europe or US , the worst of both, more deaths and more lockdown lite. In 2 weeks your border opens and as you can see in QLD the cases will be rampant and put pressure on hospitals pretty quickly.
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  3108.  @marleneholloway7775  My only problem is you calling Australia a shit hole despite the fact you are on a pension higher than the average wage in the world. Of course you are entitled to it but why on earth you are complaining is beyond me. You have an extreme sense of entitlement and 0 appreciation. Yes things were a little bit tough noting WA has barely had a lockdown. Tens of thousands of deaths for the country would have been a lot tougher than tens of thousands inconvenienced. Parts of Europe and Canada are in lockdown right now yet your open state is the worst place in the planet living off one of the most generous welfare systems in the world.
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  3109.  @marleneholloway7775  I looked back and maybe you weren't agreeing with that particular comment of another calling Australia a sh't hole but there other statement, however saying you will tell others how it really is and people shouldn't come to Australia seemed to be in complete agreement with that statement. So tell people if you can manage to get into Australia, highest or second highest minimum wage in the world, free universal healthcare, life expectancy in the top 10 in the world , a generous social welfare system and low taxes for a wealthy country that isn't running up public debt like crazy unlike say UK or US ( caveat it's run up fairly quickly recently but still slower than those I mentioned ). Feel free to tell everyone how it is in Australia. Australia is a great place to be and without those border controls that are now coming down there would have 10s of thousands of deaths and whatever it ends up being now will be far less. Anyway as I said best of luck. 2 weeks or so you will have nothing to complain about, the virus will be in.
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  3110. If you mean we human beings, yep you are right, countries that are more powerful take advantage of less powerful ones. This is normal up until very recently when this doctrine is being questioned in Western countries in particular. Slavery is not acceptable any more in Western country , however this is not the case in many other countries.
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  3111. I am guessing permission was granted to use these names at least I hope so because otherwise the families could be very annoyed that a dead loved one is being used in a political campaign.
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  3112. That problem is common in many countries, the US has more problems getting people vaccinated in the more rural states also.
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  3113. Should be R rated , didn't you notice the 600,000 horrible deaths.
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  3114. Actually it's not the only country but the only high income country like that.
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  3115. Just be polite and ask them to "please wear a mask next time because I am concerned, maybe I worry too much but it would make me more comfortable". Don't confront them in a strong way because I think a complete waste of time and possibly counterproductive.
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  3116. Here's the problem most likely 100,000 give or take of them have been killed in hospital by covid 19 in the US. Something like 2-5% of deaths in Australia have been caused by this and documented. If you believe the official statistics of the US or official cases of this occurring being 0 cases well best of luck to you that's all I can say. Edit , I note the first part of your name and you know better from where you are from.
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  3117. A lot of prejudice in this comment thread. Let's look at evidence. "Westerner" is a political term meaning country with majority European and not Eastern Europe usually but everyone when speaking with prejudice has their own definition. Chinese propaganda has a very narrow definition usually just points out problems unique to the US and then infers all of us are the same. Japan , China , Australia and New Zealand are four of the members of the Western Pacific WHO region, the head office is in Philippines and last time I checked the person in charge was Japanese. What our region did was ignore European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region which thought that keeping borders open and no quarantine was the go, our region thought this wasn't the way to go, we are actually a very diverse WHO region from Pacific Island nations half of ASEAN and East Asia , all different forms of government but very early on 14 days genuine quarantine usually hotel and enforced was adopted and genuine containment measures with outbreaks. Success creates success, the more failures that occurred the worse the problems got, Australia and New Zealand are very highly vaccinated, just as high as Japan and South Korea, your original point is mute. Every country has antivaxxers for various reasons , mostly fear though and if time is taken and the government is trusted high vaccination rates will follow. In Eastern Europe and many in the US in particular people don't trust their governments and vaccinations are lower than they could be. It's actually that simple, nothing to do with culture or race or even form of government.
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  3118. Rural electorates overwhelmingly supported Trump. I guess they expect bigger subsidies like last time.
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  3119. People have to discern what news is, editorial by someone like Tucker Carlson isn't news it's opinion. Same goes for a lot of CNN content. Problem is both of them don't report the news part properly on regular occasions by omitting critical facts is the usual method.
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  3120. Free northern Ireland from Sien fein. About the same
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  3121.  @dilligafwoftam985  I read some years back maybe 20 that of the new overseas arrivals to Melbourne after 5 years half of them were in Queensland. The Mexicans aren't going to stop coming. Soon as border open with Victoria many will flea even to Queensland where we imprison covid restriction breakers. Dictator Dan still doesn't have the ability to lock em up and he's the tyrant. Western Australia is tougher anyway. Glumpy when the border is open you are welcome, ignore my Queensland friend , but we decide who comes here (sound familiar). If you don't want to come then fair enough I guess.
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  3122. Yes towards the end of the speech supporting the UN resolution.
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  3123. Hell no, I am Australian and no way in hell would I want the PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO region countries taking over which is what you are implying even if you didn't realize it. The Western Pacific WHO region decided closed borders (mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine) and elimination in many cases was a good idea. Do think any Australian would support not having our regional WHO office and it being taken over by those other regions? I would suggest the Western Pacific region should take over, less than 10% of the deaths per Capita compared to your preferred leaders and the South East Asia WHO region ( South Asia plus half of ASEAN countries) and African regions play a supporting role because they have also done better than the ones you want taking over. Those countries can make vaccines , they are good at that but managing a pandemic they are not.
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  3124. Tesla is the metaphorical canary in the coalmine. Where you see declines in sales, other US products will follow with sales losses once people's countries are threatened by the US. One interesting thing is at this point in time Tesla still seems to have good sales in China, every other country sales have declined.
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  3125. As long as Victoria has fixed contact tracing, the actual failure and reacts quickly to any outbreaks you'll be fine. Although I think it will be successful , it isn't part of the enquiry. Just remember 95% of cases came from 1 family. NSW has had constant quarantine breaches actually, and so far done ok, QLD and NZ have also had breaches. So has the real problem been fixed because if state borders open its not hard to see a case coming from anywhere.
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  3126. The writing on the thumbnail reminded me of LL Cool J. Based on Wikipedia he's still alive. For anyone who might be able to influence him and he appears to be Democrat leaning , encourage him to do a parody of his own song "Mama says knock you out" to "Canada says knock you out", 100% it would be a massive hit in Canada and a fairly big hit in the US and possibly a really big hit internationally. #LLCOOLJ . He's getting on a bit but definitely not too old to sing.
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  3127.  @itsdatez9661  maybe so , but they do have a higher life expectancy than say someone from Mississippi. Maybe they have better healthcare who knows.
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  3128. Are you kidding, China has declared Australia to be the enemy, they haven't even done that with the US.
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  3129. To be fair it could be very mixed. If there's mass deportations this could lower housing costs. Consumer goods and most food are going to go up.
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  3130. Technically it's always a little bit. Viruses are pretty small.
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  3131. He took a bike.
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  3132. Yes because it's so much harder for them with poor people living in much higher densities. South Africa, India and Brazil are having real problems.
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  3133. They haven't said Biden winning is a certainty, in fact no media outlet that I am aware of has precisely because they know from previous experience it might be out. So how is reporting polls wrong it's just passing on information?
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  3134.  @andtri716  India is producing the Astrazeneca one as fast as they can , it's branded as covishield.
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  3135. Most US states did the same having nursing homes with covid 19 positive people and those not yet infected, it's about the cover-up of information, I think evidence of the same is likely to emerge in other states, So far only New York and Florida, I think there are more.
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  3136.  @cadwell3061  the problem is if the virus is rampant there is no possible way to stop at risk people getting it. So quarantine is to stop the young infecting those with health problems and elderly.
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  3137. 17kg is a lot bigger than you think and that's the explosive charge only not the weight of the bomb. Interesting you say 4 bombs.
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  3138.  @jemborg  I am not suspicious, I was commenting to Terry.
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  3139. All variants are already in the US and no travel hasn't been cancelled, just not letting people in with in from certain countries if they don't hold a US passport. The virus doesn't discriminate according to ones passport. The US is at about 700 deaths per day over the last week, actually that number isn't insignificant, they are real people. Hope somehow the people of your country decide to get vaccines and if not export the lot to countries that will use them. As we know about 1 in 1,000,000 die from vaccines, that's 12 hours at the current rate of death from covid 19 if every single US citizen gets vaccinated, a pretty good return on risk.
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  3140.  @bogolinof  I looked at your CDC data it says 656 for 7 days moving average for deaths, I got the approximately 700 from Worldometers and just rough estimate. Anyway ok I was out a little bit but hardly a lie , just not entirely accurate.
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  3141.  @jimgraham6722  I am 47 and in Brisbane and not got the vaccine yet , not keen on registering etc. I intend to just walk to a hospital nearby that's giving the vaccine and ask for the Astrazeneca one, the thing is my walk to the hospital and back has a greater than 1 in 1 million risk of death I would expect which is about the risk of the vaccine and I would have to run the gauntlet twice for both doses. I think things have become a bit silly, we can't eliminate risk and there are risks with Pfizer too, maybe when millions of Pfizer doses are given out in Australia we will find a death or 2 , Australia is keeping meticulous records on such things, unlike most of the world. The UK is being pretty open and honest as well as John has mentioned known deaths from vaccines there and the fact like in Australia and UK people have died from covid 19 by catching it in hospital, never happened in any other country that I have heard of which is absurd to think, they just don't collect the data and don't do genomic testing, not it didn't happen.
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  3142. Well if you're CNN have to fear protestors and police.
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  3143.  @possumfriend2335  What are you talking about, the only raid regarding such matters was by Florida authorities on a state exemployee I think it was who released the real statistics regarding covid 19 , they raided this whistle blower guns drawn and everything, similar to how those medical people were treated in Wuhan I guess. Australia isn't Florida or Wuhan and people speak freely and for the most part in a civil way, if you're American you might not understand the term peaceful protest.
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  3144. How is he in a hurry? Do you want him to go and play golf which is a US presidential tradition.
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  3145. Yes but they can't do it forever and I think they would be highly vaccinated now. Australia, Singapore and New Zealand had roughly the same policy but that was only intended until high vaccination rates.
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  3146. Trump's plan is objectively worse than what happened in UK. They managed to stuff things up without having a trade war.
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  3147. Mandatory vaccines exist for military and healthcare workers (often just flu vaccines for healthcare workers I think) in most parts of the world. So you are disagreeing with current practice. With other people's comments about vaccines having limited liability , yes that's just like if I am a peanut farmer and someone dies of anaphylactic shock. Of course vaccines have limited liability otherwise no vaccines would exist because every vaccine has some people who are going to be harmed. This limited liability exists everywhere, try suing a government because there was a pothole in a road and it caused you or your vehicle harm.
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  3148. The US debt per capita is much higher than in Canada, Canada would be paying to join the US.
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  3149. Nobody can do that job a big section of politicians will let their voters fight to the death literally without advising them the sensible thing to do. The US has always or at least a very long time been like this, the same pattern occured with HIV.
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  3150. You accepted Murdoch, he's yours to keep.
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  3151.  @harryjohnstone1306  I occasionally watch sky News Australia clips and sometimes they actually seem more crazy than Fox News US. When Trump supporters started saying that they prefer it to Fox that says something. Murdoch controlled media is bigger in Australia as a proportion than the US however the print media here that is Murdoch owned is actually in general ok and nothing like the extreme bias of Fox and as some radio network I never listen to. I do wonder about what goes on in Murdoch's head though because previously he has supported Labor Party in Australia and the Labour Party in the UK (somewhat aligned with The Democrats) but recent years seems to have gone completely partisan.
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  3152.  @harryjohnstone1306  never heard about Fox winning a case by arguing that there editorialist commentator isn't taken seriously. That's hilarious.
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  3153. Agree with the first part of your comment, however there is a big difference between a liberal democracy and an authoritarian state at least for the people inside it.
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  3154. It's the same the world over, however probably much worse these days because emails are so easy to send so they would get overwhelmed very easily at times, so not always the fault of the politicians.
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  3155.  @nickchase9150  Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products is the name of the company, just search for it and some articles should pop up.
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  3156.  @TheLightSideReactions  Encouraging mail in voting for those at risk is sensible in the case of the US because the virus is rampant killing 220,000 already. Total excess deaths are 300,000 and the excess above the Covid 19 deaths is due mostly to the mismanagement of the situation and the indirect killers. It's a shame you have had weak leadership in your country.
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  3157.  @krollpeter  Other than Taiwan and Vietnam the rest of us "Asian" countries including Australia and New Zealand have a very different view on matters and understand the term quarantine. You can look at it country by country and you will discover that quarantine is taken very seriously in our part of the world. In Australia now there are effectively 7 major quarantine zones for covi sars2, each health jurisdiction basically which is a state or territory. There are more travel restrictions inside Australia than there are in Western Europe where to give the UK example the door has always been open with quarantine actually meaning an extremely relaxed voluntary scheme where you can infect others even if you follow the rules. We naturally have about 5 major different quarantine zones with agriculture during normal times. To give an example in my particular part of the world, dirt can't be taken outside of an approximately 100 km diameter circle without a permit which will probably never be issued at this point in time due to a fire ant problem in which we appear to have eliminated them in the end with the use of sniffer dogs. It is illegal to grow cavendish bananas in a non commercial manner because that is the main commercial variety and private plantings might cause risk to the industry. If you look at beef it has happened on a few occasions that American beef gets banned in South Korea and Japan because of agricultural outbreaks which the US is slow to contain but New Zealand and Australian beef have never been banned to my knowledge. SARS 1 affected the regions tourism very badly and since then the region has put systems in place and I know in Australia when you enter since then it is emphasized that if you get sick within 2 weeks tell the doctor where you have travelled from and not entirely sure but I think it's standard practice for doctors to ask anyway. All successful countries either have tough quarantine measures for imported food and or are major exporters of agricultural products where fairly major industries are threatened by any outbreaks. So I guess I am saying a culture has developed in this region. I do wonder after this is all finished will Western Europe and the US change or not. I don't think East Asian region will be changing. With Thailand accepting inbound tourists soon I expect quarantine will fail because the quarantine measures appear fairly relaxed by Australian standards. The locked in your room part of quarantine in Thailand is only 7 days and your room gets cleaned every 2 days according to the hotels offering the service which no matter how much care is taken produces higher risk and then after 7 days you can mingle with other guests for the next week , not 14 days you are locked in your room and no one's going to clean it as is standard practice throughout Australia I believe.
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  3158. Take care
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  3159. You can say it's not definitive for every country but for countries with a reasonable government and people generally trust the government and the lockdown measures are effective the deaths have been 90% less so far. The Western Pacific WHO region has 90% less deaths per Capita in wealthy nations than European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region wealthy nations. The economic performance has also been better. The non wealthy countries in our region are mixed however all have performed better than the average of the other regions. Also based on what was said a lockdown is anything, whereas I define a lockdown must have quarantine and restricted travel otherwise it's only a lockdown for peasants and small business. According to the definition in Queensland Australia I am in lockdown because indoor mask mandate exists and vaccine passport for bars , nightclubs and restaurants. Our current measures aren't designed to reduce spread at all , just slow it a bit and encourage vaccination.
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  3160. It's too early to tell, in about a week in theory cases will go up again due to lag but maybe they won't, one thing is certain , nobody really knows and scientific predictions are more like guesses.
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  3161. ​@bigotbiden Australia has more than double the minimum federal wage of the US, a universal healthcare system, a homicide rate about one 6th of the US and a significantly higher life expectancy. Our median adult wealth is approximately 3 times that of the US last time I looked. Grocery prices are similar except for chicken and pork being much cheaper in the US but our higher wages more than make up for it.
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  3162. That system is common in a traditional village type setting, it shouldn't be in a modern democracy (at least for now).
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  3163. After Jan 20 with Wuhan lockdown everyone knew it was contagious and airborne. This was the day China realised the problem otherwise would have locked down earlier.
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  3164. The number sounds wrong.
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  3165. They're at about the same as Ronald Reagan's at this point in his presidency. Are you aware of how many states Reagan won in his second term? Of course because of the polarization that won't happen again at this time but it says nothing about his chances of winning in 2 and a half years time.
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  3166. I don't think it's a big deal actually. Both agree homicide and caused by police actions. It might be because it changes burden of proof ever so slightly. It might also cause significant complications in the prosecution having 2 alternative views. Obviously it's a matter of order of events, if you are suffocated soon after your heart will stop , if you have heart attack soon after you will stop breathing. I can't see the defence presenting reasonable doubt in either case given the amount of time and also after Floyd became non responsive the knee was not removed. In another video at the beginning it shows Keung putting pressure on the back so that person could be equally responsible if it can be proven that timing was same to Chauvin.
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  3167. Here is your chance to give examples of this extreme bias. Look at the number of comments and you will realise it's likely they spend half an hour reading them looking for something they don't know.
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  3168. 45% still support it even after seeing it based on Trump's recent approval rating. Have to give them time.
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  3169. I think no, they already believed they were innocent, nothing will change that thinking in the short term.
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  3170. 100% it's all about measures taken both voluntarily and by force for any countries with a similar previous infection record.
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  3171.  Angela  Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, it's summer.
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  3172. The Trump cards thing is good news, it's just funny. Most news about Trump is criminality.
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  3173. The US can't eliminate gangs within it's own borders, in that respect one wonders why they attempt to do it elsewhere. The Taliban or Taliban affiliated groups are just like gangs, they aren't wearing uniforms and blend in. If the US didn't care about civilian casualties then it would have been finished in weeks.
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  3174. You haven't looked at a Fox news clip recently and read the comments. Trump supporters now hate Fox News more than CNN because they thought it was state run media and got a surprise when Fox was the first news network to call Arizona. CNN is only the enemy Fox are traitors to them which is worse.
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  3175. They control government why would they attack the other side right now? Election time yes go for it but not now.
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  3176.  @gerttopmuller  Crimson king is ok and being reasonable and believes even the virus kills another 1,000,000 Americans then that's fine and nothing should be done about it. The 1% rate overall is probably about right, because the rate for people below 40 is way below that, probably about 0.05% but in the over 70s it may well be well over 1%. While I don't agree with crimson that 1,000,000 dead people in the is ok at least they are not denying reality. I am in Australia and we have had a different approach to the US and Europe.
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  3177. It's unusual, it's never happened in any other Western Democracy in recent years at least that a leader states that his country has run a corrupt election. A recount changes nothing because numbers can't be out that much. If he believed that elections were corrupt why did he do nothing about changing the situation in 3 years. Of course some individuals from both parties will commit voter fraud as will always happen with 150,000,000 votes.
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  3178. Adam this is a good clip. The graph of European support for the US was interesting. It should be pointed out depending on the exact question favourability rating is very different to unfavourable rating. I as an Australian depending on exact question may not have ever given the US a favourable rating when Biden was in but at least I knew in our case the ANZUS treaty would be honoured and same with whatever exact arrangements are with South Korea and Japan. Right now there's a genuine risk China is considering taking Taiwan in the next few years.
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  3179.  @markstephen1308  so I shouldn't watch CNN or MSNBC or Fox. I am confused, where will I find the mysterious politics of the US.
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  3180.  @voodoo_child5897  It's true the regional discussion or whatever at the WHO regional office was up to each country however all countries followed, Singapore started with the same model as Sweden and changed to be like the rest of us in the region, very successfully until recently and I think Singapore will get the current outbreak under control. It's not all one sided, many large but low income countries like Brazil could have done things but didn't, very small low income countries are at the mercy of others completely. Interestingly many small high income countries like yours have been very quick to vaccinate and I think partly because a few million doses doesn't get noticed so much.
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  3181. They might be able to become commentators on Fox News or Sky News Australia.
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  3182. The question is who is more likely to answer a strange phone number and then agree to be polled.
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  3183. Walmart is an interesting case. They might be able to maintain profits from what will be a smaller pie by gaining customers from higher cost retailers. Retailers overall will suffer because people's after tax spending ability is reduced because of tariffs.
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  3184.  @gemdom6585  not exactly, they are well informed. They know all the conspiracy theories. All that can really be said is the US got it's quota of stupid people. Australia has many stupid people too, it's just they don't seem to be running the show. In Sydney a city of 5,000,000 or so there is an outbreak of 21 one cases and this makes our national news and people get worried. Stupid people will listen and take care, they are not going to look at the international situation for the most part. So don't knock stupid people please, just don't let them run your country and or state. Victoria one of our states is having problems and if they don't get control could end up like a US state, but other states treat Victoria like another country, if you come from there to my state 2 weeks government supervised hotel quarantine at your cost.
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  3185. If you are in a trial of course be a little afraid, that's what the trial is for to check if it's safe and effective. If the trials have been done then it's found to be safe but I would personally be concerned with the Pfizer one because it's very difficult to keep millions of doses stored at -80c and could the vaccine be harmful if not stored properly. I hope you are doing ok.
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  3186.  @williemherbert1456  actually I think it's a strategic pattern, pick off one country out of any alliance grouping, New Zealand is the target for the 5eyes intelligence grouping, Pakistan for SAARC and no doubt they are doing the same inside the African union. China will largely succeed it seems in stopping any grouping making a joint statement against them but this will backfire creating a lot of resentment.
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  3187. Really bizarre comments, at the moment almost certainly the US governments state and Federal are spending through the roof on healthcare with poor outcomes hence 300,000 excess deaths year to date. Australian , New Zealand , UK, Canada and Ireland all rate significantly higher than the US based up the ultra left wing Heritage organization's Economic Freedom Index. How about looking at reality US people, while being near the top you rate poorer than the countries you criticize. Half of every Trump speech if you ever bother listening is talking about his protectionist anti free trade and policy of industry handouts , or in other words his socialist credentials. Those are socialist things. Feel free to continue paying more in tax for a non universal healthcare system that props up insurance companies and produces a lower life expectancy than other comparable nations.
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  3188.  @certaindeed  I don't know the specifics but am generally aware of the litigious nature of Americans and laws that reflect this. This causes significant harm in medicine for 2 reasons, adverse outcomes are not documented properly for fear of being sued and therefore improvements in procedures at a hospital or in general terms for a particular problem in the system or a treatment will be picked up much slower and the other problem it creates is excessive intervention and testing again for the fear of being sued. The excessive intervention can lead to adverse outcomes. This puts a massive strain on healthcare to the point that public healthcare costs in the non universal system end up being in excess of well run universal healthcare systems.
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  3189. When you understand you don't have quarantine you will understand the policy. All countries that don't have quarantine but say they do (self isolation with family members who have no restrictions isn't quarantine by definition), that's the policy, slow the spread but use exactly the same language as places that have quarantine. So the policy is assure people and have mitigation measures only.
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  3190.  @suphatrachaiyasit7531  I hope your relatives in Thailand remain safe. It's sad to see Thailand lose control and totally agree of course what happened in New York, Los Angeles, parts of Texas, northern Italy can easily happen in any of Australia's 4 largest cities. SawadeeKrap.
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  3191.  @Daniel-ds8nd  the what if isn't a what if it's a hypothetical. But I will humor you, well if half a dozen infiltrators can turn thousands of peaceful protestors that wouldn't have passed any barriers into a raging mob that broke through several defenses and injured 150 law enforcement officers then they are geniuses.
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  3192. How come, listen to a KKK leader talking 50 years ago and you probably couldn't spot the difference.
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  3193. You make an interesting comment.
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  3194. If you actually compare they seem about the same, most people who died from the 1918 flu died from bacterial pneumonia, which is not that common now and usually easily solved with a course of antibiotics. In other words it is just as deadly but we have modern medicine and modern hygiene meaning many lives saved that would have died 100 years ago.
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  3195. That means the government is the actual purchaser of the drug, they're paying for it.
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  3196. I was thinking exactly the same thing.
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  3197. Polling does indicate that Trump's support is slowly going down , slowly but surely. I think those who live in reality know if he tries to run in 2024 against any Democrat candidate who isn't a convicted killer or something , Trump will lose. That's my take from afar.
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  3198.  @cristinah7547  I don't think the production side will be the problem, like the home builders need migration and a restaurant needs people willing to spend.
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  3199.  @VerySadButTrue  it's actually observation and putting myself in the mindset of the authorities. I am in Queensland Australia, we have gone from Covid 0 to now very few restrictions, much less than Canada or NZ and our population was very obedient after the 2 or 3 people got locked up for doing the wrong things. We are a rarity in the world but when it comes down to it high compliance has had high freedoms, only freedom that was lacking until recently was freedom to travel in and out of my state and country but that's all now over unless you are unvaccinated.
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  3200.  @VerySadButTrue  You are speaking as an anarchist that doesn't believe in governments, you would prefer warlords or something I guess.
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  3201. Competition policy is what makes goods cheaper. Unless you go to extremely high taxes it will make no difference. If tomorrow the US corporate tax rate jumped to 35% Walmart shares would drop however there'd be no changes in pricing at the store.
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  3202. The move to the Whitehouse means less scrutiny on his illness, Trump doesn't really care because if he dies not his problem and if he doesn't it's a lot easier to hide him for a few days inside the Whitehouse. He still has a full medical team available and pretty likely the Whitehouse always had a full intensive care setup inside the Whitehouse if something was to ever happen and traveling wasn't advisable, I would put money on it there is a mechanical ventilator there. If he is not seen for a few days get suspicious and look out for prerecorded videos that might be tweeted.
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  3203. You think tanking the North American economy is a good thing. Well I guess you will reap what you sow unless you are rich.
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  3204. There might be a difficulty, if the airlines refuse to take him because he's unvaccinated. Not saying that will happen, it's better for him and Australia that he leaves fairly quickly so how they work it out I don't know.
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  3205. I am guessing you are a young Indonesian, if you look at your history Indonesia was not like now previously and this probably has something to do with it. Also depends on how recent the migration and are they ethnic Chinese Indonesians born in Indonesia or Chinese immigrants.
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  3206.  @johnsmith-ce2tq  What are you talking about, certain jobs regardless of which state you are in you must be vaccinated. For the extra jobs included in NSW and VIC well just wait until not mandated up to you, many can't work at all yet vaccinated or not.
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  3207.  @johnsmith-ce2tq  So Victoria is now fully open all businesses at full capacity, ok I didn't know that, that's great.
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  3208. The US failures are well known, but putting together an entire story might be worth it.
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  3209.  mike a  look at some broad measures and compare let's say Mississippi ( sorry if you from there and no offense to anyone there) with Thailand. A middle income country I would describe it as, basic wage about $20 per day. Look at life expectancy, why is Mississippi behind a country like Thailand. Literacy rate behind, homicide rate higher. But you would be correct if you say Mississippi is much more democratic and much more free speech. There are about 10 states in the US not so different. So my claim exaggerated in a sense but not entirely incorrect.
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  3210. If your story is true that's a classic. Probably the local gangs refer to prison as back to school.
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  3211.  @stunstar4553  read my comment again, I said contributing factor, yes resources and agricultural products sales already produced a surplus. Chinese trade sanctions against Australia towards the end of the calendar year reduced it slightly compared to not having sanctions.
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  3212. The death graph as you call it proves the opposite, just starting uptick now, deaths lag in most part by 2 to 8 weeks. Barring a miracle cure or that only the young were infected more deaths are locked in over the next month.
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  3213.    I am with you, Queensland is close to your situation. There is a caveat to what you said though, in a high income country. I don't think countries like Brazil, India and South Africa can do it with crowded slums where the virus spreads like crazy and less resources to go around.
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  3214.  @john-doemcalias4759  A difference in language, in West Pacific dialect lockdown means restricted travel , hotel quarantine, and distance restrictions or even police surrounding a city like Perth or Auckland to keep the people from moving too much. Lockdown in European or Americas dialect means voluntary quarantine and until recently travel wherever you want. In fact the US system ensured spread across the entire nation because people who have means just go to another county or state that has everything open, I call it the auto spread mechanism.
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  3215.  @john-doemcalias4759  I have a hell of a lot of sympathy for those who would have been entirely willing to just do what it takes and get rid of the virus but live in a jurisdiction that just wants to take short cuts.
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  3216. I am in Queensland Australia and we recently had a mob of protestors protesting the lockdown primarily but had anti vaxxers and a few BLM in the mix. A strange mob really, while we have reasonably tough state border travel restrictions other restrictions are equal to or less than Sweden. One person was holding a sign saying free Victorians. Pretty bizarre really , so I think such events bring people out of the woodwork. Their might be an underlying group of people in all societies that just want to protest something.
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  3217. So basically the law is now being interpreted that it only applies to individual units. So Israel can commit as many war crimes as it wants, worst case scenario they might have to disband a unit and Phoenix it.
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  3218.  @GgrandMmamaLlama  New Jersey seems to have the worst deaths per capita on the planet at 0.24% . So getting really close to that theoretical number of 0.3% of the population could die if everybody got it, I think the 0.3% number is wrong. The daily deaths although very bad are not as bad as March and April last year at least.
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  3219. Well the Aussie shed must be greater Sydney right now.
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  3220. The skilled or wealthy white people from South Africa could have left any time to various countries like my own Australia. This offer is for poor and or uneducated white people only whether Trump is aware of this or not noting his chaotic and often ill-considered decisions. If I was in that category I just described of course I would take the offer.
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  3221.  @alexcarter8807  Nah can't count WWI and WW2 the US was very slow to join them and arguably wouldn't have joined WWII for quite a while longer if Hawaii wasn't attacked. Since WWII you're right.
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  3222. The state has collected all three subvariants, Well done that's like getting a set.
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  3223. I think banning those things was a terrible idea. I am Australian but I think people are people and I smoke and drink and if you took those off me if I have the means I will get it on the black market or alternatively if I am poor I am more likely to share cigarettes which is a perfect way to spread a disease.
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  3224.  @TheSitcheeation  yeah just looked up that article, they want to identify rare blood types so that others with those rare blood types are more likely to get a better match. So it's the same ethnic group in general who wants the blood. Don't make it something it isn't. Of course they prefer young donors who are healthy that's just common sense.
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  3225.  @TheSitcheeation  the article I read said they wanted young people of African descent either afro Caribbean or African to come forward. Sounds like an appeal to me and the article went on to explain why.
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  3226. The majority of cases are Europe plus Russia and the Americas. Other areas are less affected due to trying their best , some of the poorer more densely populated countries like Indonesia , India and South Africa are still doing better than the US despite the fact that the job is 10 times harder for them.
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  3227. While India s number might be a little less accurate it would be ball park correct and I would expect death certificates are being done in the same way as the US. The guidelines say if it's highly probable then putting covid 19 is appropriate, in India I would expect the same convention to be being used.
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  3228. You've got to be kidding, how do you think the Allies won WWI? Ok at that time some allies were Communist but I would suggest that the UK etc. were not communist. I don't consider my country Australia to be communist and take offence to your assertion that to contain covid 19 we must be communist and same goes for our Kiwi friends across the ditch.
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  3229. Don't know, ask an American they might know.
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  3230.  @hizzlemobizzle  I hope you are ok , stay safe the best you can.
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  3231.  @deborahnagle403  you found some pretty bizarre stuff there, you do know that it's ridiculous right.
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  3232. I think not a chance, only 3 places on the planet went from 500 cases a day back to 0 , Thailand wants to keep the virus and open up, it's going to be a disaster. If 50% of the population vaccinated ok maybe but that's not looking likely. I don't understand why your Prime Minister do this thinking Thailand will be that exception to the rule, so far the rule hasn't been broken.
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  3233. Problem is Scottish people don't, they voted against it, great news though China must be going to offer HK the same opportunity for independence if they vote in favour of it.
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  3234.  @goatrockhunters7866  interestingly a quick search indicates Russia does sell arms to Mexico.
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  3235. Let's say you are correct, ok so no change in policy since Trump was removed, all borders open and no quarantine. So what's your point?
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  3236. Bot's pretend to be American and it's only interference if the bot is pretending to be American. I am Australian so call me an Aussie bot whoever thinks like that and on this particular issue the President of China went to Wuhan fairly quickly wearing a mask, this does make a difference. The discussion here is about the response to the outbreak , not other issues. In Australia even if not plain sailing we are a Federation like the US and our Prime Minister and state and territory leaders didn't contradict each other etc. and worked cooperatively together regardless of political affiliation.
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  3237. Totally agree , Q signs all over the insurrection and every single Trump rally for 6 months and he wasn't curious what's this Q thing? I say ok if you are so unaware of anything you shouldn't represent me , but this only applies to his electorate , both the Republicans to nominate him and the voters, it's up to them and hope they see clearly and tell him and any others to back down and unreservedly denounce the ex presidents behaviour and Q.
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  3238. @tooltalk  I never said anything was illegal. Not particularly liking something doesn't make it illegal. What exactly do you think isn't true?
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  3239. In my opinion, not my country but anyone near the capitol building chanting hang Mike Pence should be charged with assault. To me that mob showed all the intention of committing the act and it wasn't a throw away line. Don't know if it's in your federal law but most jurisdictions a threat to kill someone is assault.
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  3240.  @JohnFreedman0  I suggest you look at the economic freedom index before considering your fellow commonwealth countries communist, actually Canada is at 9th best well ahead of USA at 20th. The top 3 places go to Singapore then New Zealand and then Australia, so we don't rate too badly my friend. It's true the US has right wing socialism not left wing socialism, as in protect the corporations not the people. China's socialism with Chinese characteristics is not so different to US socialism, they don't really have universal healthcare either.
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  3241.  @notimetowaste.1355  You missed the big one they are calling for the Mexican border to be opened without restrictions apparently. Or is it only Canadian and US citizens. Who knows there's no consistency but consistent inconsistency. There's a small mob protesting in Canberra but I can't figure out why they are there, in Australia all vaccine mandates are at the state level other than vaccine requirements for foreigners entering.
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  3242. Maybe because they suggesting things like eliminating the FBI. So not a defund the police policy but an eliminate the federal police policy.
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  3243. Certainly he is persistent.
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  3244. Have you ever heard the saying short term pain for long term gain. Well many countries didn't agree and that's why it seems neverending in some places.
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  3245. Prevention is better than cure, the US has to look at it's underlying issues, chemotherapy kills the patient but a bit more slowly than the cancer. Using authoritarian tactics is chemotherapy.
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  3246.  @prettypuppy6752  Try to calm down, Brisbane had the same situation with the Victorian AFL officials for the Grand Final and some Queenslanders thought like you at the time, Queensland has had about 450 cases or so if community transmission in total. Victoria is as good as Queensland now, your contact tracing failures and failures to act quickly etc. are finished, if a case escapes quarantine it will be dealt with we quickly noting they will be in a form of quarantine like football and cricket players have been over the last year and not a single event has actually occurred all that time related to sport in Australia or New Zealand. Maybe some smart arse team will break quarantine but I expect they know the penalties and the public embarrassment they will suffer. It's good for business big and smal and business should not be punished because some people have concerns. It's good for public morale with things getting back to normal as well as can.
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  3247.  @prettypuppy6752  not following it but see in a way what are you worried about, in the end covid 19 restrictions do apply to them so Victoria/Australia not at any heightened risk.
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  3248.  @kelperdude  you're one of these nutters I think who will simultaneously claim Biden is just following the Trump plans on vaccine rollout and overall approach on this matter ( and you would be correct except a little more organized) and Biden is communist wanting to lockdown the country ( you would be incorrect, he has done nothing more than asked people to wear masks which is pretty pointless because only minimal benefit on its own) despite media rhetoric border still wide open just like with Trump only stopping foreigners from entry, meaningless probably USA isn't exactly a sought after tourist destination at the moment actually. Policy almost identical but Biden at least isn't encouraging people to get infected, so he jumped the bar for current US political standards.
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  3249. I wouldn't be so sure of that. The US economy has gone from around 40% of the world's GDP 50 years ago to around 25% now. There's literally virtually nothing that any country needs from the US. It's historical relationships that help US companies maintain market share with their exporters. The US as a proportion of It's GDP is the third smallest trading nation in the world with only Sudan and Nigeria even less. So it's not clear outside of North America what effect Donald will have on the world. Seems to me the world excluding Canada and Mexico can now survive without the US without much consequence. Of course my assumption doesn't involve financial spill over effects to other markets like the GFC , in other words runs on banks and capital markets going international.
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  3250. He got votes from probably 32% of people eligible to vote, not even a third, that's certainly not overwhelming. However it can be said that 36% of people eligible to vote but didn't accept Trump's plan as they were not willing to vote against it. Given the number of people not voting almost any state could actually be flipped if turnout was higher from the losing party. I truly don't understand why Americans are all angry about their situation and over one third won't do anything about it.
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  3251. They are following orders , you want rogue cops now? Don't blame the police they are at the bottom of the food chain, the Mayor , councilors and police chief are the bosses.
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  3252. After 47 years and making it to the top job as ordinary Joe who isn't highly charismatic must be very good at dealing with people. The CPC and Trump supporters actually acting in unison now which is amusing but also concerning to watch.
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  3253. ​ @outdoor75 2 points , we can't get closer to China we already have a free trade deal with them. Why would you want Australian companies to get hurt. Wanting us to get hurt isn't good.
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  3254.  @outdoor75  My point is you can't get closer than what we already have. By manufacturing I am thinking you mean of vehicles and machinery. We manufacture most of our own building materials and plenty of food manufacturing. We have free trade agreements basically for everything Australia needs to purchase, only major market missing for us is the EU.
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  3255.  @jesserotnak7324  it's a pretty big deal to the 1% and their families. People seem to care a lot about the 1% wealthy who will have to pay more in tax if Biden wins. So which 1% should people care about?
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  3256. You guys have forgotten about all the Mohammed s . Just about every muslim family has one. Would it be racist if I referred to a muslim as Mohammed well yes actually. The term "Karen" is racist and sexist and worse than Mohammed and Jose in my opinion. It would be better if everyone stopped using soft racist terms however we live in the real world and most of us do it sometimes. I forgot about Tony the Italian. So my opinion try not to do it personally however don't consider someone the devil if they do it.
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  3257. I am Australian and my understanding as borne out by what is occurring is China is fighting a propaganda war against us claiming all sorts of things, racism to the point the Chinese shouldn't travel to Australia because of the dangers. They made this allegation some time ago but never made such an allegation against the USA as far as I am aware. China wants power and influence over ASEAN countries. The US and European handling of covid 19 has shown those countries to be weak countries incapable of running themselves, so don't actually have to say anything. Some claims by China are ridiculous, for example they claimed that an agreement between Australia and Japan that we would have joint military training exercises on each other's soil was somehow threatening, noting that China is a nuclear power with a 2.5 million strong military versus Australia and Japans combined troop numbers about 500,000. I wonder why they don't complain about Singapore training troops in Australia which has been going on for quite some time. I think privately China hoped Australia and New Zealand would fail in the Covid 19 response so then they could assert that they are superior. China has accused Australia of being a bully, which is quite funny except maybe it gets some traction although my thinking is it would only get traction inside of China because other countries would consider it ridiculous that a country of 25 million could bully a country of 1.4 billion. What the Chinese do is actions to infuriate us. An example is after 20 years not a single issue with quality of coking coal and possibly thermal coal but now all of a sudden they have basically banned Australian coal saying there are quality issues with about 60 ships basically stranded at sea. Analysts say China will now be paying higher costs for lower grades of coal. The only silver lining is that China's competitors would be a little more competitive. I am not certain but I think changing from a trade war against the US to then being buddies with the US with regards to agriculture while simultaneously putting tariffs on Australian produce is probably designed to make us angry with the US. They also know because the information is publically available US farmers do receive subsidies and Australian farmers don't on anywhere near the scale of US farmers. We shall see what happens over the next few months, especially after Biden becomes president the Chinese might back off of Australia. That does depend what Biden does a little bit I think.
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  3258. At this point in time it's like not believing in cars or something.
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  3259. Who cares, if Biden went to sleep for 4 years he is unlikely to oversee around 500,000 excess deaths of his citizens and he can't push the government deficit at a rate of change any higher . I quite like the idea of sleepy Joe got a nice peaceful ring to it. If he is asleep he probably can't incite a riot or anything.
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  3260. Follow what your mum says and you'll be alright.
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  3261. @stephe1506 If the polling is somewhat accurate then it's anyone's race at the moment.
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  3262. I thought he was cold blooded, some sort of reptile.
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  3263. US is at a completely different level to Australia on this issue. They even refer to white people who are from a Spanish speaking background as brown people. Both Republicans and Democrats pander to this special group who has a special status. In Australia the concept that an immigrant from Spain would get special treatment is absurd. Hispanic is a diverse ethnic identity meaning from Spanish speaking country not a race. So an immigrant right off the plane from Spain or Africa can get affirmative action treatment in some US jurisdictions. Australia we have our issues with our indigenous community however see the BLM copy cat protests, no burning buildings or violence. Media had to look for it to find 3 idiots who got pepper sprayed in Sydney. If Australia ever starts affirmative action for immigrants I will be most disappointed.
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  3264.  @gonlenny4936  Well according to reports the water will be treated removing all radioactive waste except Tritium which is very heavy hydrogen and can actually be purchased by anyone in small vials that are phosphor coated and glow. If the water is of this standard then they will be dumping a product that anyone can actually buy, so can't be that harmful.
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  3265. He contradicted himself he said that it's a propaganda agency that must follow the government line. In Australia our public broadcaster ABC Australia often has things our government doesn't like regardless of which party is in power. Authoritarianism is when the government turns a broadcaster even if it funds it into a propaganda agency for itself.
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  3266. If you make it into a hospital bed you have been highly infected because your body isn't getting rid of the virus quickly, so you become very sick. I would suggest almost every patient would have a high viral load if not all. Hope you are fine and keep the sense of humour. Take care.
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  3267. So many comments, every one loves your good news including me.
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  3268. Are you sure they will produce it after being picked?
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  3269. The thing is having universal healthcare doesn't stop anyone from using private healthcare if they are in a rush for an elective procedure. So I have no idea why Americans object to universal healthcare, they actually spend a higher percentage of GDP or at least last time I looked on government funding non universal healthcare than Australia spends on it's universal healthcare system. The only thing we barely cover is dental which is only offered to some on welfare I think.
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  3270. While it might not be good for other countries it's not as bad as the GFC for example because the financial connections around the world from China are not as great. Some nations for example Cambodia where the Chinese foreign investment is very high might have significant effects. If China melts down however the secondary effects might be more concerning, even though much of the world doesn't like the Chinese authoritarian regime it is stable. I do hope it's a relatively soft landing and China doesn't have a Communist revolution or something, noting the extreme wealth disparities and actually continues to move towards a socialist system like that of wealthy nations protecting the vulnerable.
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  3271.  @disf5178  in answer to your questions. Based on current or near current data you can test positive from about 2 days to 60 days after contracting the virus. You will only test positive (excluding false positives) if you are currently infected and it shows in nasal or oral fluids. The false negative rate is unknown to people like us, they would have a rough idea but no reason to tell people. You will not test positive unless currently infected or some dead virus remains in your nasal passage. I do believe it's possible to test with 99% accuracy for both currently infected or have had the infection, but it's completely impractical. The type of testing to achieve this would be blood testing done to the standard of trying to find trace dna at a crime scene. Very expensive and time consuming . The time consuming part means it's next to useless in this situation but for study maybe doing this is worth while. No amount of testing can demonstrate exposure, because as far as is known some people can resist every type of virus.
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  3272.  D R J  Have you ever eaten Peanut Butter because it's approved for human consumption yet peanut allergies kill about 100 people every year in the US so more than the vaccines have killed. Are you outraged that you can't sue a peanut farmer or a peanut butter manufacturer. With the vaccine it's like peanut butter except the government does offer compensation unlike with the peanut butter, so you are better protected with the vaccine. So long as the vaccine or peanut butter is made to standard you can't sue , if however it's contaminated of course you can sue whether it be the vaccine or the peanut butter. I have had one dose of the Astrazeneca vaccine in Australia. If you are concerned go speak to a doctor, in my case because I am below 60 and Pfizer is recommended for my age group I needed to see a doctor first so that I could acknowledge the approximately 1 in 1 million chance the vaccine might kill me and also to check if there's any health condition I have which means I shouldn't get it. Anyway consider what I have said and if you are scared still I guess you should avoid peanut butter because it's dangerous and you can't sue or maybe consider getting a vaccine, nothing is 0 risk and it helps your society the more people that are vaccinated.
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  3273. Yes it's his tactic, "some people think, there are questions that need answers, he/she is a highly qualified and good person etc." He does it every single time so he can later say I didn't claim that. It shows that he doesn't believe a word of many things he says because otherwise he would make claims in his own name.
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  3274. I don't think Canadians will be affected much at all. First of all the tariffs will be targeted mostly against food and Harley Davidson again etc. , in other words discretionary products and products that can easily be purchased elsewhere, think of ketchup or canned soup or chilli sauce, all those things can be purchased from Mexican manufacturers, just ignore the US ones. Canada might decide not to put any tariffs on vehicles because of the interconnected nature of that industry many vehicles are partially manufactured in both countries.
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  3275. It should be run like a business though. In the US you subsidise big pharma by telling companies to charge anything they want even when it's blatant price gouging. Australian government pays market rates and only for proven drugs.
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  3276. That's only if you buy the fish whole or from non factory boat fish. If you just buy fish fingers as a good example the rest of those fish are also turned into fish meal.
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  3277. Just watch your local case numbers and when confident again go back to shopping. Basically all mitigation measures in the US at the federal level are finished.
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  3278.  @Xander_Park  I can't hear anything? Must be in your mind.
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  3279. If there is a problem with the vaccine itself yes but otherwise probably not. By problem with the vaccine I mean it's contaminated or it is a bad batch which isn't actually the vaccine. Just like if you buy a can of soup and it doesn't say it has peanuts or peanut traces and you die from an allergic reaction to the peanuts your relatives can sue if labeling advising this is required which I think it is in all rich nations. However if the can of soup says contains peanuts and you happen to eat it and die it's not the manufacturers problem. So if the vaccine injected into you is exactly as per specifications you can't sue , that's the reason for having health bodies give approvals otherwise nobody would bother making a vaccine because , first up cowboys in the industry would kill people and nobody would trust vaccines so it would be uneconomical in most cases to even bother trying to make a vaccine without the current process.
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  3280. How did this happen? I am Australian and even our most crazy fringe politicians wouldn't speak like Trump and his entourage. The only crazy ones I see are online people and they are few and far between. I have a personal nickname for what's happening in Florida, I call it "The Florida Experiment". A policy of protecting the vulnerable locking down covid 19 free nursing homes where they can't get a visitor unless about to die and the parallel nursing homes as described in a press conference by DeSantis as nursing homes to put the infected in, living either of those situations would be just a barrel of laughs and no other restrictions just open up everything without restrictions and see what happens. The Swedish were considered a bit crazy in the begining but now they look like they are on hard lockdown with their pathetic limits of 50 on gatherings and limitations on people in bars and restaurants. They also have crazy things like contact tracing. Anyone who is in Florida is at risk as soon as you go in public.
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  3281. Why have hospitals at all then, just a drag on society right?
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  3282. I tend to agree, if he was in France or Italy where his heritage is from it is literally normal. It's possible that the accusers could have just told him directly and that would be that and he would have changed his behaviour but they were scared to.
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  3283. Gangsters aren't like the movie, they shoot first for which there is no defence.
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  3284. @Peter from NZ The obesity rates are fairly low in Sweden at about 20% of adults, Australia and New Zealand we're at about 30%. Every country has its own particular issues. The US has 3 times the number of ICU beds of Australia on a per capita basis, it's probably a curse, the attitude by many in the US never changed from don't let the hospitals overwhelmed which was actually the position of every country originally, no real regard for deaths.
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  3285. @Peter from NZ You'll be ok , NZ is similar to Queensland as in highly vaccinated and virtually no natural infections and so far yes we have some deaths and cases are crazy high but the deaths are minimal in the scheme of things and hopefully continues that way. Best of luck.
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  3286. Hope not for you
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  3287.  @eileens4943  cdc and who should be fairly aligned. Where do you think WHO gets it's info from? Every national health data collection agency along with policy discussions and medical advances or studies.
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  3288. Yeah sorry mate as an Australian, we gave you Rupert Murdoch who then in turn created the greatest news network Fox News.
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  3289. PS but you let him in, where was that wall or shutting down immigration when it was needed.
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  3290. But Edward Snowden is a good guy that should be pardoned.
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  3291. But Australia has had 10 times the imported cases, so more chances of quarantine breaches. My state Queensland has imported twice as many cases as Taiwan and a population of 5 million. Taiwan has done great of course but the systems in Australia are different and different states to be blunt have operated on different standards although much less difference now. Fortunately higher standards have won the day overall and any state that has an outbreak due to incompetence will have it's government deeply criticized.
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  3292. They regularly do. It just happens one side is doing it much more at the moment.
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  3293. A couple of points Ben , nobody is isolating the US, Trump is the only one doing that as your dear leader, second point even if it's a bit pedantic, whilst they were world leaders they could be more accurately described as NATO leaders, there was nobody from my region the West Pacific but Australia, Japan and South Korea are offering support, it's much less than the Europeans and Canada but we have no formal agreement with NATO.
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  3294. That's extraordinarily ridiculous.
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  3295. That might not occur, it's probably more likely housing costs go down due to anti immigration policies and deportations. The cost to build a house will rise so the lower cost will be attributed to the land component.
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  3296. Smokers already pay loads of taxes.
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  3297. I want the Swedes to speak out about Florida. The Swedish now look like a hardline lockdown mob. They won't of course but maybe a reporter could ask what they think of no restrictions at all policy like that of Florida USA.
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  3298. In Australia's case a lot of it was about how much effort to get the vaccine, going through apps and finding a booking and all that stuff was an effort for me personally. If have observed there's an inverse correlation between speed of vaccine delivery and vaccine take up rates in large countries, if people feel the government is rushing it they trust it less. We haven't had that problem and likely we will have very high vaccine take up rates. Another issue particularly in WA and QLD most of the geographic area there's been like 1 case within 1,000 km for the entire pandemic so not exactly seen as a risk. There's no reason to believe that Australia won't get very high take up rates eventually, we also seem to have good leadership right across society, ethnic/demographic groups in promoting vaccine take up. Also look at childhood vaccination rates and Australia's life expectancy , what you consider health illiterate in Australia is probably not by international standards.
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  3299. I am going to throw this out there. It's possible this in history books will be known as the own goal presidency. Ok take several countries with broard spread tariffs and retaliatory tariffs if needed will be targeted.
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  3300. Definitely not other wise she would go quietly not a public 8 page letter.
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  3301. That's terrible in my opinion because the most vulnerable are the one's least likely to join long queues because it's too much for them.
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  3302. 500 cases a day is incredibly high, only 3 cities ever get back to 0 after that, Wuhan China, Melbourne Australia and Singapore. In fact when Melbourne was having great problems the total number of cases in Canada was about 400 per day, I am from Brisbane Australia and my feeling at the time was my gosh I think Canada is going to get rid of it and Melbourne is looking pretty stuffed. Obviously I was wrong and until Taiwan has 0 community cases for at least 2 weeks they are only weeks away from complete disaster as we have seen in other countries if they decide to reopen without enough caution.
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  3303. It's interesting to choose to show 3 incidents and 2 of the incidents were black officers. I am confused how the white supremacists are running thingsa view often touted in this forum. Credit to NowThis for showing things in the videos at least that don't seem to be biased. Maybe the problem is about policing , including the violence the police face , not a racial thing, just a thought.
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  3304. My gosh , people in the comments section claiming they want to support Trump and the decline of Canada. Ok if you are Canadian you will reap what you sow.
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  3305. Well , think of the silver lining, Pfizer and Moderna get to demonstrate their effectiveness against all variants, or if they don't demonstrate efficacy against all variants the US is like the canary in the coal mine, a warning to the rest of the world.
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  3306. You're truly nuts and have just threatened a racial war against whites if a defense lawyer uses an argument you don't approve of. I hope some authority is monitoring this because of what you have just said and your direct threat of "war" could be a crime.
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  3307. It's because it's a public broadcaster. If you watch sky news Australia they're sometimes even worse than Fox news.
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  3308. China and Russia are just as bad. They respect no one and both support invading other countries like Ukraine. You can say however Trump's rhetoric is as bad as Xi or Putin.
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  3309. It's pretty unfortunate, largest wealthy country in the world by population by a long way and open borders with voluntary quarantine. If a variant of concern gets out of control and evades the vaccines it is most likely to occur in the USA.
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  3310. Lack of contact tracing caused the second wave, QLD and NSW had outbreaks but not the same outcome. I think don't fear the government knows if you fail then can't have a 3rd lockdown most likely so you will be like a European country and in a complete mess. Although it's not guaranteed I would be confident that Victoria is going to be more like NZ or QLD from now and probably less risky than NSW. The most important is a gradual opening so if anything goes wrong then can stop it in time.
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  3311. At your age unless you have some major health issue are at very low risk especially if had a vaccine even if it was a while ago.
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  3312. Unfortunately John Pilger has passed away recently.
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  3313. Not sure about your immunity but one part of your body isn't in as good nick as it used to be.
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  3314. Tump pats their hand with his non shaking hand. It's strange.
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  3315. If the person was wearing a full face mask as bank robbers often do it might not have been known. Not saying that was the case that you talk of but just saying it's possible.
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  3316. Vaccines don't eliminate the possibility of a hotel quarantine worker getting the virus but substantially reduce the risk. So can't say it won't happen again.
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  3317. It's in the eye of the beholder. Trump supporters are in alignment with Putin and Xi, so they would refer to China and Russia as allies and visa versa. Looking from afar even if Biden isn't perfect it's far better than the last guy and least know that the US is an ally. To be fair Trump didn't do anything bad with the US Australian relationship but he did do some harm in Europe I believe which Biden has corrected.
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  3318.  @notyou8716  I hope not, I know I am stupid at times and maybe one day I'll have kids
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  3319.  @Midwest-hx8wf  I wanna know when is America going to either thank or litigate against Australia. Rupert Murdoch was our greatest export and the Fox network was one of his biggest creations. But you did want him lol.
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  3320.  @staciasmith5162  lol
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  3321. How could an Australian be a sellout of Trump? I consider it not really possible , "America First [plus Israel]" actually means every other country is to be ignored, isolationism.
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  3322. Not the time
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  3323. They have to wear body armour as well and patrol in platoons. So you want well regulated volunteer militias. You have lost the plot.
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  3324. We know based on what Israel has said they trust the Hamas numbers. Otherwise it would be impossible for them to claim 14,000 terrorists killed or basically every man killed was Hamas.
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  3325.  @simon-ec5kv  so Australia with 45 deaths per million from covid 19 versus the US at about 1450 deaths per million is a negligible difference, really? If we cut out Victoria Australia that had some failures it drops to about 8 deaths per million. Your argument is actually that partial lockdown versus no lockdown produces similar results and I agree to a large extent. Yes weather and demographics do make a difference. To suggest that having a proper lockdown versus no lockdown gets the same results is just plain wrong.
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  3326.  @simon-ec5kv  by definition travel restrictions are required for a lockdown, if like in the US you can pay $500 to just go to an opened state you are hardly locked down you are as free as a bird. To make you happy ok the cull in Florida is as bad as the cull in Sweden. The US has automatic spreading mechanisms built in , partial lockdown of high infection states or counties encouraging people in the high infection areas to travel to low infection areas, the opposite policy to containment , more of a share the virus approach. To design such spreading mechanisms is madness. China isn't a small island nation and nor is Vietnam or Thailand so use those countries as references should you think the racist virus doesn't like Australians because we live on an island. The virus is somewhat fond of Hawaii and Puerto Rico though.
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  3327.  @goodywardhunt3605  not really Japan is much richer than China, however the US is richer than Australia at the moment on paper. Japan's health spending per capita us about 5 times that of China, it's only a recent situation that China has a reasonable public healthcare system and very few malnourished children which wasn't the case 20 years ago. I expect that Japan will maintain their high life expectancy and in China it will increase gradually. Japan only has 5% obesity rate which is incredible considering Australia is about 30% and the US about 35% . It surprises me Australian life expectancy is so close to Japan actually.
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  3328.  @goodywardhunt3605  indirectly you made me realise something, Australia is the fattest country to make it into the top 10 for life expectancy. So we can be fat and happy and still manage to on average live a long time. Given how obesity is supposed to decrease life expectancy significantly (which I personally believe) I am not sure why we are there.
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  3329.  @goodywardhunt3605  as far as about life expectancy statistics, no idea about whether or not infant mortality plays a significant part, but I would say all these types of statistics are not 100% accurate and they never can be but it's very unlikely out by a significant margin. What is coof? I disagree about the importance of ridding humanity of this virus, I think that's a good idea although Europe and US seem to be ok to keep it if the vaccines don't eradicate it. Nobody is trying to take any freedoms from you, in fact they want to increase freedoms for older people and those others who might die, being dead is no freedom. Israel will most likely be the first fully vaccinated population and if that is replicated straight after with the Palestinian population due to significant interaction we will find out if vaccines will likely or not eradicate the virus. Best of luck and just wear a mask properly for the time being it's not that hard (ok I speak from a position of only having that mandate for a little less than 2 weeks and maybe I feel different if I am in your situation). Take care.
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  3330. 15 days will probably achieve very little, for about a week after lockdown start cases still rising as households become fully infected, if you then wait another week and open up all those newly infected people go straight back out again and all that might be achieved is 1 week without rising cases.
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  3331. I am not in the market for an electric car but if I was I would probably buy BYD which is cheaper but a lower range of 400km compared to Tesla's 600km range. Americans don't have this option and unlikely to get cheaper Chinese options any time soon. Poor MAGA's will have to stick to old gas guzzlers, I guess. Cheapest BYD electric car in Australia is only $23,000 USD.
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  3332. Sorry , Jesus isn't available and doesn't have a phone or computer to make YouTube comments but there's plenty of well trained in the University of YouTube doctors, epidemiologists, virologists and other scientists that might be able to help. Next time ask for qualified University of YouTube specialists and you might get more responses.
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  3333. That's already happening anywhere with a serious outbreak, or at a minimum loss of quality of life because elective surgeries go first.
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  3334. I am Australian and think the same here. Trump says he is going to fight the entire world regarding trade. Anyone outside the US who supports Trump is a traitor in my opinion wishing harm on their own country.
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  3335.  @Justsomeoneyoucouldhaveknown  in Australia we haven't opened our state borders yet, no Americans will be getting in. I think you will find all countries that have it under control will not open to any that don't. Canada doesn't have it under control, but doing better than US.
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  3336. It's a disaster zone and barely reached international news and according to numbers by worldometer the number is 0.56% of entire population dead. I suspect it's a bit of an overestimate now with some excess deaths due to heart conditions and diabetes dying due to covid 19 restrictions but regardless the cause that percentage of excess deaths is tragic.
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  3337. It's not ignore but invading would be a million deaths minimum on both sides within Myanmar should the military not surrender and decided to fight back the invading armies, not a decision to take lightly , just look at Iraq and Afghanistan for recent examples.
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  3338.  @lyca0n535  unfortunately I tend to agree with what you say, possibly even worse noting the Chinese support of the military dictatorship in this comment section. Maybe ASEAN can pull off some sort of miracle, that's the only possible hope I see but half of ASEAN isn't democratic either.
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  3339.  Dixon Uranus  There are wealthy families all over the world where the child is expected to marry into the same class. This doesn't mean every family is like that and I am sure you would find the same thing with wealthy families in Japan. Royal families are a bit different and in European royal families now they seem to be more accepting of change.
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  3340. Even the same percentages ~ 30% believe it.
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  3341. Same , same , the virus will magically disappear. So I think he is multitasking quite well , even dealing with the postal service as well.
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  3342. I hope not, the contagion has even gone international.
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  3343. Maybe they think only the Rhino virus (common cold) can enter that way.
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  3344. Sorry to burst your bubble, 30% of US citizens around about believe that the US is now a non democratic dictatorship. Under such circumstances they do not agree at all and if the Arizona private vote count changes nothing to start a civil war is ones duty according to them. So no people in the US certainly don't all agree and would support the same thing if it happens tomorrow, of course if it fails blame ANTIFA and say Republican are peaceful.
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  3345.  @cash_eye  Admittedly my evidence is somewhat anecdotal, I think the midterm vote you have will be a strong indicator about what direction some are going in. Will the big lie still be endorsed by majority of Federal politicians and if that's still the case do the Republicans get less votes than expected given any other situations at the time and the fact that the party that holds the presidency is always at a disadvantage? The question is rhetorical and have to wait and see. I am Australian and centre right I guess although political leanings don't translate all that well I would probably favour Republican normally if I was American, however if that big lie was still in play I would definitely vote Democrat until it's gone, pretty sure some Americans would behave like me.
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  3346. Yes the US should have state police only, I wouldn't trust my council running the police.
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  3347. Think about the last half of your comment, Iran might be against whoever is more friendly to the US and that's it.
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  3348. Why does a town of 7,000 people have a mayor?
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  3349. If this mob was around before there'd still be polio and stuff around. They've just decided to not trust these vaccines despite them being the most tested in history with billions of doses worldwide and many different vaccine types.
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  3350. But that is there job, it's not the job of a union to be prosecutor and visa versa. A problem exists in the US unlike anywhere else, the district attorney's or prosecutors are elected and often party affiliated this is highly problematic. Blaming a union for doing it's job is wrong, blame the law makers for not attempting to change the system. Just like in any court case a person is entitled to a defense, don't blame the defense lawyer if he or she is good at their job.
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  3351. Try to stay strong and take care of yourself.
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  3352. They're yet to destroy Rafah which is planned to happen in about a month it seems. They are probably just waiting for the arms and cash to arrive after the US passed the $16 billion aid package.
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  3353. I think everyone has had some type of flu but maybe mild in most cases and everyone would have some immunity I would think. If you are in a high risk area getting the flu shot will lower your risk of having both the flu and covid at the same time.
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  3354.  @tassie7830  Yeah Australia's list of at least rhetorical enemies is growing, first Communist Party of China loyalists, the Trump loyalists, then the French and now the Serbians. Hope they don't all start liking each other or we're in trouble. Quite a diverse group they are.
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  3355. They were offered a deal back in October all hostages returned for 6,000 hostages held by Israel. Israel said no.
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  3356. Oh another scammer, hello there.
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  3357. That's my take on it, regardless of the individual case why hasn't twitter done the basic requirements?, lots of other if not most large countries require similar.
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  3358. That's what the national guard is. However the federal government can also call those troops up.
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  3359. Hamas likes people to think there are tunnels everywhere and so does Israel. It's interesting what happens when both propaganda machines are in agreement. I have even heard could be up to 1,000 km. It gets more and more ridiculous. Yes they have tunnels but the estimated distance is extremely unlikely.
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  3360. ​@randythompson6494 at least 2 I think, Canada and Mexico.
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  3361. I am not fussed about which vaccine but it seems a hassle to get the AZ because I am 47.
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  3362. I am Australian and it's looking right now like China - Australia travel will open up well before US - Australia travel.
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  3363. @netherkevin  you're entitled to your opinion.
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  3364. Of course not. Without some amazing evidence Biden is president elect, no court is going to overturn that.
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  3365. If you are in a free market country depending on exactly how you want to use the battery, a BYD Dolphin car is actually a cheap battery but can only use 2 kW when using Vtl vehicle to load. I suspect that they are subsidised because BYD battery packs on their own about same price. Also whatever brand you purchase if you want durability go for LIFePO4 batteries instead of Lithium Ion which are higher performance but don't last as long and potentially more dangerous as a fire hazard.
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  3366. Somehow the virus has difficulties in crossing the equator in the the Western Pacific region didn't you know that?. That's why it could easily cross the Pacific ocean in an easterly direction to the US and down into South America. However I have a much simpler explanation, the Western Pacific region of WHO decided to have mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine at the borders and to stop spread internally, worst performing country the Philippines only a bit over 200 deaths per million , check the European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region, both had policies of completely open borders and voluntary quarantine, pretty strong correlation with results.
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  3367. The story about the militia group and language used is interesting. There hasn't been a pro government militia in the US for more than 100 years unless you include national guard. All private militia in the US are anti government potential terrorists.
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  3368. Technically it does, keep telling people they are pretty much on their own and have lockdowns when hospitals overflow, reopen fully when hospital capacity comes back wait for hospitals to fill again, keep repeating cycle until vaccines hopefully do the job.
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  3369. This is where the conversation goes off the rails, the US deliberately spread the virus around it's own country because restrictions were considered a bigger violation of human rights than allowing what has turned out to be 600,000 to die as you correctly point out die up to this point in time, this number doesn't include increased deaths for other reasons. If the US had dealt with 500 incoming cases the whole world would be in a better position.
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  3370. But it can be tested for covi sars2 by force and you can't.
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  3371. Most of that was great rhetoric, problem is I don't believe a word of it. The US president can at any time cut of arms resupply and tell Isreal what they need to do, Biden won't do that.
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  3372. You had an insurection, we have had a couple of rabble protest and supported by neither major party. You can believe what you want but the evidence contradicts your statement.
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  3373. Sorry mate or Ma'am you people need to get your act together, most illegal immigrants actually arrive legally. That might change now but just get your act together whatever the circumstances. Drug dealer mules almost always travel legally.
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  3374. While masks might help and to an extent are an indicator of preparadness they are a final defence only in this case. Lockdown as required get numbers low enough testing and contact tracing and all people entering country 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine. Masks can reduce hard lockdown time most likely. That's the simple formula whether it's Australia or New Zealand or China or South Korea. Europe in general and the Americas haven't tried this method yet and would prefer mitigation only, in and out of restrictions just don't overflow hospitals. Now for many countries elimination without a vaccine plus lockdown is probably impossible.
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  3375. How did they get from Myanmar because no adjoining border and a fair way away?
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  3376. The US is the leader , that's why.
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  3377. Bitcoin's main purposes are money laundering and scamming. It's value is based on it being used for such purposes and speculative gambling.
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  3378. Actually they aren't, in polling Biden is only 4% less for the white vote. Which also means if voter turnout is high and somewhat accurate Trump doesn't have a chance and it could be a Reagan like victory. Think of Texas which is in play.
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  3379. He missed one, the head of the EPA has been put there to destroy regulations protecting the environment.
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  3380. Basically every poll in the world has become highly unreliable since cell phones started to dominate land lines. It's extremely hard to get good polling when nobody wants to answer unknown phone numbers.
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  3381. American exceptionalism is a form of nationalistic racism based on the ethnic US citizen not the subgroup within that, good luck getting rid of that. All the subgroups actually in general terms support this racism.
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  3382. The US media is still being misleading, it's like they can't just tell the truth without a slant. Having everyone vaccinated won't stop spread. The Delta variant spreads through the vaccinated too but at a slower rate due to the 60% efficacy in stopping infection, so if everyone gets vaccinated (ok that's hypothetical) and the virus doesn't go away because of mutations such as the Delta variant everyone will be angry and think they've been lied to.
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  3383. The US has congealed all levels of government in practice and politically also. I don't know why this has occurred in your country but it has. So I would suggest even though it might not be the case your Federal representatives either fairly or unfairly are associated with local government wackjobs , take Minneapolis Minesotta , defund police has turned into paying more for police and a 77% increase in murders in the last year but that's old news. I don't have any answers for your country because it seems political disfunction is the norm and partisanship has reached the levels it did during the civil rights era once again. Saving face is a big problem in the US, you are no different to the Chinese in this way. The day American exceptionalism dies you could start approaching the standards of liberal Democracies around the world , of which on many key measures except wealth per capita you perform poorly. Let's take one issue health, why does your country pay more in government funded healthcare than Australia both as a proportion of GDP and gross amount per capita. Your life expectancy is rated at 46th best and is approaching a 5 year gap between the US and Australia. Clearly something isn't working. Sorry if I am a bit negative, truth is I find out how lucky I am in Australia as an ordinary person. I hope things get better for you. Maybe American Exceptionalism (which is arrogant feelings of superiority) should become American potential because certain aspects of your country give it potential above many others with the resource base both mineral and agricultural along with being the largest wealthy liberal democracy the potential is always there without having to oppress other countries for it to be realised as was common in the past across the board.
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  3384. Maybe Melinda was angry last week chasing a half naked Bill around the yard with a shotgun, who knows, their home probably has high fences and nobody would see.
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  3385.  @geriatricmotorcars9516  not sure which direction your comment is however I am sure that the NHS did their best to save him but unfortunately he died but at a pretty ripe old age. In the other direction don't underestimate the moral boost of the NHS workers who were and still are going through a hard time.
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  3386.  @xxl1950  you're countering your original point. Of course say bomb airport or on plane will cause problems, it was made an offence in most countries to say a joke about it. Anything that undermines mainland China will be dealt with in the harshest way possible, for a company that would likely mean you will never do business in mainland China, which obviously a company doesn't want to lose that potential.
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  3387. Trump said within the last day if the voting rights act passes Republicans will never win again on Fox news as shown on YouTube. I think an ad of that might be helpful. This ad a bit confusing.
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  3388. There would be an obesity epidemic like the US if people were eating 3,000 calories a day. It's obviously a complete lie and people clapped. The US congress looks like clown show to the rest of the world.
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  3389. That blanket statement is unhelpful. While it can be argued the US healthcare system is immoral it has little to do with it being for profit. Also insurance isn't healthcare. Most drugs and medical devices etc. have all been developed by private enterprise and sold for profit, not an issue in the rest of the wealthy countries.
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  3390.  @jjohnson5652  taxpayer are eventually paying for a significant proportion of covid 19 patient costs , debt is paying for now.
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  3391.  @montgenerejamiemcnelsonson3344  That's exactly what occurs if you open fully with no restrictions when there is plenty of virus about then you will need to lockdown or accept that hospitals will only treat some patients to any high standard. Partial lockdown then completely reopening and keep doing again and again until vaccine arrives I would suggest produces the worst outcome, however that is the same approach pretty much taken by every US state. A hard lockdown and get rid of the virus is best followed by lockdown lite where most follow the rules like Sweden is probably next best which would have meant no BLM protests and no Trump rallies because over 50 in a gathering. Private gatherings could be more in Sweden but most people seem to have not done that.
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  3392.  @AH-yu2pi  Partial lockdowns then full reopening achieves very little because it only slows spread for a short time and spread accelerates after reopening.
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  3393.  @AH-yu2pi  A comprehensive lockdown with the accompanying measures like contact tracing and compulsory border quarantine can get rid of it as Australia and New Zealand have demonstrated and then pounce on any new outbreak with appropriate restrictions which mostly means don't let anyone travel out of the outbreak area if it becomes serious. US states are unlikely to do this so even with a vaccine if take up rates are slow it could be around for years or even possibly forever.
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  3394.  @AH-yu2pi  I don't think you understand there is no virus in 4 states plus a territory. Border quarantine will remain in place until a vaccine is widely distributed. The other countries with the same policy are New Zealand , all the South Pacific islands , Taiwan, China , Vietnam and Thailand ( not sure what will happen with South Korea and Japan) There are a few other countries spotted around the globe with our same policy. As your country isn't going to change policy , nor is mine and the fellow travelers countries.
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  3395.  @AH-yu2pi  I agree mostly with what you say and definitely agree with your last point one size doesn't fit all. Comparing the Japanese or Taiwanese with our societies as an example doesn't work because they have a much more compliant populations than we do, Australia is much better than US though because the response is bipartisan here with only small arguments around the edges and it isn't in the US making things sort of impossible. I wish you and your country good luck, I hope it isn't as bad as I sort of envisage it being over your winter.
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  3396. WMD in Iraq was high level of confidence and this is admittedly low level confidence. They've got nothing other than hypothesis.
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  3397. Local law enforcement shouldn't be involved in the case of the US. Truth is you have a crime problem accross the entire country and therefore should be doing their primary job. Without prejudice if Trump's plan goes ahead it should be ICE assisted by the military, either national guard or regular troops.
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  3398. I don't know about that, I think some of the Fox editorial has toned down a little because Trump's behaviour this year is even too much for some of the commentators. If Biden wins Fox can just keep complaining about everything like they did with Obama so not a problem.
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  3399. Check the obesity rate in India and then Delhi specifically and then the US and also consider they did actually lockdown to slow it down and surprisingly even without government restrictions seeing people dying outside hospitals and the sky brown from all the makeshift plus regular crematorium smoke can change behaviour even without a government mandate.
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  3400. Not exactly Australia operates in the same manner. Our states run health. There is universal health cover though. The federal government provides a significant amount of funding to our states who run the hospitals. We also have a private healthcare system running in parallel which interacts with the public system more often in the elective surgery part of the system. The US system is all over the place with some states playing a major roll in healthcare and others not.
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  3401. Anti terrorism laws for the most part are for foreigners. As a non American I know your government can watch every thing I do and most likely still does that. Using social media in private chat mode I can choose which government might be watching me, that's how it is. It all came out after Snowden blew the whistle and there was never any discussion even that such activity of mass data gathering should stop on foreigners. Open discussions like this are probably being collected by your government however the US has a bad record of actually finding out who the bad guys are. Old fashioned methods tend to work better or total authoritarian control which is unlikely.
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  3402.  @brmillgr  we are getting close now. Probably more than a quarter of the number you suggested back then already. The positivity rates in US are through the roof.
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  3403. The comments in this thread make it clear the current claims of "nobody knew" is completely false if normal people on this thread at that time can work it out. The CDC clearly failed and Trump along with governor's of both persuasions made it worse.
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  3404.  @Taricus  read your comment again.
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  3405. The should be considered battle of bots section. All the free world adding to the Democrat bots and the Israeli, Chinese and Russians on the Maga side.
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  3406. They at least had a hard lockdown for a while and have to remember Delhi is full of fat people so lots of deaths there but if you look at the overall obesity rate in India it's fairly low.
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  3407. I am sure they did with their congregations , they aren't Trump or Biden and can just call the station to do an interview.
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  3408. That would mean sending 2 illegal immigrants to the US for every one received.
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  3409. Funny comments in this thread, even if Democrats were to lose Georgia, so what, still need a few more states to overturn the election. If the Democrats are this highly skilled that they can get 1,000s of officials including Republicans to pull off such a fraud , I say as an Australian they must be geniuses beyond compare , happy that Biden will be president because having geniuses as allies of Australia is great. However I put it down to something far more simple, more people voted for Biden and enough electoral college votes to win.
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  3410. Yeah when they said there's choice because 10 different potato chip brands in the supermarket, I was thinking and they're owned by 3 multinational companies.
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  3411. Like a flu vaccine? Yep the vaccines for Covid 19 are about as effective as the flu vaccines.
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  3412. Someone listened to Trump less testing less cases, maybe Trump can move to Mexico.
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  3413. You have no idea what modern slavery is.
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  3414. It's like Wuhan , first major outbreak there but that doesn't mean it started there. So technically they should say outbreak discovery of a strain or something. But that's too complicated , just say originated there, close enough.
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  3415. Yes if you survive , you will survive reinfection most likely, so what?
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  3416. The same mob probably has no issue with the draft or as most places call it conscription should there be a need for it. So sending someone's child to face possible death in the name of freedom is ok even if they have a moral objection but having that same teenager or young adult wearing a mask is considered a step too far.
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  3417.  @ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP  I read a significant amount of the link you showed me. Nothing is ever absolute otherwise it could be argued that wheeling around a 500 pound nuclear weapon is the right of every US citizen because they have the right to bear arms. It comes down to is that reasonable, most US citizens but possibly not all would consider the right to bear arms not an absolute right but a basic right meaning to protect your own property on real estate you own the government should not unreasonably restrict you and probably means arms that can fire projectiles such as a fire arm or a bow and arrow or crossbow, not a nuclear device which is a pretty good weapon of defence. If the court overturned the decision made 100 years ago approximately in relation to the Spanish flu then the constitution has been reconsidered but until then quarantine measures are lawful in the US even though no governor or the federal government has had the guts to do that. The right to petition is interesting because in the US case it literally means that anyone can ask the President and or his cabinet which is the unelected government of your country for something and he or his secretaries must consider it. That is technically impossible because with modern technology 50,000,000 people tomorrow could ask President Trump for something or in other words petition him, he's already getting on a bit and by the time he gets 0.1% of the way through he will be dead or no longer president. Would it be reasonable to expect your President to consider 50,000,000 matters? Just remember a couple of hundred years ago the population and then the part of the population that was literate and then the part of that population that would spend a day's pay for a letter to be sent . It was a very exclusive club, now any idiot like me and you with 5 minutes spare can send a question or request to a politician. I sent a message to my Prime Minister maybe 2 months ago, I can't be angry and didn't expect a reply under current circumstances, hope he or staff read it but if they didn't oh well not something I am going to get angry about.
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  3418.  @JH-qy7zw  Quarantine measures can refer to any measures to stop the spread of any organism. If it's unknown if such an organism is on or with a person measures can be taken. In Australia the high court found maybe a week ago that stopping some one traveling to a particular state because of the risk reasonable. Search Clive Parmer Versus Western Australia and hopefully you can find an article. I am a big fan of my states rights (Queensland) and the exercise of them. 6 deaths out of 5,000,000 people and probably none of them died from community transmission, all imported cases. We have had 254 recorded cases of transmission in Queensland , maybe we should shut the border more tightly, only joking I think my government has done an excellent job but doesn't mean perfect.
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  3419. You are aware the US destroyed the Philippines economically after independence with a corrupt Philippines president getting some sugar concessions. There was a one way free trade deal everything imported into Philippines tax free and almost everything exported to US taxed. Although this situation did finish some time ago , how do you feel about US people white and black who have gained from you?
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  3420. At least 6 months Trump has actually foreshadowed. Then it'll probably be the deep state or something.
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  3421. That idea would only hurt the poor, not a good idea. Selective actions maybe by the civilian members of the government workforce might work.
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  3422. They would be made from recycled material but check the fine print as some might only be a small percentage.
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  3423. Your 99.7% survival rate is incorrect, some jurisdictions extremely close to 0.3% of total population dead and less than half infected, they have vaccines now so maybe won't go past 0.3% but that's because of vaccines and not everyone will get infected even without a vaccine.
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  3424. ​@Coco9210 Actually short term at least Trump's behaviour if he tariffs Canada and Mexico is good for Aussie farmers. Might Trump come after us next I don't know because we have a trade deficit with the US so it wouldn't work in the US favour.
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  3425. ​ @victorpulis5113 We have a completely open border for citizens at birth and complete free trade, not sure why we would want to occupy New Zealand.
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  3426. You lack confidence in the ability of any US government to become functional. That's what your entire comment comes down to. If the US copied the Australian system for healthcare and went universal it would be cheaper, Australia spends less on publically funded healthcare than the US. Now you can have your trip to Hawaii. If you changed your welfare system to support those in need rather than corporations it would be cheaper, locking up 1% of your entire adult population is very expensive. If you look at incarceration rates by US state and homicide rates and see which states are leaning Democrat or Republican you find the following, Red states higher incarceration rates, higher homicide rates and blue states the other direction on average. So you have these often broke ass crime ridden Republican states spending money on creating a giant prison industry often at way above cost I suspect because many prisons are privatized. Stop locking people up and spend the money on social instead of corporate welfare and you can have 2 Hawaii trips. If you dig down deep you find that Bernie's policies don't actually cost anything if they could be implemented properly, Australian government spending is comparable to that of the US but we have very different societies and priorities.
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  3427. "THE OCTOBER SURPRISE" Not taking this one example but all the examples of the closet people against Trump coming out and after each one comes out another one is emboldened. This could be the Reagan landslide but of a different party. Reagan was great and maybe Joe will be too even though realistically only one term. Joe is a fiscal conservative and that is certainly needed in the US along with other countries including Australia my country.
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  3428. Defamation laws tend to be tougher in the US look at how big the payouts can even up to Fox being sued a billion dollars or whatever it was because of presenters running conspiracy theories about voting machines.
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  3429. @Moris Blackborn As I said that's not unlikely in fact on the average of probability you are right as I said below 50% chance of needing hospitalization. Are you saying his chance of getting sick is lower than mere mortals of the same age?
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  3430. @Moris Blackborn the 80% number is overall and seems about right it's not for a person of Trump's age, which seems to be somewhere between a third and half likely hood of happening. I am not on any side I am Australian and we chose and carried out an effective containment policy regarding the virus, so our countries are in a completely different position. Mitigation will continue to mean ongoing lockdown lite in your country changing from state to state. Australia has a hard border closure but far less restrictions internally other than Victoria which is probably a month away from elimination of the virus.
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  3431. @Moris Blackborn You have no idea do you. The number of imported cases into Queensland Australia a state of 5,000,000 is about 60% higher than Taiwan. The number of imported cases into Australia is greater than Korea by a little bit. Australia detected 15 cases at the same time the US detected 15 cases around 20 February so it can only be one of 2 things an absolute failure by the US to detect cases at that point in time or the US actually started out with the same number of imported cases, I know which one my money is on. Every state is an island in both the US and Australia because the states run the response, in the US it was decided by all governor's that there would be no more than a voluntary quarantine system, which Australian authorities realised early on will never work. So you can keep your belief that Australian s are some sort of superhuman but I can assure you we aren't and are just as vulnerable to the virus as any US citizen. Australia , US and Canada all have about the same urbanisation rates which decides how hard a containment policy will be.
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  3432. If you are American this is a cultural issue, if you are old enough and remember the term "going postal" you would realise that after this point in time unfortunately it was an acceptable way to commit suicide, even have another more recent term for that " suicide by cop" . These people are the equivalent of a suicide bomber but tend to have wide ranging ideology. The US has always been violent and has a homicide rate of about 5 times that of comparable wealthy countries. So unfortunately for the moment and your entire history in one way or another that is who you are.
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  3433. You could reverse those numbers and it would be Fox, what's your point everyone knows this media outlet is left leaning and the Republican Party is a mess meaning plenty to talk about them.
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  3434.  @commonsense9848  of course it's not news, Fareed is editorial, just like Tucker on Fox. It's not intended to be news, some people however don't seem to know what is editorial and what is news.
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  3435.  @commonsense9848  I made a neutral comment and to answer your question very directly just taking one issue, healthcare, the US spends more on public healthcare than Australia yet it would appear it's not universal and it would also appear to bring substandard overall outcomes with life expectancy 5 years less approximately. This is not the only key measure issue where the US performs not so well. Both your major political parties don't get it in general terms, maybe some individuals do.
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  3436.  @commonsense9848  A nuclear armed country with 1.3 million personnel can't control a 2,000 mile border? If you put every single military person on that border at one time, ( this is not counting your ICE and ATF etc. who can carry out the exact same task) they would be spaced about 3 yards apart. However it's my understanding that most "undocumented" citizens ( in reality they are citizens) enter legally but overstay whatever permit or visa they might have. Direct answer to your question Australia has a different border policy to the US , I would suggest that both major US parties don't get that either and seems that you at least agree with me on that. The 3% of the population being in that category makes little difference to overall health outcomes, it certainly can't explain a 5 year difference in life expectancy. The extra spending is far greater than 3% anyway. The other issues you mentioned well no we don't have the tail wagging the dog, the government runs the show not the beneficiaries of bad government policy.
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  3437. We can't send message really because it's an internal matter, but maybe our prime minister has said something privately, they would be able to contact each other directly if they want to.
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  3438. We live too long, 100 years ago life expectancy was 40 and cancer was much more rare because most people not get too old and die of things like bacterial infection.
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  3439. In a way I would of countries like UK or US just make a decision, going half way doesn't work. Swedish model or New Zealand model , pick one and follow it. Probably too late for New Zealand model and impossible to achieve which leaves possibly only one realistic option.
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  3440. The reason for so many deaths in the US last year and now is because of low vaccination rates. Rand Paul et. al. are partly responsible. Why are Republicans blaming Fauci for low vaccination rates?
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  3441. Of course they do. In New York they found that medical staff had less infections than the general public. But there are caveats. Must be worn properly and the type of mask and no reduction in other precautions. Masks reduce risk not eliminate it.
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  3442. Technically the charismatic one in the ad was Osama I thought.
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  3443.  @kathleenking47  I didn't say I smoke but you correctly guessed it and I am an addict. Or to the original point a Paleo man who doesn't know better. I don't use filters in my Rollie's, filters wouldn't be Paleo. Papers are breaking the rules a bit, the native Americans used pipes I think.
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  3444. Huh? New South Wales to it's credit stopped BLM rally number 2 with the use of police force. Now another state implements the same policy and it's bad.
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  3445. Interestingly no evidence of what you say however a political party literally did what you accused in January 2021 and people died also.
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  3446.  @ahpong  As the equal highest immigrant country in the world as a proportion of population we have a lot of Indian Australian, Thailand and Taiwan don't have this problem because so hard to migrate there, so really small numbers. Some of the people travelled to India against government advice knowing the risk, others who have had difficulties getting back have to wait a bit as has been the case for Australian all over the world, yes have sympathy for them but that's all we have the capacity to do. The reason for the current rules is only to stop rich people breaking it, a normal person wouldn't get a flight as occured, which was why penalties put in place.
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  3447.  @EBZ-z5n  Chartered flights were arranged from India also in January and or February this year, clearly you are unaware of everything. Truth is 10% of entire flights were coming in positive from India , that never happened from other countries. All countries had people waiting , that's just a fact. The rules got broken by rich white cricketers traveling from India if you must know. Race has nothing to do with anything.
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  3448.  @EBZ-z5n  Are you an English speaker?
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  3449.  @EBZ-z5n  I ask if English is your language because you called them Indians first not Australian, I wondered why you did that? It's unlikely you are either Indian or Indian Australian because they don't talk like that. I would also like to know where you are from to compare your country to mine , that's only fair I would think, so if you want to tell me your nationality as well that would be nice.
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  3450. The Statement by Florida health acknowledged it manipulated data to create a false narrative by with holding data and not putting provisional data that was known but incomplete and it would certainly seem the website didn't note the review meaning no data for weeks. Seems like a totally planned manipulation with all the classic hallmarks of a conspiracy that was possibly unlawful because it was designed to manipulate the federal election. I would bet that the governor knew but also that it's going to be extremely difficult to prove and possibly impossible if planned correctly where he received no information by email.
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  3451. First of all it wouldn't work , they are less reliant on international trade than a country like Australia and if it did work it would only hurt ourselves and the most marginalized people in China, in other words the people you claim to want to help.
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  3452.  TheSpirit AndTheBride  I watched a YouTube video a few years ago of a Holocaust survivor, he said that Israel was doing some of the same things the NAZIS did. It's true Israel hasn't put people in gas Chambers however they don't treat them well.
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  3453. LOL , sorry Americans and now Iraelis . You are the entertainment for the world now lol. Wonder what's next, is my Prime Minister in Australia going to outed as an Alien.
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  3454. It's probably getting safer. The bus has already stopped because of all the bodies.
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  3455. One world government, sounds exciting.
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  3456.  @LeechyKun  Not democracy but free speech, although China it seems won't attack Singapore it has reasonably high levels of free speech and an open internet ( not so free if you protest the government ) . I think they use an element of racism also because only 3 countries can train military in Australia under current agreements but not a word about Singapore. Plenty to say however when it's Japan.
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  3457. Hey fair go people. I am not Victorian but be reasonable. If they were a US mainland state they would be considered the best performer. In the end it's up to Victorians after this event to decide if a new government is needed but now is not the time. When they are covid free then it's ok to comment , not kick them when they're down
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  3458. It's very good for you because you would get an exemption and the only protection you have is others around you being vaccinated. If I had that problem I would certainly be in favour of mandatory vaccines.
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  3459. The media is in part to blame, they should wear fluro tops that say media. Maybe not every time but at least if they a distance away they might not know they are media.
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  3460. Actually a minority of voters thought that. I think the biggest group was actually or if not extremely close to the voters who think both are just as good/bad.
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  3461. Elon agrees with free speech as much as Trump is a free market capitalist.
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  3462. I would go and sit outside the circle just to annoy others. Then if questioned I would say inside the circle would be contaminated like a toilet seat with people continuously using that grass. I don't think I would be gunned down for disobedience even if it the US.
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  3463. If Biden refers to them as good people then fair enough. Has he done that?
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  3464. Jeff I don't think you understand the background and who is behind all of this. First of all the new agreement only creates free trade between China and Japan all the other countries have agreements in place however this is more comprehensive it would seem. When it comes into effect as an example there will be 4 trade agreements in effect with Australia and Singapore. So why do we keep pushing more and more agreements, I believe it's 2 fold, one reason is each new agreement we might get a little more concessions and secondly if there are like in the case of Australia and Singapore 4 agreements stacked on top of each other it makes it extremely difficult for one country to wriggle out of all agreements. Us smaller countries have to be nimble and agressive on the free trade front because the elephants, US and China can step on us mice very easily. Having read one of Australia's FTAs a while ago we are patient and allowed 20 years for some agricultural tariffs to be removed so the other country has time to adjust to the new market place. So in this region the most agressive free traders are Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. It was Singapore or New Zealand that initiated the TPP starting as P4 and currently called CPTPP and Australia's prime minister mentioned it in his speech or in answer to media questions when he congratulated Biden saying the door for joining this agreement was open.
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  3465. The vast majority of double vaccinated people in hospital are really old and sick to begin with, there's no gain in showing them, vaccine take up rate in 70+ age group in Australia is about 88% so far having at least one shot. They want the younger age groups to be more enthusiastic about getting a vaccine noting there's more people wanting Pfizer than we have doses so the campaign is going well but a bit slow.
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  3466. ​@bromeotorres6964 there are some Jewish people who mark their buildings with the Palestine Flag, don't know how many but they do exist.
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  3467.  @MarkSmith-ud4sd  I hate to tell you this shocking fact but Trump allowed the virus to go into every single county inside of the US , a country totally infected, 3 cover-up have occured outside of China that I am aware of, Trump covering up the risks and telling he supporters directly to get infected, noting they follow him, many still believe that Biden lost the election, Florida and New York changed or delayed data. So based on a shady country Australia should keep travel restrictions on the US the longest because as shady as China arguably more shady. Trump didn't ban travel from China only Chinese taking a direct flight, many flew via Europe and US citizens exempt from the so called ban and to say some model predicted more deaths than ended up occurring, therefore he saved lives is absurd. You sound like you are regurgitating Trump's own words he is the only person to claim he saved so many lives.
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  3468. We are all a law unto ourselves unless it's an international issue and the permanent members of the security council are literally a law unto themselves however somehow it's sort of worked or at least not gone really bad.
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  3469. Hope you are doing ok now. You take care of yourself.
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  3470. They don't have power to do anything but shout from the sidelines. Whether you like it or not the US public voted for this.
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  3471. So effectively she voted for expansion of free healthcare. Now the Republicans are talking massive cuts to free healthcare.
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  3472. They said nobody was killed actually as apparently reported in the US. Did you see someone get killed did you? Shout it from the rooftops then.
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  3473.  @a.e.bridwell8236  fair enough but that makes your first point mute because the clip talked about US media claiming someone was killed and seems they weren't.
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  3474.  @a.e.bridwell8236  I am responding directly to you, the claim was apparently that someone was trampled to death which was pointed out as being misinformation. Whether or not a horse collided with someone is irrelevant because they were silent on that. You can say it would have been better if they told the whole story and actually I would agree with you but to make a claim that they lied is incorrect.
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  3475.  @a.e.bridwell8236  I watched 3 videos of the matter and personally I would have said thank goodness I wasn't trampled but it was damn close, if I was trampled and the horse stepped on me with half a tonne maybe I am dead now. I also rewatched the news clip and they made it very clear police stepped up actions which led to some violence. Ma'am or Sir don't be grumpy with your child or children for having a different view, even though on a personal level I think Canadian provinces could reduce restrictions a bit more quickly it's not a reason for a small group to attempt to hold the entire country to Ransome by an international blockade which if done by another government would be considered an act of war.
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  3476.  @thewolfman3139  yep and nobody was, getting knocked over versus stood on by 500kg with a horse's hoof are completely different things. Unfortunately propaganda keeps changing the English language especially in North America. Quarantine came to mean do whatever you want go infect anyone if you want but maybe consider not doing that in North American and European English, in Australia , New Zealand and Singapore we certainly retained the original meaning with 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine or in different terminology quarantine.
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  3477.  @thewolfman3139  you want to change quarantine yet again, to mean absolutely nothing. You got your wish in Canada and the US, not a single person was required to quarantine. 1 million dead be happy.
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  3478.  @ParArdua  lol Us descendants of convicts know how to follow rules, now we have to reeducate the mob that sent us here.
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  3479. Well you're already going into soft lockdown tomorrow your time, perfect timing.
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  3480. You are being taxed to fund Israel which these protesters disagree with. Interesting you want to be taxed to fund a plausible genocide.
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  3481. Fauci only changed fairly late in the piece and the writing was on the wall and also Trump could sack her but not him. In January and February it's known that Fauci and Redfield completely failed due to absolute incompetence or negligence with only 500 tests conducted versus 10,000 for Australia and 100,000 for South Korea. There were 15 ports of entry decided on and one didn't even have the useless temperature check, so 5% of arrival's with no screening at all and I would be certain that there was no information on what to do if you become sick, this is fairly standard procedure in Australia especially if any concerns of diseases entering our country are apparent, it's always been from day 1 to now a complete debacle and only one person I have heard might not fit the political mold of the rest and that's Dr Michael Osterholm who for whatever reason wasn't chosen to be on Biden's current taskforce only a transition advisor. Biden stated that something Osterholm had said regarding lockdown measures that should be taken or something like that was not policy, I think the 2 could be related.
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  3482. 9 years is a pretty big sentence even if it gets cut in half. This wasn't for a crime she gained advantage monetarily or otherwise, she did it for her king.
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  3483. Well done USA, you have now entered a low level civil war with 2 different armed groups killing others. Maybe compared to Australia this is sort of normal with a homicide rate 6 times that of us. Get your act together and denounce both armed militias and condemn the "peaceful protestors" on both sides excusing executions by there comrades or Patriots whatever ridiculous association exists.
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  3484. I am a bit negative on that score because even with a vaccine I think the US in particular will take years to get rid of the virus based on past and current performance. If a significant mutation occurs then it could be back to square one with a vaccine.
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  3485. Then Trump has won. Your aims are the same as Trump's. Are you sure that's the side you want to be on?
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  3486. Really, the open border don't fine anyone guy who has begrudgingly become a tyrant like the other successful states. No one is in prison in Victoria even now. Western Australia or Queensland you do the crime you do the time. Proper hardline near virus free states.
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  3487. Well search Melbourne hotel quarantine scandal and if you get a hit it will tell you why. Incompetence in various ways by the Victorian government and maybe there contact tracing isn't so good. Victoria it appears didn't do as hard lockdown in the first instance still allowing interstate travel and until recently complaining about my state Queensland's travel restrictions. New South Wales was complaining with Victoria. Now NSW has put travel restrictions on Victoria and Victoria is remarkably quiet on the matter.
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  3488. You are right about the travel bans because US citizens and permanent residents aren't subject to it and only voluntary self isolation upon arrival into the US so by definition xenophobic. To Biden's credit though if genuine they looking into having some enforced quarantine of some sort upon arrival but it's a week already and nothing I think, the virus won't just wait.
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  3489. Well excess deaths from January 26 to October 3 according to the CDC was 300,000 and 200,000 of those deaths involved covid 19. So the deaths caused by lockdown lite plus covid 19 is significant otherwise there would be 0 excess deaths because flu deaths are down due to lockdown lite policies. In Australia it looks like our life expectancy has actually increased in 2020 due to hard lockdown for mostly a short period and covid 19 gone. One state is the exception because they sort of followed a US like policy for a significant time but fixed now. If the trend has continued in the US then well over 500,000 excess deaths now, so people that would otherwise be alive.
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  3490. They tried it about 50 years ago but blocked by some smaller state senators from both parties because they didn't want to lose power. The house easily passed it at the time with bipartisan support.
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  3491. @mike-gv2ol  The technology is fine, problems regarding widespread adoption is the infrastructure doesn't exist. If you live in an apartment or rented property then you won't have a charger. So that obviously slows down adoption especially in the case of apartments where retrofitting a carpark to have chargers can be more expensive than it's worth. Another thing slowing down adoption is people's perceptions and in the case of the US not being a very free market economy no competition with imports. In Australia a BYD Dolphin is $30,000 AUD or about $20,000 USD and it has a range of approximately 400km or about 250 miles. For almost everyone this is completely sufficient for daily use. If I lived in my own property or town house and I was going to buy a new car that's the one I would purchase. However I live in an apartment so even though I would want that car it becomes a little impractical because I would have to pay at public charging stations which would also use up my time.
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  3492. I wouldn't under normal circumstances but for the QLD state election I will vote Labor for the first time. Don't want those left wing fools at the federal level though with the coalition becoming far left radicals and Labor thinking let's extend and increase the current ridiculous levels of handouts. Some were needed for sure but it's extreme and totally unfair how they did it with the support of Labor.
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  3493.  @stephenpaddock6996  Malaysia and Singapore along with all South Asia dealt the same hand as in ex English colonies, that excuse can't be used forever.
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  3494.  @rushlimbaugh4641  If I was American I would be more annoyed at Israel getting so many doses because they are sort of a welfare state of the US with the amount of aid that they have received over the years but look at their vaccinated percentage and all Moderna and Pfizer I think. With Pfizer though because it's a collaboration with the vaccine developer being German it might be the case they have to follow certain rules of their partner and also with Covax it's a pretty big sales deal which even if they make only a low margin it's still big money and have to contribute something even in the early stages , not just selling to rich countries.
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  3495. To be fair he wasn't pointing the gun at her. He pointed it below her and ready. I don't see anything wrong. In the end she complied with directions and everything fine. It's unfortunate in the US this is normal. Most countries like Australia police rarely take their gun out.
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  3496. Yes I agree and also in the case of Australian ABC declare that it's the Australian Public Broadcaster for non Australian viewers who might not know. The broadcaster is run independently and for the most part not particularly biased.
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  3497. Homicide rates Australia 0.8, South Korea 0.5, USA 6.4 . Don't blame drugs on your ridiculously high homicide rate, Australia overall is less criminalised with drugs than the US.
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  3498. In countries with a containment model that have contained the virus successfully it so far appears to be less of a problem. I am in Australia and some wish for your situation of continuous measures with no end in sight and aren't really happy with low restrictions (ex Victoria currently fixing their situation). We have major travel restrictions though. Some people will be unhappy no matter what.
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  3499. One might ask the question would Zuckerberg or Musk or Bezos cooperate with Trump. Why do Americans fear an internet company that mostly just puts out personal videos. The US has a history of and continues to interfere in other countries, now China is doing the same. As a non Chinese or American I don't trust either of you.
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  3500. My impression is the Indian government isn't asking for help at all other than with vaccines. The only country capable of helping India in other ways would be China and can't see them asking.
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  3501. WABTT doesn't have the same ring to it as MAGA.
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  3502. In what way?
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  3503. I sort of saw this coming. Elon goes in using unfair trading practices and undercuts the competition slightly making himself a hero for MAGA.
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  3504. Who said he's Jewish?
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  3505. @rayyaanpinky2284  at this stage no evidence of that.
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  3506. I like your name and hey at least you are helping to keep an Aussie journo in a job, looks like a syndicated clip to me that many media organizations can use.
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  3507. I just remember what happened a few days after Putin said the military training was over and the troops were retreating from the border. Don't believe a word of it.
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  3508. ​@nevyn_karres I would disagree with your assessment, heritage foundation used to be a primarily economic and public policy think tank. It believed in effective government and a big proponent of free trade. MAGA wrote project 2025 which is nothing like historical heritage foundation stuff.
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  3509. I am in Queensland and don't use an app anytime, only time have have given details is on the rare occasion I played the pokies a bit and just in writing. I have noticed in Brisbane when the last mask wearing requirement was in place the further from the city centre the lower the compliance and at supermarkets the highest compliance rate.
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  3510.  MadamYes  that's good.
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  3511. Great to know you are thanking God that you are psychic. Now you go and bet your life savings on what you know.
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  3512. How do you get calcium?
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  3513. They still have unlimited supply of artillery etc. , Rafah is a small city of about 300,000 plus up to about 1 million in tents. Artillery versus mostly tents who do you think will win.
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  3514.  @japhetomari5757  I have some understanding now from a few comments on this video clip
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  3515. People have changed behaviour and just saying reopening does not fill a bar or restaurant. There are 2 different trajectories in the world. Country that have decided to contain and possibly eliminate, mostly East Asia, South East Asia and Australasia and those that try to mitigate and not fill hospitals most of Europe and North America. I don't think containment is really viable in many countries any more and people just won't put up with harsh lock downs anymore like you are seeing in most US states.
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  3516.  @richardjones2750  Everyone knew that, you don't lock down a city Wuhan if people washing their hands would stop the spread. So using the most basic logic it must spread through the air.
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  3517.  @richardjones2750  You are confused, I have just said anyone who watched the news around 20 January knew because an entire city was being locked down. So of course Trump knew.
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  3518.  @richardjones2750  That is a question I can't answer because it makes no sense. The "it'll go away like magic in April " if my memory is correct made even less sense.
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  3519. Why the scepticism? When you watch on the news areas of cities being burnt to the ground and people getting killed it's a deterrent to go out, so majority shelter in place. It was specified at the population level, so the protestors and rioters spread it amongst each other , this is not disputed. The other problem as to the specific effect is with 70,000 cases per day now the protestors were only a drop in the ocean. It does however demonstrate that a proper lockdown works with those staying clear of riots reducing transmission of the virus during that period.
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  3520. X is a platform that censors contributors by using an algorithm. It's free speech for Musk that pushes his posts to the top of everyone else's.
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  3521. If those families drink alcohol you can ignore all those precautions they just spoke of which will disappear in 1 hour. This'll be one super duper spreading event given the current infection rates. Then there will be the person who speaks to the media pointing out a couple of dead family members just in time to do it all again for Christmas. 2 out of 5 coincidentally is about the ratio of Republican supporters, I wonder how much these groups correlate.
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  3522. They weren't all, it was both parties on a countrywide basis , however in both cases they were low numbers.
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  3523. Well it's not exactly what you suggested but still voter fraud, Zul Mirza Mohamed from Texas has been charged with a large number of cases, I couldn't find any evidence of an outcome so maybe it's still awaiting trial.
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  3524. Can you imagine if the UK started annexing parts of France they wouldn't be firing missiles into the UK.
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  3525. China's belt and road initiative has been given a boost by Trump. Trump is only fighting against China on trade directly affecting the US.
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  3526. You never heard of deficit spending, maybe you should look it up. Trump is the king of deficit spending.
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  3527.  @DucksonQuack1  Of course cheaper is usually better, in Australia we have 5 years higher life expectancy than in the US but spend less on public healthcare, it's not about the money it's about functionality and vaccines are far cheaper and give better results than treatments. To make it some sort of ideological battle costs lives and money, this has further flow on effects.
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  3528. The WHO is run at the regional level , what would you suggest?
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  3529. Not really being cut out but the US has decided to become protectionist. Biden was protectionist too, he could have joined what was then TPP but didn't. Now it's CPTPP with all the original countries minus US and plus UK.
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  3530. He is a tough cookie. I don't know if I could do that job. Ok it's only words but sometimes it would be painful.
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  3531. So basically the central argument in favour of Trump is that he won't follow any of his stated policies other than a tax cut for corporations. His highly socialist economic policies and crony capitalism plans are terrible and of course will hurt the lower socio-economic group if enacted. Especially the tariffs on everything imported. Deportation of the lowest cost illegal workers will also put inflation pressures especially fruit , vegetables and possibly some meat. He also promises retribution and he was already doing that last time but now he will be able to do it more effectively. I believe Trump does want to follow through with his stated policies and we are in for a rough ride worldwide especially when it comes to trade.
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  3532. It will be up to the will of the people, no politician wants to commit political suicide, it's going to be really hard to convince any state outside of NSW and VIC to "live with it". I would bet you right now the moment a confirmed outbreak occurs from an already vaccinated person those state border restrictions will be put back on in hours, the PM can talk all he wants, states can change their minds at a moments notice. If vaccines are good enough to stop any serious outbreak all is good and well but we don't know that until it's actually put into action, data from US and UK is too unreliable because in relative terms they are still on fire by our standards.
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  3533.  @electronwave4551  It's really a matter of wait and see, vaccines don't have to completely stop spread but slow it down enough to be easily contained. Have to remember we are talking about 50,000 deaths if the vaccines end up literally not working as in a variant evades the lot, while I think very unlikely it's not impossible. From what they are saying or to quote Fauci evidence suggests that vaccinated people are very unlikely to spread the virus, I am very sceptical of this claim but if true next year after everyone who wants a vaccine has one opening borders won't be a problem because outbreaks theoretically will just die out quickly with only a few ever getting infected. The outcomes vary so much I wouldn't predict anything.
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  3534.  @electronwave4551  In Australia's case a closed border is better for the economy, we had an increased trade surplus last year and a component of that was keeping Australian in Australia. I think it might apply to NZ as well who also had an increased trade surplus. This is another reason no rush to open borders other than to foreign students who spend a lot because they stay a long time. The businesses that relied 100% on foreign tourists are already dead so don't have to worry about something that no longer exists.
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  3535. I love how the 5% who are ok are shown graphically as about 1% on the pie chart.
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  3536. It doesn't work with the people that you are thinking of, they are in total denial and say numbers made up, they would have died anyway etc. etc.
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  3537. The no tax on tips , overtime and handouts is a ridiculous idea. Very occasionally Trump gets it right. Imagine CEOs declaring all work in excess of 1 hour per week overtime and that 1 hour work being paid by the company as a tip. You would be declaring CEO jobs as tax free.
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  3538. According to worldometer the US is the second most deaths per million of a wealthy jurisdiction of more than one million with 2186 deaths per million and rapidly catching up to Belgium with 2201 deaths per million. The pro Trumpers have stopped saying look at Europe now where things might be really bad but not as bad as the US. It's coming up to winter soon in the northern hemisphere and you are probably in for another bad one.
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  3539. You are right in both cases. Think of the US healthcare system as a fleet of top of the range vehicles but with children trying to work out how to drive those vehicles. Lack of coordination and willingness to make tough decisions means every mainland US state has failed.
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  3540. Where are you from? Just curious and wonder how your country has performed.
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  3541. They're not going to anyway, this is just to stir people up like Trump does. All that some Democrats have said is they aren't going to assist the Feds, whereas a state like Texas will.
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  3542. There website says they grow covi sars2 for research purposes and give it out to any labs that meet certain criteria for free, so don't know what you are talking about.
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  3543.  @TheAsa1972  Well they better fix that because in New Jersey 0.25% of the entire population already dead, and they still dying so either New Jersey is exceptional or that number you just gave is wrong or treatment have dramatically improved. What was there explanation for the dramatic drop?
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  3544. The Philippines will receive some Chinese vaccines paid by China. Not sure what will happen but Australia is likely to provide some help to ASEAN countries, however we haven't approved any vaccines for use yet , so I don't think we would want to be involved in giving out any vaccines that we don't approve of use for Australian. The Philippines and Indonesia being the most affected major ASEAN countries will probably be better off than Europe and US and still much lower case numbers but yes rising. It certainly helps to be near countries that are virus free or near virus free I would suggest. One thing that has been indirectly said is about helping trade etc. in the region, so I think getting Philippino ship crews vaccinated will be fairly high on the list.
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  3545. Make sure the bit is sterilized before they start chomping on it.
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  3546. Well a large part of the ideology is the same as in a potential overthrow of government by the use of a militia group.
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  3547. Sugarcane is a grass, so neither fruit or vegetable I would say because of how it's used.
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  3548. Yes good point and the other point is how long might it last, maybe 1 year down the track 90% of people can be reinfected like most of the common coronavirus that infect humans seem to do.
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  3549. You're a bit weird if you like it, maybe it's the effect of knowing it reduces your chance of something worse in the future.
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  3550. I wish India the best of luck. The main problem is cramped living conditions of many making it really hard to stop the spread.
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  3551. Yes they are, Trump and Musk are dictators.
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  3552. It could be but knowing Trump it could also be another reason he hasn't told us yet.
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  3553. If he goes to prison he might need protective custody.
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  3554. Not if a government does it. If an immigration worker did it that would be corruption.
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  3555. @James-m8x3b  It's a completely separate fund , look it up yourself " usa social security trust fund". It's 100% invested in US government bonds.
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  3556. More people in Chicago are killed in an average week than has occurred in Israel, clearly in the US you would do nothing.
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  3557. If there was brown stuff that reacted to magnets which I highly doubt, the vaccines aren't made in the same facilities as moonshine, it would be rust aka iron oxide and completely harmless I would think, that red color in your blood is iron.
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  3558. And where are you from may I ask?
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  3559. Am I the only one confused. The flights cost money I understand and yes for those who haven't worked it out flyovers are often bombing run simulation training. But what's the issue with the masks, the painters N95 mask what's the problem? An N95 mask is an N95 mask. I guessing was N95 mask couldn't read the print.
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  3560. If you are too cowardly to say I no longer support you then I have no sympathy for you. Either you support your own firing or you don't, this person wants it both ways.
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  3561. In another video John says it has been worked out in Israel I think it was. Can't remember the exact parameters but I think it looked at the chance of severe illness and it seemed to be a factor.
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  3562. It's doses not vaccinations so might be 40,000,000 vaccinated and another 30,000,000 at one dose. I would expect the 100,000,000 doses will be surpassed if no serious issues.
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  3563. Are you referring to covid 19 and herd immunity? Not a good idea.
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  3564. Not behind you but in a better position. Australia is opening up now and cases are skyrocketing, not sure what is to come but our vaccination rates are pretty good. My state of Queensland Australia had 14% of it's total overall cases yesterday. 500+ for a population of about 5 million, that for us is pretty scary, going from "covid 0" to "covid normal". Singapore tried the same a bit earlier but put significant restrictions back in, I suspect that may happen with us but unlike Singapore with a similar population we are much more spread out not just a city state so maybe we can get by easier.
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  3565. Tax the poor so the corporate tax rate can go to 15%. Good luck low income Americans.
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  3566. All the comments about how did they fall for it. I suggest you watch a few videos about romance scammers scamming adults, it's no different. If an adult can fall for it so can a teenager.
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  3567. Go easy on him, he is only the messenger. If John was the guy in charge maybe the UK could look like Australia but he isn't.
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  3568. They will probably get compassionate flights after 15th.
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  3569. Only Sky News Australia. Sky News is British and sold off some time ago so not Murdoch Press any more. It's true the US has more extreme press on both sides compared to Australia with one exception this channel. Actually the rest of the Australian Murdoch press is not too bad. If you want to see the bias of this channel search sky News Australia for anything about Victoria. That's a left wing government which did have some failures dealing with covid 19 , however it would rate about 5th best if it was a US state and cases down to about 10 per day now for a state of around 6.5 million people. The channel has never said a word against Trump on the handling of the Covid 19 situation that I am aware of. Old people surprisingly enough in the US don't want to die due to others incompetence or worse or be locked up in a nursing home with no visitors or be shipped to an infected nursing home if they get sick like in Florida. So the other stuff is interesting and all but even oldies have access to the internet most of the time so can see the US has done poorly. Watching from afar the election will be interesting.
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  3570. Your maths is correct but knowing the real number who have been infected is a bit of a guessing game in the US. I think double counts from one person testing positive more than once and dodgy antibody tests pump the numbers up and lack of tests relative to case numbers at certain times and places push them down. I am not American but I certainly trust the Chinese case numbers to be far more accurate, any country that gets to low case numbers the above difficulties are greatly reduced.
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  3571. Nah, most Australian states have more freedoms than the rest of the world because they are virtually virus free. Victoria will get it's freedom soon, cases down by 90% from high so far.
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  3572. Obviously Aussies buy less US products than Canadians but here's the thing it all adds up, Canadians plus Mexicans plus Europeans and Aussies and Kiwis add up. You Americans have declared an economic war against all of us and us will win.
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  3573.  @X2LR8  I saw Trump at a 2016 rally supporting violence against protestors even going as far as to say in the old days you could rough them up more and those days were good. Trump said to liberate Michigan and a few other states. The only time I have ever used that phrase used it relates to armed conflict which is what was attempted. Trump constantly pandered to militia groups by talking their language that is they're coming for your guns remember your second amendment rights ( militia groups consider it their right to overthrow a tyrannical government by armed force) . Please advise the quote of Bernie Sanders that implied someone should commit violence against his oponents.
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  3574.  @MM-tb2fg  Those left and right extremists including Antifa individuals who have killed people over the past year or so are going to prison. What's your point.
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  3575.  @X2LR8  Well that's your standard then, that's why your country is more than twice as violent as every other wealthy country in the world , generally 5 times as many homicides, Canada is about half the rate and makes the US not seem so bad. You are right though it's seems impossible a trial by his own political party could result in anything and to the original comment most mob bosses never go to prison. Time will tell if the stand back and stand by and fight like you have never fought before helps the Republicans. I am glad I live in a peaceful country with a lot less violence or acceptance of violence.
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  3576.  @amyk6403  I am sorry twisting the second amendment that forming a militia to overthrow the government if you don't like it is certainly a nutter theory the second amendment itself completely contradicts this "a well regulated militia" that means the militia is regulated by the government itself, a government doesn't regulate a militia to say kill the elected officials if you feel like it. I know your country has about 5 times the homicide rate of my country and probably 6 or 7 times the homicide rate last year as killings went up so I am fully aware the US should be considered a dangerous country in relative terms if I should ever go there but thanks for the warning that you are a dangerous people.
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  3577. Wrong country, in many countries what you say is correct.
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  3578. Minimum security prison because he's a non violent offender and he could have use of a telephone, so no problems twitter will still work and can call OAN et. al.
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  3579.    I like your comment, in reality nothing will happen I expect but he might have a few creditors chasing him from Jan 21.
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  3580.    I think humour is good and I found your comment funny. I am Australian and generally support our conservative side of politics , but it's rare that I ever get offended by comedians making fun of them and they certainly play a role in keeping politicians in line. I am pleased Biden would seem to be your president now but same thing one person commented that in one of his more animated rallies towards the election that he looked like some old crazy guy that escaped from a nursing home and was shouting at the cars in a parking lot , I thought that was funny and truthfully it did look like that. I hope things get better in your country but it will take time. Try to keep your sense of humor even if some outcomes are not what you want.
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  3581.  @Hurlzaz  You've got about the most sensible comment in this thread, as far as the protestors they were diverse and the ABC and 7 News I saw didn't at all say they were just right wing protestors, they reported what the Union Boss said which was to downplay their members behaviour by blaming others at the protest. People have forgotten what news is, reporting what someone says is news, the journalists I saw didn't editorialize and say it was all right wingers. I do think it's "restrictions fatigue" and many Melbournians gave up in part because they see other Australian states. I am in inner Brisbane and we overall have the opposite effect, about 50% of people walking around the city area during week days at least are wearing masks despite no requirements for them to do so, we only have mandates inside shops. So even when we open the border at some unknown time I expect spread to be slow, living conditions and weather probably also helps when compared to Melbourne. Anyway best of luck and just remember you would still rate in the top 10% or so of wealthy jurisdictions around the world for least deaths per million. In the US if Victoria was a state it would look the best on several measures.
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  3582. True they don't have large military hardware however they are much more sophisticated than you realise. "Electronic Intafada" youtube channel might be of interest to you.
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  3583. Lawsuits against the government for what as it relates to this video clip?
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  3584. @willsx2  I know and they seem to have lost.
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  3585. Not necessarily because it's a world price unless he tariffs all oil imports which could raise local prices.
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  3586. Rule of law matters and this is what it's about. You might come from an open border/no rule of law country and it's probably causing significant issues. If you decide he can come in then anyone can come in with a lie.
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  3587. If your country failed or the population perceives it to have failed with the covid 19 response your popularity is down and conversely if you succeeded or people perceive the response to be a success you can't lose an election, it's impossible basically. I am in Australia so long as covid 19 is still a problem no state government or the federal government will change parties if an election is held. I am one of them , I am centre right but voted for the centre left incumbent party in my state election because of that reason towards the end of last year.
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  3588. People like a mixed capitalist socialist system. This is the system in place in every wealthy country on the planet.
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  3589. He is a radical leftist. I am speaking this in a country with what is normally considered universal healthcare. His ideas go way beyond what exists in Australia. His idea on pretty much an open border is radical left, by Australian standards Trump is to the left on this issue. If it was the Australian government and now even our left wing party the military would be put on the border to stop all unauthorised arrivals until the problem is fixed. When looking into the disfunction of your federation especially the way states decide who votes and receive welfare etc. I would totally agree with him. But the elephant in the room is your system is like having an elected king, who is largely unaccountable and selects the entire ministry at will ( you call them secretaries of this and that) unelected ministers seems crazy to an outsider. Bernie isn't for fundamental change of the federation which is what is required first to achieve more even outcomes throughout the country. The response to COVI Sars2 laid bare the disfunction in coordination and complete failures on both the state and federal levels by both political parties. Maybe it'll make no difference in the long run but I prefer to be in a country where 5 infections is considered an outbreak rather than 5,000. The duopoly on power due to your voting and registration requirements should be removed so Bernie for arguments sake could be in Congress as member of the Greens where I would suggest he belongs with AOC. Having a strict 2 party system means radicals are in the Democrat and Republican parties .
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  3590. Hi there ,very different to our police they are run by local Authorities in the US and the state can use the National Guard ( a state based military for domestic issues) which normally is used for things like natural disasters. Highway troopers are state police but only used on highway normally. This could be part of the problem , wouldn't want my council having it's own police force. In Australia it's each state and territory has it's own. Does UK have one or for example does Scotland have there own police force separate to England?
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  3591. The accounting system for this will have that occuring however many people don't get tested in the US so total cases would be much larger than reported cases because you need a positivity rate below 1% to be catching the majority of cases. The other thing is the ages of people getting it because people under 40 if not obese or other health issue then very low risk.
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  3592. To be fair 2 comments were correct. "It'll go away eventually "and " it'll probably get worse before it gets better"
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  3593. It's not the education system, a kid who only gets 2 years of schooling in Africa because he or she is poor would not behave this way.
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  3594. They know the risk of it and don't warn the public that it might be better to get rid of covid 19 with lockdown on top of the vaccines. It's a pity because if it happens the virus rampant countries are at day 1 again.
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  3595. Trump has for a week, currently targeting Democrats in regards to riots.
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  3596. They are scary especially to countries like Vietnam, they looking not so far away at Thailand that was in a similar situation to them now only a couple of months ago.
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  3597.  @jamesjotes9135  Fair enough you don't care when a minority as you put it die. A bit cold hearted but at least you are honest.
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  3598. You are wrong on the road thing. Second part you are right but that doesn't mean nobody will as questions. I put it elsewhere but I will ask you also if this was Trump tower could you deliver an item to a condominium without being asked any questions and would the delivery driver get all annoyed and not answer in the case a question was asked?
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  3599. The economy is doing great and Trump is going to do a massive stimulus package for business (tax cuts plus tariffs) and the poor get taxed more. Whether or not he blows things up due to all the disruption , it's not entirely impossible, starting a trade war US versus the world might not go well. Exporters are going to get hurt but Trump being Trump will give them subsidies/increased subsidies like he did the farmers last time. Government debt is going to continue to sky-rocket and will likely cause problems eventually but that could be long after Trump is gone.
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  3600. @ChautamGancy  I am Australian, things are very different here. Things aren't perfect but we have close to universal healthcare at about the same cost to our government as your government spends. Our minimum wage is $17 USD per hour when including retirement savings which is about 10% added to the hourly rate. I have been comparing supermarket pricing in Walmart versus Woolworths Australia. The US seems to have a few things cheaper such as pork, chicken and Turkey. Pretty much everything else is approximately the same price with Australia having cheaper lamb , bread , pasta and rice if the generic or home brand and slightly cheaper ground beef. Housing costs are high in Australia and probably well above the average compared to the US but we don't have to worry so much about medical care if required and our minimum wage is about double that of the US so grocery prices aren't as big a deal even though people tend to over react if it's something they buy daily. The 2 things mentioned by Bernie is what really needs fixing urgently, start putting the federal minimum wage up 2.5% every 6 months and just open the market to imports with any generic drugs as a starting point. Australia has a controlled border so that's not an issue directly but we are allowing massive immigration. The US should definitely fix the immigration thing or manage legal immigration but after 40 years of bipartisan not caring it becomes very hard to fix. Sorry I rave on a bit. I do agree with you that Democrats don't seem to be fixing things either.
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  3601. What's amazing is Trump is proposing more socialism in business and less social welfare type socialism. That rarely ends well.
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  3602. If you followed this issue they were saying black and brown in the US after Floyds death but that has changed to just black. It also became apparent in the US that there is some 2 way racism when it comes to Asian and Black and some history behind it. There was a few incidents of racial attacks against light skinned Asian by white people to do with coronavirus, but although sad it's hardly mainstream or out of control.
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  3603. You Americans have lost the plot . Breaking news "Old white dude of Spanish descent who is CEO of a major company met with 2 presidents and was polite." Now this old white dude is sometimes being referred to as a colored person and George Zimmerman who does have some color from African descent a white man . Doesn't anyone in your country look at reality. Why does a neighbor of England have minority colored people. London is 784 miles from Madrid. The Spanish continued to send slaves to Florida after the US stopped importing slaves from Africa. So those from a more recent slave trading history are now the poor colored minority. I repeat again you have lost the plot. I am Australian and I will never refer to a European person from Spain , Italy or Greece as a colored person and if I did maybe someone would punch me in the head. If we want to go for real conspiracies blame Australia for Fox News, without Rupert no major international conservative group of media companies.
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  3604. Best of luck to you and your country.
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  3605.  @shivanipal4379  the AZ vaccines are being supplied for free as a part of Covax I think, don't be so negative , whichever ones it is Covax will supply 20,000,000 doses to Indonesia at least, mostly funded by those hypocritical westerners as you call us. That number doesn't solve everything but each bit helps.
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  3606.  @shivanipal4379  AZ in Australia is for over 60s and if every country followed this policy then AZ is still very useful , not all 60 plus age group in the world has been vaccinated and they are by far highest risk, nobody really has given to Covax any great numbers at this point in time only 89 million doses. Indonesia has received a bit over 1 million AZ under the scheme so far. So it might be a blessing in disguise if poorer countries follow the evidence because it means AZ doses more quickly but some poorer nations are being just as fussy as some wealthy nations who don't want AZ vaccine at all, that's their own fault.
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  3607.  @shivanipal4379  what's that supposed to mean "your people" we are not all clones or something and many under 60s are actually requesting the AZ vaccine, I will be one of them when I get around to it, the risk of dying for below 60s is about 1 in a million it would seem based on Australian and UK data, much Risker is the trip to and from where getting vaccinated most likely. So you can't lump everyone together, you have extreme bias. I guess you referring to Australia being entitled to Covax , so what, they will all be donated to Oceania and ASEAN countries when it comes down to it, yes the government has 150,000,000 doses on order I think it is obviously our adult population being about 20 million most will be donated I would expect. No idea if we will vaccinate below 16s some time in the future which would change the numbers a little.
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  3608. It's true they didn't have a clue what was about to happen. Biden can't really be blamed for that, he doesn't run intelligence.
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  3609. Are you suggesting that Republican run states are corrupt or completely incompetent? For Biden to win he needs to win some of these states and obviously Biden will likely win Democrat leaning states so even if they were corrupt it would amount to nothing because they can win without cheating obviously. I am Australian and I can understand the electoral college system, it surprises me US citizens don't seem to understand how it works.
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  3610. I would suggest that's a problem because the rules in each state expand or minimize the numbers of voters through measures such as when , if ever a convicted felon can vote going from some states a convicted felon in most cases can vote even when serving a sentence to you can never vote for the rest of your life. The electoral college is also bad giving different weighting to a vote according to your state. I am Australian and our federal elections are run federally with eligibility the same in every state for federal elections. Although our democracies have significant differences I would suggest that the federal government running federal elections would be more appropriate in the US also for the reasons mentioned.
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  3611.  @ancelrick5396  I am aware of what you say regarding the electoral college. It's a pity if you trust 50 different voting systems with different rules versus one set of rules by the federation for federal elections. I realise it would be difficult and trust that a constitutional change would be needed and difficult to pass.
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  3612. It's because they have brainwashed themselves into thinking the other side is worse. Looking in from the outside It's fair to call the Democrats next to useless but at least they only let things get worse slowly.
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  3613. The officer standing next to the main offender is as bad. He could have at least looked at the victim when people said he had stopped breathing.
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  3614. Canada is like a big New Zealand, just stay out of the way and not get involved. Geography helps, no close neighbors other than US which isn't a threat.
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  3615. Russian/Irish wanting to severely restrict alcohol. What is this world coming to?
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  3616.  @bratwurst_addict  I think you could be right, it's unknown how likely someone can be reinfected and therefore a carrier, if that number is high all those jurisdictions with high case numbers are in exactly the same position previously because it can spread to the vulnerable almost as easy as before noting competing forces of restriction fatigue and better healthcare practices.
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  3617. Where have all the my body my choice people disappeared to. This is exactly that , it's his body and he refuses the treatment. Other thing I just realized watching it again, others saying I have a religious objection which actually no major religion has to have a covid 19 vaccine , however I will be drugged up received hundreds of other injections and survive on a drip for a while not having a clue what's going into and take the tissue of my dead neighbor and that's all a part of my religion. This might sound tough but seems your religion is covidiot because it's only 1 injection you have an absolute objection to.
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  3618. Please don't post your nasty comment, people are suffering and you just want to gloat despite the fact your country that is if you are actually telling the truth is suffering too.
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  3619.  @yaiphuakhakpa227  I don't understand mahadesh so what does that mean? China is actually far right if you look at it without bias on the political spectrum. It has more billionaire per unit of GDP than the US, it doesn't have free healthcare, it wants a version of racial purity as in everyone to be assimilated and look up to the CPC above any religion. Here's a question for you, what's wrong with Australia or New Zealand, we are virus free and democracies and we don't give special treatment or support to billionaire and the workers matter, isn't that a better model to aspire to? We have free healthcare and we don't tell people where they can and can't live as China does, forcing the rural poor to stay where they are. Australia from a crime perspective is just as safe as China but we have less corruption.
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  3620. Of course he did he conceded nothing and made allegations that the GSA person was being threatened which I think is possible but doubt it actually.
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  3621. Impeachment by large majority in the senate is the only way to stop a rogue president. Currently all Republicans are silent which means they approve of Donald's actions.
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  3622. I agree with Donald's position but as suggested it needs to be done the right way. Australia used to have what the US calls birthright citizenship by law but we changed the law to be anyone born to an Australian citizen or permanent resident , only needs to be one parent not both.
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  3623. No at least 1, 000 which is ridiculous. Just remember it only affects 1% of people and most of them will recover. That's Trump's own words paraphrased.
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  3624. At the rate things are going there'll soon be a market for people smugglers getting people out of the US.
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  3625. Really the only Trump promised was chaos because his "policies " contradicted themselves, especially when talking to different audiences. The only thing he was consistent on was mass deportations.
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  3626. How so? Let's look at a list of countries with essentially identical policies and near identical actions China, Taiwan, Vietnam , Australia and New Zealand. Funnily enough if you carry out the same actions you end up with the same results. I don't think it's strange that European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization countries are all struggling, open borders without compulsory quarantine tends to cause that result, versus 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine which actually works, and lockdown and eliminate as required, other Western Pacific region countries haven't done the second part as much so haven't eliminated the virus however deaths in the Philippines the worst performing country in our region are less than 10% of the US on a per capita basis. So things aren't a mistry , actions or lack there of have consequences and the consistency of results in the WHO regions shows the different outcomes very clearly. For poorer countries they have some excuse but for a wealthy country it's in the end the choice of that country however there seems to have largely been regional solidarity for whatever reason.
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  3627. A hire car or stolen car is just as easy to track. Best if you are a criminal drive your own car.
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  3628. Here's the thing there's thousands of hours of video with sound, present the full speech by the then president and the rioters at least an hour or so of rioters with their chanting hang Mike Pence etc. etc. with all the violence then show examples of reporting by CNN, MSNBC and Fox, teacher makes no comment, just let students discuss. Not appropriate for younger students.
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  3629. It's all relative, in deaths per Capita they the second worst in the Western Pacific WHO region behind Fiji.
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  3630. Doesn't matter, if they've given it a Greek letter it's scary.
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  3631.  @alwayscensored6871  Well in Australia and New Zealand suicides have actually gone down slightly. In countries where many are dying from the virus might also have increasing suicide rates, I am sure we will find out eventually. So a double whammy possibly. Gross numbers in Australia of course more young people have died from suicides but not because the rate has increased. 50% of the population has comorbidities, so every time you see a fat person (36% of US adults are obese) you are ok saying well it's ok if they die, not my problem. Chances are you have a fat or old relative, tell them what you think and see how they respond.
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  3632.  @marcusmccurley7686  unless it's changed it's murder 2. Agree though that murder 2 looks shakey. Murder 3 which is essentially manslaughter which is another charge for Chauvin does look likely based on a previous case in the same jurisdiction where a police officer shot an unarmed person who was of no threat. Murder 1 is premeditated I believe so can't be that.
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  3633. That's not true. But let's say average cost of an employee is $100,000 , cutting 1 million employees is only $100 Billion. Deficit's running at about $2 Trillion per year it won't help much.
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  3634. If the bus driver is obese which is not all that uncommon, he or she are a dead man driving.
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  3635. Gerrymandering is still lawful in the US. Maybe it shouldn't be but it is.
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  3636.  @seansmith445  You're right, longest reigning current monarch then and to beat that other one needs to hang on for about 2 and a half years.
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  3637. They are "soaring" from a low base. Soaring and high case numbers overall are 2 different things.
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  3638. While I am no fan of Fauci because he is incompetent and is not the person to implement a containment strategy , yes the current situation is his policy, he doesn't deserve threats against him. He is good I believe at labwork and that's where he should stay.
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  3639. If it's not highly available it's better more get one dose and fewer get 2 doses, so don't rush is my opinion. While the risk they suggest of blood clots might be 1 in a million, you have already had one dose so you don't seem to be that one in a million so I think fine to take second dose.
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  3640.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  so outright genocide as in they should not reproduce is the answer?
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  3641.  @yukil7  you are in a Gaza hospital?
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  3642. American taxpayer do you enjoy your expensive and dangerous fireworks? Time for a $1 trillion dollar trip to Mars maybe?
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  3643. Hey people , ok you are annoyed but the comments suggest boycotting all other brands. Just buy what you like as you normally would and maybe throw an extra bottle or can of Goya products in. Sending the competitors broke isn't the answer.
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  3644. But this is state so the issues you mentioned are less important.
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  3645. For your sake I hope only soft pressure, hard sanctions always help dictatorships and hurt the people especially the poor people. So get the word out in my opinion that you only support sanctions such as freezing foreign assets owned by military members if they exist. Stopping high level military leaders from traveling internationally. That sort of thing, military intervention millions maybe dead, hard sanctions and poor people might starve. Also people need to talk to the ordinary soldiers, they are not your enemy and for change needs widespread support including by average military people otherwise can never succeed.
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  3646. But lean meat isn't any problem, it depends what it's eaten with.
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  3647. Might not be that simple and could end up with flooded markets and reduced prices international and more expensive inside US.
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  3648. @Alblaka  well a non voter accepts that both parties or several parties in a preferential AKA rank choice voting system support who ever is elected otherwise they would have voted.
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  3649. That's good.
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  3650.  @siavash2176  I hope you are right and wish you and your country the best.
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  3651. It's not going to, trust me Trump will announce another crazy plan probably within 24 hours.
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  3652.  @nintendolover114  overall they think it might be around 1% but if you are over 70 or so the percentages go up very significantly, so from what we know a person in their 20s or 30s it might be around 0.04% or maybe even less . So the risk to a young person is very low and the rhetoric say it can affect everyone isn't helpful. It can hurt fat people and old people for the most part. If you think more than 10,000 old and fat people in Australia need to be gone , then that's your opinion, but say it as it is. This would be a low toll compared to current US and Swedish toll.
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  3653.  @nintendolover114  Because we are not capable of protecting those people and you mentioned Sweden, that was their policy lockdown lite and protect the vulnerable, it has so far caused the deaths of over 0.05% of the Swedish population and they have about 200 or so cases a day with 1 death on average currently. The lockdown lite is more restrictive or equal to all states outside of Victoria and NSW, excluding the travel restrictions. So depending which state you are from you might prefer higher restrictions at this point in time. I am from Queensland and would prefer not to have higher restrictions than now and am ok about the travel restrictions. If Victoria and NSW get things in order and I think they will I hope the interstate travel restrictions are gradually but continuously lifted. In Australia it's 25% of the people are locked up as you put it and that's Victoria due to previous failures.
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  3654.  @nintendolover114  If you are Victorian hang in there, there is light at the end of the tunnel. After events like this barring other issues the economy etc. is likely to recover very quickly based on history. I wish you the best of luck.
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  3655. What lockdown is NSW on? How many for a gathering? Are bars and restaurants open with reduced capacity? I don't know the answer so tell me how bad it is.
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  3656.  @nintendolover114  Sweden wasn't capable, I just looked up NSW restrictions and can have a gathering of 150, unless it changed in the last week Sweden is only 50 people. The getting served drinks at the table and capacity limits is the same policy as Sweden, congratulations you have the Swedish model. QLD unless they have changed it can have a 25,000 person gathering for a sports event and that doesn't seem to have changed. If you look at the locally aquired plus number of deaths plus total number of cases you will see NSW is 2 to 5 times QLD numbers even though population is about 1.6 times. So NSW is doing great , just not quite as good as QLD. As far as new cases yes everything thing could turn the other way in a single month, maybe in months time QLD looks like Victoria and NSW looks like QLD does now and you are the ones imposing border restrictions in the opposite direction.
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  3657.  @nintendolover114  my mum is dead mate. The gathering sizes are actually quite complicated as you know because all rules in all jurisdictions have funny quirks that don't make sense when compared against each other. Also outside of Sweden the rules are active to attempt to have the least restrictions they can handle rather than a passive approach for stability.
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  3658. So you think your government is doing a good job actually, that's great so what is your actual problem? How am I arrogant, I am not arrogant at all , you claimed that Australia could do what Sweden couldn't and no other country except 1 has achieved a massive infection rate and low deaths. So if you want to tout that model please use Singapore not Sweden. I don't think Australia could achieve that result and Victoria already looks far worse than Singapore.
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  3659. To be fair he's half right. Someone one $100,000 per year is comfortable, the thing is $100,000 per year for an individual in the US might be top 20% or so. What about the bottom 80%.
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  3660. I have a strong suspicion many of the protestors are on government handouts anyway.
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  3661. More than connections to Israel, he referred to himself as an Israeli Jew. He told us what he considers himself and his loyalty. He isn't a loyal American whether he is a citizen or born there or not.
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  3662.  @oldfogey4679  the last election was not contested but quite a few people not happy winning popular vote by 3,000,000 which was a losing election. So there are many who would prefer a popular vote. As far as saying you don't trust the mob with nuclear weapons and a million strong army, instead you trust 50 different governments to carry out an election to a high standard is rather surprising and surprises me that anyone agrees that different rules for eligibility in all those states is seen as fair.
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  3663. Nobody cares about a few days, it's possible they care about the 400,000 or so extra people in body bags, that number assumes no excess deaths other than covid 19 from October 3 to now.
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  3664. I feel like I am in a CGTN comments section.
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  3665. In the Western Pacific WHO region we all had 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine at the border, all had genuine quarantine for those infected and close contacts. In Australia and New Zealand we're pretty fat with diets almost as bad as the US so it's not that, we are majority European heritage so race has nothing to do with it either. Japanese and South Koreans have an obesity rate of below 10% and approximately the same death rate from covid 19 as Australia and New Zealand the fat countries in our region. Have the same policy get the same results it's that simple. Have no lockdown and no quarantine who knew the virus would spread, what a surprise.
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  3666. That would be millions of people, what proportion of Trump voters are ok with the most egregious methods being used to suppress the vote by increasing inconvenience for no reason other than to in their minds hopefully reduce turnout? I think you would find Trump's base are totally ok with all of this and that the more reports of Republicans in certain states being involved increases the vote actually. It's probably put Texas into a toss up state, by increasing the Democrat turnout and suppressing the Republican vote actually because not all Republicans are happy with this behaviour.
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  3667. Nah, many billionaires will become poorer as in profits will go down. If you're involved in export or import or retail it's going to be really hard to maintain profits from a smaller pie.
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  3668. I didn't get that impression, maybe you are sensitive.
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  3669.  @baddriversofthenorcalarea500  tasers are not non lethal, they are less lethal than a bullet depending on what part of the body is being shot. So shooting someone in the foot for arguments sake is a less lethal option than a taser to the heart. However the use of both is probably center of body mass meaning a bullet is more lethal than a taser. We don't know exactly but a taser might have killed Floyd if suffering from some heart disease.
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  3670. Nah it's an internal issue in your country.
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  3671. If the reported number of troops 150,000 is correct then they need medical units even if they aren't fighting, that's a lot of people to take care of and people have medical issues outside of war.
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  3672. But then Americans will be " exceptional" . All the idiots in many other nations will survive degrading our gene pool.
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  3673. They denied the handshaking comment , not the not caring about people dying. Sort of indicates priorities I think.
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  3674. If it was Trump in power and a Democrat Governor he would have said almost what you just said. Now is not the time, when things back to normal then yes California or Texas whoever has known issues should fix them and Texas should be forced to interconnect with the country electricity grid otherwise no bail out again in a disaster of governments making.
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  3675.  MagaLuther King  one of the blokes to gain a Senate seat recently in Georgia might disagree with you.
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  3676. You are correct if you deny reality, deficit spending that is unsustainable and has pushed asset prices up.Tax cuts paid through borrowing is reckless policy. Increasing the company tax rate in the US a little may cause the market to fall but just like covid 19 it's far better to do a little less damaging thing quickly than let it become really bad. Next you should elect a president who is a known drunken mariner so that you know a more conservative policy will prevail.
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  3677. It takes years, they need to connect the dots in a legal sense between the military leadership and the soldiers carrying out the war crimes/ plausible genocide. Without such evidence which is actually very difficult to obtain Israel can just say the soldiers went rogue and disobeyed orders.
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  3678. It wasn't, must have one rule for all otherwise as we have seen in the US anyone can do anything and that caused about 500,000 deaths and counting, better described as too little too late.
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  3679.  SharkTank  which "thing" are you referring to? I will just expand my point maybe that will answer you. Allowing riots by both left and right wing mobs in the US meant it was impossible to ever contain the virus and making sure the well off have complete freedom of movement around the world certainly didn't help. The UK variant is now killing thousands in most of Europe plus US, should have never happened. I am Australian so a few Authoritarian actions in the beginning for most states, then that was it pretty much , people willing to comply, the one state that wasn't Authoritarian at all ended up with the most issues and deaths but eventually got things under control with much more force than originally required. The bushfire analogy is a good one, the moment a decision is made to just let it burn for a while it's out of control and requires double the measures to get results. Hard lockdown Authoritarian actions in the beginning plus border restrictions on all made all the difference and broadly supported.
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  3680.  @emanueljames7801  I am unaware of what you say, your claim is there are no covid 19 restrictions because the police can't do anything, 100,000 had to die because of that, very unfortunate.
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  3681. I not forget Thailand, my girlfriend is there.
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  3682. That was extremely problematic, in Australia it was said from the outset don't wear a mask unless feeling unwell and one of the reasons was we are short of them for medical and will do little [as in cases are so low it doesn't make sense at this point in time]. Misleading the public completely undermines confidence, we never really had this issue in Australia.
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  3683. Here's one question for you, if not enough are vaccinated and hospitals overwhelmed and people dying due to lack of care should the government do nothing?
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  3684.  @silasla  Nowhere can just expand hospital capacity in a short time, trained medical staff don't just appear out of nowhere. Sure can put up buildings that's the easy part. The only way to expand services for Covid 19 patients is to cut services elsewhere, elective surgery mostly.
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  3685.  @choopa1670  Yes it's been working, deaths 10% of those in Europe or US on a per capita basis is good. 50,000 still alive today give or take , there's no liberty with death. Pointing out that vaccines won't save everyone doesn't mean failure. Seatbelts don't save everyone, drink driving measures don't save everyone, speed restrictions don't save everyone etc. etc. but I would be surprised if you object to all these impositions on your liberty.
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  3686. I would think carefully about getting an omicron specific booster because data suggests that Delta is more deadly and based on what occurred in Denmark with the general vaccine , those vaccinated were 80% immune to Delta and far less with Omicron being 60% more likely to get Omicron at a particular point in time than an unvaccinated person. Omicron is approximately 75% less deadly and the regular shot after 3rd dose reduces hospitalization by about 80% based on UK data. So your absolute risk of being hospitalized is 94% less than an unvaccinated person catching Delta, for me those odds are as good as it gets and stopping Omicron increases the likelihood you get another variant. Anyway just something to consider and best of luck.
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  3687.  H A  So if I don't work in a hospital I should be thrown in prison for making a comment on YouTube. If I did work in a hospital and went around on YouTube posting about my patients I would be thrown in prison for invading their privacy, there's rules about these things. But you being a highly partisan person just trust the data and reports from US Republican led states as you believe nobody else on the planet, they have the data.
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  3688. Even without tariffs, the uncertainty given a delivery time might be a year and Trump decides to start a trade war with another country. They'll likely lose sales everywhere even countries not affected yet.
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  3689. Warning Artist that's the current plan actually. But it isn't being done in a careful manner. Fauci said the words that things might get out of control and possibly cause more damage because mitigation might not be possible. Listen carefully to his words, containment is no longer on the table. Near the end of February he said the US didn't have many infection s because if great healthcare and tracing, which was the worst and most blatent failure overseen by himself and Jay Butler head of the CDC infectious disease section. I am assuming those would have been the 2 public servants in charge of / overseeing the matter.
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  3690.  @wirawansaputraimade4419  I have just been looking at different country information for January and the initial response is the largest indicator of future success at control. Thailand had a very large number of cases as did Australia and about same number in South Korea as US. Australia had 15 cases at end of January which is the total of US and Canada and Italy and France and Spain and UK added together and totalled on January 31st. Now I know why they started to use the hundredth case for graphs not first case which morphed into since the 100th death. Thailand had more known cases than Australia at end of January.
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  3691. They can't refuse an order based on their own personal ethics, that's ridiculous. If a state declares martial law then any actions by the military up to a point will be lawful. Under martial law a person can be detained without cause. Will a red state go down this path, we will have to wait and see.
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  3692. Authoritarian democracy as opposed to a liberal democracy. In the case of Israel it's a brutal Authoritarian apartheid democracy.
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  3693. I am not American so emotions come into it far less although Trump amazingly has some international supporters. It starts off funny until one realises that it's real and has support. I think back to Trump going with the Obama is a foreign born muslim conspiracy theory and at the time it's like nobody is going to believe that , what an idiot. Next thing he's president of a super power. I could give a dozen examples of that and it's not only on the US far right. Until just recently I have only sort of worked out what far right is, on many issues they actually agree with the far left, because both are very socialist but in different ways, protectionism and industry subsidies are supported strongly by both far left and right that's why many Bernie Sanders voters went to Trump not Hillary. Far right seems to differ in that it is totally nationalist at the expense of any other nation, far left although misguided because they are protectionist which keeps poor countries poor as well aren't directly hostile to the idea of other countries becoming better and dealing with them in a fair manner. That's enough of my raving on.
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  3694. Never heard that before but I think sounds like there is something in it, political systems are always moving in one direction or another.
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  3695.  @fabiandaroca  your logic is flawed, after a civil war the victorious side disarms the loser. So the event has already occured and there is nothing about personal gun ownership that stops a civil war, often it's the military that takes over and trust me these poorly equiped disorganized scattering of diverse militia groups with different aims ranging from ANTIFA to the insurrectionists would be no match for the US military.
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  3696. In simple terms they are scared of everything to start with and Trump has played on their fears and made them terrified, the base I am talking about. With the politicians they are for shortsighted power.
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  3697. I am guessing you are American, why do you say lockdowns would never work when you never had one? They certainly worked in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand and our covid death rates are less than 10% that of the US.
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  3698.  @caroldanson5476  Same applies in most cases, you never actually locked down only partial lockdown without enforced fair dinkum quarantine for travellers, infected people and close contacts. These are 100% necessary components otherwise it's like using a fishing net to try and create a dam.
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  3699. Being against government decisions is not treason , what are you talking about? To answer your question though if a person is "against their own country " for example far right or far left groups that don't believe in liberal democracy, they should still be afforded the privileges of living in a liberal democracy. Do you agree with me or are you on the far left or right and want to take away the rights of people you essentially just disagree with?
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  3700.  @lala4461  You have indicated that I am ridiculous for some reason, could you please explain what that reason is?
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  3701. I had to check who you were talking about. Sounds like Trump. We will see how he goes very shortly. I am not Victorian but I do wonder how accurate the polling is and because the next election is a while away many things can change. Queensland Labor win for sure, I intend to vote Labor first time in my life.
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  3702. Possibly, ScoMo said when they talk privately Biden often calls him pal, so if you are used to just using that term very easy to forget for that one occasion you are supposed to say his name by convention.
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  3703. Then search el paso temporary morgue or do you want them to open the body bags for you? That would be absurd even war reporting doesn't generally show the dead people's faces and it's considered an invasion of privacy in civilized countries. Maybe go to some country that still has public executions to get a visual on death.
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  3704. It's only Sydney that it might get out of control and because all age care residents vaccinated now and getting up in the regular population vaccination rates it's impossible to have as bad an outcome as elsewhere, caveat being a variant that evades all the vaccines and kills at 2% or something and we are all stuffed.
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  3705. Don't we just blame the Democrats even though they don't write the laws.
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  3706. Yep every person who had a big night on the grog wakes up with covid 19. The thing is a bar is the highest risk place to catch the virus but symptoms should be after 2 days or more I think. If you drink everyday you won't know why you have headaches.
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  3707. If that plexiglass ends up in landfill it becomes carbon storage.
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  3708. Talking about gambling however the main uses of Bitcoin is money laundering and scamming.
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  3709. How, draft the entire adult population into the military or something?
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  3710. If you are curious about the future look at Victoria Australia and the deaths are 4 to 8 weeks behind infection time. Very good data in Australia because a higher proportion of infections identified than most countries.
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  3711.  @signsofbias9640  the average time between detection (because infection time can only be estimated) and death should that occur will vary wildly depending on detection time and the healthcare response. If the test case positive rate is below 1% in my opinion it will give the most accurate data because picking up most cases and medical care will not be overwhelmed, to be honest I haven't digged down into the data so I am probably out by a bit but my premise is correct , without the most accurate data available it becomes meaningless.
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  3712. 1st part of your comment yes but second part no everyone wants them gone and they will go but when governments consider it the appropriate time.
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  3713. In this case it wasn't because a different strain. I do wonder though can it hide somewhere like herpes does until your immune system is low. Earlier this year I did get a virus and I have herpes so a major outbreak. I think it was covid 19 but no way to know for certain because couldn't be tested at the time and got a test fairly recently and it was negative which I was happy to know.
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  3714. I the message should get out there that if you are obese you are at much higher risk. I heard a doctor saying this maybe 4 or 5 months ago but seems it hasn't got through to the people who it concerns. Anecdotally the young people in good health being shown are always at a minimum of overweight in my observation, not knowing exactly how it is determined if someone is obese or not. Being politically correct and not offending fat people it seems is killing people who don't realise their increased risk. If anyone from CNN reads this maybe a story on risk factors would be helpful, I guess someone has already collated such data somewhere in a seriously affected country, about one third of the adult US population is considered obese so it's a large number. I feel sorry for the young lady and hope she gets through it ok.
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  3715. Trump either doesn't know or doesn't care. He's literally offering asylum to poor white South Africans who like the poor blacks live in shanty towns and given their situation would often be petty criminals. The wealthy white South Africans don't want to leave otherwise they would have already because they have the means. If i was a poor white South African i would definitely take the offer up but i might be some sort of petty criminal who will transport my behaviour to the US. To paraphrase Trump I'll be bringing the worst, uneducated , poor and often with mental health issues.
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  3716. So you want voting machines? Funny reading all the comments by Republicans and how contradictory they are.
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  3717. @Trousersnake Pliskin Well at least not encourage people to spread the virus and telling everyone it's amazing it's less deadly than the flu at one rally I watched. Maybe doing nothing would be a start because fools believe him.
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  3718. It might sound a bit harsh but you are a bunch of great loosers.
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  3719. From a different angle I have a similar view, prefer the King of Australia to some politician, that head of state leaves me alone. Interestingly in the US the president can still order the death penalty to occur or not, so in the US it can be metaphorically off with someone's head.
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  3720. The US doesn't allow free speech, if you work for many government organisations both state and federal you aren't permitted to criticise Israel. This is true in some European countries also so JD Vance is correct and also a hypocrit. Thank goodness I live in Australia where free speech still exists to a larger extent.
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  3721. Unfortunately everyone is doing it. Russia doesn't care for it's citizens that much so they can give the vaccine to others, China is in no rush with all but one province with no problems I believe.
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  3722. There were no white slaves, that's a rewriting of history. There were an estimated 50,000 convicts from UK and Ireland sent by England. They had 7 or 14 year sentences and we're treated the same as the slaves however it's highly unlikely at the time of the promised freedom they would have all been freed. Thomas Jefferson wrote or spoke that they and descendents would have only numbered maybe 4,000 which was most likely a complete lie at the time or he had no idea. I would also suspect there would be a number of people with convict plus slave heritage together. No aristocrat would ever take a convict to be a husband or wife. Anyway the US kicking England out made way for Australian colonisation which is a good thing in the end at least for me. I suspect that number is lower than the real number because there is evidence in the form of Virginia making a law to not accept convicts in 1670 but overruled by the king. The calculations don't go back that far and maybe they were just called indentured servants because who wants convicts around.
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  3723. Trump's off the hook unless there's recordings of him barking orders in an explicit way.
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  3724.  @maureenrhysjones4643  Nobody is stopping you migrating to the UK and no quarantine when you get there , so go.
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  3725. You have an extremely loyal and observant set of followers. Maybe there'll be an episode of KB presented to the emergency room as a know it all pointing out he'd watched years of episodes of Chubby Emu.... unfortunately due to his arrogance and not telling the doctors what he did he couldn't be revived.
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  3726.  @janinemitchell8210  I think having your province run the health response is good, but don't think having the National government doing the restrictions is a good idea. However it could be argued it's neutral because the system has succeeded in Australia and arguably completely failed in the US. So maybe having the national government do something could be preferable on average, also it depends on how the population views a province versus the national government, maybe people would ignore the provincial governments but listen more to the national in SA's case. So not going as far to say it's the wrong approach and I am biased because of my country's success so far excluding one state currently having problems and on lockdown. Best of luck to South Africa and I hope your country comes out of it not too bad.
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  3727. So now illegal immigrants need to enter legally, about half the illegal immigrants already did so. Without putting severe restrictions on tourist visas the problem isn't exactly solved is it.
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  3728. ​@CheerfullyCynical829 your comment is strange and extremely biased pro American. For a high income country the US has Lowest life expectancy, highest homicide rate, very low median wealth, low minimum wages federally and a high rural population that doesn't have those conveniences. So maybe life is great for the top 10% or something but compared to other high income countries there's a high level of poverty and death.
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  3729.  @nothing2see315  yes agree especially because that age group low risk. They can infect the vulnerable though. Then probably more protests complaining about how their community more affected by the virus.
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  3730. I think might be alright but it's probably highly dependant on weather. If it starts to warm up in Sydney and Melbourne then based on previous variants so a big caveat, cases should go down as it gets warmer. I am in Brisbane and our vaccination rate a fair bit behind and I see no chance of the border opening until both NSW and VIC doing okay. I hope home quarantine can work which will change things a lot.
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  3731. Because Tesla is very much a multinational it's the world ex China boycotting it that's doing the damage. Sales drops in every European market plus Australia and of course California and Canada adds up.
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  3732. While the event that occurred seems to be wrong , the bigger problem is it now blows up into something bigger than it is. The police officers involved should make a public apology and take victim and mum to dinner or something. But instead the mum is openly saying she wants these police to be made destitute or in other words destroy their lives by making them "unemployable". The US has far too much retaliation in it's culture rather than forgiveness and far too legalistic, lawyers would advise those police not to apologize which in the end is the main thing a normal person would want, now they won't get an apology and if they do it will be at sentencing (if it in any way reaches a court room as the parent of the child clearly wants) and seen as not genuine. There's no such thing as de-escalation in the US.
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  3733. Really , turn your back on the mob with the pitch forks, put yourself in their position.
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  3734. Surprisingly not, I was going to comment probably but others admit to the same.
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  3735. Unfortunately people voted for this or didn't care or bother to vote by a large majority. Collectively you got what you voted for because Trump wasn't secretive about what he was going to do.
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  3736. The funniest slip up is " the press has as well" basically admitting Fox isn't a real news organisation.
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  3737. Replace "civil army" with "militia groups" and your comment is more meaningful.
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  3738. Such mismanagement that a few cases a day versus the exceptional management from Europe and USA. Not many cases left China and in the history of mankind no respiratory virus has been kept inside a country's border.
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  3739. You're not a relation of Zhao Lijiang are you?
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  3740. The Whitehouse is private property controlled by the president of the day, they can bar anyone they want. As far as harassment of people using lawsuits, unfortunately it's totally legal in your country.
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  3741. You predicted the Delta variant did you, not a single person predicted it but you did, well done.
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  3742.  @DropdudeJohn  Without the Delta variant everything would be going ok now. As we have seen other countries like China , South Korea, Japan and Vietnam having the same problems since Delta. Without Delta a few countries in the region would most likely have quarantine free travel but that idea is on hold now as most countries lose control from Delta.
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  3743. Thailand had a draconian lockdown like Australia and the protest is nothing to do with that.
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  3744. Reopening at all has the same effect. If suppression measures are less than the rate of spread it doesn't stop simple as that. This doesn't mean you need 0 cases but you need contact tracing and testing capacity that numbers go down. Because of opening failure number 1 in Victoria Australia they are being far more cautious this time because can only go 2 ways when you realise full lockdown 3 can't be an option. Either they cut off from the rest of Australia until a vaccine if they fail or they join most other states with currently no cases eventually if they successful.
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  3745. There is a complete difference because of restrictions. I saw a comment that in Australia my country we had more flu deaths in summer than winter because of the restrictions. Flu deaths are way down in Australia and I would expect the same in most places. If somewhere eliminates all restrictions and leaves the restrictions off then you would expect it would return to a normal pattern, but I don't think that will happen anywhere until a vaccine or truly somewhere gets herd immunity.
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  3746. When it relates to non citizens what is occurring at Tesla showrooms is considered terrorism. It meets the legal definition. In 32 states plus Washington DC there is an offence of terrorism, there definitions vary greatly regarding what acts are considered terrorism but they all include the act being done to try and influence governments policy. Sentencing also varies widely. Some put the specific act of arson being a terrorist act. So burn a Tesla in Florida for example and your online footprint can prove your intent ypu could get up to 30 years prison time. Do the same thing in California you are looking at up to 3 years prison for arson of that type of property as long as nobody in the vehicle of course. Best if commentators admit US laws are extremely strict in some states with potentially very long sentences rather than talking about what you would prefer the law to be.
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  3747. It can't be because time-frames don't match, the locking down only started a week ago strengthening to it's current hardline over the week. Look 2 or 3 weeks from now to see if it's working and if Victoria is getting on top of all the cases with testing.
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  3748. Reduce police and budget numbers in a considered way with no forced redundancies after the results are in. Better training of police etc. costs more money not less. Community policing is much more expensive of course because it means police walking the beat and talking to people not just attending calls which means you need more of them but I do believe it works.
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  3749. Forget about those percentage, you think any state or territory virus free is going to open to NSW or VIC, if as expected looking at reality in other countries with similar vaccination rates they won't be fully open or significant numbers of deaths.
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  3750.  @broadaccent  the 700 that died from the flu , so what? In Australia with covid 19 without restrictions it would be 25,000 dead, with relaxed restrictions in the order of the Swedish model 14,000 dead, we kept it to about 1,000 so far which I think is great. Every country is up sh+t creek without an effective vaccine because even somewhere like New York it's estimated only 20% got infected and it's possible enough time has passed and they can get reinfected and be carriers of the virus, walking biohazards for the vulnerable. That we don't really know maybe reinfection will be really low, the whole thing is no real knowledge , only parameters are known so worst case versus best case. People whinge and complain about 14 days quarantine but it was less than 100 years ago people would spend a month or so on some ship packed in like sardines I expect to come to Australia for £10 and escape Europe. Also I haven't heard Aussies or Kiwis desperately trying to run to one of the infected northern hemisphere countries, fleeing the oppression in Australia. It's quite remarkable sometimes people in places that are constantly locked down with who knows what restriction next week caring about a few Aussies getting locked up or arrested meanwhile even in Victoria the sun is about to shine with freedoms not enjoyed in many countries, just the border restrictions.
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  3751.  @broadaccent  Majority of people are happy with the low restrictions in Australia and accept the border restrictions. It's true Victoria went through a rough time but looking like it's over and a few weeks they should be like the rest of the country although I think New South Wales might have a few cases floating around. Low restrictions 90% of the time and a rapid response to any outbreak including lockdown if required for the 10% of the time is ok. It's not only Australia and NZ, quite a few Asian countries have the same strategy. Time will tell who does best and in the meantime I will enjoy my states low internal restrictions. The other thing is we learn how to be more effective at dealing with outbreaks so maybe don't need any more hard lockdowns but depends on each state how they respond. WA is too tough on its border restrictions, I'll probably be able to go to NZ before WA.
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  3752.  @broadaccent  Restrictions in all states of Australia except Victoria are approximately the same to Sweden except for example football games can have 30,000 or 40,000 or so , same as New Zealand. So are you suggesting we should abandon our plan, get infected have 13,000 people die and lower access to healthcare and put our nursing homes into full lockdown? For all that we get open borders without quarantine, doesn't sound crash hot to us and pretty sure the Australian population won't just have 13,000 more deaths because we would more likely behave like Americans or Britons causing much death than the per capita Swedish toll. Where Sweden is now just carry on I guess and it would appear contact tracing and testing is actually quite functional there at this point and it would appear a high level of voluntary compliance with restrictions. Your model doesn't translate well to many countries actually. Also demographics suggest we would likely have more die due to demographics, the obesity rate in Sweden is very low.
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  3753.  @broadaccent  To use quotes from your chief health or whatever he's called the intention in Sweden is to leave restrictions exactly where they are until a vaccine comes, also he says until it's all over we should not judge any approach because the most effective strategy will only be known after the fact. Another thing is from what is known Sweden has only had about 10% of people get the virus so a long way from herd immunity but yes technically better than about 0.1%. Best of luck, we won't know for quite some time which approach was best with certainty and also consider 1 approach doesn't fit all, because different demographics and cultures so maybe Sweden's approach is good for Sweden and Aus/NZ approach along with our Asian neighbours is good for us. The UK, France , Spain and US etc. approaches seem the worst of both worlds to me. So we agree on something I guess.
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  3754. Violence will materialise, the only real question is how many will be killed. Think back to the BLM protests and a few people were killed on both sides and that was considered peaceful. In Arizona in one of their counties they are literally setting up a paramilitary force to protect the vote and vote count.
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  3755. Great a dope head with a covid 19 cure , or are you just suggesting you might die happy in the case you are unlucky?
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  3756. There's 2 million military personnel in the US. I am sure could get 100,000 to volunteer to such a deployment no problems. Best to use volunteers so they will be more enthusiastic.
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  3757. It seems the more that die the more that dig in and resist. I am in Queensland Australia a state that is still essentially covid 0 and although lagging for an Australian state or territory we have got our 16+ age group 86% first dose vaccination rate. Seeing what happened in the states to our south was enough to scare most of us and border restrictions slowly reducing so chance of outbreak is increasing.
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  3758. The one that amazes me is Mississippi with really high death toll already and really low vaccination rate.
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  3759. Change "the" to "a" , please realise Australia and New Zealand are countries too, just because we are south of the equator doesn't mean we don't exist.
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  3760. At the moment the Russia Ukraine war is contained, elect the Republicans it might not be, while I think Australia could contribute a little more , we aren't the US, you by agreement have nuclear weapons and we don't. Please vote Blue the Republicans and or Trump may well start WWIII.
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  3761. Actually the polls were accurate in an overall sense as in neck and neck. Some individual races weren't so accurate though.
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  3762. No, he might face that, I would suggest if he's vaccinated he can come back anytime on whatever visa he wants.
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  3763. This outbreak was caused by 1 quarantine breach leading to 95% of cases, even less statistically significant. They are terrified of failures in contact tracing again.
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  3764. Happy Birthday, hope you enjoy, pretty sure you will get things under control soon.
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  3765. Imagine if Chicago was held to the same standards finding a human with a gun as finding something that can't be seen and in a city of 10,000,000 unlikely to be able to trace that would be a great day that saves lives. The WHO finds the frozen food thing unlikely but not impossible, sorry they aren't Trump , they are bound by reality, it's possible but nothing more than that. Apparently in 2019 Chicago happy they find 53% of killers because before worse and this is a major US city. To add to that is anyone going to investigate the failed response to covid 19 in the US which killed about 500,000 people so far? A bunch of negligent killers appear to be blaming someone else for their incompetence.
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  3766. ​ @MossyMozart I agree with your point the commenter should keep quite about it because if an anti discrimination law exists in that state he has probably broken it.
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  3767. Small pox, Hepatitis A and B, HPV (most common variants) , the plague, measles , polio. Actually quite a lot of them. You can say they aren't completely gone which is correct but vaccination or in the case of the plague detection, the risk of these is low even in low income countries and extremely low in high income countries.
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  3768. It's interesting how Sky News Australia all of a sudden is supporting weird socialism to protect the rich in the US even if it hurts Australia. Trade war with the world isn't going to be good for Australia considering we are even a direct target. A trade war will hurt both poor US consumers and US exporters. Not a very patriotic network is it.
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  3769. A lot will happen in 2 months, a lot probably means " darkest days" as some have said.
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  3770. @Sure sure that's for border quarantine, nobody forced to travel so not rounding them up as such, however do put positive cases into hospitals sometimes for quarantine, I know my state does that but this depends on very low numbers and they aren't forced, not sure how they encourage them.
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  3771.  YoutubeInsistInBanningPeople  no 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine is to stop it. If it's voluntary it's not quarantine by definition and your government lied to you by pretending they were doing something that they weren't doing. Words matter actually.
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  3772.  @Jakilyn  well you recovered that's the main thing , inconsistent rules exist everywhere that often make little sense.
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  3773. You will have to become a highly compliant population to be like Japan, the voluntary lockdown in Japan was very significant. The other point is they got there cases to a low number versus the population size so contact tracing works. They are the only country that has been successful without mass testing so far, they relied more heavily on contact tracing. All countries that have succeeded have 14 days quarantine to enter so is your country willing to do that and are case numbers low enough to reduce restrictions? My guess is no so look at Sweden as a more realistic approach but need heavier restrictions if cases are high.
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  3774. Someone is , you did.
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  3775. Just as only 5% or whatever of gunshot victims died of gunshot only. Normally have blood loss or heart failure or unconsciousness as contributing factors. So maybe you can shoot someone and say it was heart failure or blood loss.
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  3776.  @StevenX-v1r  One thing doesn't exclude the other. As an Australian I think it's a tragedy in both cases, some countries not having the political will to do what's needed and putting the rights of travellers above the overall population and the human rights issues in China are not good also. What you are arguing is 2 wrongs make a right and they don't.
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  3777. Trump will be known as the person to create the number 1 home goal in recorded history to date, he has actually managed to increase the US trade deficit with Canada from what it would have been because Canadians are already boycotting US products and holidays. Well done Trump make America suffer again. I just realised my comment could be a meme or whatever. MASA make America suffer again seems to be what Trump is doing.
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  3778. Sounds like a "police state" not a free state.
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  3779. The leadership makes no difference, Israel is oppressing people in the West Bank right now and they effectively have their puppet government. Only the powerful one can change the situation, not the oppressed.
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  3780. Sorry and this might offend you but the threat isn't invisible and having a life expectancy 5 years lower than an Australian before the pandemic was known, paying more tax for public healthcare than Australia was known. Deciding that voluntary quarantine would work eventually noting we all started at the same point when it failed was known. You can't see the enemy because in a general sense collectively US citizens are there own worst enemy. You as the largest wealthy nation on the planet actually have everything for some.
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  3781. Lots of circumstantial evidence China is advising them. It's a bit like democracy with Chinese characteristics which is inclusive or socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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  3782. Under constitutional law it's generally accepted that a head of state can't really be held to account, because they can pardon themselves. If he loses election and statute of limitations hasn't expired go for it.
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  3783. That's the choices of you country, you can't blame the WHO for example, they said on February 21 the window for containment is closing. The US had done only 500 tests by the end of February versus 10,000 in Australia and 100,000 in South Korea both with much lower populations than the US. The US decided on no quarantine to this day, just some voluntary scheme, no state borders shut. Do you truly believe that people in the West Pacific kept their actions secret , I would suggest that's ridiculous. Your country decided on the freedom of the individual even if it kills hundreds of thousands of people, this was a bipartisan choice. If you think European and US people should be kicked out of the running of the WHO because the policies seemed confusing , you have a point. Western Pacific countries would do a far better job.
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  3784. I think you need to consider subtleties more and also consider that right left political graph is on all issues. The US is somewhat socialist , just speaking economically it's towards national socialist. Corporate welfare is a form of socialism which I am guessing the speaker only partly agrees with. Socialist on the left and right both tend to be protectionist and in the US Trump and Biden being the most recent presidents have fully aligned no more free trade agreements, plenty of subsidies to go around or in other words corporate welfare. The US actually led the world in socialism, the very first or at least biggest welfare system in the world started in the 30s paying farmers to produce food for handouts, a version of that is still in existence to this day. The US has one of the most generous government funded healthcare systems in the world so pretty socialist right. The problem with the healthcare system is it's actually geared towards corporate profits and not universal , nothing to do with spending which many lefty Americans can't comprehend. Australia has a leaner but universal public healthcare system but it's geared towards humans and value for money. As an example our government won't pay for a drug if it's only slightly more effective but 100 times the price but the US will.
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  3785. It's unfortunate your personal problems at the moment and I hope that turns out well for you. One thing I think people are missing is the remarkable achievement of both Mandela and De Klerk in having for all intensive purposes a peaceful transition to democracy and they both understood that attributing blame to make people feel guilty would have put that at risk. That's my basic view from afar and South Africa while it certainly still has major problems with violence hopefully one day that can get better as it develops into a real democracy rather than a one party state as in the ANC isn't a certainty of winning the national election outright. Having any political party in power too long is generally problematic.
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  3786. The steroids as a treatment were proven in the UK, how the hell does Trump come into that. Is Trump in charge of UK research now? This is beyond ridiculous.
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  3787. Being intelligent and or highly educated means almost nothing if the feeling is based on emotion. Maga is a cult it's all about emotion.
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  3788. They already have problems with the UK variant.
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  3789.  @collinvelox5924  it's interesting who you think leading the decision making, this is Asia so going to be other Asian countries plus Australasia ( more specifically Australia and New Zealand) . Behind closed doors they are most likely begging them to resolve the issue pointing out the economic harm to Myanmar and themselves personally because all investment and a lot of trade will dry up quickly. Of course EU and US and China considering it's multiple and probably conflicting interests will follow. The Biden administration has sort of said what I just said talking about working with partners in the region. The cooperation of US and China is critical, in the end they much more powerful than the rest of us.
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  3790.  @collinvelox5924  Why some people do what they do, I can't personally understand why, only can see what they do. Donald Trump did exactly the same thing but enough people eventually said no, he got pretty close to success actually. So I understand what Trump did but not the entire motivation other than greed for power.
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  3791. Very good take and told in an understandable way. The US is in a worse situation than i realised.
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  3792. I think they are more highly vaccinated in general so it would be good to compare, the US has overtaken almost every Western European country in deaths per million, only Belgium higher at 2200 deaths per million versus 2181 for the US. The US has more obesity on top of the lower vaccination rates.
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  3793. It was the lie not the act
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  3794. I disagree, using pro Palestine is completely fine and people understand what it means.
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  3795.  @alisonhoyte7608  I wonder why the food poisoning thing. Maybe everyone's eating canned food and pasta. Or maybe people are just paying more attention to hygiene in general. That's an interesting one.
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  3796. I love the last comment, right now I'm leaning Trump and she seemed to say thank you. Diplomacy goes a long way and I don't believe him for a second, she probably doesn't either but appreciate his diplomacy.
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  3797. I think freezing to death would be number one risk and unlikely significant interactions occurring, because who wants to risk freezing to death just to meet some neighbours.
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  3798. In Australia most states closed their borders and traveller from one state requires 2 weeks of government supervised hotel quarantine paid by the traveller to enter my state currently. Both political parties in the US have basically said they won't do it. Australia internally is largely open now. Being an island has nothing to do with anything, the US with a 1,000,000 strong military can control their borders if they want to.
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  3799. Adam seems you accidentally mispoke or are in denial. Your current government's position does not support democracy or freedom in any way , shape or manner internationally. Your government is threatening both trade war and real wars for a massive imperial conquest.
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  3800. He didn't and doesn't care. He's just using Trumpian type rhetoric, terrorists, killers, woke , corrupt etc. It's the same playbook for every department.
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  3801. Law is normally not retrospective except in the case of the " opportunity zones" socialism for property developers who invested or will invest in certain areas often referred to as black neighborhood's but the states got to choose these low income or near low income areas. Backdating when the scheme started so that it was retrospective was open corruption and nobody batted an eyelid and seemed to have Democrat support. The president's pardon power is absolute and nobody questions this, could a future government create a law that imprisoned those people that had been pardoned, they could but it would be subject to constitutional challenge and my guess is the pardons would stand because those people had been legally pardoned.
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  3802. Everywhere outside of UK always called it the UK variant or strain. Australia it's the UK strain, locked down in Brisbane as a precaution for 3 days because a quarantine hotel worker got it and may have given it to others but so far seems not so lockdown end later today probably.
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  3803. US gun laws have no teeth. Anyone of reasonable means can travel to a state with relaxed gun laws and purchase a semiautomatic weapon and bring to any other state. It's sort of like having voluntary compliance.
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  3804. You support an apartheid state. Well good for you.
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  3805. That means you are buying the bottom of the barrel stuff. Industrial production of grapes isn't that expensive. Australia has extremely low subsidies on agriculture, mostly research however the US has high subsidies in a relative sense, the free market works, paying people to grow corn to produce ethanol with almost no energy gain from energy inputs is an example of socialist madness. Those corn crops might be displacing other crops of higher value and do push up the price of land.
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  3806. Agree with John and everyone knew it was worldwide on January 21 , what countries decided to do at that point was up to them. US and Western Europe decided just wait and see and then a policy that hasn't changed to this day of keeping borders open , minimal unsupervised quarantine and allowing the virus to remain in society. These were choices of rich countries who could have gone down a different path.
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  3807. That on it's own will achieve nothing, even if $0 was spent on the military for 1 year , you would still have a government deficit around $1 Trillion.
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  3808. Actually you will find extremely high levels of cooperation in the WHO regions which might surprise you. Unless it's a remarkable coincidence almost all countries followed the regional advice. I am in Australia that is the Western Pacific region of WHO, we believe in closed borders and 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine for entry usually in a hotel. We believe in elimination if possible. The region goes from China all the way to New Zealand , ASEAN countries are split between 2 regions and our worst performing country the Philippines would look like a stand out success in Western Europe with deaths per million about the same as Norway however Norway has quite a few advantages. In European WHO region the policy was open borders and 10 days voluntary quarantine, the same policy it would appear of PAHO Pan-American Health Organization which acts as the WHO regional office among other things and is headquartered in Washington DC so I think the US has substantial influence over it. So it's actually not about cooperation it's about decisions made by these regional offices which are made by the countries that they represent. Should the performance of some offices be questioned , I would say yes certainly however geopolitics gets in the way, as an example my country Australia and China I think can't acknowledge actually we working together quite well as a region. Behind the scenes I suspect our scientist and doctors cooperate fully in an international sense.
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  3809. A fair few hasbara comments, very nice to see because it means the truth is threatening to them.
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  3810.  @ayanda1271  In the background and open diplomatic efforts are being made, however sofar seem ineffective. I totally support sanctions against individuals, however I never support general sanctions this almost inevitably ends up cementing a dictatorship and hurts the poor. Only middle class people with food in their stomachs can or will ever remove a dictatorship. A hungry person just wants food. It's truly sad to see what is happening now. Your idea maybe could work, hold another election in 6 months and if and only if the military agree to it allow outside monitors and I understand your basic point is let them save face somehow. The main thing of diplomatic pressure should just be you have killed foreign investment because nobody can trust Myanmar now and to get it back have an election as soon as possible and allow outside monitors (UN preferably) so neither side has any advantage but must accept outcome.
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  3811. Hello from Australia 🇦🇺
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  3812. Holey sh*t. Marco talking about some sort of trade deal with Russia. Maybe Canada and Mexico should align with Russia to be in on the deal. Yes that's sarcasm for Americans who often don't get it.
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  3813. It's also cultural, the US by far has more of these events than any other wealthy country on a per Capita basis. The overall homicide rate in the US is about 5 times the average of a wealthy country if the US is excluded from the calculation. I suspect the mass murder and serial killer rate would be similar in magnitude of difference compared to other countries. So US psychologist should work why US citizens are so violent to start with before going on to identify the particular individuals, although it's fair to say gun culture plays a part.
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  3814.  @exiled_londoner  I think your analysis is quite good.
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  3815. Why do people think that " hate crime " laws should be involved? I am curious because you are implying it's ok to do that behaviour to someone of your same race and then it's not criminal. While this case might or might not be racially motivated who cares, someone has wronged another person and such behaviour does occur frequently within a racial group based on class etc.
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  3816. Ok and only 18,000 died from homicides and a bit over double that from road related deaths. Is the US a death cult because on all 3 scores you perform the worst for a Western Democracy? Wake up the US could be like other high income advanced democracies if they wanted but you don't want and are willing to pay taxes to ensure it doesn't. New Zealand and Australia on a technical level are probably less socialist than the US, because the US government is using debt before this issue to create demand rather than funding government by at least attempting a balanced budget. Check government spending to GDP and government debt to GDP and changes year on year.
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  3817.  @onusnewsservice2319  ok I got a bit off track. If we talking about death why does the US accept being number one in traffic deaths and homicides and now likely Covid 19 all on a per capita basis for wealthy Western democracy? I say now about covid 19 because the US hasn't reached the lead yet but is continually moving in that direction.
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  3818.  @solengarugarsubarbengabu2773  I shouldn't but your comment did give me a good laugh for some reason.
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  3819.  @ForOurGood  My guess is Nature Boy is young , I can imagine myself saying what he said 25 to 30 years ago, I am late 40's and my guess he will change his mind over time. There's one constant in democratic politics and that's that young people are more to the centre left and move towards the centre right as they get older, the rusted on voters of either side will never change or swing vote.
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  3820. Oh found a radical socialist in the comments section.
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  3821. You probably nailed it in one , do the current Republicans want to be on the side of questionable Democrats of the past or the heroes of the Republican Party? Work it out.
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  3822. Americans are still in Dreamland and this doctor is completely wrong , nothing other than a Chinese style lockdown will have any effect on Omicron once it's in. The guidance is only to slow down spread a bit , not stop it. This is what we are openly told in Australia along with please get vaccinated or a booster shot. Americans should just be told the truth it's so much easier.
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  3823.  @daveh322  your comment is fair
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  3824.  Raven Rav  The vaccine doesn't kill any virus, if your immune system is good then the vaccine causes your immune system to be ready to fight covid 19 . So a little confused about your good immune system and why you don't use it.
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  3825. Your president is going to tank your economy if he carries through with his trade policies. Best of luck to you.
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  3826. Yes he did he mentioned severance payments.
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  3827. Same for preachers , teachers , police and doctors etc. Humans regardless of trade profession or job , some are bad and some good. I think most people are good given the right environment. Achieving the right environment is the neverending battle.
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  3828. The other side is just as bad, nobody calling out BLM and rioters associated with them. I am not American but if I was I would certainly consider different voting according to individual candidate and government level. The crazies on the left and right should be got rid of.
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  3829. It can happen anywhere from any religion or even non religious. Think about the numbers, if 1 in a million adults in Canada are like this , let's say for arguments sake 10 Muslims and 10 anti Muslims, you can have September 11 size attacks, it was only 20 or so people carried that out. The real problem is when people become radicalized to the point of taking their own life, because even this person didn't die his life is ruined and likely in prison to the day he dies. So don't think Canada is either tolerant or intolerant based on 1 event, I am Australian and we produced such a terrorist who went to New Zealand to take advantage of relaxed gun laws to carry out his act, radicalized online in shadowy chat rooms. Doesn't mean Australia is intolerant as a whole but just it's impossible to bring the risk to 0.
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  3830. He doesn't believe in god but he has observed religion and how to convince people. In otherwords he probably has studied religious propaganda and even if its un noticeable to a non religious person like me the evangelicals see in his speeches. Qanon had a lot of religious references.
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  3831. It wasn't a herd immunity approach but more of a completely voluntary approach. Do whatever you want but we want you to follow these recommendation. Truth is it is not as bad a policy as the US and UK to date with even worse policies.
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  3832. Unless you are ancient joining the military came with it accepting any vaccines you were required to take. So you think civilians should never contribute to keeping your country safe. An interesting and probably unusual perspective.
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  3833. I think lots of people in Victoria have got the shutes so let them have all the toilet paper they need. Send the military into other states if need be to aquire that product, Victorians are in a time of need.
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  3834. I think he will actually, what makes you think he won't?
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  3835. All you can do is write a letter to your representative giving your opinion. Old fashioned mail probably works better than email because more likely to be read. The other thing of course is vote for whoever you think is best whenever you can. Just stay safe , seems like you care and that's all you can really do.
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  3836. Well he did get socialist healthcare afforded to certain people in the US. Yes I wonder a bit why isn't he in normal private healthcare.
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  3837. No that's completely wrong, some are as you say but many like a nursing home resident it's completely out of their control. In Australia if one staff member at a hospital or nursing home is infected the entire staff will go into isolation for 2 weeks and the staff completely replaced. The US doesn't have this capability as far as I know.
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  3838. "make sure he doesn't" is a threat of violence, is that what you really think?
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  3839.  @InsidetheCasino  thanks for explanation. I disagree with the last bit though. The police in the end didn't think he was hiding anything otherwise they would have taken further action in one way or another . Arbery seemed to not like police and was being aggressive. Another point is this has nothing to do with what happened in the McMichael s case.
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  3840. You are aware that oil is an international market right and the US isn't like Venezuela?
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  3841. He would write it and knowing how things likely work a lawyer would probably check it over.
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  3842. Because the rules have changed completely. They know if they ask a really hard question Trump doesn't like they'll be kicked out for good as it seems AP is for using the term Gulf of Mexico in reporting.
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  3843.  @NomadicCreatorMY  I don't know who runs drugs there at the moment just making a comment.
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  3844. They can never come back as before because of computerization and robots but a large part of the reason to do things in China is because they have the biggest best modern factories , not just wages so some could come back if a lot of investment is made in new modern factories.
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  3845. You could even consider moving the border a little, the US is busy and can't control their own cities at the moment.
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  3846. That's not the problem, other democracies are more functional with the same percentage of idiots voting. Get corporate money out of your electoral system if you want things to get better. Have NRA, AIPAC and many large corporate players controlling your politicians and voters. People in the US will literally vote for anything as long as you get enough advertising to tell you to.
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  3847.  @Fay-el  I am Australian as you can guess the primary difference it would seem between the US and European countries is likely to be population densities. Because the US is more spread out and large rural populations it has spread slowly to lower population states. I agree with you wait 4 weeks and US is likely to be where Europe is now.
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  3848. Hey don't make them too Grumpy, I am in Brisbane , the closest country to me is France. Yes New Caledonia is French territory. I hope your comment is dark humour not serious.
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  3849. Tucker is the King of mainstream media, he's on the most popular mainstream channel Fox News and Tucker Carlson is number 1 on Fox so the most popular media person in your country. Fox is the epitome of mainstream media, the biggest and most popular is what mainstream means.
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  3850. Then what are the Russian troops doing their? Having a picnic or something.
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  3851. Guns for what? Australia is a peaceful country.
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  3852. What you say doesn't follow, with an R0 of 1.5 even you would only expect 6 infections, if no superspreader. The virus is actually fairly slow moving when you think about it, it's just it's exponential so after 10 weeks with R0 of 1.5 you have 225 cases per week based on starting with 4. The problem is the real R0 is far more variable and probably jumps to 10 or something everytime it encounters a nursing home or nightclub.
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  3853. Not waved entirely but maybe price fixed so they get $1 profit or something regardless who produces it. Still need incentive for vaccines to be developed.
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  3854. I don't understand any sitting member of government and other authorities joining a protest march. They are running the show so who are they protesting against? Truly bizarre
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  3855. It will produce some personal immunity but it's looking very much like Covid 19 will keep mutating and infecting like the flu does. So you might catch another variant later on but not be too sick. For young people who are vaccinated on average it's probably good if they catch it but if they live with older unvaccinated people then not so good.
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  3856.  @Nic1Moreno  actually it's a bit like playing Russian Roulette with several players, once one of them blows their head off everyone else is immune because the revolver only had one bullet in it. Most people will gain immunity through natural infection but unfortunately many die in the process.
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  3857.  @Nic1Moreno  Yes I agree that having both seems to be better, being infected can in many ways been seen as a vaccine dose equivalent.
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  3858.  @horrhiunioj507  If you have the answer of how he can get people to take the vaccines, I am all ears. You are accusing Joe Biden of being a criminal because he has no idea how to get those people vaccinated, send a letter to him telling how to do it.
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  3859. I don't think we have much capacity to do so, realistically China is the only country at the moment that might be able to have a significant effect, China has offered and hopefully the Indian government puts aside it's differences and accepts help from China.
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  3860. I hope you're wrong and it's just very difficult, China and Australia the last 2 countries with reasonable populations to possibly fall from Delta (Taiwan had Alpha only so far) and yes we both having problems with Delta. It's to nobodies advantage if every country in the world having major problems, means vaccines become even less available for poor countries.
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  3861. If they stay for 14 days in another country then they are permitted to go to Canada. Just like other measures it's actually increasing travel or at least number of destinations.
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  3862. The federal government workers should all respond preferably more than once, what will they do with millions of emails.
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  3863. ​@aleashawallace7537 I agree but the original comment is coming from a point of view of an addict and that single meal might trigger a downward spiral. If you read enough comments on videos like this you will find such people saying after Christmas for example they went back to their really bad diet.
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  3864. They do roll. When a person is rolling drunk I think every part may roll.
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  3865. The worst thing is suddenly cutting it off. Other wealthy countries could often take up the slack with the new player in town China.
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  3866. The percentages shown of excess deaths were excess deaths inside those countries , nothing to do with the total numbers of excess deaths. Remove the wealthy Western Pacific WHO region countries along with a few Northern European countries and the wealthy countries numbers look much worse. I am guessing most of Eastern Europe was classed as wealthy and just the covid 19 deaths alone were terrible.
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  3867.  @rahulrathod9079  I hope you aren't including Australia . Which country are you from?
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  3868. Those "other countries" are developing middle income countries, the US is a developed high income country, that's the difference. No other high income country finds itself in the same position.
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  3869. It wouldn't last forever and if domestic and genuine reason you can't take a vaccine you would get an exemption. For overseas depends on the country what they might do and your reason for travel I guess.
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  3870. The statement from the University of Queensland guy was a super diplomatic one, I can assure you the terminology used in the lunch room or whatever would be a little different.
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  3871.  @Dr.Luka-DanteGodofMischief  The procedures are the responsibility of the police chief and legislators. Even in the case of Chauvin and Floyd it was standard procedure with 44 people becoming unconscious due to that manouvre over a 5 year period in that jurisdiction.
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  3872. It's not that clear cut as you put it. Fair enough on the election issue but other things are much more subtle.
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  3873. If you remove all Trump supporters who believe in unsustainable tax cuts for corporations and handouts for corporations and protectionism and deficit spending like the US has never seen before outside of WWII there'll be hardly anyone left. Those values above are certainly not traditional Republican values.
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  3874.  @CoachJohnKelly  You said it pretty directly actually, 650,000 had to die for your freedom to infect the vulnerable. A life expectancy now less than China a middle income country, in the US and you are happy about that situation. You're happy with your governments approach along with BLM rioters and Jan 6 rioters so good for you.
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  3875.  @JonathanDeaux  What makes you think I believe that natural immunity is worse than vaccine immunity, a very strange comment indeed. All I have pointed out is if the US government says infection acquired immunity is treated the same as vaccinated then many antivaxxers will go out and get infection with some of them dying. If you don't believe that you have lived in a cave for 1 and a half years. I don't doubt that you caught the virus unintentionally but you are not everyone. The public health measures must consider the entire population, the US considered no quarantine and free travel very important and now 650,000 dead from that decision, the actual data and evidence of what occured is overwhelming. So what do you think the US should do about the ongoing disaster?
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  3876. @Ronald Jpones Well good for you for being in the 98% of people who didn't die without a vaccine not age adjusted, you weren't unlucky. Still extremely stupid reasoning though. If you are below 50 your chance of dying would only be 0.1% or whatever. You keep posting your lie if you enjoy trolling then contradicting it if anyone responds.
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  3877. Don't knock Pythagoras, wasn't he Greek.
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  3878. No that's not the point, the point is that certain countries including China don't interfere with less powerful nations meaning the rest of the world outside of the 5 permanent members of the UN security council.
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  3879. The executive branch plus ambassadors are being chosen one or more of 3 ways. Be a billionaire, be a relative or close friend of the family and be on TV.
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  3880. Big corporations will be paying for it by lending money to the government. There's no actual plan after that.
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  3881. US people speak a different language to Australians. Abundance of caution I have come to understand to mean something along the lines of let it rip but don't look. Still more than 1,500 deaths a week and it's declared over. War zones aren't declared over with that many deaths still occurring. Am I missing something?
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  3882. That is true but might not be true in 3 months time. Look at Brazil the same could have been said of them 6 months ago.
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  3883. Just a small correction , The New South Wales government makes restrictions inside NSW not the Australian government. Other states and territories have their own restrictions which all differ although all aiming for uniform restrictions or fully open for vaccinated travellers once everywhere over 90% 2 doses of vaccine of adults. We will see how it goes , NSW is largely the canary in the coal mine.
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  3884. To protect the free world Trump suggests the US starts invading countries. It sounds like some sort of comedy skit.
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  3885. The NRA guy is correct, all semi automatic weapons should be banned because they are killing so many people and functionally not one of them is used for hunting other than homosapiens. As far as self defense outside the home absolutely useless the bad guy with the gun will not warn you like a Hollywood movie. Self defense in the home a shotgun is more appropriate however home invasions while someone is home are extremely rare unless you are a gangster, otherwise it's for theft and they just stake the house until you're not there and rob it.
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  3886. He's gonna be too busy with his world trade w*r to start any military conflict. Each country he puts blanket tariffs on will put selective tariffs back. Obviously targeted tariffs will cause low harm.to the country putting them on the US and maximum damage. Trump's tariffs on other countries will cause maximum damage to the other countries but also the US.
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  3887. It is being left alone, this is media nothing else.
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  3888. Well if you listened closely to that governor, it's to give handouts or subsidies, ie incentives. The Venezuelan model.
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  3889. But Thailand can afford to do so, others not really.
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  3890. @hanna319  a refugee by definition is forced to leave their country, this hasn't happened to this lady. Are we supposed to now change the definition of refugee just for Zionists? If I was internally displaced because my country wants to keep fighting it's neighbours I would complain about my country even though I get to stay in a hotel using US taxpayer's money.
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  3891. You know you can buy a battery operated grinder and put a cutting attachment on it and maybe steal it. Wait for statutes of limitations to run out and it would have some value I believe.
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  3892. All things being equal, if it's whether it stops death , they don't actually know yet. As it was said it is "expected" they both will have good results in preventing hospitalizations and death.
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  3893. I think the definition of asymptomatic varies widely. Probably their definition requires severe illness, versus being a bit sick.
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  3894.  @anthonydeacon881  Have you ever heard someone describe asymptomatic cases of covid-19. I have and technically it's a contradiction. Covid 19 is a disease caused by covi sars2 infection, you can't be diseased if you have no symptoms. I agree the literal meaning of asymptomatic means no symptoms but I think almost everywhere an interpretation occurs, someone with a runny nose only is considered asymptomatic even though they aren't.
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  3895. Nah , the claims are inflated. It's extremely hard to identify combatants, they know they are being watched and as such wouldn't use any electronic communications other than a land line not connected to anything.
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  3896.  @paulasparrow3571  in theory they were but only 95% from memory. In theory they would have all been given a number to call or what they should tell their doctor so the doctor is aware if they started having any flu like symptoms. Even if all this was done 95% was not enough. From memory the CDC didn't have resources to do it at every entry point at the time.
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  3897. Take care and remember not all military or police are bad. I hope you have peace soon.
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  3898. They were going to be killed anyway for there fur I would expect, unless for breeding, this is just accelerating the process.
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  3899. Created immediately after WWII, consider how the world was then. Indirectly it's race I suppose and so what? Ethnic or English speaking white majority countries are the words you are after , not race anyway.
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  3900. Don't think like that. Things although some places quicker than others and at different times are getting better. The US is unfortunately quite divided. I am Australian and my observation is that a large number of people are tired of both political parties. The November vote will be against one or other candidate, not really in favor.
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  3901. In part you are correct but segregation is a bigger issue, many white and black people live in segregation inside the US to this day. Some of it is self segregation and some is historical segregation. Also the perception by poor white and black believing the other is advantaged and they are not being listened to. In Australia we had copycat BLM marches , out of 70,000 protestors , many who probably didn't really know what they were protesting about not a single arrest or single property damage incident, a few people who did something stupid were pepper sprayed by the police, that was it. No extremist calls for defunding police or anything like that. Contrast that to the US protests which were in many but not all cases violent.
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  3902. Don't be silly, you are giving the Chinese propaganda narrative. No nuclear weapons thanks.
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  3903.  @NashiHeartSoulSpirit  technically it appears you only need 4 trucks to shut down 25% of trade between US and Canada. Numbers have nothing to do with it. Just like if someone is in the control room of a major power station, only takes one person to shut it down and would cause blackouts. Yes there's a thousand or so truckers who aren't at all aligned with the majority of truckers represented by the main union who says they don't support these actions. Yes there's idiots all over the world , they even protest against restrictions that don't exist sometimes. Rent a crowd basically, they would protest against anything because they enjoy doing that.
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  3904. Increasing taxes on middle and low income people followed by lower tax rates for the wealthy makes them more wealthy.
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  3905. Well the supporters of the Capitol Hill riot in which the policeman was killed say he wasn't murdered because he had a brain aneurysm, a comorbidity. So I don't see why everyone can't just put cause of death as they see fit.
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  3906.  @jerrymarasco8878  You are daring a government to require you to wear a mask in public. Ok fair enough what is you threat? Is it to vote for an alternative government next time, to disobey the direction, or something else. Please explain, I am curious what your threat is.
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  3907. Unfortunately no country that hasn't eliminated the virus has been able to stop the UK variant, it's far more transmissible and makes up the majority of cases in Europe , US and Japan now and probably Delhi based on very limited genomic testing. India also has the variant discovered in India which might be as bad. Considering the UK itself is still having 45,000 cases per day currently adjusted to India's population and over 50% of the population has had at least one dose of the vaccine it is unfortunately fair to say the chance of India gaining any sort of control over the virus at this point in time looks slim. I feel for you and am in a good situation in my country that has eliminated it so hard to really understand how it must feel to you. Stay strong and do the best you can and best of luck.
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  3908. Hope it doesn't bring some virus back.
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  3909. That's interesting.
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  3910. First part the vast majority believe some of the CPC conspiracy theories, second part the CPC has said get a vaccine so they will.
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  3911. China has been sort of demanding cheap iron ore below the cost of Brazilian iron ore for about 15 years. Australia has about 53% of the internationally traded iron ore market and China 69% . China needs our iron ore just like previously the US needed Saudi oil. China considers iron or just like oil, a national security item. The trading percentages for metallurgical coal are similar. If you understand Trump you understand China, China doesn't like trade deficits and the US doesn't like trade deficits. China has a trade deficit with Australia, the US has a trade deficit with China. China might be opening up for foreign investment now however this wasn't always the case, China wants to have full rights to buy Australian assets yet it doesn't appear to go the other direction. Should Australia cave in and abandon foreign investment rules especially in the resources sector? Should Australia not have foreign political interference laws which actually a real demand of China openly stated by the ambassador? Incorrectly in both cases of US and China they think a trade war with trade deficit countries will advantage them. While China is causing pain to some of Australias agricultural sector and now thermal coal they are paying more for iron ore and I suspect more for metallurgical coal because any destabilization pushes prices up and Chinese steel producers will stockpile raw materials if they can because they afraid China or Australia might cut the supply. Nobody wins in a trade war. Whether or not the Covid 19 investigation and other similar issues plays a big part in what China is doing with Australia I think this is unknown. One thing I think Australia could do is point out that there is no intention of ever cutting off the supply of iron ore or metallurgical coal because I get the feeling China is fearful that might do this because of exactly what you just said , they think maybe Sky News Australia is like Fox News to the US and that it might have a large following , almost every person commenting on sky News Australia says cut the iron ore supply from China or in other words start a real war and cause economic collapse of China and Australia because we are the most reliant on each other of any two G20 countries. No major Australian political party thinks like this but China possibly doesn't realise that.
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  3912. Eradication is off the table, most countries aren't capable of it so the ones that could up to now eventually when vaccinated have to let it rip.
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  3913. Man, I wish I had 15 minutes of fame just for getting an injection. Quite funny actually, "this is exciting".
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  3914. Trump wasn't exactly trying to sell them out, he was constantly making Ukraine the 4th colony the other 3 colonies are Greenland, Panama and Gaza, Canada would apparently have state status, the colonies wouldn't. Mexico is of unknown status , Trump's intentions are unclear other than to invade.
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  3915. The only export from Australia that is almost something to be ashamed of. You guys should consider vetting the millionaires in future. Indirectly because of current events as in covid 19 Fox News has killed more than any terrorist could ever dream of and many of the Fox followers are quite happy about the situation.
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  3916. Ever heard of Carnivore MD the real doctor Paul Saladino lurking on YouTube an ex restricted vegan fruitarian or something who the became carnivore recommended meat only and Ex pure carnivore. Now seems he's combined his 2 unusual diets and added rice but if it's not a tropical fruit or something it's toxic. Wondering "where it's come from", wonder no longer , a registered doctor from the US. Non qualified people get ignored. Another one is Dr Ken Berry another US doctor but haven't watched his stuff.
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  3917. You have essentially laid out Victorian response number 1 a she'll be right mate let's open up quickly everything is under control. You might notice Victoria is now the most restrictive state after being probably the most open and complaining about other states travel restrictions which have now become much tougher.
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  3918.  @User888User  It's 3 days for now. Just relax. The only issue I see for now is married men will have to do those things around the house that their wives keep nagging them to do because making excuses is difficult so I feel for them.
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  3919.  @User888User  Well at the moment I can become a Kiwi citizen. Maybe I'll escape the madness of Australia to find a new version in NZ. Every trip between Queensland and NZ might have 4 weeks quarantine though between the locations. In either case I can say I come from down under. We are much better than those northern hemispherions.
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  3920. If you exclude below 18 and assume a really high take up rate of 90% that's about 20,000,000 people so probably 40 weeks if all goes well which it probably won't and nobody knows how effective the vaccines will be after 9 months and New strains emerging. I am thinking the vaccine passports won't exist in Australia for international travel for a very long time, maybe allowed to travel and reduced hotel quarantine. Another thing is if new flu strains get in then maybe a lot dying from the flu. So I am not exited just think hopefully things slowly get better, if any strains internationally get around the vaccines probably nothing much change.
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  3921. Lots of billionaires will lose money when Trump tariffs tank the North American economy.
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  3922. Because according to one video John said a study has worked out getting the flu and covid 19 together more than doubles your chance of dying compared to covid 19 alone.
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  3923. There is anecdotal evidence it may help. This is why there are some proper clinical trials going ahead to see if it does work and also risks. All powerful drugs have some inherent risk.
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  3924. That's funny because she even literally said she was joking, can't they even take an obvious joke?
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  3925. I think the presenter is wrong in one respect, he is assuming that the virus is out of control, this is extremely unlikely, a grave situation is what 10 daily cases are in Queensland Australia with a population of 5 million. North Korea is known for being melodramatic, why would their language and actions not appear greater than a state of Australia? Well I would suggest that it's more than likely only a few cases, however other issues like food supply could be serious and we wouldn't know, noting they have cut off virtually everything coming in from China. North Korea or Australia for that matter are not Europe, the Americas or even India, the language used and actions taken seem extreme to the countries that let the virus get out of control.
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  3926.  @thomasgrabkowski8283  there is some truth to what you say as in that applies to some poor countries and in the US Post mortem tests are probably performed now because the detection rate would be about the same as South Africa which was one of my examples , the percentage of tests positive gives a rough idea of proportion of cases detected, if that number is below 1% then 90% or more of cases are likely detected. The US like South Africa is around 7% positivity.
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  3927. Life expectancy in 1918 was 40 years, so almost everyone was young by today's standards.
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  3928. Great a Kiwi calling for and wishing for the downfall of Canada while sitting back in NZ with relatively no problems other than international border restrictions which are a bit strict.
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  3929. You mustn't pay taxes or collect welfare then because sick people are costly to society.
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  3930. Well DeSantis and Cruz would want to fill his shoes. I think DeSantis has a chance should the Donald no longer be around.
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  3931. You clearly haven't looked at the data of other vaccines, blood clotting events happening with all of them but very rare with all of them including J&J.
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  3932. Wivenhoe dam did reduce flood levels from what they would have been in Brisbane in both 2011 and this time. 2011 however the management of the releases wasn't as good.
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  3933.  @australianews  Well it can't stop all flooding it just reduces it. If we had a cyclone associated with a king tide we could technically have a massive storm surge in Brisbane so flooding from the sea just as bad. Nothing is going to change the situation really unless we all live on the hills and never on flood plains or buildings on stilts high enough for the worst possible flood.
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  3934.  @australianews  You are asking for perfection or utopia, doesn't matter which party it's not going to happen. I think by the way QLD is pretty good regardless of which party might be in power but we aren't perfect, nowhere is.
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  3935. Nobody mentioned DeSantis, you've lost the plot , maybe the Chinese system is more suitable to you so that nothing is reported that the dear leader doesn't approve of.
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  3936. There's going to be a lot of calls against obvious Asian immigrants who will mostly be in the US legally.
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  3937. Your number 62 per month is way out, your number 62 is approximately per day based on 2020 and doesn't include suicides which doubles the number.
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  3938. And January 6 was a great day for tourists in the Capitol Building.
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  3939.  @sorryi6685  I am guessing Australia possibly, but could be a few others. Our states opening up borders are at slightly different times between states based on vaccination rates so my state a little while longer.
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  3940. It does, it stops the oligarchs following orders because they can't.
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  3941.  @eff5948  why was the manouvre which caused 44 people to become unconscious over a 5 year period still supported by him until just now? If you can show me a document to the contrary I will listen.
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  3942.  @eff5948  I think it has bipartisan support to stop that practice so that should change. I hope Democrats don't delay it because they want police to lose limited immunity which is silly because nobody would become a police officer if that happens.
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  3943. That wasn't the problem, the problem was throughout European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region open borders and no quarantine, in other words they refused to change course , look at Western Pacific WHO region countries and less than 10% of the per Capita deaths.
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  3944. This is a silly comment anyone can meet anyone in a free country. It would only cross the line if Trump gave him some sort of top secret information.
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  3945. But it means 10 to 20% are outright NAZIs who want ethnic cleansing in Gaza and to conquer Canada also. They didn't mention the other targeted countries but I guess similar numbers.
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  3946. Similarities with Australian approaches but without the goal of elimination. Because it's political the goal might be elimination but just don't use the word elimination. Seems like a credible plan actually and of course Britain can go to 0 if they want to if some "backward" ex-colony can pull it off. With all the vaccine shots given elimination should be no harder than it was for Victoria Australia, probably a little easier actually and the "lockdown" is much softer but has a longer time frame than Victoria's second lockdown after things were out of control their.
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  3947. He is a shy person. Shy people smile a lot. I do it myself and it's off-putting to some.
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  3948. So you mean you support Zionist jews only?
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  3949. Actually the virus has assisted in peace. Some ceasefires occurred due to the virus.
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  3950. I am wondering can you have hyperxia if someone hyperventilates. The prefix hypo is lack of and hyper too much of, like hypothermia and hyperthermia.
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  3951.  @hellfire6714  One of your points is the main point, regardless if US etc. actions in Afghanistan or Iraq as examples are misguided, Xi and Putin are imperial expansionists wanting to conquer more territory which no other countries on earth are trying to do.
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  3952.  Christian Barrett  I agree with your comment except for 1 thing , most Western countries don't interfere internally in other countries unlike the US which should stop doing it in almost all cases because it's counterproductive.
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  3953. While most points are correct discounting capital gains tax makes sense because capital gains is only an actual profit when gains are above inflation.
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  3954. The misinformation machine in the US has cost Australian governments probably 10s of millions of $ to counter. It tended to be the more remote or rural and some ethnic groups that we're more affected with covid 19 and vaccine misinformation.
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  3955.  Random Youtuber  ok you are imprisoned in a small plot of land , can't travel even to Westbank and your occupier continually takes more land bit by bit, would you be happy with this or want to do something and the only thing you can do is protest, of course they can't beat the occupier.
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  3956.  Random Youtuber  that's means you would do nothing and just submit, they don't have any targeted weapons. Israel has killed far more civilians anyway over the deaths of less people than a bad Chicago weekend.
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  3957. Pretty hard to completely cut them off. How are going without a credit card? Also boycotting US companies operating in Australia and New Zealand is literally impossible for some products like canned beetroot made by 2 different US companies primarily.
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  3958. @carrie5490  but the only way to buy online is often with a credit card or Visa debit or whatever. I know there's sometimes other options but they are mostly American too. The US dominates that space.
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  3959. Strange comment on a video talking about allegation against France.
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  3960. The US is funding and supporting Israel's actions, they are doing that alone. So can't accuse the US of doing nothing.
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  3961.  @sueschoers4974  Sue you are wrong actually, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were on step ahead of others , all over 18 now qualify whereas in the general population it's over 40 and due to location and being a point indigenous peoples from both PNG and Aus can cross the border freely you might find the Torres Strait has the highest vaccination rate in the country.
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  3962. Don't know but see my comment above.
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  3963. I don't think any missiles are nuclear powered, normally use in lay man's terms either liquid or solid rocket fuel.
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  3964.  @colinhead2757  it's certainly a good thing no one Australian politician or even the governor general can't be removed very swiftly if required. Normally it's the the PM and a 15 minute party room vote when parliament is sitting, although maybe a party might remove a PM too quickly and without any real good reason it's better to be over cautious than the opposite. I like the Idea of a 15 minute removal, pretty sure if parliament house was being attacked with all members present but the PM, a vote could occur quicker than putting a gas mask on.
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  3965. Actually not that unlikely, if we go by your odds it's roughly a one in 25 chance. 3 years at a one in 75 chance each year gives us about 1 in 25 chance. The odds don't change just because 1 virus outbreak has occurred. So given these odds there's a 1 in 75 chance we will get another one within a year.
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  3966.  @laughingachilles  the odds are as I presented if you suggest that it's one in 75 chance per year. Hardly astronomical. You also pointed out there's been many outbreaks of newly detected viruses. As far as monkey pox it's still far less harmful so far compared to MERS or SARS 1.
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  3967.  @Nuro1992  The US had a similar time frame to get it's act together. The US didn't have 100,000 cases at the end of February, which would probably be an underestimate of what China had when the lockdown of Wuhan actually occured. So a silly argument all in all. Other countries in the West Pacific region all have done better than the US , including Indonesia and Philippines so far where they have many challenges that the US doesn't have.
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  3968. I agree with your sentiment however that is the US system, the operational government is run by 1 individual who nominates the entire government, secretaries of this and that. I am Australian and the idea that one person nominates elected or unelected officials to make up the cabinet seems absurd. You have an elected king or queen operating in a similar fashion to an absolute monarchy. The US Constitution was great over 200 years ago, now it's actually a rather backward document.
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  3969. Not American but I suspect something like that because the down ticket votes appear to be a little redder.
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  3970. Lol
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  3971.  Kiri N  That's my point, needing a test and direct symptoms doesn't indicate anything about how deadly a virus might be.
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  3972. You mean like Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia? Yes colonisation probably wasn't good but that's just what we did for approximately 5,000 from the first modern civilization. Before that we just beating neighbouring tribes with clubs to steal women and food. Isn't it great to live in the modern world whereby any standard everyone better off, life expectancy 100 years ago was about 40 as it was for the previous millennium or so, now it's about 70 or so on a world basis, modern technology and relatively no wars since WWII has given us so much.
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  3973. Ridiculous comment.
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  3974.  @saba6502  I have to laugh a little at your comment, in Australia it was obviously far harder to cross a state border with police and unarmed military check point when problems existed versus traveling across an international border in Europe. The New Zealanders still won't let us in without mandatory hotel quarantine but we allow them into Australia.
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  3975. Consider the US, 50% vaccinated and still deaths of 2,400 per day adjusted for Indian population. While what you say is correct, India is a long way from the US position as an example.
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  3976.  @imbatido  Even if you multiply the official case number by 10 and add in vaccinations you will only come to less than 30% of total population. I agree the case numbers are wrong and it would appear it's universally accepted that official cases and deaths are way below the real number.
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  3977. NDTV seems to show it all, is there something I am missing or is it just it is a little known media outlet. Search them on youtube if you haven't heard of them. They might not be countrywide I am not sure.
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  3978.  @carmencajayon937  Your comment is strange , are you suggesting humans are some how different if they live "in the West" ? Is South Korea "west" because they are very soft and slow locking down compared to the "west" countries of Australia and New Zealand.
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  3979. The media misses the main point, Victoria had detection and contact tracing failures. Queensland and New Zealand both had quarantine breeches and New South Wales the worst one of all, the cruise ship. Victoria has done an excellent job getting it from 500 cases a day to what it is now and by world standards has still done well if it doesn't get out of control again which I think it won't.
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  3980. I notice that, whenever someone normally reporters are criticised by both sides that's a good sign to me. The approach to this virus has shown itself to not have political sides, left and right wing countries, normally authoritarian or normally quite free and jurisdictions like states there is no consistency on the left or right or by freedom levels under normal circumstances, just depends on the leadership in the location. US is a good case study actually, the left and right are very close together on the issue, open borders and mitigation only, when hospitals start to fill impose restrictions, when hospitals start to empty remove restrictions, governor's of both political parties in the US have followed this game plan. The arguments are actually only the levels of acceptable infection and deaths.
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  3981. Well no, the federal government is considering enforcement of immigration, this is not a state issue.
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  3982. @Nessy-of-the-Lynn  I am not American however Australia is a federal system also and more clearly defined under our constitution. Abbott and DeSantis certainly are/were doing the wrong thing, they can if they want assist the federal government but they shouldn't be actually enforcing or trying to enforce any federal law. As an observer from afar the Republicans are more hypocritical than Democrats, Democrats are too but just not as much.
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  3983. @Nessy-of-the-Lynn  I did respond and hopefully you got that but it's not appearing.
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  3984.  @chrisstevens8431  Depends what you mean by alternative, if it's Bill Gates is putting a microchip in you to be activated by 5 g I expect you would be "cancelled" as you put it, if it's about say the risks versus not having a vaccination in under 18 years old you won't be. You can speak pretty freely actually it's only when it comes to the real crazy conspiracy theory stuff people don't want to listen.
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  3985.  @hansonel  see my previous comment, the US is more socialist than Australia yet you say my country is a social democratic country and imply that the US isn't. It's about functionality unless you are far right US citizen who refuses to look at reality.
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  3986. It's just standard journalism, someone can on camera pick up a gun and shoot someone live on air and when they are arrested they will be the alleged shooter. I think it covers them in the case it isn't clear cut so just use the terminology as standard. So nothing wrong with using "may" or "alleged" etc.
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  3987. So someone crossing a border causes Americans to become antivaxxers. That's interesting please explain the cause and effect.
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  3988. I don't think you are correct , if however you are it's being stoked by 2 people, Lijian Zhao a high Chinese government official who likes to tweet conspiracy theories and Donald Trump who loves to do the same. I am from Australia and the anti China sentiment has increased dramatically but this doesn't necessarily anti East or South East Asian sentiment, because I don't think you were referring to South Asian people. The reasons for the increase is deteriorating relations between the two countries, while China is mostly responsible for this Australia hasn't handled things as well as it could in some cases, but nothing like the behaviour of the above noted individuals.
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  3989.  @andrewbarker3210  You have said that only you know how it should have been done. I asked you a question and you have no answer, just some fanciful idea that you personally could have achieved something that no country in the world has achieved. By the way Australians have increased life expectancy by a small amount so no depopulation here.
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  3990.  @andrewbarker3210  Anyway you appear to be a US citizen based on your language and you liked your country's approach so good for you and I like my country's approach, let's just leave it at that and in the end it appears we are both happy.
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  3991. You are wrong, even if this is only a delay it will save half the lives because treatment has improved it would seem significantly. Both sides are counting on a vaccine but in the meantime mitigation countries will continue to see the death toll rise even if at a slower pace.
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  3992.  @johnfreeborn979  The Swedish example says almost 0.06% of the population has died from this so far with an average of about 1 dying per day at the moment. The Swedish people did take precautions to not get infected , so how herd immunity exists I am unsure. The official cases is only about 0.8% of the population. They have around 200 new official cases per day currently. The mortality rate based on case rate Sweden doesn't look particularly good. You are in effect arguing that Sweden has done so few tests the number of official cases is insignificant to the number of real infections by a factor of at least 70 fold to achieve at least a 50% infection rate and possibly limited herd immunity. This seems unlikely to me. They have had 90,000 tests per million population which is not particularly low. A high rate of testing could be considered 200,000 tests per million population.
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  3993. Canada is sort of surrounded, US on a couple of sides and Russia on the other side.
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  3994. Yep and then the virus is free again. A bit like locking American pit bulls away for 5 days without food or water and then releasing them.
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  3995. They're not in denial, fact is Trump got about 70% support in the election including those who voted for him and those who didn't vote indicating they support him at least as much as the alternative.
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  3996. Partial lockdown has proven to be somewhat useless and masks are the last defence which can only slow things, not stop them.
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  3997. True but it's only a minority still.
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  3998.  @dryheave5412  Are you kidding or being sarcastic? 0.06% of your population dead already or 0.10% if you include the other deaths so 1 in 1000 people dead in your country from this cause and no sign of relief without an effective vaccine.
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  3999.  @georgekordis4077  The 3rd in the world vaccination rate came from this clip. Full clip without editing did have Premier nodding nothing about belief unless you think ABC has some excellent CGI and everyone silent. The death rates are in the bottom 10% per Capita in the world as confirmed by worldometer which I believe to be pretty accurate. Tell me what MSM you are talking about and how my simple analysis is incorrect.
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  4000.  @CovidConQuitTheCensorship  Hey why you ask me. Anyway happy to answer the question, I am annoyed about the strata corporations cartels, I am annoyed after being an international listed investment investor I joined the corrupt and as defined by the ATO organized crime in a strata title corporation. By the way the ATO supports this organized crime so obviously I am annoyed with them and the Dear Leader's office (the treasurer)
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  4001.  @CovidConQuitTheCensorship  What on earth are you talking about? I answered your question.
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  4002. How did the player stop some countries like the UK and US putting in containment measures and quarantine for travellers? Why did that player leave the West Pacific nations alone to carry out containment measures? Great player though, who would of thought of ways to increase spread in a country internally by closing businesses in high infection areas so that people being people travel to low infection areas where things are open to ensure the spread never stops , that was a stroke of genius
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  4003. I hope you have restricted travel across the border otherwise people will just keep bringing it in as soon as lockdown finishes.
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  4004. For the nightclubs it was a big deal.
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  4005. Donald Trump has exactly the same position on Israel and that is to support them and send them money no matter what. So if Israel is the issue then you can either vote for someone else or not vote.
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  4006. A problem with the arguments in the US against privately run healthcare being inconsistent with good outcomes is the argument is often flawed. Each segment of healthcare services needs to be looked at individually and assessed for effectiveness. There's only one part of healthcare that shouldn't be for profit and that's emergency care. One aspect that never comes up in discussions in the US is liability laws increasing costs. A hospital or doctor can be sued for following best practice because a bad outcome occurs, this increases costs dramatically throughout insurance and overservicing due to fears of being sued. As far as insurance goes it's clearly poorly regulated, the exact opposite applies to insurance companies that can't be sued no matter what they do. Universal healthcare doesn't mean full nationalisation of healthcare but the government pays for most services regardless who provides them. In Australia our primary care doctors referred to as GPs are all private businesses that are largely funded by the federal government, however a doctor can charge above the government subsidy and the patient has to pay the difference. All drugs in almost every country are free market for profit products, there might be a few exceptions in the world where the government sets up drug making factories for generic drugs. The US is the only country in the world that doesn't believe in the free market pricing for drugs and sometimes the government pays up to 10 times the free market rate, basically a subsidy for the purpose of price gouging both the government and permission to price gouge private individuals. That's insane.
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  4007. Get ready for protests, people in Adelaide are going to be nervous as they load the nuclear fuel.
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  4008. They have legalized weed I believe, a referendum was in favour.
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  4009.  @seesidesummerhouse6112  I thought it passed, I have a bad memory in that case.
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  4010.  @seesidesummerhouse6112  Maybe but at least as well regulated as alcohol and emphasis on not driving while drugged. For heavy users it increases chances of some mental illnesses so it isn't completely benign.
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  4011. You must be from Sydney or Melbourne, long lockdowns can have the effect of losing track of time. Anyway stay safe and our First Ministers and Prime Minister in the scheme of things have done a great job as you can see compared to all major countries in the world, China having problems with Delta variant too now.
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  4012. 12 removed out of 25,000. The commenters here are making a mountain out of a molehill. This is hardly trying to only pick Biden voters or they would have removed 18,000 and this was done while Trump was still president so don't know what Biden has to do with another guy running the show.
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  4013. The big issue is young working in the big cities going home during holidays to the elderly in the villages and infecting them. I think it is the right approach in their situation because too hard to distribute to small villages and not enough doses also to do that.
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  4014. It's a bit like one of those interviewed saying that in Democrat run states Biden won the vote because they cheated. What did they expect?, Trump to win all the Democrat leaning states.
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  4015. I noticed that too, Australia and New Zealand exist. However in about a month give or take both Australia and NZ will very likely overtake the US. It's the end result that matters the most even if it's a couple of months later.
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  4016. When it's not a cure but partial measures which achieve the worst of both worlds, excess deaths from lockdown lite and virus rampant causing more excess deaths and no end in sight other than hope the vaccines work. Full proper lockdown and elimination of the virus and do again with any outbreaks has a much better outcome on both counts.
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  4017. Whether or not the allegations against Shein are true noting US allegations are often incorrect the fact is the US uses effectively forced labor in many states. The US should clean up it's own backyard first if it wants to take the high moral ground which it's fair to say it can't take any high moral ground on anything so long as Trump is in power.
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  4018. Only one expert has been wrong that I am aware of and it only relates to one comment. Fauci's comment in late February that the US was doing very well because of good health care in the US and contact tracing etc. (Paraphrased)The outbreaks were in countries like Australia, Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea if you remember. The truth is the outbreak in the US was already getting out of control at that time because of systemic failures in testing and tracing. Check the current status of the countries that apparently had the bad outbreaks as of today.
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  4019. I disagree with David. For me it's hard to have empathy with someone who wished this upon others. The US immigration system is a mess, Trump is correct about that. However Trump's actions by ignoring the laws in place just make the situation worse. Even Trump's position that removing birth right citizenship is a good one , however instead of arranging a referendum on the issue he just ignores the law. It's quite possible if argued properly ending birth right citizenship might pass a referendum because it caused a lot of deaths pain and suffering because pregnant women will sometimes try to cross the border to get eventual citizenship or alternatively women will try to get pregnant while in the US. It's a pull factor that causes problems.
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  4020. @chrisriviello6011  I am Australian, we have a secure border and enforce immigration regulations. The US hasn't done so for about 40 years. As I stated Trump is correct it's a mess but only intends to increase the mess by ignoring the laws already on the books instead of changing the laws and working with other countries. How does creating a mess without solving the systemic problems going to achieve anything? Trump hasn't even suggested toughening up visa rules noting many illegal immigrants enter legally.
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  4021. Exactly and those are not necessarily life shortening events, if you live to 105 and die of a heart attack there is nothing we can do about it really but the same individual might get killed at 75 if they catch this virus and the death certificate may say heart failure caused by covid infection and the sceptics will say it was a heart attack nothing to do with the virus.
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  4022. But they aren't, they are funded in large part by debt. Did you not know the US government owes many trillions of dollars?
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  4023.  @randommadness1021  Your comment reminds me of the aristocrats drinking out of lead mugs killing themselves while the poor couldn't afford those mugs. Your losing team might actually save some lives, everyone should be vaccinated by the time they move up the rankings.
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  4024. I have no idea what the differences are in practice but know that there would be differences, if they are acting under a commonwealth act of parliament technically the federal government could just repeal it and no more territory governments.
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  4025. I think Zelensky was particularly complacent. If it was me there would have been several words starting F, D, S etc.
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  4026. I don't think the economy will shrink or not much depending on how effective the deportations go. What is more likely is stagflation. People will spend the same in dollar terms but get less. Retailers will suffer pretty much accross the board even if it's 100% US made products they are selling because people will simply have less money. Also even if selling 100% US products this doesn't mean costs haven't increased fpr the retailer a shop fit out will cost more and costs need to be passed on.
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  4027. No because of modern medicine. Many who died from the Spanish flu had problems like bacterial pneumonia and no antibiotics back then. Life expectancy was also only around 40. If we were to put the current virus in an 1918 setting I think the death toll would be very similar and the spread much slower because by boat not plane and slower land transportation also.
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  4028. Look at any parliament in the world , look at the men only because women get colours and stuff and tell me it's not the same.
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  4029.  @Cytoplasm4508  You used the words we should not be trading with them. I can't see what else you could mean. As far as agriculture that process is already happening China is taxing us to help USA which might hurt us . Trump likes to boast about his achievements in subsidising farmers and gaining market share in China. Anyway looking like Trump will lose and for Australia that will likely mean more stability.
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  4030.  @Cytoplasm4508  Lol things are more subtle than that. I agree Biden winning is far from a certainty but the polls are firmer at the equivalent time than Hilary and more consistent over time.
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  4031. That puts things more into context, and he is right. Unfortunately in some areas in the US there is still obvious segregation, both voluntary and involuntary in the case of welfare housing. People need to be brought along not forced. In Australia our copy cat BLM protests by primarily indigenous people were all entirely peaceful and no demands of stupid stuff like defunding police, in the US depending on state this clearly wasn't the case.
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  4032. Amazing all these lefties now infiltrated Fox News or complete flip flop. I don't recall full support for the CHAZ (Capital Hill Autonomous Zone) occupation in Seattle Washington but now supporting identical behaviour in Canada with people occupying a significant part of the capital city. Am I missing something?
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  4033. I would think they were extremely careful in each jurisdiction, they have search warrant for one criminal then they look at him/her and keep building that web until you see all the members of a particular crime network that are using it.
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  4034. Americans on both sides have lost the plot. State governments shouldn't be acting like gangsters just as the future president shouldn't. Gavin Newsom is a gangster just like Trump, he either has indicated or done a despicable thing by offering subsidies for electric vehicles except Tesla. What a despicable human being. States offering to spend money to defend illegal immigrants is despicable also. Trump's plans of most likely declaring martial law are despicable. Trump's and the Democrats support of subsidies for big pharma are despicable. Truth is the enemy from within Trump talked about is correct. The terrible disgusting behaviours by both of your political parties is your downfall. Only silver lining is if you reach rock bottom maybe you can overhaul your system of government and get the disgusting people out of power especially absolute power when it comes to some functions of your president. Good luck US citizens, you're gonna need it.
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  4035. If you are still fine after 2 weeks then no problems. All the problems I think people have from vaccines happen within that 2 weeks. (Don't rely on what I said that's from my memory, just look at others with more information)
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  4036. All lockdown lites ended with similar results as far as health outcomes however need to look at underlying demographics and healthcare system. Sweden versus UK, underlying status Swedes thinner healthier and live longer with a superior overall public healthcare system and they are or at least we're more socialist meaning lower budgetary impacts and far more live in detached houses than say England. So one would expect Sweden to do better and the other not so visible and hard to measure is trust in government which I would suggest is higher in Sweden.
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  4037.  @warrenklein7817  Queensland Australia or anywhere in China deaths pretty low compared to Sweden. Queensland Australia it's 1.4 deaths per million versus 1500 for Sweden, I think we can say lockdowns do work.
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  4038. The only thing we can say without certainty is the helicopter pilot was likely to blame and was likely in the military. The reason i say likely to blame is a helicopter should never be in an aeroplane's flight path and the type of helicopter reported was a military one.
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  4039. The Americas , most countries and Europe most countries all have the same policy, West Pacific all have the same policy which is different. Regional culture or whatever it is, maybe keeping up with the Joneses has played a big part in responses. Although a bit sad if you are in some regions it's been interesting to see the behaviour of various countries who even though a plane flight anywhere in the world is only 24 hours seem to compete with neighbours regardless of type of government etc. Canada is competing against the US and Americas countries and possibly European countries in how many cases and how open it can be and how low quarantine standards can be achieved. Australian states plus New Zealand now competing how tough they can be versus each other and our somewhat distant northern neighbours of Mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore and Thailand ( has problems currently but I think get back to 0). I actually expected this a long time ago because there was and still is containment Western Pacific countries versus mitigation , don't overfill hospitals Americas and Europe, other countries around the world probably somewhere in between mostly.
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  4040. I note a few comments about handling the truth, I am Australian and I don't believe as individuals we are highly superior to Americans and we could handle the truth. The results of the truth is a virus free country internally completely open. The US has completely open borders without any serious travel restrictions domestic or international, is the US full of international tourists? The current Australian governments both state and federal and both sides of politics in Australia are superior in the Covid 19 response when compared to the vast majority of countries.
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  4041. I think he's trying to set up a list of loyalists to use in the case of martial law. Given how large the US military is including national guard it's possibly achievable.
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  4042. Because he was using a geographical term as in a state in the south not a political term as in a previous Confederate state.
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  4043. Down would be less than 5,000 cases per day, this is come off a new peak of about 70,000 per day. Even on a per capita basis the US is running second I think behind Brazil.
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  4044. Regardless what you might think of him if none of his supporters get vaccinated you will keep that virus forever long after other countries have eliminated it because unlikely to reach herd immunity without them. So it is good he told his supporters to get vaccinated, it will save a lot of lives actually. Doesn't really make up for his creating the situation in the first place but it's better than nothing.
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  4045. There is no legitimate argument now about lockdown and elimination versus keep the virus spreading, I do however accept after 8 months of failures it becomes more complicated.
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  4046. It's something in the water, as the currents of the pacific ocean reach the Western side they vibrate at just the right frequency due to Magnetic fields etc. to cause a healing and mental acuity improvement causing people and their leaders to fear the virus so implement policies we follow like sheep. Unfortunately once those waters circulate back round to the Americas the effect is no longer apparent. I hope that's a reasonable explanation for you. I am in Brisbane Australia , the first jurisdiction to go into a reasonable lockdown without a single known case of community transmission, a hotel quarantine worker tested positive for the UK strain so a 3 day bars and restaurants shut and mask mandate implemented. This has triggered an investigation by Queensland health and Queensland police, all people staying at that hotel plus all workers will be interviewed to try to establish what the breach may have been , environmental swabs will be taken around the hotel to test for the virus. It's like an episode of CSI but more intense. I don't think any investigation was even done when the virus entered the big house oh, I mean Whitehouse.
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  4047.  @DeneF  on a more serious note , I really want to see a Western European country and a US state break ranks with this open borders no forced quarantine lockdown lite stuff, it simply doesn't work and the rate things are changing etc. in 6 months probably vaccines worn off and New strains can evade current vaccines. While my hypothesis might be out a bit the trend is certainly there and the tried and true proven method is get rid of the virus. My second theory is the domino theory, if one state or country virus free and neighbor is in lockdown lite they sort of want to join their neighbors, Victoria versus South Australia this very much happened, at some border town one side masks required and everything shut and can literally look a few hundred yards away and bars open etc. without any concerns (everything open and hospitals overrun doesn't count). It gets messy because it causes some hardships, but if the vaccines don't eliminate it then it might be the only way or just live with the current situation. You take care of yourself and best of luck.
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  4048. This one is a ten out of 10 troll.
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  4049. I agree to a point however, this is Trump's MAGA and loyalty to Trump comes first above country.
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  4050. Yes, it shows there's no living with it to some extent at least for the countries that have kept numbers low, the US will live with it and currently about 1,500 deaths a day 7 day moving average. Singapore citizens won't accept 25 deaths per day which is the population adjusted number equal to the current US situation I would suggest. I am in Queensland Australia so we are stuck in time at February 2020, we haven't had a wave yet by international standards and only 7 deaths in total for a population of 5 million which is less than the current daily deaths in the US after adjusting for population.
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  4051. I thought you might have been joking but ok there is a Nigerian variant. The US and or states don't want to be named so they are giving their strains bird names. America and China are so similar in some ways. Apparently Australia has detected the Pelican variant. My story might seem doubtful but search Covid 19 Pelican variant and you will see.
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  4052. The swamp must be Fox.
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  4053.  @LondonSteveLee  Well no it isn't , in the UK the official deaths are done by death certificates by the ONS, why your health department does the 28 day thing is beyond me, you are the only country in the world to produce that statistic as far as I know.
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  4054. Hang on a minute the NSW government says the same thing, seems this channel just a little biased, almost like Fox News in the US.
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  4055.  @hansbischoff8391  I am not highly critical of not sending to Australia actually, but highly critical that the EU or countries within keep making their own situation worse and by extension others. They have stopped the rollout for no reason, even if the vaccine will only save 1,000 people and 2 people die no reason to stop it and the 2 people or whatever there is no conclusive evidence that the vaccine caused it. As far as delivery schedules I am certain every vaccine is being delivered on an as is available basis taking into account other orders, as if they would sign a contract with no profit on this product while the pandemic exists without this clause. We are talking billions of dollars and it would bankrupt or close to, many companies if they can't keep to the schedule with firm delivery times on contracts.
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  4056.  @lacdirk  The EU might have provided millions of Vaccines, but Australia has only received 142,000 Pfizer ones so far for a population of 25,000,000 , Israel might be the country you are thinking of with a population of 10,000,000 has certainly received millions of Pfizer vaccines from somewhere. It has been reported back as far as December I think that we expected over 3,000,000 of the Oxford Astrazeneca imported by the end of March, now that number is 0. At the end of March we should start to have locally produced Oxford Astrazeneca. Certainly appreciate the 142,000 doses because it means we can vaccinate hotel quarantine workers and border staff, without that we keep having to lockdown cities because impossible to stop spread completely in a quarantine hotel. I agree the EU and Oxford Astrazeneca are the 2 main Western contributors to the world getting vaccinated fast, just things not going perfect. I would prefer to see more vaccines going through Covax, I just looked up their website and 1,100,000 of Astrazeneca sent via that facility from Europe to Indonesia, so happy my neighbour is getting some and they need all the help they can get with 280,000,000 people. Some sent to Cambodia also.
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  4057.  @lacdirk  That's interesting what you say, I didn't know that the UK stopped any vaccines going the opposite direction which of course isn't good. As far as the scaling up etc. these aren't Astrazeneca , they are whatever local maker, like in Australia it's CSL and it's whoever in each country, Astrazeneca is playing an oversight role for the most part and chosen to do that because the developers of the vaccine in Oxford wouldn't have that capability, originally they wanted to do it but I guess realised it would be too difficult , need a pharmaceutical giant to do it , arranging and overseeing maybe 50 different companies manufacturing it would not be easy and if one stuffs up it will tarnish the rest. I agree that the EU has been the best in regards to allowing exports but also believe the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine rollout and acceptance anyone can make as equally good. It's unfortunate that things haven't gone as well as anticipated. The EU did say they would play a major roll in production and distribution to the world and have done so as well as can be expected I guess but they could think before they act, instead of blocking exports to Australia they could have contacted Australia apologized and said we can only allow 150,000 to be exported we know you have done a great job in containing the virus and your need is less than ours, we can't politically justify more than that number being exported to you at this time. In other words could have been done in in a much better way which keeps the ban thing out of the picture , because this means even in countries with high cases they must hold back half of the doses for the second jab, which will slow the rollout even where it's needed most. One thing you don't consider is put yourself in an Australian shoes, we have had an international travel ban the entire time , while Europe and the Americas have been living it up with virtually no border restrictions, while this isn't exactly my position it feels like if you made sacrifices and successful you will be punished, stay locked up that's your problem. I have seen comments to that effect and we are ok we get it slowly and pretty sure government is too , it takes pressure off them in a way, but don't openly cut us off.
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  4058.  @lacdirk  what you understand as lockdown is very different to an Australian, European countries had multiple partial ongoing lockdowns , the key word is partial. Open borders for the well to do just travel to wherever isn't locked down, an automatic spreading mechanism like in the US. Which country has universal hotel quarantine for 14 days, up to now exactly 0, the UK has partial 10 days hotel quarantine and everywhere else 10 days voluntary quarantine. How many cities in Europe have been surrounded by police checkpoints to reduce travel in Europe? I haven't heard of any, here it was Melbourne, Perth and Auckland. The island of Ireland has less people than greater Melbourne so they had it easier with a far more rural population but they kept the borders open and interstate workers would be no more than Victorian interstate workers. Malta basically a small island community couldn't even succeed for the same reason open borders without quarantine. Italy didn't even find a single case until February 21 last year, they were completely asleep, that's not luck that's just being useless, Australia detected 15 cases by that time equal to about the number of cases detected in Europe's entirety and same number for the US. You can say lucky we have measures in place and were in a relative sense prepared but not some external forces luck. If you check every single country with more than 5 detected cases by the end of January last year (US maybe exception but relative to real numbers the US detected far less) the not one of them has more than 100 deaths per million. There is basically a 100% correlation with what countries did in the first month and their relative position now. As far as supply chains, of course Australia is no different on an interstate basis, just stop all unnecessary travel. I am in Queensland , actually we did better than New Zealand, New Zealand initially was a bit slow to react it seems , however they made up for it with a proper lockdown and eliminated the virus early on. The cruelest thing is to have a year of partial lockdowns which is what Europe and the US did because it never ends. The countries inside of European WHO region and PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) all have had until recently completely open borders with only 10 days voluntary quarantine (stopping foreign nationals is meaningless , the virus never checks your citizenship). All countries in the Western Pacific WHO region from China down to New Zealand have 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine for any arrivals. I think these individual WHO offices made recommendations that were followed or it's a remarkable coincidence, no one should blame the WHO as a whole it's your regional office that seemed to recommend what occurred in your region and that's run by countries in your region, or it's just a remarkable coincidence. By definition if you can travel across a border you aren't locked down. I understand most ordinary people are in a virtual lockdown , the freedom of travel is for the well off who didn't lose their jobs. Even billionaire in Australia had there interstate travel cut off , there were no exceptions, one billionaire named Clive Palmer took a state government to the high court of Australia over the issue and the court found the state acted reasonably to protect it's citizens. So to travel interstate when outbreaks occur you need first to prove a good reason and then 14 days mandatory enforced hotel quarantine for about $2,800 AUD for a single, double is cheaper because only food extra. Melbourne had equal second toughest lockdown outside of China, comparable to the lockdown in Italy, but Italy just allowed cases to return instead of finishing the job. When Melbourne went into hard lockdown it had more daily cases than Canada in it's entirety, many countries had the opportunity to rid themselves if this horrible virus but didn't finish the job , through choice. Enough of my raving on but maybe gives you some insight of what and why people will think how they think and also a probable reason countries are where they are. A side note Australia, New Zealand and Japan probably have the toughest plant and animal quarantine measures in the world normally, this in it of itself shows readiness, a strange fact is a dog is free to travel between these countries once a dog has spent 14 days in any of those countries, it's a long process to get a dog in involving a six month vaccination process for rabies. Humans can't yet travel between these countries without an extremely good reason.
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  4059.  @lacdirk  Seems I got a couple of things wrong and of course Australia will rate low on stringency because we have no cases, we don't lockdown for fun. That date you mentioned about Melbourne was partial lockdown not the hard lockdown which happened a little later and cases detected maybe 2 weeks into the hard lockdown reached about 500 per day on a weekly average. Yep hopefully vaccines do the job because if they don't things will just muddle along as is, Virus free countries with significant border restrictions and the others. Things are state run here and if it was Queensland or Western Australia where you allege some rules broken in New South Wales then can get prison time for breaking the rules, not sure how many Europeans have been imprisoned but it's highly effective because then people take things seriously, I think New South Wales doesn't have prison time in general so probably they got fines. Anyway best of luck.
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  4060. 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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  4061. Depends on the country, you may well be correct in countries where 0.2% of population already dead, in the countries with 10% of this number it's impossible to just say we are going to do nothing now and x thousands need to die. Most of the world is in the latter not the former and vaccination rates also tend to correlate with countries that have had high deaths.
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  4062. I haven't counted them but I think more comments about politics. I remember my late mother loved this show.
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  4063. It's fundamentally the exact same approach as Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. Contact trace chase down anyone with the virus like they are a terrorist, test anyone likely to have come into contact. Japan's Prime Minister got the boot recently and I am guessing to do with failures in this area and if you look on worldometer their cases currently on the rise, hopefully they gain control again. One thing Europeans and Americans don't get is you must have compulsory quarantine for anyone entering the country.
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  4064.  @abajojoe  you noted Australia versus Japan mortality, that just indicates success levels that's all and if you eliminate one Australian state from the data , Victoria, Australia would look far better than Japan. If you look at the Singaporean statistics without knowing the reason behind it you would be more amazed than the Japanese situation. The reason Singapore has such a low CFR is because it ripped through the foreign worker community because they stayed in crowded dorm rooms and they will be of working age and therefore low risk, they were extremely successful about stopping the spread amongst the Singaporean population and protecting the elderly. I don't know where that 50% infected at some point in central Tokyo comes from and seems wrong, however given the verified case numbers the death toll is very low which to me indicates probably the same general story as Singapore and they protected the vulnerable well. Japan's obesity rate is a fairly unbelievable number of 4.3% as of 2016 meaning far less comorbidities than other countries. To give a reference to other countries Sweden 20% , Australia 30% , USA 36% . So most likely a combination of a fitter population and protecting the elderly explains the low CFR.
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  4065. Australia we say taking a sickie, it has a double meaning though, maybe sick or maybe not.
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  4066. The extra cost will be almost nothing, the fixed cost of whatever the US navy is doing doesn't change, they might need to send 1 ship with particular capabilities and remote controlled high depth submarines which shouldn't be that expensive.
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  4067. As an outsider looking in the trajectory of the US isn't changing under Trump and is likely to accelerate. Your trajectory is billionaires getting richer and corporations forming oligopolies that rip you off. The bottom 50% of the US population will continue to get poorer in a relative sense as has been occurring for approximately 50 years. Elon will be recommending lots of privatisation of government functions, this will show an immediate benefit and long term pain when the corporations hike their prices above inflation as has been occurring for years in the various health related oligopolies charging way above market rates especially for pharmaceuticals. The US it would seem needs to reach rock bottom before the trajectory is changed. Many if not most US citizens have brainwashed themselves into thinking oligopolies are free market capitalism which they are not and that regulating them would be socialist. Truth is the US system is socialist to protect oligopolies, it's ridiculous that I can literally go to my local pharmacy in Australia and buy drugs at non subsidised prices cheaper than the US government pays for those same drugs in that closed market.
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  4068. Oh you poor little MAGA girl. Someone asked your dear leader some questions.
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  4069.  @live4today390  totally agree, while they don't show a united front against Trump they will be divided. I am Australian so not really apply to my country but the Republicans have to decide are they traditional conservative with things like fiscal responsibility which was not Trump at all, he made Obama seem conservative and free market economy where Trump has outflanked the left side to arrive at a Bernie Sanders position on trade and industry. So the question is what does the Republican Party stand for? To me it seems no principles any more just whatever they think can win votes no matter what. If my last comment is correct it will strongly favor Democrats over time because at least you know what they stand for , which assuming Biden is similar to Obama moderate left at the moment.
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  4070.  @jacobasmith8389  ok so someone is going after the lot of them.
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  4071. Does it really matter if primary cause was asphyxiation versus heart attack, in both cases caused by the police officers and considered homicide?
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  4072. Everyone was colonising everyone until very recent history. Jews are different though because they consider themselves an ethnicity based on birth even if it's not always the case. Muslims and Christians by definition are all converts even if it happened a long time ago.
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  4073. 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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  4074. It's not that simple, Germany for example is involved in Tesla production. What can be done however is to stop offering subsidies to Tesla. Other countries if attacked by the US in a trade war that aren't involved in Tesla production or free trade agreements can put import duties that disproportionately affect Tesla.
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  4075. That was the point, he could have shown about 1.9kg of oranges to represent the 1000mg of vitamin c but it's a bit more weight in rockmelon so more dramatic.
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  4076. ​@seanhuds7351 Israel is a welfare state of the US. Taking others money is a skill I suppose.
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  4077. Lots of pro plausible genocide people in the comments.
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  4078. Only a fool can't work out hospitals full with all staff in full PPE , that the risk is considered real. If you think your leaders both scientific and political are complete imbeciles and China should have known this, I disagree. The lack of action on anything other than a vaccine was the plan all along and the US deliberately spread the virus to all major territories and all states. Blame your own country not others. If you had followed what China did as did Australia you would have less problems. Puerto Rico is an island before you make the usual silly comment. Not a single state has shut it's border and your nation still doesn't have enforced 14 days quarantine upon entering the US which would now be pointless probably.
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  4079. Check the rate of genomic testing, I think you will find it's less than 1% so if representative for that area multiply by 100 .
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  4080. They've got to stop saying that the US is leader of the free world. It's a dictatorship with ambitions of Empire by invading countries and trade sanctions or in the case of Ukraine splitting it up with Russia and sharing the spoils. Until the opposition accepts reality they can't effectively fight against it.
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  4081. The US is not at number 1 for deaths per capita yet, so a while to go. So really only top ten. So inversely the US is doing better at this point than Spain, UK , Sweden, Belgium and Italy.
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  4082.  @quin1364  Number 7 at last count out of about 200 countries seems not so remote to number 1 in deaths per capita. However if you count by healthcare jurisdiction US states get the trifecta of first , second and third.
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  4083.  @richardj2125  did they have covid 19 and did it contribute to the heart attack? Just because it was heart attack not pneumonia doesn't mean covid 19 was in no way responsible. Heart issues , diabetes and obesity will all increase your chances of death from covid 19 and the existing issue.
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  4084.  @olgaroche4422  without even looking I know Nigeria has slums, the densest accommodation style you can have. Just search Nigeria slums and find the source you trust.
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  4085.  @olgaroche4422  while I like your optimism I don't think it's hydroxychloroquine. My guess they have not let it spread to the poor so far. In countries with large wealth gaps there is extreme social distancing by our standards. The well off who get the disease first from international travel are therefore much slower to transmit it. A wealthy person will only come into contact with the poor when they serve them at a restaurant or something like that. Hopefully Nigeria has succeeded in contact tracing etc. but eventually without a vaccine it will probably be like India slow to start but impossible to stop.
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  4086. It's not only about capacity, some laws are written within penalty or a penalty so small it becomes a voluntary code of conduct. This is more often the case in the white collar crime sector.
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  4087.  @KayJay940  Yes that's often the case, truth is governments are usually reactive and "pragmatic", by pragmatic I mean if it's not a big problem they do nothing because they don't see the harm especially with people thinking it's unfair which it is. If one of those drivers ploughs into a crowd of people killing 10 they will make a law because of public outrage but until then most governments will do nothing because they can't see votes in it and too much work for them.
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  4088. Not sure if it's worth it because Donald will retaliate. While volumes of steel and aluminium will decline as the US likely goes into recession it's unlikely we will lose that market. The other issue is Australia needs to have an election fairly soon and starting a trade war with the US could cost the current government votes. If Donald unilaterally starts a full blown trade war with Australia it will likely cost the coalition votes as it has cost the right leaning party in Canada votes.
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  4089. It's not that simple. This could breach fair trading laws or something. Think about it, you purchase a business and the business advertises through various social media platforms. If those social media platforms can just shut down all the advertising of that business because ownership has changed that would seem a bit ridiculous. It also means can't sell such a business because who would buy a business that will have all it's regular customers cut off from marketing.
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  4090. It's more than Greater Brisbane, it's the entire South East from Noosa to the border and out to Lockyer Valley along with Townsville and Palm Island, probably more than 80% of the states population.
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  4091.  shio sake  you explain it to me then, I offered an opinion , it's impossible for an opinion to be a lie. What is it you believe the US is doing in those ASEAN countries?
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  4092.  shio sake  I know quite a lot about Thailand and the current events over there have nothing to do with any international government. It is fair to say Australia and US would prefer that Thailand was democratic however there is no evidence at all we have anything to do with the current king of Thailand being unpopular and believe it or not many Thais want true democracy. Indonesia and Philippines are functioning democracies after Soeharto and Marcos gone after the Asian financial crisis. The US has little involvement in ASEAN I am Australian. If you say the US is likely involved in some way in HK I would agree, same in middle east and central and South America. I look to evidence not just make assumptions based on no evidence and if you were to say the US intervenes way too much in some countries internal issues I agree in those areas I stated. Just saying the CIA is in every country on the planet doing something is ridiculous.
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  4093. Well they have failed, hundreds of thousands dying has occurred due to people and politicians not taking it seriously.
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  4094. I hope the Russians start taking vaccines after Dr John has said his word on the Russian network.
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  4095. Tipping where? You have made me curious I am going to look up that saying to find it's origin.
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  4096. It's our government owned broadcaster.
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  4097. Trump is not a free market guy, he's an open socialist who believes in protectionism. He has never been secretive about it. Reagan was a free market guy.
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  4098. Lol did he speak up when the UK variant was in supremacy?
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  4099. In some respects it's funny (not the hard circumstances like separated family), they all criticise us as being a dictatorship but unlike the North Korea border people demanding to be let in. They want to enter the state where covid 19 breeches can land them in prison.
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  4100. And those countries willing to kill their citizens and not contain the virus in favour of the almighty dollar have got neither the safety or the dollars. So totally agree all those purchasing a little temporary safety will achieve nothing, previous generations fought in world wars, now getting an injection is considered worse than sending a son or father to die, it's certainly messed up thinking.
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  4101. I have only been to on protest and a gentleman i believe was Palestinian Australian said he doesn't want a 2 state solution and his reasoning was that the Palestinian state would be subservient to the Israeli state. This surprised me however i can understand the negativity based on lived experience that Palestine will never be free so better to go for a 1 state democracy.
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  4102. This lady is wrong on one thing. Trump isn't going to make lower income people cover the tax cuts for the wealthy. A small amount will probably be paid by lower income people through tariffs, the majority as last time around will be paid for by increasing government debt. Anyone who believes Trump is a fiscal conservative is a fool, his record is the exact opposite.
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  4103. @Teringventje You hit the nail on the head but you describe it not as a choice when it is. Every successful country Taiwan , South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia , New Zealand has 2 weeks quarantine that is enforced and mostly hotel quarantine. All these countries had relatively free travel prior and could have taken the approach of the majority of European countries of borders open and no compulsory quarantine. This is a choice no country is required to let potentially infectious people in without quarantine. A couple of the countries I mentioned are struggling now so because of human behaviour might fail including not entirely secure borders like in the cases of Thailand and Malaysia. But wealthy countries can much more easily secure their borders for the most part.
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  4104.  @krolrey1909  The ease at which a border can be secured is an issue and Taiwan might as well be Australia in comparison to China because the virus travels on hosts on airplanes, it doesn't swim in the ocean to get there. However the point is largely mute because most of Europe and all US states chose to keep borders open without compulsory quarantine which is a choice.
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  4105. @Teringventje one issue that has never been brought up is the countries of the West Pacific take quarantine seriously in general terms because of SARS1 devastating the tourism in our region and agricultural or food quarantine has always been taken seriously especially by Japan. I believe a culture has developed in my region on this issue. I am in Australia so it's nothing about being "Asian".
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  4106. @Teringventje Australia and New Zealand have exactly the same "forced quarantine" as you put it, nobody likes it but it's the only way to get to 0 cases and has near full support in Australia and New Zealand. If we failed however it would be different, if you look at the premier of Victoria he is really being beaten up politically for a quarantine failure and other failures in his state leading to about 85% of the deaths in Australia and a second very hard lockdown, for a state with 25% of the population. Victorians can't travel to any other state without hotel quarantine except for some border zones. It looks like success but still getting around 10 cases a day so still in significant lockdown , because they must succeed.
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  4107. @Teringventje It's an either or issue and nowhere started with compulsory hotel quarantine, but we all realised it was required. So if you don't do it then you can never get rid of the virus so continuous higher internal restrictions. If you were to ask most countries now would they prefer to be in the West Pacific situation I think you would get an overwhelming yes. Everyone keeps saying the lower internal restrictions would be better but you need increased border restrictions for that to happen. At this point in time those countries free or near free of the virus certainly won't change unless it's a capability issue and visa versa. If every rich country did what the West Pacific countries did we would have no virus in any rich country right now and could stop it spreading in the poor countries most likely. That's a Utopian view if every rich country succeeded which we do know was technically possible.
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  4108. @Teringventje it's only for people entering the country, best of luck where ever you are. I personally would argue locking down an entire population like London or New York is far more mentally damaging along with all the deaths than a few people entering being inconvenienced.
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  4109. But China is having a Democracy Forum simultaneously.
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  4110. Love the clickbait title.
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  4111.  @lynndonharnell422  if you followed it Victoria was the most aggressive keep borders open and voluntary compliance state of all until sh*t hit the fan. So called Chairman Dan could have passed for any US state governor until he got his act together. Dan Andrews however did do the right thing and corrected the problem and of course he is under extreme stress because he does actually care that's why he forces himself to have a press conference 100+ days running and it has worked, the majority of the Victorian population have brought Victoria back from a very dark heading. I am from Queensland a hard line state that was often pressured ( previously Dan Andrews was our biggest critic along with the Federal government).
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  4112. You make an interesting point, maybe the Chinese vaccines are slightly less efficacious now but should be effected less so from mutations.
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  4113. Hello scammer.
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  4114. Which country? Anyway Victoria said Queensland was unreasonable for travel restrictions, now they are quiet. Thank goodness my state ignored that state.
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  4115. West Pacific thanks , Australia and New Zealand not doing too bad.
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  4116.  @tianmingchen6438  they are but makes no difference because the virus doesn't care. Queensland Australia alone has has more imported cases than Taiwan. If your city is 2 million plus it's not easy no matter what. Vietnam and Thailand have done better than South Korea and Japan anyway. Truth is any small number is good.
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  4117. I actually don't think it's wilful, it's just they don't trust foreigner so initially act with bias as in look for problems with some vaccines and other vaccines don't look. I think it's actually good news because it says all of them low risk and about the same. I wonder if the other geopolitical grouping of vaccines will be looked at as in Russian and Chinese, my guess is probably the same. Seems it's an immunity reaction of some sort so actually can't be avoided.
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  4118. Hope you are coping well, take care.
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  4119. No , just the US military. But many ex and current high ranking military members put out statements effectively warning lower ranks not to consider it.
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  4120. The humidity correlation if it even exists is only a correlation. The confinement of people indoors without good ventilation is the issue. The remark about Thailand should apply to Singapore a constantly humid environment , note the infections in Singapore are mostly migrant workers in boarding houses. Thai people are scared of tap water, these are people that take infection risk to a ridiculous degree. When I am in Thailand obviously not in the last 6 months I drink the tap water in Bangkok and surrounding cities and half the year because the mineral content varies it tastes better than Brisbane Australia water. Many Thai people wear face coverings particularly the poorer people working in agriculture or selling items in Street side carts in Bangkok. A story my Thai girl friend told me earlier on is an infected person went back to her village which infected her parents causing their deaths. This person wasn't very popular to say the least , after that the village market areas required face masks. In Bangkok maybe 5,000,000 residencies plus almost all retail outlets have airconditioning running constantly when occupied. Thailand was the first country to find a case outside of China. Initial response and competency of the response is the key , humidity doesn't decide if your government is competent or not. Any modern city has buildings with heating and cooling so essentially the same condition exists everywhere on the planet with apartment blocks and inner city homes, other than slums or rural areas. It's quite possible that many African countries have the same culture regarding protecting themselves from disease as the Thai's do. That culture also slows the initial spread because social distancing between class groups is much greater in low to middle income countries. The rich get the disease first of course due to air travel etc. Hope you don't mind my dissenting opinion on the main point.
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  4121. What's with people in the European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization, you've almost all lost the plot. In my region the Western Pacific WHO region our deaths are insignificant compared to yours regardless of government type , wealth and culture and less than 10% per capita deaths in the previously mentioned regions. To give examples of our diversity it includes China, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. Wake up to yourselves and do what needs to be done.
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  4122.  @tomjohnson4681  It was the US and Europe in particular called it covid 19, China only reported symptomatic in the beginning , they followed the protecols but then had to change protecols. They were accused of hiding cases. John had nothing to do with those change in terms, he doesn't run the world.
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  4123. Have to laugh, Thailandese a Thai national is referred to as Thai.
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  4124. If everything is for sale California is definitely on the table, Australia, Canada and New Zealand are definitely in the running to make bids for a merger and many Californians would actually be ok with it if there's no force applied and it's voluntary.
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  4125. More crime, more homelessness and riots on the streets. How does this excite you unless you are Russian or Chinese?
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  4126. You must be from Victoria or NSW because the other states are basically free of the virus. I prefer virus free thanks.
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  4127. Well better odds than those poor little preymantis blokes. Obviously character was lacking but she is cute.
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  4128. ​@poil8351 We have a very different system of government, it's extremely unlikely Trump could become a party leader in Australia and even if such a person did they would still need to pick ministers from politicians, not like an American president who can just make anyone a minister.
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  4129. 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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  4130.  @jedmccollister576  ignore this person account created on 28 October 2020
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  4131. Bill Gates is the nemesis of Elon Musk. One is probably the largest charitable donor in the world and the other is Scrooge even going as far as taking money which isn't his off the most vulnerable.
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  4132. With or from doesn't matter, in both cases in the vast majority it contributed to.
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  4133.  @corny5128  no on one point the records are death certificates, they do get kept and anyone can look at them I believe as long as they follow whatever process to do so. These numbers aren't just made up or something.
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  4134.  @corny5128  Yes I get your point that causes other than covid 19 particularly in the US were significant. Coming from Australia we did things a lot different and came from a far superior starting point as far as our healthcare systems. While their were some deferred treatments in Australia, even in Melbourne which was probably the worst didn't have delays as long as you described. My main point however is that Australia had decreased deaths until opening up and for all intensive purposes letting it rip and then as the graph displayed we had increased deaths above the expected which of course has to happen because if you remain below indefinitely then Australians would be immortal. I hope you are doing fine now. Best of luck.
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  4135. That's just like saying Texas and Florida don't have that variant, could be to do with the number of cases genomic sequenced. Of course Florida and Texas have cases. As far as the claim of not having thousands of cases of Omicron in South Africa he is misleading, they do have 1,000s of cases but not 1,000s that have been sequenced, South Africa believes they have 1,000s of cases so stating there are 1,000s of cases [based on the data] is in no way a lie. What I say still applied 3 days ago.
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  4136.  @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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  4137. There are quite a few Bernie and Donald supporters for those who like trade protectionism and corporate subsidies or taxes on imports. Donald and Bernie have identical policies on this and the working class at the bottom end support it.
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  4138.  @masterjesus1013  thanks mate, it's true less Australian tax dollars go on healthcare than you pay in the US. It's true Bernie goes beyond this and wants dental but the price you are paying now it probably should be included in a best practice system. I don't know if Australia is best practice on healthcare and suspect we are good but not that good. So go with normal socialism designed to help all or those in need but not the totally twisted socialism of the current US healthcare system.
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  4139.  @dareptile2653  You seem to be wilfully ignorant. Trump is promoting what he calls operation warp speed, that is a socialist scheme by which the US intervenes in the market to help US companies produce a vaccine and a guaranteed market. So intervention at 2 points and arguably a good socialist idea. The US government pays a very high proportion of money for research in the medical field creating new drugs and other treatments, which every major country tends to do. More socialism. So it can be said that medical research is not free market at all, because governments around the world offer subsidies etc. otherwise those companies leave. The US doesn't even have a free market for agriculture, a socialist scheme was set up over 80 years ago, possibly a world first at the time , called the school lunch program designed to give farmers money and feed kids. Trump boasted about throwing money at farmers , he doesn't believe in the free market. The US regardless of party loves to subsidise small inefficient farms. If you look at government spending to GDP you will see the US spends about the same as Australia, New Zealand and UK. How is it that you consider us all crazy socialists when your government as a headline number spends the same amount. You can argue about which socialist policies are good or bad but right now your president is very happy to subsidise the Covid 19 response including subsidies for care, if you hate your current president for this that's entirely up to you, maybe a country that is in the midst of a civil war is suitable for you because you won't see these socialist programs you so despise. Send a letter to your president and tell him how much you hate his socialist policies and how you want no more medical subsidy and NIH and CDC should be abolished because it goes against your free market principles (which exist nowhere on the planet other than failed states).
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  4140. Look at Australia and New Zealand, some of the toughest jurisdictions in the world, everything is open and much higher freedoms than the lockdown lite countries who never bothered getting rid of the virus. Yes any outbreaks from quarantine breaches do incur short sharp lockdowns in local areas. Victoria Australia had more daily cases than Canada in about September but got rid of it completely for a while but have had another minor outbreak. Even though you won't be told it Victoria Australia is the model some are now trying to copy. So don't worry and hope they finish the job this time so can get freedoms back rather than constant fears of the next lockdown lite.
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  4141.  @bigdaddyjim9135  what's wrong and stupid? Give me some context.
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  4142. Baked beans are extremely healthy and chips are only unhealthy if you are getting too much energy which as a child normally is less of an issue.
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  4143. Do you? Trump is the most openly protectionist politician I have seen. Just my observation and listen to any rally speech, he claimed Joe and Barrack cut some industry welfare to Puerto Rico for drug making and that he would reintroduce those subsidies , in other words socialism. I am not American but just encourage you to actually listen to Trump rather than make assumptions. If you want Trump's socialist industry protection and subsidies and running up the gov debt far quicker than Obama with a booming economy then just admit you want Trump's socialist non fiscal conservative policies and vote for him but don't vote against Biden for some reason you made up. I am Australian so not my business just pointing something out.
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  4144. Well check the homicide rate in the US and compare it to any other wealthy nation and you will find it to be about 5 times the rate and that's not 2020 data which there was an increase that doesn't seem to have been compiled yet. So in answer to your question not an actual war but like a war zone and some killings last year that were politically motivated so a little bit of civil war type stuff.
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  4145. Homicides up 50% last year in 34 selected US cities. Everyone is being attacked more. Maybe the rise against Asians is disproportionate but make no mistake the US is a very violent country for a wealthy country and focusing on race all the time solves nothing, possibly makes it worse.
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  4146.  @GoogleAccount-ev2hq  I don't think you can say that, the mutation might only be enough to identify. The mutation could be completely insignificant other than for this type of study, or it might be significant, we have to wait and see. Obviously if it's significant it might mean problems for a vaccine. A flu vaccine or HPV vaccine both immunise against 3 or 4 of the most likely or most common strains.
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  4147.  @加藤道三-k1t  for what purpose, that was written in 1978, what on earth does it have to do with 2021?
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  4148.  @加藤道三-k1t  Australia is often considered Asia and definitely in a business sense. Why are you talking about Europe?
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  4149. The number is already over 500,000. Are you only looking inside the US. Numbers don't matter to the conspiracy theorists. The numbers are a lie, road accidents and cancer. If the number surpasses those deaths they say it was the ordinary flu which is more dangerous. So even dead bodies in front of their eyes will not change the hardliners because it's a bad flu season.
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  4150. Tucker clearly wanted a job as a comedian and he's quite good at it actually but Fox must have offered him more money to still do his comedy show but pretend it's real.
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  4151. Good to see an advocate of voting and exercising your right. Not enough Americans vote and then complain about the government and suggest other ways to get an outcome.
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  4152. I have to laugh " hopefully can be contained" really are the other countries research stations hundreds of kilometres away at risk.
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  4153. The US funds Israel by billions of dollars, Trump's America First was actually not extended to Israel, they loved him obviously funding wasn't cut.
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  4154. Yes the AZ vaccine kills about 1 in a million, mostly female below 40. Paracetamol overdoses kill about 20 people a year in Australia. Traffic accidents kill hundreds etc. etc. No vaccine is 100% safe, just like no drug is 100% safe , it's impossible, but the risk return is worth it with AZ for older people less effected by the side effects and so far no evidence that Pfizer is particularly unsafe for any group and it's now 6 months so if it was problematic should have shown up by now.
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  4155.  @JELmusic  Yes free choice if you accept you can't do certain things like be a healthcare worker or in the military or any other job or place it's required or international travel, this principle has been around for decades.
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  4156.  @JELmusic  Talk about fearful, look in the mirror regarding something that has a one in a million chance of killing you. If you're scared of getting a vaccine you are the scaredy cat. For those over 70 the risk of death is about 5%, that's not the flu. We don't actually have data on the risk of dying from the flu because case numbers have never been established, but the risk of dying from the flu is about 10% of that of covid 19 based on those tested only, you only get tested if there is a reason which usually means you are very sick. Anyway you keep living in your own fear if you so chose and think it's some conspiracy theory that's your choice but better just have the vaccine and take that risk which is far smaller than other risks you are required to take just to have a regular job. Best of luck and I encourage you to calm down and put your fears into perspective. Take care.
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  4157.  @JELmusic  You do realize how vaccines work right. These particular vaccines are about 90% effective at preventing death however if everyone is vaccinated it stops the spread. The risk of you killing someone at work by infecting them is 1000 times more likely than you being killed by the vaccine should vaccination rates not be high enough. You are fortunate to live in a time when vaccination rates are high and you can be unvaccinated, obviously you haven't been in the military and your travels haven't required any vaccinations, that's great for you. Previously the government required males of a certain age to be sent to possibly die in an involuntary manner, called conscription or draft. You live in a society so you need to accept the vast majority decision for the common good, go pick fruit or something where it's likely you will never need a vaccine, society can't stop for the small minority.
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  4158.  @JELmusic  yes 1 in a million have to die or hide away so the rest of us can get on with it without thousands dieing so you have the right to infect, if enough cooperate you can still be Antivax because others protect you.
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  4159.  @JELmusic  You are happy watching thousands die because they fit your Antivax narrative, I don't know which country you are from but you in delight right now that your mob is in control of the state of Idaho USA, I accept you are scared but killing of thousands of people just so you can be happy is really bad . In the end the more that take the vaccines the less mandates, the US has more mandates than Australia anyway so don't know why you said Australia is further from your ideology, maybe you live in NSW where the toughest mandates currently exist.
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  4160.  @JELmusic  Huh, you don't lack intelligence, you do know that the right to infect kills far more, 2 million have died due to this very policy in European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region, no quarantine infect who you want travel was very important in those regions. In Australia a part of the Western Pacific region of WHO deaths are less than 10% of those other regions on a per capita basis. You should accept until vaccination rates are high enough restrictions will exist. If you are truly as scared as you indicate as in have a phobia that is mentally getting a vaccine terrifies you so much , yes a mental condition maybe you can get an exemption. The risks you take traveling to and from work are far more dangerous than any of the authorized vaccines. From the way you talk I think you understand that your fear is not rational but you still can't get over it. Take care, don't live in fear and just accept certain restrictions if your fear of the vaccine is so great until enough vaccinated. If I was in your situation I would want everyone to get vaccinated so I don't have to. You do understand me I believe and you have seen the results of different policies in different WHO regions. Western Pacific WHO region has done the best by a country mile and happy I live here.
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  4161.  @JELmusic  I want people to have a choice by the way unless they work in a critical area where it needs to be compulsory no matter what, healthcare and military it needs to be compulsory. The problem is a certain vaccination rate is required, I actually hope you on a personal level get your way and the rest of us who are able to as in don't actually have a condition, phobia or other preventing us from getting it, get the vaccine. I am half vaccinated so far and happy that after my second shot I contribute to you having a lower likelihood of needing to be vaccinated. I took the vaccine for 2 reasons, one is it should make travel easier and the other for my community. I already had the horrible virus most likely over a year ago, it didn't kill me obviously so means if I got infected again then unlikely it would kill me because of previous infection. Best of luck and I hope you calm down .
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  4162.  @JELmusic  Well, I don't know which country you are in but if it's Australia all evidence points to very high voluntary vaccination rates, Victoria already up to 89% of over 70s with a first dose and that number will probably rise after those waiting for Pfizer get their chance. If you are in the US mandates will be more and go for longer, it's just a factor of the amount of resistance. You'll be ok.
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  4163.  @JELmusic  The virus is killing people, if you're dead you can't work, you wouldn't disagree with that simple argument would you? So literally tens or hundreds of thousands of people in the US can't work now due to death, in Australia that number is in the 10s or possibly over 100, have to remember Australia hasn't had significant deaths below 70.
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  4164. Rupert Murdoch has created a monster he can't control in Fox and Sky News Australia isn't much better. The US should be more careful who it let's in, in the future.
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  4165. Get away with being mentally ill? You're a compassionate one, these people aren't serial murderer.
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  4166. They are in LA and NY, majority of officers are considered minority. Maybe you should move to one of those cities noting I don't think they are the only ones.
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  4167. Nah, if someone wanted to attack the US with a bioweapon they would do it now, all you need to do is infect half a dozen Florida Republicans and no need for any sophisticated delivery systems in multiple states. The delivery device is perfect and it would keep spreading through all the US because they would keep denying it's existence and we know the CDC will probably take a month or so to even work out a test, just remember history, end of February 2020 total accumulative covid 19 tests in US 500, South Korea 100,000 , Australia 10,000. I wouldn't bother attacking Australia or South Korea they will react too quickly.
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  4168. I am proud of my 1% give or take neanderthal heritage. We are still with you.
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  4169.  @helenporter7584  Actually I have theorised that having a lady either in the position of Chief Health officer or State Premier (or equivalents according to health jurisdiction) might actually be a factor. If you look at all Australian jurisdictions plus NZ , the 2 with the most deaths per capita have males in both positions. 4 out of 5 of the other jurisdictions have a female in at least one of the positions. It's not strong evidence but I think having a lady involved on average possibly causes a more cautious approach. Then you look at the spreaders (leaders of countries who let the virus rip and catch the virus) all men that I am aware of. It's all anecdotal but I think there could be some validity to my theory.
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  4170. They want their money back, to cut ties with immediate effect means forgiving all loans and not going to happen , they could onsell the debt I guess but who would buy it.
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  4171.  @shehannanayakkara4162  I am in Queensland and I am seriously considering voting Labour rather than conservative next time round in my state election. I think there would be New Zealanders who think like Queenslanders and that is keep this virus out of my state/country. We only need to look at Victoria to see the alternative. While this virus is out there I think any government who has succeeded in containment will be re elected. So Victorian government isn't looking very safe despite Victoria being the most left wing state in the country and a current left wing government.
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  4172. Hello scammer
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  4173. The trust that runs that Ponzi scheme runs out of money in 2035. The only way to run it after that is government deficit spending if something else isn't done in the mean time. If that happens which is likely because both Democrats and Republicans will not fix the budget, the USD will decline eventually, however it will take a while because USDs are the main reserve currency in the world.
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  4174.  @cynthiascott4291  The problem with your idea is who exactly would you sue. The trustees say the account will empty in 2035. It's a ponzi scheme pretending to be a pension fund.
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  4175. They sample some for genomic testing and extrapolate based on that. The person who the test comes from won't be told.
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  4176. You're nuts.
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  4177.  @Elephantstonica  totalitarian states don't permit immigrants and if they do they must be descendants of that nation.
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  4178.  @Elephantstonica  name the totalitarian state that allows immigrants, I am unaware of any
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  4179.  @Elephantstonica  ok I will make it more clear, immigrate and become a citizen.
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  4180.  @Elephantstonica  Racism doesn't exist in North Korea and your claim that one can obtain citizenship there I find hard to believe, with China I couldn't see how one could become a citizen , only a permanent resident.
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  4181. Americans invented violence? Weren't the Egyptians and Romans etc. along with every tribe on the planet violent thousands of years ago. Maybe this has absolutely nothing to do with the US which has problems within it's own borders.
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  4182. 99.9% of people going to the doctor are not at risk of anything, just something is sore. So right back at you mate explain why one group is far superior to the other?
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  4183. Your approach is wrong in my opinion. The ACA is pretty much useless. Changing a situation from really bad to bad shouldn't be congratulated to any great extent. Please acknowledge your healthcare system is a failure for many. You can't fix a problem you don't acknowledge exists. Attack the Fox propaganda for what it is, Fox wants an even lower standard than exists now and are lying when they advertised some scheme that costs only about $50 per month and covers everything.
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  4184.  Brett Hazelton  How it works on a population level in the US versus Australia is a 6 times per capita homicide rate in the US when compared to Australia. Guns are probably not the primary cause however they are likely to be a contributing factor, not many drive by shootings with crossbows as far as I am aware.
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  4185.  Brett Hazelton  I don't know much about Canada and sort of don't understand some things. As an example Canada is a member of 5 EYES but seems to play a role no different to New Zealand ( sort of invisible). I know from government spending to GDP you possibly look towards northern Europe on domestic policies. As in moving towards the 50% level in a gradual basis. I am not saying anything to offend or otherwise , just pointing out my limited opinion and observations which are very small. Culturally I think you have picked up some things from the US but also totally reject certain ideas or principles. Australia and New Zealand are closer together in this way than US and Canada or at least that's my impression.
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  4186.  Brett Hazelton  So it seems healthcare and social security safety net are the issues Canadians don't agree with the US but have more gun ownership proponents in Canada than other countries excluding the US. The thing about the US healthcare system is the public part of it they spend more than a country like Australia and decided to carry out a random distribution of this welfare and just don't want it universal no matter it's cheaper or not. I personally can't understand such ideology that people want to pay extra but they do because in their minds they have an expensive non socialist model and that's fine. With policing the biggest problem in the US that I see is putting local councils in charge and elected DAs who prosecute according to how popular it is to the voter. Having the president of the US select the entire government who are mostly unelected doesn't work very well. This is actually how absolute monarchy worked. So a US president is closer to an absolute monarch than a prime minister who can be removed in an instant by his or her party and only can choose elected people to be ministers with the approval of the party.
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  4187. In Western Sydney there are problems. We aren't all that bad , see homicide rate 20% of that of USA, traffic death rate 50% of USA. No free country is perfect.
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  4188. Interesting hasbara from more than a year ago, seems the protesters against Israeli occupation of West Bank and Gaza were correct.
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  4189. For rich countries that might be practical but if the costs are much higher then it would make no sense in low or middle income countries or maybe just make one or 2 hospital like that. Agree with your premise though.
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  4190. While protests may have contributed to an existing problem it's not the root cause. Brisbane and Sydney had large protests too but no apparent problem.
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  4191.  @tjmarx  Excellent comment, saves me making an inferior response.
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  4192. @vforwombat9915  that's not disqualifying unless he was convicted and he wasn't. I think he is probably a terrible choice , what me or you might think is irrelevant though. I think Trump was a terrible choice but he is now the president.
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  4193. @rebeccagallagher3306  I know it's a part of your system however whether someone is suitable is not what they actually vote on. They vote on whether or not they want that person in the job, a personal opinion. The reasons for not voting for someone could be personal reasons or quite often they don't like the character of that person. It's never due to lack of experience or actual qualifications. Everyone nominated will meet the actual reasonable qualifications standard. Your personal reasons for not liking Trump's picks are valid and I actually agree with. However making government dysfunctional and having time wasting processes doesn't help anyone. The US is extremely unusual as a democracy having ministers being chosen outside of elected officials. In a parliamentary system the governing party simply picks it's ministers from the members of parliament and it takes a few hours for the PM to decide and then it's done. This doesn't lead to any problems.
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  4194. It's not the number of cases that matter primarily it's "the story behind them" as I have seen a couple of state governments repeating many times. If the full 82 were in the community during the infectious period you have an absolute disaster about to happen but if only 10 were infectious in the community and the rest were quarantined already so household and work contacts things aren't too bad. I have been watching Victoria which has similar new case numbers and they seem to have about half of new cases were in the community while infectious so not looking the best. I hope in NZ that number is low and Auckland can contain it, the rest of NZ should be fine.
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  4195.  @umbrellakitty6531  Everyone in Australia gets it except maybe some Victorian's and New South Welshmen.
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  4196. I am sure he'll be ok with that but best to email him first, I can't find his email , hopefully either he or someone else can provide his email here.
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  4197. Not really, it spreads like wildfire no matter what, look at my State of Queensland once we changed from Covid 0 to an open domestic border on 13 December cases just shot up and this is in a largely compliant population wearing masks indoors as required. Ironically our position on testing is similar to Florida that other Sunshine State. But due to our different early approach we have 8 deaths so far out of a population of 5 million, of course more will die now but we have 90% of the over 16 population with at least one dose of the vaccine. Those who won't get vaccinated in the US aren't going to change their minds except if someone close to them very sick or dead, nothing you can do to help them.
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  4198. That's not how death certificates work, families aren't asked to fill in a death certificate, a doctor fills in a death certificate based on best available information unless a full autopsy is done and a family might request that if for example they believe the death to be suspicious.
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  4199. You must be rich otherwise you are a strange person waiting to see the wealthy get major tax cuts when you will be taxed more.
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  4200.  Jp111  yes they will the New Zealanders with no quarantine. The same applies everywhere actually, where the virus is rampant people aren't exactly having high consumer confidence. Thailand I think is the worst affected country because of tourism previously being a significant part of the economy. It's hard to annalise the economic effects anywhere at the moment because every government on the planet is running up debt.
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  4201. Far more than you realise, Australia is a declared enemy of China, China hasn't declared the US to be an enemy.
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  4202. What are you talking about?
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  4203. Vegans don't kill animals including humans, innocent until proven guilty but if proven guilty no more special food requirements.
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  4204. Have to remember it's summer in the Southern hemisphere, Europe was doing fine 6 months ago too , now look at the disaster. They haven't said it's more dangerous other than more likely to evade vaccines , so more dangerous in that respect.
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  4205. The irony here is Canada is getting the best offer, Panama, Greenland, Gaza and Ukraine only get to be colonies in the old fashioned sense of resource and monetary extraction but Canada would become a state ahead of Puerto Rico. Before Canada gets too cocky Australia wants California and New York as territories along with a few more states, they roughly have the same minimum wage as us depending on the exchange rate and we could pull them into line with workers rights issues etc.
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  4206. Mexican antivaxxers must be kept out, nobody calling for the unvaccinated Mexican truckers to be allowed across the border but want all unvaccinated Canadians to jump the queue before such restrictions are universally dropped which is probably years away.
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  4207. Masks don't turn you into a criminal. It's funny a bit though, banks probably require masks now in many places .
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  4208. He's in New York, nothing to do with what's happening in Israel, your comment seems rather silly.
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  4209. Not a chance, do you really think they are going to do genomic testing of cases there?
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  4210. Actually they probably aren't lying which takes intent , if they truly believe it as these people do it's not a lie.
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  4211. You just made your own point and answered your question. Airlines were busy in a covid 19 relative sense remember so it was as you say the same behaviour all over the US.
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  4212. If your numbers are correct I would say probably
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  4213. 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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  4214. The real question is how many eggs do you get for a Trump coin. Maybe quotes should be given in eggs rather than USD.
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  4215.  @AndyDufresne11  the virus doesn't care if a government is a democracy like Australia or the UK or a one party dictatorship like China or Venezuela. No country on the planet has reported cases incorrectly except if capacity to do so was not there, or near the beginning when testing wasn't very good in all countries. There are 3 countries on the planet of 5,000,000 or more population that are virus free at the moment, Australia, New Zealand and China ( excluding Taiwan which has an outbreak). There are some small island nations or jurisdictions less than 1,000,000 people that are virus free. Criticise China for other issues if you want but refusing to accept they are virus free is just acting with absolute prejudice, every outbreak that caused a lockdown in China has of course been made public, impossible not to, can't lock down a city without telling them and the word getting out ( great Chinese firewall not that good). Technically you seem to be a Chinese supremacist because what you are suggesting is actually impossible and that is covering up nation wide lockdown or hundreds of 1000s of deaths.
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  4216.  @AndyDufresne11  You're the one who started with a population argument, not me. Yes we all saw what happened in Wuhan , there were videos all over the internet and that's why if it happened again we would see it. A government can easily cover up what might occur in a prison system, they can't cover up millions of people infected and 1,000s dying in public view. Yes unfortunately India didn't have what it takes in the long term, they actually did very well compared to Europe or US with the original variants but the much more transmissible variants they have failed although deaths are still well below Europe and US and they might be able to bring the situation under control and still end up better in respect of death numbers on a per capita basis but people of India are not going to forget the running out of oxygen which only required proper planning which India is capable of but failed.
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  4217.  @mywoodencubes  I think your last comment is a real possibility, worldwide cases haven't gone down and seems about 1 new variant of concern each month.
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  4218. That's one thing that in theory will get cheaper, China was main buyer of stock feed so now the US would have excess. It's only temporary though, next season less crops planted most likely.
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  4219. Actually a reporter should ask him a question beginning " As outgoing president...." That would set him off I think.
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  4220.  @christinewelford1842  I hope you stay cancer and Covid free. Unfortunately even with high vaccination rates the virus still spreads but the higher risk in your case is if in your area unvaccinated rate is high you might not receive the best care in hospital if you caught it and you are susceptible. In Australia it hasn't become political other than a few snipes here and there but nothing on the big issues like vaccines and general restrictions. Without saying it our current position is we are are opening up we can't protect those who won't protect themselves, unfortunately just like everywhere else the unvaccinated dying disproportionately in Australia but we have got to 90% at least of 16+ double dosed, about the same as Canada actually but Canada isn't handling the opening up very well as we can see. It's opposite season though so I don't know what will happen in our winter in the more southern cities. Best of luck to you and take care.
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  4221. Well that's not what they are doing. Running up deficits to fund billionaires tax cuts and sacking IRS workers, meanwhile increasing taxes on low and middle income people. Does that sound efficient to you?
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  4222. The surprising thing is markets going down now. Why didn't the markets believe him before? Sorry Yankees I support Canada.
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  4223. Wrong word, not dissident , he's a defector who can't return to Russia while Putin is in power.
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  4224. What I don't understand is why no vaccine mandate. Everyone being punished because old people in China refuse to be vaccinated.
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  4225.  @kristycampbell5986  something 3 months old, I have to say so what, I was referring to the current situation.
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  4226. Very true regardless of pro or anti or neutral China position.
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  4227. If you aren't a bully or associate with bullies it's extremely unlikely anything would ever happen to you. Your risk of being run over by a car or bus is much greater so take care going to and from school.
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  4228. They don't like free media , so what you say isn't entirely true. Criticism by Australian media of China was considered a grievance of China as their ambassador presented to us.
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  4229. Well there was a report of a lab charging $2,315 for covid 19 tests in the US as reported by NYTimes, so not fraud as such because your government allows such practices, effect on consumer the same. I think the company in the article ended up charging less because of embarrassment however do you really believe NY Times found every case of it occuring in the US, I would think not.
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  4230. I love the commentator, the commandeering of the bus not really an issue, but masks are. Both are issues of significant magnitude.
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  4231. Good luck Americans in 100 days tariffs will be in full swing.
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  4232. Israel hasn't stopped bombing so why would the resistance do a unilateral ceasefire?
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  4233. It's irrelevant, all systems of government have failed and successful with Covid 19, it has come down to regional policies first and then policies by countries within them. If you are in European WHO region or PAHO Pan-American Health Organization your country has probably failed, if you are in Western Pacific WHO region your country in the worst case has about 10% of the deaths on a per capita basis compared to the US at this point in time.
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  4234. I am Australian but unaware of what you speak, could you give some details if possible because I am curious.
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  4235. Trump has declared his idea on the world (if i tell idea often youtube deletes it). Behind the scenes every country in the world is trying to get alternative sources. It might seem an obscure product but it's likely China and Australia looking to Canada for pork. Even a 10% tariff on Australian goods our government must retaliate against the belligerent party which is the USA. It's nothing personal however you voted to fight the entire world.
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  4236. Just to let you know chilli's are fruit, use a potato or carrot or some green leaf next time to indicate an example of a vegetable.
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  4237. Weather plays a big role in transmission due to people's behaviour, higher climatic variation means will have significant peaks and declines. Florida has the least variable climate of the US mainland being on a subtropical peninsula.
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  4238. Churches in countries like Korea will show some likeness to Asians and churches in Africa will show some likeness to Africans. It's really not a big deal to any Christian in my opinion ( noting I am atheist). Isn't the Christian narrative that man is created in likeness to God and to a Christian Jesus is the son of God. It's madness.
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  4239.  @carissachristensen2455  ok so let's brown wash history, all the African and Asian slave traders and keepers throughout history and in a literal sense in some countries to this day are being controlled by white people. Please consider reality. Unfortunately there is no YouTube video of what Jesus looked like and really who cares.
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  4240. @tokeeriksen2425  thanks for your response.
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  4241. At the moment no chance, these variant is far worse than when the US hit 250,000 cases per day and that's with only a third of the population approximately, will hit at least 1,000,000 probably 2 per day , but hard to know because of demographics and what measures might be taken.
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  4242. Everything John just quoted from their authorities was word for word what was initially said about covid 19. Only spread close contact not a risk of widespread infections. Let's look at how those words turned out with covid 19. If it doesn't spread then so what? , only infected people and close contacts need to quarantine, exactly the same policy as with covid 19 at the beginning. I prefer the cautious approach it's served Australia well with both HIV and Covid 19.
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  4243. 99% of crypto transactions are for money laundering. So it's an interesting investment betting that money laundering will continue increasing and major markets US, China, EU and Japan will do nothing about it.
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  4244.  @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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  4245.  @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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  4246.  @chrishansen8477  With the Delta variant right?
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  4247.  @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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  4248. You sound like you and family should be fine. Best of luck and take care.
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  4249. It made me laugh a lot and no offense to Americans and also for those in bushfire areas this certainly doesn't apply to you and try to keep safe. Well the US has gone from burning cars to buildings and back to cars and now masks all for peaceful protests apparently, in the scheme of things let them burn those masks just not if they are in buildings or cars or a bushfire zone.
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  4250. Yes you should have. You want to kill your own citizens, what sort of a person are you?
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  4251. Seeing all that video it surprises me only 7 ultimately died it could have been far worse.
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  4252. That black girl is as cute as hell but whatever the issue is a little less blinking would be good.
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  4253. Why this comment. If it was a police state you would be covid free. In fact it can be argued the opposite, the state with the most relaxed attitude and the results are in.
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  4254. You both weren't wrong
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  4255.  @huikitwee274  Tropical and subtropical areas have more bats, I don't think you see hundreds of bats in colonies that fly off every night in the mangroves of Canada, but plenty around my region in Queensland Australia. Have maybe 1,000s in a single colony, this is fruit bats or we call flying foxes. Various similar species will be all throughout the tropics and subtropical areas of the world. The cooler the area the less bats and their are more bat species than any other mammal 1,400 of them. Bats and birds are the perfect disease spreaders because they have massive social gatherings and fly, bats being mammals are more closely related to us so viruses can affect us easier than birds. Hope I answered your question.
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  4256. Basically impossible for anything to happen because Republicans have the majority.
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  4257. This is Delta variant and yes even Perth at risk because it spreads so much faster. Vietnam I am sure at least as compliant as WA people but look at them now and China also.
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  4258. Totally agree and the show itself doesn't compare any other metric compared to other countries other than the current vaccination rate. 4 corners itself is a problem because it causes people to be way more negative than our reality. Best economic performance and lowest deaths come to mind comparing to those exact same countries that they compare vaccine rates with.
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  4259. Nu is new too many opportunities to call it the New Variant. They should have given them names of ancient gods, then they'd be more scary.
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  4260. Would an Australian company be invited to put telecommunications networks in China? If not then why should Australia.
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  4261.  @vtep6899  No but think carefully why attack Australia in other ways at this point in time? Australia unfortunately has been successful in dealing with Covid 19. The US and UK already look useless. It's also to send a message who is the boss , so if Australia backs down other countries scared to say anything. Because we probably don't matter to the rest of the world , the target audience might be ASEAN countries and or could be European countries. One statement made by China is that somehow an increasing defence relationship between Australia and Japan is a threat to China. A nuclear power is scared of 2 countries with combined military personnel of 400,000 or so versus the 2.8 million strong Chinese military, doesn't ring true to me.
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  4262.  @Yeah-right-2024  What mess is that?
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  4263.  @Yeah-right-2024  lol ok , I wasn't aware of that.
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  4264.  @aaaaaadasjfodsfdjfbdshifb  that surprises me
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  4265. He wouldn't be allowed in another country at the moment, he's still infected and even after that he could only enter most other countries if it's for government business which sort of means he would need an invitation. Maybe Brazil or UK where they understand infected heads of government lol.
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  4266.  @Caperhere  what you say amazes me. So basically there is no quarantine or even attempted quarantine in Florida, just a recommendation to wait until you aren't really sick for 3 days and then do whatever you want. Go to that bar at full capacity and hopefully/maybe you won't infect others. Without a highly effective vaccine that people are willing to take it won't stop spreading in the US I think.
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  4267. But you're not president, so if you said it without qualification people would just think you are a nut job. If you were president however many more people will believe. I think there are still people who think Obama is a foreigner.
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  4268.  @Vanadisphoto  LOL I have heard of a very similar thing happening in a low to middle income country in Asia . That leader is no longer a leader so there is hope.
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  4269. And why do you want to know? Concerned about that cocaine shipment are we.
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  4270. Because it's treatable. The WHO target was to eliminate it by 2022 from memory. If you are in a rich country so long as you get to hospital before you are on your deathbed you will be fine. Same applies to dirty water etc. These are problems of poor countries.
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  4271.  @stevepirie8130  just remember deaths come 4 to 8 weeks normally after the cases and consider the age of those infected, Florida will be looking pretty bad in about a month.
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  4272.  @stevepirie8130  look at your ONS numbers that's the true numbers based on death certificate data but will be trailing because I think it takes a few weeks for the data to completely come in. That within 28 days of a positive test is silly because once hospitalized you will not be retested unless you get better so if your hospital stay is longer than 28 days it's true you won't be counted in that statistic. I would think that everyone would be tested upon admission to check it's covid 19 or the flu or both because a mistake might be critical.
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  4273. Make that 30%
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  4274. Look up worldometer and work it out for yourself, obviously you can only estimate likely numbers of infections, add maybe 20% to the official case numbers. The world population is irrelevant, funny thing is if you haven't been infected then you have exactly 0 chance of dying from it.
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  4275.  @Shadypirate  Ok we take away 20% of the tests if you want, Hungary and Czech Republic already more than 0.2% of population dead from covid 19 after subtraction of 20% of the deaths, some US states the same.
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  4276. They various strains have worked out that US citizens are the go because you can infect them anywhere and they can go to the 300,000,000 person spreading grounds. It's in logistical terms a hub and spoke system because then for whatever reason many countries will allow US citizens in without quarantine. I am a bit pessimistic about the situation actually, I can't see the US changing anything, no plan B just plan A which is hope people get vaccinated and hope the virus goes away and doesn't evade vaccines and if they do just alter the vaccines which takes about 6 weeks apparently with Pfizer or Moderna but then if the strain is evasive enough day 1 starts again at the end of that 6 weeks and entire population needing the new vaccine.
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  4277. While it does seem unlikely the Israeli coalition can hold , stranger things have happened, I think a wait and see approach is best. Also what's to lose it can't make things worse I would think.
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  4278. Probably not only workers but contractors too.
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  4279. ​@beigefox6579 semi-automatic weapons not rifles. I am Australian and it's actually not that difficult to get a single shot rifle but almost impossible to get a semi-automatic rifle.
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  4280. It would be more than just the weapons which will be secure, radioactive waste however would likely be less secure. Also tracking of all shipments of everything from Unenriched Uranium to waste from nuclear reactors.
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  4281. The current case rate per million in the US is probably about the same as the UK or if you adjust for the lag. The number of tests have a significant lag so I am guessing so does the case rate.
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  4282. Pretty sure your badly mistaken or they would have done something by now, at least not confirming some of the executive government picks. Didn't happen did it.
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  4283. Give these poor Israeli officials a break. The number of hasbara talking points is large and hard to remember. If occasionally they accidentally tell a different lie compared to the one agreed upon they should be forgiven.
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  4284. He'll exempt anything he is selling.
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  4285. Yep stay in your information bubble, lockdowns didn't work in China,Taiwan, Thailand, Australia and NZ with less combined cases currently than Wyoming. Keep listening to the Trump it must be our testing. From Australia best of luck.
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  4286. I'll pay that one, lol
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  4287.  @JP-ks9nh  You lack ability to read it seems, go visit that family, just stay there, if you want to come in and out of Australia well get over it, majority in other countries can't either because they are broke. Free travel is only for the rich in EU or US lockdowns have killed small business and caused many unemployed and double the Aussie deficit in countries like UK, US and Canada, absolute disaster zones. Leave Australia clearly you can with your relatives if you hate it so much.
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  4288.  @JP-ks9nh  Yes the US government deficit is through the roof and the lockdowns in the US killed people directly and sent a lot of people broke. They have a non universal healthcare system more expensive than Australia's universal healthcare system. Yep great to see billionaire in the US do well from the lockdowns and that they have total freedom. Maybe you are a billionaire go to the US then you will be better off at the expense of others. The US life expectancy is about 5 years less than Australia , homicide rate 5 times that of Australia even suicides and the road toll is worse. Good luck when you decide to leave the terrible country called Australia.
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  4289. I am Australian and having an identity crisis because we are culturally Asian and Western. It's interesting because seems to depend on which value. Not all of Europe is the same too or Canada versus US. So summing up I think no large grouping can be painted with a broad brush.
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  4290. You also don't want to be the trigger of a riot. Tomorrow s headline on all news networks world wide " 10 People Killed in Riots in Pennsylvania started by CNN calling the Election" " There is a concern that the riots might spread nationwide like the BLM protesting and riots did earlier in the year"
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  4291.  @Sarahslp23  I faced that 2 days ago when sportsbet Australia paid me out on a Biden win. I am surprised how close it has been but in retrospect the Biden and allied campaigns couldn't have done a better job picking up many states with ultra thin margins it's looking like. I don't know how Biden will do but hopefully more calm and if he gets his tax bill through slow down your governments spiralling debt which isn't good.
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  4292. They aren't that stupid of course they adjust for crew numbers but can only estimate and of course can't be highly accurate.
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  4293. Because others with free time are probably in a line getting ready to vote
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  4294. The police followed procedure the best they could. Would you blame an infantry man who followed orders for the loss of a war or the general in charge? The same thing will likely occur in my opinion with the George Floyd matter because subduing someone to the point of unconsciousness was standard practice and occured 44 times in a 5 year period, it was unfortunate that George Floyd died under such circumstances. Why is the police chief in the Floyd case seen as a hero and not mobbed by the crowd and threatened , despite taking a knee in the middle of the angry mob , which I found to be completely hypocritical yet he was in a position of power to try and effect change to police procedures ?. I am not American which possibly gives me a little more unbiased perspective. Best of luck in your country. I think you personally will be ok but look at the full picture and consider who is actually running the show and in general it's someone much higher.
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  4295. They should have let the case be held in Mexico, I think their prisons might be a little less comfortable and less likely of some insanity plea. Extradite him if Mexican officials want him.
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  4296. He's never going to be a government official, he's a volunteer advisor to Trump that's all.
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  4297.  @stoufer2000  You have to look at issues one by one and consider a country's failings to consider what might be a problem. Australia has the largest foreign born population in the world along with Switzerland apparently and we have a controlled border. New Zealand and Canada not so different. So I am just pointing out one issue that is problematic in the US and UK, this issue means the UK and US will have problems in this area which creates groups who blame the "foreigners" despite the fact both those countries have less foreign immigrants but far more illegal immigrants. Depending what you mean by right wing , if you are talking about anti foreigner and or immigrant sentiment well we are at fairly low risk of that developing in any meaningful way because rule of law exists, that is a controlled border. On trade issues which apparently far left and far right take the same view, that is protectionism, Australia and New Zealand don't have this problem, if you look at the economic freedom index you will see positions 1,2,3 are basically an informal group of free trade promoters Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, we are all trade surplus countries. For any extreme positions to take hold first a problem has to be identified, you can't create extremism from an overall happy population where things are good. So at the moment no risk, this doesn't however mean in the future if things go into decline or for example we abandon a controlled border policy it can't happen, just pointing out we are in a good position now as is New Zealand.
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  4298. Last CDC reported 7 days moving average of deaths at 656 per day or about 200,000 per year annualized. If that's over well it's an acceptance of giving up, get vaccinated and if you don't we don't care.
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  4299. Damage or at least significant disrespect had already occurred hence the fence, your position is delusional.
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  4300. Nobody seems to understand the difference between the news and editorial.
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  4301. @Civilizashum  I didn't claim Australia is perfect, only that it compares well to the US.
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  4302. Hopefully if sanctions is just things like the military leaders foreign assets frozen and can't travel. Sanctions to hurt the country always fail and just hurt the poor cementing any dictatorship.
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  4303. If Americans actually drove sensible sized vehicles and if appropriate hybrid or electric it would actually put a significant dint in your trade deficit. Poor countries find it harder to change over still leaving a significant market for fuel exports. Even building Tesla's doesn't really make sense when a good quality small BYD Dolphin sells for around $20,000 USD in free market countries.
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  4304. Think about what you just said. That could be the problem, nobody in charge of the task which is worse actually than someone making a mistake. Not being able to produce who gave the approval makes it seem highly mismanaged because not having paper work is far more damming than a person making an error, plenty of errors have been made like with the cruise ship which was far worse than this hotel quarantine issue in isolation actually, nobody has or will be punished for that failure. Just like quite often a cover up is worse than the crime.
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  4305. It's got much worse in some ways, especially violent crime.
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  4306.  @AlexisMitchell87  I understand the sentiment and the feelings but to act violently upon that or even threaten to I don't understand because even if emotionally I think about that, to actually do it is a different story. In Australia we had what I would call copycat BLM rallies about 70,000 estimated people in total around Australia and 2 incidents that I could find , one was someone put a sticker on a police station and other was some people , 3 from memory misbehave and get pepper sprayed. So I think Australia is further down the path than the US. My point I guess is prevention is better than cure, no country can ever be perfect we just do our best. If you look at the Covid 19 response Australia has gone for prevention and the US just wait for cure. Starting point at least officially was actually the same. I wish you and your country the best but there is no easy fix. My country is good but things not perfect here either. So yes extra mental health care is good but the underlying problems should have more attention in my opinion.
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  4307. I don't understand Americans Trump's favourability rating is still in the high 40s but Musk's is in the high 30s for now. So Americans are literally saying in polling at least we hate all Trump's cabinet picks but we support you anyway. Trump can do no wrong it seems, it's a hard core cult.
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  4308.  @chris-solmon4017  what are you talking about?
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  4309.  @rob3791  the only positive possibility I can think of but unlikely and probably not change the time that much is the calculation quoted assumes the engine continued operation using up oxygen and obviously we can reasonably assume the engine stopped operating at about the time they were supposed to send a signal.
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  4310. In Australia we had Kevin 07. This Kevin is only trying to get the highest backbencher position. Literally 0 power why on earth does he even care?
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  4311. Trump has told you, Trump's plan is to split Ukraine with the US and Russia sharing the spoils. He wasn't secretive about it.
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  4312. Is the engine GE or Rolls-Royce?
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  4313.  @CatBot007  ok , had heard the name before but sort of assumed the big 2 had the commercial market. While we don't know yet the most likely cause is an engine fault because of design or a maintenance failure. One thing about aircraft any incidents are investigated far more than any other transport, probably more than most murders.
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  4314. What about Australia? You mean protests in some places? Well yes however vast majority are compliant and vaccination rate is getting high and overall very few deaths. Next winter have to see because that's when we might have real problems again.
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  4315. Maybe you are correct about origins of the word but anarchy means no law and order in the current meaning. That is what 90% would define it as or something similar.
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  4316.  @lorenrich2525  totally agree she looks much younger to me, her mannerisms and a bit of shyness I think.
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  4317.  @gocsa  Yes overall the US has the second lowest population density which is by looking at urbanisation rate, interestingly Taiwan actually has the lowest urbanisation rate. Surprisingly Australia has cities we live in. Interestingly islands like Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska (not part of mainland) have done worse than all the countries mentioned so the rules don't apply to US controlled islands apparently. As far as low density areas go check South Dakota deaths per million and it's only 55% urbanisation so low density, at 1,600 it would appear they have found a way to infect farmers. Australia is a Federation also by the way and just like the US either level of government could create the mask mandate but in practice only states can because the Federal government doesn't have manpower to enforce it. Most Australian states have never implemented a full mask mandate, only one that had significant problems.
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  4318.  @JohnSmith-qq8ok  Ok go with Indonesia, India and China with higher or about the same population then and the US has performed the worst in deaths per million.
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  4319. Unless you think MAGA/Qanon are religions with their dear leader Trump what does religion have to do with it? UAE , Chile and Portugal seem to be the highest vaccinated countries, they all have religious rates over 70% as well so above average for religion.
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  4320. The authorities are right in my opinion not to allow the rapid tests because they don't work very well. What you describe is partly cover-up and reckless, how can you shield the vulnerable if you don't test anyone who might have it. At this stage I think it can be said the countries that acted most aggressively in containment will come off the best. Some will still argue that keeping the virus is good for society or alternatively that their population can't handle the effort to get rid of covid 19, I think they are completely wrong. I don't believe there is anything inherently special about people in my region , that is the West Pacific , but we do seem to have more competent governments dealing with the issue and less arrogance. I am in Australia but can apply my comments to Taiwan South Korea, Vietnam , Thailand and New Zealand and other countries in the world but as a region we have probably done the best. Japan has done well but is looking a little shakey at the moment and change of prime minister a little while ago is not a good sign. The main trick was government taking it seriously, people won't take it seriously if the government doesn't.
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  4321. Everywhere is doing genomic testing to some extent, every case gets genomic tested in Australia and we will pick it up in border quarantine if it's out there. It is unlikely to spread from Vietnam but maybe it came from elsewhere. PS the WHO says the variant is a small mutation of the Delta variant and still considered the Delta variant, I am guessing the mutation they detected not enough to consider it a new variant.
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  4322. But the anti vaxxer anti masker orthodox Jews are gathering in large groups, depending how much of the population they are their contribution could be significant.
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  4323.  @importantjohn  I was looking at articles about Japan and I was surprised that they rated 3 for vaccine hesitancy with Bosnia Herzegovina second and France number 1 which I think explains some things about the vaccine rollouts and commentary about Japan and France. Where I am in Australia it's really hard to judge about whether people would be highly compliant with an ongoing mask mandate because we only had one for 2 weeks and most but not all seemed to comply. Vaccines haven't started rolling out yet so don't know how people will react, it might be harder because no cases. Privately I am hoping take-up isn't seen as urgent by people and vaccinated people can travel internationally , however people still waiting to come back Australia so any international travel might be a long way off. If everyone gets the vaccine me being 47 probably waiting until August or so.
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  4324. I guess after they declared Australia the enemy, however I don't see Australian calling China the enemy and plenty of CPC supporters calling Australia the enemy.
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  4325.  @zjoe555  I have no idea about levels of vitamin D that might be harmful but certainly agree whatever the over the counter dosage is would be ok.
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  4326. It's reported the same way on astrazeneca website, they are not "marketing" it in the same way the US companies are, given the really small numbers from all trials I wouldn't take any of them as accurate. But it's enough to say they are good enough given the urgency in some countries.
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  4327.  Luan Nguyen  Trump claimed approximately 1 year ago that the vaccines would be ready in 2 weeks and kept repeating the 2 weeks claim for 6 months. It's fair to say the 2 weeks claim was impossible unless no trials similar to the Russian approach. As far as the rest of the response compare Vietnam to the US. I realize you quite likely born in the US but Vietnam might be a country you relate to. If not compare Australia and New Zealand and don't use the island excuse because it just shows even Hawaii failed. Policy is what counted and Trump failed and as this video clip acknowledged he succeeded at one thing handing out loads of money to big Pharma to get vaccines quickly.
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  4328. Here's an interesting thing that might relate to what you say, really I don't know what to make of it. China's position is they want to talk to the US to sort out differences which has been far more aggressive than Australia in my opinion but that could be my bias speaking and maybe China doesn't see it that way, however simultaneously it also holds the position which they have held since Australia called for the WHO enquiry into the origins of covid 19 that Australia shouldn't be communicated with until it complies with settling some Chinese grievances, one grievance I found particularly interesting and that was that Australian media outlets including our government funded one even if not explicitly stated are reporting negative things about China. Both Australian political parties on the core issues relating to China totally agree with each other but do disagree at the edges in how this might be best dealt with communication wise from my impression.
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  4329. One commentator is a fool but at least honest, really? "it applies to any media company with over $150,000 AUD (about $120,000 USD) annual sales" so aimed at media giants. One will probably still qualify for the US covid 19 handout with that income as a profit for working , noting the number above is revenue not profit. There seems to be some disconnect on what a media giant is.
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  4330. Got nothing to do with what you say. Australia has a trade surplus with China and a trade deficit with the US. It's purely what one country purchases of another country. Remove oil and Canada will have a trade deficit with the US.
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  4331. Their might be a little truth in that along with Australia and even Canada who have all managed covid 19 better. So US citizens can compare with other English speaking Western Democracies if they choose to.
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  4332. That applies to every government on the planet at some point in time, my Australian government (and opposition) is fortunately at a good point in the cycle. South Africa s overall response is no worse than most of Europe or US so don't be too down if you are from there.
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  4333.  @tonyt4764  not America, any civilized country not run by warlords or at civil war.
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  4334. Makes no difference if nobody polices guns crossing the border, just like covid 19. It's clear everyone being able to carry a gun makes no difference like in Colorado.
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  4335. As someone who might get on the turps occasionally and want to have a bit of a rest in a park or something at the time , what would you suggest I wear for such an event?
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  4336. Depends on the country, the Americas are all bad except for 2 or 3 countries and the small island nations of the Caribbean not real bad.
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  4337. Technically the rest of the UN security council, the US vetoed a statement by the them, the US has said we would like Hamas to stop at this point in time, no pressure on Israel.
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  4338. I doubt it , more like divided, city people hate them and poor rural areas like them is my guess.
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  4339. He meant drugs.
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  4340. Hey technically Trump's job performance has improved recently, no telling people to go and get infected at a rally for example and it's not as bad as the flu.
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  4341. Trickle down apparently.
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  4342. It appears to be a cost cutting measure and to promote misinformation for profit. This very medium I am on now YouTube/Google runs majority of advertisements for outright scams, mostly get rich quick schemes and snake oil type products.
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  4343. No the first case was 9 November and confirmed by genomic sequencing on 11 November.
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  4344. That's incorrect, he had favorable ratings 6 months ago.
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  4345.  @ashenwalker4622  I was using my memory, however my timeline was wrong. Looking at Rasmussen Biden's approval was above 50 about a year ago.
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  4346.  @ashenwalker4622  So all the polling organisations colluded to suddenly reduce Biden's poll numbers which you now believe. It's the same polling organisations using the same techniques and you think they lie if you don't like the number but telling the truth when you agree. Do you know how silly that sounds. Also how many Democrat voters do you associate with, my guess is almost none.
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  4347.  @ashenwalker4622  ok now I understand you are a conspiracy election denier because you have just indirectly claimed Trump won by a landslide because everyone always hated Biden. I guess there's not much to discuss.
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  4348. If you are below 40 and female you have a good case not to agree, do you fit into that category?
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  4349. They are certainly prisons where people are being re educated. How widespread is that type of abuse we don't know because that isn't government policy and I expect they do something about it but also cover it up. The intent is to wipe out Islam from China and leave it in a state run form, same to christianity and less so but buddhism also. Xinjiang is a colony in reality that they want to sinocise as I have seen it described along with other colony like Tibet.
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  4350. Lots of angry MAGA in the comments. Get a life people.
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  4351. Need the evidence first, not just a guess. I think it was a hate crime but that's only my thoughts with circumstantial evidence.
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  4352. It actually makes sense to hire people with physical disabilities, military veterans often have the training already only needing a small amount of extra training and sometimes have physical disabilities.
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  4353. That's why your country is in such a mess, too many people won't get vaccinated, it's the only proven way to reduce problems.
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  4354. Well technically they did do well , but not with these new variants, just like how UK was in lockdown all other variants were decreasing but the UK variant was increasing.
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  4355. The real question when it comes down to it at the next election , is the other party better or not?
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  4356.  @francisjtuk  Then use a coin to decide maybe, heads one party , tails the other. I do think the Westminster system is good though because no one person has too much power unlike Presidents who are also heads of governments.
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  4357. Seems to be more Wumaos here than the Australian population.
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  4358. Hello scammer
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  4359. LOL probably a robot did it from some key word in the title or something.
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  4360.  Sweet Science!  if they do the job properly and the border is shut to everything but essential services and hotel quarantine for those returning home you can be like NZ or most states in Australia and get rid of it. If you get numbers down but not to near 0 and they reopen you achieve nothing. So which one are they doing?
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  4361. There's a big difference between 83% of population versus 70% of the population being vaccinated in the case of the UK. Maybe previous infections close that gap a bit but I think will still be higher in Singapore even accounting for this.
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  4362. It wouldn't because it's foreign media. If the story was done by US media then maybe.
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  4363. They do actually
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  4364.  @Lazarus404  your number is out by a factor of 100 it's 0.12% of the population dead from covid and some countries and jurisdictions it's now over 0.3% dead.
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  4365.  @Lazarus404  get rid of that % symbol then it'll be fine, you calculated the number not the percentage.
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  4366.  @janplays4019  No the US gives Israel $3.8 billion and if the arrangement is still the same as before 74% has to be to purchase US made military items, Israel makes the F35 plane wings which is included, so actually it will be less than that.
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  4367.  @JIMMYS_VIEW  According to Israel Palestine doesn't exist and is there for the taking and Israel continues to expand as it always has for the last 50 years and you say this wouldn't make the occupied Palestinian angry. I assure living under occupation of a state that continuously takes land off your non existent state would not be enjoyable. Israel does not believe Palestine has the right to exist just like Hamas doesn't believe Israel has the right to exist , 2 peas in a pod in that respect.
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  4368.  @JIMMYS_VIEW  Did you even read my comments, I referred to Hamas as a lessor evil. That isn't a pro Hamas statement.
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  4369. What's most interesting is Trump has upped the anti with everything this time around. Massive detention camps to round up and deport people. Massive international tariffs guaranteed to cause serious inflation if achievable. Also pretty much a guarantee of violence regardless who wins. If Donald wins it will be violence against mostly peaceful protesters and if Kamala wins there will be a new set of armed thugs on the streets threatening anyone to do with the election, including election workers. There's a good chance of some deaths either way.
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  4370. 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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  4371. I am guessing but obviously don't know the context you speak of that they thought it was more deadly and more symptomatic which means easier to stop spread.
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  4372. No, if you were in the 65+ age group you had a 1% chance of dying from covid 19 since the pandemic started. People are still dying so that number will keep increasing until all infected or dead from any cause. Fortunately most are vaccinated so it is already reducing the deaths.
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  4373. She was in China, but she is Australian citizen.
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  4374. That might have been the reason, the cops nervous and scared and put it into wrong gear. They watch the news too and see police vehicles getting windows smashed in with police inside. Things like this are bound to happen with literally thousands of police and national guard around the country and they are outnumbered by a large factor in many areas.
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  4375. They are not mutually exclusive.
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  4376. Entrapment is only if the police or other authorities encourage a crime to occur, providing an app to communicate with is in no way encouraging criminal activity, it's just offering a way to communicate. It's possible that police somewhere in the world did entrapment on this communication app but that if it happened would be extremely rare.
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  4377. My understanding of " globalist " is a person or country that believes in free market ideology. Am I incorrect? You are the person using the term so what does it mean to you if nothing to do with free trade?
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  4378. Seems the minority in charge of the comments today. What do you people call yourselves, "The Q keyboard warriors"? Or do you have some special name for your group.
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  4379. It's an American strain this time Victoria a while ago was an English strain. New South Wales has great contact tracing but quarantine measures have probably been the worst in Australia with serious non excusable failures still happening. I expect this latest will be such a failure but maybe not.
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  4380.  @lbrounen  In Australian English at least "per shot" can mean " each ", just a saying.
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  4381.  M H  They are free to go to a private hospital for elective surgery and it will likely be cheaper than the US because it's competing against waiting, they could also fly to other countries during normal times like Singapore or Thailand and get it much cheaper. Universal healthcare pushes down the pricing in the free market along with other factors like liability laws in the US being too much in favour of a person who is injured leading to excessive testing etc. because hospitals and doctors terrified they miss something which is in reality normal, doctors aren't gods they can only do their best.
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  4382. The income inequality in the US didn't happen in a vacuum and has been supported by both your major political parties. It's primarily caused by far right socialism. The most obvious examples are subsidies for banks, big pharma and medical services in general and agriculture. The proportion of the economy that is outright socialist isn't small.
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  4383. I would suggest due to the US being a violent country with many disparities when compared to other high income country. Another current issue is the left and right in US politics being openly hostile to each other. I am Australian so my comment might offend them.
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  4384. Wuhan institute of virology or Fort Detrick?
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  4385. Didn't know Larry Elder was the political leader of a nation. You're in the US right, people are being murdered at a rate 6 times that of other wealthy nations, that barely makes your news and it's toned down to seem like it's normal because it was worse in the past.
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  4386. Should say explicit government discrimination. East Asian countries of China, South Korea and Japan are extremely racist, they even hate their fellow east Asians. As a tourist it doesn't really matter as they are safe countries and will be friendly to tourists, if you're a foreign worker however it can be problematic as you can never be treated as an equal.
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  4387. 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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  4388. Did you know Trump increased the black male vote for himself in 2020. Certainly the issue you speak of should be said but it should also be said Trump was divisive and caused people to act violently from his words like on Jan 6. 2 wrongs don't make a right.
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  4389. The best way to fight is the vaccine, QLD and WA are doing fine and we are much more compliant in general plus overall a more cautious approach by our governments so have managed to have no cases so far but can change quickly of course.
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  4390.  @thesepeoplearecriminals1731  What about Israel, the deaths are way down, we know that the vaccines reduce spread by maybe 50% and deaths and hospitalisation by 90% and after about 6 months start to reduce in efficacy. I don't want to pay for unvaccinated people in hospital. So what is it you want to tell me about Israel that actually isn't very highly vaccinated compared to some other countries like Portugal or Denmark.
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  4391. 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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  4392. The Wagyu example in the context of being imprisoned in a few square meters so as to produce a lot of fat and weak muscles isn't exactly a good example of being pampered. It's true some humans do the same voluntarily but not many.
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  4393. Well i guess he has had an idf approved haircut. Does he look sexy or what?
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  4394. @roystonmason9125  I was in the Australian military a while ago, I know what a military approved haircut looks like. It looks like your mates haircut.
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  4395. Very likely and don't understand why they don't have election before troops leave, if Taliban takes power then so be it. I have no idea if that's likely but seems they will make up a significant number of elected officials.
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  4396.  @lilwayne9392  How many illegal immigrants live in your country? Is it more than 3% like the US? For your premiss to be true there needs to be well over 1,000,000 illegal immigrants in Canada. I have a feeling this is not the case and it would surprise me if it was the case.
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  4397. The safer areas would be less dangerous than certain US inner cities. But the dangerous areas would be extremely dangerous.
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  4398. I think in the US case there will be major variations by state and also within states because the vaccination rates are highly variable. The other point of course is the cooler areas get more affected at the time of year you are talking about. Best of luck and take care.
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  4399. Don't worry the US still doesn't have any solid covid 19 plan , just wear masks and vaccinate , one and only plan, no enforced border quarantine.
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  4400. Well Donald is a socialist, it's just he's a bit of a weird one for this day and age. So don't worry he won't be coming for his brand of socialists.
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  4401. This is madness, it doesn't matter if one agrees with the law, if you come from the party of "law and order" it's your duty to follow the law.
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  4402. That's the first positive think I have heard about South Dakota. I suppose at least they seem to be able get 1 thing right.
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  4403. Here's the problem with your argument, the empirical data. Ignore other US states and consider Oklahoma a wealthy country, you have the highest deaths per million in the world as a wealthy country. There's only 2 serious explanations for this as far as I can work out, low vaccination rates and or bad medical care. What's your explanation for this terrible failure in your state?
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  4404.  @heynow01  Ok so explain to me because you say you have the answer of why Oklahoma if considered a wealthy country outside of the US had the biggest failure in the world. Why tell me that I have already been told apparently and not tell me what it is I was told but apparently missed?
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  4405.  @heynow01  no I am definitely reading the same thing that said it's not about vaxxed or not and something about listening to patients. Whatever the combination of those things in Oklahoma it's led to many deaths and by wealthy country standards the worst in the world. Maybe there's some unknown factor but I doubt it. Edit: the Oklahoma doctors didn't have their hands tied, to the contrary, the government specifically said do what you want.
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  4406. Some products will become cheaper when retaliatory tariffs hit exporters leaving them the domestic market only.
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  4407. Give the guy credit he was sort of half right on one aspect. You can make water bombs with balloons or condoms. See condoms can be duel use.
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  4408. It was possibly tinea, I had tinea flare up in another area and herpes flared up big time.
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  4409. 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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  4410. Are you happy to pay an extra 5% tax to pay for their hospitalization and ok if a vulnerable relative or friend died because not enough vaccinated. If you willing to pay I accept your opinion if not well you haven't thought it through.
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  4411. For all those saying that they are cute, well I would like to inform you they are tasty and the meat is healthy, just had some kangaroo for breakfast.
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  4412. 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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  4413. I am not American and can't understand why any state allows heavily armed protestors. At some stage I would suggest a shoot out will occur with very bad consequences just based on probability. There has already been a few killings by left and right leaning people at protests. The good thing about this group is they seem fractured and without any central leadership so any incident probably won't spread. I wish you the best.
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  4414. 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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  4415. @MrStv1163  one problem with your argument, local governments don't make laws.
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  4416. Metallurgical coal is here to stay, however that mine pictured looked inefficient and certainly the workplace health and safety standards were "third world " along with the environmental standards of the open cut (blast) mining.
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  4417. @MrStv1163  states have great powers just like in Australia and local governments as in city councils and in the US case counties as well have none. The state government laws and policies are what makes a difference. California is literally a victim of it's own success, if I was a homeless US citizen I would find the bus fare to California where my treatment would be a little better and the weather is much better than the North East. Your main point about both parties is correct.
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  4418. I think this relates to another video. The US has both the largest prison population and the most per capita. I think Trump was just confusing testing for covid and detaining people. So this one you are really number 1.
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  4419. @wiggmanoriginal  I know that but the vast majority is northern Hemisphere.
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  4420. Thriving pyramid scheme based on Trillions of dollars of extra government debt.
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  4421. Since about mid October they only put the Covid counter up when the news is about that. So send a letter or email to them asking them to make it a permanent feature if it bothers you.
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  4422.  @hilmir  people like to use the statistics for their own agendas. I am in Queensland and we still sitting at 7 deaths for 5 million people. When restrictions are relaxed and the virus gets in and we have some deaths they will say Queensland had 3 quarters of all covid 19 deaths in the last 2 weeks with a vaccination rate at whatever it will be by then, sounds scary if described in that way.
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  4423. Yes and now we looking towards the north east.
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  4424. You're a bit slow aren't you, we are on the correct side with Ukraine not the Russian.
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  4425. Funnily enough it might actually pass and the US can refer to that body of water in a different way to the rest of the world. I think the rest of the world couldn't care less except maybe some Mexicans.
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  4426.  @michaelfarkas2257  They reduce deaths by around 90% and hospitalization by a lot also.
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  4427.  @michaelfarkas2257  The US CDC gives that approximate number with regards to deaths. If the virus spreads through the vaccinated it's not too bad because less are requiring hospitalization and Omicron seems to reduce severity also but spreads like crazy.
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  4428. Then you are a fool because he isn't going to do that, his stated plan is to blow everything up and only have loyalists to help him achieve such goals.
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  4429. You Americans are so soft, he lied yet again at his rallies previously he made it clear mob violence against protestors who turned up were doing the right thing and pity it wasn't the old days when they could be roughed up more. Now after he incites an insurrection he says he didn't know and condemns his special people. It's a joke don't forgive him he is a loser who contributed with Republican support to 500,000 excess deaths give or take so far from covid 19 directly and other loss of life due to the poor response. He openly told people to infect each other and his devotees agreed. The US government deficit looks ridiculous even comparing to Obama's term and he can't exactly be called a fiscal conservative but Trump was worse. It's probably only a matter of time the USD depreciates relative to other currencies and interest rates rise leaving the US with expensive to borrow depreciating money like Germany and Zimbabwe experienced ( not saying that will occur but the same direction in a much more minor way )
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  4430.  @spaideman7850  lots of conspiracy theorists that say covid doesn't exist, US possibly the worst , but large segments of Indonesia going by the comments. A conspiracy theorist who says the virus doesn't exist is in denial.
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  4431.  @selms22  yep totally believable a doctor would say someone is a deadman when even 80+ age group 95% survival approximately.
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  4432.  @selms22  so your father is in a nursing home with constant care then, then visit him often before he dies or you might regret it.
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  4433. They caused the problem, it was 2 players breaking the then unenforceable rules so government had to do something otherwise it just becomes a case of if you have money the rules don't apply to you. Just like Clive Palmer locked out of WA at the time, I am a Queenslander and supported the WA decision of rules are rules. No normal person could travel back from India on regular direct flights, flying to Doha is the wrong direction so probably cost a fortune.
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  4434. They use the same techniques as the Communist Party of China and for the select audience they are just as successful.
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  4435. I love the summary, if voters intentions were identical to 4 years ago and had voted and turned up the same way it's statistically impossible to get a different result. Well that makes perfect sense. It's like saying it's statistically impossible to get 1,000 Trump supporters to all believe the election was fair no matter the evidence.
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  4436. Just keep counting the bodies American boy, you'll be right, right?
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  4437.  @terminsane  count the bodies however you please the US has the lowest life expectancy of any wealthy nation. Is it acceptable to the US populous that the US has dropped below China in life expectancy?
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  4438.  @Ausar666  fair enough Delta has killed a lot of US citizens and the total death toll per Capita is greater than every other wealthy country on the planet. How direct and plain do you want?
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  4439.  @Ausar666  what is false? More US citizens dead per Capita than other wealthy nations on a per capita basis.
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  4440.  @terminsane  what violence are the other 30 or so wealthy countries imposing on their citizens including my country Australia?
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  4441.  @terminsane  which location are you talking about? Certainly some people who wanted to disobey health orders and attack police had some problem. What exactly was my lie?
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  4442.  @terminsane  watched what where? I asked a simple question about location and you are silent.
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  4443.  @terminsane  You prefer the American way of protests, BLM burning down cities, fair enough horses for courses.
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  4444. All the vaccines are effective but that reduces with all the new variants.
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  4445. Well it'll be an America first, an interesting experiment , let's have no police and see what happens. In the rest of the world we will analyse the data, oops but no police means no data. Good luck guys and gals.
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  4446.  Hannah Dyson  From success, failure to contain the virus has many flow on effects, such as you mentioned other healthcare can't occur to the same level. Suicides in 2 Australian states plus NZ have not changed in fact slightly down year on year in 2 and slightly up in one but less than 2 years ago. That's just the ones I am aware of and only covers up to end of June I think. Economically things aren't good either because no foreign tourists however I can't see highly infected countries getting heaps of tourists so that's unavoidable. As to what can the countries that failed do now, I have no idea because it seems like the populations probably won't cooperate with hard lockdowns even though they might still occur regardless which causes all the secondary problems to increase.
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  4447.  Hannah Dyson  NZ was one of the places suicides down slightly. My state Queensland it is in between a year ago and the year before that. What has occurred in Australia and NZ based on following them a little bit is lobbyists who already worried about mental health drawing attention to the issue and the mob who literally say 25,000 dead Aussies and Kiwis is the way to go and let's follow Sweden , noting we have restrictions no worse than Sweden anyway. The people suggesting the Swedish model are suffering mental illness and believe we will fail despite evidence to the contrary. Everything is open but the economic impact still exists but again it's still not as bad as a country in lockdown whether enforced or voluntary. I live in inner city Brisbane and my balcony overlooks a major road , I can tell you things are back to relative normal, this doesn't mean boom times but peak hour traffic jams have returned. Young people in Australia and New Zealand have only ever known boom times pretty much , coinciding with the continuous economic expansion of China from 1991 to now. For people who have only known boom times I think it's possible that the mental effects of not being in a boom are more adverse to the society. We have had dips and industry specific problems but never has it affected the majority of the population like this time in recent history. Australia has increased funding for mental health and did so about March or April from memory. So in some ways seeing what is happening in other countries is a significant contributor to mental health issues because those who think we will fail which causes anxiety are believing that because they see pretty much every European country and US fail and by a very wide margin.
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  4448.  Tom Paine  that's great but you haven't given your location.
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  4449.  @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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  4450.  @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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  4451.  @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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  4452. That's only in US English, the rest of the English speaking world says half mast for either.
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  4453. I am thinking some of these comments are pretty vicious , for just reporting the news and not putting editorial spin on it.
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  4454. Yes the oppressive work environment with 90% vaxxed pressuring the unvaxxed and all these mask mandates and testing mandates if not vaccinated.
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  4455. I am reading through the comments, it almost seems worthwhile for our government to charter a few planes bound for Texas and Florida on a one way trip. Then you can observe first hand why it's not a good idea to just not care.
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  4456. The amazing thing is that they haven't found any fraud. We know the US has significant fraud like the covid handouts where companies were created to bleed the government.
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  4457. She is extremely low risk for covid 19 given age , sex and not overweight, however mental health could be a different issue, hopefully over time she will be fine.
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  4458. That would be censorship. All democracies have news outlets making a call as has been the case since television. It's not official , everyone knows that but in this case in reality Biden had a convincing win so not much in doubt.
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  4459.  @Qwerty-ff1cr  so the killer should imprison the person who defend to a point their killing. Does that really make sense you supporting the killer and if you look at an older al jazeera clip you will see Rohingya are on the same side to the protestors. Best of luck to you
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  4460. Doesn't surprise me, but they could have caught it after testing, the test is at one point in time only and if 5 people had it on the plane then give to the other 18. My guess is they all fake certificate though.
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  4461. 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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  4462. They're welcome to leave to some Nordic socialist wonder land where the government spends over 50% of GDP. Prefer the approximately 35% rate here or NZ thanks (during normal times , obviously numbers will blow out in all cases including Sweden).
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  4463.  @améliehester6996  Here is something for you to ponder. Communism in simple terms is collective ownership of just about everything. Those who say it's in the constitution that they can enter "private property" without the permission of the owner are technically communists who believe that the US Constitution is actually communist.
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  4464.  @schouvler25  I think the point is the extent. Out of 50 million people on either side someone will disagree with everything down to the type of tie a president might wear and is it too dark or too light etc. etc. My observation from afar is this objection to many of Trumps behaviour s within the Republican Party is more wide spread and opposition more organized than the things you mentioned about previous presidents.
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  4465. LOL
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  4466.  Ron Wojcik  I can give you 2 Australia and New Zealand. We are not accepting anyone except returning citizen. Canada is another one, not a total ban, but close.
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  4467. He's uniting the world against the US. It's pretty bad when Australian politicians are in agreement with Kim Jong Un on the issue of Gaza. And now China, Canada, Mexico, EU, Australia and Taiwan all on one side of a trade war against the US.
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  4468. You are lucky to be a tax payer at the moment , with the job keeper and job seeker maybe 20% on welfare , oh and the pensioners on top of that.
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  4469. Name that country that has been better at it?
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  4470. I actually agree with the Economist with caveats. As with everything in the US regarding government departments fraud is rampant. It's actually now a part of US culture where you can get elected even after committing fraud against a government using corporate protections of course. So fraud in disability benefits for veterans should be rooted out. It's a bit misleading to go back to 2000 and compare because there was no major conflicts involving US troops since the Vietnam War a long gap where people less likely to become disabled whereas Iraq and Afghanistan caused many disabilities recently. The waste in Veterans Affairs is likely extremely high when paying non market inflated rates for medicines definitely and most likely other contracts involving that department. Find the waste and actually do something about it. However i don't believe there's any intention to pay market rates for goods and services especially regarding pharmaceuticals.
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  4471. It might increase it, more desperate people do desperate things.
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  4472. South Africa is a lower income version of the US. Let's go through a very simple check list. Open borders affecting the local population negatively, highest homicide rate in the world for a major country and highest homicide rate for a high income country. One of the highest rate of drug problems of country, highest rate of drug problems for a high income country. Highest GINI coefficient in the world and highest GINI coefficient for a high income country (largest wealth gaps in the world for respective cohorts). So I ask why South Africa wants all the same problems as the US and has effectively become a one party state voluntarily with obvious failures in public policy. The US isn't much better given it's potential and wealth.
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  4473. What's with you people? This is not personal but you have exercised your freedom and are seeing the results. Australia lockdowns including interstate travel, opening up except for one infectious state where if you leave that state and come to my state 14 days lockdown in hotel at your expense. Until a state stops accepting outside infections you will never stop it in any state. Best of luck and it's every man and woman for themselves, protect your elderly and those with diabetes and those who are obese especially. Take care.
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  4474.  @RabJ973  Maybe that's so somewhere but not in Australia.
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  4475.  @RabJ973  Like the US most healthcare services run by the states. Fairly recently a patient had an operation in Victoria prior to being tested and spread it to another hospital patient so the government there said they will now test everyone before operations. It's going to be according to risk so in NSW and VIC I am guessing universal testing of hospital patients, in other states probably not at this point in time.
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  4476. The word militia which I heard in the US generally seems to mean in favour of government, second amendment has a preamble with "a well regulated militia" in the wording.
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  4477.  @JeffreyGoddin  Add Xi to your list, Chinese nationalism is just the same there with the same tactics to discredit other countries as Trump used. Being Australian and China's propaganda enemy number one it's easy to see. Australia isn't totally innocent and could be a little more diplomatic but China's outrage against is unwarranted. One thing that plays a part in my opinion is the same thing that plays a part with the China US relationship, that is Australia is the biggest trade deficit country to China and China is the biggest trade deficit country to the US, it's like the tax man nobody likes him but you have to pay taxes, people at a concious and subconscious level think this way with countries that they have trade deficits with and sort of think that country owes them.
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  4478. Is Fox still supporting Trump with it's editorial? Same thing then.
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  4479.  @paulprahlad3835  One thing I give Fox a bit of credit for is at least with that panel of 5 thing they do , although it's like 4 versus one at least there will be a center left commentator on the panel. Also not all at Fox will automatically support things Trump is doing. I am Australian so just observing and ABC seems to be the least biased with CNN and MSNBC and Fox all very biased. Admittedly I am only watching selected YouTube clips so can't say my opinion is entirely right. CNN I think is the most biased , but still interesting to watch. It would be good to see a truly non biased or very low biased media outlet in the US but unfortunately i don't think you have any. I am not sure if media is following the politicians or visa versa, it's hard to tell.
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  4480. @Gage King You didn't notice January 6, that wasn't a peaceful transfer of power that was a failed coup d'etat. Yes he failed , failure doesn't change the moral culpability.
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  4481. @Gage King He referred to BLM riots as peaceful, that crowd understood what peaceful meant and they followed his orders extremely quickly actually, when he said go home after 3 hours they did. Every convicted rioter so far has said they were doing it for Trump and it's laughable that they were doing it for Biden because as you know he already had the votes, they didn't need to do anything to ensure the victory of someone that had already won. Reason nobody in Congress was harmed is because they failed to get to them.
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  4482. @Gage King You are a fool , what makes you think I am left or right. How is saying BLM rioters burning down cities whilst being called peaceful by Trump at every rally left or right, just like saying the Jan 6 attempted coup d'etat failed. Some did bring fire arms and as we know from Oath keepers texts they failed to get there weapons on site. Failure after failure for the coup attempt, it was still a coup attempt by a bunch of losers if you want to call them that.
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  4483. I doubt it, he doesn't need any more problems.
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  4484.  @reillyfamily7557  I am sure Israel being the largest recipient of US aid is very grateful. The countries the US plundered like it's ex colony the Philippines with a one way free trade deal that crushed that country upon independence are grateful also.
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  4485.  @ESCOEXCLUSIVE  There has been 2 mass shootings in the news this year in Colorado and in one of the cases the person purchased the weapon a day or two earlier. Anyone just about can go and buy a gun in 10 minutes walk out of the shop armed and dangerous. So don't know what you mean not then.
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  4486. Just a guess, it could be to do with the risk of the vaccine or other injection going into a vein or artery and causing a real problem versus time taken as in truly mass vaccinations it's best just do it fast and also taking time with children they might be more likely to pull away or flinch. I guess you will find out when you look into it.
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  4487. Sadly because it killed a million people or however many. This should be obvious.
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  4488. The bible belt states in the US have low vaccination rates. Unfortunately I think some religious leaders from all the religions are making things worse, but you can't tar all with the same brush, UAE is almost fully vaccinated I believe.
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  4489.  @prcr8tion  Yes some religious leaders are discouraging vaccine use etc. from all religions including Christianity, Hindu , Muslim and Jews that I am aware of, that's my point , can't tar them all with the same brush. I will re emphasize some.
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  4490. I just love these socialist comments accusing the Democrats of not being as socialist as Trump. It's a complete laugh where I am standing and funny thing is it probably mostly comes from people who hate universal healthcare so much because it might be socialist they will pay higher taxes to make it happen. Public spending on healthcare in the US isn't actually low by world standards of comparative countries.
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  4491. The lady was correct regarding Biden keeping tariffs. Adam you should have actually responded if Biden cut those tariffs on Chinese goods it would have lowered many prices on particular goods only coming from China.
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  4492. Fauci is wrong about the UK, they are delivering both the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine and Pfizer vaccine in the same way. I wonder why he isn't aware of this, I get the impression that he doesn't look outside the US and see what others are doing in detail and always makes excuses why the US must fail (thinks Koreans, Japanese and Australians are some how different so different rules apply).
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  4493. Perfect propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party, they don't even have to hide any information, just tell the whole truth regarding certain US incidents in the last 6 months.
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  4494. Actually you are wrong on 2 accounts, the US governments state and Federal spend more money on healthcare than the average total amount of OECD countries as a proportion of GDP , so if in dollars even worse. Military spending although fairly large I believe would be less than the healthcare spend especially this year with all the Covid 19 costs with testing and higher hospital costs with ppe etc. etc. I am Australian and our government spends a bit less on publically funded healthcare than the US I believe , especially this year , but we prefer a universal healthcare system run by government. We do have private healthcare if you want to jump a queue for elective surgery for example in a private hospital.
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  4495.  @yourlocalalexis4578  if you do a few internet searches if it is as per normal your state and federal government pays about 2 thirds of the healthcare bill. So not exactly a free market system and the services offered aren't universal.
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  4496.  @vbin9081  you do realise in a free market emergency care is a monopoly right, if you say oh there's this great little hospital in Alabama when you are in New York having a heart attack but every hospital charges double the rate of the lowest cost hospital which hospital will you choose? You also realise that if you go through private healthcare they don't care if all hospitals charge more and in fact profit off it because insurance is a commission business.
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  4497.  @vbin9081  I didn't say anything about Obamacare in fact I was criticising it because the conditions I describe are under Obama care. No country on the planet has managed to have cheap free market healthcare , it doesn't seem to be a possibility, just like you can't have free market roads because otherwise I could buy 5 metres of every road exiting a city and charge any vehicle $50 to pass and there would be nothing you can do about it. Some parts of healthcare can be free market but not emergency care and who pays for public health eg covid 19? With a free market system more deaths are more profitable and good for vaccine companies if the virus remains so no incentive for elimination.
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  4498.  @vbin9081  You are already aware that your country is somewhat socialist. What Asian country are you talking about, they have universal healthcare. Are you referring to medical tourism hospitals? Yes that's free market for non urgent procedures. See the US rating on the economic freedom index while it can't be described as low it isn't that high, my country Australia rates above the US. As far as limited socialism Australia isn't a bad model. If every country achieved what Australia has achieved there would be no need for a vaccine so the US failures have just made some companies some big healthcare money and your government is paying, not the free market.
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  4499.  @vbin9081  sounds like we actually agree, your a bit Utopian in what might be possible and on the other hand a bit of a conspiracy theorist on what you think will happen. The point about the US limited socialism model is it's directed more to corporations than it should be. As far as both of countries seeming to go down sort of an inevitable path of being more and more socialist , we only disagree in so far as I don't think it's inevitable but you seem to. We have to see over the next 10 years what happens, I am quietly confident Australia will generally stay on course but don't think it's a given. Some things do spill over from the US and UK to Australia but it's not always one direction, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia probably in that order are pushing a free trade agenda in our region and quite successfully actually, the TPP was most likely started by Singapore and or New Zealand as a trade grouping called P4 according to Wiki but with the US not wanting to join it still exists as CPTPP and Biden's apparently willing to consider it but will probably try to water it down a bit with too many conditions about workers and environment. It might be well meaning but truth is for poor countries to develop and get better incomes for their citizens the starting point by wealthy countries is very low but no trade they get nothing so even poorer. We will wait and see if the US joins and I hope it does. The approach our countries are taking is just keep putting more and more deals on top of each other, there are 4 different free trade deals with Australia and Singapore now as an example so it's really hard for any future government to get rid of 4 deals involving 20 countries give or take because 3 of the deals are multilateral. To give the US example Trump did threaten at one point to throw out our bilateral free trade agreement, however if we have a bilateral one and CPTPP it makes it twice as hard for the US to get out of Free trade with Australia.
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  4500. Certainly not the only country but at the lower end of performance.
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  4501.  @its_Today_  Those travellers were Queenslanders I think or maybe a Queenslander and a Victorian. I blame Victoria though, why they so desperate to escape.
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  4502. Trumpism isn't dead just because you want it dead. It's more infectious and longer lasting than Covi SARS2.
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  4503.  @bhorleston  Actual deaths as reported by ONS based on death certificates is actually higher than the 28 day statistics.
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  4504. I feel for you, I am in Queensland Australia which can basically be considered covid 19 free because if new cases appear they are jumped on quickly. Unless you're in Hawaii what you describe is all that you can really do. Hang in there the best you can. If you think a little comedic relief might help go to this fake news website betootaadvocate.com .
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  4505. I feel safe in Thailand and will feel safe when i return to Australia with most likely a Philippino pilot because i am flying Philippine airlines. If i had the money i would short Tesla, if China decides they don't like Tesla any more the company is screwed , it was the only major market second to USA for sales, that had increased sales last year. China sees Elon as a strategic asset.
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  4506. Well going down to your local crackhouse or whatever, I think you understand the concept. Not meant to offend just a joke.
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  4507.  @elingrome5853  your comment has nothing to do with mine. I tend to agree , however why jump to conclusions, children need to get all sorts of vaccines which are good. My comment said nothing regarding covid 19 vaccines.
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  4508.  @nate7778  Your comment is ridiculous. While I understand as I am not American that life has a low value in your country, blaming one or either side of politics achieves nothing because both sides of US politics are responsible for poor healthcare outcomes which includes mental health and high rates of suicide and homicide in certain demographics. Those general demographics with the most problems are both white and black non Hispanic males.
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  4509. So that's a great result.
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  4510. Not rare, it's everywhere, a bit thinner than lower altitudes.
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  4511. I think there was nervousness with Obama coming out from Obama or the campaign because of the 2016 experience. So I think they polled after his first rally and it was positive and now Joe and his campaign have probably said go for it whatever you want to help and Obama is totally relaxed which I think shows. Will it change any result who knows but I think people have forgotten they didn't really like Obama that much in the end, 4 years of something quite different has produced a bit of memory loss or adjustment in feelings.
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  4512. The only reason the US rebounded better is because it did far worse during the pandemic. One of the worst performances of a wealthy country if not the worst in a financial way during the pandemic. The US was the worst of a wealthy country when it came he health outcomes from the pandemic.
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  4513. People don't tend to realise racial nationalists/supremacists respect each other. You will find for example Chinese supremacists being highly respected by American white supremacists because China keeps others out to a very large extent and the US doesn't. Of course we can go back to WWII and the ideology of Germany and Japan was in total alignment.
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  4514.  @fuquaysteve271  Where are you from? The reason I ask , I would like to compare jurisdictions.
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  4515. You tell me Kim when is the US going to have coup d'etat?
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  4516.  @frankwilson3265  I am unaware of any heroin dealers that have killed 0.2% of the population so not really a fair comparison.
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  4517. So everyone here supports the NSW approach, very interesting. Is this the propaganda arm of the NSW Liberal Party or something, they love the soft touch and living with it approach of NSW. Oh well maybe those in all the other states with the opposite approach and being cautious could go to NSW where they can enjoy their freedoms.
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  4518. After things are fixed, not during the crisis.
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  4519. I am curious what travel ban means. Is he banning travel in both directions? Or does he mean no new visas for Columbians. Whatever the case is it's only going to make it harder to deport people to there. Retaliation can be to ban US citizens without relatives in Columbia from travelling to Columbia, then the US would need to use foreign contracters to deport people to Columbia. Another way could be to require Columbian work visas for the staff involved in deporting people to Columbia because technically they work in Columbia and aren't aircrew who are obviously exempt.
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  4520. No tax on tips and overtime sounds great but all it would mean without other comprehensive changes is a one hour work week all extra hours to be considered overtime heaps of income declared as tips. Can sell 10 million citizenships for $5 million. This is the most crazy thing I have heard yet. The only buyers will wealthy criminals on the run , so typically overthrown dictators on the run.
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  4521. Search incubation period covid 19 and you can find out. It will be a range , with the flu it's generally accepted average incubation is about a week but it could be 2 days or 2 weeks. With all these viruses there will be a range. The deaths can occur from days to months after the incubation period if the person is hospitalised.
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  4522. It's not really an ownership issue regarding bytedance as it's 60% ownership is outside of China. The issue is it's close relationship with the Communist Party of China. X is arguably a higher risk to the US as it deliberately peddles outright misinformation. Bytedance is only a risk in the case of a conflict and if a conflict was to occur then that's the time to ban it. Removing an app from a phone or computer is pretty easy to do. Truth is if you own a smartphone and it's turned on Google or Apple are constantly tracking you. If there's a data breach by a government or telephone company then anyone can be tracked because all that's needed to track someone is their smart phone number and use spyware. Everyone has to make a choice live in the modern world or live in fear. This especially applies to anyone not in the US or China where the vast majority of apps etc. come from. As an Australian if Google misuses my information there's nothing I can do about it. We also get 0 protection against being spied upon by the US.
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  4523. My understanding is crypto currency is pretty much just for money laundering. It's amazing any of them exist at all.
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  4524. There's some nuance, some people are scammers, scamming isn't part of the job. I don't know about this particular case but if the lady was a lying scammer she was doing something wrong. Having a job title doesn't excuse scamming.
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  4525. How would they do that?
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  4526. One thing made me laugh. Only in China can they lock up bankers even if it was only for a few days.
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  4527. Yes and according to the majority of economists Trump will run it up more quickly than it would have under Harris according to both candidates stated policies.
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  4528. You're not making any sense because most likely 1,000 or maybe 2,000 cases got out as we can see from the internal Chinese numbers. The lockdown of Wuhan was not like anywhere else on the planet. The rest of China also locked down similar to other countries to get rid of the virus that had already spread outside of the Wuhan area. They succeeded. Look to other countries that are not China because you clearly don't trust them and you can see it can be done if it doesn't get completely out of hand. Travel restrictions and quarantine remaining in place for international travel.
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  4529. It was previously called something like Government Digital Office and renamed so that renamed organisation would have funding already, no need for extra funding.
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  4530. Ok Darwin in the Northern Territory Australia is doing fine , I think they have had no cases of community transmission ever. From memory they shut the border first, obviously before community transmission had occured , now is open to most states. I think they got a bit lucky and not a high population.
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  4531.  @gericomy  my late mother used to say humans are a cancer on the earth. While I am not that pessimistic there is some truth to it because development only tends to go in one direction, the alternative view is we do take care of what's left better now, both have some truth.
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  4532. Trump and Rudy have already called for faithless electoral college electors. Too many states though , so can't see it being pulled off.
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  4533. You missed one thing, globalisation regarding technology. Without the help of many countries contributing scientific parts of a modern computer or smart phone it would be very different and less functional. This applies to any highly advanced technological item.
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  4534. That's not true at all. First of all the responses are run by states not the federal government and New South Wales which is what we are talking about has been more proactive than previously, however that state is the most reluctant to lockdown and not as strict as other states but excellent proven contact tracing although due to the case numbers now they have openly requested help. If you want to see how hard the Delta variant is to deal with look at Vietnam and Singapore. Nowhere has become less vigilant, the virus has become more transmissible so what would have worked previously doesn't work now. I half agree with your conclusion if different reasoning, it's probably hard to have sympathy if your own country is far worse off, although unlikely because they will do what it takes, if NSW was to lose control then deaths would be just like anywhere else in the world.
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  4535. If under Trump in particular they don't have to innovate as his idea is to have massive protection especially against anything made in China.
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  4536. Australia has Sky News Australia and they're pretty bad but they haven't crossed the line of being anti vax as far as I am aware but they are certainly antilockdown and literally promoting the idea that New South Wales should just let the virus rip, noting they are having significant problems now and Australia has a very low vaccination rate due to a combination of factors with outright anti vax being low on the list.
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  4537. Yes it's primary uses are speculation, money laundering and scamming.
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  4538. 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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  4539. Tend to agree with you on that one , especially looking through all the comments.
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  4540. It's not the world it's certain countries and Parts or demographics within. Parts of the US are like Russia and some eastern European countries along with some others.
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  4541. 80% popularity rating is incredible in a democracy.
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  4542. You want it to be a Chinese mine?
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  4543. My guess is the jury will be mixed both race and sex.
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  4544. Yes they are the problem, definitely not short sighted, have given $146,000,000,000 to Israel over the years, not inflation adjusted so would be more like $250 billion in today's money, that's a lot of money and is split between arms purchases from the US 74% and remainder cash I guess. If the US said tomorrow here is the map and peace agreement which recognized a Palestinian state, until you sign the document all funding is cut along with military ties and equipment to the extent possible under current agreements. I think Israel would sign pretty quickly.
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  4545. It will recover but the US needs to hit rock bottom. It clearly hasn't hit rock bottom yet and is protected to a large extent by being the major reserve currency in the world.
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  4546. Not most likely, possibly.
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  4547. I read an article about it, basically a false alarm because all they say is it reduces symptomatic cases by 90% . So we don't know if everyone still gets it but less symptoms or does it actually reduce the chance of death. If all it's achieving is lower symptoms in people who were at low risk anyway but those at high risk still catch it and die at the same rate then it's achieved nothing. I think we can say though that this and other stage 3 vaccines seem to be safe , so in a way it seems can't do any harm other than the symptoms when you actually receive the vaccine. I am not saying it doesn't work but just pointing out the company doesn't have evidence that it does in the real world .
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  4548.  @3chords490  there was most likely neither deaths or severe illness in either group because if you take 94 infections and adjust for infection in the average community you will have maybe 3 or 4 in the above 65 age group and out of that maybe one needs hospitalisation. That's my whole point , looks good but the data has only provided anecdotal evidence. Under the circumstances in a high infection country it doesn't matter too much what the efficacy is as long as no harm. In my country Australia we are better to wait for the best vaccine that emerges, in high infection countries if it doesn't hurt and provides some benefit it's probably worth it because improves outcomes , just it is not known by how much.
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  4549.  @0817sweetstacy  he didn't shut down travel, he stopped Chinese citizens entering while literally bringing back infected people with no monitoring or quarantine. Operation go slow with testing was a disaster with only 500 tests by the end of February versus 10,000 in Australia and something like 100,000 in South Korea. So complete failure. He also encouraged people to ignore the virus , gather in large groups packed closely together. It was absolute madness.
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  4550. That doesn't sound likely and did they break it down estimated extra deaths by cause of death, this is significant. In Australia more people were killed by our lockdown initially than ever died of the virus, when the US reached 200,000 deaths from covid 19 there was 300,000 excess deaths so 100,000 was due to lockdown and possibly lack of other medical care. The last 2 points could be far greater in India because demographics are very different , people are a lot poorer and the healthcare system is not as high as standard as the US.
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  4551. Excess deaths is 300,000 year to date. Many of the excess deaths are due to mismanagement of covid 19 causing for example healthcare not being able to operate normally and people being scared to go to hospital because of the virus. Australia my country did have a spike in excess deaths during the initial lockdown , most excess deaths appear to have been heart disease and diabetes related. Suicides in places that I am aware of Victoria and Queensland Australia and New Zealand there has been no change however when extra handouts are withdrawn I think this might change, I hope I am wrong. It has been suggested that suicides may have increased already in the US but I haven't seen any data confirming this.
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  4552.  @jeffwolff1015  Really? The only countries to actually lockdown are countries such as China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. Obviously all those countries along with a few others maintain border restrictions but I would argue not doing so bad, economy is terrible too but without the deaths and everything open. Thailand might have issues if a major outbreak because of political unrest.
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  4553.  @jeffwolff1015  With respect you don't understand what a lockdown is. You are talking about the mechanism not the reality, Japan had a voluntary lockdown similar to US policies however they didn't force businesses to close they did it voluntarily, Japan also implemented extreme stimulus measures. Look at videos of Tokyo in March and compare to NY at the time. The US and UK to this day have not had border quarantine or closed borders, all the countries I mentioned including Japan have compulsory enforced 14 days quarantine, normally in hotels. I do agree Thailand might have problems because of political unrest. When you look at case numbers in the countries I mentioned other than South Korea and Japan the cases are almost all imported cases detected at the border. You said South Korea might go into lockdown , and all countries I mentioned will quickly introduce lockdown type measures if required because yes they work and can get control quickly. If you look at the different Australian states the one with a light enforcement policy in the beginning, they ended up with the most problems. In Western countries we can't be Japan enforcement is required we don't work on an honor system. Contact tracing can only succeed if cases low enough. The other thing all these countries have in common is a higher detection rate in the beginning. Much more official cases than Europe and US in February but in reality it was detection of more not that Europe and US were virus free.
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  4554.  @jeffwolff1015  I don't think you actually disagree with me however you are singling out one measure as not effective. Without border quarantine or travel restrictions by definition you are not locked down. The US never had travel restrictions and no border quarantine either interstate or international other than voluntary. You do recognize that the US lockdown failed and I agree because contact tracing etc. outside of a few states still hasn't occured. Australia s initial path was that of the US but we diverged significantly as you can see. Our technical capability in the beginning was equal to that of the US. Even though our federal government didn't like it all state borders shut except one. Lockdowns are proportional so if numbers are low enough no need for a hard lockdown, if cases are brought to 0 very quickly like Taiwan, no need for lockdown anymore, they did do a lockdown however closing bars, restaurants take out only and mask wearing. Taiwan had the advantage versus let's say my state Queensland because far fewer incoming cases which might surprise you. So a state of 5,000,000 has had twice as many documented imported cases than Taiwan a population of 25,000,000 so better resourced to deal with the matter. I don't know what the best path might be for the US at this point in time, 300,000 excess deaths already including directly from covid 19 and from secondary effects. The US will not do a hard lockdown and so far looking like no state or Puerto Rico are going to put in travel restrictions with enforced quarantine. New York is apparently going to rely on testing for air arrivals to reduce the incoming cases I guess and maybe that's the best way to go because I don't think any state wants to go covid 19 free. Anyway best of luck , I feel for you and I am happy to be in a covid 19 free state that had maybe 8 weeks hard lockdown in the beginning and fairly low restrictions since other than interstate travel which hopefully comes off in a month or so if all states covid 19 free.
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  4555. We just need the US to honor it's agreements. Trump unfortunately indicated he wouldn't.
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  4556. You get a bubble with us in Australia soon hopefully. I think 0 case countries will take a long time to open borders wide open. No quarantine if vaccinated means heaps of infected people arriving , Thailand will keep having problems until fully vaccinated because no intention to go to 0 cases again.
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  4557. The thing is the US can't sort itself out internally. Things will likely continue on as normal but a change will be less use of sanctions which never work. Dictatorships don't care that much about sanctions because it ensures they stay in power because they can blame the foreigners , only the poor suffer.
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  4558. I am not American but that surprised me too, that means if you add them together Republican and Democrat and assume independent are neutral less than 50% support the current situation. I think if one wants to campaign against Israeli expansionism the best way is to keep reminding Republican how much money is being sent to Israel while the US has a lower life expectancy and most cities far more violent than either Israel or Palestine other than these conflicts , give them the homicide data.
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  4559. On the issues regarding China's behaviour overseas I agree. The US claiming that China is so superior in disease control that they could have stopped the spread of covi sars2 when the US couldn't seems a rather strange argument. That's just blame shifting and implies significant Chinese superiority which I consider incorrect.
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  4560. I would encourage you to listen to the most recent Osterholm Update. He explains how so far no evidence of the vaccines killing anyone, just they die of heart attack or whatever which they would have died of anyway. They will keep checking of course as deaths occur within short time periods of getting the jab to see if anything is missed.
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  4561. The irony is bibles are being bought up big time in many states. That's a book , the old testament part at least which is extremely brutal and violent. God is depicted as a nasty vengeful overlord bringing death upon those who don't obey or whatever. To allow small children access to such a horrible book seems counter-intuitive.
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  4562. So you suggest the world step aside as China takes the South China Sea and Taiwan?
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  4563. You taught me something new.
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  4564. Why does everyone think Trump is basically an innocent bumbling fool. Trump is an excellent linguist he constantly mentioned "peaceful protests" of BLM and implied on Jan 6 to go and peacefully protest. Trump also regularly spoke paraphrasing the Oklahoma bomber regarding the second amendment and stating you know what it's for (for those who don't know militia groups believe it's to overthrow any government you don't like, yes a tyrannical government is in the eye of the beholder, any government I don't like I consider tyrants). On certain issues but not border security or covid 19 restrictions I consider my governments both state and federal to be tyrants in some ways in my country of Australia but I don't think assassination is the way to go.
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  4565. Don't need a genius, Biden and Trump are both authoritarian.
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  4566.  @cillamoke  I would think a doctor's certificate saying you shouldn't get the vaccine until whatever the date is should allow you to have an exemption until that date. Best of luck , just suggesting what I would try to do.
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  4567. Yes Biden has but so what , this is a political campaign and just as Trump doesn't speak directly against some supporters who are racist Biden hasn't directly spoken against the "Looney left with police defunding" . Watching politics in your country at the moment is very interesting. Such things can and do happen everywhere but it seems a bit extreme in the US at the moment compared to other high income Western democracies.
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  4568. It is actually, it's about sentencing.
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  4569.  @FrecklefacedmamabearOG  They even have the same mannerisms. They talk as if they are superior and they should be listened to because they have the moral high ground. The problem is they speak in a way to allow conspiracy theorist to think certain things , so at the very start " the election Biden might have won" (paraphrased). What rubbish of course Biden won unless he got 10,000 Republicans and Democrats in on it to commit a multi state multi party fraud just to remove Trump. If Biden is that good keep him as president anyway because he must be one of the smartest people on the planet to pull that one off.
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  4570.  @chriskona7652  I am 10 years younger than you and male and was just slightly overweight when got 90% certain but undiagnosed the original variant near beginning of 2020, probably nearly killed me and had long covid. Really bad headaches wake up with chest pains lasting minutes , eyes sealed shut from conjunctivitis, herpes flared up more than ever done previously. There's a wide range of outcomes but all indications are that Omicron about 75% less deadly and my guess that percentage probably applies to symptoms also. Anyway it's great you had no problems.
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  4571.  @chriskona7652  I am in Australia and we are opening up but have to see how it goes, Singapore opened up before my state of Queensland and they backtracked, New South Wales opened up like Florida around the same time as Singapore and they backtracked slightly putting some restrictions in. In Queensland we opened up the border as in let the virus in about a month ago but put in mask restrictions for shopping basically at the same time, so far we have just kept it as is and all border restrictions domestically to finish in 2 days, our cases skyrocketing and deaths are starting. Half of all our deaths since the pandemic began were in the last week, this will be confronting to many. Numbers are still very low but we haven't got used to it like other jurisdictions, this is why I think it's possible we might do a Singapore but I hope not. I do agree have to open up some how but it's going to be different for every jurisdiction and in Australia's case it's several jurisdictions because the states and territories are truly running their own internal show.
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  4572. ​ @deadspeedv The US protectionists don't want our cheap beef and probably other items you might not think of. It'll be interesting if Trump wants to tax foreign mineral commodities.
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  4573. Maybe call it a wealthy undeveloped country. Some rich oil states probably fit that definition also.
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  4574.  @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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  4575. Not for us I hope.
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  4576. Medical license for sure but stripped of citizenship is a bit far, he might believe what he is saying, not enough evidence to suggest he is deliberately lying which causes people to die.
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  4577. Lol
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  4578. That applies to anyone over 65 , so what's your point. Maybe not so much the mental bit.
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  4579. The answer from Republicans is schools should become military compounds run by teachers who are armed and trained by the national guard or equivalent. Why ask the question when you know the answer.
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  4580. 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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  4581. The big deal is how they are doing it and how comfortable are people with this occuring. This level of targeting could not have occured 20 years ago. The reporter did point out it was all entirely legal. I am Australian and if it is occurring here which is a possibility I guess, it certainly makes me uncomfortable.
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  4582. Clearly Israel only does on some occasions because 139 people dead, obviously they weren't warned.
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  4583. The retaliatory tariffs China is planning will be more targeted to cause as much pain as possible over as many states as possible. China also knows what will have no effect on them, as in other sellers around the world to replace any supply shortfalls.
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  4584. But only the US, why so?
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  4585.  @abendstern782  very good reference actually, I am a smoker and it's true if smoke can reach you then a virus can.
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  4586. The last president to effect any serious gun reform was Reagan, banning automatic weapons, problem is semi automatic are just as dangerous, possible more because the weapons and ammunition would have improved since then.
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  4587.  Don Nwzad  using the common meaning of third world country, maybe you are speaking the the US, let's compare side by side. Life expectancy, US 78 , Australia 83 Government spending on healthcare US 11% Australia 9% Median adult wealth US $65,000 USD, Australia $180,000 USD (2019 number from credit Suisse) Homicide rate US 5 per 100,000 Australia 1 per 100,000 Suicide rate US 14 per 100,000 Australia 10 per 100,000 (2019 from memory) Minimum wage US $7.25 per hour , Australia $15.36 USD per hour. Australia isn't perfect however it would appear key measures are far in excess of the US for equality and treatment of each other and by the way we are less socialist, check Economic Freedom Index for yourself and see where US and Australia rates.
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  4588. Depends if dual citizenship or not.
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  4589. And pretty much the rest of Australia.
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  4590.  @Foo281  give it a few months, some Victorians want to escape and others are dying.
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  4591.  @Foo281  I hope you stay safe and are not too affected by the disease.
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  4592. Are you suggesting there is a death bonus. In other words hospitals are now carrying out hits on sick people with intent. I guess that's an interesting point of view. This would make them a bit like those NAZI death camps. What do you reckon?
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  4593.  @dallasjohnson845  yes it's unfortunate, the level of fear mongering on both sides is causing problems I think, like stating suicides have risen without data. The good news is treatments seem to have improved producing much better outcomes. During the great depression the life expectancy in the US rose during the years of economic decline. Based on that , it's actually possible this event may increase life expectancy but I don't think it's fully understood why this occured back then , only that it did.
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  4594.  @shauntrailskinner9645  probably because brown can be a white person like an Hispanic person with blue eyes and blond hair. Your racial and ethic definitions in your country are really messed up. Even in the clip a black person was shown but people are colorblind if it goes against the narrative, the protestors weren't all white. George Zimmerman was declared white despite being partially black because it fit the narrative "white man kills black teenager" even though he was also young and they could both be called black. There are many such examples.
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  4595.  @billybobkumar9231  What's the relevance of something that happened 50 years ago in a different jurisdiction. I would suggest none. Even you look at different BLM protests in different states , very different protestors and police reactions. I am not American and followed it with much curiosity. Because of the bad reputation of Alabama and Mississippi I searched to find the protests in those states and overall the protestors peaceful not burning stuff down or anything like that and the police light handed when compared to some other states. Then you look at what I consider copycat BLM protests in Australia that had about 70,000 estimated turnout around my country way outnumbering police in most big cities and there was 2 incidents, some people misbehaved in a train station after the protests going home at a train station and were pepper sprayed and in another incident an Aboriginal flag was stuck to a police station so technically vandalism. I arrest occured of a single counter protestor most likely for his own safety. So can't even compare Australia with the light touch approach of the less agressive US states. In the US I don't know what has happened and why people protest quite often a long way away from the jurisdiction of an incident. Not sure what California should do if an incident happens in Florida for arguments sake or what current day California has to do with current day Washington DC with Federal and territory jurisdictions involved.
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  4596. Have wait and see what happens. Putting a 25% tariff on Mexican tomatoes might have no effects at all except for higher prices for consumers when the cost of US tomatoes gpes up just as much due to labor issues.
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  4597.  @quincycamo7577  Actually they know we can hurt them but not sure you can. 53% of the internationally exported iron ore is Australian, 69 % of the internationally imported iron ore is China, full on trade war China would hurt from us, cut that supply would be similar to cutting oil. Trade wise we are very different Australia has the largest trade surplus with China assuming you consider Taiwan to be China, the US has the largest trade deficit with China. So hurt as in stop buying stuff off us maybe but they have no choice just like the US has no choice but to buy a significant number of things from China. On CGTN the iron ore issue has been mentioned, they are fully aware of this reliance on one country as is Australia with them in many respects.
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  4598.  @shengyuan592  China is refusing to talk, a superpower can exert a lot of pressure, trade sanctions in the case of certain products appears to be what they are doing. If you want another example which internationally most don't agree with is the ongoing trade sanctions by the US against Cuba. Of course a country of 25 million isn't a match with a country of over 1 billion. We do rely on for example the US nuclear shield and gave up our rights to nuclear weapons on this basis. The world order has 2 superpowers and everyone knows it.
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  4599. But there was "secret" good advice coming out of the Whitehouse.
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  4600.  @icilmaa  as another commenter said it just means however they do it only picks up 7% of cases, there are probably various reasons for this like only testing those who say they have symptoms and using less accurate rapid tests as well as people being infected during the trip itself which no test will pick up until a few days later. The statement that only 7% get identified says whatever they are doing is a complete waste of time. At minimum should be all receive PCR test which clearly isn't occurring. The UK and US are competing for who is the least competent rich country along with Spain and France possibly.
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  4601. It's going to get a lot worse for those big distilleries if Trump carries out his promised trade war against the world. Alcohol brands are 100% discretionary. My guess any Russian Vodka producers aren't doing so well right now.
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  4602.  @blackout07blue  People are confused, I don't know much about Cuba but following China and it's as far right as you can go, 100 billionaires in parliament while 600 million live on $5 per day. Marxist student groups are illegal mostly I think because they are calling for workers rights. Unions in the traditional Western sense are outlawed. China is actually some Republicans dream. China also has open racial supremacy, go check comments on CGTN , the main one not CGTN US, whenever there is a clip regarding US or Australia or Canada especially, they come out in droves , some it's Asian supremacist others Chinese Supremacist. China refers to anyone of Chinese descent who isn't in China as overseas Chinese. Obviously by terming it that way they are sort of claiming that mainland China owns them.
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  4603. Bars spread the virus like crazy , that's just fact.
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  4604.  @philipbrown394 John didn't say Japan had reached herd immunity, I think he said it's a possibility but it isn't a possibility at all. They have managed to get it partially under control and one would think the Prime Minister getting the boot in the last week might have something to do with the handling of this matter. Far East countries as you call us like my country Australia use good old fashioned draconian measures, border restrictions with forced quarantines , lockdowns as required, chasing down any covid biohazard ( human who might be infected) as if they are a terrorist or something (referred to as contact tracing). Test sewerage for virus to find any undetected terror cell (community with biohazard walking around). Japan is a bit less draconian on the surface because of a very compliant population , not like the inbred descendants of convicts like Australia.
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  4605.  @philipbrown394  Well the hope is herd immunity through a vaccine, if you look at East Asia plus South East Asia plus Australasia we have had far less than 1% of of our combined populations of about 2,000,000,000 exposed . With no effective vaccine we are still at day 1 other than Indonesia and Philippines at day 2 so in theory as has been argued with no effective vaccine although we have done well now it might account for very little in the long run. China can continue on as normal actually because they never had a high population in percentage terms traveling to start with. Let's hope within a year a good vaccine that can be widely distributed.
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  4606. Well depending on the state but give or take 50,000 eligible voters died after absentee voting commenced and before the actual election date. So sure many dead people did vote if they could at the time of casting the vote, this isn't including non Covid 19 deaths which are far more.
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  4607.  @Redridge07  your comment is the definition of a death cult.
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  4608.  @sharonazevedo344  No , all islands are occupied and they need to stay where they are, do you really think some island wants to invite 10s of millions of infectious people to come?
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  4609. He is one of the people. Or maybe to mess with the facial identification cameras everywhere.
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  4610. Unfortunately for some they don't grow old, car accidents in wealthy countries is a big one.
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  4611.  @paopaoschz777  you are not understanding the subtly of my language.
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  4612.  @Slow_Horse  unfortunately I agree deforestation is a problem.
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  4613.  @Slow_Horse  yep
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  4614. I just realised this clip is 6 years old. Well we got Trump Mark II now and it's only got worse. Now the threat is a full blown trade war , not on only a few products.
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  4615. You don't know if it worked only that it did no harm unless you were part of a double blind clinical trial and the results of the trial demonstrated that.
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  4616. Don't say authoritarian East, how do you think Japan and South Korea would feel because your language sort of includes them because Democratic West is referring to many nations in a political sense. Maybe say China and Russia because that's the only countries I think you might be talking of.
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  4617. Not really, the US police have really good kit.
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  4618. 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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  4619. With MAGA propaganda thousand, million and billion are interchangeable. Every MAGA adherent should know this.
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  4620. Is it hotel quarantine or self quarantine?
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  4621. There are a few documented cases of reinfection , however no indication it is common, have to wait and see.
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  4622. Only wealthy nation actually.
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  4623.  @nope6908  Western means about as much as eastern, it's meaningless. I think in general terms Western seems to mean wealthy country with majority European race of people. So Spain is Western according to what I think most people mean but not their ex colonies because they are poor. The geographic western and eastern is only Eurasia so the political definition is quite different.
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  4624. Probably because direct pocketing of money rather than declaring it as money paid to them as employees. A very serious offence actually, it's called theft or fraud in common language. Just guessing.
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  4625.  @Matys1975  Well if you are a US citizen, there is approximately a 1 in 500,000 chance you will die from a bullet wound within one week of any covid 19 vaccine dose. The implications are that the Pfizer and Moderna ones are twice as dangerous as they require 2 shots so a one in 250,000 chance of death. It's unfortunate that in the US the covid 19 vaccines seem to attract bullets, maybe those vaccines need fixing.
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  4626. You really don't get the point, I as an Australian can call my Prime Minister an idiot who's incapable of running a lemonade stand and I think Queensland should separate from Australia because Australian from other states are almost as bad as our Prime Minister. Now I don't subscribe to anything I just said but I can say all that publically and nothing will happen to me other than people would think I am an idiot. Do the equivalent in HK it's 20 years prison, probably with a lot of reeducation involved.
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  4627.  @fiontay9318  Your comment is amusing, China is as far as you can get from communism, more billionaires per unit of GDP than the US and 100 billionaire in parliament, the leadership of China makes the association of Wall Street and the US politicians seem ok.
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  4628. Australia is that model where the states run the show, the federal government can only in practice look after the international border. Close your state border to all states and territories with a case of community transmission in the last 28days ( all of them) , special arrangements for workers ,goods transport , medical care etc. other wise 14 days mandatory enforced hotel quarantine with 2 tests on days 3 and 10 at the cost of the person/s entering other than compassionate reasons. Refuse to be tested add 10 days to quarantine and costs. This method works and it is within your states right to do it. I have just spelt out the basic rules in general terms of Queensland Australia, about 500 cases of community transmission and 7 deaths I think from a population of approximately 5,000,000. The reward for this method is your state can be completely open internally when you get rid of the virus. Should take about 12 weeks for most states with an initial proper lockdown because immunity rates from catching the virus plus vaccines is much higher everywhere than Victoria Australia was and they could do it after reaching 500 cases per day. If any strain evades the vaccines you will be back to January 21 last year, also having this virus rampant doesn't preclude another such zoonotic virus entering the world which some say is about 1% chance as in once in a hundred year thing.
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  4629. It's sort of irrelevant, the European region of WHO decided on open borders without enforced quarantine. that has failed everywhere just like PAHO Pan-American Health Organization decided the same.
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  4630. Um actually the US exports cheaper wine to China than Australia or at least did. Based on 2018/2019 the US was Australia's second biggest export market for Australian wine making up 15% by value. So even the Americans think our wine is pretty good. Wine is a selective thing anyway, with 2 components at the high end, marketing and quality. Mass market house wine is just making an ok product for a cheap price, I think Australia generally markets it's middle to high value wines overseas.
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  4631. He said do whatever you want, hardly a good selling point. Truth is it's better than nothing though because some in that crowd will now get vaccinated even if on the quiet.
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  4632. Yes because of cost.
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  4633. I wouldn't think a radar would be wrong regarding the plane and helicopter crash. Maybe the helicopter was sending data saying it was at 200 feet suggesting some sort of malfunction in the altimeter.
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  4634.  @GL_4457  So you're saying this mysterious world government has decided Queenslanders shouldn't go into lockdown very often, that's my state and has probably been in lockdown less than just about every jurisdiction in the world, great to know some unknown higher authority is taking care of us and we are like the chosen ones.
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  4635. The number that citizens of former allies are looking at is Trump's approval rating. He has a 48% approval rating based on most recent polling. This means a slight minority of Americans support the isolationism and a world trade war which the US will definitely lose. 48% approval is a high approval rating, a low approval rating is less than 30%. Clearly we cannot trust the US when just under 50% of people want all international agreements torn up and the invasion or conquering of 6 countries. Sorry but for all intensive purposes half your country is mad.
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  4636. I am not American but a coin toss might be my way of picking a candidate. The problem is Trump likes to divide people and Biden not really sure he would change anything, all talk but won't achieve anything. Hopefully I am wrong and things improve whoever you get for next 4 years.
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  4637. You must have been in a coma for 10 years, Indonesia and Australia have cooperated well on people smuggling for some time now.
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  4638. I have read through all the comments now and both sides as bad as each other, Australia need to travel through Indonesian waters therefore Australia needs Indonesia is as ridiculous as Australia is somehow handing over large sums of money. To say one country needs another country because they might declare war ie: law of the sea allows free passage just not to carry out economic activities in those areas known as exclusive economic zones which in simple terms means fishing or mining. Australia does not need Indonesia to pass through it's waters unless Indonesia declares war on Australia. On the other hand last time I looked at how we help Indonesia it was education sector and some agriculture ( fattening beef ), both have advantages for Australia so not entirely selfless but good for Indonesia also. We are friends and neighbours with an ok or in my opinion fairly good but of course not perfect relationship, we both signed a more comprehensive trade/investment agreement last year so companies or individuals can invest easier in the other country, so good for business on both sides. Please stop trying to wreck this relationship.
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  4639.  @imanafdar  the air and sea are 2 very different things, stopping a sea vessel passing is an act of war unless a country hasn't signed UNCLOS which Indonesia did in 1982. Airspace is very different because of the military implications. To put it a different way how long do you think if you tried to destroy Australian and Chinese economy because iron ore is what we are talking about would it take for our relationship to become remarkably friendly. On the issue of Israel flagged sea vessels it's possible you are correct because according to Wikipedia Israel hasn't agreed to UNCLOS. So please don't consider an act of war against Australia and China, it would not end well. China considers it iron ore a national security item just like food or oil so there is no doubt how they would consider such an act.
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  4640. Hope you are doing well.
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  4641.  @susanmoore8074  that's great.
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  4642. Unfortunately the theories about immunity weren't correct, the age thing is correct and the second biggest indicator not mentioned is the overall obesity rate in India is low , however Dehli is a very fat city and that's why it was so devastating there. The other thing is even if it isn't particularly apparent the disease will spread at a slower rate through a poorer population in general terms because they don't go around partying all the time and tend to go to work and home that's it. I hope all the world gets over it somehow but we are still a long way from going back to "normal".
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  4643.  @chrisj2053  believe what you will, where are you from?
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  4644.  @KayyHong  I didn't know that Sydney and Melbourne were self governed special administrative regions of Australia similar to HK and Macao. There you go , I learn something every day.
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  4645.  @KayyHong  Well I don't know why you start mentioning autonomous regions now which in English can be referred to as colonies. Australia had a colony once Papua New Guinea, we gave them independence. So Australians are quite different to Chinese. If you read back I stated it would appear that the Indian government didn't accept aid from mainland China, it is you that seems to be bothered by that, they did accept aid from Hong Kong and Taiwan. I made no reference to whether they are colonies or whatever of China so why even bring the subject up?
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  4646.  @KayyHong  Yes Australia was a colony of England. What's your point?
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  4647. The US has not stopped any travel into the US by a US citizen from any country at any point in time, pretty fair to say that policy is unlikely to change 1 year and 2 months in. The 10 days voluntary quarantine because it's a guideline will remain in place at the national level.
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  4648. That's not the issue, the issue was would having people wear masks reduce social distancing behaviour because people think they are protected thereby actually increasing the rate of spread. I have seen Fauci and Australia's chief health officer speak exactly the same thing earlier on. My state governments advice is consider it but the primary defence is social distancing. So just understand that professional behaviour versus everyone else is different. You would have seen the pretend mask wearers who put it under there nose and unless talking are only breathing through their nose.
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  4649. Colonialism isn't going to end any time soon, the line in the sand was creation of the UN and it's charter not permitting the creation of new colonies. Another thing is economic colonialism where one country ends up effectively creating a colony by creating loans that can never be paid, China is currently quite active in this currently.
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  4650. BBC are hypocrite, they criticise Australia for being tough, human rights etc. and now they criticise UK for basically doing nothing. Seems they just attack anyone no matter what governments do.
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  4651. Australia is a federation and the states run the response. Western Australia pretty much has a hard border, the most hardline of our states. 4 states plus the Northern Territory in the beginning shut all borders , only New South Wales and Victoria had somewhat more relaxed policies and wanting others to keep borders open. Now if you look at Victoria the state that had the relaxed approach before that has completely changed, truth is if they can leave Victoria at all they need to go into government supervised hotel quarantine at their cost. 4 people , 3 in Western Australia and 1 in Queensland are currently serving prison terms for breaking restrictions, not exactly a relaxed approach I would suggest.
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  4652.  @thefuture5386  How does saying China has succeeded at containment of the outbreak make one a Chinese apologist? The one person who people are apologists for is Donald Trump. He believes at least according to his own rhetoric that the US is truly inferior because he had months to plan and let the virus go into every state with no containment measures in place and sending the infectious people to countries like Australia. Same applies to other rich countries however they don't have leaders that claim China could have done something they couldn't.
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  4653. You can't, you are a democracy unless you want to abandon that. It's up to her electorate or the Republican Party in the next election she needs to contend. If she actually commits a crime worthy of removal then that's different, however she ranks way lower than the ex president and it's looking like he won't be bared from office and although she certainly said inciteful things, virtually nobody was listening and she didn't cause the insurrection, the ex president did.
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  4654.  @MrDredd1966  They are different companies now due to a demerger some time ago but both Sky News Australia and Fox News are still Murdoch press , Sky News (England) was sold so not Murdoch.
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  4655. I think the presidential election in the US is probably decided already and depends on voter turn out and what is important for people. If covid 19 isn't a top priority for a voter all other issues come into play and the party split is probably around 50%. The other thing is if covid 19 is a priority is there any real reason to believe a change of president will change anything. The easy goes mitigation policy of both major parties won't change the course in any major way. The only thing the US has achieved in any mainland state is to reduce the rate of spread, not to stop the virus spreading regardless of which political party runs the state.
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  4656. 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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  4657. Not really, European countries and US states exhibited the same types of trends, last northern summer cases went down and many saying it's all over.
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  4658. Herd immunity is a relative term which depends on restrictions and behaviour as you suggest. Even with no restrictions whatsoever certain cultures that hug and kiss each other a lot and don't distance at all or live in cramped conditions need a much higher number of infected people for herd immunity than countries with lots of 2 person households where people aren't touchy feely.
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  4659. Doesn't work like that, many bat species have a very large range and the virus could even be in multiple species. So unless the bat is relatively rare it might narrow it down to 10 or 20 countries , although it's not impossible an outbreak is found within that prior to the Wuhan outbreak it's probably unlikely. The only known thing is the initial large outbreak was in Wuhan almost certainly, could be it mutated there. The comments in the thread are all that the CPC knows but no evidence either way and if they don't know they can't prove it, they can only prove a positive if they do know. If the bat species is no where near China then their cold food theory will have some evidence.
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  4660. The UK only has self isolation upon arrival , voluntary in other words, there is no hotel quarantine. I just checked the government website and it tells you how to self isolate, this is nothing like hotel quarantine and compulsory testing otherwise stay is longer than 14 days.
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  4661. Your process isn't crash hot but it somehow works.
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  4662.  @sammu  and as a rule it's true. Young people are doing the right thing to protect others and if they aren't then that's very selfish.
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  4663.  @henrichvonstaufenberg4841  that's unless you are the 1% give or take that it will kill. If there are mutations significant enough to bring that down to say half it would probably take some time and also reduce the effectiveness of any potential vaccine.
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  4664. Lol
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  4665. Every 30 day pause paralizes business, nobody can make business decisions regarding capital investment under such circumstances. Let's see if the steel and aluminium tariffs go into effect on 12 March.
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  4666. While Facebook carried out the act, it's reasonable to say without a direct statement otherwise that the US government might have intervened. While it is a difficult question should Facebook host jihadi ISIS accounts with executions for example? Facebook can't be a free for all in my opinion. Another alternative is that the US government in the case of Facebook or whatever the host government is with other services. At the moment there is no real answer on how to deal with these issues because the communications technology is way ahead of how governments or operators should deal with it.
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  4667. What do you mean, who did what?
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  4668. They are only freezing corporate accounts and if 1,000 truckers got that $10 million $10,000 each they aren't really salt of the earth struggling people are they. The Federal and Provincial governments of Canada saved 60 thousand lives, the deaths in Canada on a per capita basis from covid 19 are only 1 third of the US, so yes more Canadians were kept safe.
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  4669. The lockdowns kill people and it's the duration of the lockdown that matters not whether it's lockdown proper like Australia did over an 8 weeks period nationwide initially or the US lockdown lite that basically lasted all of 2020 to varying degrees in different states. Excess deaths in the US between 26 January and 3 October 2020 were 300,000 with 200,000 attributed to covid 19. In Australia can't remember exactly but it was a few hundred excess deaths in the first 6 months of 2020 and the excess deaths were mostly diabetes and some form of heart disease with a graph showing these occurring during lockdown. I know your point is probably will catching covid cause long-term damage resulting in increased heart disease in the future and we will just have to wait and see.
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  4670. I think this will be the largest non theft loss in history. Go twitter.
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  4671. With irony you are correct, the hard core Bernie followers voted for Trump over Hillary. It's reasonable to expect a proportion of them are the crazy Trump supporters now and ok with violence.
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  4672. Here's an interesting statistic for you, if the police had just killed every single protestor we would still have less covid 19 deaths per million than the US or UK if they were just chalked up as covid 19 deaths. Imagine if a government just took minimal actions to protect it's citizens and caved in to the demands of a small group, thousands dead and not too good for mental health either.
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  4673. Marco Rubio is a strange one accepting that job. He knows it's political suicide and he might end up Rudi Guliani.
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  4674. If you are from the UK just look it up . The deaths in the last statistical week available are up 5.4% on the 5 year average. The number of covid 19 deaths is about 1% of the total. The problems you see are likely to do with other healthcare not taking place due to dealing with covid 19. This is as big if not bigger problem than the virus itself.
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  4675. The white gowns look beautiful.
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  4676. Free from what? Everything is open and other than Western Australia can travel freely.
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  4677. Republicans don't want to pardon Assange and Snowden, that's interesting. It's also Interesting Trump was considering it as it would actually be a good thing.
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  4678.  @guidospanoghe8896  We learn more all the time , all lockdown lite models are essentially the same, they all failed. Every US state is a lockdown lite model. If you look at South Dakota 0.18% of the population dead despite 40% rural and no big city. Higher climate variability makes the spread change quickly, if you notice a country like Brazil where the weather is fairly stable the spread will be constant but the north east and midwest of your country highly variable so cases explode as soon as gets cold. Florida having ocean on both sides is probably the least variable climate of a US state so easier to deal with this virus. These are things only learnt in hindsight, seems the whole world really didn't have a clue, but containment countries have done better and lockdown lite have all done poorly.
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  4679.  @guidospanoghe8896  What you just said is silly, Florida 20,000,000 people and 22,000 dead. Queensland Australia 5,000,000 and 6 dead. If you think those numbers are the same you are incorrect. If you say different versions of lockdown lite appear to have produced similar results when adjusting for demographics, that does seem to be correct. Since there hasn't been a single US state lockdown you seem to be comparing lockdown lite and not realising the lockdown places who succeeded are as open as Florida but without the deaths. Edit: It appears the population density across Belgium is about 15 times that of Sweden and a 10% higher obesity rate, also and this is just a guess based on neighbors and a quick search Belgians kiss each other like the French and Swedes only hug. So if you enter the adjustments in I think you might find no difference not that Sweden did better. When hospitals overflow as happened in Belgium no choice but to do a mitigation ( not containment) lockdown. So it's not fair or reasonable to compare very different jurisdictions. The only thing for the future is do countries really want to go through the same path or would containment in the beginning be a better policy. Evidence so far says containment is better.
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  4680. That's not fair. You are acting with discrimination towards the police and any guards at that building. There is no way to know how they would have reacted if it was a different racial group. Every police officer is an individual and not all are bad however some are.
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  4681. That's only after civility stops. Currently you can still vote and it will be counted. So just vote and get others to do same, if you truly are the majority it's your choice who leads you.
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  4682. Wouldn't you prefer to be equal rather than affirmative action for your particular group which means people in the same situation of another race or ethnicity get left behind? Should rich black kids enjoy affirmative action?
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  4683. Here's a question for you how do you know the white guy new he was black because to park a car to block can't or unlikely to have been done when other vehicle really close I would think?
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  4684. The getting beaten in next cells might not have happened, it's a phycological technique and could be real or just a recording.
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  4685.  @andrewgusak123ua  That would be like saying all Americans are just vicious killers who torture people. Many atrocities were committed by Americans in Vietnam including a massacre of about 500 people in Mai Lai. Are you suggesting every American soldier did that? It's as logical as your statement to me.
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  4686.  @qjtvaddict  what you say is the sad facts, if the Indian government had what the US has and the general wealth and living conditions were the same India along with other countries in the same situation wouldn't have the virus.
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  4687. They're all targeted for trade w*rs , they can't escape. However Australia and New Zealand haven't been targeted yet lol.
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  4688. Should skip straight to Brisbane Australia , we have act together and Paris and Los Angeles don't at this point in time.
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  4689. They're not actually, healthy hens that are free range or genuinely pasture fed are completely different to caged hens eggs.
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  4690. @patdent  different brands and or suppliers and or sizes. Even in Australia or Thailand where I am now there's about 10 or 15 different egg types in supermarkets., I agree 30 is a bit excessive especially if there's an egg shortage.
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  4691. They sort of are equal, both defeated people.
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  4692. I think so. Have to remember he did the same thing in his first term against mostly China. He's also indicated he's an isolationist since the 80s. Donald is delusional and believes in what he is doing.
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  4693. Using distance is correct, a long way away. Can use time also but wording different , maybe a long time to go. Because it's a saying it's meaning doesn't need to be literal. Agree it's 2 years off or whatever, still a long time though.
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  4694. Americans appeal to authority too much. A defence/secretary is an administrative position and the person doesn't need any knowledge of how a military even functions, that what the generals are for. Pete Hegseth has a Master in Public Policy. This makes him certainly qualified for the job. The current Australian defence minister is a lawyer and previous one was an accountant. The question is whether or not Pete is a suitable person because of his personal behaviours and attitudes towards conflicts etc.
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  4695. We don't know if they have done the crime, awaiting trial.
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  4696. I hope you are wrong and it's another reason.
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  4697.  @joananthony6323  I am responding to others who said he was committing a burgalry etc. even up to the point of he deserved what he got which obviously I strongly disagree with. Yes might is an appropriate term
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  4698. 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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  4699. Really? Is the President not Republican. Check deaths in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. The population of those countries added together is about the same as the US. Check your totals and only Republican states just to be fair.
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  4700. In Italy, PNG and Australia we know how to do it when the time comes , just sack him from the top job a 15 minute task. Just get it over and done with.
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  4701. In low case jurisdictions you need to look at community transmission . I tried searching their numbers now but couldn't find it. Queensland Australia has had more imported cases than Taiwan with a population of only 5 million. We have however had 450 or so cases of community transmission which is much more than Taiwan. Masks made no difference in Taiwan that is really just an extra protection, like wearing a seatbelt when driving at 6 miles an hour already your chance of injury is small this is just an added precaution. You can't catch a virus that isn't there.
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  4702.  Mark Sebring  the official numbers are based on death certificates where covid 19 was a contributing factor as standard practice around the world. The CDC of USA doesn't have a section where it says bullet wound causing blood loss leading to death and died with covid 19. As much as political manipulation in the opposite direction might be occurring the death numbers are as accurate as they can be under the circumstances.
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  4703. So the number 1 and 2 hasbara agents in any particular order are US and Germany who are still repeating lies even the Israeli government officials have moved on from.
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  4704. 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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  4705. Don't know who it was but that bloke who said Donald wants open markets made an insane comment. First of all the US is a limited free trade economy to start with, nothing stopping Donald from making more free trade agreements, however he's doing the opposite tearing up USMCA and not fully honouring the Australian US free trade agreement. Australia is probably number 3 in the world as a free trade , free market economy with minimal industry subsidies exept for things like child care and private schools. In other words social welfare type programs.
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  4706. But this one easy to control , but for whatever reason they want to keep some, maybe as a tourist attraction, they didn't explain why.
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  4707. They should take care of themselves first, if things get too tough get help or quit.
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  4708. 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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  4709. You certainly shouldn't.
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  4710. Check the GDP per capita estimate, it's on Wiki and attributed to the IMF, Russia is less than China. You are correct about China before people starving and most rural children don't have a school to go to, now not starving and living on about $5USD per day , despite the 100 Billionaire in their parliament, it's trajectory that matters.
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  4711. Maybe the intermediate species was a duck, the Chinese eat quite a few ducks.
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  4712. Although frustrating, keep looking , you should get one soon, but might be more difficult for the time being because of shortened second dose.
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  4713. How about from China or Australia or Thailand, these are all places that have candidate vaccines with good promise?
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  4714.  Ebrar Yoshi  don't tar everyone with the same brush, look at our results here in New Zealand and Australia with a completely different response.
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  4715. No it's actually 94 symptomatic cases according to an article. Which indicates it's self reporting rather than everyone gets a weekly test.
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  4716.  @martinroberts9792  I think the problem is the types of people that are in the trial take precautions otherwise it's in a low infection area. We wait and see i guess but I think it's close to or already proven the vaccine is safe, but real hard evidence of efficacy doesn't exist because the numbers are too small.
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  4717.  @alans5414  Not all sanctions are the same, the US was the only country to adopt an investment ban starting in 1997, Australia adopted sanctions in 2007 against the leaders only and EU and a few others tended to be somewhere between US and Australian position , as far as did this have any influence on Myanmar's decision to have partial democracy, it's difficult to know. ASEAN had the benefit of course of saying if you do something sanctions will be lifted, a pretty strong negotiating tool.
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  4718.  @gordondwyer3641  I haven't provided any maths and just repeated some survey result indicating 3% of the population of the US believes Trump has won, another larger group are not sure but think he won and are awaiting court case results I guess.
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  4719. From the vandalism and disrespect that had already occurred by protestors. Urination etc. on the monument is offensive to many.
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  4720. He's consistent with Democrats behaviour regarding subsidies for big pharma. The massive subsidies are done by paying exorbitive non market prices for drugs. All they do is complain publicly and privately pay the money with no resistance even when they have control of all 3 branches of government and can do something.
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  4721.  @jima6545  if a politician makes an order controlling a business based on ideological reasons that is a tyrant. There is no reason or excuse to tell the cruise industry what to do regarding this matter.
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  4722.  @aburden8580  Your point Australia hasn't been perfect is legitimate however 45,000 people alive today that wouldn't be under the US model isn't a bad outcome. Not sure why you think Australia is going down the drain, life expectancy 5 years greater than the US and lower public healthcare costs. Based on last calendar year our government is doing far better than the US, 7% GDP government deficit versus 15%, economic decline 1.1% versus 2.7%. Anyway although we are a few months off being as vaccinated as the US indications are we will end up more vaccinated meaning a lower public healthcare burden. So in summary of course things aren't perfect , nowhere is perfect, but some countries are doing better than others and Australia is one of those countries in a better position.
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  4723.  @jima6545  Your comment about cruise lines affecting Florida's economy has nothing to do with anything I said, now you are saying government control as in DeSantis is better than the business owners making their own decisions. I put my money on business owners doing what's more profitable for them not what some politician directs them to do. It's interesting you see no issue in the command economy.
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  4724.  @aburden8580  A lot of rambling. I am not from Victoria or New South Wales, so not sure why you commenting on that and agreed not perfect , still , 45,000 less deaths is a good outcome. Not sure what your comment about US border has to do with anything the US has bipartisan open border policies without any quarantine whatsoever when it comes to mitigation of covid 19 and this policy along with others has resulted in 600,000 dead directly from covid 19 and increased deaths from other causes due to long periods of lockdown lite and higher homicide rates along with if you didn't notice those cities literally on fire due to the crazy BLM protests. You seem ok with all that and believe the US had the perfect response ok you keep your belief, I am happy with the response of my country in general and Queensland my state hasn't actually had any of those relatively minor issues you mentioned that occurred in other Australian states, they are relatively minor compared to the US situation. Queensland has had 7 covid 19 deaths for a population of 5 million, but to you that's a failure. The mental health status of Queenslanders would be relatively high I would suggest and that matters for the future.
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  4725.  @aburden8580  What makes you think I might be a surfer, I am not and it's winter, no reason for me to go to the beach, however I am in Brisbane so plenty of beaches to choose from within 1 and a half hours drive should I want to go. Your last statement says a lot though, you don't trust any of your government no matter which party , you trust no one because not even Republican politicians are denying the covid 19 statistics.
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  4726.  @jima6545  I am not from NSW , how does NSW policies affect me? They have made some mistakes and struggling, so what? I feel for people in NSW and it's unfortunate they took a more relaxed approach which is at least in part to blame. Just like the entire US is struggling now, everywhere there is partisan fighting and this isn't good which isn't a problem in Australia. The small minority who want to be like the US and have the virus out of control with all the deaths that come with it need to be dealt with.
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  4727. That's the approximate effectiveness of the flu vaccine and people take that. Also the sample sizes are small but it seems a half dose followed by a full dose may be 90% effective based on the limited data so far.
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  4728. So you advocate that Australia should have killed 50,000 people and crushed the economy worse like UK or US as examples. Interesting idea but very low support for your idea.
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  4729.  @7YBzzz4nbyte  just using actual data from other countries and UK and US weren't the worst for deaths. The original commenter is saying let it rip. The Australian and NZ government deficits for last year around 7% , UK and US around 15%, Australian economy shrank 1.1% last calendar year compared to 2.7% for the US. So unsure of what the original comment is talking about given the terrible performance by those countries that person seems to admire.
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  4730.  @Mis-AdventureCH  Lockdowns, contact tracing , effective isolation of positive cases , border quarantine and testing are the reasons why a country has done well or lack there of poorly, I don't know why you talking about treatment protocols. Not sure what treatment has to do with anything regarding spread. You stated you were on 3 task forces, so you got your way it would seem in the jurisdictions you worked for. The Western Pacific WHO region took a different approach to you and your colleagues in either PAHO Pan-American Health Organization or European WHO regions I am guessing. Don't knock what other countries do, we are in a relative sense happy with our performance in our region , you are happy the other regions I mentioned did what you want. Note South Korea is in the same region to Australia, they also did 100,000 covid 19 tests by the end of February 2020, Australia was in second place on that measure per capita with 10,000 tests. The economic performance of South Korea for 2020 was in line with Australia with a 1% GDP decline but run up government debt slightly faster it seems. Anyway you are happy with your region and I am happy with mine as most are with less than 10% of the death toll on a per capita basis compared to regions that took a completely different approach even if you exclude China.
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  4731.  @Mis-AdventureCH  Which government , you haven't told me where you were from and you represented a government it would seem , in fact 3 of them.
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  4732.  @Mis-AdventureCH  Your last answer explains a lot regarding your previous comments. Australia isn't in lockdown and in Australia the states run their own shows with federal guidance and complete communication between States and the federal government, a bit easier because only 7 versus 50 for the US. Greater Sydney which is in lockdown is about 25% of the national population and they are, New South Wales is fairly slow to lockdown compared to my state Queensland which takes a more cautious approach, very similar to Western Australia and New Zealand. Our states will restrict travel from any hotspot which is anywhere that has any cases at all basically. So if in New South Wales it gets out of control they won't be able to travel to any other state for some time. New Zealand in effect is like another state so far as travel goes and under normal circumstances a completely open border for citizens born in either country. My state Queensland with a population of 5 million only 7 deaths, vast majority of people are happy with this and are ok with the travel restrictions as required. We have had few lockdowns actually because we always act quickly. Best of luck to you and hope your country's problems reduce. I understand your health system isn't that functional and working in it could be rather frustrating. The US spends more on publically funded healthcare as a proportion of GDP than Australia but life expectancy 5 years lower and doesn't seem to be universal coverage. No idea how it can be fixed but just the numbers indicates disfunction and most likely some of what you are talking about. Take care.
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  4733. As the departments tell treasury who to pay the only possible way someone could commit fraud at the payment system is to somehow fake being a government department. This should be impossible. To give an example someone at Veteran Affairs will review the paperwork to decide if someone is illegible for a payment, the payment system operators don't check if the paperwork is fraudulent, it's not their job.
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  4734. The headline is interesting, so this is just a fox news subsidiary or what? No average Aussie understand "liberal' as indicated here. Oh well Sky News Australia piss off to USA where you belong.
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  4735. I think you mean "The Australian" readers. Your comment is calling all Australians stupid if you wrote it deliberately.
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  4736. I don't like your negative comment however you're probably right, when those corporate donors tell them they're not donating for a while they can change their positions rather quickly is my guess.
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  4737. Also covered their ears somehow at the same time. 10+ ICJ lawyers including the US one believe there is plausible evidence.
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  4738. Western Pacific thanks, it's better to argue as a region because it's more difficult to make excuses of why they are so different based on government type, land type, interconnectivity with other countries etc. truth is none of that has shown to be a barrier, Sicily, Malta, the island of Ireland, Hawaii , Puerto Rico, although they might not be the worst jurisdictions in the world they have certainly demonstrated that being an island is no barrier to poor policy which gives similar results even with low populations to the larger more connected countries, in fact there is only one correlation that can be observed those that tried even if they failed to contain the virus have done way better than those countries that kept travel open with only voluntary quarantine.
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  4739. Next virus gone and system eliminated.
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  4740. The risk of serious illness is much lower so you should be fine, but if not don't wait too long to go to hospital.
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  4741. I disagree with your assessment, 10,000 dead people in WA would have put a lot more stress on Western Australian than border restrictions, just look at any Western European country or the US. There's been no mass of people walking off the job in any state or territory in any category of mandatory vaccinations which is pretty much all public facing state or territory public servants, we are not the US. I understand your fears about opening which was always going to happen with opening, look at QLD and SA as your future being previous genuine covid 0 states now opening up. WA is opening the border with a higher vaccination rate than QLD has now. Things won't be plain sailing and likely some restrictions like mask wearing indoors likely to come into effect after opening to slow but not stop spread. 1 point I do agree is WA and NZ could move a bit quicker than they intend to but one of the unspoken things is they are watching QLD and SA to see what happens and not make the same mistakes that might occur. Anyway stay calm , it's only 5 or 6 weeks and the border will start to open if your government sticks to it's plan and no disasters in QLD or SA. Best of luck.
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  4742.  @debe3838  I am in Queensland by the way, so we watching our cases skyrocketing but so far although very early of course as of yesterday's covid press conference only 6 people in hospital for treatment of Covid 19, have more in hospital but for quarantine purposes or in their for other health issues. The 10,000 number is simply 2,500 per million which is what has happened in many US states where they did pretty much nothing and haven't strongly encouraged vaccinations. You can argue Australians are more healthy and could be as low as 1,500 deaths per million as an absolute base case which hasn't occured anywhere in a nation with similar demographics to us and minimal restrictions, so 6,000 if you want. In practice it could never have happened being a part of Western Pacific WHO region where we all did hotel quarantine and many countries pursuing covid 0 aggressively, in other words it would be a political catastrophe to have thousands dying when no other state or country in our region did that. I think things will be fine in Australia but this opening won't be smooth and we are very fortunate most of our cases are now Omicron not Delta.
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  4743. Where did the number $134,000,000 come from?
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  4744.  @donbelenger817  It's an American cultural thing having a president playing golf. Maybe the Scottish parliament is the same because the game comes from there. It's certainly a lot of money. If that amount of money was spent in January and February on COVI sars2 you would not have a problem in the same way you do now. I do believe the US could have achieved the same results as Australia or South Korea from a technical point of view. But the president and public servants failed. I am impressed by the ramp up in actions but it could be like the apt description which is often given , it's like a bush fire. In the beginning it needed a bucket of water, now it needs the entire might of the US to mitigate I think. While it would be great to see containment maybe it's impossible now. Best of luck.
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  4745. Hey mate it's very easy to say that in Australia with 133 deaths. Or another way to put it one thousandth of the the deaths with one fifteenth of the population.
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  4746.  @Ozgrade3  In the US covid 19, in Australia this isn't a big problem at this stage. If 10,000 Victorians were to die , that is using the New York mortality rate would you be ok with this? I wouldn't and we live in a society this will only bring down the Covid 19 free states.
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  4747.  @Ozgrade3  I searched ladder fall deaths Australia and low and behold an article popped up from SBS from 2016 and it stated that 226 people had died from ladder falls over a 10 year period and that most of the victims 82% were over the age of 60. Now that the rate of such deaths has increased from 22.6 deaths per year to an annualised rate of around 600 deaths per year , this is most certainly a serious crisis. Maybe they are dying from covid 19 but the death certificate says ladder fall. But in all seriousness your number is ridiculous. Please consider more carefully where you obtain your statistics from.
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  4748. Doing fine thanks, vaccination rates in our 2 largest states by population are above 90% at least one dose for eligible population. Other states a bit slower but we are getting there and travel restrictions reducing all the time for vaccinated people but at different rates according to that states vaccination rates.
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  4749.  @KaiserBlade  ok whatever you think Russian or MAGA.
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  4750. The US wastes enormous amounts of money in Israel. The US doesn't make a cent out of it.
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  4751. No country seems to be caving , the US has threatened invasion or conquering of 6 countries, yet to here a country say yes.
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  4752. Must be the cleaning chemicals, have to change saying from as mad as a hatter to as mad as a window cleaner. Yes hat makers did go mad from chemicals previously, not a conspiracy theory.
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  4753. They do otherwise how do you know.
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  4754. Well Americans are a strange mob with a large percentage of them wilfully blind to how socialist they actually are. Agricultural subsidies, subsidies for big pharma and trade protectionism just to name a few examples. Seems more of a case if they personally receive money it's not socialism. Pretty sure many farmers voted for Trump because they feared the socialist Democrats.
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  4755. Every country has struggled including Australia, Norway and New Zealand. Degree of struggle is certainly different , countries with low cases have done better overall. China is an exception and can largely self contain as with the US because they so damn big , very different out comes obviously one elimination policy and one all eggs in the vaccine basket. Rest of us not really.
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  4756. Without effective controls or an effective vaccine the second number isn't so unlikely. Think 2 years ahead.
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  4757. Might as well just say most of Western Europe and US are the weakest links. The irony of everyone complaining about the WHO when it's those very countries providing most of the experts.
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  4758.  @DeLeon-gx3em  time certainly but money very little, it's just like an hamas rocket costs a few hundred USD and the interception missile costs an estimated $100,000 USD.
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  4759.  David Rabinowitz  how can you create peace with 2 countries that have never fired a single shot against each other? That would be like saying he created peace between Australia and Iceland because we decided to improve our diplomatic relationship, it would be an absurd statement.
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  4760. By US standards your state isn't doing too bad. Obesity is a direct and or indirect contribution to the likelihood of death which I would agree contributes to your country's death toll. I am Australian so a bit better but you check out the Japanese obesity rate , it will surprise you.
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  4761. Yeah John did another video on the matter a year or so ago. To me it seems the minor differences due to genetics are completely overwhelmed by the health response or lack of and the health of the population to start with. If you look at Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand we all have low death rates because of our responses but demographics other than age which would be similar although I guess Japan probably the oldest are actually very different, Australia and New Zealand we are way fatter than those other countries but we also have lower smoking rates. Racial demographics are very different, supposedly Japan and South Korea should have far less deaths if Neanderthal genes were a significant factor but this just hasn't occurred. As far as age it's approximately every 7 years of age the risk doubles. Australian and New Zealand demographics are somewhat similar to US or UK without any significant population of African descent. The US and UK had significantly different response in managing the virus and the results are clear for all to see.
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  4762. ​@chairmanofthebored6860 Yeah there was a pandemic and the US had both the worst economic performance and health performance of any wealthy country. Being the worst of the worst is a fairly bad performance I would suggest.
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  4763. 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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  4764.  @terrymoney9718  all vaccines and drugs go through a process, where the government approves them after the process is complete to the government's satisfaction, then so long as the product being supplied meets the specifications then the manufacturer in almost no case is liable, just like you buy a tyre for your car, you chose the cheap brand car doesn't stop well you die not the responsibility of the manufacturer it met minimum standards required and you took the risk, maybe there is a $1,000 drug out there as good as aspirin for something but doesn't thin the blood, you buy aspirin cut your self bleed to death guess what tough, you knew what you were getting. Vaccines are no different, if there is actually negligence as in the vaccine was tainted with something and killed people because of this containment then of course they can be be liable just like if that car tyre didn't meet minimum standards.
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  4765. Although I can't be sure I got covid 19 because not tested at the time the symptoms seemed like it , I did have herpes flare up but in the other area that you can have the problem. Cold sores or herpes flare up elsewhere is a really good indicator that the immune system is low because of your body fighting something else at the time.
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  4766. Hello scammer
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  4767. Trump hasn't destabilized the world but he has internationally made it easier for China to use soft diplomacy around the world.
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  4768. I just checked it , data 2010 and Germany number 23, so not that high, the top 15 or so all east European countries.
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  4769. And could barely hear any words. I want to know what he was yelling when pointing his finger and what the crowd was chanting.
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  4770. Because it involves a policeman, however it's unfair to tarnish the whole police force, just like in the US even more unfair riots in other cities with completely different unassociated police.
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  4771.  @chriskennedy1557  Ok so you talking about before they found the likely perpetrator. Without going into that particular case because I have no knowledge other than this video clip and your comment. It would have to be because the person was and extremely reliable person and they didn't reach their destination, the police made the judgement that something very likely occurred and they were correct, if for arguments sake it's a teenager between 14 and 17 , most likely ran away or something , not high attention because like you say it's common, same if any person has a history of drug use or petty crime, most likely they have just gone somewhere without telling anyone so low priority. Police won't always get it right they just do the best they can but unfortunately based on what you say they got this one right and seem to have found the offender which was one of them. There is no conspiracy , just police doing their job ( not the bad one of course ). Children below a certain age get extremely high priority too.
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  4772. Another 5000 deaths to go based on Sweden or 10,000 deaths to go based on New York. People are still dying in those locations. Are you sure thousands of dead people is what Victorians want along with a semi permanent border closure?
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  4773.  @markfromearth4  according to nnds the number for Australia flu deaths in 2019 up to 1 December was 902. That's for the country so pretty significant difference, the number I said is for Victoria only based on population. No evidence currently exists that either New York or Sweden are close to herd immunity and deaths are occurring at about the rate of Australian death toll every few days to a week currently on a per capita basis. This is six months in. So ok you say maybe after a time period a little longer than 6 months it's gonna happen. That's your opinion and 4 weeks of being serious can virtually get rid of the virus. If I was Victorian there is no way I would volunteer for a border closure for 6 months minimum and could much longer. Wearing a mask when in public etc. For maybe 4 or 6 weeks seems like a much better option and prefer not to see 5 or 10 thousand dead people in my state for the sake of me not wanting wear a mask or go to a bar etc.
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  4774. The Republican Party of USA has become a mirror image of The Communist Party of China in more ways than one. Both support oppression of dissent, both support billionaire over normal people, both support a public healthcare system for a minority (government workers) and others have to pay. The US has a highly funded public healthcare system much more as a proportion of GDP or per capita than average, yet a less funded universal healthcare system in Australia has produced a 5 year excess life expectancy compared to the US and China will likely overtake the US on this key measure in not so long. Best of luck US citizens, collectively your destiny is in your hands , choose wisely which path you truly want.
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  4775. Here's a novel idea why don't the Republicans just kick him out of the party on Jan 20 after midday Washington DC time. That way Trump can disappear relatively quietly. I say relatively because whatever happens he won't go quietly.
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  4776. Didn't need to trick him, he said lots of stupid stuff without much prodding.
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  4777. People are selfish and only will when it hurts them. So half the world US trade wise is just about to , Canada, Mexico and China are the US's 3 biggest trading partners.
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  4778. Kari Lakes comment was on point, she agreed she is an election denying deplorable. As someone looking in from the outside, support this position of hers.
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  4779. France can now say they're sending their worst they're sending criminals.
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  4780. Well 1 thing is 100% certain, Russia won't be using biological weapons because they can't even get much over half the population to take covid vaccines and had heaps of time, there's not a chance in hell people would be lining up and a 100% vaccination rate of anthrax vaccine, just in case the weapon actually worked. Same argument for the US, so even discussing biological weapons other than throwing dead animals in drinking water tanks like has been done for thousands of years is absurd. Chemical weapons however are a different story, they're effective if far enough away from your own troops.
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  4781.  @benschalkwyk4315  I am in a way pointing out not the craziness of Trump because he isn't crazy, erratic and divisive and lacks empathy for others and I can't personally tell whether he cares more about the US or himself. I don't think he believes any of the conspiracy theories and if you notice he always says questions need to be asked. The reason for this is the reliable conspiracy theorist voting block who he thinks gives him the advantage , conspiracy theorists probably have a high turn out in elections. So just a cold hearted calculation. The crazy part is many of his followers who defend everything. In comments from supporters and detractors they seem to be all one sided. I am not American but I would say certain policies like controlling the southern US border is good, guarding the Korea's border at excessive US cost is bad as one example I think Trump is good. It does not follow that I think separating families at the border is right, but sending them back is. The language Trump uses including on the border issue is often inflammatory and this is bad. I am not American and I would probably vote in a different way for the president versus the Senate and Congress if I was , but neither presidential candidate would have my full support.
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  4782. For a country that has had increasing government deficits 20 years running I find it strange an investment guy says it's not a problem, [the debt can be paid off] things can be funded from current tax revenues.
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  4783. Unfortunately a US president has far too much absolute power which the congress cannot do much about unless there's significant constitutional change.
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  4784. Australia have both politician and medical public servants at state and federal level but they certainly don't contradict each other. Our political parties don't contradict each other either . Only stuff around the edges.
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  4785. You might be confusing quality take aways versus for example bakery products which are cheap with high energy and little nutrition. I am in Australia and I can say making a hamburger with plenty of salad is cheaper than buying one which is reasonably healthy, but I can buy some cheap cake or chips or something really cheap. Just my thoughts maybe I am wrong. Outdoor culture depends largely on socio economic group I would think along with rural versus city.
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  4786. Not trading with them at all would just hurt the poor, why would you want to hurt the poor?
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  4787. If they want a real effect just copy the "Australian grim reaper aids ad " and change a few words, it was a great and effective ad campaign
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  4788. Nothing to do with left or right. More a regional culture. Compare Western Pacific WHO region to European WHO region.
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  4789. Maybe tennis, I think they're allowed to wear whatever.
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  4790.  @MeowMeowMe63  well not really, he literally had no chance of doing so.
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  4791. He said 24 hours.
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  4792. Thank goodness for that or we would be looking like the USA.
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  4793. Rural Americans are mostly socialist and support farm subsidies. They know Trump is a socialist also who will up the subsidies if required as he did in his previous term.
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  4794. Yep and all these witnesses didn't have mobile phones to take a video to show to the court.
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  4795.  @elelyon431  if the laws regarding observation of the electoral process as official electoral observers prohibit that in a particular state or states maybe that should be looked into because it means that in this modern day the electoral observers are pretty much useless. Witness accounts very rarely convict someone of something in this modern age of forensics and camera phones. If what you assert might be the case then it's a pity the Republican Party and Trump himself never pointed out an actual way to improve the process, given Trump's apparent declaration of being an election expert why did he never bring this issue up and apparently still hasn't, you are the first I have heard of this problem. Anyway I am not American so best of luck.
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  4796. In addition to the above comment, in English funny and strange have the same meaning , if used in a certain context. I would suggest that ridiculous/strange is the correct translation, it's just because you are in a country or region that has done not so well it sort of triggered you, I am in Queensland Australia and we speak a little like that even to Victoria before, but doesn't mean anything about not caring about the suffering, the context matters. Search Chairman Dan if you want to see how tough we are on each other.
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  4797. The chance that a person his age dies was estimated at 4% , not sure how many million that would be in the US his age or older however it's a big number. A trial of one person which in no way whatsoever contradicts the information given by the media is proof of lies. Please inform what the lie is?
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  4798. It's no coincidence that parts of Greece and Victoria Australia and California have these devastating fires, it's the intense often referred to as Mediterranean climate as in dry summers with ultralow humidity and high temperatures. What is unusual this time is the fact it's actually winter in California.
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  4799. Read up on Victoria Australia which in about September had more daily cases than Canada at about 500 per day versus 400 per day now look at the situation. Canada was within striking distance of elimination but backed off. A part of the reason given for a nightly curfew was to give police a break so they could enforce movement controls during the day including stopping travel outside of Melbourne for non essential purposes.
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  4800.  @j-rad2613  Nah just a free Australian ( except travel restrictions ) , not from Victoria though, my state was much more successful , so other than 1st lockdown been low restrictions since.
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  4801. Have you ever heard of WWII? There was a developed country in Asia that was ethnic supremacist nationalist expansionary power. Well now there is another country with similar characteristics as existed in that other country previously, let's not let the same thing occur again.
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  4802.  @nom_chompsky  Japan is fine now , but not 80 years ago.
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  4803. I hate it but agree with you.
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  4804.  @chuckaudio3191  You'll have to go to the UK at the moment to be in a culturally similar country, Canada, Australia and New Zealand aren't so welcoming. In fact Australia and New Zealand are completely shut so nothing personal.
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  4805.  @davidpaz9389  Not knowing if it was your choice , Biden couldn't convince people of the same political leaning as you to take Trump's vaccine, hence the US problems regarding covid 19. Not sure why you blame Biden for the behaviour of Trump supporters who don't trust the Trump vaccines.
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  4806. Because the show crosses boundaries either spellings are ok, it has some audience from both countries.
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  4807. Yours is actually the most sensible comment as of when I replied. A bit scary that that's the case. Maybe the US can take a leaf out of Queenslands book in how to keep the Mexicans out when required.
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  4808. I have to say it. Why can't a somewhat authoritarian country institute appropriate restrictions for covid 19 and why are health thought crimes punished so hard but health violations that actually kill people not a single hard punishment? For anyone who can't work it out your country has the most in number and probably per capita drug user prisoners. So freedom to kill others due to what has often been referred to as rugged individualism AKA as selfish sociopathic behaviour but lock up someone who has in there possession a drug and possibly kill them with a virus as 1500 or so deaths in prison from covid 19 and no doubt at least one was a harmless health offender. Get your priorities straight Americans. The DC lockdown actually puts greater restrictions on residents than a proper covid 19 lockdown. What a joke everyone crying freedom and now all in favor of an authoritarian lockdown for yet another photo opportunity. Maybe Biden will help your country and lockdown to save lives though and maybe this lockdown is good , just pointing out 500,000 people dead because no proper health lockdown killed many through infection and maybe 150,000 through the failed lockdown lite. CDC reported 300,000 excess deaths from January 26 to October 3 and 200,000 were covid 19 and reasonable to say ineffective lockdown lite killed another 100,000 people, if trend has continued the number I suggested above is much lower than the real number.
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  4809. That's the confusing part he could be remembered for being a great mayor but now he will be remembered for this episode.
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  4810. I notice there's no nuance in most of the comments. I am from Australia and we don't tolerate illegal immigrants. Trump's plan might look good to some as you believe he is emulating Australia's policy. Problem is he isn't. There's no forward planning and working with other countries including giving them money to make his plans a reality. The problem has become so ingrained in the US because of the policies of both political parties over decades. A better policy given the reality of the situation is to fine employers $50,000 or so per illegal worker. This policy would cost very little and the illegals would leave of their own volition or start some sort of business themselves. A secondary approach would be to fine individuals who hire illegals doing work such as gardening or babysitting, of course the fine shouldn't be so much but even a $1,000 fine would be a deterent to many. The other thing that needs to be fixed is who is allowed to enter on tourist visas for example because that's how many illegals arrived. Then there's actually trying to stop people such as Trump's wife and Elon Musk who were effectively both illegal immigrants once they started working while on a tourist visa. There appears to be no plans to stop illegals who enter legally, just the optics of people walking accross the border looks bad.
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  4811. It's staring us in the face why the UK strain is more transmissible in my opinion, people cough more which is obviously a spreading mechanism.
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  4812. Things are not as simple as Trump thinks. Trump's actions if followed through will increase the use of RMB. The main reason stated that countries won't use RMB except with direct transactions is because it's a dictatorship that can't be trusted and lower liquidity levels. China uses RMB for 40% of it's international trade. No country to country trade not including China occurs with RMB. The Reserve Bank of Australia has 55% in USD 20% in EUR and 5% in RMB plus a few other countries at 5%. If Trump starts does what he says he will do the level of trust difference between US and China will decrease leading to for example more trades with China using RMB instead of USD. Is Trump going to threaten Australia for using RMB with some of it's direct trade?
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  4813. One less market for US Soybeans , refined petroleum products and corn being the 3 largest exports to Columbia. When the tariffs kick in in the other countries Trump aims to attack with tariffs the broad acre farmers will have a dramatically reduced international market.
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  4814. I think it went deeper than that, he wanted them to retaliate in my opinion.
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  4815. That's the right attitude, just like all modern military personnel are required to get many vaccines, this one occasion the normal populous is required to as well. Canada should be fine especially after the weather starts to warm by Canadian standards that is, you have a vaccination rate very similar to Australia and our opening up is going ok.
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  4816.  Yang Yue  I know HK isn't it's own country however as you know up to now it's treated as it's own jurisdiction. Economic freedom is not about political freedom so you seem confused. The US is a relatively socialist country however it's got great free speech. These are different things. You might confuse socialism with a welfare safety net , many Americans seem to do this. A welfare safety net is a form of socialism but it's not as significant as other policies.
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  4817.  Yang Yue  on a personal level I would be less willing to do major deals with HK companies not as some sort of sanction but because CCP is incrementally taking over. Or another way to put it , consider HK almost the same as mainland China. I am not some big business man or something so I only speak hypothetically.
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  4818. lol
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  4819. @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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  4820. Most authoritarianism is through money not guns, create the laws that favor one group over another and you can oppress them, they will even vote in favor of their own oppression if the propaganda is good enough. Case in point the socialist US spends more on publically funded healthcare than Australia on a per capita basis yet we have universal healthcare. Although so far I have never actually got a response defending higher taxes for less services to this comment I have put literally 100 times or so , it's clear to me this makes people uncomfortable. I have had a couple of responses saying that they want to buy insurance etc. well nothing stopping people doing that in Australia should you choose that. Apparently low cost universal services (the savings are in part from those who want to buy their own at minimal subsidies) is communist, I would argue it's common sense, I hate high taxes and my money being burnt.
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  4821. Random samples are taken and DNA tests done in most places. With very low cases like New Zealand currently they seem to be testing all to establish whether every case originates from the same source and so far seems that's the case.
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  4822. What a load of rubbish about not enough workforce, 25% of workers in agriculture which compares to about 5% in rich countries. That's a lot of inefficient workers who are being kept in the countryside due to policies that penalize anyone who doesn't live where they are supposed to.
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  4823. China made that decision about 15 years ago whinging and complaining about paying for iron ore. Well they haven't achieved much towards that goal of replacing Australia over this time period, what makes the next few years different?
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  4824. In Australia we call them rusted on voters. Realistically they are about 80% of the electorate.
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  4825. If you're American, stop whining, didn't you like your most recent tax payer funded fireworks display?
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  4826. No one can model anything other than going for 0 cases because spread rates are highly influenced by human behaviour which is highly unpredictable.
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  4827. Stop speaking country, just as the George Floyd incident in a local authority doesn't represent the USA. By the way my opinion on that matter is the police officers carried out a standard practice of making someone unconscious, msnbc I think it was reported that this had occurred 44 times in 5 years out of about 250 times the particular restraint method was used in the same time period.
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  4828. You're talking of the private hospitals obviously, public hospitals aren't so good.
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  4829. Actually the internet probably does have something to do with increases of cases in the US. Conspiracy theories spread more effectively with the internet leading to lower vaccination rates.
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  4830. 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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  4831. Well according to the CDC moving 7 days average of deaths up 26% on the prior week, ok it's at a low level by US standards at only 1,500 deaths per week but trajectory is bad yet again. Pretty sure some of those dying would be in Florida so probably already have candidates for your suggestion.
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  4832. A postal service is a business. Ideally government businesses try to break even and in the case of a postal service subsidise the service to rural areas. Governments run many businesses depending on levels of privatisation.
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  4833. She's a US citizen I guess, it wasn't so different 6 months ago in the US, the virus was rampant and the President at the time was encouraging everyone to ignore the virus and join his rallies etc.
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  4834. Better off ignoring him. Responding is what Trump wants.
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  4835. Because they kill all the native wildlife
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  4836.  @Carl_Wheezy  the comments in response to you are ridiculous, to kill a plague of mice you would need to have a plague of cats, to maintain a plague of cats you would need to be feeding them through the dry years.
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  4837.  @mrdoohickey4824  You can't say there are long term effects from getting covi sars2, it's a possibility but we don't know because nobody has seen the effects or lack of after a year. Only time will tell. Better that some caution is taken and if I had a child I wouldn't want them to be infected even though it looks like no problems at this stage.
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  4838.  Sweet Science!  You are saying sort of random stuff some of which can't apply in the same location at the same time. Better to stick to a one country example I think, because the responses to the virus are diverse and outcomes significantly different. Poor countries shouldn't be lumped in with wealthy countries because what they can do is different, for example locking down a large slum is probably similar to locking down a full indoor stadium of people which is completely different to locking down people for a relatively short time if done properly in a rich country and getting rid of the virus or close to and opening up cautiously.
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  4839. If you believe in property rights , then nothing wrong with that if the business owner requires it. Whether government should require it is different and that's what they have already done in Israel at the moment.
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  4840.  @rfxtuber  Of course property rights has something to do with it, if for arguments sake I owned a cinema with 5 screens I might consider it good business to have 1 or 2 screens where only the vaccinated go. I assume you are talking about the UK and you are in an unfortunate situation. Internally in Australia can't see it happening at all and outbreaks that mostly come from hotel quarantine workers should greatly reduce meaning almost 0 because only about 6 or 7 cases with 215,000 people passing through the system. Internationally likely to only be low case countries in our region that the idea of using it internationally. Our government hasn't really said much except for possibly opening to other low case countries but I think still a while off or maybe South Pacific as first step in a few months.
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  4841.  @rfxtuber  your just paranoid, if it bothers you and it does happen which I think is only likely if not enough people get the vaccine, then go wherever restrictions don't exist. If you are in the UK my feeling is enough people will take the vaccine so it won't happen. Not going to happen at a supermarket or things like that, only places of high risk like bars or restaurants etc.
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  4842.  @mikeybhoy422  saying you can't eat at a restaurant because you choose not to be vaccinated is hardly a deprivation of your liberties, half the world's population only dream of such an extravagant thing. How about go to a supermarket and buy a lobster or expensive steak and cook it yourself, I am sure you will survive. Please look around the world and realise that even discussing this matter means you are a privileged person, hundreds of millions just want enough to eat.
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  4843. We all know it's pay to play, it's just been complicated a bit when more than one person asking for money.
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  4844. ​ @nostro1001  You are incorrect, the US has not given a single cent to Iran. Allowing another party whose money you have confiscated and have decided to return a little is completely different to charging tax payers to send aid to support a "plausible genocide ".
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  4845.  @stephenbirchall941  Normally it's stated " should still work on the different strains" this is very different wording to "should be just as effective on different strains" should still work means above 50% efficacy, it doesn't even imply that it will work as well. Have to listen to exact wording. The biggest problem is if absolute openess occurs then more questions and they don't know the answers it's truly a matter of wait until we have enough real world data and see. They can do a dozen test tube experiments but that only gives an indication otherwise no need for phase 3 trials at all. No phase 3 trial is complete in the first place hence emergency use only except for Sputnik in Russia, I think they skipped the emergency use part.
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  4846. ​ @alidarke3132 so you want tariffs put on our beef and wine and I am sure other goods. That sort of makes you a pro American no matter what traitor.
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  4847. It's not chalk and cheese. Every President and party in congress and senate has run up debt at an alarming rate since about 2001. Most US government debt has been run up in the last 24 years or so.
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  4848. I think you mean all high labour farmers. A wheat or corn farmer doesn't care for example, they more worried about the retaliatory tariffs.
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  4849. Thanks
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  4850. Why doesn't the US direct it's socialism to the needy rather than corporations? Your country isn't particularly high ranking on the economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation which is the best measure of how socialist a country is.
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  4851. Lol they have freedom.
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  4852.  @thepoormangunchannel2411  I am Australian and our recognized head of state the governor general is the same as Jamaica unless you are telling me the Queen chooses them and can assure you that our government operates completely independently from the privy council in England which is just for England and or UK. Maybe you say hypothetically the Queen could veto a law, technically that's probably the case but it having happened probably exactly 0 times then you are free. I don't have much opinion on whether it's a good idea for Jamaica to change the head of state but have a strong opinion don't have a head of state that is also head of government. Don't know this PM but if that's his plan then stick with him not having absolute power and being answerable as head of government to the head of state, your governor general representing the queen of Jamaica.
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  4853. They say converts often become the most radical, Candace Owens is an example of this being a leftie before now moving to the crazy right. She's quite attractive though, pity about her crazy politics.
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  4854.  @k333rl  assuming you are in Texas how can the weapon be traced back to you as there's no registration? Is there actually registration but it's slightly hidden as in all transactions by gun dealers are registered including who they sell to.
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  4855. Don't insult 15 year olds, vast majority have the capability to understand if you see images coming out of Wuhan with hospitals overflowing and serious lockdown measures it's certainly a high risk situation that won't go away. The early errors in January and February were shared by his team including Fauci who said on February 26 that the US was doing well because of a good healthcare system and contact tracing. At that point in time the US had already completely failed on its initial response and the "travel ban" was absolutely useless because the virus got in and was already rampant in New York in particular at the end of February. So I actually don't consider Trump to be responsible up to February 26, it's the actions or failing to act after that and recover the situation which is the true failure. State governors have a lot of responsibility also allowing every single state to have significant infections.
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  4856.  Feng L  To this day no US state has put mandatory government supervised hotel quarantine in place for people entering their state. A mish mash of voluntary measures exist . This has nothing to do with the Federal government. Without virtually stopping the virus from entering you can never contain it.
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  4857. Yep you are correct, a complete failure.
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  4858. Well it puts him one step ahead of Trump.
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  4859. They voting for anything Trump was/is going to do. Everyone including MAGA voters knew Trump is erratic. The debt costs are rising rapidly because the bond rate which was around 2% for a lot of years is now around 4%. As each bond expires it needs to be replaced with a new one at a new rate plus of course the ongoing increases in US government debt.
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  4860.  @ggoddkkiller1342  You mentioned weapons sales, sending troops with your own weapons would reduce weapons sales, it's counterproductive to what you suggest is the intended goal. Send no troops with arms the local government needs more arms.
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  4861.  @ggoddkkiller1342  ok you've gone full blown conspiracy theory now. Well not much point talking to you further because I am not going to buy into it. If you had left it at you believe the French forces being there may have increased terrorism you might have had a reasonable argument but would still need something to back up that claim as in at least anecdotal evidence.
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  4862.  Pam Schobelock  not my business but according to Trump's own words no one should care because it only affects the very sick people with comorbidities. Read through many comments of Trump's hardline followers , they have no empathy because they still believe Trump and that he won't get sick according to Trump's words. So the bias cuts both ways. I am not American but have followed this issue.
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  4863. Yep and all those girls beautiful ❤️
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  4864. I don't understand why a first minister of a state of UK would say anything. You have a Prime Minister.
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  4865. All these socialist wanting taxes above 50% of the economy. Of course in terms of trajectory socialist countries had less effect on their economy, could do a 100% shutdown and wouldn't even halve the economy. Then look at healthcare , life expectancy, housing density etc. etc. Let's include Mississippi, no restrictions also but very different demographics, social factors and outcome to Sweden.
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  4866. I am a share trader and it wouldn't exactly excite or panic me. 3% as you say is nothing.
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  4867. The knowledge that certain gases hold heat is well established, that certainly isn't psudoscience but predicting the likely effects is pretty much impossible other than the atmosphere will on average most likely be hotter.
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  4868.  @byteproof-industries4735  What's the Premier of Victoria got to do with immigration?, Victoria is a state not a country.
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  4869. I agree because reports are suggesting that vaccines are actually quite easy to get if you want one in the US now.
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  4870. @Anderson What on earth are you talking about, you need a majority to form a government and the systems most prone to dictatorship is where the head of state is also the head of government and in the case of the US even worse because the entire executive government isn't elected at all but chosen by the President who is the head of state and government.
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  4871. @Anderson So you think one person choosing the entire unelected executive government isn't too much power? Also name 10 dictatorship PMs, curious to hear the list because I could name 10 presidents (or at least the country and time period) pretty easy.
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  4872. It's not free market at all because they refuse to interconnect to the national grid which naturally increases competition.
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  4873.  Calvin Parish  I am Australian and although we aren't doing it perfect some of the schemes in the US are nuts. Even Michael Moore agrees with this, can't remember the name of the documentary and produced by other people but on his Youtube channel , posted maybe a month ago, I can't remember. Both political parties in the US are in on the game, your example is like making ethanol from corn, it makes absolutely no sense, from sugarcane it does however. Michael Moore isn't exactly a crazy right wing person and to his credit willing to criticize both sides of politics.
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  4874.  Calvin Parish  thanks for the long reply, I am not as harsh as you and seriously send AOC a letter just explaining things you have directly dealt with that don't make sense, she is a person who will likely read it as long as it gets past her staff who might read it first. To guard against this possibility write the word confidential on the front of the envelope underlined and assuming it means the same thing as in Australia nobody can open it but her unless I guess she authorises that. My impression from the clips of her is she will go into details and consider the matter seriously, not just a person going for votes. Have to send by snail mail though in my opinion because emails are too easily deleted. One thing that would apply to California but not this Texas situation is what South Australia has done, they have the largest lithium ion battery in the world and seems working well with all the systems designed to quickly readjust energy flow. Interestingly they currently have a greater risk of blackout by renewables overloading the system and possibly soon producing more energy at peaks than is used causing the system to crash. Previously they had a heat induced brown or blackouts caused by a lot of wind power that when it got hot stopped working because the wind stopped, maybe same to California , I don't know. You are open to renewables which is good but understand the limitations and the politics which sometimes save no energy and possibly use more in the name of energy savings or carbon emissions.
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  4875. Probably not but the next ones to block the road will be hit with full force of the law.
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  4876.  @danferguson71  A human is similar to a rabbit or a bat too, we are all mammals but we significantly different unless you think the Easter Bunny and Batman are real.
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  4877. Of course.
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  4878. Not American but a permanent bar on an elected official for fully protected speech, (in a parliament you can say anything without the fear of any repercussions other than at the ballot box), is fully authoritarian. I am making an assumption of a free society but clearly it isn't, 2 wrongs don't make a right. His behaviour was wrong and a permanent bar from being in the parliament regardless of what it's referred to there is wrong.
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  4879. Lots of authoritarians in the comment section, crack down on civil disobedience which affects nobody but the power of those that are planning a crackdown it would seem. I know being Australian your comeback will be cracking down in defence of our dear leaders is totally fine but freedom to infect must remain because that's our human rights. Pity about the human rights of the dead , because it's generally accepted that the first human right is life, but in a bipartisan fashion the US decided it would be too hard and the life issue isn't the most important. Anyway best of luck and just remember when the shoe is on the other foot and Democrats take power don't whinge and complain if they become authoritarian against you because it's what you wanted.
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  4880. Probably because it doesn't, that was the UQ CSL vaccine and they decided to finish up because it showed everyone gets a false positive HIV test and protecols for testing would need to be changed. This is completely different technology that somehow makes your own body cells create a protein that is in covi sars2.
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  4881. It's a minority, the rest of us don't like it.
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  4882. I am 47 and had one dose of AZ so far, unfortunately it really knocked me about for 3 days or so, I am waiting to feel like a 20 year old. I probably had covid about a year and a half ago so have to see how I go with second dose, I hope it's not as bad.
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  4883. @ellielynn8219  I am curious why you voted for Trump or alternatively against Harris. I am from Australia so very different politically. From a typical Australian perspective with knowledge of your system Harris is bad and Trump worse. The Democrats are crony capitalists and the Republicans even more so especially now. Both your parties don't believe in free trade and both believe in subsidies for chosen industries.
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  4884. The only takers might be criminals trying to escape justice in their home country. No ordinary business person would want it.
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  4885. In one word , history. The US is one of those countries that tends to hold a grudge for a long time and has a long memory. Cuba is the prime example of this, no threat to anyone outside of Cuba but still significant sanctions, compare to Vietnam , while slow they only took 20 years approximately to normalize relations. I am Australian and although it's nowhere near the force of sanctions China has decided to effectively put some limited trade sanctions on Australia, a former Prime Minister has suggested they might last a long time.
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  4886.  @mohamedsaid9416  Sanctions can be from the UN security council and for unilateral sanctions by the US it could go through Congress (personally think it always should) however in recent years US presidents seem to just do it themselves and even if it goes through Congress the president has veto power so the final decision will always be the president in the case of US unilateral sanctions.
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  4887. Thanks for responses, it sounds pretty bad but at least it's showing interstate cooperation which is a good thing. Take care of yourselves.
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  4888.  @truthbetold4350  There some truth to what you say unfortunately. Your president deliberately increased the rate of spread of the virus by his words and actions. The 3% who outright believe Trump won the election believe everything he says. That's a big enough number to keep the virus circulating especially if you add in other likely spreaders including BLM protestors who did the same thing except generally wore masks.
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  4889. It sort of is if you look up the definition. Violence to achieve a political aim.
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  4890. Fox is propaganda but WSJ is a genuine financial paper. Different businesses.
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  4891. He found most of his cabinet in the swamp, now the swamp is looking better.
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  4892. Maybe run the new Tucker position which a day or so ago was actually Biden's position and he going after Adam Kinzinger. Don't worry Tucker will probably change back again, whatever he thinks viewers want at the time, basically a media prostitute.
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  4893. @Nicole D.I am just going off evidence which is in wealthy countries about 50% of covid 19 deaths are in nursing homes and nowhere has been able to stop this without complete lockdown of nursing homes. The infection rates in some countries mean you don't have enough staff because the proper way to do it is if one staff member tests positive the entire staff need to quarantine for 2 weeks and be replaced at a moment's notice as practiced in Australia , same applies to hospitals , just recently in my state a staff member tested positive and all 181 staff replaced for 2 weeks. When you realise all the difficulties by observing a country getting it right like my own country you realise that our procedures can't be replicated in a high infection country. Hopefully an effective vaccine is available widely by middle to late next year but no phase 3 trial has been completed , so we don't know yet, we can only hope.
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  4894. Funny comment, every wealthy nations train service is safer and most if not all middle income countries, why single out Japan?
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  4895.  @MyUniqueVibe  who said anything about Australian born? In a time of war should it occur now I would expect non citizens who have enemy country citizenship for example to be deported if practical or interned if it was considered a risk, this would be a sensible response. In the case they were dual citizens a similar determination would need to be made. US and Australian citizens have been required for the draft or conscription previously , at a time of war citizens could also lose their freedom this is how things work. The only consideration is the treatment of people in the context of the situation.
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  4896. You mustn't watch much news, similar things all around the world. The virus doesn't discriminate and nor do protestors unless of course the state is very authoritarian and or the government has for the most part done a good job in creating community support for it's measures. I can give examples in certain countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America of protests related to covid 19 measures, people are people.
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  4897. In Singapore are there many people who try to stay out of the sun for lighter skin? My impression is in Singapore this would be less of a problem than say Bangkok or Seoul for example but some probably still do that.
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  4898. She knows Trump has lost, but her and others who aren't hardcore Trumpets still want Trumps base to vote for them next time. Whether that eventuates or not who knows, it could backfire with normal Republicans heading for the exit, maybe not to Democrats but just not vote.
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  4899. Why are there so many comments about Trump. The states control these matters and the problems are systemic in many US states and it doesn't seem to matter if they are controlled by Democrats or Republicans.
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  4900. I disagree because what happens if the government leadership become dictators and start doing bad things? If you can't leave that party they are more likely to be successful in creating a non democracy.
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  4901. Well one thing the PM of India did was declare it over, that's probably the most significant reason. I haven't heard of the Indonesian President doing that.
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  4902. Free speech in the US is far more limited than other countries like Australia as an example. In the US you will be discriminated against if you don't support Israel. So in the US you are literally not permitted to have a political opinion on another country. So you tell me what the first amendment actually means and you will realise in effect it's as useless as tits on a bull.
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  4903. It's all very easy in hindsight and what is wrong with the government following advice , 90% of the time the advice was great hence Australia's overall success?
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  4904. Crazy idea but let's run through such a scenario. Biden would need to remove enough people from the picture that a Democrat was next in line for the presidency. So president elect and vp elect and speaker of the future house and then I don't know but it might be an impossible task because Republicans are the majority in house and senate as of January 20.
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  4905. Not really, democracy isn't perfect, it's as Winston Churchill said one of the worst possible forms of government but better than the rest.
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  4906.  @BreathingBlood666  The US isn't the only country referred to as a Wealthy Western Democracy and that's actually who you are referring to. Why ignore the entirety of Western Europe and Australia and New Zealand?
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  4907.  @BreathingBlood666  Ok so say USA because you don't even accept there are more than 2 countries on the planet China and USA.
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  4908.  @BreathingBlood666  you just said you don't include my country so no point responding. Do you feel ashamed of the Great Leap Forward which killed an estimated 10,000,000
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  4909.  @sonnyblack0870  Anyone can produce an unsustainable boom with government debt. Just cut taxes and borrow more. The economy started to drop in February and ironically the truly massive stimulus package (borrowing) for covid 19 has kept the stock market up. It's like saying a person with expensive clothes and a nice car and house is rich when in reality they can't afford any of it on their expanding list of credit cards.
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  4910. Depends on the country and culture. I noticed in Thailand under normal circumstances it's the opposite with poor farmers and street sellers etc. in Bangkok do and rich people never do.
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  4911.  @davidbarlow350  Where are you from David?
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  4912. They all can have different meanings on their own so need to be in a sentence to identify the particular meaning that is or is most likely meant. To give an example Ebola is less efficient at killing people than COVI SARS2 in a modern society. You can see the efficiency is at a societal level not an individual level and has a very different meaning. So a slightly different sentence where I still use the same word but different reference. Ebola is far more efficient at killing an infected individual than COVI SARS2. Both statements are true but if you aren't concentrating or thinking about what has actually been said you might get the wrong idea , infact the opposite idea to reality.
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  4913.  @bolnol5419  research Melbourne lockdown, probably the most strict lockdown outside of China. I am not Victorian but it does demonstrate any type of people can achieve it if have the resources , eg. wealthy country. If a war was to break out tomorrow based on the Covid 19 response half the countries in the world would be surrendering within a week or 2 because it's all a bit hard. I don't believe that, it's just for some reason many nations didn't take the seriously. Everyone saw Wuhan and the bodies pilling up so it wasn't a surprise.
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  4914. "The left" is highly subjective. Trump's populist policies were very leftist, price fixing comes to mind with Trump promising lower prices for all on groceries and fuel. There's only 2 ways to achieve that and it's far left policies either way, price controls on goods or subsidies. Fact is Trump lied but my point is being hard left on certain issues didn't hurt Trump. Truth is Trump seems to be a far right socialist, believes in an oligopoly funded by the working class hence his genuine in my opinion policies of business subsidies and higher taxes on the middle and low income people via tariffs and lower taxes on the wealthy.
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  4915. Consider Australia if that doesn't work out. And if you do Consider Australia just remember not everywhere is tolerant but most big city are if not in generally dangerous areas by our standards.
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  4916. Florida uses voting machines and people accept the results, simple as that.
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  4917.  @ChrisWellejus  they work as in reduce risk, they don't eliminate risk, just like a seatbelt in a car.
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  4918.  @OceanFrontVilla3  weather has an indirect impact moreso than any direct impact on the virus survival inside mostly climate controlled buildings.
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  4919. Why are there hasbara comments on this, pretty sure all South African parties actually agree against the Israeli regime committing genocide.
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  4920. Just look at the silver lining. There is 2 possibilities, change or no change of president. First possibility which is change, well it probably won't be worse than keeping the same guy. Second possibility and no change, well maybe the other guy could have been worse and can now be pretty certain without a referendum it's a maximum of a 4 year countdown and if he isn't better in his second term it will put the opposite party in power in the Congress, Senate and presidential positions for the 20 following years. There is always something to look forward to even if it might not eventuate. Take care, things should work out and generally get better over time regardless of that particular outcome.
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  4921. Australia all but one state is good but that one state could get out of control easily. It's really hard to stop. Early on we had an event where one person infected 30 people at a 4 hour wedding function. This is reliable because of how low our infection rate was at the time.
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  4922. Well it lowers risk but the aim in Victoria is not to become NSW and business locked down until new year it would seem. Hopefully Victoria can go to 0 but it could go either way.
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  4923. So you're saying avoid the salads, only eat hot cooked food.
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  4924. Great another plausible genocide supporter.
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  4925. Exactly , don't trust China for a second.
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  4926. They can't, that would be insubordination and they would be sent to military prison. A military has to be this way. The government in conjunction with the military ask for volunteers first so that everyone doing it wants to do it.
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  4927. @F25U  no not unjust but unlawful. There's actually a big difference between the 2 as unjust is a personal opinion.
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  4928. She is normal, there's at least 50 million more just like her in the US. Watch only Fox and a few far right conspiracy channels for a month and see how hard it is to keep your current opinions. It'll be harder than you think.
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  4929.  @jeehoonpark646  Have you not watched the news around the world, less vaccinated means more restrictions and or deaths. Can all have an opinion but in the end the countries with high vaccination rates will do better. Yes South Korea is highly vaccinated just not in the younger age group apparently.
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  4930. They're everywhere but not in the same quantities. Some people just like protesting as well , had 2 antilockdown protests in my city yet we weren't in lockdown and during the entire pandemic only maybe 14 weeks, about 10 of them early last year.
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  4931. Florida "the free state", with more law enforcement agencies than an average country.
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  4932. Thanks mate.
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  4933. Lots of thoughts and prayers in the comments section. Go USA with 5 times the homicide rate of an average wealthy country. Yep more guns thoughts and prayers is working real good.
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  4934.  @mrsmerily  you take care and I hope your country can do it again but stand firm this time and just say no , no matter the pressure.
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  4935. Well having border restrictions increases our trade surplus, if for purely economic reasons best to keep it shut. Australians like traveling to Bali and Phuket and blowing there money. Some domestic tourism operators have experienced a boom, obviously those only catering to foreigner are already out of business. Of course lockdown internally hurt the economy but a virus out of control hurts the economy much more, look at US and UK as examples , massive government deficits and worse economic performance than countries that contained the virus.
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  4936. Why is everyone jumping to conclusions. All we know is the driver has an Arabic name . Maybe it was intentional maybe it wasn't. Maybe if it was intentional it's some personal issue. It reminds me of the spitting incident against an Asian in Western Sydney also shown on NowThis which clearly showed a black person and a person of light skin of unknown race and many comments then said how racist white Australian are. Since this is a video channel just watch and only make comments on what you can see or is proven.
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  4937. Imagine if you refused to watch any of the smaller mainstream media and only went for watching the biggest of the biggest mainstream media company's Fox News and instead of actually watching their news which on their YouTube channel is almost non existent and chose or can only get YouTube to just listen to editorial from Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingram et. al. Trust me or experiment yourself do that for just one week and you will start to believe Joe is the devil or something. CNN or MSNBC aren't much better in editing out things that don't support their agenda but the editorial for the most part isn't anything like that on Fox.
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  4938. The news everywhere if you look across the board without prejudice supports all state and federal incumbents, we successful on Covid 19 so no government change during this time, I put ALP above LNP for the first time as I can remember because Queensland being one of the most successful jurisdictions in the world dealing with covid 19 and a population over 1,000,000. Most Australian will be the same, if still significant problems when federal election occurs LNP will walk it in.
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  4939.  @enesbilgin937  Caste has something to do with it in respect that a low caste person will be in a more vulnerable position. A 9 Year old girl in a rich household wouldn't be on the street without supervision let alone carrying out such chores, that's what the maid is for although water wouldn't be the issue. Look how many children travel to and from school alone in wealthy countries, it's becoming less and less with parents driving them.
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  4940. Australia has been open to NZ travellers since about the start of the year, NZ was pretty slow to reciprocate and has taken a super hard line up to now as in a case in Perth they will consider Brisbane on the other side of the country unsafe, have to see what happens if a scenario like I suggest occurs, although much less likely because all hotel quarantine workers would now be vaccinated I expect.
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  4941. Don't advertise the behaviour in the UK , it makes it sound like everyone acts like animals over there.
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  4942. What on earth you talking about, check the deaths in Florida, literally 0.38% of the population dead. The relative risk also is assuming that the person never gets COVID-19, in other words seems they are playing with numbers in Florida.
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  4943. India is one of the countries producing the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine. I certainly hope that vaccine works because many countries producing it.
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  4944. Some of the extreme right are poor whites and some of the extreme left are poor blacks. They actually have a lot in common but vote differently if they vote at all.
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  4945.  @shiningmissingno.8788  What's socialism got to do with it? I think king could be more polite though.
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  4946. Well the US is the only country outside of China self contained enough that if it had gone down the elimination strategy for covid 19 the economy would now be positive year on year everything else being equal noting the US government debt binge under Trump was starting to bite in February when the US economy started to decline prior to the pandemic. However if the virus was eliminated he would have won in a landslide. No Australian government federal or state will change party while this virus is out there because people including myself prefer not to risk changing success. I voted for the first time in my state election for a party I wouldn't normally vote for.
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  4947.  @lynnsmith4  Are China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand not countries? They all eliminated it and include China plus Taiwan as 1 country if you want. The issue is it keeps re entering those above countries through quarantine breaches. You are incorrect to say no country eliminated it. The US in the scale of things did virtually nothing , no lockdown and no quarantine in any meaningful way, allowed the virus to spread to all 50 states and 2 major territories. As far as that booming economy it was made from an approximately 5% GDP rise in government debt per annum , so like someone with a house getting a mortgage and buying a Ferrari or something, unsustainable. 2008 had just as much a booming economy for similar reasons and we know what happened then.
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  4948.  @lynnsmith4  What is my lie? As far as Americans starving you are richer than Australians on paper why would you starve? You do however seem to agree no meaningful quarantine, to this day quarantine of international travellers going into the United States is voluntary, check the CDC website for yourself. New York effectively has voluntary quarantine even, no officials are going to check at night time. By definition you aren't locked down with complete freedom of travel so those with means like the governor of California just go to another county where business is open. This is the US automatic spread mechanism built into the response. If your state or county shuts it's businesses just go elsewhere to less infected areas to spread the virus.
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  4949.  @lynnsmith4  Partial lockdown with no quarantine I would argue is a killer, if the trend continued from the January 26 to October 3 excess deaths as reported by the CDC being 300,000 with only 200,000 being associated with covid 19 then the death toll now would be over 600,000 due to covid 19 and lockdown lite.
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  4950.  @lynnsmith4  of course can't shut down everything but you would agree that restriction of foreign citizens from certain countries while allowing US citizens to return with voluntary quarantine which has been relaxed from 14 days voluntary quarantine to 10 days voluntary quarantine has achieved nothing other than very short delays possibly of every strain on the planet. The virus doesn't care about citizenship but it does care if the carrier is quarantined in a hotel with no chance to infect others. The west Pacific countries have low infection rates and in some cases elimination due to policy , nothing else. There is nothing magic in the water in this part of the pacific.
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  4951.  @lynnsmith4  ok you take care, I hope Biden changes to a containment policy at least for the international border however not optimistic, seems like it might be all talk.
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  4952. Because they hate the lockdowns and prefer to deny reality. It's a biological defence mechanism of sorts I guess. When it's over they will mostly snap out of it I would think.
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  4953. He supports funding Israel. He is completely inconsistent.
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  4954. I think the 2 highest rates are actually China and India in our wider region.
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  4955.  @dabestest1387  My understanding is the supply of Pfizer is slow but to be honest I don't know the numbers. We have plenty on order now , I know that along with some Moderna. We are also donating some of the AZ already to surrounding smaller nations. The government says they should be able to vaccinate every adult who wants a vaccine by the end of the year, I am sceptical however , especially if a couple of people die from the Pfizer shot which isn't impossible.
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  4956. Many people will still feel sick after initially taking it like all vaccines as your body reacts to it. That's a minor side effect and short lived.
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  4957. Why Australia ? Curious to hear the current conspiracy theories.
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  4958.  @aishabintabubakr4944  Howard Springs is in the Northern Territory, what's it got to do with Victoria? Yes vast majority of Australians did support our previous covid 0 policy regardless of political party.
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  4959. You do know that the military literally runs itself right. Only in the US and probably dictatorships is it required that the Defence minister/secretary need to have even been in the military, it's purely an administrative position involving reading reports. If you are literate in English you are capable of doing the job.
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  4960. It's all about perception, a Gallup Poll not sure which year of personal safety with the question "do you feel safe walking alone at night?" 74% of US respondents said yes and only 63% of Australian respondents said yes. The US has a homicide rate 5 times that of Australia. Florida and Texas have higher homicide rates than New York and California yet if one watches this propaganda network one would think it's the opposite, Fox viewers in general probably have the opposite perception. Locking heaps of people up in Red states which is what is being done hasn't worked at all and is expensive on the public purse yet no significant discussion here or for that matter at CNN or MSNBC.
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  4961.  @Gajafar  Population density is the people living in cities overall population density is meaningless. Melbourne if you do quick search shows as 4.9 million and Dublin 1.3 million, Belfast about 600,000 now maybe it's calculated slightly different however it's not going to be out by 400% . Victoria is in a worse situation. Policy is what matters South Dakota has less than 1,000,000 people total and like Ireland about 40% rural population yet 0.2% of population dead from covid 19. Bad policy can overrule natural advantages, don't sell your own state short , nowhere else with 500 cases per day and a population over 2,000,000 outside of China has had such a tough lockdown and come out of it with 0 cases.
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  4962. Yep, but looks don't matter.
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  4963.  @truthseeker243  ok I provide a caveat , they don't matter to me and I do agree unfortunately looks in politics and the media do matter as much as the substance of what they say.
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  4964.  @truthseeker243  inform me who's calling the shots in Australia, I thought it's our government?
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  4965.  @truthseeker243  you've lost me now, I am not a great fan of my state and federal government at the moment but pretty sure they making their own decisions good and bad
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  4966. 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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  4967.  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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  4968. It's not just politicians, or hard to say how much influence between health professionals and politicians. The consistency in policy and results based on WHO region is remarkable and not a coincidence in my opinion, the South East Asian WHO region which is South Asia and some ASEAN countries took the middle ground, which has resulted in at this point in time middle of the road results overall. The West Pacific WHO region took the most cautious approach which is from China to New Zealand and all the countries in between, border policy 14 days mandatory enforced (usually hotel) quarantine, worst performing countries in deaths per million for this region are Philippines and Japan, however their deaths per million are less than 10% of the US. The European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region had a relaxed approach with open borders and voluntary or self quarantine for travellers, naturally the policy has resulted in the worst deaths per million.
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  4969. The problem might be the production , not the transport. I don't know which it is but CNG is extremely high pressure so such a tanker could carry oxygen I would think as long as no special lining is required.
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  4970.  @alex35agm  You're too soft mate, in Queensland Australia near the start of the pandemic one person threw a party against the rules and the police gave a fine and advised what might happen if he does it again, the fool did it the very next day, 2 months prison. Sent a great message, with a population of 5 million we have had 7 deaths. Another point is being tough and fair everyone follows, don't have to do much at all. In another case a billionaire took a state government to the high court of Australia because he wasn't permitted unessential travel into that state, he lost. When everyone knows even a billionaire has to follow the rules people know it's fair and even though it might be tough people are far more accepting of the rules.
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  4971. Rupert who?
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  4972. Yeah, a riot is more like those Miami scenes.
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  4973. Definitely shouldn't give a pardon to someone who doesn't want it. Could ask each individual that might be affected whether they want a pardon or not.
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  4974. Best of luck mate with Trump
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  4975. I saw a clip of Bannon on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC's YouTube channel I think it was. Bannon's plan is fill all the secretary of state positions with Trump loyalists who will refuse to certify election results etc. to create a constitutional crisis. That's consistent with the attempted coup d'etat on Jan 6. So long as Trump is still alive you will have problems.
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  4976. @Kate I am a Queenslander but currently in Canberra. South Australia isn't very high risk in the Australian context because Adelaide isn't too big so I would expect like the last incident if it was to occur again the government will react swiftly and effectively. I think all of Australia is ok now actually because most of the problems have been ironed out and seeing each other's errors in a very open manner. While it's rampant overseas we will probably still have cases every now and again relating to quarantine. All Australian except for maybe 1% are highly compliant with any orders our state or territory governments give us. Also it has been almost a completely bi partisan issue, more arguments over state borders and non partisan actually critical of each other regardless of party at times and visa versa supporting each other.
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  4977.  @mandaAU09  Of course no vaccine is approved and won't be until at least then I would suggest because there is no emergency here or in NZ or in any countries like smaller Pacific nations that might follow the Australian New Zealand TGA who I expect would be giving the approval and likely a full approval only, not any emergency approval because it doesn't make much sense. With the Oxford Astrazeneca one already being produced in Australia it might be getting stored in large vats because if the dosing regime is found to be as effective with a smaller dose we can have more doses. The other thing is I think they want to see that the various vaccines are still effective after 6 months or so, to start dosing now and find out that a vaccine wears off after 4 months would be completely pointless because border restrictions aren't going to be removed any time soon but the NZ PM said maybe March they open the border to Australia and I am thinking for vaccinated people only. We can continue like this for a while longer without any harm , nobody wants Australia or countries around us to get as bad as elsewhere.
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  4978.  @gferraro8353  the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is in production so that should be fine considering the emergency use overseas. The locally developed vaccine candidate was stopped because it used a part of a HIV protein and it caused all people to give a false positive test to that and HIV testing would need to change protocols or change the protein which would take too long. I do think some media does make the situation worse (when Victoria had problems in particular). Especially sky News Australia a Murdoch controlled media outlet similar to Fox News in our case .
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  4979. Well done , now get it to 28 days so the Border hopefully completely open. QLD standard is 28 days I think to consider an area virus free. Annoying Sydney has had a new case in the last few days.
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  4980. Not good then you are the same.
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  4981. I don't know why everyone carry on about North Korea, if any country can do a lockdown it's North Korea and they sent a very blunt message early on by shooting a South Korean public servant that had strayed over the border as a potential covid 19 carrier and burnt the body. Show the public that message and you get very good compliance. In my state of Queensland Australia we introduced potential prison terms for major offenders of health orders and we have imprisoned a few people I believe, we have a high compliance rate and only 7 deaths for a population of 5 million, so the lowest deaths per Capita of any major jurisdiction outside of most of the provinces in China.
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  4982.  @itm2810  I am in Queensland and feel for those in Victoria. Errors were made previously, but I am impressed with the comeback and getting the new infections down by about 90% from probably a peak around 400 per day down to about 40 per day. I say 400 likely peak because the 700 cases reported in one day were very likely infected over a period of days and this was during the massive testing ramp up. Given the number of healthcare workers that were infected in Victoria I think there is an element of luck that none have died at this point. To me the biggest hero in all this was the whistle blowing Chinese doctor who actually wasn't old and did lose his life , however I think his treatment while being imprisoned prior to hospitalisation may have contributed. You hang in there the best you can I don't think Victoria will make the same errors again and having an extra week or 2 of restrictions is far better than just going straight back into the same situation which has been playing out in just about every US state with more than 1,000,000 population. Best of luck to you and your state, I hope you can at least have a limited crowd for the Melbourne Cup and it can go ahead in a relatively normal way.
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  4983.  @lechatel  are you serious? Interventions meant 6 Queenslanders died out of a population of 5,000,000. But maybe you have another theory that Queenslanders are actually aliens or something. Look forward to your reply.
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  4984. No our numbers are far far lower, outside of Sydney and Melbourne there is extremely high compliance with restrictions, but urgency is lower because of success, same issues in South Korea and Japan ( Japan traditionally has high vaccine hesitancy to start with).
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  4985. I have to laugh, really a population of a few million in the hurricane path and 4 thefts have occured. Most absurd thing I have ever heard.
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  4986. I don't think so, I am not American but putting my money where my mouth, going to Bet on Biden.
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  4987. You are correct it's only the elected Republican party representatives that can do something.
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  4988. 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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  4989.  @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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  4990. I think it's great dedication actually but it failed. Better than rioting on the streets.
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  4991. It's generally easy to boycott most US products except for parts for existing machinery but it's actually quite difficult to boycott US companies completely in many countries.
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  4992. Am I correct to say plan A is do nothing and plan B is do something?
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  4993. Thanks for your info. I am male and 47 so similar age, I got the virus about a year ago and although I haven't monitored things like you it's really knocked me about, I still get puffed way easier than before and have started exercise fairly recently to try to return to a better level of fitness.
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  4994. Joe Biden should use a clone as he is a bumbling old fool now and his AI clone would respond better.
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  4995. People just talking isn't evidence, if there is evidence they can present it to a court although that time may have run out in many cases.
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  4996. Do you believe Australia or South Korea or Thailand or Malaysia or or New Zealand or Japan we are all in similar boat, don't believe the communists if you want but explain why the other countries shouldn't be believed.
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  4997.  @rahularya4719  Have you heard of Sri Lanka or for that matter violence occurring according to religion in India. All religions have done the same thing at one point in time and attacked those of other religions. Turkey seems to have changed a lot because previously they were seen as one of the most secular majority islam countries.
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  4998. 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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  4999. Course they have lol. It's only about if you get caught or not. Governments and large corporations all do it. But if you are a corporation and get caught can be big problems.
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  5000. Your federal government can't without the agreement and cooperation of the provinces because not enough manpower etc. Australia our states run their own show and quite successfully but if there is a serious problem the Federal government helps out. At one point in time all state borders were shut except one, shut means if it's not essential travel 14 hotel quarantine for about $3,000 AUD if the state will let you in at all. Get your province covid 19 free including shut the border tight to get into that position and keep it shut to all infected provinces, others will follow. Any illegal entry or dishonesty with the border declaration give them prison time. Do these measures you will succeed but you need tough provincial leaders who will ignore the prime minister when he will inevitably want the border more open , because the federal government will just see loss of tax revenue from travel restrictions. Anyway best of luck and some provinces should follow what Australian states have done, not US states who literally increase the spread by locking down stuff except the border so infected people just go to counties or states with no lockdown measures increasing the spread. Your Federal government should assist provinces with manpower for border checkpoints and hotel quarantine. Our prime minister set up what he calls the national cabinet which all state leaders plus the prime minister discuss matters in a very timely manner along health people I guess.
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  5001. I have to say your comment makes much more sense than many other comments.
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  5002. My sympathy goes out to those involved in the Florida Experiment who don't want to be in such an experiment. It's only the end of the 3rd week of the no restrictions experiment not attempted elsewhere in the world. So it's a your on your own , it's up to you to protect yourself. To those in this thread mimicking Trump's rhetoric to fight the virus by doing nothing, that's not tough, that's stupid. Being tough is doing like Western Pacific countries including my country Australia get it under control and keep it under control, do what it takes. Previous generations fought in wars, some by government mandate ( conscription ) , in the US you are not being asked to do anything tough, only minor mitigation measures in almost all states but hey let's follow Trump's advice and spread the infection. There is something wrong with your culture when you literally don't care about others because even wearing a mask is considered draconian and you are risking the lives of Vietnam Veterans who are in a high risk age group many of whom were conscripted, please reconsider your attitude.
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  5003.  @o2phu13d  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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  5004. Everyone watch out for drivers and pedestrian with "MAGA" hats, don't worry about the old men with hats anymore. There's dozens of comments from this video by clearly MAGA supporters of friends getting killed in vehicle accidents and apparently their death certificates mentioned covid 19. So someone with a Red Hat is likely not only diseased but a road safety issue.
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  5005. Do you want them to read the speech off a piece of paper as was done since independence? Why?
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  5006. The US is becoming an Egg Republic. It's seems to be dominating the political environment.
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  5007. 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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  5008. The use of threatening to fire people if they don't cooperate is a strong one.
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  5009. I think you are talking of NSW mostly because they went from hard lockdown to Florida model and now back to tightening restrictions. In QLD so far so good, doesn't mean it'll be smooth but I think we can get through it with any major increase in restrictions.
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  5010. He was speaking from a global perspective to an extent and yes it happens relatively speaking all the time, it's not a prediction of what happened and the exact virus or bacterial type of outbreak.
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  5011.  @Doom444  As an Australian I like your comment the less who know about us the better. Point everyone in the direction of the US or Europe , the leaders of the free world.
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  5012.  @angrybrit7331  I certainly feel for you and if it's like you say they should risk killing you with covid 19, you are certainly a person with a comorbidity. You are in a bad situation and ok I know why you're angry now. If you think risking death from the virus is worth it compared to your risk of not getting chemo tell them you want treatment and understand you will be at great risk of getting covid 19 which you know wil likelyl kill you but you want treatment anyway. There is nothing anyone can say that changes your situation now and a proper lockdown long ago and things would be different. No idea if telling them what you want could change anything and all I can do is wish you the best of luck whatever happens and do whatever is best for yourself medically regarding a vaccine. Take care.
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  5013. I am in Australia, why not get rid of the virus then you can have the freedoms you desire. For some reason people don't like others dying around them for no good reason so you can't convince everyone to play Russian roulette with all old people. The economy can't improve under your current situation people will hide as you say and not contribute to the economy. Best of luck but please consider others even if it's to be absolutely selfish and get out of the situation.
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  5014.  @crashoppe  seems you didn't read my screen name, everything is open where I am , no need for masks because we got rid of covid 19 and any outbreaks are pounced upon. Good luck to you because your country has your desired policy.
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  5015. Don't worry you're borrowing the money from Japan and China.
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  5016. The US didn't until invaded. Isolationism at it's best.
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  5017. No one really knows. If the vaccine does increase your immunity that's better for society but on a personal level I expect you would be at very low risk of serious health consequences if you did already get it and caught it again a year later. Nobody knows how long immunity will last and how effective immunity might be accross all strains from a previous infection or any of the vaccines. Personally the Pfizer and Moderna ones scare me a bit, I would prefer other ones that don't make my cells do things. They say it's safe and maybe it is, just giving my personal fear, I am in Australia so different position and I am against our authorities giving emergency use , I think better for us to keep doing what we are doing until normal approval is given or at least wait a few months, the vaccines going out in large numbers now is the real test and time.
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  5018.  @jameshaney171  it doesn't change the dna from my understanding but it somehow makes your own body cells produce virus proteins.
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  5019. You have the best comment, the story said that the support was very high of the Chinese government but not everyone is happy yet pro and anti China people are all offended when nothing in the story to offend anyone.
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  5020.  @bolnol5419  Covid is not still in these countries but does keep entering from the outside, restrictions worked perfectly, but it's impossible to never have quarantine breaches which have occured in 5 of those countries including 4 different Australian states. The breach in my states case was people lying to enter the state claiming that they were never in an infected area in the previous 14 days when they were. Those girls probably get some prison time for that and nobody will shed a tear. Covid 19 free means get to 0 locally transmitted cases and can do again if required.
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  5021.  @bolnol5419  If you believe China is as authoritarian as the other countries mentioned then of course. The have about the same numbers of imported cases as Australia and have had a few outbreaks ( most likely quarantine just like Australia or NZ but they don't seem too forthcoming on that ). Virus free country have too much to lose and all populations of such jurisdictions are highly compliant, of course have 1% who will never be compliant so enforcement is needed. Taiwan has had about 10% of the imported cases that Australia has had despite approximately the same population, they don't travel so much. So if next week Taiwan had an outbreak it wouldn't surprise me , it's just a game of probability when quarantine might fail noting of course there are varying standards even amongst countries with a good record.
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  5022.  @bolnol5419  We all do quarantine everyone entering at the border, my state Queensland the rule is 14 days in hotel quarantine that's with I guess the military guarding the hotel which is the standard but could be police assuming that has remained as those carrying out the task. Two tests on days 3 and 10 and if you refuse testing add 10 days to quarantine at your cost. If an outbreak occurs from an unknown source everyone 2 steps removed from the known case is put into quarantine. So if you are the known case and you had a beer at the pub with 3 mates and those 3 mates had met another 20 people over the last week or so there will be 24 people in self isolation or quarantine at home or at another location if that's more suitable , that's just from one social gathering, maybe you are a social butterfly and had 10 such gatherings in the time you were likely infectious. You being the positive case would probably be offered the choice of doing quarantine in a hospital. It's all good old fashioned draconian measures, no way around it. Your local area would have some sort of lockdown and everyone with any symptoms at all encouraged to be tested. I don't know where you are from but I think you are getting the picture that things are quite different.
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  5023.  @bolnol5419  I agree with your last comment but it's the only way, rare isn't good enough, maybe can be with vaccine, have to see which containment country allows entry for vaccinated people without quarantine first, I am guessing we will all be hesitant because whoever goes first is the Guinea Pig.
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  5024.  @bolnol5419  0 cases and less than 0.01% of the population dead versus killing 0.1% of the population and going into yet another lockdown lite ( quarantine of everyone but not proper quarantine) isn't rare enough.
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  5025. If it's the vaccine she should make a full recovery as that protein stuff leaves her system over time. Would suggest she doesn't get the vaccine again at least for now. Hope all goes well for you and your sister.
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  5026. An authoritarian apartheid version. Still a democracy on paper though.
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  5027. It's pointless without hotel quarantine, it takes about 3 days from catching it to showing up on a PCR test. The UK is the subsidiary breeding ground of the virus, US makes sure they get every strain.
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  5028. 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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  5029. If true that's a big worry because reducing the chance of herd immunity. Not sure why they have a choice, the military owns you and unless the US is very unusual vaccines aren't normally voluntary when in the military. I was in Australian military some time ago.
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  5030. How is this relevant to the video?
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  5031. A parliamentary system with the head of state and head of government being different people and all ministers from the elected officials is superior to the US system.
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  5032. New York has rules similar to parts of Australia and France as a whole as in need to be vaccinated to go to a bar. The local sentiment would be even worse in New York or France than if Australia let him play unvaccinated because of precedent.
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  5033. Your comment is funny, Singapore is rich on a per capita basis, number 12 ranking apparently. Wondering how this helps you personally.
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  5034. Same to me.
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  5035.  @Lenzer50  Cocaine and Nicotine come from plants. Many plants have poisons or drugs, just coming from a plant means nothing.
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  5036. You don't get the nuance, the "travel bans" by countries that aren't going to prevent the virus getting in has little effect. I agree with the WHO on this point but also point out certain countries like Australia can keep it out for a long time if we increase travel restrictions to the same as previously. Hopefully it's no worse than Delta although the WHO declaring it a variant of concern indicates that a high possibility it could be worse.
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  5037. Australian here, Trump just hit us with some tariffs on a little bit of steel and aluminium. Problem is the US has a trade surplus with us. Our trade together isn't that large but it's likely Australia can reduce imports from the US with no pain as we have many free trade agreements with reliable countries. I think Australian's reaction will be similar to Canadians, even if the government does nothing some people will boycott US products as it seems clear is already happening to Tesla, a Chinese impprt.
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  5038. But no reason to be ashamed either, not many countries have succeeded all the way to this point in time.
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  5039. Money for infrastructure, not food except absolute disaster. USAID has destroyed agriculture in Africa because farmers can't compete against free food so stop producing and it's a vicious cycle designed to prop up US farmers.
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  5040. Many cultures men wear skirts primarily when they dress up in traditional clothing.
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  5041. Curious where you got that ridiculous number from.
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  5042. Wait for winter, then we will see. But those really high case rates still in general around the world we could have another variant around the corner.
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  5043. Where can I buy whatever it is you are smoking or drinking and will it be cheaper after January 20 if I was to purchase it in the US?
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  5044. I wonder if US citizens are aware of Aesop's fables and in particular the tortoise and hare story, "operation warp speed" has morphed into the unionized Republicans "operation go slow". How on earth did the US drop so far, all of the tortoise countries with wealth have overtaken you, Australia, Japan, etc. look at us now, leaving the US for dead and unfortunately in a somewhat literal sense. Listen to some old slave from Greece, he had a point which is still valid today.
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  5045. Trump probably isn't a direct threat but he has radicalised many, it only takes a few of them to become terrorists and they can do a lot of damage. Trump used rhetoric that for example the Oklahoma Bomber used. Economically he has done a lot of damage because the US government debt has skyrocketed especially with his handling of covid 19. If Biden's tax plan gets through this might help a little but because your country is in a really deep hole getting out will become more difficult I expect but being the biggest economy in the world you can get away with things other countries can't. The corporate welfare in the US doesn't make up for lack of social welfare for humans and this is the most stark difference between a country like my country Australia and the US. Australia is more free trade and less industry welfare but relatively effective social welfare. As an example the US governments spend more as a proportion of GDP on healthcare yet it's not universal and from a holistic approach has lower outcomes because life expectancy in the US is about 4 years lower. Covid 19 has shown how deficient the US health system from a holistic point of view is, 500 covid 19 tests in the US by the end of February and no contact tracing or quarantine to speak of , so hundreds of cases from China if that became millions of cases and much more cases came from Europe anyway with again no quarantine. In comparison Australia 10,000 tests by the end of February for 1 fifteenth of the population, contact tracing and quarantine for all arrivals, on testing South Korea with about 1 fifth the population of the US 100,000 tests by the end of February. US people could have handled it being done properly and Trump would be the greatest president ever but although the initial failures don't seem to be his fault the continued failure to the point of encouraging people to infect each other certainly was and to use his own words allowing the virus to spread throughout all states and territories he should be punished. Maybe he will be in the end we wait and see.
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  5046. Because Trump has too many followers so impossible to sell the product to Republican states for a long time. Trump already dumped Rudi blaming him, Trump will be Trump and blame everyone but himself.
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  5047. Because as the doctor said he's the president.
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  5048. Are you serious, you should take a closer look at the US and consider how much lobbying and campaign donations are occurring and maybe question why does the US spend more per capita and as a proportion of GDP on publically funded healthcare than Australia yet it's no universal and life expectancy in the US is about 5 years lower. I do believe under the correct leadership the US has healthcare as good as Australia and could be as cheap as Australia with similar outcomes. The corporations of the US have more power than you seem to realise in my opinion. The US rates only above average for the economic freedom index which is the best guage we have for socialism, the US limited socialism system helps corporations not a welfare safety net. Best of luck in the struggle in your country you are completely oblivious to it would seem.
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  5049. It's not news it's opinion.
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  5050.  @TommyElijahCabelloReal  it's not runaway capitalism because the US is more socialist. The issue is the socialism is towards corporations not humans, AKA corporatism . See Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation which is a pretty good guide of how socialist a country is.
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  5051. I think in the background there's true fear of overflowing hospitals. It was only a month ago patients from Netherlands being transferred to Germany. My guess Germany has warned them they can't help this time.
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  5052. No it doesn't. It's just a suspension of all civil authority. The military is in charge of everything under the command of the president I would expect if it's in the US.
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  5053. Maybe that's true, however the Spanish have been obedient and now enjoying freedoms and the Austrians disobedient now having more problems. I can say the same about my own country Australia where most states are now like Spain.
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  5054. It's really unusual for a judge to use such terms basically making fun of the people making a claim before them which technically I don't think they are supposed to do , but unusual times it can be excused.
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  5055. The description of open air prison is correct, adults from Gaza can't travel to The Westbank except for medical care. Israel gets no condemnation on this issue. All GAZAn's are guilty basically because they are all punished. My source of this information was Haaretz.
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  5056. It's also led to large amounts of misinformation. So it was actually better before with less partisan news papers with real journalists.
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  5057. That's why I watch 7 sometimes because they allow comments and others don't. Not saying allowing comments should be allowed all the time though because sometimes the comments on certain subjects probably cause more harm.
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  5058.  @Dick_Interritus  You're comment about farming is incorrect, socialism or subsidies in that sector mostly cause overproduction of low value crops and increase the land value which is based on the subsidy preventing or at least making it more difficult for new entrants. Take one of the worst subsidies in the US, corn for ethanol, it's absolute madness it doesn't save the environment or produce anything of high value , ethanol and stock feed. At the same time the US is importing mostly low value I think ground beef from Australia. For arguments sake wouldn't it make more sense to not export soybeans for stock feed in China and grow enough of your own beef rather than importing it (low value beef is still a lot more valuable than stock feed). I know the thread and video not about this topic but you brought it up.
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  5059.  @Denidrakes69  You got the exchange rate around the wrong way.
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  5060.  @Dick_Interritus  Maybe in some cases Australian taxes are higher but if you search "Wikipedia List of countries by tax revenue to GDP ratio" you will see for 2020 Australia and US both had 27.x%. Then look at the columns of government spending and government debt and you will see US gov spending is greater and debt to GDP is on a continuous rise. Another fallacy you seem to fall for is about healthcare costs, the US spends more as a proportion of GDP on publically funded healthcare than Australia, so based on your comment you are paying tax for healthcare greater than Australia for no benefit. That's crazy I prefer lower taxes with a benefit for all who need/want it and if I prefer extras I can still pay for private health cover if I want to.
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  5061.  @Dick_Interritus  So you don't believe the published data of the US and or Australia, well there's no convincing you then. If you are referring to Howard Springs a converted mining camp that all our Olympians went through for quarantine just like anyone else, except it's far better than hotel quarantine which most people went through as a concentration camp you couldn't be further from the truth. As you would be aware all countries in the Western Pacific region of WHO had hotel quarantine except maybe the French and US protectorates. Our deaths are less than 10% of the PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region on a per capita basis. So 1 million dead so that you didn't have to quarantine and your right to infect remained in tack. The Queen could technically remove a Prime Minister but needs to have a reason as in the government can't function however it's the Queen's representative the Governor General who would actually do that as happened in the early 70s when one party in the Senate cut funding from the government so the assessment was made that the government couldn't function so the government was dissolved and an election called. Usually in a constitutional democracy a PM will be removed and replaced within the party by a simple vote electing a new leader but obviously from the same party. By the way our Monarch's title is Queen of Australia and technically she is also the Queen of each state within also, so I could call her the Queen of Queensland, my state. In her capacity as Queen of Australia she has nothing to do with the UK she just lives there and is a citizen there. If Australia went to war with the UK I wonder what she would do, probably tell us both to cut it out.
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  5062.  @Dick_Interritus  No the PM to get the boot from the Governor General was Gough Whitlam and not sure when but it was before Whitlam a PM named Harold Holt and I don't think they ever discovered what happened to him. With taxes even income taxes the Australian system is so different you can't actually do a side by side comparison. Obviously the US being more socialist and less of a free trading country you pay more for many imported goods. With income tax I'll just point out with dividends, in Australia we receive what is called an imputed credit, this means the dividend is paid with the tax attached that the company already paid and our company tax is 30% which is much higher than the US, this credit will be applied to my personal tax and I may get a refund or have to pay more according to my tax bracket so if I only make it into the 22% tax bracket or whatever I will get a refund so for arguments sake $70 dividend with $30 tax credit I will get a refund of $8. In the US although the company tax rate is lower you will never get credited for your share of tax already paid by the company and might need to pay up to 20% on top as income tax plus a state income tax on top of that. So as far as income tax goes tell me your circumstances and I could usually tell you which country would be better for you , Australian states can't have an income tax because of constitutional constraints thank goodness. Our tax systems create different behaviours, Australian companies pay higher dividends and US companies tend to hoard money and reinvest it to try and achieve gains through capital gains which are taxed differently in Australia and USA. So I believe whatever you read was probably correct but unless it pointed out all the significant differences of which there are many, unintentionally misleading.
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  5063.  @Dick_Interritus  As far as how tax money is spent, it's a case by case basis, so for public healthcare it's far better spent than in the US but from the extremely little I know South Korea and Japan do better than Australia with this. Does the Australian or Queensland government waste money and make big mistakes on occasion, of course , every government does anywhere in the world, it's a matter of how bad and more importantly do they learn from the mistakes and try not to do it again and on average Australia and my state of Queensland is performing pretty well. I am actually taking a one man fight to both my state and federal government's at the moment regarding strata title properties, yes we are as bad possibly worse than many US states, don't know what happened with it but that apartment tower collapse in Florida could happen here and nobody can legally be held responsible. My background is listed investments in 3 countries Australia of course, Malaysia and Thailand, these listed investments are all regulated to a high standard, strata title properties there's no rules at all in my state, gain power you can do whatever you want, no possibility of being sacked or banned for unlawful behaviour because no provision for that. By unlawful behaviour I am referring to listed company standards because of course nothing is unlawful in the QLD strata title industry. You know you threw me a curved ball, I expected to be fighting you but you didn't fight , you actually discuss things in a normal manner. I know comment sections are dominated by those with strong right or left opinions who tend to be highly aggressive, in some ways I want what cannot be, a lot more people making comments who are somewhere in the centre. One thing about you which tells me you are really a genuine person is you saying my family benefits from some sort of agricultural handouts or subsidies or whatever but you don't think that's good. A hardline partisan never admits anything, that would be losing face.
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  5064.  @Dick_Interritus  Your description of yourself just reminds me of me relatives, my late mother was a nuclear scientist who at some point in time before I was alive actually worked at our only nuclear reactor Lucas Heights, I never discussed much about her life but I remember her once saying she used (can't remember exact words) a computer that was housed in a building, that's a computer with valves and she said it was hard to use ( in retrospect I am thinking that was a pretty big understatement, a $50 budget smartphone probably has 1000 times or even much more the computing power now). My brother got degrees in Physics science and Computer engineering, he never used the science part but worked for German banks in computer programming. I on the other hand basically just passed high school, not dedicated enough for academic things. Anyway Happy New Year and hope all goes well for you, take care.
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  5065. Trump has flagged your answer , the problem is testing creates positive results so just stop testing by 1 October then the problem is solved
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  5066.  @marylee4553  yes in Australia and a little bit in Thailand and Malaysia.
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  5067. If you listened even to this interview he told you, he mentioned that there was some belief of herd immunity. Another aspect is from within and without India claims were being made of genetic advantage as in genetic superiority. Some European and US too I believe made the hypothesis that Asian countries less affected because they must have already had plenty of other similar viruses already making them immune or in other words genetic superiority, but it was nothing more than Europe and the Americas took no containment measures , only relaxed mitigation measures ( open borders and voluntary quarantine) so failed badly, but bias meant they wanted to explain it another way or excuse themselves for their own failures. India was in the middle along with it's WHO region, with 7 days hotel quarantine and 7 days self quarantine, Western Pacific region is 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine, however in deaths per million Japan and Philippines similar to India because their quarantine measures not tight enough. Without the new variants India would not have a problem actually, but the UK variant and most likely the Indian variant are far more contagious. Note the countries I mentioned including India are still below 10% in deaths per million of most of Europe and US.
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  5068. You can't say that, Trump certainly calls the shots. It can be said however he can be easily manipulated by some.
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  5069. They are not trying to control it , it's only a short lockdown lite or mitigation lockdown. Lockdowns to contain the virus are mostly in West Pacific countries and very successful for the most part , only Indonesia and Philippines significantly struggling at this point in time because of very dense living conditions where it's probably impossible to stop the virus.
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  5070. If BLM burning city blocks, an insurection and open borders are your thing, I guess that's some sort of freedom.
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  5071. Argentina should be kicked out of the G20 because they are now 24th largest GDP in the world.
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  5072. Not really, most of the other deaths will be to do with lockdown lite. In Australia we had about 1,200 excess deaths in the first 6 months of 2020 and deaths from respiratory disease was actually lower than normal in that time period which of course includes covid 19. The excess deaths were mainly attributable to Diabetes and heart disease and the graph shown showed the excess deaths were in March and April as in the lockdown time. You could search for it if you want it's on the Australian Bureau of Statistics website. The ongoing lockdown lite that never seems to end in your country was/is far more damaging than a proper lockdown for a much shorter period and of course much fewer covid 19 deaths which affects the mental health of people also.
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  5073. Civilians don't arrest people or get shot at. It's all easy to say oh I would have done x y or z but are you certain in a split second decision and you are being shot at you couldn't make a mistake? Maybe you should become a policeman because you are perfect.
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  5074. 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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  5075. Well they are leading you, so they are real leaders , just the direction might be a concern. The pied Piper comes to mind.
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  5076. Not only Indonesia.
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  5077. Huh? 400,000 infections , thousands of regular deaths in such a large population and 3 have been labelled as covid, yeah right mate they're labelling them all as covid, all 3 out of thousands of deaths that will occur anyway due to population.
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  5078. Sometimes Americans are super polite and respectful. It's only in the US someone would keep speaking "yes Ma'am".
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  5079. Things aren't that bad. Yes Trump doesn't care about people however first he has to win an election and then become a dictator. This isn't exactly easy to achieve.
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  5080. At least when it comes to MAGA adherents it's incorrect to say negative attention is not preferred. Owning the libs is literally being proud of making people angry even to the point of hurting your own supporters.
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  5081. Well no it has already occurred and no it wasn't black lives matter protestors.
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  5082.  @EyesBlack2  so you're saying the reports on the matter were inaccurate and nothing happened not even the dancing on the tomb of the unknown soldier? If such a misinformation campaign exists this is somewhat on the scale of the Donald Trump election lies campaign, truly amazing that the Canadian government and media are as bad as Trump and Fox. I pity you if that's the case.
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  5083. Justice won't prevail, that much is clear.
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  5084. That's to stop the mobs, you think one copper can take on a mob of 50 anti lockdown rioters.
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  5085.  @mfp4136  By US standards which you seem to go by they were all peaceful protestors because they haven't killed anyone or burnt down a building, fair point. They certainly don't have any independent thought being part of a mob is far from independent thinking especially the mobs in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth protesting lockdowns that weren't in existence. Protesting against something which isn't happening is just outright stupid.
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  5086.  @mytwosense9135  Agreeing that not killing 50,000 people which is how many would have died without Australia's measures makes me a communist? That's a rather curious idea. I would consider the Americas and European approach to be like the "Great Leap Forward" , literally millions dead when it didn't have to be. And no they aren't happy either, more riots and violence than Australia despite doing what you wanted Australia to do.
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  5087. I image gas prices will just fluctuate like they normally do in a world market, US oil companies are not going to sell below market prices they will just pocket any extra profits from lower taxes and or lower environmental regulations.
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  5088. I am guessing you are American lol.
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  5089. LMAO it's inappropriate that votes should be counted if they can't be counted in 6 hours, the approximate time from close of polls to the Trump deadline. So they should declare the election with only half the votes counted, this seems like a reality tv show way of doing things where the producers leave plenty of leeway in the rules.
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  5090. That's a new one for me, cancelling contracts that have already ceased to be in effect. Another effect people probably haven't realised yet but banks will treat government employment and contractors the same way they treat casual workers with no job security, it's probably already harder for a government employee to get a home loan.
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  5091. "Cease operation" Cease is the same like the other comment said as stop.
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  5092.  @littledovecitydust  According to a survey last year sometime what you say is true, however that was before the coup d'etat, pretty sure many have a changed position on them now.
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  5093. @Dean Clark That's sad to hear, if they had only stuck it out.
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  5094. It definitely needs policing and rehabilitation. Did you watch the entire documentary?
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  5095. 0.16% of New York people are now dead due to the virus, and the death rate is relatively slow now but it hasn't stopped and evidence suggests much of the slowing is due to government actions.
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  5096.  Hand Solo  Excess deaths in NYC is over 100% counting from last week of January to a few weeks ago according to the CDC.
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  5097. Invasive meaning not native, these crabs should only be in the pacific and indian oceans, not the atlantic.
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  5098. I reckon that could be significant, the $400 million is only the debts he is personally liable for, there might be a lot more out there and who knows how international it is. The hotel businesses other than the US where people stayed for the presidents ear probably aren't doing so well. If for arguments sake you were a foreign banker you would wait until January 21 to make a call on any loan. If there are big debts the various bankers probably all know and will move quickly because speed sometimes makes a difference in what can be recovered.
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  5099. John , I know it's confusing but Hispanic is an ethnic group, eg coming from a Spanish speaking country, they can be white, black and indigenous American (American Indian) and any mix of the above.
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  5100. Observing from afar, the problem seems to be much worse in NY and LA areas and the perpetrator seem to mostly be another minority that you observed in the clip.
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  5101. @Pop Corn No the virus has disproportionately killed people in the PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO regions , Africans are in Africa so by your analogy people in the Americas and Europe are stupid. I am in the Western Pacific WHO region and we have the lowest death rates of any region so we must be smart, including our indigenous populations. There's some truth to the last part of my statement, in Australia very early on remote indigenous people requested significant travel restrictions into their communities and it was done.
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  5102. Employment level s make a big difference to crime, problem is it might go the other direction now.
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  5103.  @treasuresabound0062  scroll down through the comments and respond to my second comment if you want.
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  5104.  @Sara-bb2qg  yet another one, please read my second comment and respond if you want.
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  5105.  @bobbyosborne2375  I am confused by your comment, one of the lowest deaths , in fact the lowest up to now of a jurisdiction outside of China with 1 million plus population on a per capita basis and only 14 weeks lockdown give or take since beginning of pandemic, therefore lowest restrictions on the planet except for travel which is now relaxing. Please explain your assertion.
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  5106.  @BroadHobbyProjects  please read my comments and respond if you want, so far I not get a response.
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  5107.  @denisepappas4644  the other costs are less homicides, less suicides, increased trade surplus, less government deficit. Better societal cohesion. What is the problem, please be explicit? Compared to for example UK and US.
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  5108.  @denisepappas4644  Well that's great that Japan hasn't required any mandate, Australia is not Japan. They don't have antivaxxers running rampant clearly because they have achieved a high vaccination rate and Australia has too actually amongst those not affected by any mandate. This indicates to me you are scared of the vaccine, so why didn't you say so in the first place instead of skirting around the issue.
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  5109.  @grahamstull2330  Well no that's incorrect, basically all Western Pacific WHO region countries have been able to keep the virus out of hospitals for the most part and nursing homes to a large extent but not all, it's true with Omicron that might change we will have to wait and see.
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  5110. The number killed suggests Israeli weapon. The simple rockets from the Gaza side couldn't kill 200 under any circumstances in my opinion.
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  5111. Do you believe Australia or South Korea for arguments sake are telling the truth. Whatever your answer is , it will lead you to the same conclusion.
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  5112.  @ConvictedFelon2024  So that means there was no reason China couldn't have detected cases outside of Wuhan after the lockdown, because other provinces were in the same situation as other countries. As far as the death toll in Wuhan , the official death toll is probably lower than the real toll, it would likely be a few hundred more or at the outside double. Any locality with large case loads will not be an accurate number but a pretty good guide. Testing numbers and positive cases are probably less accurate due to double counting sometimes.
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  5113. Interesting comment. I would say where ever there are more than 100 humans there is racism.
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  5114. Australian contribution to India is more symbolic than anything else and we only sending a few hundred non invasive ventilator and 1,000,000 medical mask. Australia doesn't manufacture PPE or vaccines on a large scale and probably too far to help with any physical oxygen.
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  5115.  @notsogreen  I am guessing recorded at the test location because previously in Australia it was recorded as state of residence and it changed to where tested positive and just a guess really but I expect the world is standardising definitions although slowly the best that they can.
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  5116. It happens every election someone commits small time voter fraud, what's your point?
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  5117.  @thehorde2908  I am Australian and centre right on the political spectrum I guess ( as political positions don't really align internationally and Trump falls outside of mainstream Australian politics because of various reasons including being a proponent of big deficit spending prior to covid 19 and protectionist) All the interviews I have seen said there is no widespread and or systemic voter fraud and so far no evidence to the contrary. Maybe an individual or 2 used the words no voter fraud and again so what it changes nothing, you are literally arguing over a single word.
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  5118. Should there be laws against scammers? Just asking because that's the other side of the coin. Many people both males and females are scammers these days because the internet has made it so easy.
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  5119. Sky News is the lynch mob leaders after Dan Andrews the Premier of Victoria. If you watch their coverage on that matter you would think they are being extra nice to Trump. Dan Andrews is almost considered a killer but Trump seems to get a free pass. It's almost like the editorial overlords have indicated if the politician is in the right leaning party give them a free pass and if they are in the left leaning party hang them out to dry no matter what. Victoria would have about the fifth lowest per capita death toll from covid 19 if it was a US state. By Australian standards a total stuff up, by US standards a good job. You notice any bias?
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  5120. Yes unless it's initiated by Republicans it will fail and be a complete waste of time.
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  5121. Well it's like those weapons displayed, modern technology can do more damage more quickly, so while the tools aren't the cause for example guns, give a violent society plenty of guns it will exacerbate the problem. The US is by far the most violent wealthy nation at least at the moment.
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  5122. Reading the comments in this thread it seems there is a major shortage of mirrors in the US, maybe China could export some to you. Both your political parties are making things worse and the overarching policies are common to both parties , not a single lockdown and not a single day of compulsory quarantine at any border or even when sick. Don't blame Murdoch media, my state Queensland Australia only has Murdoch press . You tend to find Murdoch media is mostly a follower not a leader, they give people what they want, so Fox News or Sky News Australia are only preaching to the converted. Queensland, 7 covid 19 deaths for a population of 5 million, it can't be the media's fault otherwise I have to say our Murdoch print media played a part, but more likely they represent the readers.
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  5123.  @dqmachine2624  The Australian border will remain largely closed at least until next year, it's looking like it will be about January before we can all be vaccinated, some Moderna coming soon to add to supply of Pfizer and Astrazeneca we using currently. A big factor in how we open up could be whether or not New South Wales gains control of it's outbreak which after each passing day is looking less likely although they have dramatically stepped up lockdown enforcement activities so maybe they can surprise, over 400 cases yesterday. If NSW regains control border will be slower to open, our public hasn't been told yet that even with vaccines probably 2 to 5,000 will die if the border is opened. China is discussing the same thing and they having problems with Delta variant also. If you have a true compassionate reason as in visiting sick relative or something you could apply for that but no guarantee they would say yes. Maybe I start to become paranoid but if the next variant to come along evades vaccines and more deadly we all back to square one or maybe worse. Best of luck and take care. Hopefully next year sometime the world starts to move in a positive direction.
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  5124. Exactly and every other country manufacturing parts is the same. Somehow I don't think Trump can follow through on this.
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  5125. So the war crimes occurring in the West Bank and the seige on the whole of Palestine isn't provocative?
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  5126. Yeah you looking for a trade war to kill your country economically. Way to go be a traitor supporting the demise of your country and the US.
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  5127. Police need to collect evidence first, when they arrest him they only have a certain amount of time to charge him otherwise they need to let him go, there will be differences by state but that's what needs to happen and also need to know which state, the police aren't even certain of that yet.
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  5128. I saw it explained how they rush the process, including producing vaccines for the phase 3 trials for example without knowing it will get past phase 2. Start phase 3 trials before phase 2 is absolutely conclusive but no apparent risk. Normally they wouldn't do it that way and save money. Also the regulator in this case is still giving a qualifier of emergency use meaning they don't give it 100% approval.
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  5129. You are correct however like the other comment here 70,000,000 or so Americans still like the guy. Q followers around the world like him too and they exist in my country Australia and probably your country but fortunately not large in numbers. Trump is like the high priest of Q. Foreign Q followers sort of hate their own countries because basically all politicians in the world who are not Trump are a part of the global cabal and deep state etc.
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  5130. Banned is probably the wrong word without qualification. People coming from every country to Australia must have an extremely good reason , not a holiday, either a returning citizen or diplomat I guess and a few other exemptions. So a normal US citizen or citizen of any country can't come here and if anyone does come here 2 weeks mandatory government supervised hotel quarantine I am pretty sure. In the way I think you mean , of course US citizens are banned, citizens of every country are. For anyone of any country other than a head of state maybe to think they can currently travel around the world freely , they are just completely ignorant. In Australia you can't travel freely internally, 14 days mandatory quarantine in many cases when crossing a state border, including government supervised hotel quarantine in some cases.
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  5131.  @commonsense6967  Florida is subtropical so no big spikes , so it's actually the US state with the best climate to deal with covid 19. DeSantis isn't God he doesn't create the weather. In the last 2 years there has been some spike in cases in summer in Florida. This is because people go inside more due to the heat, same in some other Sunbelt states.
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  5132. @Evidence Based Health Which WHO region are you referring to? This makes a big difference because different approaches, I am aware of the Western Pacific region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region and European region approaches, others I haven't looked into.
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  5133. I think more likely it becomes required after full approval.
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  5134. One thing that's going to happen is the life expectancy will likely increase during this time in countries that had a containment, not mitigation strategy, because the actions taken will reduce the rate some other causes of death which will likely be in excess of deaths that might go up because of those same actions.
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  5135. The retribution game is now on. People did vote for this. Trump wasn't in any way whatsoever secretive about this plan.
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  5136. In about a month you will likely have the freedoms in Victoria that the rest of the country enjoys and the restrictions other than travel are less than the often mentioned Sweden. Hang in there you can join us soon. The US and UK are in continuing lockdown similar to Sweden but many more deaths probably to do with the healthiness of the population Sweden's obesity rate is 20% USA 36% Australia and UK about 30% . You as a Victorian have something to look forward to , the rest can look to more of the same until or unless a vaccine comes which is Sweden's stated position.
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  5137. They're in the government and immune to what you suggest. It has to be this way otherwise a government couldn't function. Maybe US citizens should have voted for someone else. And for all those complaining about Elon not being elected he literally was, it was no secret that Trump was running with Elon. The denial of reality from both the left and right in the US is astounding.
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  5138. We might be supplying weapons or components of weapons or weapons systems. We however are not paying for for them, Israel can stump up US supplied money for it.
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  5139. Deaths might be decreasing due to better procedures at nursing homes.
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  5140. No, not unless ASEAN decided that was the right thing to do, after all they were the leaders of the agreement.
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  5141. You are a democracy but low functioning by international standards. I am Australian and I would actually trust an Indonesian election for fairness above the US. To be fair I haven't looked into their system so I don't actually know, just an impression and I do know the US system is how it is.
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  5142. While for a wealthy country you are correct the US is probably the worst , it's nothing compared to China with 100 billionaires in parliament and 600,000,000 living on $5 per day as acknowledged by the CPC last year.
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  5143.  @tomjohnson4681  Are you going to invade Australia? Not sure what I need a gun for, Australia is safe from " mostly Peaceful protestors" and other types. Also covid 19 free with occasional quarantine breaches is a good place to be.
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  5144.  @redstwok1123  I tend to agree with you about implementing quarantine right now in the US being a sort of waste of time, however if Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico did it in the new year it would make sense. These are all geographically isolated (no road connections) and fairly low populations. I am thinking 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine or 2 shots of any of the approved/ emergency approved vaccines. It might mean nurses and others in the healthcare sector including workers like janitor are the first holiday makers and that's not a bad thing if it occurs.
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  5145. Most likely they aren't, the numbers will not be accurate , however authoritarian left leaning countries have way outperformed other countries on average regarding this matter. Non left leaning or nominally left leaning authoritarian countries are a mixed bag , the US for example is authoritarian with other health matters like drugs (400,000 health direction disobedient prisoners) but decided that freedom of movement and no precautions to infect others was important on this occasion.
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  5146. The last part of your statement is irrelevant , the US spends more on publically funded healthcare as a proportion of GDP than say Australia for example and has spent more on handouts during the pandemic than Australia. The first part of your comment is correct, things are disfunctional.
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  5147.  @newsoul8626  100% agree with you, but military spending has nothing to do with anything regarding healthcare and handouts. If you have followed things reasonably closely there was massive creation of companies at one point when it didn't seem to make sense, guaranteed they were mostly created to receive government handouts and a report suggested $400 million in handouts actually went overseas. No government is perfect, Australia did waste some money too, but the scale of the waste in the US on a per Capita basis was far worse. I don't know how your country is going to stop corporate welfare and ridiculously relaxed rules, drug dealers with degrees can still get paid, how on earth Doctors can receive anything more than say a commemorative pen for dealing large amounts of "legal" drugs is beyond me. The Fentanyl epidemic is from mostly legal drug dealers.
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  5148. And the US most likely was the birthplace of the Spanish Flu, I look forward to China and the US sending billions $s to Australia, not.
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  5149.  @Rayblondie  I don't think there is any conspiracy but can understand why after a year people are wondering why your ( any actually) government isn't up to speed running like a well oiled machine on the issue. The main point is it's a year on, every government made mistakes from January to March last year with the possible exceptions of Taiwan and Vietnam but a year later if it's a wealthy country what's the excuse.
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  5150. Keep up your good work and try to stay positive.
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  5151. Is the US not a federation and the federal government has absolutely nothing to do with crime within a state? In Australia the states manage these issues and we don't have unviable tiny police forces at county or city level. Bring in state policing the local and county can't do the job in part because broke cities have high crime rates and can't fund policing. The federal government has nothing to do with it just like they can't affect the world oil price, you are not some all powerful socialist utopia.
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  5152. I would say it is but nothing gains attention like protesting a government and bringing along high powered guns in that other protest. Those protestors are internationally infamous.
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  5153. He is because for the people who have lost a loved one it will help some of them a bit.
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  5154. Military don't normally get much training in crowd control.
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  5155. I think you meant he keeps lowering the bar.
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  5156. For reference Florida is about 3.5 times the population of Victoria Australia.
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  5157.  @crystalgiddens7276  I am unsure what point you are making to me. I don't like those impolite people calling you "Karen" that's racist and possibly sexist in my opinion. What do you think can a black or Asian lady be called "a Karen"?
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  5158. Just buy hot chilli powder and eat a teaspoon full, a bit hotter than a vindaloo and guaranteed to be fast acting. If that doesn't work try a tablespoon full. Be careful though too much chilli might make you sicker and messes with the digestive system.
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  5159. I am Australian my observation is both sides are very much to blame, excuses for the killers amongst MAGA on one side and excuses against BLM and ANTIFA killers on the other. About 20 inner cities in the US have a homicide rate above 20 per hundred thousand, that's worse than a lot of poor developing corrupt countries. I can't see how your country can change because the division is real and having a national homicide rate 5 times that of other wealthy nations should be seen as a tragedy but it's seen as a way to score points over ones ideological opponent. Best of luck, take of yourself and I wish your country the best but can't at this time see how progress can be made.
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  5160. Depends what you mean, the US is fairly protectionist and doles out plenty of money in corporate welfare. Is that the sort of thing you think is good or do you mean some sort of centre left or right thing that supports free markets limited government with welfare for humans that need help instead of corporations? Interested to hear your answer.
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  5161.  @vietnam1978  Australia is technically called a continent now but it's ok to consider it an island. Just pointing out the island status has very little to do with success in dealing with covid 19, look at all the other islands in the world, they were not successful like the south west Pacific, Hawaii literally in the middle of nowhere had problems, Puerto Rico and rest of Caribbean mostly had problems, Malta, Cypress, island of Ireland. Madagascar has done very well however. Vietnam, China Thailand have also done well and not islands, it's the actions that are taken a virus can neither swim or walk across a border. Of course to be fair some poorer countries it was too difficult however they on average if not the Americas outperformed other countries, PAHO and European region of WHO have a lot to answer for in my opinion, the regional offices of the WHO show a remarkable correlation with procedures and success or no success, happy you are in Western Pacific WHO region like us with the 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine for arrivals and agressive actions for any outbreak, we did well.
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  5162.  @kohtime  The virus doesn't care about citizenship, a US citizen could travel anywhere they want and never had to quarantine in the US so the border was open, same going the other way, pretty sure nobody traveling from the US to UK ever went into the hotel quarantine which was set up but completely useless because wasn't universal. 500,000 people have been through Australian hotel quarantine so about 2% of the population, they aren't locked out at all but capacity is limited so in some cases it took quite a lot of waiting along with actually getting a flight. Foreigners it's fair to say are locked out except for permanent residents and a few workers for the most part.
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  5163. In a relative sense inner city Chicago is 10 times more dangerous, the deaths on the Israeli side are less than a bad Chicago weekend yet the population of Chicago is only 8 million versus 10 million in Israel. Anyway I am not American, they would prefer to spend $ 4 billion a year protecting a safe country than their own citizens in many US cities that are far more dangerous.
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  5164. Australia hasn't relaxed anything, currently only NSW looks to be in trouble and they took the approach of locking down slowly which with other variant was good enough, with Delta it takes more , China has outbreaks too so there answer along with Papua New Guinea is to increase hotel quarantine to 21 days because it spreads in hotel quarantine. Maybe the purpose built facilities in China are better but either they aren't 100% or they aren't capable of handling all travellers.
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  5165. Pick your country then , do you think Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand are all lying too, we all follow the same basic procedures and have been successful. If China had tens of thousands dying it's impossible to cover up also when the virus does escape quarantine and you need to put restrictions on you need to tell people (China might make up questionable stories like it's from imported food but don't deny the cases) otherwise they won't comply.
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  5166. There's 10s of thousands of people crossing the border each day legally. They do what they can noting the majority of traffickers or at least smugglers are US citizens.
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  5167.  @pakde8002  Are you calling the US a developing country? The life expectancy in Mississippi is lower than places like Palestine or Thailand or Vietnam. But not all states are equal so the country might be low for a high income country but overall not too bad.
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  5168. 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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  5169.  Mrreciprocat  are you kidding? 44 unconscious over a 5 year period and this chief of about 2 years thought it was ok. He is the boss. It's only because of this incident it's now not ok. Chauvin I suspect thought he would make Floyd unconscious but it went wrong.
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  5170.  @janpacana6293  reporting rates will vary widely.
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  5171. So he's just a looter that supports overthrow of an election. Just because he didn't do the hard work of barging through barricades and break and enter in the building , normally I would suggest you are just as guilty. If I loot a shop after someone else breaks the door down I think I am just as guilty.
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  5172. They should have just let him compete if he doesn't qualify one would expect he would be knocked out quickly, if however it's because of covid 19 and he couldn't find a competition to qualify in and actually he is good should have cut him some slack.
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  5173. John mentioned it a while back. The problem is too many countries to choose from that have problems. We have to wait a month or so to see if the Slovakian idea is looking good or not. A very difficult task but they seem serious.
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  5174. It's basically not being monitored in house on fire countries. Australia had one hospital have that problem early on and so did a Vietnamese hospital so there is no doubt it's happened elsewhere quite often. While it's not technically a cover up it's just don't find out because we don't want to know in the countries not reporting hospital outbreaks.
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  5175. Israel has broken the ceasefire deal with Trump's approval. Netanyahu and Trump are to blame for hostages not being released.
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  5176. The US isn't the world and it was created from subsidies and protectionism particularly now.
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  5177. No they wouldn't. Martial law military control. The military may not have a use for the police.
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  5178. Hello scammer
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  5179. Not at all , have you ever heard the terms "the deplorables" or "clinging to guns and bibles" , while I reckon the people who have reacted against her are being ridiculous, 1000's of comments on Fox News take on this, her reaction will cause her problems in the future I suspect.
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  5180. China numbers are more accurate now than US numbers. If you only have 10s of cases to count and the occasional body it's not hard.
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  5181. 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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  5182. If stability means just let China have all the South China Sea it wants then yes but otherwise I would suggest it will increase stability.
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  5183. The one in ten isn't disproportionate to the overall population, what's your point?
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  5184. Exactly, people don't normally walk around with a birth certificate or passport and proof of address.
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  5185. @CastAirLead Your point made me think of something, according to the comment you responded to if someone has more than one cause on a death certificate using the logic they are using then they didn't die of anything, if it wasn't covid then it can't be the other things also. Of course they are all contributing factors.
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  5186. These are young healthy people at 0.005% risk or something, more risk crossing the road. And they will be considered heroes. Apparently as reported fairly early on in Alabama they had covid 19 parties where people would compete to get infected first, some weren't so young or fit and it cost them. But the point is they should have done the trial in the US, willing volunteers who only want some beer or something.
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  5187.  @MartsTravel  If money is an incentive to join the trial that is unethical in my opinion, because even though the risk of anything serious is almost 0 for the trial participant it means they are attracting the vulnerable to take the risk. The amount seems significantly higher than expenses would be.
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  5188.  @MartsTravel  if I was 20 and fit why not, but I am 47, I got the virus and it certainly wasn't pleasant had chest pains for maybe 5 minutes after waking each day sometimes twice with a few minutes in between, I guess low blood oxygen levels, lots of headaches and spit up about 6 tablespoon of fluid every morning so I guess some pneumonia. At the time I didn't think that seriously about it and couldn't get tested. In retrospect I was probably in a lot worse shape than I realised and possibly qualified to go to hospital. Other things that occurred was conguctivitis when waking eyelids literally sealed together, herpes and tinea flared up big time. I smoke and drink a lot and I do consider myself somewhat lucky as in not unlucky because others like me died. I am not overweight or wasn't at the time and not entirely unfit, but since then I probably haven't regained my fitness to what I was partly because of me and partly the long term effects I think.
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  5189. Unless they have some agreements with several other countries to get the results in a reasonable time it sounds too difficult. Unless as mentioned in this thread they ship all the tests to China who probably could achieve results quickly.
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  5190.  @pingo.with.a.camera9897  it showed enough to demonstrate that the police and Arbery both did nothing wrong. What is of greater concern is either the laws regarding the use of body cam footage are insufficient or that this is stolen property. Normally and I would suggest it will be the case that such videos have very strict criteria about how they can be used for privacy issues etc. The motive of whoever released it might be to cause delays in the justice system or outright subvert the course of justice with the use of a stolen video which is the serious issue here. The guardian was unwise to release it in my opinion although they do have certain protections regarding not saying who gave it to them. The guardian is a left wing media organization so what was there motive in releasing it? We don't know the answers to many things and have to wait and see.
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  5191. I think they might be used to hold doors open instead of using a brick.
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  5192.  @andyforshaw8489  If one is allowed all will be allowed and we don't want unvaccinated foreigner filling up our hospitals. We are fortunate we can choose because we are a country with a border.
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  5193.  @MrJamiez  I like your Jesus comment, I can think of a good comedy skit. Jesus arrives in Australia and proclaims he has some vaccination exemption as they are doing a random search on his luggage they find undeclared bread, fish and his sandals appear to be made of untreated animal product.....
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  5194.  @andyforshaw8489  While on a personal level at this point in time I don't require hospital care maybe tomorrow or whenever I have a heart attack and if the hospital over capacity I am not going to receive good care am I. Many people obviously require hospital care or elective surgery which is being delayed currently, inviting unvaccinated in would take up more hospital space, it's that simple. The UK I believe is in a worse situation on average than Australia when it comes to elective surgery waiting lists.
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  5195.  @derrydoire1864  Your question is loaded, approximately 67% of the Australian adult population is overweight or obese as of 2017/2018, now if we added other conditions of people who were not overweight or obese and obviously below the age of 70 because if you are older than 70 you automatically have some problem with you. So just using the information available 80% plus of the population has underlying conditions. The number would be extremely small because not many below the age of 50 have died, lots over 70 have died and most in between obviously have some condition. Same goes for every country with a "Western" junk food diet and a good health system where life expectancy is high. If you think 80% of the population probably including your self should be ignored well then you get a death toll like the US on a per capita basis I am talking about.
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  5196.  @andyforshaw8489  I haven't travelled overseas in the past 2 years, have you? I haven't been on lockdown either because border restrictions worked only about 14 weeks lockdown in total and 10 was at the beginning of 2020.
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  5197.  @derrydoire1864  The only country to ban all HIV positive people from entry for a significant period was the US I believe and for long term stays in Australia as in student visa HIV positive are not accepted. These sorts of things are actually normal, it's only ignorance if you and for that matter myself are unaware of entry conditions under what circumstances etc. around the world. People accept rules, maybe you have never travelled outside your free travel region wherever that might be for an extended visa stay. I haven't worked or studied overseas and most people in the world haven't actually.
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  5198.  @mielerodriguez5678  You might personally agree with open borders without restrictions despite every country on earth having some border controls even if not effective but at least consider many countries believe in controlled regulated borders, got nothing to do with whatever you are saying.
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  5199.  @dave3223  Yep it's my best, I can't go through the comment section and insult 20 people like you. The virus is real and it kills some people and a vaccine will help reduce these deaths.
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  5200.  @andrewlilley3660  name the viruses you think were far worse and then I think I can answer you. I have a suspicion which viruses you might mention but I need to be sure before answering.
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  5201.  @andrewlilley3660  well the comment about anyone dying of anything is labeled as covid 19 simply isn't true otherwise the Covid 19 deaths wouldn't rate at about number 3 or 4 for cause of death in countries where allowing people to die is seen as ok so long as hospitals don't overflow. If you were to say it's being counted differently to "the flu' meaning pretty much a group of other coronaviruses I would agree with you however even countries like the UK have taken some actions to limit spread and even taking into account excess deaths over the flu seasons and assuming all died sooner than they would have due to flu you still come up with a lower number than covid 19 despite all the efforts as limited as they might be to stop the spread of Covid 19 in the UK.
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  5202. Well I think a high level of socialism does cause there to be less of an economic shock Sweden has government spending over 50% of GDP prior to this year.
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  5203.  @bootburner4544  Tibet is a colony of China so it won't happen there, maybe in future examples use Indonesia or Philippines, the West Pacific region feels left out, every other part of the world seems to have their own VOCs.
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  5204. 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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  5205. Odd maybe old duck doesn't sound to offensive to me.
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  5206.  @theshadyspot9932  The original commenter must be Victorian because the case numbers and population fit that. The responses in Australia are fully controlled by our state and territory governments except for vaccines and external border controls.
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  5207. Yeah if Omicron is the last that's great but it won't be, the hope is all future variants are about as deadly or less deadly than Omicron.
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  5208.  @mohammedelrhaftouli2514  We don't know, I hope less and less deadly but unfortunately it could go the other way. It can't go the other way to a large extent I think because all infections will reduce the chance of problems with any next infection, or put another way the population will become more immune no matter what.
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  5209. And Happy New Year.
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  5210.  @mohammedelrhaftouli2514  yep
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  5211. There's a big difference between a conference call with 20 people and 2 million views on a YouTube video.
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  5212. Yes blame the US system, don't blame democracy. Plenty of democracies are far more functional than the US.
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  5213. Those things need to be complicated and involve other items that are recognisable to the other person. Using AI it's really easy to do things like hold 3 fingers up, get a knife from the kitchen etc. Can use the knife one but only if the actual knife is known.
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  5214. Lawrence you are currently delusional. The US is an ally of nobody. If you had spoken previously an ally then ok. It's possible the US will have different allies again one day but at the moment North Korea and Hungary and a few other dictatorships are your allies , that's just a fact.
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  5215. They can't go to Mexico or Canada, Trump's tariff will follow you.
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  5216.  @barryllyod5122  South Korea has had the same problems to Australia. But they have less problems dealing with outbreaks because overall the population cooperates more with the government. If you look at the Victorian situation there are a number who want to just let it rip. When 0.16% of your entire population died as it has in NY people would be demanding a lockdown.
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  5217.  @laakins  You are correct. An issue is though fighting the last battle. You will notice comments from people in countries that contained the virus find it hard to relate to countries that have completely failed in the initial response because it's a hypothetical to us. I am one of those people and from Australia. I would however say looking at some European countries and Canada it's possible to get it under control from a bad situation. These are the countries the US should follow if they can. NY seems to be doing ok now.
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  5218. Why you blaming foreign corporations when 99% of control of corporations in the US is by US citizens and 100% of government policies are by US citizens. Nobody is picking on the all mighty USA. Blame yourselves for your own problems including Trump picking on other countries that will respond.
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  5219. 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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  5220. Assuming you mean the Zionist UCLA mob No.
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  5221.  @jetli740  You're very biased, the Western Pacific WHO region which includes Australia and New Zealand all had near identical policies and 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine, the divergence only happened about 3 months ago where some have tried to open up and China went to 21 days quarantine. The policies of PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region and European WHO region were the most relaxed without any enforced travel quarantine and covers a lot of non Western countries such as Eastern Europe. So stop trying to make it something it isn't.
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  5222.  @krollpeter  actually disagree with you a bit, the only difference with the Chinese approach compared to other countries in the region until recently was the harshness of their lockdowns as in can't leave home and just wait for food which did become scarce at times and the testing the whole city idea which no other country is capable of.
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  5223.  @jetli740  "Western" is a political term, the approach by regions had almost nothing to do with government types because they are all mixed within the WHO regions some more than others. I totally agree that no quarantine that's enforced has cost PAHO and European WHO region countries dearly with only a few exceptions. The US is now the worst performance of a wealthy country in dealing with covid 19 because they won't get vaccinated enough, UK at least isn't too bad but could be better. I understand the Chinese approach and up to now it's worked but I don't think it's sustainable, in other words China is sort of stuck where they are until they have an outbreak/s they can't control which I would expect to eventually occur with Omicron.
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  5224.  @isaaccrabtree3996  catch 22 there, if you improved mental health people wouldn't see the need to cling onto their semi automatic weapons that they want to keep because they are paranoid. No other wealthy country in the world has this issue.
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  5225. As that outsider looking in , you don't have any fiscal conservatives or many conservative on any issue at all other than far right often religious ones who centre right don't really recognize as conservative. Just giving one example, how is it conservative to pay more in taxes for a public healthcare system than most countries in the world as a proportion of GDP yet the lowest life expectancy for a wealthy country? Why are you literally throwing money at pharmaceutical companies like it's water? Why are fast food chains still operating in some US schools? Most obese large nation on the planet and people are confused why. The pandemic exposed a lot of this, government throwing money at everyone and expecting nothing in return and now who'd have thought it USA again number 1 for deaths that is despite producing a very large proportion of the vaccines for the world and having first access. Don't know whatever came of it but the covid relief funds hundreds of millions went directly overseas. During the outright handout phase for business the most new companies created on record while the economy tanked, I wonder why. Yeah you're right but didn't really answer the question what is a US conservative, I think it's a right wing authoritarian actually (US English for conservative).
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  5226. He can't be wrong because he said he didn't know. He said what he wants to happen and why, sort of a very soft prediction.
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  5227. An unknown amount crosses the US sea border. So basically Mexico and Canada can't stop it, it's a technical impossibility. It's just Trump's excuse which riles up his base. Always blame every problem on foreigners. It's the exact same thing China does.
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  5228. I see so many comments about BLM protests and that's correct. Unfortunately in your country both political parties have been ineffective and sent different reasoning for different agendas. So here is a novel idea vote against anyone who has contributed to this regardless of party, particular Federal and State politicians who made things worse.
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  5229. Americans are generally inward looking and don't like change, they want to dream into reality some apparent golden age that they think existed previously. Just to take one issue which stands out like dogs balls. US publically funded healthcare is more expensive per capita than Australian publically funded healthcare which is universal excluding dental. The US has the lowest life expectancy of any wealthy country in the world so using the most obvious metric it's the most expensive public plus private healthcare system in the world with the lowest outcome for a wealthy country. Looking from afar it's pretty obvious why and this is bipartisan policy by the way, the Democrats aren't organized enough to change anything. The US government literally refuses to buy drugs and treatment options at a reasonable price, the market which is a monopoly for emergency care is able to set prices in most cases. Drugs are put to market not based on efficacy and cost effectiveness but according to the ability of drug companies to market their drugs to consumers who believe they aren't paying. In the private insurance sector for healthcare every time costs increase for healthcare the insurers see the the next pot of gold because insurance is actually a commission business, higher costs equals higher premiums and higher margins and the government won't say a word because the insurers will just say but costs have gone up. Many Democrats say spend more money and Republicans say it's the best system in the world already which it clearly isn't because it's not communist or other ridiculous arguments, they literally want to pay more tax for healthcare that they might not even be entitled to. Republicans and Democrats have met in the middle on this issue because the overarching system agreed to is bipartisan policy. Crazy people like AOC literally just want what the rest of the wealthy world has at a cheaper price than you pay now. In any other country including middle income countries, AOC would be considered the only normal one and the vast majority of other Democrats and all Republicans as radical big government spenders with some sort of socialist agenda because the public healthcare isn't universal.
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  5230. 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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  5231. I am already in the "Sunshine State" nothing to see here nobody in hospital from covid 19. Queensland Australia that is if I confused you a little.
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  5232. The one that stands out for me is there will be no military bases in the South China Sea and then there was. Then what they do is play the race card, you can trust us we are Asian to ASEAN countries and don't trust any country that is majority European. It's has worked to some extent I believe with a minority of the population however no evidence it has worked against any of the affected countries governments. China has actually made an incredible own goal, it actually means the majority European countries are looking to countries outside of China for lower end manufacturing for at least some of the production which is ASEAN and South Asia region.
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  5233. Yes, but like all these viruses, it's not impossible it re emerges because the bats that it originally came from are still out there and will continue to carry the original strain (possibly not the exact virus of the outbreak).
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  5234. Yeah they should have just deleted it , there's only one senile person who gaffs a lot in the race and it's not Biden.
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  5235. Maybe that's a fair emotional response but not realistic.
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  5236. Where did they find this crowd, they not booing or threatening to hang him.
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  5237. This means video calls are essentially finished. We need to go back to in person meetings for business in particular.
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  5238. That will become less of an issue over time. It takes time for the insurance companies to work out pricing and as EVs become very common repair costs should go down.
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  5239. 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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  5240.  @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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  5241.  @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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  5242.  @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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  5243.  @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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  5244. Countries with high vaccination rates and maintaining some restrictions are doing fine. The countries with lots of antivaxxers are the ones struggling and this was not predicted.
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  5245.  @andreaerling7614  I just had a look at hospital beds and ICU beds per capita and compared to my country Australia. Germany has twice as many beds and 4 times as many ICU beds per Capita. So can't say it's about neglect, maybe it's disfunctional I don't know. The US spends more on publically funded healthcare than Australia but their public healthcare isn't universal. As far as the antivaxxers I get your point about them existing in part because of governments poor messaging and giving the appearance of rushing the vaccines in some cases. Look at my region whether it be Japan or South Korea or New Zealand and Australia, we all very slow and cautious in the vaccine rollout but now some of the highest vaccinated rates in the world overtaking most of Europe. I reiterate what I originally said countries with high vaccination rates and some restrictions are doing fine , as far as fixing the countries that went from failure to failure because each failure compounds the next failure, it's looking pretty difficult.
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  5246.  @hannahm2430  What are you talking about? Read my comment above, an entire region with less than 10% of the deaths of other regions on a per capita basis, I would suggest our region does know what it's doing and this covers many government types from the full on authoritarian to liberal democracies. No evidence that anywhere in my region in regards to covid 19 are trying to increase restrictions, in fact we are in the cautious opening up phase. My region Western Pacific WHO region and the other regions that are doing poorly European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region.
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  5247.  @hannahm2430  Fair enough.
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  5248. Have to agree with you on that one. At Trump's age he can bruise very easily and chances are this is a rare example of the Whitehouse telling the truth. If I was American I would be more worried about Trump's mind.
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  5249. Then as you just stated covid 19 deaths of only 5.5 per million versus say 2,000 per million in places like the US and UK is pretty successful isn't it.
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  5250. @Ubiquitary I am unsure of what you speak of, compare to Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii NZ has a much larger population. Compared to the US the government deficit last calendar year was about half, compared to most US states far less time in lockdown. Mental health is clearly much better in NZ based on homicide rate and suicide rate. If you think unimpeded international travel without quarantine is the sole indicator of freedom then you are right the US more free and doing great.
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  5251.  @stephaniefain1863  many of them do wear red hats, if it says MAGA or Trump or Q close enough.
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  5252. I am sure ASIO (Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation) would be having discussions about that very subject right now along with the other 5 Eyes counterparts.
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  5253. On CGTN they indicated almost all protestors went home, who to believe? I have my personal opinion but curious other opinion.
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  5254. I wonder how the 5 EYES is going, not sure my country Australia or the other allies would be keen on sharing any information other than terrorist related information at the moment.
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  5255. They plus China sort of don't have a choice, Trump has decided to attack them first. The whole world is looking at battle plans against the upcoming US trade war. For the rest of us it's better to keep quiet, attracting attention would only mean we are next based on Trump's behaviour.
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  5256.  @user-ul7li5mu1s  you surprised me with that last response. I am not so sure those parties are compatible.
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  5257. Well a certain number are required to die in the US from gunshot wounds because the second amendment apparently allows for that or something, yep it's truly tragic. As far as masks in schools they are far less relevant than vaccines and in almost all cases it's the unvaccinated adults that die possibly leaving them orphans which is also tragic.
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  5258. It doesn't work like that. You and I could watch 1,000 videos like this and if we killed someone we wouldn't be able to outsmart a good interrogator because our thinking wouldn't be that clear. If however you are a sociopath or psychopath you might be able to because you would not be nervous and being questioned would be no more inconvenient than having to wait for a price check in a supermarket.
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  5259.  @bighands69  it actually doesn't offend me however it tells me something of the person saying it. The person saying it has an inferiority complex because they believe that China is far superior could stop even a single person leaving the country with the infection yet in your country you couldn't do it. It must be China is a miracle worker. China couldn't stop it getting out just like the US couldn't stop it's last outbreak leaving the country. It was just fortunate the 2009 US flu ( commonly known as H1N1 or Swine flu) was less deadly. Should the rest of the world sue the US ?, of course not I think you would consider that ridiculous.
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  5260. Actually we wiped out all rats and mice on Lord Howe Island and previously got rid of 99% of rabbits on the mainland using a virus. We also treat red fire ants a bit like covid 19, each time they get in we eradicate them from the country. There is a reason Australia could eliminate covid 19.
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  5261. I think what you have explained about the higher risk with covid 19 plus flu versus covid 19 alone explains more about the decreasing death rate than the better care. But it also works the opposite direction, anything that is done to mitigate or not mitigate will be exponential in results in both a downward and upward direction.
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  5262. This seems to be an US and Western Europe (ex UK and Ireland) and Japan problem. The rest of the world the problem is getting vaccines not people refusing to take it.
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  5263. The title leads to conspiracy theory thinking. All he actually said is he has no evidence of anything and left out the fact that the virus may have been created in a cell culture called a human. He did explain how this could be the case. My brother got some virus in a tropical area nearly 20 years ago and he went to a tropic disease specialist it was tested and they didn't know what it was he advised to go home and take care. It didn't affect him long term and he got better. There are 1,000s of individual viruses we know little about. Let's hope no one has the flu and Hendra virus and that creates a new virus and the person becomes a carrier if those viruses are able to interact.
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  5264. 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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  5265. On general PPP things are half the price in China. China is spending more based price parity and pretty sure soldiers will cost less than half an American soldier.
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  5266.  @urzassaga  yes totally agree with your last comment. I was only talking about military spending and China will be producing weapons much cheaper along with the soldiers being much cheaper.
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  5267.  @stevepirie8130  While I agree a land border makes it more difficult where people travel either side of that border for daily activities it's not impossible and it could have been shut to people for a while until something was worked out. This is what every Australian state did, with border zones and permits to cross the border. Trade remains the same just need many precautions. With every Australian state and New Zealand internal travel restrictions were a part of lockdown with NZ and at least 2 Australian states having police checkpoints to stop people travelling unless for essential purposes. The lockdowns and quarantine restrictions are nothing like most of Europe so you might find it difficult to relate. Now a common method at least in 2 states but I suspect every state to detect any outbreak sewerage is being tested, it has picked up cases in some locations prior to anyone testing positive in the area. I think all of Australia plus New Zealand will be covid 19 free by the start of next year if things go well, but have to wait and see, if you look at South Korea and Japan they keep having problems too.
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  5268. That's by an inside actor.
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  5269.  @shdbsduskdh7663  he was still getting the nicotine hit because through the skin in the mouth it's being absorbed also, but less so than inhaling into the lungs. So, much less risky.
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  5270. @chaseschwartz  I am not highly aware of the US tax system being Australian but anecdotally what you say seems to be correct.
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  5271. It's sad about your father but the data based on age and vaccinated says about 1 in 200 chance of dying rather than 1 in 20 chance unvaccinated. He was unlucky basically, nobody currently claims the vaccines are perfect, the initial trial data shouldn't have been portrayed how it was because it gave unrealistic expectations. Take care and hope you are doing ok.
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  5272.  @mickeypearce244  no I don't have any links. My numbers are based on reporting mostly from US CDC data but it will vary according to jurisdiction and vaccine types etc. etc. The biggest variable is probably the underlying health of a population so I would expect for example the rates to be much lower in Japan for each age group because their adult obesity rate is 6% versus 35% for US. So always take any data with a grain of salt.
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  5273. I think you mean pathetic not empathetic.
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  5274. Not a single swing state has been decided, what made you think Kamala was going to win deep red states?
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  5275. ​@rayhannis944 very similar except it's a possibility that the US will be giving Australia money due to tariffs on Australia. Bluescope steel sells about 3 million tonnes of steel in the US internally and exports about 300,000 tonnes from Australia. Due to price rises and continued low US tax rates assuming Bluescope steel is majority Australian owned we as a country might actually be "ripping the US off" as Donald would say but he's forcing us to.
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  5276. 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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  5277.  @trina7274  One thing many people don't realise is that they can be the unlucky one. Based on probability your son is probably 1 in 1,000. If 10 million people like your son were to be infected maybe 10,000 are unlucky and get sicker than expected. Hope you and your family stay well, being pretty crook like your son might be uncomfortable but as long as he recovers then it's not so bad in the scheme of things. Take care.
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  5278. Apparently one of them said or it was in the opinion I am not sure that contraception should be relooked at. They'll be coming for your condoms soon but semi automatic weapons are fine.
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  5279.  @fatbelly27  what I want to know is those who got the placebo were they infected at the same rate as surrounding populations. I am suspecting that the placebo is effective too because the person who takes it is responsible anyway and would try not to get the virus. To get quick results they should be giving it out at MAGA rallies.
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  5280. Within reason, as this young lady said maybe 10 or 20 years if continue then could be dead. That would make her middle age to old if that's the life to continue with.
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  5281. Europe and the US would never agree, keeping everything open was considered more important. Even though genuine lockdowns meant being open more often was actually achievable, just no international tourism.
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  5282. It is incorrect to say he doesn't have a mandate, he said what he was going to do and only one third of the population objected. That's actually an incredible mandate,. Most parties in democracies in the world could only dream of such a low objection rate. If you claim there's no mandate you are calling voters stupid because they didn't know what they were voting for even after being told. While Trump does lie a lot , he actually doesn't lie very often when he tells you his intentions. Nothing so far he has done is out of line with what he said he would do.
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  5283.  @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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  5284. While it might be morally corrupt it isn't legally corrupt in the US.
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  5285. I don't think the Lincoln Project mob are lining their pockets.
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  5286. 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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  5287. Very much so. He is speaking as you might if you were crying uncontrollably and not breathing properly.
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  5288. If they were tested daily then no need because takes 3 days or so for incubation.
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  5289. While Sky News Australia is annoying at times it's just simply not wreaking havoc. Australia has a well functioning democracy where both political parties at moment don't cross certain lines. Murdoch hasn't been one of ours for years. I am in Queensland where 100% of our printed media is Newscorp , we might not be perfect but we're doing ok , with that amount of influence we should be like some radical Republican state equivalent and we simply aren't.
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  5290. They don't, they mostly buy US government bonds I think. So instead of taxing big corporations you are becoming indebted to them.
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  5291. I watched the video you linked and it has one serious problem, it had 0 examples of a place with lockdowns and not lockdown lite full of holes, maybe Peru it was too late already without a Chinese style hard lock down. Every jurisdiction or on the case of USA 50 linked jurisdictions all other than arguably Hawaii with no lockdowns. What the video didn't set out to prove but sort of does is a non complete lockdown will have the same result, slowing the spread in a lockdown lite model as all countries mentioned did seem to produce approximately the same result. With the point about masks I agree it won't stop spread it will only slow the pace a little or maybe even a lot, a lot might change the doubling rate from 2 days to 6 days everything else being equal. Keep wearing your mask it reduces your risk but if of course you are surrounded by diseased people your risk goes up. Take care and if you want to compare lockdown countries look at the following Taiwan, South Korea, Japan , Thailand, Malaysia, Australia by state, Vietnam, New Zealand. You will see that there is no consistency in case numbers or pattern, only consistency is if quarantine fails cases go up quickly. In other words if you cherry pick you can sort of provide any anecdotal evidence which may appear to make sense to a non sceptic.
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  5292. The queue outside isn't the problem, the problems might happen indoors if not well ventilated or crowded.
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  5293. Hopefully he does on Fox too if he can.
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  5294. You can't because then what about obese people eating too much, smokers and alcoholic. Hospitals would shut down just about if you stopped everyone who doesn't take great care of themselves.
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  5295. Well the UK did with the IRA/sien fein.
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  5296. ​ @AlwaysAwesome001 Trump is a socialist. So not sure why you support your dear leader.
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  5297. Lots of plausible genocide supporters in this comments section.
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  5298. The US will likely overtake Sweden in deaths per capita unless a vaccine comes soon. The possible mortality rate in the US is much higher with a 20% obesity rate versus 36% obesity rate in adults.
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  5299.  @abiolaalade7970  The conspiracy theory that literally 10s of thousands of doctors around the world are conspiring to issue death certificates that are untrue is an interesting one. If people can believe that maybe we can start a theory that Trump is an alien and some will believe.
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  5300. A few months ago a significant proportion of Trump supporters were doctors according to comments on youtube, I guess you are similar to those long list of youtube doctors.
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  5301. Fiscal responsibility? Only Trump could make Obama seem like a fiscal conservative extremist.
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  5302. If he's 100% innocent the best option is full cooperation with the police.
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  5303. The palace might want to investigate themselves if they want. There is no crime here be you a king or queen or 2 people living off welfare so what. I could say something racist to you and what crime have I committed? You see racist comments on youtube all the time coming from all racial, religious and national groups. It would be nice if people stopped it but unfortunately humans are humans , just try to stop it with goods , services and work, which is where all the racial discrimination laws are, however those laws can also cause racism because not everyone agrees with affirmative action which is legal in most places.
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  5304. So what is your point? To have any relevance about the costs of illegal immigrants you need to also find out how much tax they paid including taxes for social security which subsidises others as they can never make a claim.
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  5305. You're probably right. He's fighting the ghosts of Obama, Clinton and Biden. Gotta remember they run the deep state and when his flawed policy of a world trade w*r fails miserably it will be the deep state run by those 3 ghosts to blame.
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  5306. What's with these nutters, it will make it harder for anyone to change anything when peaceful protesters (riots by my standard) are roaming the streets.
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  5307. There's a legal question on whether the president can declare martial law which has never been challenged in court. If it's found the president can then everything becomes legal so long as a war crime isn't committed.
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  5308.  Don Drumpf  No idea, Australia has no sanctions on China, that's other country/s.
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  5309.  Don Drumpf  I don't answer rhetorical question, clearly you weren't asking me anything and just making assumptions, very impolitely I might add.
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  5310.  Don Drumpf  I haven't accused anyone of anything, just pointing out what they mean when say genocide.
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  5311.  @fengkuangyu7116  It's actually according to UN definition and it hasn't changed, it's China who wants to inflame things by telling it's population that it is being accused of mass murder. Never let the truth get in the way of making Chinese citizens hate the world. Just like early March 2020 China had already spread the conspiracy theories that covid 19 comes from the US.
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  5312.  Don Drumpf  I believe there are some human rights issues in China especially in the treatment of minority and religious people, I neither know or have any opinion beyond that, surprisingly I am not an international human rights lawyer , however you seem to claim to be one, what is your opinion? If the CPC wants to compare itself to Donald Trump and Qanon , that is a fair comparison, Australian government never engage in such activity, however being a free society a small minority do. The investigation called by Australia didn't say investigate anything other than the origins, if Chinese scientist produced some evidence from the conspiracy theory it would have been investigated, they produced no evidence or even request such a thing.
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  5313.  Don Drumpf  I am uncertain who started doing conspiracy theories first the earliest I could find was March 13 last year and it was China at that time. I am unaware of problems with Chinese students, what problem? What immigration problems this is all news to me? China voted in favour of the Australian motion within the WHO, so unsure why they complaining now.
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  5314.  Don Drumpf  the motion to the WHO was given as one of 14 grievances to Australia and a part of the reason for ceasing government to government communications and trade sanctions. Seems like that's a pretty big complaint. China has taken action against Australia not the other way around. Australia has no trade sanctions against China.
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  5315.  Don Drumpf  Huawei isn't a trade sanction, nobody would allow a country they are uncertain of to control communications , Huawei is free to do any other business in Australia just not the public 5g network. Nowadays in Australia banking is electronic, anyone controlling communication could shut it all down. China hasn't opened up it's 5 g network to foreign countries like US or Australia has it?
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  5316.  Don Drumpf  Where are you from? You state them suggesting you are not mainland Chinese.
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  5317.  Don Drumpf  I am sure US will spy on Australia if they feel the need, we would prefer they spy on us than China, that's reality. We hope and it seems to be the case they don't spy on us anymore regarding trade issues. We caught them doing it in the eighties and I think it might have actually been wheat sales to China. If course anyone who supplies the software and hardware for the 5g networks knows how to enter the system otherwise it could never be fixed and if one person puts an incorrect password it would need to self destruct to be secure from the manufacturer gaining entry. This is common sense of course the manufacturer be they Chinese or US or whoever the same will apply.
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  5318.  Don Drumpf  you asked some supremacy question and spoke of the West. Supremacy what do you mean? I can't answer your question regardless because how do I know the culture of US , Germany, France or UK because that is who you are referring to so ask them direct don't ask an Australian.
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  5319.  Don Drumpf  I just said US would spy on Australia and you responded that I am naive thinking the US wouldn't spy on China. I am dumfounded as to how you could come to such a conclusion, all G20 countries do it including China. Interesting that you won't disclose your nationality.
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  5320.  Don Drumpf  I didn't say China was bad for spying, you keep saying things not me. All I said is we Australians would prefer not to be spied on by them or minimize it in reality and don't offer something far more powerful than any conventional weapon and that is control over communications. Is Australia wrong to do this?
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  5321. @Zoya L Are you saying that Australia controls what Europeans and Americans do, I am amazed you think we are so powerful. China sanctioned Australian cotton before others countries/companies , that's not including Australia sanctioned China. It really makes no difference at all because China imports cotton, it's not like Xinjiang cotton is not going to be sold or sold at a discount. So the in effect pointless sanctions by China on Australian cotton and others on Xinjiang cotton are just for show really. So no certainly not hurting anyone in this case.
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  5322.  @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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  5323.  @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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  5324. I like the sentiment but even the region is squabbling amongst itself. I am Australian and the best thing those in our region can do is work together because some countries successful with elimination and others still doing better than elsewhere. Really China and Australia should take the lead together on this one because it's hard to find anyone that distrusts both of us and a united front would be good. Also I don't like the US and European approach which is pretty much hope the virus disappears with the vaccine rather than elimination. Mutations big enough for vaccines to not work could occur if the virus is allowed to remain for years, there is even some question whether this already might have occured to some extent.
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  5325.  @holyland6380  I don't think Trump is good at listening. He took some words of Fauci and then extrapolated the positive outcome ignoring Fauci's caveats. Fauci despite his faults is at least an honourable person.
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  5326.  @sirtheoriginal201  Not everywhere but in many places you're right.
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  5327.  @dongyuxiao9235  you're being ridiculous, you just stated China has a 0 crime rate and everyone is happy, all China has achieved is crime rates and suicide rates of most of Western Europe and Australia and New Zealand and corruption China is worse than these countries. The US plus China are not the entirety of the world, yes they might both be superpowers but that's as far as it goes.
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  5328. Actually always listen carefully , they often say things that are quite honest like "there's an agreement with Huawei for no back door" in other words of course have back doors otherwise systems can never be fixed the "no back door" as often reported is really just an agreement not to spy, never met a spy that said I am going to spy. It amazes me how many people don't realise all high end technology can be accessed by the manufacturer from a smart phone up. Even hackers can do it.
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  5329. 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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  5330.  @farmsim_usa9235  You must be happy then with your 5 times homicide rate and 500,000 dead from a virus , a 16% of GDP estimated government deficit, so I hope you got to travel around the world or US and took advantage of your freedoms. I wonder how much training the shooter had.
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  5331.  @angrr5074  it's an open carry jurisdiction with a magazine limit of 15. Concealed carry with a permit. So the law is already perfect for those who thinks it makes a difference.
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  5332. Peter I don't think he is a danger to the world. He could become dangerous to the world at some point but at the moment he is facing inwards and too involved in US to bother the rest of the world. Geopolitically it's a bit of a problem though because there is nothing to counteract things China is doing.
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  5333. 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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  5334. It's not helpful to be like the Israeli hasbara. The antizionists need to stick together and not lie like the Zionists otherwise we are seen as the same.
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  5335. Seems I can't respond for whatever reason, please investigate and be civil
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  5336. While I love it what's with the Channel 9 Australia cameraman clip from some time ago I am guessing, they could use anything against you.
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  5337. 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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  5338. MD is US English and Americans more than other English speakers especially in the Midwest and South use the term Sir or Ma'am as a sign of respect. I am not American and in Australia this would be seen as unusual. Maybe original commenter can advise if my guesses are correct.
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  5339.  @cgjoe64  there are different types of freedom and that one surprises me about press freedoms, the US slotted in just behind a couple of African countries. Press freedom is a pretty big one though.
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  5340.  @cgjoe64  ok found the one your referring to Human Freedom Index which is economic freedom plus other personal freedoms. I think there would generally be a lot of overlap with different indexes as in authoritarian places are Authoritarian about everything and visa versa.
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  5341. That doesn't make sense in my opinion. I think the pharmacist not using common sense, website says recommended from 3 weeks to 8 weeks and not recommended after 8 weeks or whatever. So pharmacist not think about what that means and think it means you shouldn't get it. Go back and demand it if you want it. The pharmacist is wrong and possibly the CDC information they look at isn't clear to some, maybe it should say although not recommended after 8 weeks the second dose should be given at any time after 8 weeks should the person have failed to receive the second dose within the recommended time frame. Possibly the real advice should be this second shot because so late counts as first dose again, I am only speculating there, if Moderna or CDC have helpline that's functional maybe ask them directly. Best of luck.
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  5342. Now maybe, when they started rollout looked the same, long queues of people and then doses run out.
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  5343. Good luck with that.
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  5344. You're all dreaming the polls have been overcompensated for previous errors. Joe Biden will likely win in a landslide, 300,000 dead people can't really be good for re election noting proportionally they were his supporters. Anyway to US people best of luck with the deficit spending anti protect the citizens under my care guy. Sorry to all intoxicated mariners who have been compared to Trump because on average you are far more fiscally conservative but like a night out on occasion.
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  5345. It can't be determined because if outbreaks occur everywhere then everyone loses. Probably about equal losses from ongoing closures but if Sydney gets cases to 0 like most other states can achieve everyone wins.
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  5346. @Joni  the lady said she shot him to kill him, she was believed otherwise should be manslaughter most likely. She admitted guilt and remorse, in fact more so than I have ever seen before and it's genuine.
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  5347. @Joni  No they don't, 1st time I actually see genuine remorse and I watched a lot of these and she in no way told a lie also, extremely rare. She said she deliberately killed him the only finding if you don't believe her can be manslaughter not murder.
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  5348. @Joni  of course she didn't set out that day saying she wanted to kill, that's absolutely absurd suggestion.
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  5349. I like the lady at the end. She is probably better presidential material than the 2 candidates and said all people are equal and no one should act superior to another and people should come together to fix the country.
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  5350. Nah this stupidity was discovered in 2020. StupidD 20 (stupidity disease 2020)
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  5351.  @sandychenault5246  "his global plot", you've lost your mind.
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  5352.  @sandychenault5246  It's not happening all over the world, it's happening in a few wealthy Western countries only for various reasons. Everywhere will slowly over time reduce mandates according to each jurisdictions priorities. The protests achieve nothing and many are rent a crowd literally but once that money cut off or runs out or doesn't eventuate most just go home and back to work I guess. The $9 million from GoFundMe for the Canadian rent a crowd didn't eventuate which probably assisted in getting rid of a significant number of rent a crowd trucker protestors in Canada.
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  5353.  @sandychenault5246  What are you talking about, Fox commentators were up in arms about the rent a crowd funding being cut off. The info from Fox is no different to MSNBC or CNN, it's only the editorial that differs. With Fox it's also a 180° turnaround from editorial regarding CHAZ (Capital Hill Autonomous Zone) in Seattle Washington in 2020 yet the behavior of both groups pretty much identical.
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  5354. The very last comment on the clip he is wrong, it's not about agreement, it's about accepting the decision as in democracy, whether it's about the President of the US or a decision by a school committee if that's the accepted process in that state/school.
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  5355. Built in 58, or at least the original buildings. I think you would find same all over the world.
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  5356.  @pamdeshane1289  I read your link. So what is your position? You say enough is enough. Is it your position just infect them , who cares or maybe the US should consider taking the actions required to at a minimum stabilize numbers like NY or California and then take higher risks in nursing homes that might kill them but at least risk is lowered somewhat.
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  5357.  @pamdeshane1289  I come from a virus free state in Australia and possibly a virus free country soon with cases of community transmission below 10 in last day. So my perspective will be different, the best is a hard lockdown for 6 maybe 8 weeks and get rid of the virus so things can go to "covid normal" which will still require compulsory hotel quarantine for people entering your state from another country or infected state. I know that's impossible in the US because you haven't had any hard comprehensive lockdowns and your country is completely divided. The next best option might be like that of Sweden which is a middle position when compared to the US , they did a much harder lockdown on nursing homes than the US and limits on gatherings are still 50 I think and reduced capacity in restaurants etc., but realistically the US will not take the Swedish approach either because too strict for many states. Protect yourself and best of luck is all I can say. Make sure if you can that your friend receives or weeks help if needed. Businesses everywhere have gone under including Sweden because not enough customer, so they are certainly not alone, regardless of the approach a country took. Have a good day and try not to stress.
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  5358. What has democracy got to do with anything, 10s of millions die of starvation under the very same government China has now in the first 50 years, they only have a relatively good record for about 10 years compared to poor countries by reaching middle income level.
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  5359. That's not fair and pretty recent. Look at when there were Republican presidents in the past it wasn't like this.
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  5360. @Alex-pm8wr  So what, you don't need to leave these vehicles connected to the internet if you really don't want because there's no reports of vehicles malfunctioning when they are in areas of no mobile coverage. On that note Tesla's for the Australian market are all Chinese made anyway, so connected to China, US and now arguably Russia noting the current US alliance. I am not a computer geek but if you purchase a vehicle connected to the internet simply disconnect it if it bothers you.
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  5361. We grow onions and even other root vegetables like carrots and potatoes in Australia. When are you going to open an Australian branch of your news organisation?
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  5362.  @ppen8359  highly sceptical of what you say but it would be great if that occurs.
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  5363.  @jacqueslee2592  How so? China has a big trade deficit with Australia and one of their greavences was having some investments knocked back.
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  5364. You're right, in 1918 restrictions were put in place so there's an historical precedent and zoom didn't exist then.
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  5365. You're right and that's pretty funny. Obviously the event wasn't funny but the reporting of it.
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  5366.  @bootburner4544  It's interesting you show a link proving that crisis actor's not being used and talking about conspiracy theorists and the problems they cause. Well done, hope you send that link to everyone so the conspiracy theorists are called out.
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  5367. 2 parts, Japan has a high level of vaccine hesitancy to begin with and in a relative sense fairly successful at containment of covid 19 although have basically lost control now. Other than China which is an aboration to an extent all countries that did well containing the virus have low vaccination rates. When people are dying around you it tends to reduce vaccine hesitancy or increases the effort someone and the government will go to to get a vaccine. I am in Australia, I am not vaccine hesitant but the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is not recommended for my age group which means a bit of effort to get it so haven't got around to it yet. I can also wait for Pfizer but that's probably months away.
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  5368. Which one, there's 2?
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  5369. They are completely unsophisticated weapons, something that with a few hours research anyone with a science or engineering degree could easily make.
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  5370.  @paulkitchin1488  looking good then, probably is around herd immunity then.
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  5371. He looks at lots of information and occasionally misses things, but that's okay I reckon because overall pretty accurate and informative.
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  5372. Can't really see that happening, they don't have any political leaders on the same side really as the crazy conspiracy stuff unlike the US and it seems Brazil and a few others.
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  5373. No Wumao saying it's Mongolia's fault and not China?
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  5374. Probably because of negative feedback and also people actually realising it's and I hate to say it , even certain Trump supporters believing it because in mostly rural states where controlling spread is easier they just waited and in some cases took actions to ensure the virus spreads. Hawaii and Alaska should have no cases because they are detached from the mainland and compulsory quarantine they would have no cases because small easy jurisdictions to manage. But freedom to travel without restrictions and the freedom to infect was really a bipartisan national mantra. Best of luck Americans look after yourself personally because no government is coming to your rescue any time soon.
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  5375. Yes you are correct many would prefer living in Australia but unfortunately about 800,000 can't say a word they are dead. If the US was as successful as Australia you would only have 28,000 deaths as of now accounting for our different population sizes. Many also wouldn't like that inflation isn't such an issue , free healthcare and lower taxes to pay for it etc. etc.
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  5376. Any reputable news source is fine, just not right wing opinion which isn't news.
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  5377. Because there's less than 2 million of you, can't even fill a decent sized city. So it's not personal.
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  5378. Well there's 13 thousand comments , I think that answers your question.
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  5379. You take care, we are still lucky with modern medicine etc. In 1918 the life expectancy was only about 40 and no antibiotics so most died of flu plus bacterial pneumonia back in the dark old days of the Spanish Flu.
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  5380.  @bryandunn7953  history will show countries that locked down properly and eliminated the virus will have had the best outcomes. Everything open in Australia and New Zealand and evidence is the youth are doing better than in virus ridden countries.
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  5381.  @bryandunn7953  I can add other countries to the list of can't be worse off such as China and Vietnam and Thailand (? Current political unrest but not really related to covid 19). The reason for this is it's impossible to now end up in as bad a situation as countries where the virus is rampant and all outcomes are worse on the health front because the mental health effects are greater and of course economic flow on effects which are part mental health. The reason the virus free countries will never allow the virus to get out of control now is because they are battle hardened so to speak and nobody will object to any localised lockdown the moment an outbreak is identified, in fact it's political suicide not to act even in the one party countries because if the outbreak spreads even a little bit you will be blamed. China has actually expanded it's economy year on year in the last quarter. As far as what other countries should do now outside of those with few cases which should go for elimination I don't have a strong opinion other than when the vaccine is widely available a 6 week lockdown maybe and get rid of the virus, the mental health gains by having no virus are significant, both the do nothing and lockdown people in US or UK both believe things will fail , they are defeated and while this view persists it's bad for mental health and over time let's be blunt if the virus mutates so that most vaccines don't work it's back to almost square one for those countries that never gained control. Certainty is what helps mental health more than any other thing.
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  5382. Every country on the planet has ties to China and USA. Those 2 are completely unavoidable if you live in the modern world.
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  5383. 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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  5384. Nah you have no advantage if your life expectancy and homicide rate is literally the bottom of high income countries, well you aren't the best.
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  5385.  @anitakingsberry2622  I doubt the 25% number bandied about anyway, England has already done 77% of medical workers as of a week ago so probably a bit higher now. It's a number probably generated from some US jurisdiction and not at all accurate. I won't be getting the vaccine personally for probably another 5 months at least I expect and I did have covid 19 but that was almost a year ago now, I will ask when getting the shot about any issues but expect there to be none especially that far out.
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  5386. It's American, without chilli's brought by the portuguese or Spanish no Chilli. American claim pizza also lol. Pasta is a copy of Chinese noodles. How about who cares.
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  5387. The problem is it tends to kill old people so unlikely to make any change based on the survival of the fittest theory. They can still reproduce little baby Republicans.
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  5388.  @insectbite1714  Normally grading a wire is 0.5, 0.6, 1mm etc . What is this exciting new grading called 5G?
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  5389. That's not the issue, the issue is the US it seems in an almost universal manner across jurisdictions has decided to crackdown on these particular protesters. The irony is it's getting the word out better than if protesters were left alone. You don't see news of encampments at 4 Australian universities because they permitted encampments at least for now. No crackdowns in my country yet. So assuming you are American you have to just complain about your bipartisan objections to these protesters and also you need to question why are American police so brutal, while it's untrue to has that no Australian police force ever has issues they aren't as bad as the US where it seems every second cop across most jurisdictions is a thug. Also ask the question why US universities have all decided they won't permit protests.
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  5390. Yeah I wish the US would get it's act together, being China's number 1 trade and propaganda adversary for a while isn't much fun for my country. They don't need to run any propaganda against the US, because it's doing a good job on its own , they can just honestly report the news. Best of luck from Australia 🇦🇺
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  5391. So you want foreign journalists arrested if they do any story that doesn't support Trump and his campaign? That's remarkable. I am assuming the interviewer is a UK citizen but it's possible it's not the case.
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  5392. Americans are I am sorry a bit insane. I am not being taxed I choose to pay 10 times market rates for medicines. Ok Americans you be happy with your low tax rates.
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  5393. @remcogreve7982  Well yes and no, you wanted him and he denounced his Australian citizenship as was required at the time for significant media ownership in the US. But your comment did give me a bit of a chuckle.
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  5394. Seems they are invasive ventilator that need intubation and not many trained to use them.
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  5395.  @LesliePeter  There is no "Western World Government" speak for your own country thanks and name it.
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  5396. Very different behaviours, while I don't know exact procedures in Africa if we compare European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization countries all voluntary quarantine, free travel versus in Western Pacific WHO region countries no free travel and 14 days forced quarantine at the borders and lockdown means lockdown you can't leave your state or province if a serious outbreak in an area without that mandatory enforced 14 days quarantine, this is in general of course different countries and states or provinces within will do things slightly different but it's chalk and cheese compared to the "hard hit" regions, they are hard hit because of policy.
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  5397.  @alannamarohnic4722  That's interesting , Bosnia , third highest deaths per million for a country of over a million people. They mustn't care about old people there, such a pity.
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  5398. Lol what's that supposed to mean?
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  5399. Nobody is interfering so what's the point of your comment?
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  5400. People surprised employment rate not being affected yet shouldn't be, at the moment things are being rushed into the US as quickly as possible to minimise tariffs as much as possible, this would actually create some employment, but the moment tariffs are in full effect people will start losing jobs , especially anything import or export related.
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  5401. So many Canadian supporting crashing their own economy when Trump does his trade war against you. You people have lost the plot.
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  5402. Who knows, could be South Korea and Japan, could be ASEAN if Trump knows what that is. Could be anywhere, it's becoming a bit random at this stage.
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  5403.  @TheRSAngle  I don't think so but it's much less of a problem than the US. In Australia since 2004 the rate of indigenous deaths in custody has actually been lower than the general prison population. The incarceration rate for indigenous people is very high though and about the same as black people in the US. So Australia's problem in general noting significant differences between states and areas within each state is how to stop especially the indigenous youth becoming involved in unlawful behaviour. This I think should be Australia's main focus but it doesn't seem to be currently.
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  5404. Hey scammer don't pick on Fox viewers, some of them aren't the brightest and they mostly don't have money.
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  5405. I think we could try to bring more but it's difficult.
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  5406. They never had a monopoly, but they are a superpower in that regard.
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  5407. I think Brazil's President gives him a run for his money.
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  5408. Body depends what you eat. Fatness is more costly to maintain so technically having a nice body is cheaper.
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  5409.  @michellewestlake6766  it's not even that in the US and I am sure others, the US only has guidelines, in most states you can literally get out of the plane and go straight to a restaurant or nightclub, there isn't even a $50 fine.
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  5410. Some are good enough to do that well.
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  5411. To meme creators on YouTube and Tik Tok for the moment create something about "concepts of a plan". It's one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard and I'm an Aussie we have ridiculous things happening here all the time, somewhat like Florida.
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  5412. They're under reported everywhere. The Chief Health Officer in Queensland says it very directly, it's a major undercount and we getting as of a few days ago those crazy positivity rates above 30%. They've changed how they process PCR tests , previously put maybe 20 not sure how many together and if it has a positive case then retest those 20 individual ones, now because every batch would come back positive they test every one individually which slows it down significantly.
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  5413. American exceptionalism is based on gross numbers not per capita. If you look at the number of inventions or scientific break throughs the US is in line with any Western democracy and is probably towards the the best on a per capita basis but nothing exceptional. This is in part why it's hard for them to even understand the concept. Now they are grappling with it so they can say they are not the worst, but on a per capita mortality rate they are at 10 and rising. It's not really a fair comparison and if it is NY is double that of any country on the planet.
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  5414.  @sandisom23  the Wuhan strain died out months ago, it can't compete against the thoroughbred.
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  5415. I doubt it because any aggressive orders he gives will be met with very strong resistance. He can't really start any international problems because the US is a mess internally. He could I guess cause problems in the next week, I think it's only a matter of time before a highly armed "peaceful protest" goes horribly wrong, this is a real risk , no opinion if it could spread though. I am not American , just observation from afar.
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  5416. Think of HIV it was in Africa for at least 30 years before being discovered in the US so it's no necessarily the case. It can be the particular mutation occured in Wuhan making it much more contagious. The B strain was far more contagious than the A strain and now B117 strain AKA UK strain is much more contagious again along with some other strains it seems. Nothing is simple and assumptions of what might of probably happened are still just assumptions. In Italy they couldn't even find a single case until February 21 but clearly it had been there for a month or so due to the numbers.
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  5417.  @kuzunohacompany8891  joint training can be done by Indonesia inside and outside territory. They have done separate naval exercises with China and India recently and in the past some army did training in Australia. I agree though that Indonesia's position is to not be too close to any other country but to have reasonable relations with many.
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  5418. What a ridiculous comment.
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  5419. If China invaded Australia you might not like his position which is who cares like his position with Ukraine. Maybe you are really America First not the current world order which helps Australia.
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  5420. He mentioned Thailand, that's South East Asia.
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  5421. The rioters and Democrats defunding police, is turning some votes towards Republicans, but some are leaving . So only way to really know the net effect is the November 3 assuming positions don't change all that much. It's true as a commenter suggested polling is not highly reliable.
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  5422. But it did work in 5 other states and a major territory. So far, nothing certain and it just takes a few stuff ups to become Victoria.
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  5423. I'll correct Fredrick, cases over 1,000 per day it's out of control already, only 3 places to get back to 0 from 500 or more daily cases is Wuhan, Singapore and Melbourne Victoria Australia.
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  5424. Trump is not acting like a King which is 99% ceremonial these days for 99% of constitutional monarchies. The king of Australia, King Charles has nothing to do with our government. Australia doesn't have any person with US president like powers. Any Prime Minister is literally hours away from being sacked when parliament is sitting and the Governor General as the Kings representative and our official head of state has no involvement in politics, they just sign things into law and represent Australia when it's appropriate for our head of state to attend. The Prime minister is the head of government. In the US system you have basically combined 3 positions into one when comparing to our system and on top of that given them extraordinary powers that nobody in our system has such as picking the entire executive government from mostly unelected individuals.
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  5425. Sorry I am for the comment a few above yours about a cat.
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  5426. Protectionism is left wing, free markets is right wing. So they are both moving towards the left on this issue. Ensuring fair trade is neither left or right which is being tied into protectionism however they are exclusive.
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  5427. So the current police investigating the former police are corrupt are they? There is more footage available as the person making the announcement of the arrest said.
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  5428. Vaccinated makes no difference at this point, it's still a risk. Emotionally I think the same but in reality Australia is extremely vulnerable, the virus now it not the same to 1 year ago, even Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand , Thailand all having greater problems especially with quarantine breeches of more transmissible variants.
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  5429. It's not a tragedy other than euthanasia being illegal and because of that this event occurred.
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  5430. Vast majority were at home not at protests, don't judge by a small minority, Australia didn't do well for this long without widespread community cooperation.
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  5431. Not biased but the analysis is a bit messed up.
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  5432. They mentally didn't have a choice, it's a cult however were the Charles Manson murderers not charged for the same reason, of course not. Being a member of a cult isn't a defense in my opinion. These people believed that after 20th of January the military might come to seize there assets because of the communist takeover about to occur like it did in Cuba, yes at a few rallies Trump did say as much and specifically said the US would become like Cuba or Venezuela. If you believed Trump would you not try to do something especially if you owned property? 40% of these people were apparently either business owners or professionals of some sort.
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  5433. This clip largely aligns with my thoughts on the matter. Elon wants to become a defacto absolute monarch.
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  5434. The major vaccine producing countries use it for themselves first. So India, China , US and Europe have the highest vaccination rates as a rule. Then you have a secondary problem in most countries with very low cases people are not keen to get vaccines.
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  5435. ​ @artstrology Ant Trump can pardon them if required.
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  5436. Unless congress acts , you have a constitutional crisis. Congress is the only mechanism in dealing with a rogue president in the US constitution.
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  5437.  @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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  5438. Hope not , Australia has been indirectly named an enemy by a certain country to our far north. They won't talk to us, but they still talking to the US.
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  5439. MAGA people are often quite angry people. You see them posting angry stuff in the comments after they already won.
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  5440. I know it's amazing. Can't find N95 masks for months but the amount of pepper spray and rubber bullets and tear gas and flash grenades they don't seem in short supply. If only the virus could be stopped with a rubber bullet.
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  5441. My gosh , I hope the Queensland government is aware of this since the border now open apparently, as long as you fly over NSW.
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  5442. I am in Australia and Tesla actually dominates the EV market here. There's probably 2 reasons for this , the Chinese EV manufacturers don't bother to meet safety standards which are likely similar to Japan also being right side driver vehicles and the US has more trust to the Australian consumer even though I am not sure where our Tesla's come from , ironically they might be made in China.
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  5443.  @calumboy4786  any news story won't have many thumbs up, completely meaningless.
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  5444. Imagine if such attacks happened in a US city and 10 people died over a week, like has occurred in Israel a population of 10 million. What would the US do. Chicago population 8 million , this conflict on the Israeli side of things is safer than Chicago, not even a particularly bad weekend for homicides if it was Chicago.
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  5445.  John Patriot eagle freedom boner  But Bill Gates is putting chips in the aluminum foil.
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  5446. Well on that basis I guess it's lucky a left wing radical got killed so the right wing radical can learn.
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  5447.  @Hidinginthetreeline  I am Australian and what I see in the US to me is a low level civil war. Both left and right and both major parties unfortunately not condemning all actors without equivocation. The US has a serious rule of law problem. If Biden wins hopefully it will make things calmer but I wouldn't be certain. Harris might help with general reform of how police operate, noting the federal government probably has very little power to do anything other than set guidelines, but if done well it might work.
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  5448. John has adopted Western Pacific terms, if you actually listen to the rhetoric and didn't look a single number, Sweden, UK and US would seem fine because the speech especially by politicians generally says so. Australia, NZ and Thailand would be seen as countries that don't seem to be able to get things under control with continous ongoing outbreaks. The rhetoric in containment countries is basically 100% take it seriously and even 2 cases is an outbreak where people are calling for heads to roll and blaming each other for the failure. So yes it is rumbling along in NSW , QLD and VIC using Australian terminology. The US has got the virus under control with only about 40,000 cases a day and is successful and don't you forget it.
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  5449. I think when the world trade war starts people are going to remember Elon and sales of Tesla will go down outside the US. Sales might improve in the US due to elimination of competition, however some people won't buy Tesla on principle even if it's slightly better than other US electric vehicle offerings.
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  5450. Yep the Wumaos saying get out only a couple of months ago now they saying why are you leaving along with pro Taliban support.
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  5451. News networks have been making a call for 60 years give or take on TV, so hardly a new phenomenon. It's not official and your president should he choose to challenge the results and have evidence that the result should be different will have his day in court. I am unsure as an Australian what your problem is because there is no evidence of anything unusual other than the result seeming to be clear and very few people believing there is any veracity to your president's claims and that from majority of elected Republicans and Majority of elected Democrats.
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  5452. If you reverse the direction of the original graph the wave is a Tsunami or alternatively a storm surge, the wave has just water behind it and doesn't end. Maybe terminology should be the wall of infections is continuing.
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  5453. Hello scammer
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  5454. ☣️ you forgot one
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  5455. Assuming you get a visa , I hope you enjoy Australia once you get there.
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  5456. Depends which country, some Northern European and basically all Eastern Europe are the problem areas.
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  5457. So isolation is good is it?
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  5458. Proves nothing because the decision could still be made elsewhere. Just because someone thinks, in this case John Bolton, that a decision was made in his presence doesn't make it so, the appearance of a decision being made doesn't take an oscar winning performance. So not questioning Bolton's integrity , only that what he thought he saw may not have been what he actually saw. This is normal in politics, it's called preparation and is to cause an effect or let people believe a certain thing. I am not saying the allegation is true or false and don't know and haven't seen the fox reporter on the original allegation.
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  5459.  @Left-is-right-8192  Well at least they're not getting run over and killed and can cross a road properly. If you look at the YouTube comments in US media this is rather common apparently and the death being counted as covid 19.
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  5460. Sounds American to me, so yes you are overthinking.
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  5461. Push back why? It's up to the audience to make their own decision and an interviewers job is to get others to speak, fighting someone stops them speaking freely. I think that fighting attitude hurts US journalism along with many being far too partisan.
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  5462. You chose to omit Chinese sales of Tesla actually increased last year. China probably considers Musk a geopolitical asset, in other words the moment Trump tariffs China Chinese leaders will suggest people don't buy Tesla. Pretty sure Musk is aware of this and the Chinese hope is he convinces Trump to only apply small tariffs.
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  5463. I am guessing $50 USD someone could print up a very official looking negative test result.
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  5464. I had to laugh at him being unaware of what ASEAN is. I don't really have any criticism of him not being able to name all the countries though. I am Australian and can no problems but if i was asked to name a group further away like all European Union members i couldn't.
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  5465. Not to minimise the $120 billion spent by the US but it pales in comparison to the cost of unjustified invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and for that matter the total amount sent to Israel to keep an oppresive apartheid system.
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  5466. No government is anarchy. Maybe you can say a fundamentalist libertarian is an anarchist .
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  5467. 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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  5468. Almost nobody is going to bring a billion to invest in a tanking North American economy with Trump tariffs. Plenty of stable countries in the world with free trade agreements not protectionism.
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  5469. Let's say you own a shop which has 2 different races of people as your customer. One steals at 5 times the rate of the other. Are you going to not racially profile and lose money or are you going to racially profile when carrying out surveillance on possible thieves? Answer that question then you have your answer. It's costly to many to not be racist.
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  5470. Elon is correct about the US needing to live within it's means. His solution however is to tax middle and low income people more and remove a lot of welfare payments and corporations less. It's clearly a stupid approach that will increase the wealth gap. Elon hasn't said a word about corporate welfare particularly with agriculture and pharmaceuticals. So evidence is he is a socialist just like Trump that supports welfare for corporations.
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  5471. In theory it might sound good but in practice taxing high energy foods wouldn't work other than maybe drinks which are almost always a component of fat people's diets, but nothing stopping them eating cake or making their own sugary drinks.
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  5472. To imply that DOD is losing money or doesn't know where the money went is incorrect. The audits found that valuations of property are often incorrect or in other words accounting errors not theft. For example an F16 might still be on the books at it's original price even though it's now worth much less. On the other issue that government departments often overpay for goods that's a completely different issue.
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  5473. 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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  5474. Careful what you wish for. Blue MAGA is no good either. Need critical voices in the middle doing journalism not propagandists on both sides trying to and effectively doing so brainwashing people creating truly bad governance. People literally shut down free thought once they're brainwashed. A good example is many US citizens but particularly on the right believe having a loaded gun in their pocket can stop a bullet travelling approximately 1000 m/s from a distance of up to half a mile for a good marksman. My example is an example of brainwashed people thinking carrying a gun gives you supernatural powers, can see everywhere and can move faster than a speeding bullet.
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  5475. At least those judges are consistent, they support collective punishment in Palestine both in Gaza and the West Bank and they support collective punishment for Columbia graduates.
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  5476. You mustn't be old or fat or have other condition and live in a bad neighbourhood. On both scores the US performance is bad, you are sort of admitting to choosing your poison.
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  5477. A lot of active hasbara trolls today.
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  5478. I think there might be a bit of domestic migration in the US to the so called fly over states.
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  5479. ​@timemaytell4669 There would be mixed opinions about Trump in Australia. Go and check a few youtube clips on Sky News Australia, they're pretty much a carbon copy of Fox news. So people who watch them are Trump supporters. The thing about Trump is he is so unpredictable so the question is would he follow through with getting the US out of NATO for example. It seems for whatever reason Trump likes Russia and hates China which is completely inconsistent but makes sense in a protectionist way. This does mean however from an Australian perspective we are less concerned than the Europeans. Also Trump wanting to start a trade war with China will probably help countries like Australia and Canada as we compete with the US on agricultural products in particular and China of course will retaliate. Trump if he gets in and realised his tariffs on China plus 10% on all other countries will do the poor people in the US huge harm with more inflation on everything from food to electrical appliances. Australians really don't understand Americans and your politics because we think both sides are nuts in the US, no secure border, public healthcare spending in excess of Australia but not universal etc. and it seems like neither party wants to fix things that are truly broken. Internally you have very serious problems leading to the lowest outcomes in most metrics for a high income country.
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  5480. He could be kicked out of the party that's about all.
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  5481.  Daniel Drader  he won't be, the standards are pretty low in that party currently.
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  5482. Yeah rightio, Trump the dictator is going to get 90% vote . Keep believing that and don't worry about voting because you have the numbers.
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  5483. This guy is clueless, quarantine has worked and failed after Delta. Western Pacific WHO region countries have Less than 10% of the per Capita death toll of PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region countries. 90% better should be considered successful. Being an island makes no difference, Hawaii has done very poorly compared to a country like Vietnam for example although Vietnam is struggling now.
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  5484. It's 1 in a million not one in 11
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  5485.  @daverok1113  I actually watched basically she picks at straws. Everyone knows that a positive test result doesn't indicate level of illness or diagnosis that someone is sick and strangely enough if you aren't sick then you will be told to isolate not put in a hospital bed and treated. So if you want to be finicky write to the WHO and tell them you want positive cases to only be called covi sars2 and those who display or report major symptoms Covid 19. That doctor is a bit of a nutter really trying to confuse the easily led people into thinking there is something more to it than just talking about definitions and she knows this. She said she a believer in The Reset, so yes even doctors can be nutters.
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  5486.  @daverok1113  do you disagree that most people know that a covid 19 case is not a diagnosis that a person is sick? Do you understand this or do you disagree with that lady? That is all she pointed out and that the virus hasn't been purified to 100% , again so what that's not necessary to get a dna profile. Please tell me what you disagree with, I can't argue against someone who appears to agree with me. As far as having the UN which is apparently the great reset, well without world order New Zealand could be declared China next week if no world order, just send one Chinese ship with nuclear weapons and guess what NZ would surrender more quickly than it took me to write this. I just looked up strawman argument to check meaning and that is exactly what the Kiwi doctor is doing. A play on words to get people to think she means something else by using the viewers ignorance.
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  5487.  @daverok1113  But I agree as my previous comment said there is no pure isolated covi sars2 virus. This is not relevant to obtaining a dna sample and as I stated in my previous comment so what? Please explain how not having a pure sample of covi sars2 changes anything, the dear Kiwi doctor didn't actually say it changes anything so maybe you can explain what it changes.
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  5488.  @daverok1113  the basis I speak on is asymptomatic covid 19 cases which has been commonly spoken on all media, of course technically that's a contradiction. Most don't realise that however because the only country to follow the real definition was actually China and then some accused them of lying for only presenting symptomatic cases as in real covid 19, they changed their position from pressure to follow the mob and reported those cases, if you look into it you will see a single large jump in Chinese case numbers.
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  5489. He said that they are very special people, now his legal team says they should be put in prison and it wasn't Trump's fault. I wonder if they will get special treatment being special people and all.
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  5490. Disagree with you Adam, Trump will put tariffs on Canada and Mexico, the only question is will it cover all goods and at what rate. My bet is on 25% on everything and some backtracking and subsidies as he did previously. If you don't believe Trump is crazy and it's only bluster as you put it you are just as crazy.
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  5491. Very strange comments in this thread. So the US currently has about 400,000 people in prison on health related offences about double the per capita rate of Australia yet you decry how free the US is. If you haven't worked it out drug charges are a health issue with less consequences to others than covid 19. Is locking up and or arresting maybe 100 individuals in all of Australia because they put others at risk worth it to save 25,000 lives noting that deaths from covid 19 and a poor response had killed 300,000 approximately between January 26 and October 3 in the US with 200,000 excess deaths directly attributable to the virus and the rest one has to assume the poor response. My answer is 100 annoyed people is better than 25,000 body bags adjusting for Australia's population. As far as business goes the US is not fully open , Australia is other than those businesses relying on tourists and overseas students. Overseas students are starting to return so things can get better. China has decided to start a trade war with Australia so it will have an economic impact not related to covid19 or it's response.
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  5492. It's a bit misleading because out of this entire agreement only one extra FTA partnership is created, that is China with Japan, all other countries already have FTAs with each other often duplicated arrangements. This makes it more comprehensive though and the main FTA advocates Australia, New Zealand and Singapore keep trying to get more and more agreements. Note the ratings of these countries on the Economic Freedom Index done by Heritage Foundation and you will understand why. Our wealth is derived from Free Trade. Once this current agreement comes into effect a country such as Malaysia and Australia also will find it extremely difficult to get out of Free Trade together because 3 overlapping agreements will be in place Australia Malaysia FTA and Australia , New Zealand ASEAN FTA and now this regional FTA. Good times ahead for our region. It's a pity India has declined to participate at this point in time from my Australian perspective because we don't have an agreement with them currently.
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  5493.  @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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  5494. After $200,000,000,000 from the US they should be however the US would still be sending aid and weapons is my guess.
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  5495. First of all you don't have a harsh lockdown, so is there much point with continous erratic lockdowns with strange rules which are harsh on some? Although I couldn't see the Swedish model working like it does in Sweden maybe a slightly stricter approach than Sweden with enforcement would be better. Otherwise harsh lockdown without holes in it and get rid of the virus which seems completely out of the question, so you are going to live with it, it's just a matter of how.
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  5496.  @shaunh5316  it is technically possible to eliminate it as many countries have shown , but you need absolute determination with a lockdown as hard as it needs to be. Victoria Australia was having about 500 cases per day and down to 10 now, 5km travel limit , Melbourne surrounded by police checkpoints so that people can't leave the Melbourne area, everything shut but supermarket and fast food delivery, all state borders shut tight with no one getting in or out, 8pm to 5am curfew where you need a permit to be outside your home for essential worker reasons. The virus didn't just go away and I feel for Victorians going through that , but probably feel more for those like UK where there is no light at the end of the tunnel other than a vaccine it would seem. Everyone entering Australia stays in 14 days compulsory hotel quarantine which the UK has never had , with open borders the entire time even during your harsher lockdown. You can never eliminate it with an open border, that is a technical impossibility.
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  5497.  @shaunh5316  It can be eliminated but just like every other country that has done so it will still re enter because perfect quarantine is an impossibility and have to stop it again, but I would suggest most Australian states and NZ pretty good at getting control of an outbreak quickly now, same with similar countries. One thing that's unknown is if this went on for another year will people still be willing to get tested in large numbers etc. ,plus the localised restrictions again for any outbreak? So there is probably a limit of how many times the public will cooperate. I just hope the optimistic outlook of middle of next year approximately a vaccine will be available fairly widely and highly effective but this is in no way guaranteed, the efficacy of potential vaccines hasn't actually been worked out yet.
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  5498. @rawlsrules  that's fair enough and I agree and I condemn my own government in Australia for being complicit also. Hopefully one day governments such as mine and the US will say enough is enough end the apartheid state with either a one state solution that is fully democratic or a genuine 2 state solution.
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  5499. Thinks first your comment is truly bizzare. What exactly are you trying to say other than the US is a superpower and could be worse than they are? Are you suggesting that the US should become an outright bad country in all ways?
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  5500. @Thinks-First  name the favour that the US is giving Australia. Really curious on your response.
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  5501. It's a tiny group of them and they are completely replaceable. The main trucking union in Canada doesn't support them.
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  5502. Trump got elected and people knew of his invasion plans of Mexico. Most Americans would not fight for the freedom of others, they voted against that or didn't vote and don't care. So about 70% of US voting age people don't care.
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  5503. The percentages will tend to line up because elderly people generally have enough common sense to get vaccinated whereas younger age groups don't care.
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  5504.  @EpicAlcatraz99  your views are interesting, both Israel and Palestine are actually far more peaceful than many US cities, I am guessing you are a US citizen and support the giving of $200,000,000,000 to Israel as foreign aid yet you don't care for your own country people and can't even secure your own southern border which has far more killing on both sides of it than the Israel internal borders will ever have.
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  5505.  @EpicAlcatraz99  If you understand history the US agreed to offer the nuclear umbrella as long as other countries agreed not to have the bomb , you can't just back out of agreements if you want to be seen as a civilized country. All small and medium countries are at the mercy of US and previously USSR and now China. There is a difference however between being a counterbalance to the other superpower and creating a welfare state of another country being Israel. You are incorrect about US violence, I think you would find Chicago has more killings than Israel and occupied territories combined. Same applies more broadly to some southern US states.
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  5506.  @EpicAlcatraz99  What a strange comment, what country are you referring to because Palestine isn't a country and you make it sound like inner city Chicago or something, this behaviour isn't a daily occurrence if you happen to be referring to Palestine. You are far more likely to be killed by covid 19 than any rocket attack. Your apparent reference to Palestine as a country is completely ridiculous, it's more like a local government, Israel is the government in charge. If Israel cared for it's own citizens maybe 5,000 people wouldn't have died from Covid 19. But hey US $s are giving them vaccines so all is fine.
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  5507. Marco knows what he is doing is political suicide but he's choosing to do it anyway to get the title of secretary.
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  5508. While it's not that good at the rate Israel is vaccinating versus the Palestinian population , they will be vaccinated before most countries. It's just common sense , Israel's interest is that they get vaccinated next otherwise Israel can't get rid of it.
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  5509.  @gerokron3412  If what you suggest is true it's rather ironic, The Israeli population mostly taking a vaccine created by Muslim Turkish Germans and the Palestinians won't trust it. So if it's the Pfizer Biontech one I think after the Palestinians realise the above they should be ok with it.
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  5510. With New Zealand and Australia it's a bit of a complicated arrangement coming into Australia it depends on the state, Queensland my state requires 28 days of no community transmission as a general rule but other states are more relaxed. New Zealand is obviously going to wait for available vaccines which is suggested will be March in Australia so my guess is an Australian will be able to go to New Zealand without quarantine if have taken a vaccine, if not door still closed is my guess. New Zealand is super cautious.
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  5511. For generic drugs you are probably right. Public run hospitals are almost universally cheaper then privately run hospitals and I think the same would likely apply but due to scale would need to be multinational agreements, it's not viable to produce a whole manufacturing process for a drug that is only £1 million in consumption per year but if say Australia produced that for all the countries in the agreement and UK another few drugs etc. it could work. Rock solid agreements with original manufacturer would also be ok but need more than one manufacturing plant in different locations due to things like weather and supply chain events.
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  5512. If no vaccine Sweden will be continuously in lockdown lite model much stricter lockdown than in all states and NZ except for Victoria. Sweden has that as their stated plan unless they have changed position and all indications are they are nowhere near herd immunity. Sweden does have an open border versus severe border restrictions here.
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  5513.  @johnsonpaul1914  Sweden can't have a sports event with 30,000 people and senior students needed to study from home. The restrictions in restaurants or bars same to most jurisdictions around the world. Nursing homes were in full lockdown for months which did reduce deaths. Sweden has improved with contact tracing and testing I think which has improved things. The unseen issues are the extra costs and precautions required so infections don't get into hospitals. What Sweden does is up to them and maybe appropriate and if you are somewhere that has done even worse it might look attractive, to people in jurisdictions with no cases it doesn't.
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  5514. Didn't he chuck toilet paper to them after some hurricane. Why wouldn't they love him?
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  5515. What if they bankrupt your country as has effectively happened in some countries? Any genuine AID fair enough but if it's just debt that can't be repaid then bad.
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  5516.  @mouricegriffiths1670  it's actually a not what if, it's already happened in some country.
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  5517.  @mouricegriffiths1670  Yes countries should find solutions to their own problems and becoming bankrupt due to Chinese debt isn't a solution it's a problem. The US did it previously and now China is doing it, some countries just like to be under the thumb of other countries.
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  5518. I am sceptical about the effects and think most likely they will be marginal primarily because it seems all unhealthy people register as having low vitamin d levels which to me suggests for example if you get fat the amount of vitamin d registering in your blood will be lower however vitamin d is stored in fat so the fat person probably has much more inside their body than a healthy weight person. Definitely it's worth a trial but health campaigns telling obese people that their life expectancy is that of a healthy weight smoker ( people accept smoking is bad but not so much regarding obesity ) and to exercise and stop eating so much high energy foods might have better overall results. Having previously looked up life expectancy issues smoking plus drinking is as bad as morbidly obese, I do the former 2 but only just a little overweight , gotta have some vices and I am aware of my likely predicament.
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  5519. I'll ask a question back to you, do you think everyone in countries with emergency authorisation of vaccines understands the reasons and risks and why it's emergency use only, AKA informed consent in the context you used it? If the participants in Iran are aware it's a trial and it's not forced like any country can do with military personnel for example then what do you think, my guess is it's likely a combination of government employees who must get it and voluntary.
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  5520.  @iqbaltimol2676  Yes Australia does have that rule for federal parliament. It caught some people out a couple of years ago , many who didn't realise that they had dual citizenship. I am technically a dual citizen because at the time of my birth my mother was a New Zealand citizen but I haven't done anything about it so unregistered I guess. One prominent politician was kicked out for being in my situation. I didn't know I was a dual citizen until that case.
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  5521. Obama controls the Deep State AKA public service.
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  5522. @steventate8514  huh what's with you, yes the run up in debt by Trump previously is well documented.
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  5523. Possibly to an extent but their children will be real Australian as you put it, the majority of them if you surveyed them would see China for what it is, possibly moreso than some misguided others born in Australia.
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  5524. It would be 8.30pm a long time after 3am.
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  5525. 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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  5526. New York is at 0.16% so far and possibly can go to 4 times that to get to herd immunity. So your number is clearly incorrect.
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  5527.  @The.Liminal.Spaces  I half agree with you. It is a thing however mutations make it less and less likely over time and it's unknown how long immunity will last after an infection. I have heard immunity may be as low as 3 months but I think actually nobody knows.
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  5528. Actually they're pretty good. The problem is some brands in China and Tesla Cybertruck are rushing them out too quickly with too many faults. BYD claims that they now have the technology to recharge a vehicle in 5 minutes, making it pretty much the same as filling up a gasoline vehicle.
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  5529. @Stephen-cr3sc  I agree that they aren't saving emissions in any meaningful way at the moment and the cybertruck is probably far worse than a basic hybrid car. However they are advancing quickly and V2G (vehicle to Grid) technology will likely become a reality within a few years, once that happens it's a game changer because renewables like solar and wind can charge the vehicle when electricity coming in and the vehicle power the grid when renewable not producing electricity. It's probably a few more years after the v2g becomes a reality until a power grid can run like that which will probably be the hard part.
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  5530. @dianetaylor8278  ok , I didn't know that.
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  5531. 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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  5532. That's why in my opinion police should be state not local, I think this situation is unique to the US and it leads to problems in my opinion.
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  5533. Your idea only goes into the 10s or optimistically low 100s of billions, nothing like the $2Trillion promised. Probably won't even cover the corporate tax cuts proposed.
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  5534. The US has just accepted that more will die , daily deaths over 500 per day currently, certain groups won't get vaccinated so that's that. If you can't get vaccinated or immune suppressed tough , you protect yourself the best you can.
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  5535.  @eljefemaximo5420  Omicron wasn't the first variant and won't be the last, getting vaccinated including booster is sensible. Maybe next variant is far worse than Omicron, nobody knows.
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  5536. There was a supreme court case on the matter of public health measures around the time of the Spanish flu and until or unless that is overturned a mask mandate is legal , however in practice the Federal government can't actually enforce it because no capability to reasonably do so it would need cooperation of states and local authorities.
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  5537. The only one I disagree is the Covid deaths. If things were done really well the US would still have thousands of deaths , say 5,000 to 10,000 given the difficulties dealing with state governments that's an absolute minimum. Your number will be correct in a week or 2 though so not all is lost.
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  5538. It's not that simple, US citizens might not be allowed to just get citizenship of the country of a parent especially if adult.
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  5539. He missed the opportunity to call it "the big house".
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  5540. What lockdown, people can still travel freely without any formal quarantine? I think you mean partial lockdowns which looking from afar seem fairly pointless.
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  5541. This is what is expected from a low income corrupt country. The US is the only rich developing nation, unfortunately it's currently developing backwards except for of course contracts with Elons companies.
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  5542.  @aengusmacnaughton1375  Don't worry, your border is still open with no actual quarantine required, just a recommendation.
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  5543. That's the number 1 point, usually there aren't tanks rolling down the streets, in fact that's rare.
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  5544. Yep , most Canadians are vaccinated. It's unfortunate that some still don't listen to the science and keep dying.
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  5545. The US has veto power in the UN security council and the US supports Israel no matter what. The UN is totally dysfunctional so long as permanent members of the security council have veto power.
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  5546.  @markusmaximus6636  once you say suicide rates are 10 times the death rate of covid 19 in Germany you lose all credibility.
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  5547. Cuomo said almost exactly what Fauci said about the US healthcare and that's why the US not having problems. I wonder who said it first.
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  5548. They should start an LGBTQ clothing line called the proud boys if the Church isn't too conservative.
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  5549. The body bags will start to pile up after the election, full opening was at start of October, hospitalisations I guess are starting to rise now, deaths will start to rise around 4 to 8 weeks. If you look at the numbers in Victoria Australia (population 6,500,000) that looks like they came back from a very bad situation now with daily cases below 10 the pattern I describe is approximate lag times from the peak.
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  5550. Basically a cry wolf defense would work. Even though people posting violent threats on Trump's own YouTube channel all Trump needs to say is I didn't believe them, militia groups have been threatening to overthrow the government since the civil war so I had no reason to believe that they would carry through. Truth is even the police didn't believe it which is why they were unprepared without any intervention from Trump. So you need hard evidence, Trump doesn't leave any hard evidence, he knows how to talk like a mob boss, in other words " take care of" could mean "kill" etc etc. Use common language and you can never be convicted.
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  5551. All media focuses on negative, would you watch a news report on someone enjoying breakfast or a car on fire? So don't be sensitive about that, Australia was accused of human rights abuses just a short while ago because we halt travel from India including Australian citizens for a few weeks, they failed to mention in that report Australia covid 19 free.
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  5552. Well he sent his daughter to a G20 meeting with world leaders once , this is actually no worse than that.
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  5553. You chose a good place to hide from the virus.
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  5554. Well you shouldn't be because the largest block of voters were those who declined to vote and effectively supported Donald Trump should he win. Maybe only consider your small group of Democrat voters.
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  5555. Terrible idea, an authoritarian like Trump would find psychiatrists who are loyalists to remove Democrats.
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  5556. @Mepica Unhuevo well there's more cases, so I don't know. Until they can track down all the reasonably possible cases same for a while. I hope NZ gets the situation under control quickly and believe they will.
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  5557.  Lord Voldemort  The strange thing is , there is no country that I am aware of where there isn't bipartisan agreement about the main premiss to contain or to mitigate. The US they say there is division but not on the main point which is to allow the virus to spread with mitigation only, no hard lockdowns or closed state borders when the state is managing the outbreak if they successful they only slow it down , no intention to stop it. In Australia and NZ it's containment, try to get rid of it and pick any new outbreaks quickly and contain the spread, with lockdowns if required like in Victoria and to a lesser extent Auckland and fairly tight border controls with mandatory quarantine. So no point jailing the opposition if they agree with you.
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  5558. We don't need more escalation at this point.
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  5559. As John said he didn't know the details and Cuomo said actually 7 states were doing the same thing , one would presume for the same reason or they do it collaboratively. I agree in the US situation it's probably a good idea.
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  5560. Bernie Sanders supporters voted more for Trump than Hillary because of Trump's protectionist trade and industry policies , normally considered left wing but now apparently free trade and business is a left wing thing according to Trump supporters.
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  5561.  @cjvaye99  Do you see the irony in your own statement, you chose one of each , a less socialist country in Ireland and a slightly more socialist country in Sweden. Check the US rating in the Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index. It's not too bad but certainly a long way behind Ireland and not far in front of Sweden.
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  5562. There's probably already some high skilled Americans who can get work visas in any English speaking country leaving.
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  5563. I watched and read comments on 7 clip. Seems one comment was right . The comments here sound like they are coming from BLM and some black person stirring up the police and being stupid for a video. Showing a drivers licence isn't hard.
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  5564. I saw a Japanese one and Korean one at Trump's initial rally. Haven't seen any Australian flags yet, I hope none of my countrymen/expats there.
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  5565.  @equious8413  no party or country is completely socialist or having no Socialism, such a system doesn't exist except for arguably North Korea is 90% + socialist because the government control almost everything completely. The start of welfare for the masses which was the old age pension was generally about 100 years ago for many countries.
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  5566. @Hayle Seyton a communist is a full on socialist especially if truly pure communism where the government controls everything. Communists believe in public ownership of everything and everybody is required to work for the state , everything gets distributed evenly. In other words much like the Soviet Union was. A moderate socialist is basically what you find in especially northern Europe government has significant involvement in running things and provides good social services but not against capitalism , just capitalism must fit within that context. Limited socialism is the system in Australia or US as in a bit more towards free market and a more limited welfare safety net at least in theory, low levels of industry protection and high levels of economic freedom. The economic freedom index to me is the best guide available of how socialist a country is, it's not a perfect guide for that as it includes corruption for example which isn't really socialist or not. I think that's really a US thing using communist and socialist completely interchangeably , in Australia I think most people wouldn't do that.
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  5567.  @equious8413  simple definition of Socialism is controlling the means of production [by the government] so I don't agree, I am happy with that definition.
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  5568.  @equious8413  don't be grumpy, ok so you are interested in possibly an Australian type system where socialism is directed to the needy, obviously being Australian I agree with you. I didn't know what type of socialism you would prefer until just now and seems if you are being genuine maybe you would be ok cutting subsidies to business to pay for social welfare although that's not needed that much, the US for example spends more on public healthcare than Australia yet life expectancy is 5 years lower in the US and it seems your public healthcare isn't entirely universal. The other thing is saying you are on the left doesn't mean all that much centre right and centre left are closer together than they are to the extreme of their own side. I am guessing you are towards the centre but not sure.
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  5569.  @equious8413  you taught me a new acronym UBI, which I guess you mean something like what we call the dole in Australia, a payment for the unemployed that doesn't have many conditions to it and never gets cut off.
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  5570.  @equious8413  ok , yes I did assume you were American. I don't know much about Canada but assumed it to be somewhat closer to Australia than the US as far as how the government operates and the overall general position on things.
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  5571.  @equious8413  ok so UBI is a concept of something more substantial than the dole and more along the lines of a low but comfortable income if one doesn't work. I don't see automation as a big problem but transitions can be a problem like truckers for example will become redundant in high income countries in the not so distant future, the technology already exists to replace them. I think a bigger concern in some countries is the extreme wealth of some and big gap as in someone worth $100 billion , that's bigger than many countries and too powerful, not sure what the answer is but maybe a death tax of 50% or something for everything over $10 billion, kids getting a billion each minimum should be ok. In reality they might give money away before they die but that's just as good as long as some redistribution occurs. I don't think this has become an issue in many countries yet but I think it's already an issue in the US and a few other countries.
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  5572.  @equious8413  I have to say your comment of 99% taxation is pretty radical, however the point that nobody needs more than $1 billion to survive is certainly valid but again outlawing it is not really an option.
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  5573. Plastic is made from oil. when Donald's tariffs on oil from Mexico and Canada come into effect the company's imput costs go up.
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  5574. In the US , guess what riots and protests back then, not much seems to have changed.
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  5575.  @minavanderleest9493  "contagious people" just say Americans, no need break it down any further. The roles have reversed, previously people from low and middle income countries were considered a disease risk now those same countries are scared of US citizens entering their countries.
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  5576. Regulations be good or bad and increase or decrease economic activity. Healthcare is highly regulated in the US to protect bad behaviours and massive profit gouging. So does that increase economic activity, yes for Healthcare industry it clearly does by protecting companies from outside competition and even internal competition rules like exist in most places like price fixing. Does it increase economic activity in the US as a whole, it lowers life expectancy so that's a negative and it's sort of like a 5% tax on the US's entire GDP so probably fair to say it's a negative for overall economic activity in the US. When Donald talks about deregulation he purely referring to only a couple of things such as allowing companies to bribe government officials overseas, lowering environmental regulations to allow more pollution and allowing price fixing etc, with every industry. He isn't talking about deregulation of markets to increase competition, he's in fact doing the exact opposite with tariffs trying to create some distopia where basic manufacturing is favoured over complex manufacturing, making steel and aluminium producers more money so they can expand operations that wouldn't be possible without protection or in other words encourage inefficient production at the expense of machinery and vehicle manufacturers in particular. Chairman Mao had similar views to Donald.
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  5577. Apparently 1 hour warning.
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  5578. The most likely bigger effects are the secondary effects of having the virus rampant, less other hospital care leading to more deaths and more mental health issues which may lead to more suicides.
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  5579.  @jgroovy1973  Australia we say leftie and it's not particularly derogatory, it's more a statement of fact. Our political spectrum is quite different to the US though, both our main parties are more central than the US I believe, take trade for example, the US actually is far left and far right at the same time, that is protectionism, the center left and right should be arguing for freeing up trade in the US but seems that section of your politicians are sort of dead silent now. With Obama Biden administration quite an effort was made towards being in the TPP , now we have the CPTPP which is a scaled down version without the US obviously, so Biden seems to have moved from his previous position most likely for pragmatic reasons or populism because it wouldn't be popular now in the US.
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  5580. Great we're going to have another 100 Wuhan and Fort Detrick labs all experimenting and looking at more and more viruses. Nothing could go wrong with that .
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  5581. Flame you are right but certain reopening will increase infections it's basically a certainty and Cherubim you are wrong. It normally takes a few weeks to die from it assuming medical attention is available, so the ones dying now have nothing to do with reopen. The infection rate is likely to climb but will depend on business type. The 25% capacity of restaurants will help but it's still risky especially indoors . Crowded bars or large functions held indoors are the biggest risk and hopefully that's not happening yet. One person coming from overseas back to Australia infected 35 people at a wedding party over a 4 hour period I think it was .
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  5582. Then clearly you won't be buying any more Tesla shares. Trump won the vote in low income brackets, people on welfare disproportionately support Trump.
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  5583. It's about double that, the ones that didn't vote are happy also.
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  5584. I hope so lol , got a few $1,000 riding on it
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  5585. Actually if you pick the right companies to buy stocks in you will do very well. Lawlessness makes unfair trading practices including price gouging effectively legal. Investing in the US building something new is a bad idea. Also best to cash out any stock investments before Trump's term finishes because there might be blowback with a future government deciding to actually implement rule of law. I would note both political parties have been bad on industry policy for many years. The Democrats were terrible and Trump has upped the anti big time.
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  5586. Yeah and the comments above my comment just shows how many American think. Something about having a big population as a country means need to kill more or something and can't compare. On that basis Australia should be better than the UK but I don't think we are and depends on which state because our police forces are state based other than federal police for federal crimes.
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  5587. Looking back at an old article of news "record cases 23 October 83,000 cases", US is now at about 100,000 cases per day and deaths although lagging behind case counts and should go down soon at about 3,000 per day. Time to celebrate Americans open up and when the snow clears you can all see if you can catch a new variant or something considering your immunity from a year ago is probably reducing. Maybe herd immunity is kicking in as was thought the case 6 months ago or just maybe the optimists are wrong again. It's true it could be either , I guess we will find out in about 2 months, best to as Trump said " fight the virus head on [by getting infected] ", at least it's a bipartisan approach I suppose.
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  5588. 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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  5589. China basically copied what Oxford Astrazeneca did by having some other producers producing the vaccines around the world.
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  5590. It did. If you watch the governor's address he took responsibility and he was called by CNN. So it happened at the highest level. It wasn't made clear who made the decision to arrest them in the first place though. Maybe it was lack of clear instructions.
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  5591. I am wondering how many commenters are from NSW asking us to open the border to their state in lockdown.
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  5592. I agree with you but the US is headed for worse numbers excluding the effects of improved treatment and a possible vaccine. You need to compare obesity rates to look at possible outcomes so I think the US mortality rate will eventually pass that of Sweden for example.
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  5593. It sort of is I think, they say all politics is local, so for the French voters they have to do something to show they are angry. I don't think we need to worry too much, give it a couple of months then the French can restore the relationships to normal because they are good people and whatever satisfies the local electorate. Not concerned there's going to be a war or something.
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  5594. It's about 70% less deadly is the approximate consensus. If unvaccinated and particularly over 60 or so a reasonably high risk is still there. I am in Queensland and we went from covid 0 to open so our preliminary data is good based on high vaccination rates and no natural infection. The US is quite different because of the amount of natural infection.
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  5595. Creating enemies is interests?
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  5596. Even though I am not from NSW or VIC I do agree with both governments trying to rush up their vaccination rates by encouraging people to consider Astrazeneca, they need all the tools they have got to hopefully reduce restrictions sooner rather than later.
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  5597. Trump has already done damage with Canadians boycotting products and holidays to the US. My guess is it's happening on the Mexican side also.
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  5598. Seniors and young children if school isn't open parents will naturally shield even if risk is fairly low.
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  5599. You certainly have a valid point, but the psychological implications must be taken into account. Sweden's overall healthy population with a high life expectancy means the death toll may end up better than other countries. See my comment regarding this.
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  5600.  Christopher Lawn  I am Australian and Trump couldn't make preselection in either of our major parties. He could get into a fringe party. Australia has had no cases of community transmission of covid for 5 days or so now. The US just topped 100,000 cases. The death rate per capita is over 20 times that of Australia. Even Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska have worse death rates than Australia's worst performing State and they are all separated from the mainland if you want to say it's because Australia is an island. Australia is also slightly more urbanized than the US so it's not population density either. So don't which country you come from and if killing your own citizens is acceptable , I pity your country if your leader is even worse than Trump.
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  5601.  Christopher Lawn  the US economy isn't booming and Trump is a protectionist, Australia is a free market economy, see Heritage foundation economic freedom index. US citizens travel overseas a lot less than Australians so having quarantine at the border would have been comparatively easier actually. Trump loves deficit spending running US gov debt up at record rates before covid 19. Australia we aren't like that , there is at least a bit of an attempt to balance the budget. As far as can Trump be blamed for the monumental failures on covid 19 response, no but he lied , no Australian politician did that, he supports all conspiracy theories. I don't know if he is racist but he stirs people up something that's unacceptable in mainstream Australian politics. We know the US has a homicide rate 6 times that of Australia so stirring an already violent people gets people killed. The El Paso shooter wanted to stop the invasion so definitely riled up by Trump who used the exact same words. Anyway no more Trump in the Whitehouse shortly at least according to sportsbet in Australia , I have already been paid out for the Biden win.
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  5602.  Christopher Lawn  Just search sportsbet Australia pays out Joe Biden win. You will see I am telling the truth. Trump might have got the most black votes for a Republican presidential contender which is very small in comparison to Democrat contenders like Joe Biden. I don't care about people who came from or descendants of people from Spanish speaking countries. A totally irrelevant demographic to me and it covers all racial demographics anyway. Thank goodness in Australia we wouldn't treat Spanish or Spanish speaking immigrants as special.
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  5603.  Christopher Lawn  I am just an average Australian, I don't want Australia to head down that path any further than it has already which in a relative sense it hasn't. It's absurd you know. Some immigrant comes from Spain and he or she is somehow special but if come from 20 km away in France , they aren't special or 1000km away in England somewhere they might even be seen as the opposite. I am not running for a political seat and in the US race and ethnicity stuff is out of control. As I am sure you would agree the left and right in the US are both bad when it comes to this. With sportsbet if they turn out to be wrong which is a very slight possibility then of course have to pay those that betted on Trump but they can't get my money back ( my brother bet for me actually)
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  5604. They used rapid tests which are not as sensitive as the pcr test. I saw the New Zealand PM talking on that matter today. In Australia and New Zealand we won't use that test until or unless it can have the same accuracy as the tests currently used.
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  5605. Take very good care, if you live in detached accommodation as in a stand alone house with a yard that's good. If you don't you are at higher risk. If you have any relative that can help you get them to deliver groceries to you. Don't meet them but wait 2 minutes to collect the groceries from the drop off point 2 minutes is the time people must wait to collect food outside of hotel quarantine room so risk of anyone breathing in virus in the air is reduced. Obviously if outdoors much lower risk but an extra minute of waiting won't hurt considering being isolated all the time. Best of luck and take care the best you can. Most important is avoiding high risk areas the most or completely if you can.
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  5606.  @mooselodge3881  it's not my state or even country but if you look at New Hampshire and based on total deaths and not currently active cases which should be ignored with an open border and compare it to countries of the world it would be the 21 st worst country for number of deaths per capita. So not the worst but certainly not safe for a vulnerable person.
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  5607. That takes time and if you look in general the countries that have been successful at containment are much slower at rolling out vaccines because people don't see urgency and harder to get vaccines.
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  5608. Those running the tests are making millions, more infections = more testing = more money. If I owned shares in one of those companies every stupid protest including BLM or this mob I am seeing dollar signs.
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  5609. Well Trump has got one thing right and that's the debt ceiling is stupid. There's only a few countries that do this and they can be counted on one hand. Australia my country is in the 40's and Canada is in the 80's and the US in the 120's of percentage of government debt to GDP. Over about 50% of government debt to GDP problems usually start to occur. The US is special however and maybe that number is 100% of GDP due to major reserve currency status, but if the US creates a crypto currency reserve all bets are off.
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  5610. China, Japan et. al. , It's called credit.
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  5611.  @oldmate528  I do watch John Campbell almost religiously, although he isn't always correct in his assumptions he does look at a wide amount of information from a lot of countries and presents it in an easy to understand way.
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  5612. There is in general very good adherence to restrictions, of course not everyone but very high. If it wasn't the current variant they would probably not have lockdown with the current case numbers.
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  5613. Masks only slow the spread not stop it. If you don't get the R0 to below 1 and keep it there until no cases, they will go up it's that simple.
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  5614. Trump's all over the place. Before the election he said he would spend more on the military now he says halve it. If he can get a disarmament agreement with China and Russia great but knowing Trump next week he'll have a different position.
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  5615. We can and we did. It has cost some industries significantly though.
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  5616.  @hillbelly2132  blacks in the US not need to fear the white man in a relative sense, black on black killing could be described as out of control. Check the statistics if you want.
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  5617. 28 days no cases is elimination, but quarantine breach that area goes back to 0. Everywhere has had 28 days virus free and currently just the outbreak in Northern Beaches Council area and many local government areas in South Australia counting the days again. Queensland requires an area to be case free for 28 days to travel into Queensland without mandatory enforced 14 days hotel quarantine. So it's not about the weather, in my state Queensland has had about 1,200 cases or so with 800 or so imported and found in quarantine. The virus would spread like wildfire regardless of season in a state of 5,000,000 with everything open and virtually no restrictions other than interstate travel as I stated above. All of Australia is the same other than Northern Beaches which obviously has significant restrictions.
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  5618.  @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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  5619. Did they test for it, if they did then it was the flu.
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  5620.  @holdenrobbins852  false positive is not common at all assuming the test was PCR, however it's possible you had both viruses and having both based on one of John's videos is twice as bad just having covid 19.
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  5621.  @holdenrobbins852  that page you showed me was about rapid diagnostic testing and if the test was done that way then yes highly inaccurate according to their own indicative statistics but a PCR is accurate , it even said to check etc. should use PCR which is obviously much slower and probably much more expensive. The main thing is you are healthy now.
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  5622. Trump might be an idiot and increase the chances of bad things happening but to jump to the conclusion it's his fault is ridiculous.
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  5623. There is probably still a shortage but there might be enough for medical purposes. Industrial users are probably not getting what they want, if really no shortage at all then all restrictions of oxygen selling etc. would be lifted.
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  5624. Why are MAGA people so angry in the comments section, get over it, you won
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  5625. My guess is Trump won't back down and is more likely to double down.
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  5626.  @PhillipJackson-n7m  what a silly comment. I am not American but I can tell you taxing the people with low and middle incomes so they can buy less imported goods hurts those people. How is hurting low and middle income people good for USA?
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  5627. You still doing this lol? In Queensland Australia we still at February 2020, we still covid 0 but border slowly opening soon.
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  5628. I think you need to change your voting system. What is a 2 party duopoly state seems to have disadvantages. The extremes of both parties would join other political parties in a multi party system. Agree with all your comments though. But just suggesting real changes might be needed.
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  5629.  ROGUEGUNNER69  are you sure? The homicide rate of offenders for blacks is about 6 times that of whites. The rate of lethal encounters with police for blacks is apparently 7 times that of whites. The second number I am not sure where it's from but a reliable TV show said it. The first number is FBI statistics on their webpage. Without stopping the root cause the outcome can't change.
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  5630. No it doesn't help the US if China stuffs up.
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  5631. Whatever the rules are it should be federal and not state by state. Australia has different rules for state elections but federal elections are carried out by the federal government with one rule for all. Republicans are wrong that enfranchisement of more people counts against them. Depending on the issue Australia could be considered to the right or left of the US . The US under Trump actually lurched to the left on trade and industry policy and although I don't think it's a personal belief to the right on social and religious issues. To me he seems to have no real belief system, just populism and what he thought would get most votes.
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  5632. @DrivenA111  I am not even American, I come from a free trading nation. Trump's move to what has traditionally been the far left on trade will cost low income consumers a lot in tax. Yep if you rich you don't need to care, your taxes go down not up.
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  5633. @JudyStroyer-bk6fb  Yeah the stock market went up more under Biden creating a bigger wealth gap and your point is what? Hopefully your point is the US should increase the federal minimum wage which is too low and the Democrats didn't do this and Trump has no plans to do this.
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  5634.  @prokaki1234  In Australia it's run at the state level , nothing to do with federal government for the most part, however the advice and "national cabinet" as it's called and the external border protocols from the federal government have worked very well. I am in Queensland a cautious state and only 7 deaths for 5 million people, can't really get much better than that.
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  5635. China will do fine unless overwhelmed, 5 Nanjings they can't do the testing etc. etc., It's no different in Australia if the 3 large Eastern States all have a problem equivalent to NSW it will overwhelm everything. The national government can't give some extra vaccines, manpower from the military for contact tracing and helping police etc. to 3 major states at once plus it puts the finances in extremely bad shape with all the handouts.
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  5636. Surprised they were given visas.
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  5637.  @dixieward626  So when some dies of pneumonia caused by covid 19 they shouldn't be counted? This is just one common example.
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  5638. Florida must be terrible then according to you because they use voting machines.
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  5639. The problem is his base are often poor folks who won't bail him out.
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  5640. You can't blame an individual unless it's an executive order. So Trumpflation from tariffs is 100% on him. Having said that you can blame industry policy on successive governments. Best example in the US is the outrageous prices the government and individuals pay for pharmaceuticals. Deciding to not have a free market and pay extra is just crazy. Socialism gone mad.
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  5641. The PM has no powers over provincial governments or the US government. So what do you expect him to do, be an insurrectionist and declare martial law and seize power of all provincial governments? You think that would go down well? Should he declare war on the US because they only let in foreigner who are Vaccinated? Very curious to hear you response, sounds like you want a real genuine dictatorship.
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  5642. The entire list of wealthy country with majority European except for 1 country have a functional universal healthcare system and if you have nothing in effect the government pays the lot because you receive welfare payments to which you can pay for subsidized medicines for example. The exception is the US. The statement "despite the band chiefs " was completely uncalled for, a non indigenous person with drug addicts as a parent could likely end up in a sad situation and will receive all those same benefits "despite having drop kick parents", we live in societies that try to help the needy not reject them. If you look at the social mobility index Canada scores well being the highest score in a non European country.
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  5643.  @benwilson6145  Well point by point, Trump claims he is a Christian and isn't, Morrison is a Christian, so what I am an atheist and couldn't care less. I guess next point relates to the cruise ship well it happened so what? What matters is it was corrected. If he said Rupert Murdoch is his friend again so what, Rupert Murdoch has supported both sides of politics over the years and although he does or used to at least choose people to run his media interests he generally have them free reign and believes the media should represent both sides, if you look at the various Murdoch press in Australia it depends on the publication, the Australian for example although I haven't read it for a while was very balanced actually. Sky News Australia is comparable to Fox News , sometimes not sure which is worse. Qanon thing don't know about that or why he would say that Qanon hates all Australian politicians of both parties and thinks Trump is a world saviour. This would be completely contradictory to Morrison's UN speech where he mentions misinformation being spread about covid 19 , an indirect rebuff to Donald Trump the biggest spreader of misinformation. As far as outbreaks inside of a state it is the State governments fault because they are required to run the response, in the end Australia has succeeded and the Federal government is a major part of that success along with all state leaders, regardless of political party. In the beginning Dan Andrews and Morrison were actually the closest together on the response actually with open borders policy etc. Thank goodness other states ignored those 2 along with NSW because otherwise we would likely look like other countries. Again it's not by political affiliation the federal government is bleeding cash big time so of course wants borders open because that will help, all states except NSW and NT backed down it would seem on the definition of hotspot, now real position seems to be 14 days no cases of community transmission or your state will have travel restrictions except hardline WA won't budge at all yet. The states are scared of ever getting into the Victorian situation so remain cautious and Dan Andrews according to opening plan is now a hardline state having dropped the open border policy. In the end the federal government did assist states even when disagree on policy and of course provided major assistance to Victoria when needed, Trump I hate to say didn't seem to care one bit unless it's a "red state". So Australian leaders are nothing like Trump, Trump is literally like Pauline Hanson , who is good for our democracy because all voices should be heard but should never be and can never be Prime Minister. Australia has offered a far more consistent stimulus and truth is it was too generous and needs to be wound back. The US doesn't have that funds are cut at the moment because Trump wants a $100,000,000 not specified for exact spending and Democrats don't want him having $100 Billion not assigned properly because Trump using executive power can just spend it however he wants with very wide parameters. This is nothing like the Australian situation.
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  5644.  @benwilson6145  Health is run by states , the federal government provides support only. I rarely watch Fox or Sky News Australia because they are nuts as I already said. Australia and US are very different countries and domestic policies can't really be compared because they are chalk and cheese other than free speech where our countries are comparable. The Democrats in the US totally disagree with Australia's response actually, not a single compulsory quarantine in place. The Democrats versus Republicans both want open borders without quarantine so always was going to fail and will continue to fail regardless of the outcome of the presidential election. Be pleased , we are still the lucky country and wish the best for the US which is in trouble. Without an effective vaccine the US will remain in this position for a long time. It is hopeful an effective vaccine comes but not certain. Totally agree that the Federal government shouldn't have got involved in Clive Palmer versus Western Australia. Our system works and personally I just voted for Labor in QLD state election because they have done extremely well on the health response and I don't want to change horse mid stream, I intend to vote LNP Federally when that comes around. For me the country comes above partisanship and a job well done is a job well done.
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  5645. Funny reading all the snowflake comments complaining of bias against Biden and or for Biden. Go back to your respective propaganda networks of CNN or Fox, Sky News Australia is like Fox News for those who want anti Biden propaganda.
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  5646. Because they aren't, just using English speakers. Just like Al Jazeera in a way. It probably works because especially if it's a story about an English speaking Country the cultural issues will be better understood and I think viewers feel more comfortable with voices/accents they are used to which is mostly US , UK and Australian.
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  5647.  @greystone2594  You mean the Aussie guy with Australian and Eureka flags, deport him back to us.
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  5648.  @abbottmd  Really, deaths in the US versus Australia 10 times as many per Capita. So a 90% death reduction is nothing?
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  5649. 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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  5650. Wealthy Zionists both Christian and Jewish are large political donors. AIPAC is of course the peak body doing this.
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  5651. It is better now but wait a month or so after all foreign troops gone it could revert back to what it was.
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  5652.  @brooklynbummer  So you think girls shouldn't go to school? This is just one example that is better in my opinion.
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  5653. ​@beverly719 they all can have access to classified documents and even bring them home, depending on classification. The lowest level of classification is granted to every employee of your federal government otherwise they can't work.
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  5654. Asians are the highest earning racial group in your country, lots of them are in the upper 10% , what a racist thing to say. Asian American households earn 30% more on average than white and therefore impossible none of them are in the top 10%.
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  5655. Not really, the US form of limited socialism is quite different to say my country Australia and we rate higher than the US on the Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index as do all other 5 EYES allies, meaning as a proxy measure because includes rule of law also which isn't necessarily capitalist or socialist the US isn't as capitalist as you might imagine.
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  5656.  @rochelimit55555  just search economic freedom index in the internet, it should come up.
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  5657.  @rochelimit55555  Yes you've found it obviously. My point is the US behaviour is not about capitalism in a direct sense. The US tends to tax and give handouts often in the form of bailouts to industry but cares less about people. So a welfare safety net is seen as socialist yet subsidising say a bank isn't even though subsidising the bank due to failures is actually more socialist. People often describe it as corporatism which from my understanding is socialism directed towards corporations who in particular lobby governments for money. Any just throwing my opinion at you that true capitalism with the majority of socialism directed towards the needy or for other public policy reasons is good and don't judge all capitalism as the same.
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  5658. I'm sort of jealous as an Aussie we used to often refer to ourselves as the 51st state because our governments regardless of which side have been a bit too much pro Washington. New Zealand our small neighbour stood up to the US and said no nuclear weapons in their territory and the US responded we won't tell you so all US war ships were banned from their waters. Reagan floated the idea of sanctions against NZ but the Australian Prime Minister at the time said that would be a bad idea.
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  5659. It's interesting that now Tucker's followers are now all open border proponents. That's what the protest is for, open borders without vaccination. Interesting how Tucker's devotees can change a position so quickly.
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  5660. Next they'll be burning seatbelts, it's a logical progression after the masks.
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  5661. Actually it's not confusing , you don't need to know about every other country unless you are a busybody. I guess I am because I curious about what's effective and what's not and also it exposes poor government function in many countries.
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  5662. If vaccinated but if you weren't maybe things could be different. Sounds like you will be fine which is great.
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  5663. I find it amusing how arguments of why a response failed always say that the particular country is special somehow which makes things more difficult than for the successful countries. Maybe just maybe their policies failed, that's a simpler explanation. European WHO region which Russia is a part of had an open borders policy and guess what almost all of them failed. The Western Pacific region of WHO has restricted border policies with 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine and the best performing region leaving Europe and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization regions for dead.
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  5664. If you believe that to be the case then the US president looks even worse. So even if he has the mental capacity of a 10 year old China shut down Wuhan so obviously China indicated it was dangerous although they reacted a bit slowly. It's now almost 8 months and Trump has decided during the entire timeline that restrictions are not required in the US to contain the virus along with full support of every US governor who hasn't put in compulsory government supervised hotel quarantine on those entering their state. Mitigation is the catchphrase really and not a single US governor wanted containment. Masks are only a minor argument at the edges, because they only slow the spread , not stop it. So the US policy actually has full bipartisan support and anyone on either side of the fence is a hypocrite if they blame the other side entirely.
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  5665.  Cyrs M  Well to use a business term Trump is an excellent salesmen with very few peers. To use the political term Trump has proven to be excellent at propaganda. I hope my simple explanation helps you understand Trump. He is not cut out to manage a factory floor or a farm or a government but he is excellent at a particular task. Problem really is that he's been picked for the wrong job. Just because of what he does excel at doesn't mean it can win him the next election and doesn't mean he can't, have to see.
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  5666.  @futurist1399  that's for his own safety and to prevent anything happening. The charge is less than littering.
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  5667. No, most likely is come on buddy I can't let you do this for you own safety. Calm down , let's go.
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  5668. He said he didn't know any senators. Why senator, nobody mentioned senator, i don't believe anyone.
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  5669. So long as in this case Republicans in the senate don't care then he is, the only method to remove a president in the US is impeachment.
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  5670. The issue is when clean eating becomes an unbalanced diet and missing or deficient in some nutrients. The example is that lady becoming deficient in calcium.
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  5671.  @JudyStroyer-bk6fb  Really, so rural areas are run by Democrats? We know a lot of illegal immigrants are farm workers.
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  5672. @Dilettante13  so 10s of thousands of people being round up working for Republican voters and those businesses being fined the maximum but nobody has reported on the matter. Ok so believe what you can't see and don't believe what you did see like J6. That makes sense.
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  5673. Very true, US protestors could learn something by watching this.
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  5674. If those numbers shown are correct then those without 2 doses and less than 2 weeks after the second dose are the ones mostly dying. I guess we will find out over time if that's the case when the northern hemisphere goes back into winter , the data is many factors higher.
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  5675. SARS1 killed more younger people as a proportion based on my memory so to me it seems this is quite different.
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  5676. The data for false positives would exist because in containment jurisdictions every positive case is dna tested to find the strain. They don't publically release it because conspiracy theorist will use it out of context I guess. As far as false negatives which matter more unless a concerted effort was made at high cost then no way to know and also it doesn't mean the test doesn't work, it would just be gauging sensitivity.
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  5677.  @blackpilldealer6797  What isn't true?
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  5678. Join "The Feds" and you can.
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  5679.  Sam Boudreau  you seem like a person that will listen. The problem is in many cases one group outnumber another. So it incorrectly seems to that group that the other group is more racist. For arguments sake there is 70% white 5% East Asian and 15% black people. They are all equally racist at a rate of 10% ( the most racist town in US) out of 100 people there are 7 or 8 racists against blacks but only one or two black racist against white and East Asian. This is the problem. So even though the racism is identical as a black person you will become hypersensitive and over estimate the amount of racists because you encounter it at 5 or 6 times the rate. Another issue is violence and young black males proportionally cause more violence and it's concentrated in certain areas. So those especially young black men not involved which is the vast majority (noting some areas with public housing and basically a segregated black community are truly dangerous) are treated with suspicion. At the moment it's an intractable problem.
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  5680. How is it the smart Chinese could contain it and the US couldn't? For you to be correct China must be a much superior nation. I don't think this is the case they had some initial failures but by Jan 20 they realised as did the entire world, before this China didn't realize otherwise they would have stopped it spreading around China and locked Wuhan down earlier. Why couldn't the US stop the spread internally if it was such an easy thing to do?
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  5681. Life expectancy in those poorer countries is much lower, I'll stay in my top 10 life expectancy country thanks.
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  5682. They should not have opened the flood gates because now hard to close them.
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  5683. At least it's bipartisan now, have a blue map for test positivity rates and a red map for rising case numbers.
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  5684. It shouldn't be called an article. The piece should be referred to as Hasbara (Israeli propaganda translated as "explanation ") published by the New York Times.
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  5685. If bird flu becomes transmissible between humans there's going to be a hell of a lot of lives lost in the US in particular.
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  5686. Do you need to learn Latin? If you are required to learn Latin then maybe.
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  5687. I don't mind a drink, does that mean if you want 5 or 6 drinks you just keep getting extra vaccine shots?
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  5688. ​@Mary Wiggins anyone can buy a weapon in a private sake now in the US in many states. Surprisingly to you in Australia or UK gangs have great difficulty getting semi-automatic weapons because they are illegal.
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  5689. That's based on no new variants with significant "breakthrough' cases. So maybe you are right but predicting it is like predicting a coin toss.
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  5690. At the vaccine rollout in your country is one of the quickest.
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  5691. I am 2 and a half out of 7 so better than nothing I guess.
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  5692. It's not the money it's the power.
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  5693. So should he have punched her in the guts to avoid that? She appeared to be attacking him in the first place.
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  5694.  @ludivinapilar2032  Agree people are being too harsh on the police there, they are just pawns in Trumps game and better to be diplomatic even if it means agreement with rioters or taking a selfie with them, they are being delayed and calmed down at the same time. If however corroborating evidence comes out they assisted and or have shown direct support in communications then that's a different story and they should be prosecuted which makes them worse than the rioters other than those that committed murder.
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  5695.  @scottydog9997  it's a bad version of the US, I have noticed that most US people are happy paying higher taxes for healthcare and having about 6 years less life expectancy than Australia. Apparently we are communist. Then if you look at homicides the US is the outlier of wealthy countries at about 5 times the rate elsewhere and Brazil is 5 times that. The expectations of people in low performance countries based on key societal measures is much lower and life is valued less.
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  5696. Truth is everyone wants Pfizer or Moderna. Astrazeneca can be made anywhere for a low cost under the licence agreement and is produced in 30 countries. In Australia we produce it but there is no plan to continue after the current contract runs out the last I heard.
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  5697.  @farooqkyeyune8507  you have to consider South Africa or India and some other countries very differently to US or other high income countries. Living conditions of the less well off are significantly more cramped. I don't think you would see someone turning up in a food handout line in a BMW like you do in the US.
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  5698. Which country?
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  5699.  @paulmildner5221  Ok so behind the great response times especially at the beginning of the pandemic, Vietnam and Taiwan the most proactive , there is little to back it up. Because what you describe indicates to me they can never get control again because the numbers just too large, sloppy measures like that will still work if cases are in the 10s or possibly even low hundreds but not the 1000s of daily cases. I hope I am wrong but it's looking that way and from the report it's spread all around the country because only 75% of cases in that city.
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  5700. I would suggest border protection is an international policy not a domestic one. It's absurd to suggest that a US government doesn't have the power to stop a real invasion if one occurs.
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  5701. Problem is if the US attempted biological warfare it would probably end up infecting it's citizens and the enemy would get the virus under control.
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  5702. America isn't bankrupt, last time I looked which was data from a few years ago the per capita wealth of Americans was even higher than Australia however median adult wealth (I think that was the metric and certain of the difference, I remember the approximate numbers) was about $50,000 in the US and $180,000 in Australia. The gaps between rich and poor in the US is enormous. Before you think it's about amount of government spending on welfare, it's not. The US as an example spends more per Capita on publically funded healthcare than Australia, it's just poorly spent and not really universal. I don't know how the US can change but I hope it does and wish you the best of luck.
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  5703.  @earlofmar7987  in 2020 Trump somehow managed a 15% of GDP government deficit. If that's success what does failure look like to you. Literally one of the worst economic performances in the world.
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  5704.  @earlofmar7987  So now you reckon Trump planned it? Really bizarre that a president would plan a virus pandemic so he could tank the economy.
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  5705. In this comment section it's about 5 like you and 95 saying Trump won. There numbers although not the majority of Americans are still significant.
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  5706.  @jackiepaper6464  first of all I am Australian and of course Biden won or he has pulled a conspiracy involving 1,000s of people including many Republicans , which would make him the genius of the century, he doesn't look that smart to me. The comments in abc videos always run Trump's way for some reason, which I don't really understand. To me it seems like one of the most balanced news network with no strong bias unlike a couple of others.
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  5707.  @bear4772  Your daughter has food intolerances most likely but can be environmental. Because she's 14 hard to do a difficult elimination diet as in pair it back to 3 or 4 foods and introduce a new one each week I would suggest doing the slow way, cut one food out completely each week and reintroduce it after a week, bec careful about anaphylactic shock though because could kill her when reintroducing. First food I suggest you check is all dairy, that's the most common one but she may have several intolerances. Remember to check any processed food because you would be amazed how many things have dairy in them these days, there's opiates in dairy and manufacturers have worked out you only need traces of the stuff to make food addictive. Also check environmental, I had an allergic reaction to leather by resting on a leather lounge. Get your daughter to keep a symptom diary so you can hopefully find the problems which is sometimes difficult.
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  5708. China is a nation , not a race.
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  5709. Restrictions changing everywhere all the time, nobody can keep up with more than a few jurisdictions. If restrictions are reducing because case numbers lower it's a good thing.
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  5710. Yes report is true but seems they were false positives, about 1.4% of blood samples tested positive by red cross and samples from Washington state and California I believe. Lots of mistakes have been made and this one holds no credibility of being a correct finding because China hasn't actually said much about it and if it was proof of course they would but instead they run conspiracy theories.
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  5711.  @stephenh1532  many years ago I was annoyed with my government so that's how the name came about, since I am generally annoyed about something I see no need to change it even though the original thing that caused my annoyance has passed.
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  5712. Given her age she is certainly good.
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  5713. Risking more than that , some may well be charged with criminal damage which is what that vandalism on the office front was.
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  5714.  @Chris-ci5mt  The risks you indicate if Astrazeneca are to young ladies, didn't look like a crowd of little girls to me but then again maybe they were. They can book Pfizer if they think they are little girls.
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  5715.  @jeramiegoodwin3426  The thing is antivaxxers are mostly just scared, this group fits into that category. The antivaxxers who are doing it for money and or power in the case of some politicians especially in other countries are the biggest problem because they exacerbate the fears of those who are genuinely scared of the vaccines. It's not logical but any phobia is the same and most people have some phobia or another.
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  5716.  @Chris-ci5mt  Chris you mustn't be a historian, until the late 50s we had Leper colonies, antibiotics invented and no more leper colony. Vaccines have always been compulsory under certain circumstances in all but the least developed countries. If a building worker doesn't want to get vaccinated then they can find employment elsewhere, just like if someone doesn't want to drive which is far riskier than the vaccine they can find employment elsewhere. This will end at some point and then the unvaccinated tradespeople can go back to their regular job. They have a privilege actually, many Melbournians can't work with or without a vaccine at this point in time.
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  5717.  @Chris-ci5mt  Nobody is being forced to take Pfizer, to the contrary the governments in VIC and NSW would prefer people take AZ to get vaccination rates up more quickly. There's no argument about MRNA, completely irrelevant when an alternate exists.
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  5718.  @chipsnestle8770  History is on our side, the states with higher restrictions in the US during the Spanish flu recovered more quickly. Things have changed a lot since then but the underlying principles are likely still the same. From Australia
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  5719. Well if your president can , then they can, Trump's policy is just ignore the virus. The thing is it's not a certainty he will lose the election so until and unless a highly effective vaccine comes not much will change if he remains in the top job.
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  5720. ​@colinleeson4099 Keeping quiet and being diplomatic is the appropriate course of action. If someone annoys Trump he will attack the country, although it might not hurt Australia that much due to our trade deficit with the US a trade war is the last thing we need. Trump's number one policy against all other countries.
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  5721. There is hope, more independent than Republican and Democrat combined.
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  5722. Because there is no one answer. The countries that have contained the virus are in a very different situation to the mitigation countries. I am in Australia in Queensland so successful containment jurisdiction. I notice the most common feedback in successful containment areas is we don't want the virus and if you break restrictions rules then lock you up, fine you whatever, a sympathy level of near 0 for someone that might cause further restrictions like we see everywhere else and by the way your actions could kill people. Those mitigation jurisdictions where it's acceptable that 0.05% of the population is dead and people keep dying the attitude is oh well if others die "it is what it is" let's open up business and forget about it or put masks on which only slow spread. It's too late for anywhere to have a change in position.
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  5723. @Peter We certainly are along with our New Zealand counterparts. Everything open outside of Victoria football games with 10 of thousands of spectators. Interstate and now technically international travel opening up with New Zealand. My hope is we open to countries like Thailand , Vietnam and Taiwan but I don't think it's going to happen.
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  5724. ​ @drewizkoollikeicecre the US is in general the exception in a wealthy country. While there are some corrupt police everywhere, in the US because of cultural reasons and especially small police forces they are more cases of brutality and entire police departments full of corruption especially with elected sheriff's.
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  5725. 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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  5726. Don't run this one, it looks like something I would see on CGTN. Amusing the converted will get you nowhere.
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  5727. Well it will likely increase your chances of a bad outcome, people who got flu and covid 19 together they worked out were approximately twice as likely to die. But because they are still both covid 19 the chances of a duel infection would be pretty low , maybe almost impossible.
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  5728. If you listened to our health minister today we have had 211,000 people pass through hotel quarantine and there have been maybe 6 breeches, that's hardly a problem and Taiwan , New Zealand and China have had the same issues. It's impossible to stop all breeches and being best practice with continuous improvement is as good as you will get. The limited hotel quarantine the UK is going to introduce will be like ours was about 7 months ago when it started except not universal , just from 30 countries only, fairly pointless I think except it should reduce travel a little bit. Another reference point might be there has been more quarantine breeches in the Whitehouse than Australia and that is one of the most secure buildings on the planet (supposibly).
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  5729.  @Zantorc  if Australia has sheer negligence with 6 cases out of 211,000 people going through hotel quarantine what country do you come from where this standard is so high, China has had outbreaks too and retrofitting all hotels to suck air out of the hallway in other words negative pressure hotel rooms hasn't even been done in hospitals. Maybe China has done it or even built new buildings to do that Australia can't afford that to stop 6 cases , the cost benefit return would be ridiculous. By the way what country are you from?
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  5730.  @Zantorc  it's the same to Australia and ironically you haven't noted where you are from. The hotel yes indicates have to wait 5 minutes before collect food as practiced in Australia, no indication that there is negative pressure inside the rooms and can open the windows, I happened to have most likely caught covid 19 by sitting on a balcony 6 or 7 metres from another balcony. The airflow is not as you suggested negative pressure as far as we know which is the only way and how exactly if the temperature was 35 degrees and not allowed to open windows and no aircon would people survive, I noticed a lot of people wearing heavy clothes and a suggestion the air conditioner would provide heating not cooling. Maybe China is the most perfect country on the planet however they still have outbreaks without any explanation other than maybe it's on frozen food which no other country on the planet has encountered. I smell a fish.
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  5731. One problem, Candace is talking about Biden running for president and has absolutely nothing to do with state taxes. A bit of a misdirection.
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  5732. I think what Mike Bryant meant to say was there are significant disparities of mental illness based on ethnicity and sex. The suicide statistics prior to the pandemic and absolute rise of Qanon bear this out. Highest suicide rates are white non Hispanic male followed by black non Hispanic male. Suicide rates amongst Asian and Hispanic American are quite low and not heavily towards one or another sex.
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  5733.  @frostbyte6251  Everything always comes from history, the way a person thinks is almost entirely environmental and has nothing to do with genetics in a general sense ( as in nothing to do with race however individuals are prone to be violent or non violent for example under the same environment) . I am Australian so naturally I will portray and suggest in a general sense to follow our way because it's successful, I am not naive however that getting from high levels of corruption to low levels and having the confidence to deal with outsiders without unreasonable suspicion is difficult in a country like yours. China loves this situation especially in the context of the Philippines due to it's bad transition from a colony to independence. It would be extremely hard , probably impossible for me and you to view things the same way due to our different environment and country's history. Ex British colonies have done better on average because the English learnt how to treat people better in a relative sense than other colonial powers and in most but not all there was a peaceful transition to independence and leaving reasonable government systems in place and a degree of ongoing support and diplomatic engagement. Not all commonwealth countries have succeeded of course but on average they are doing far better than other ex European colonies. The Philippines would be better off getting closer to Singapore, Australia and New Zealand especially on trade issues. Philippines hasn't joined the CPTPP despite there being no threatening country (US or China in the Philippines context) involved, so why not?
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  5734.  @omnisciencexx790  I am a foreigner, I don't misunderstand and looked up the statistical information. People are willing to accept some killings by the government which even you acknowledge by saying "mostly" for the greater good as in less innocent people killed by the government than the crime gangs are killing. Many comments on the YouTube video state this including yours. The numbers of people being killed in the war on drugs in the Philippines is consistent with the US actually, the homicide rate has also decreased, you are approaching the level of violence in the US. As far as the rehabilitation program it seems anecdotally that's going ok. The thing is innocent people are being killed by your government and if you noticed even in the US people don't like this hence all those BLM protests caused in part by this issue but also other issues. I tend to agree it is probably better than nothing but it is far from the best way, I am not indicating whether I believe the best way is even possible in the Philippines because I don't know, another risk is the police often involved in gang activity themselves are just wiping out the competition, this has happened quite frequently around the world including instances of it (not really the killing part but the removal of competing criminal networks) in Australia. So please don't bunch all foreigners into one group, we are not all the same.
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  5735. The US had the worst response to HIV of a wealthy country, you are right the US isn't capable of responding to a pandemic and never will because a large section of your society will always try to stop a good response. Can apply that to other issues like drugs also.
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  5736.  @MrArdytube  The US is very diverse and at the state level there's some states that are extremely libertarian regarding drugs like Colorado and other states that still treat smoking a joint (not a dealer) as a major crime. In Australia I believe all states will be somewhere in between, discourage drug use and go after dealers but users to be treated for the most part as a medical issue as long as they aren't committing associated crime which obviously is most likely theft.
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  5737.  @imho2278  actually I picked the lowest wealthy country life expectancy. I didn't comment on that and actually use them because of the fact Romania isn't so different.
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  5738. Trump didn't concede , concession goes something like this ," I congratulate Joe Biden on becoming the 46th president elected in the USA......and I say thankyou to all my supporters...."
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  5739. 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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  5740. Agriculture in the US is subsidised at around 10% already. You already bailing them out. I think you mean extra funding.
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  5741. @waterwomaninFL  Maybe Governor DeSantis can introduce a mermaid allowance for water ladies like yourself.
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  5742. Maybe they do but Trump's policies aren't designed to do that other than environmental deregulation allowing for destruction of the environment.
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  5743. Lol
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  5744.  @james-yj7gp  mate you do know Australia and Indonesia are on the same side, listen to your president's speech at UNGA , the reference to territory was directed at China same to Australia's speech and president of Philippines. The 2 main issues we have with China is expansion in the South China Sea ( taking ASEAN countries territory) and human rights inside of China. We should stand together against China if they do the wrong thing.
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  5745. 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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  5746. The Germans will get involved soon, they will be jealous sauerkraut is now being looked down upon by the East Asians who don't even try to steal it.
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  5747. If China could stop it so easily without a single case getting out of China according to Trump why couldn't the US even stop it from reaching all 50 states?
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  5748. It's probably 0 cases. I think they even stricter with enforcement than Australia and New Zealand so I have heard. Other issues they might have problems and not tell the world though.
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  5749.  @trogdortheburninator8149  The problem with your argument is that the open border countries in general have far worse economies and government deficits, for 2020 Australia economy shrank 1.1% , US 2.7% government deficit Australia about 7% of GDP and US 15% of GDP , the UK even worse on both counts. You can't have a vibrant economy when lots of people dying including many who are not old overweight smokers. Why not wait a few months until everyone has had an opportunity for 2 doses of vaccines?
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  5750.  @hgvina4024  TPP was led by either NZ or Singapore, search the history of it.
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  5751.  @PuddingXXL  ASEAN is specifically a trading block that doesn't get involved in member countries politics so quite different to the EU.
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  5752.  @imeverywhere9633  You didn't listen to the interview did you, the known cases of blood clots in those vaccinated was below the average random chance of blood clots , so the anecdotal evidence is the vaccine might prevent blood clots.
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  5753. What's God got to do with it, Jews , Christians and Muslims all believe in the same God.
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  5754. Unless you are clairvoyant how can you predict the future. Maybe the US needs to hit rock bottom and after that there's reform of the political system which appoints a limited term king at the moment and some adjustments to the constitution they consider a religious text. Not many political systems in the world have the entire executive government unelected and chosen by one person , the elected chief executive AKA president.
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  5755. You must be in Venezuela then , otherwise you are subject to world pricing.
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  5756. I am Australian and watching with intrigue on this issue. In essence Trumps border policy is that of the Australian right and left. If the numbers often touted are correct there are 10,000,000 undocumented (illegal) immigrants in the US. Time to as a previous Australian prime minister said "we will decide who comes to this country" . Although not widely publicised most of those in the system were granted citizenship. Australia's situation is very different however my personal opinion is control that border 1,000,000 troops are on standby and only a few of them maybe 3% would be needed to secure your border and grant citizenship to all non criminals who have been in the country longer than 1 year. In other words fix it and get it over and done with. Of course can't deport 10,000,000 people so give them citizenship.
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  5757. He only said that to subdue the police so he can get past them.
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  5758. You don't know who deletes it. I could report your comment and whoever working at youtube makes a decision.
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  5759. This is news to Trump mobs and BLM mobs, they certainly gathered in large numbers freely.
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  5760. One i would say is in the case of UCLA arrests the police weren't brutal based on what i saw there to their credit, every other one i have seen the police used force way in excess of what was required. Excessive force is being used as arbitrary punishment and to instill fear. There's no excuse for it. I realise this might have been taped prior to the ucla crackdown.
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  5761. You shouldn't be angry with the lawyer, they're just doing their job.
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  5762. Sounded like the intro to a boxing match. That's probably what they want it to sound like.
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  5763. Trudeau isn't a king and Canada isn't an absolute monarchy. He has no power to stop mandates by provinces or the US government. He's powerless to do so in other words.
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  5764. Because Europeans and the US scientist/medical people believed in it and have stuck to their guns, NZ Australia , China etc. is Western Pacific region of WHO and we have 100% compliance with 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine. How can you blame the WHO when they served us well , the WHO European region and PAHO ( Pan American Health Organization) certainly do have some questions to answer.
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  5765.  @daverok1113  I am in Australia, same goes for here if have cases lockdown for a few days or a week depending on various factors , not ongoing lockdown lite for a year, which many places find themselves in along with up to 0.25% of the population dead from the virus. So yes border quarantine and lockdowns as required certainly work. Before you question my number check New Jersey deaths per million from covid 19 and some other US states very close behind. Auckland is out of it's week long lockdown I believe.
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  5766.  @daverok1113  a case is a person who has an active infection, why do you ask? Or was your question something different.
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  5767.  @daverok1113  This is an issue and because our only cases are in hotel quarantine and not many of them they do diagnose people intently to see if they have the live virus, because otherwise a person can shed for up to 7 months as they have discovered and could be in hotel quarantine for a very long time. They learnt this time frame from an isolated case where sewerage testing kept showing it and the person went to get tested for a job and it came up positive, he had been in Africa about 7 months earlier. With case numbers in many countries what Australia and a few other countries do is not possible, however it certainly contributes to knowledge of the virus because things like I just mentioned can't be discovered in high case countries.
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  5768. Best response in the world and of course nobody is perfect (except China and NK).
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  5769. Oh Satan doesn't like metric system, in Australia it's 1.5 metres lucky we are safe. Maybe that's why the US having problems.
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  5770. Just to mention a couple of countries that tried that, China , North Korea, Cambodia come to mind. Voluntarily ok country living or rural residential settings are good.
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  5771. What about Alaska, they give sloths a good name for being pretty damn quick.
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  5772. It's only 70 years that it's not really accepted to invade your neighbour. Before that taking of territory by force was acceptable.
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  5773. What a silly and offensive comment.
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  5774.  @lalingexotics3336  well I am Australian , not a very religious country, in fact the most religious country in the Western Pacific WHO region is Philippines and they are majority Christian and most deaths. So I will say again your comment is silly.
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  5775.  @lalingexotics3336  Your free to believe that if you want but as far as life on earth , the virus doesn't care about religion or nationality.
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  5776.  @caocao4266  The pineapple thing was funny actually, it's just symbolic and have no economic effect except maybe farmers get a bit more because Taiwanese buy up the whole crop and quickly.
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  5777. If I was a terrorist group I would use Twitter now because Elon is virtually saying he will protect me from the FBI by not cooperating.
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  5778. @Mr A So you're a fan of elimination of federal police. That makes far left Democrats appear to be near the centre with defund police, other than like 3 of them they didn't believe in elimination of police.
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  5779. @Mr A did you watch the clip, absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing.
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  5780. @Mr A seems you didn't watch the clip or you saying it's all fake, which one is it?
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  5781. @Mr A don't have to believe everything, is it possible 7,800 people are conspiring to commit a crime with Biden. Like I said the most amazing dictator in history, never happened before, I think impossible that Biden controls 7,800 FBI agents and who knows how many election officers. This guy is like superman if you are correct. Such absolute control of both the Democrats and Republicans at all levels , the most amazing things I have ever heard. Maybe, just maybe he doesn't control about a 1 million people and literally just won an election.
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  5782. Germany should hit back and if Fox News US is available in Germany it should be labeled a foreign agent. Tucker Carlson is the number 1 Russian propagandist.
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  5783. Well nothing on CGTN yet, they are thinking how to respond or maybe they realise they can't break the alliance. Have to wait and see.
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  5784. Funny thing is if you live in a war zone (homicide rate above 20 per 100,000 compared to wealthy country average of about 1 per 100,000) police will certainly be jumpy and if you carry a gun guess what you might get shot. Anybody here who says they could have done it better as in the armchair law enforcement officers, well you get out of your armchair if you are American and head to one of the war zones about 20 or so cities with similar homicide rates, they are waiting for you.
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  5785. Military is martial law not the police. The military might not want the police involved.
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  5786. I am not American but I think in the order of $10 per hour would be better because the minimum now is something like $2 per hour for waiter/ress who is expected to get tips. Maybe some cultural change could occur where tips are voluntary as is probably the most common custom around the world.
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  5787. In fact in most cases the slaves were enslaved by Africans and sold mostly to English and Spanish traders. Slavery is still a significant problem in Africa and South Asia and nothing to do with the West.
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  5788. Are you sure? So someone is personally committing a war crime against you it is common sense that you must effectively respond in a gentlemanly way back to them if you get the upper hand. Please note the word personally.
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  5789. It's just a recognition that optical illusions exist and are real, just like on a hot road. Another thing I am wondering is what altitude is the camera, above a certain height at a given time and place the temperature is below 0 celsius, since these images seem to be taken at altitude, some might be as simple as an ice crystal forming or landing on the lense or cover of the camera and all these people saying look that proves aliens are flying around, American will believe anything.
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  5790. Evidence will be anything that isn't clean if the purpose is to prove he was there, dirt on shoes, pollen, things like that and depending how she was killed blood of course. Hard to clean everything out of a vehicle where evidence gets transferred.
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  5791. It will depend which state and part of state I expect. QLD still wants to keep covid 0 but with minimal restrictions, contact tracing etc. will be around for a while longer, have to see how we go especially next winter.
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  5792. There's nothing in your constitution stopping his plans, the issue is can your president declare martial law which hasn't legally been answered. If he can then he just has to declare martial law in states that don't want to cooperate.
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  5793. Thanks for the video. In reality without anti genocide jews there wouldn't be the possibility of a future freedom for Palestine in whatever form that might come. Anti genocide Jews are the only people stopping antisemitism becoming universal as the state of Israel actually wants by projecting that all Jews support the genocide.
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  5794. To fact check the fact checker, he contradicted himself saying the majority of illegals entered legally eg. had a visa and then said the majority were not overstaying visas. I think he meant work visa not visa, or not counting what is effectively an automatic tourist visa in some cases. America is crazy letting the illegal immigrant situation get out of hand, same response to covid 19 , do nothing until it's too late.
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  5795. Says a guy in a pub in Queensland or NT laughing his head off.
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  5796. It's somewhat in the hands of the Republican gods. Unfortunately some are not leading and encouraging vaccination, they just saying it's up to you.
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  5797.  @janewoodman9731  I am in Queensland and honestly I think nothing to worry about in any state, quarantine breeches might still occur but they will be jumped on and no state Premier or First Minister would currently dare to reduce any quarantine measures because if there is an outbreak as a result pretty much the entire nation will be out with their pitch forks not just those inside the jurisdiction. We are all fine and when the vaccines come which is slated for March it will get much easier, I agree with not rushing the vaccines for a couple of reasons including public confidence and our northern neighbours particularly Indonesia and Philippines need it more than us which I am speculating is a part of our governments reasoning.
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  5798.  @台湾省共青团  The situation is continuously changing, that requires continuously changing measures according to the particular countries situation. Look at the divergence between say South Korea and Australia, it's quite large at the moment and seems to be based more on cultural issues because our vaccination rates etc. are extremely similar. Australia is opening up no matter what and South Korea has actually gone the other direction but not in a very strong way.
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  5799. You can't say that the CEO of Toyota North America is a US citizen, he would have made the decision I would expect and I suspect he is getting unfriendly phone calls from Tokyo about now.
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  5800. I would say select stocks carefully, there will be winners but definitely avoid any companies that have significant imports or exports because tariffs and retaliatory tariffs are going to hurt.
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  5801. It's China going for the South China Sea which is the reason, should it just be handed to them? Certainly Indonesia would probably prefer Australia didn't upgrade it's military however no reason to think Indonesia is going to do anything. It's years away before any boat is built and by that time mightn't even be same PM or President.
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  5802. Big regarding the threat is inappropriate. If Trump follows through it will crash the economy.
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  5803. There's not many of you, you are like a regional centre in a big state.
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  5804. If they went on strike for 24 hours you would see maybe 5,000 dead people so they can't.
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  5805. BRICS is just like the G20. Essentially a discussion group. It's not a trading block unlike Trump seems to think.
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  5806. Not IDF as such but there are paid propagandists/spies in US universities to collect information and spread Israeli propaganda at the same time.
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  5807. Actually the solutions are simple and straightforward. The US certainly has the ability to look at best practice regarding governance around the world including setting up a new form of government and election processes that have better outcomes. As you correctly point out implementation seems really really difficult and probably impossible for now, the US needs to hit rock bottom and it might occur that both political parties agree to such changes.
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  5808. The over 18 population of Georgia USA is approximately 8.5 million. Rally sizes mean nothing much. Trump had bigger rallies than Biden 4 years ago and it didn't amount to a win. It's good to have rallies to try and increase the vote but just remember an entire rally size is nothing compared to electorate size. Kamala's rally only represented less than 1 in 300 potential voters and some of them were likely from out of state from the party faithful.
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  5809. Probably but not certainly. For arguments sake it could have been found in trash.
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  5810. As an Australian I can tell both political parties in the US are far left when it comes to trade and the running of government with massive deficits. On social issues the US is from far left to far right and everything in between depending on state.
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  5811. It stopped at the Chinese , Australian and New Zealand borders though. It does mean no free travel but don't have to completely stop travel but need quarantine unlike the open borders countries.
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  5812. Why does the US celebrate a socialist holiday? Seems a large proportion of people are hypocrites because they should protest and demand it's cancellation. Or alternatively people are ok with a certain level of socialism and just use the word socialist as an insult without actually knowing what socialism is.
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  5813. @Ian Campbell State Premiers or Chief Health Officers shut the borders within about 10 hours if they see fit. Presidents and Prime Ministers in Europe seem to be scared of the EU. To say an ocean can protect you therefore we will keep borders open because without quarantine because it's harder doesn't make sense if it's supposibly harder you do more. Think of the borders of Thailand , Vietnam or China, it's not that different but they can do it.
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  5814. Take care, I wish you the best.
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  5815. Certainly has sir, we love watching your cities burn on the news just for entertainment. Best of luck with the continued policy of defund police etc. and we will live in our peaceful country that has a homicide rate about 1 sixth of yours and that's per capita. Truthfully I hate seeing your country burn and the number of murders taking place because of people like you who advocate fighting the police and feel sorry for the victims of crime in your country that didn't need to die, including the recent lynchings of a few police during BLM protests.
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  5816. 60 million cases since pandemic began and about 5 million current active cases, these are not inconsistent.
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  5817.  @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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  5818. In relation to a couple of comments there's a far more simple reason places with rampant covid 19 before vaccines were available have high vaccine take up rates and the let it rip policies have not changed in these jurisdictions. People who see lots of death around them are more eager to get vaccines. I am in Queensland Australia and we have had 7 deaths for a population of 5 million , the lowest in the world for a major jurisdiction outside of most Chinese provinces. It's still not real to us , so not urgent , however the vast majority support our cautious approach and comply with restrictions when required but getting a vaccine isn't urgent and for a middle or high income jurisdiction we have one of the lowest vaccination rates in the world, changing a bit now with our neighbour New South Wales looking like it might lose control.
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  5819. I think it's crazy rich countries talking about or vaccinating those under 18 when people in poorer countries haven't vaccinated their elderly population yet.
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  5820.  @gokuwasthebesthokage9875  you must be young, have you ever heard the term "going postal" it relates back to a mass shooting in a postal building in the 80s I believe it was.
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  5821.  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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  5822.  @lopezb  while what you suggest might be Trump's goals it's very unlikely he could pull it off.
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  5823.  @melvincastillo2496  Masks were used in the US during the Spanish flu with a mandate in some states. I realise they didn't have tv then but I think the reports that this occured are correct.
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  5824.  @melvincastillo2496  Well TB is totally curable unless you are on your deathbed. I guess you are in the US so not too hard to go to a hospital maybe stay there for a while and get antibiotics. There was a plan to try and eliminate it in less well off places by 2022. This however would be on the back burner because dealing with COVI sars2 is of higher priority. I don't know what your search turned up regarding restrictions in the US and Spanish flu but indications were the masks at that time didn't particularly produce a noticeable difference, social distancing did. Please consider the time though. Running water etc. Was not like now. Common sense does however tell you a mask even a flimsy cloth thing will filter the air going in and out of your mouth. If you are really concerned about the lack of use of cloth then wear an N95 mask like a health professional will and they are proven to work highly effectively if used properly. The medical staff and first responder in NY had a lower infection rate than the general population.
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  5825.  @melvincastillo2496  Well politics are involved. Would you be happy if 3% of your tax was spent on foreign aid primarily in healthcare. Personally I would but the majority in rich countries think otherwise so with limited money things take time. This doesn't discount the threat that covi-sars2 is. As you have pointed out with all the efforts so far and minimal spread already the same death rate by population actually as TB because it's only 6 months. If 10% of the world was infected with COVI sars2 imagine the numbers.
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  5826. People have to get out of their extreme bias , how is police investigate crime , find out it's allegedly one of their own , then arrest that person a cover up, explain it to me maybe I am stupid but doesn't seem like a cover up to me, in fact the opposite.
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  5827.  @MG-im8ku  The 54% isn't support for protests, it's just the vague answer to the question should restrictions be eased? Paraphrased because I don't know the actual survey questions, got it from comment sections.
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  5828. @X You can't distinguish between Trump supporters and CPC supporters. Names give clue sometimes.
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  5829.  @patriciafarrow9586  While I agree it's very likely that the Taliban will resume all out war it's not a given, have to see if the new approach of allowing people to arm themselves in militia groups works, it could go in any direction, if those being armed are actually pro Taliban then the government has just armed it's enemy but if for the most part they are not it could work. Anything can happen and unfortunately I agree with you the worst case scenario does appear the most likely but not a certainty. Maybe China will step into the void to some extent (supplying arms and technology as with Pakistan, probably no boots on the ground) which could make the situation worse or better depends what they do.
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  5830.    just to cover your bases should say "mostly Republican". In general you are probably correct but Republicans are literally fighting to the death to make sure Biden doesn't have a win, in France the situation is under control with actual vaccine mandates, Biden is still only mandating weekly testing for some people in reality.
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  5831. The question is was he trespassing. This news report didn't answer that. Lucky he wasn't in the Hood I suppose, they don't muck around like that, they just put a cap in you.
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  5832. It means Georgia public service is busy counting votes, all hands on deck for the recount. Jane has been personally tasked with looking after the states covid 19 statistics and she works part time 3 days a week
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  5833. Just give them the statistics, if you get covid 19 x% chance you will die and if you take vaccine about 1 in million chance you will die from the vaccine. Find out what the chance is for their ages if they get covid 19, you can search for that information. Just my opinion don't say the vaccine can't hurt them just provide the actual estimated risk. Best of luck.
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  5834. One number that should be completely ignored is the stock market number. The valuation of stocks doesn't always represent the actual intrinsic value of those stocks. Case in point which has a ridiculous valuation is Tesla, as that is the case there's nothing stopping it becoming a more ridiculous valuation in a years time. Tesla price could also crash down to it's intrinsic valuation in that time also. Therefore the price of the stock has nothing to do with a US president, much in the same way the US can't control the international price of oil, it can as a large producer only have small effects on the market but much less than OPEC which is a union of many large producers and one non exporter of Indonesia being a hangover from different times.
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  5835. It would be hard to do but having a 3 tier system would be best full time with proper benefits (US version), minimum wage and no guarantee of minimum wage tip workers and Uber and food delivery drivers.
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  5836. Chinese do support it, they believe the US has 200 secret bioweapons labs in secret locations all around the world etc. etc. They believe covid 19 probably came from the US and second choice Australia or Italy. Have to remember it's easy to convince people of things if you can shut down and censor all argument.
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  5837. It's a minority.
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  5838. Money doesn't fix everything, the US spends more on government funded healthcare than Australia but it's not universal. Throwing yet more money at it will change nothing, the US has the lowest Life expectancy for a wealthy nation. So most money spent including privately and lowest outcome. The US has spent more on Covid 19 response than any other wealthy nation yet has the highest per Capita deaths of any wealthy nation. Throwing money around doesn't increase outcomes at all, first fix the underlying problems which will actually reduce overall spending on healthcare as an example.
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  5839.  @chltmdwp  The US life expectancy is a long way from 80 years.
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  5840. You're nuts.
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  5841. If that's true I would suggest they would be out of business now.
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  5842. 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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  5843. Symbolism and also to show who are the Republican supporters of Trump.
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  5844. Just protect yourself and family, if you didn't have a comprehensive lockdown 'til now it's fair to say it's not going to happen and like it or not the Democrats are only marginally better, masks only slow spread and are not a panacea. I wish you the best of luck from Australia that decided on a different course.
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  5845. I find your comment interesting. Some things go in phases I think, the first half of last century the US on a per capita basis contributed less than Australia being reluctant to join both world wars , but the second half of that century it was reversed. I think this is to do with living memory losses. So the US civil war was still a memory when WWI happened and visa versa after Australia contributed so much we want to lay low. The US does seem to be going in the less interventionist path now. As far as American accepting deaths , I think there is more of a culture of monetary ( pharmaceutical ) interventions can fix everything. The US spending on public healthcare is greater than Australia as a proportion of GDP yet life expectancy is significantly lower. On top of that much more is spent on private healthcare. The homicide rate in the US is 6 times that of Australia but the answer is to lock up health directive criminals as in drug users at an alarming rate. How does that make sense? Americans mostly live like you say in their denialist bubble not willing to look outside the US. US exceptionalism or superiority is nothing more than blatant arrogance and is a part of the US phsycy.
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  5846.  @deathlessoutlaw8136  The excess deaths in countries with high covid 19 infection rates are in excess of just the Covid 19 death numbers , so don't worry the secondary effects like lack of access to healthcare is also killing people going by the numbers.
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  5847.  @deathlessoutlaw8136  You must live in a society with lots of problems because those things you mentioned haven't occured in Australia. The ABS ( Australian Bureau of Statistics) has recently released the data for January through June. In March April which was the initial lockdown deaths did increase a little due to primarily diabetes and heart disease. My guess is the ones dying from heart disease was because they found the situation more stressful than usual and diabetes possibly people eating badly during lockdown maybe eating sugary foods when they know they shouldn't. Nobody has ever died in our hotel quarantine when entering Australia to my knowledge. Outside of Victoria all businesses are open and can have sporting events in the 10s of thousands, none of this seems to be causing deaths. By the end of the year it would seem likely Australian life expectancy will actually rise but we will have to see.
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  5848.  @deathlessoutlaw8136  ok so a few people arrested, there is no Utopia but thousands of less deaths and a few protesters getting arrested is a reasonable choice. Would you prefer 10,000 people dead or the handful of people who got arrested or imprisoned for some offences just infect away instead? Going by your screen name you might prefer thousands dead.
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  5849. I think you are touching upon voluntary voting with a low turnout because it changes the numbers significantly and I would argue the politics also, I am Australian so very high voter turnout and compulsory to turn up or you might get a small fine, there is no advantage to appealing to the far right or left elements because it could lose your party the election , people once they are at the ballot box usually cast a valid vote which considering the alternate party is still centre means might change vote, US they actually try to appeal to far left and right so those people turn up to vote and it doesn't cause the center left or right to change sides because the other party is trying to appeal to it's extreme also, this is why Q candidates are actually winning and looks like it isn't really losing Republicans many votes.
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  5850. Not really, it's just his profile and being rich, plenty of minimum wage and unemployed Trump supporter like him but nobody is going to listen to them other than each other.
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  5851. The US is going full paranoia at the moment. They want to ban Chinese developed programs in in vehicles. Funny thing is it's not unlikely some of Tesla's programs come from China since they do make some of the Tesla's there. I am happy Australia isn't following or at least not for now. BYD the pre-eminent Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer makes cheaper vehicles that have better batteries and they're available in Australia. If we decided we only want upmarket cars it will hurt people who are low and middle income.
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  5852. My guess to loot the resources of Afghanistan for a cheap price and buy off the Taliban so that they are ok with the oppression of Uyghur.
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  5853.  @michellewestlake6766  The federal government has exactly 0 medical staff, what exactly did you think they would do with a workforce of 0. I am very pleased with our true competitive federalism with states (and territories which are pretty much given the powers of states by a minimally interfering federal government) competing with each other. The federal government is only there to guide, if you want to have a federation like the US where the federal government played a far bigger role well I suggest you move there if you think their response was so outstanding.
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  5854. How is this similar, has the government siezed your real estate and evicted you and stopped you from speaking? Just as I found your message they can too, good luck in the re education camp you seem to think you are heading to. Fair go, this is nothing like communist country. I can assure you make as many silly comments on youtube as you want and no one will take you away, just refrain from suggesting people break the law and you'll be fine.
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  5855. @Stuart Hawkins Better to look at NSW and Queensland, why look at a country that had an easier task overall than these 2 states. Taiwan people clearly don't travel much because they had only about half the imported cases of Queensland, we also have a more open border than Taiwan. Masks are the final line of defence after all else has failed. Lockdowns done properly do work, contact tracing does work. As far as a sort of endorsement for BLM by Victoria that was poor judgement. Every single jurisdiction other than NSW and ACT had a proper lockdown with varying degrees of a tough approach, a lockdown with an open border isn't a proper lockdown, Taiwan still has a closed border, no one enters without compulsory quarantine I believe, an approach similar to WA who I believe still requires 2 weeks mandatory quarantine for all and that's if they let you in. The failures to properly contact trace in Victoria don't negate the fact that lockdowns work, they just don't work if contact tracing doesn't work and the lockdown allows people to enter without quarantine. You know a person is doing 2 months jail in Queensland for holding 2 gatherings. Have you heard this case? So we do have a precedent in QLD for a like matter. The first breach was a fine, second breach court appearance and jail time. If Victoria had acted in the same manner give that lady a fine and order her to remove all posts and then if she doesn't or turns up to the protest put her in a court room would have been the Queensland approach I expect. You would note people are trying to escape Victoria and in some cases head to states not NSW or in other words more draconian states. NSW stopped the second BLM protest. Victoria it's a little different now because it appears nobody has made an application to protest, so 100% illegal as it always is without an application in any state in Australia or US. Victoria was similar to some US states in its approach. Changing course because of government failures is the correct decision. A tough and effective approach in the beginning would have worked, Victoria only introduced decent fines recently not like draconian QLD who did it a long time ago and is now hosting the AFL. The person doing the jail time relates to an offence in April. NSW has had more failures than QLD but still looks good compared to VIC.
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  5856. @Stuart Hawkins Nowhere except maybe Singapore has been able to have community transmission and protect the elderly. The lockdown measures worked in 5 Australian jurisdictions plus NZ without masks, all who have lower restrictions now than Sweden other than travel, where we are a little freer than Taiwan, have to remember we have a Federation where the states manage their affairs and borders and the restrictions have been found legal with Clive Parmer s challenge. The federal government with support of some states wants to control the states borders, no surprise Victoria and the Federal government are on the same side . I do not want to delegate full control of interstate quarantine to the federal government, I honestly don't trust them and it would be unworkable because the federal government would be ordering state employees what to do. We would have Victoria around the whole country if borders remained open without quarantine as was the original federal position. Change in behaviour is according to culture , we are not Swedes or Taiwanese. Most Australian don't want to wear a mask if there is no community transmission.
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  5857. @Stuart Hawkins nowhere that successfully lockdown, has anything more than lockdown lite less than Swedish restrictions. If you are successful then no lockdown. What's so hard to work out. Masks will slow spread if there is an outbreak only contact tracing and or lockdown measures like occurred in Auckland can bring things under control. If you think that 254 cases of known transmission in QLD is bad, noting the most recent 30 of them are from a border breach most likely then how do you measure success? I think not a single death from transmission inside QLD. Anyway pretty sure my state government won't be handing power to the federal government and I approve of that.
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  5858. @Stuart Hawkins I trust my state politicians on this matter, not on other matters however. Well by that standard Auckland recently had a full lockdown but only 2 weeks because they established the outbreak hadn't spread too much. Queensland has opened it's borders by the way to all states but NSW and Victoria. When those 2 states can demonstrate they have things under control then we open as a country and probably NZ will follow quickly because they want the Tasman border open , I would suggest more than we do. I am confident Victoria will not fail again and NSW will bring an end to community transmission because there contact tracing is pretty good.
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  5859. @Stuart Hawkins NZ has done well overall but I guess you could rate them equal to NSW. They have a little over 100 active cases and overall have had over 1000 infections internally. They will get on top of it again. Auckland lockdown level 3 is more strict than Australian level 3 . New cases in NZ are roughly inline with NSW which could be seen as a little worse because the population is lower. Anyway you have a great day and take care wherever you are. We as a country will get through this and if/hopefully an effective vaccine comes early next year and it's all over.
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  5860. It's a very small minority, have to remember Sydney has about 5 million people or so. So no these people have to be dealt with and this last weekend there was no repeat performance.
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  5861. I'll just say "only in America" as far as I am aware for a high income country. The US has many great inventions , this is not one of them.
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  5862. No he didn't he's growing it , even did his bit on a personal level infecting the Whitehouse.
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  5863. But it will be true.
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  5864.  @Jill-jb1jg  Well if Australia can do it certainly North Korea can it's borders at least as hard to pass as Western Australia when had cases in other states last year and goods delivery by road would be no different between North Korea and China to Western Australia and other states. Internal travel restrictions which were quite tight in Western Australia in their original lockdown would have also been tight in North Korea as they usually are. Certainly North Korea will have other disease problems but covid 19 won't be one of them, I would bet my house on it. I am not from Western Australia but use them as an example because literally their border was as hard to cross. A Queensland billionaire took the state of Western Australia to the high court of Australia over the issue because he was annoyed he couldn't go there and do political campaigning and he lost. Queensland only had maybe 10 cases or something at the time.
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  5865.  @Jill-jb1jg  Well I just googled it and read a few articles and they are locked down big-time, they have even stopped most goods entering the country at this time. The border was shut to China on January 22 . The quarantine period for North Korea is 30 days unlike the standard 14 days for the Western Pacific region. There are no confirmed reports , only speculation that they might have had cases. They did lockdown one city because of a suspected case. The only way the virus could really get in is by a smuggler because no doubt the tiny bit of trade has extreme quarantine measures. The illegal fishing by North Koreans in Russian waters has declined 95% and fishing overall by 50%. They did shoot some South Korean public servant in the border area at sea and burnt his body, which they apologized for. If I was a smuggler and thought I had covid 19 under such circumstances I would self isolate until I feel 100% because my life depends on it. I agree it's possible that they might have had an unreported case or 2 knowingly or unknowingly but under such strict measures the virus can't spread so they would get rid of any outbreak easily.
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  5866.  @Jill-jb1jg  I would say the real risks as usual in places that have problems would be child malnutrition and childhood diseases, nothing directly to do with covid 19 but the possible effects of whatever North Korea is up to being totally shut off without even aid agencies there.
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  5867. Be fair to the guy he comes from a kill zone arguably the worst response to covid 19 on the planet. 0.18% of the population dead in a state with about 40% rural population and a total population of less than 1,000,000 so no big city. So the few deaths in the capitol building are nothing really to these people. Apparently South Dakota has done a great job so the governor says on the South Dakota government website.
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  5868. I doubt it however if the Russians had information they would feed it to somewhere so it can be found, so indirectly they might. Trump did more for the Communist Party of China than they could have ever hoped for or dreamed for. I have been following the Chinese propaganda youtube channel CGTN for a while and they don't really need to make anything up about the US, just tell it as it is, Xi however is being remarkably friendly towards Biden and the US at the moment so I do wonder what that's about. The Chinese keep emphasizing how they want to talk to Biden and at the same time I think it's still the case that the position towards Australia is we are not to be talked to and trade sanctions on certain products remain. That channel expressed the wanting to be friendly just as it was announced the virtual meeting of the Quad leaders together for the first time, so Prime Ministers of India, Australia and Japan plus Biden. From an alli's perspective far prefer Biden, far more consultative and more stable and you know the US is on our side for certain, with Trump not sure who's side he was on, America First disregards allies. Anyway that's my opinion and I think on average Australians would have a similar view.
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  5869. Speaking as a foreigner and pretty sure there would be some Americans that agree. Both sides of politics in the US are not looking particularly good. I would encourage people there to actually vote , noting a 60% turn out rate is not unusual in many states. A higher turnout should give more legitimacy to those elected. All the genuine protesting in the world by both sides counts for nothing if you don't vote. Vote for the lessor evil whatever you think that is . Best of luck US.
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  5870. All those pro Sweden people , just remember if you want that you need taxes to rise unless you are another like minded northern European and your population to become less obese, demographics and being socialist (government spending to GDP over 50%) has helped, didn't see those bread lines like in the US as the prime example. We should compare Sweden to other Scandinavian countries and they haven't performed any better and a lot more deaths.
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  5871. I just read a news article, apparently in South Korea and Hong Kong they use those ankle bracelet things. The case numbers in many countries it's impossible to monitor and no space to put them into hospitals or hotels. Infected people in my state of Queensland usually picked up in hotel quarantine are encouraged into hospitals as a quarantine measure. Compared to staying in hotel quarantine it's probably a nice change if they have the same entertainment options.
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  5872.  @CabinGirl57  In Australia in general a single has to pay around $2,800 AUD for the hotel quarantine in most cases unless for compassionate reasons they forgive that, extra people it's $600 per person about for food. It is run by our states so pricing is not all exactly the same. It's my memory that Taiwan actually started hotel quarantine first in our region after some returned traveller breached the home quarantine causing a bit of an outbreak and other countries quick to follow but Europe and US still don't do it. With our hotel quarantine I think a bit of luck how good or bad but it's very strict in Queensland , maybe everywhere now and can't leave room at all, before they might let people out of the room for short periods. Taiwan has done very well of course but like the rest of us quarantine breaches where a hotel worker gets infected can happen anytime because impossible to completely eliminate risk. Best of luck and hope our countries manage to have continued success.
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  5873. Just a comment on your last line. "Western Civilization Supremacy has to end" . Is that comment a joke or something. What you are advocating is the downfall of Western English speaking democracies. Rule of law, freedom of speech, democracy for all. Maybe one day the most successful countries in the world will not be but let's hope that's a long time in the future. Which model of government would you prefer and which system of government would you prefer? Just curious to know.
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  5874.  @grmpEqweer  I have read through your comments and in general I agree but that's got nothing to do with the system of government. China is currently doing the same thing, Australia has done similar things in the past as has Indonesia. It's really big countries treating smaller countries and or segments of their population badly. In Western democracies now I would say that the treatment internally is all good. This is not to say perfect because you can't control individual behaviour. I do believe however due to pressure within Western democracies we do treat other countries better than in the past, so improving but far from perfect. The US is still too interventionist in my opinion . It may be well meaning such as with Venezuela but the intervention tends to fail and secure the dictatorship because once the local population is aware of foreign interference they will support a dictator more.
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  5875. They both on the right side too.
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  5876. Very much so and he is likely to stay in power just like Putin did by becoming the Prime Minister (Vice President for Duterte in the PH system) and eventually changing the constitution. I can see with high probability exactly the same occuring.
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  5877. A White lie mr Dr Campbell you know it's in the US, 100 times the flights compared to Australia but it didn't get there , come on now. If you said 99% chance but it's not impossible it hasn't reached there yet I would pay that one.
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  5878. You are the first positive comment I have seen, I am secretly hoping the Gates family will be seeking political asylum in Australia, while many Americans do support them the ones that don't are large enough in number that the US doesn't deserve such lovely but imperfect human beings.
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  5879. No, business owners, law enforcement, professional don't fit your description. Some would fit your description. It was actually a reasonable cross section of the US but less minorities.
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  5880.  @robs1714  Pretty difficult in Queensland Australia, when borders open need to travel to the virus epicenter, any South Eastern US state would probably do.
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  5881. The leaders are/were in Doha.
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  5882. Funny you should use such terminology, the reaction to a lockdown or civil unrest and US presidential election has been to buy guns, highest annual sales ever by end of October. Guns seem highly ineffective at killing the virus however.
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  5883.  @bcubed72  you didn't see my screen name? I have no idea why buying a gun would be a good idea other than hunting or sport, in Australia we have a homicide rate one 6th of that of the US, so some semi automatic rifle first of all is illegal here except rare circumstances like law enforcement or military and not much else and really has no practical purposes for other than those limited uses.
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  5884. Are you kidding they did exactly the same thing with South Korea, cutting all tourism at one point when they were annoyed with missile defence from memory. There is also another very significant issue, we are the only country with a trade surplus with China in the region. The only reason Trump didn't hit Australia with tariffs like he did even with Canada is because the US has a trade surplus with Australia. We could handle things better and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute is a propaganda organization funded by the the Australian and "other governments" (probably CIA is one of them) , while there are certainly human rights issues with the Uyghurs the claims of slavery etc. are not founded in reality. That population is treated badly and re education by force of course isn't good and calling every member of the ethnic group terrorists is terrible of course. But overstating the problem doesn't do anything especially if spoken publically, in fact probably counter productive when calls go out to sanction goods produced by ethnic minority factory workers, this might just make them unemployable and back into poverty.
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  5885.  @philongpham3886  Your arguments are interesting, the government spending to GDP in UK and US is almost the same, however you are correct in recent years (2018) the US just borrowed 5% of GDP and created public debt. Way to go maybe can do that forever and nobody will notice. Now saying the US attracts more immigrants is like saying a 100 room hotel gets more guests than a 20 room hotel, so what? Not sure how the US public debt spiralling out of control will end because USD is the world currency and therefore protected but I think even if it's a long way off when it ends it may well be catastrophic.
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  5886. To Americans out there these potential terrorists are around the world now. Qanon has followers in many countries , so it can really be described as a potential international terror network, problem is like they stated most are harmless sympathiser , how to find the potential terrorists.
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  5887. @toroverde9329  that's interesting, maybe that's why beef sales from my country Australia are surging in the US. A little to my surprise the US is now actually our largest export market by weight.
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  5888. One thing is Trump is highly literate and an extremely skilled salesman. He might be many things like a terrible leader who is literally causing some citizens to take risks which will cause them to become non citizens. For someone to sell such an idea you must be highly literate and a skilful wordsmith.
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  5889.  Fortescue  I think he does read and has literally studied other populist leaders because his skill is too good at manipulation and follows an identical path to them. I could be wrong which means he is a genius at what he does, although looks like he will lose he still has a chance this election, his base are devotees they are not mere supporters. Biden has 0 devotees which is a good thing. Once he lied with intent to his devotees saying it's actually less harmful than the flu and it's all over etc. , I am not American but to me that's crossing a line that can never be crossed, encouraging people to in some cases cause their own death or death of a relative and we know it's happening and Trump can't be that stupid he doesn't know, he just doesn't care.
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  5890.  @minavanderleest9493  nah people are smart enough to use a washing machine.
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  5891.  @minavanderleest9493  no it wasn't, I hope I am correct.
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  5892. You do realise public health spending in the US is greater than a universal healthcare system like Australia. Strange comment, as far as the US border policy totally agree it's absurd when more than 3% of your population are illegal immigrants, glad Australian left and right are in agreement that this should never happen here.
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  5893. But Trump is definitely a socialist saying he will put 20% tariffs on all imports. Insanity but hey you choose your socialist.
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  5894. Why did you include Russia, not exactly a free country and sides with China all the time?
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  5895. No they won't
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  5896. Guaranteed the US has it but as the old saying goes if you don't test then you don't have cases.
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  5897. Is that a true quote? If it is it's a crime inciting criminal behaviour I would think.
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  5898.  @cmdrnachoman5864  no the noisy ones in the US are far left and far right, they just won't even listen to each other. Australia's left and right politically are fully cooperative. In the US they are at war with each other metaphorically. Maybe same to Australia in early 70s when Whitlam sacked.
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  5899. Thank goodness in Australia we don't have those looters whoever they might be. Protests yesterday and not a single incident of property crime with maybe 70,000 protestors around Australia.
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  5900.  @lefyre1266  that's a bit mean, but here in Australia we don't want anyone from the Americas, so maybe fair enough. Australia and New Zealand can soon become pristine disease free islands I hope, but one Australian state isn't doing so well. 18 in hospital in Australia but 15 in only one state.
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  5901. Then it can never end if you can't forgive his supporters who were the majority of the population, to not vote is also support.
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  5902. I feel sorry for you people, was it not possible to close the border and put in hotel quarantine for those entering and if it was you could have 0 cases or close to it. Given your description you even have a highly compliant population.
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  5903. Not really there's about 48 examples of similar failures in US states. Plenty of jurisdictions to observe.
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  5904. Then smokers like me might be banished from everywhere due to poor smell. Covid 19 has improved smokers social status though, we are rated above covid 19 carriers now in many places.
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  5905. Good to meet someone sharing a similar given screen name.
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  5906. Put yourself in the position of being the medical staff or secret service staff. How are they supposed to control Trump? If any doctor or nurse quits they would be seen as traitors especially if Trump dies and very bad for job prospects. Trump is putting all of them or at least many of them in an impossible position. I don't really think the doctors really want to be involved in Trump's spin machine.
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  5907.  @bobarnold5992  The irony of your comment is the Philippines has the third highest deaths per million out of the 28 countries in the Western Pacific region of WHO. It's all a matter of perspective. We all have border quarantine for 14 days, China and Papua New Guinea have recently changed to 21 days and other measures though that aren't voluntary.
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  5908. My comment as an Aussie might seem strange . I am totally for a controlled border however the US is a crime ridden country with 6 times the average homicide rate of other wealthy countries, local law enforcement shouldn't be involved in non local matters in the case of USA.
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  5909. You're probably American and about 800,000 sheeple are dead from the virus because they decided to follow conspiracy theories and not get vaccinated or take precautions. Heaps more sheeple dying in the US from things as varied as vehicle accidents , drug overdoses and homicides, you top the wealthy world in all those categories plus covid 19 of course on a per capita basis. Lowest life expectancy for a wealthy country, so totally agree your sheeple should wake up.
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  5910. There are prejudiced people of all colours, ethnic and religious groups but they are not the majority. I hope you find a better workplace soon and try to stay positive and remember they aren't all like the person you encountered.
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  5911. My thoughts were well we got caught doing it to Indonesia and East Timor and we have known for many years the US does it to us on trade issues. The only message is if you are a critical person in business or government protect your data, because it's gonna keep happening.
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  5912. It amazes me some people really don't know. This is 10th grade English at maximum.
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  5913. At the end of September the excess deaths was 300,000 for the US year to date, so one can assume that a significant proportion. The secondary deaths are significant also due to poor public policy meaning ongoing lockdowns which causes mental illness and other possible causes of deaths and reduced healthcare. In Australia there was a spike in deaths from the lockdown which mostly seemed to be heart failure and diabetes as reported by ABS ( Australian Bureau of Statistics). The data released is only first 6 months so not sure how bad the Victorian situation may have been from a second hard lockdown.
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  5914. Didn't you hear the news, Trump declared the pandemic over. He informed people previously that as of November 4 it will no longer be reported by the media. If you take that statement at face value while observing reality you have to wonder what is Trump going to do to the media.
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  5915. You mean like when someone kills 20 school kids in a massacre , teens are still permitted access to semi-automatic weapons in most states and can purchase their own without waiting once turning 18. Can't drink yet in the US but can buy a semi-automatic rifle without restrictions in most states. So are the for profit insurance schemes related to healthcare going to voluntarily just stop existing?
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  5916.  @datsuncrown6614  what is that supposed to mean. I just made a comment on what he likely thought. If you know differently then call for murder 1 charges with the evidence.
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  5917.  @Africanknight88  I think the US and much of Western Europe could be looking at a continuous ongoing disaster, open borders with voluntary quarantine and large numbers of antivaxxers in US and France in particular. If the virus mutates around the vaccines or not enough vaccinated there will be more troubles ahead.
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  5918. Loved his last social distancing idea.
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  5919.  @mars9075  that's one way to produce American exceptionalism I guess.
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  5920. Well if vaccines are working at 95% in stopping deaths give or take then it's not a big issue, however most of the world isn't vaccinated so no matter the variant they are all still quite dangerous at a population level. I agree looks like it's endemic and will be like the flu, every few years because of variants relatively large numbers of vulnerable die compared to average years.
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  5921. Unfortunately that argument adds to speculation because if you don't want to get caught you can't make it obvious and the Moderna vaccine was developed in 2 days actually by NIH and Moderna on 13 of January 2 days after China supplied the genetic sequence.
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  5922. The problem is Trump is about to effectively ban competition with tariffs against all other countries. Tesla is probably the best electric vehicle made in the US. I am in Australia and if I was going to buy an electric or hybrid car it would be made in Asia somewhere. I wouldn't buy a Tesla even if it was made outside of the US on principle.
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  5923. They've laid off the illegal immigrants are getting all the money for now. Seems to be who they attack comes in waves, dead people, trans people and illegal immigrants are all approximately equal but at different times.
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  5924. There is no evidence in either direction that suicides are either increasing or decreasing. It should be noted that in the years of economic decline during the great depression in the US life expectancy actually went up. The exact reasons for this aren't known. It's a possibility that in the current circumstances suicides could decrease just as they could increase. It's likely it will have both effects for different individuals, now some at risk people would have others like family members talking to them more often etc., but longer term business people for example who lose everything would probably be more likely to suicide.
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  5925. Every country put restrictions and Taiwan and Vietnam the most successful and probably the countries who are watching China the closest so I think not entirely coincidental . Iceland is really small, a small city state. I wish your country the best of luck but given the number of current cases , choices are limited. Every successful country acted fast , including significant border restrictions, stronger based on comments than Canada's current border restrictions.
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  5926. Totally disagree with you. There is no evidence that requiring people to wear masks in a low infection area does anything. In Australia most states are cautiously going back to school starting with senior years and preschool and year 1. There hasn't been any discussion here and there is no need for this while infection rates are low. In the video it suggests infection rate of 1 person per 50,000 give or take. South Korea I know is taking a different path regarding masks in schools but that's up to them.
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  5927.  @SK-yu3dd  I understand what you are saying very well. The successful country know they are always one month from disaster. Contact tracing , testing and isolation of possible cases has worked in many countries. In my opinion whatever country you may be from its in the hands of government plus people following directions when required and a bit of heavy handedness to make it happen. Without even knowing details about this area other than the broader political situation , I would rate their chances above many Western countries. I think people are likely to be serious about following directions including mask if it is decided that is required.
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  5928. They need to change the system of government. Meaning they need to change the constitution. There's no hope in the short to medium term of the US turning around. The US is basically a right wing socialist country. Basically the opposite of Reagan up to Bush on trade policies.
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  5929. Trump has implied that it's all a political hoax being carried out by every nation that has contained the virus. He has stated that China can't be trusted with there numbers and the only reason the US has a large number of confirmed cases is because of testing. So Australia , South Korea, Taiwan , Thailand etc. have more cases. This is effectively what he implied. I can assure you countries in my region aren't faking the numbers . I expect Trump knows this but he is talking to his base who literally believe anything he says. If he doesn't know it , he is an imbecile.
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  5930. It's not going away but people are getting infected or vaccinated and deaths and hospitalization going down over time. So eventually large numbers of people will have some immunity and restrictions will reduce to nothing because it won't overwhelm hospitals. Let's hope we don't get another novel virus like this one in our lifetimes.
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  5931. It's sensible because otherwise knowing the votes already counted while voting is still occurring could change the outcome.
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  5932.  @johmyh14  I think you meant interbreeding not inbreeding, the pure homosapiens in subsaharan Africa can run better, the mongrels in most of the rest of the world can swim better. So being mixed homosapien and neanderthal has its advantages as does being a pure bred, not sure how those with Denisovan blood in them have advantages or disadvantages.
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  5933. It's about numbers, Ukraine has 70 million people and so long as they are armed they can't be beaten. Texas only has 25 million or so, about the population of Afghanistan and that's hard enough to take as we know.
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  5934. Yes it's the wrong climate to grow bananas, maybe a corn republic.
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  5935. But if Biden won and died or quit during the presidency there would be a constitutional crisis and a decision would need to be made about Obama becoming President.
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  5936.  @thegreatredrover6340  I did see it explained but to be honest my memory not the greatest, there is no problems Obama running for vice president. Obama can't run as president for a third term because of some rule I think, not sure it's a constitutional amendment though. I can't remember what the video said in the case Obama was vice president and the president stopped being a president.
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  5937. I am happy for free media. An Australian broadcaster happy to effectively endorse Trump with 210,000 body bags under his belt and give a hard time to "Chairman Dan" who would appear to be a miracle worker by US mainland standards. Yes Victoria is a disappointment with over 100 deaths per million versus 600 + per million for the US. I am a Queenslander and fully endorse both my state and federal governments with a result only comparable to a few other Australian states and a couple of Asian countries plus minor jurisdictions with low populations around the world. Sky News you keep selling death to the Americans and best of luck with your predictions.
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  5938. Sorry Ben all crypto is a scam and primarily used for scams and drug trafficking etc. Trump says he wants to keep the USD as the world's main reserve currency while at the same time trying to eliminate regular currencies.
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  5939. I like how he says "it's been going on since before I was elected" Is he implying that it's still going on and all the US problems are either Obama or China? I do think this is sort of news to Obama .
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  5940.  @Richard-zf2eu  To put it in simplified terms , it's a cultural issue. If I ask you back , why is the homicide rate slightly higher in the US than in Kenya? what's your answer. In the US things are better than Kenya economically. Look at a country's homicide rate and it gives a good idea of widespread underlying potential for violence and unlike all other crimes it is automatically self reported as in a dead body from unnatural causes, rape or theft etc. often isn't reported. The US has a homicide rate 5 times that of wealthy country average. South African homicide rate is through the roof, high enough to make the US look really good.
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  5941. ​@ankalen01 that's misguided, Australia gives aid to Indonesia.
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  5942.  @MultiDivebomber  impossible to force a country to take aid.
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  5943. @MultiDivebomber  those who receive the aid would appreciate it. What would you say to a scholarship recipient for example? The aid in AUD has remained stable at around $300 million AUD for years so in effect slowly reducing. What political interference do you believe Australia does, we don't ask anything in return?
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  5944.  @jamesbecker3420  You're both mad, Australia and New Zealand looking on thinking lucky we had a containment policy, it's neverending outside of the West Pacific and arguably Africa. Every country hopes for effective vaccine because although maybe Western Pacific nations are doing well it's far from normal and of course significant travel restrictions and no international tourists damaging some countries more than others.
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  5945.  @jamesbecker3420  According to someones personal situation things can be very different and in big cities it's much higher risk of catching it and much more business directly relying on consumers. Without an effective vaccine I can't see the US situation improving in part due to major political division. Australia we were very fortunate the federal government and all state governments regardless of political party cooperated even if they didn't always agree. In one way and not diminishing the heartache it did cause , it was a bit funny all but 2 states shut there borders and the federal government didn't really like this but as is the case in the US both the state and federal governments have these powers. By shut meaning only essential travel and freight and 2 weeks hotel quarantine in many cases of it's a person coming into the state. These restrictions have dramatically reduced in most cases but one state has kept a real hard border with all other states.
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  5946. Well Donald Trump wants to make history and maybe he will. He wants to start World Trade War I. Never in history has one country declared a trade war on every other country in existence with according to Trump a minimum of 10% tariffs on all imports. Now it's possible he's full of 💩 but it's also possible he will actually follow through. Do US citizens who actually voted for this think it will end well for the US. There's virtually nothing the US produces other than sophisticated military weapons that can't be purchased elsewhere. It will feel strange when Australia my country will be allies with China , Indonesia, Venezuela etc. regarding trade , in the end we need to protect ourselves.
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  5947. Trump has to win 3 out of 4, to me that's statistically virtually impossible.
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  5948. It's actually a good policy to stop farm subsidies, they are a drain on the US government finances and basically achieve nothing. Australia and New Zealand for example have extremely low subsidies mostly through government funded research, no cash handouts other than possibly disaster relief which would go to everyone. The US is currently Australia's largest market for beef by weight. How is it that it's come to this , the subsidised market isn't very competitive against a free market. Well part of it is likely that as all socialism does control or influence the means of production , US farmers are growing low value broad acre crops displacing other agricultural activities so they can get a guaranteed small return with the subsidies. I might be incorrect about the exact reason but it is a likely reason. Having said that ending subsidies should be done over time in a carefully considered manner, not just dropped basically making the government out to be untrustworthy and yes possibly causing a lot more pain than gradual consolidation of the industry where as most people know it's often a matter of get big or get out.
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  5949.  @bobjohnson904  Well the far right regime in China appears to be doing something similar, maybe they could just purchase their systems. I am not saying far right in a sarcastic manner.
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  5950. Tesla being expensive and having a massive recall in China , Tesla's only major market that increased Tesla sales last year. All other major markets Tesla had a decrease in sales. Now in the US those on the left side of politics who are more likely to buy an electric car will look to other brands and a large chunk of the right wing people in the US either don't trust electric vehicles or can't afford them. While Tesla might increase sales somewhere in the future there's no possibility of getting extraordinary profit margins around 20% into the future when many other brands enter the market.
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  5951. I do but I'm Australian.
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  5952.  @peachdaddy  No 0.3% is the number already dead, they haven't stopped dying although Omicron is less deadly so the rate of death will decrease and most are vaccinated now but not high vaccination rates. So what is your 0.3% mortality rate supposed to mean? Many US states are above 0.3% of the population dead from covid 19 anyway.
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  5953.  @tttgaming8762  Ok he infected his troops with a live virus through the skin , is that better for you. Would antivaxxers prefer to be injected with live virus capable of reproduction? This would surprise me very much.
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  5954.  @jtmcl3395  read my last comment which clarifies the matter.
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  5955. One way to look at is, at the moment the US is too busy internally to attempt to put their person or party in power in other countries.
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  5956. It's possible for unemployment rate to move in the opposite direction to the amount of employment occurring. If someone works 1 hour a week they are considered employed for statistics also participation rates change, if you aren't looking for work you aren't considered unemployed.
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  5957. What's wrong with Tritium, that's the so called nuclear waste, I can buy tritium vials from Alibaba, check if you don't believe me.
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  5958.  @danbear1764  First of all it would make it far more expensive so why do it and the water will be diluted by however much , are you certain that in still water it won't accumulate, I would think that's a distinct possibility because it's physically heavier. The concern even within Japan is they don't trust the government, China is capitalizing on this , Chinese government knows the water will be just like water released from every nuclear plant in the world which has extra tritium. Is it possible that China thinks the water won't be treated properly and all other radioactive materials removed, I doubt it otherwise they would just say they want the IAEA to monitor the treatment and dilution process. It doesn't start until next year and will be done over 20 years or so, so it's going to be extremely dilute. I would expect they would just mix it with regular treated sewerage from the closet major treatment plant before that's dumped in the ocean. There is nothing to worry about if the Japanese do what they say and no reason to think they won't, if they sent untreated radioactive waste as in with other radioactive materials of course the whole world would get angry including Japanese citizens so they wouldn't risk doing that even if they wanted to.
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  5959.  @danbear1764  thanks for the somewhat detailed history, it's clearly a matter of trust because of previous history. The only way to solve that if it is the real underlying issue is foreign monitoring of the process.
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  5960.  @dos14dos14  your argument is ridiculous, it's like saying someone died in a car accident therefore seatbelts, airbags, brakes, tyres and vehicle crush zones don't work.
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  5961. Could people please stop comparing US to Australia as if they are equivalent. Whatever statistic you look at on this subject Australia is better other than one issue and that is the number of indigenous Australian incarcerated is at a similar rate to the US for black people. Check any other rate you please and Australia is better. Also to do with this conversation the indigenous Australian are not on a average as violent as American Black culture. The racial problems in 2 cities and possibly 3 in Australia are significant but elsewhere in other cities and in regional areas even if things are not perfect this is not a major problem.
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  5962. 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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  5963. Whether Fox News USA sells into certain markets is up to them. Maybe there isn't a high demand in the UK for Fox News USA.
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  5964. Have to solve the underlying problems. The US has locked up 1% of it's adult population and nothing has changed. Locking people up isn't a strong deterrent, they don't care.
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  5965. But they actually voted for it. I don't know why they did, tax cuts for the wealthy and tax increases on middle and low income people through tariffs.
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  5966. After the vaccine because it won't happen earlier than that because the US is divided why not get rid of the virus? It's sort of like the policy is to ensure it never gets eliminated.
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  5967. Cases in Florida are about to shoot up I would suggest with no restrictions.
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  5968. 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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  5969. Trump told them on November 4 there would be no more pandemic. Also in a Whitehouse statement it said Trump had ended the pandemic, they did acknowledge that was poor wording.
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  5970. ​@Isaacanyc not much the world can do in a civil war. Israel/Palestine is a little different and Israel claims to be a liberal democracy, Syria unfortunately isn't and doesn't claim to be.
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  5971. Unfortunately probably way off, so far not many infected as a proportion of total population and vaccination rate is still fairly low. The main point is that this is not the original virus, so when it spread like crazy in the US previously that was without these new far more infectious variants. It's hard to know because of demographics but if you transfer the US numbers at peak and adjust for the new variants 2,000,000 cases a day is looking to be a possibility.
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  5972. @counselthyself You are referring to political issues not science. With modern science and no vaccines about 6 countries all in the Western Pacific WHO with combined population of about 1.5 billion or so can do it , so it can only be politics unless you think we are superior humans in this part of the world. All countries i included over 1 million population not the smaller Pacific Island nations which are also covid 19 free, countries the size of Malta that sort of thing. It has been suggested we might be genetically superior and that's why few cases we have natural immunity, however that assertion was ridiculous. Just keep cases out and jump on any new cases, or another way to put it stay the course until the job is done, now France has heavy restrictions and if they stay the course they will be virus free in a few months but need border shut.
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  5973. @counselthyself I am not particularly arguing whether it will or won't be endemic, just that it's a political issue, Western Pacific WHO countries all have 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine, so yes politically on this issue China, Japan , Australia and Papua New Guinea are closely aligned , ignore other geopolitical issues. The US or PAHO Pan-American Health Organization area and European WHO region are closely aligned, So, Brazil, US , France and Mexico are all closely aligned on this issue , no closed borders just 10 days voluntary quarantine will do, internally France is now as strict as even Melbourne was during their crisis or similar at least but I would bet you the airport is still open and voluntary 10 days quarantine is still in place and anyone with money can just go elsewhere in Europe with no lockdown. So I think can go either way , the other WHO health regions are somewhere between the above mentioned regions, politically in the end will China and Australia for example say we must accept the Euro and Pan American disease which is what it now is or will it go the other way and they finally they decide better to not keep the disease. Of course I am Australian I want your regions to tow the line and not accept another new virus becomes equivalent of the flu but probably worse because like you say the mutations that might be far worse than currently, the UK strain isn't the original virus, far more infectious, about half of all quarantine breaches in Australia were this strain despite it not being around for long and it seems a little more deadly especially for younger people, however the good news is the vaccines are still highly effective against it , but a little less so than the original strain.
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  5974. @counselthyself The variants won't get into China, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and the smaller Pacific nations like Fiji, unfortunately some countries have effectively fallen to the virus, doing well then boom such as Malaysia, Japan Papua New Guinea and Thailand, they were all at 0 or extremely close for a long time but moved towards situations like other countries, time will tell if they make a comeback and go for 0 or they will essentially give up and end up like the "hard hit" countries. You noted you were from Canada, Canada had less cases than Melbourne Victoria Australia when they hit their peak, I was thinking at the time great Canada is going to get rid of this thing , very impressive falls in cases etc. and Victoria Australia will be cut off from the rest of Australia for a very long time. My predictions were completely wrong.
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  5975. @counselthyself I am not my government, my plan if I could make it is to see my Thai GF who I haven't seen for a year and half in Thailand. The extremes exist on both sides New Zealand refuses to open the border to Australia in any way despite they have total disclosure by Australia and can make it state based. New Zealand is equivalent in population to the 4 largest Australian states individually as in NZ about the same as a single state. I think at least for a while, maybe a long while the extreme differences that exist around the world will continue, that is completely open borders with voluntary quarantine as apposed to travel bans for everyone with hotel quarantine for citizens and very essential others like diplomats or neighbouring country health cases, so in Australian case if a person required urgent surgery not available in their own country they might be given leeway (in reality I am talking of high official like prime minister or something from a south pacific country , normal people wouldn't get that). My comments are based on my current knowledge, maybe New Zealand changed its position, it's in reality the first free travel for an Australian likely to occur.
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  5976. Queensland have the same policy , 14 days hotel quarantine, so not sure what you are talking about. Are you suggesting no border bubble? Western Australia doesn't have any population on its borders so obviously they don't need such a measure.
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  5977. 44 people were made unconscious out of 200 or so when that approved maneuver occured over a 5 year period, the black police chief approved of such procedures otherwise why didn't he attempt to have them changed. It could have happened to 44 others both black and white and possibly other but it didn't, making someone unconscious was not considered a big deal or risky this is clear. The most despicable person regarding this matter is the police chief pretending at least to morph into a BLM supporter, taking no responsibility and throwing his fellow officer under the bus because he failed. Under law maybe some offence occured but it doesn't seem to be second degree murder or the felony that might have occured to warrant second degree murder, something along the lines of excessive force or whatever was inconsequential to the death.
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  5978.  @loveisthemostpowerfulforce1397  Partial lockdowns only slow the spread from what it might otherwise be. However one particular US measure increases the spread and that is to lockdown businesses in high case areas to encourage customers who on average are more often infected to seek areas with low restrictions with businesses open, so one measure certainly helps the spread. Other jurisdictions believe it or not actually stop those in infected areas going to non infected areas, something a 10 year old could work out but there is bipartisan consensus in the US to not consider this theory used for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The US in some respects has reverted back to stone age behaviour, the rock used as the one and only took for everything is vaccines. A bit like a hammer is the only tool to fix everything if someone has no idea, just hit it with a hammer and sometimes it works, an engine might have an electrical connection loose but the reverberation of the hammer hitting some part could reconnect the loose connection allowing the engine to start. Maybe vaccines will work and actually maybe not if no other action is taken like now. Good luck with your expensive rock.
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  5979. BA.2 was actually discovered in Queensland Australia first around start of December from a person in quarantine who had travelled from Nigeria.
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  5980. They are like the US before serious consumer laws.
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  5981. Gold and Silver is fine, however having weapons to commit mass murder might be profitable because of US regulations, do you really want to make money out of mass murder?
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  5982. He is erratic one day it's a global pandemic that he knew all about before the WHO declared it on another day he says it's like the flu and most people can just go to work it's not really a problem. If you took every quote and looked at them side by side you might think he is mentally ill. He isn't even if he lacks empathy, he just says whatever he thinks at the moment that will look good for him, so erratic not insane.
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  5983. I reckon her management of the riots was terrible however on this issue she is right.
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  5984. They are different jurisdictions. Just as each US state is a different jurisdiction. Don't know what your comment is supposed to mean. This is how a federation operates. Are you suggesting there are 56 identical governments with thousands of identical police forces and laws plus territory governments that are all identical. That's communism maybe with central control.
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  5985. Unfortunately that's a world problem because for example electric vehicles are often subsidised in many countries in various ways.
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  5986. @josephrowland2935  So free market capitalists are tyrants and neo Nazi capitalist who believe in corporate handouts are somehow good. Okay.
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  5987.  @josephrowland2935  Tyrants believe in the free market instead of handouts, that's news to me. Australia as a decidedly free market economy must be run by tyrants then who mostly don't agree with corporate hand outs. Anyway your opinion that billionaires should get handouts is probably not that popular.
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  5988. I know, it could be nerve racking wondering if a promotion is coming.
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  5989. Trump just hasn't noticed us yet, our land mass approximately the same size as the US mainland.
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  5990. @bryophyta9500  100% agree with you, Trump would love Brazil plus Australia for various reasons but in particular our combined iron ore.
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  5991.  @noah1322  a country that isn't in the G20 approximately can pretend they are neutral. If you're in the G20 and say you are neutral you are saying you support no one regardless of size and it works the other direction why should any country support you. India has moved towards supporting borders though (in Asia Pacific) which makes the abstention on UN votes condemning Russia seem a bit like can't trust them.
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  5992. You are thinking too much but not enough, the spread will always slow down over time because those moving about etc. will get it first and nobody has any immunity, so very rapid spread. The same people will be moving around after that for the most part but they can't contract or spread the virus anymore for the most part. So the rate can't keep doubling it must slow otherwise you would reach 100% fairly quickly. Are the numbers completely accurate , of course not but there isn't any conspiracy. The alcohol and tobacco ban in SA to me seemed like a bad idea and the black market sales would cause faster virus spread than keeping alcohol sales available.
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  5993.  @janhviljoen  I don't disagree South Africa has very serious problems, just a quick look at the homicide rate demonstrates it is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. From what I have heard other South Africans speak corruption is a big problem. But there is no reason for the Covid 19 data to be corrupted because there is nothing to gain by doing so. This doesn't mean it's highly accurate and the higher the case numbers the less accurate it is likely to be. You take care of yourself the best you can and I wish you and for that matter your country the best of luck. It is sad to see South Africa not doing as well as it could be.
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  5994. Maybe in an emotional sense however a 30% tax on everything that does almost nothing to Chinese exports to the US is completely different to trying to cripple certain industries with 80% or 200% tariffs and other measures. Cool heads will prevail eventually or at least I hope so.
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  5995. Better to ask what and I would answer while not wishing it upon the sc*mbag , I would say natural causes.
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  5996.  Ana  Your point is what? That young people are at low risk in general. We know that but they spread it to others who will die.
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  5997.  @lyndad1255  Hang in there my Victorian friend, you will soon join the rest of Australia's low cases and restrictions soon I hope. I have to say although yes contact tracing did fail early on I am amazed that Victoria got cases down from about 500 per day to about 15 now give or take. Best of luck.
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  5998.  @lindseystein9676  don't agree with you that how far right a country is has anything to do with anything. The number of right wing extremists might correlate though as I expect it would with left wing extremists as to how effective a strategy is because in a well functioning society those people both on the left and right extreme are small in number and not too aggressive. So to me it's more likely to do with how coherent a society is. If you look at Taiwan versus Mainland China you will see almost identical following of the rules even though one is far more authoritarian than the other. Success helps too and the neighborhood (surrounding countries or states) being successful. If Germany was in the West Pacific it would be doing better.
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  5999.  @r.a.6459  It sounds like you will get on top of it. Hang in there and stay positive the best you can despite any increased restrictions. We are in a select group of countries that so far have succeeded in containment.
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  6000. In history books in 100 years time this episode in the US will be known internationally as the US Great Leap Forward, in US history books the events will be missing.
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  6001. The US is having rising cases and deaths as of now because of the Delta variant and it's the middle of summer. 20% of the new cases for the entire country are in Florida according to CNN I think it was.
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  6002. Some interesting things will occur. I am Australian and we (currently) have a solid free trade agreement with the US. While this remains the case Australian exports will be boosted to the US and cases of arbitrage might start occurring where for example we export let's say peanuts to the US and for arguments sake Mexico also produces peanuts and exports them to Australia. So in my example it could end up being somewhat inflationary to Australia at least so long as our free trade agreement isn't touched by Trump.
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  6003. ​ @marspentacle751  You want the US to be North Korea clearly, if you took down a North Korean flag in North Korea you would be treated as you want people in the US to be treated.
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  6004. My observation is Dan Andrews has had far harsher treatment even commentators on this channel blaming him personally or wording extremely close to that for the deaths in Victoria. Trump however hasn't had a single word against him from this channel as far as I am aware and the body count now 210,000 and they couldn't even keep it out of a single one of the 50 states many of which are no different to smaller Australian states or Northern Territory. I don't wish death upon Trump but return the same empathy and concern that he gave to those 210,000 people which is none. Dan Andrews shows more empathy in a single press conference than Donald Trump has shown the entire time. Mistakes were made in Victoria but by world standards Victoria has still done far better than average and I hope they completely beat it like the rest of the states.
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  6005. Best result in the world, don't knock it, all politicians should have to earn there keep. It's like in Australia we have 7 US CDS and that competitive federalism has produced a result I wouldn't have predicted.
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  6006. Maybe because it was known who the offender was. In this incident we only know the name Sabry Nassar with Arabic surname. Maybe he is Christian who knows. Maybe he joined a white supremacist group. We could make up anything with ignorance just as people are doing.
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  6007.  @dolphinluver1888  the concept of mandatory mask wearing and then you can go to a bar, the perfect spreading ground to me is absurd. This situation I believe does exist in some jurisdictions. It's a mitigation policy which allows the virus to spread but hopefully at a slower rate from the mask wearing to make up for large infection rates at bars.
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  6008. Russian roulette is now a political statement. Pretty sad.
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  6009.  @giri37  technically Trump said the proposed response was a democratic hoax not the virus itself (paraphrased).
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  6010. People don't believe they can get it because our governments response is good along with compliance if required, as in if there is 50 community cases somewhere there will be full lockdown and virtually full compliance and therefore we won't get it.
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  6011. That's a given unless martial law is declared or something like that.
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  6012. This is insane, he has agreed to cut social security and Medicaid. He will be blamed when that happens.
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  6013. It depends on infection rates and availability of ppe to critical workers.
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  6014. It's interesting that a Republican Governor is interfering in business and taking away the right and usually obligation to protect there crew and passengers on cruise ships. It's truly bizarre and the sort of thing an authoritarian regime would do but even worse because even authoritarian regimes try not to cause deaths by stomping on people's and businesses rights that are of no risk to the dictator.
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  6015. @L’esprit de l’escalier you have no idea how much evidence they have, you're just guessing.
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  6016. They probably don't vote.
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  6017. Actually it is a surprise, that narrative only changed in the past 2 or 3 months. Biden declared it over on independence day as an example, Boris declared freedom day even though the deaths haven't gone below 100 a day up until now.
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  6018. I was there for the 2006 Coup de ta when Thaksin got the boot. I didn't exactly find it scary just a little concerning. I think seeing the Thai reaction was not alarmed or anything like that made a difference. I would feel 100 times safer at the protest we just saw a clip of than any so called peaceful protest in the US. I did visit both the yellow and red shirt protests at different times just to have a look. Nobody at either was unfriendly even though I was a foreigner, I didn't wear anything of their colours because I think not my business as a foreigner.
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  6019.  @purebloodbabyfuhrer785  Hang in there mate, freedom awaits you but to blunder now means no chance of freedom before an effective vaccine that might not come. You are in the same position Auckland was in when they locked down last time, probably things are ok but need to make sure. Rest of Victoria is as free as anywhere in the world whenever the next already announced restrictions relaxation comes into effect.
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  6020.  @Hito343  the irony of Peter's comment, probably he in lockdown somewhere and the hard lockdown countries/ jurisdictions all have much more freedom now because very low or virus free.
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  6021. No how can Australia do tens of thousands of tests in a day and find no cases?, seems the tests work just fine unless in the US you stuffed it up.
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  6022. I have seen him say it's less deadly than the flu.
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  6023. What does borders close mean. Is the US going to become like North Korea or something?
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  6024. It's probably too late a capital T on a vehicle is a bit like a swastika at the moment.
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  6025. A lot of government rules based on a constitution or laws of a country are essentially based on honesty. This isn't anything unique about the US it's the way every country operates. The US however as a country is more vulnerable that say a country like mine Australia because one person the president is the head of state and head of government and chooses the entire unelected executive government which he/she can fire at will to ensure only loyalists in every position of power.
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  6026. The leaders who have been so called NAZIS like all Australian states plus Federal and other countries like New Zealand and eventually Singapore, South Korea, Japan etc. people appreciate it because actually we all more open with less restrictions other than international (sometimes interstate in Australia) travel. Economically less damaged and less mental health issues caused by the response as in not much change to the underlying issues that already existed.
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  6027. It would have to , clearly if you die it doesn't work anymore.
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  6028.  Huon Sainsbury  You can't really translate. The Australian Liberal Party is what the US Republicans used to claim they were in many respects. The thing that I never realised until just recently from comments, far right and far left actually meet together on industry and trade policy, Australia is predominantly a free trade nation with low subsidies for business. Trump had the same policies as Bernie Sanders on the issue so many Bernie Sanders voters went to Trump instead of Hilary. If you look at the Australian approach to covid 19 it was the conservative approach from both sides of politics. The radical approach is to not take it seriously and not care about people dying. The US is just disfunctional and healthcare is where this really stands out, they spend more on public healthcare than Australia for a non universal healthcare system which completely failed at the society level with the response to covid 19, no doubt the public healthcare bill in the US skyrocketed last year and Australia's probably up significantly for covid testing etc, but the rest of healthcare the same or possibly slightly cheaper because less flu patients etc. One thing is the US regardless of party love their guns which is a problem that doesn't exist in any other wealthy nation to any great extent. On social issues Australia would be on average slightly to the left of the US I am guessing, but the US has states that are more left wing on social issues than any Australian state.
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  6029. Musk is right about one thing, the US does need to live within it's means. Trump is planning to make government deficits worse. Reduce taxes on the rich and tank the economy won't improve the deficit. Republicans aren't going to eliminate all forms of social security because there would literally be people starving who will become criminals out of need. I can't believe Republicans would be that stupid. Musk and Trump are that stupid however.
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  6030. Reading through the comment section it sort of feels like I am at CGTN , it's interesting how Trump supporters and CPC supporters are now aligned and both think Biden is worse for them than Trump.
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  6031. General revenue. Don't worry Trump will most likely produce the biggest bestest government deficit you have ever seen outside of wartime. Maybe the tariffs can pay the interest on government bonds.
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  6032. @sandraeastern9720  without looking it up I think the largest foreign holders of US bonds are China and Japan. Most reserve banks around the world hold some but nowhere near the extent of those 2 countries holdings.
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  6033. You can't go down that path because where do you stop? Should Canadians not get the vaccine because of relaxed quarantine measures and restrictions that led to your situation? It would be better if all countries with problems received the vaccines at the same rate and countries with less problems at a slightly lower rate but unfortunately that's not occurring.
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  6034. Depending on who is saying it , just thank those who call you Uncle Tom who was the Title Character and hero of Uncle Tom's Cabin the second most sold book of the 19th century after the bible and arguably helped end slavery as it had an abolishionist message. Ask them what they think of Josiah Henson often called the real Uncle Tom and an inspiration to Harriet Beecher Stowe in writing the novel.
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  6035. Actually can you imagine the propaganda machine in North Korea. Their job is easier now , just show news reports from the US with direct translations.
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  6036. The concern is/was people will social distance less actually increasing the spread of infections. Some individuals will certainly do this and will differ with different cultures. Messaging by leaders should solve this though.
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  6037. Hey mate our accents are fine. The New York accent is the worst, it's like they seem to be yelling at me when I see reporters from that area.
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  6038.  @mikehall6912  Authoritarian policies like rule of law? Compulsion and coercion to vaccinated? Well all Australia is open except Western Australia, economy is better than the US big government model. Homicide rate maybe 1 fith of the US, publically funded healthcare cheaper than the US, amazing you big tax and spend most likely Republicans who actually don't even believe in the rule of law as you defended those tourists on Jan 6 beating the crap out of police and vandalizing a public building, just like BLM/Antifa. You want to support the behaviour of BLM/Antifa you are nuts. Also you actually have far harsher penalties for criminals and even the death penalty, pretty authoritarian actually with 1% of your entire adult population behind bars it's not working is it. Edit: oh and forgot the one thing you hate, a controlled border. You love your open border.
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  6039.  @mikehall6912  So you support the freedom to infect people with a virus, well done 1 million body bags from the virus and the poor response. Freedom to kill someone with a virus isn't a freedom that's recognized even in the US.
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  6040.  @mikehall6912  You're right allowing teenagers to shoot up schools with semiautomatic weapons and others to kill whoever they want in other mass shootings , I don't understand that concept, the US has a homicide rate about 5 times that of other wealthy nations which is unacceptable from Japan to Australia to Germany to the UK. The US is the odd one out here. As I said the freedom to infect plus the poor response has killed 1 million yet you don't see the issue, homicides are up big time, hardly a harmonious country. The US is now at the top for Covid 19 deaths per Capita for a wealthy country. Dead people aren't free unless you have some strange religious idea like those that you might have infected and indirectly killed will go to heaven for the sacrifice they made for your freedom, not sure they had a choice in the matter however. Why do you bring up vaccines, I haven't commented on vaccines?
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  6041. Stop being blue maga, you are literally using the same argument Trump used when he lost to Biden who had smaller rallies.
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  6042. Occasionally, he has said things like I just want your vote and how he doesn't like certain states.
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  6043. ABC Australia is different to ABC in the US with David Muir. They have nothing to do with each other.
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  6044. 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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  6045. Well 400 cases per day isn't low, it's just not catastrophic like before. Good news based on comment above about vaccinations however it's got 2 problems probably still not quick enough and it's all eggs in one basket, if a variant anywhere in the Americas or Europe and to some extent South Asia evades the vaccine no doubt it will be in all those regions within weeks because open borders without mandatory quarantine and back to square one.
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  6046. Under the constitution the military is autonomous, the defence minister must be in the military. The civilian government has no control over them.
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  6047. Well I guess that ends the argument of who can manage the pandemic better with a 100% score of increasing cases by state means the virus has gone purple on y'all . I wonder if Puerto Rico , the forgotten territory has cases increasing.
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  6048. Unfortunately it is likely you need to prove the policeman knew what he was doing. In other words that he understood this would kill the person. I think that would be a tough ask. Manslaughter or whatever it's name is in the jurisdiction is more likely.
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  6049. Never heard that saying before "off the chains" , is that the same as "off the rails" or a bit different.
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  6050. Australia and New Zealand are doing fine thank you. No need for the racist comment.
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  6051.  @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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  6052. Well we do know if every wealthy country followed the path of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand we wouldn't have such a problem because we could be helping those countries with less capacity to deal with the problem. Taking a holistic approach should the countries I mentioned have just not bothered because other countries were going to fail anyway? I think not and containment will still work out the best. All the other partial lockdown countries will continue to have a higher level of problems I think and if we want to just give up and allow thousands or even tens of thousands of deaths we can choose that any time.
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  6053. The failed US response was transparent if nothing else, so I doubt it but maybe I am wrong.
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  6054. Actually you can be sure it's not as bad. The US is a developing country in a civil society sense.
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  6055. First of all it doesn't seem that easy if he has more drugs in him than a crack addict and did have additional oxygen on 2 occasions that we are aware of. 99% of the population doesn't have access to the above. Now of course he is likely to recover the mortality rate at his age is estimated at about 5% and the extra care would make some difference I would think lowering his personal risk of death. So what's your point, is it that it's ok for 1 in 20 74 years olds to die unless they are very rich or powerful and have access to intensive care at an early stage?
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  6056. In at least one US state you could win a gun, then you could hunt for your food instead.
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  6057. Diplomatic pressure is occurring and not all in the public domain. If you are suggesting foreign forces go in to conquer the land can you live with the million people minimum who will be killed. Note only 3 deaths so far according to reports. Imprisoned people can be released but not if they are killed. If the public of Myanmar stand there ground so far looking like can successful or at least an even chance of achieving the goal.
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  6058. The only major market last year where Tesla increased sales was China. The Chinese government hasn't done anything against Tesla, however I predict that will change if Chinese exports to the US are all hit with 60% tariffs. Musk supports a trade war surprisingly.
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  6059. Pretty irrelevant, if I had a model T Ford and it broke down now would that mean it was a bad car for the time it was built?
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  6060. The US media is blaming all the spread on unvaccinated people which simply isn't true which is unfortunate because then people don't trust the media and the US continues in it's cycle of distrust which has many negative impacts.
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  6061.  @mehere8038  Vietnam has never got to hundreds of cases a day, I would say the same of them if it happened but it hasn't because of proactivity the entire time, Taiwan was initially as proactive as Vietnam but completely dropped the ball recently. The variant Melbourne has is one of the Indian variant but not what they think is the worst one. Melbourne should be fine , nobody there wants to go through the same as last year. Your point about mutations , if they do evade vaccines the world goes back to outbreak day 0, let's cross our fingers that doesn't happen because no idea how many countries would deal with that.
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  6062. Not my money Yankee (yes i know it's only a part of the US but historically we called all of you that), Maybe the Aussie dollar will go up in comparison to your gambling plan.
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  6063. That's a lie that Biden said no more offensive weapons. Or if Biden said it he's lying.
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  6064. Brazil and USA , not sure about Brazil currently but no change in the other one.
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  6065.  @christinebenson518  What is progressive views? I ask genuinely because political arguments are all upside down at the moment.
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  6066. Half agree with you.
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  6067. There's no mechanism for the US supreme court to do anything. There's only 2 ways the president can be removed and that's by the 25th amendment if his cabinet believes him to be mentally unfit , so that's not going to happen they are all loyalists or by impeachment with 2 thirds of the senate voting for his removal which won't happen any time soon and unlikely to happen because they appear to all be loyalists as well. All the supreme court or any court can do is stop things from from continuing to be unlawful after the fact.
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  6068. China is far right, basically as far away from communism as you can get.
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  6069. Probably a similar reason Hitler was put on there. Not suggesting Trump is as bad as Hitler but he is definitely an agent of chaos threatening to tank the North American economy.
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  6070. You're not that old and don't look sick so if you get covid 99.9% chance no problems. Home isolation although not fun isn't a big problem, the problem is if they do that like Shanghai and you won't be getting reliable food coming in. Best of luck and take care.
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  6071.  @CanadianBakin42O  She will know herself if she has diabetes for example which is a high risk factor. If the picture is her then she isn't old or obese we know that.
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  6072. The lockdowns are costing a fortune and the only way to get out of them is high vaccination rates because quarantine breeches are impossible to eliminate unless maybe we go to 21 days hotel quarantine like China and also only use purpose built quarantine facilities.
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  6073. Not all of us, the traitors at Sky News Australia were gleeful of a US president ready to start a trade war with Australia. I read through the comments section of one of their clips and fully of Aussies wanting to lose a trade war with Trump. Maybe it's changed more recently but I rarely check their clips.
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  6074. Ex colonizers. There are still countries which can be described as current colonizers.
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  6075. Strong leaders who have basically reacted in a measured but timely way are the most favoured. Look at a Pew research survey it shows 14 wealthy countries and there are only 2 that overall approval of the government's response is less than 50% , sort of no surprise that's the US and UK who both have had erratic responses and high per capita deaths (not the highest) for wealthy countries.
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  6076. @Donna * Lovin’ Texas Why doesn't she report the matter, a federal crime of fraud against the government? That's a pretty serious crime that probably has a 20 maximum jail term or so. Your suggested allegation is rampant on social media such as this platform so something doesn't add up, either the authorities are ok with 10s or possibly 100s of billions of dollars of theft occurring against the institution of federal government itself or it's not true.
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  6077. The Australian cases weren't/aren't patients as indicated in this clip and are asymptomatic and were vaccinated.
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  6078. Nah thinks will revert back quickly, if I walked 500 metres down the road right now where have night clubs people will be lined up with about 30cm of social distancing and they allowed 1 person for 2 square metres inside I believe which isn't much space when you add in furniture. Watching videos of other countries looks strange to me, a bit like watching old videos of East Germany or The Soviet Union, especially the US with all queues for food, water, vaccines etc. , just a bit modernized the queues are often cars.
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  6079.  Tuesday April  no of course not. Having 40,000 people alive today who wouldn't have been with open borders and lockdown lite is a good thing.
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  6080.  Tuesday April  So the riot police in Germany is the way to go you reckon and having thousands of people dead, my state Queensland hasn't had to resort to military assistance so far except for some hotel quarantine and the state border for a while earlier on. The act hard and fast has meant much fewer restrictions and virtually no deaths but you like the lockdown lite and literally riot police controlling things rather than a soft touch approach. Interestingly the vast majority appreciate the freedoms by controlling the minority who want to open things up and cause a disaster like seen in half the countries of the world. Life should matter it's the first principle of freedom, to be alive not minor freedoms for some which kills others.
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  6081.  Tuesday April  Which country are you in that has done such a great job?
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  6082. What did you put Singapore in that list for?
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  6083. Saying Trump is selling out Ukraine is not really true or at least minimising his intentions. He is offering to turn Ukraine into an extractive colony where the US takes 50% of royalties from resources forever. It's possible he's considering a deal with Putin where Ukraine is divided up into an American colony and a Russian colony.
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  6084. It will help and hurt our international trade, immediate effect is Australia's goods become more competitive in Mexico, USA , Canada and possibly China if they choose to retaliate. But medium or long term it hurts all those economies so they will buy less off of us and Trump might start a trade war against us just for fun noting Australia's major trade deficit with USA.
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  6085. Have you heard of "snake oil salesmen" pretty sure they had good write ups in Newspapers , have to go back pre modern civilization so 5,000 years ago to avoid organised disinformation campaigns.
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  6086. Funny thing is that they do report on it, no need to go to CGTN to discover that there are problems in Israel and it's occupied territories.
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  6087. They will be, obviously governments have to pay but with GAVI I think every wealthy country ex USA at this stage has pledged or provided actual funds for poorer countries to have equal access.
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  6088. Are you being paid for each post or what? Fairly active account for less than a day old.
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  6089. Obviously he is or was, certainly an Aussie accent with a tinge of something else.
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  6090. This isn't about money because Musk's actions are losing contracts all around the world. This is about control, don't know why but Elon and or Donald want the power to shut down civilian air traffic. This could be something to do with imposing martial law somewhere and making travel more difficult and timely to that area to make it difficult for outside protesters to get in.
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  6091. Listen to Osterholm he is similar to John and gives a weekly talk. He is part of Biden's incoming taskforce but unfortunately he will be ignored. Biden has already done the Trump thing really , up to the states and don't really care , but will put a national unenforceable mask mandate. The only advantage of Biden is he is less likely to outright attack governors for doing what you asked of them which deal with the problem as they see fit. Just search Osterholm on YouTube and he will come up.
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  6092. If martial law is declared then everything that isn't a war crime becomes legal. It's unclear if your president can declare martial law however states can.
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  6093. That is the standard position worldwide I think. But that position changes I guess in response to a large number of infected people. Nothing beats the initial detection and contact tracing being done successfully by a very large factor.
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  6094. Israel first and then Russia, maybe a US third policy.
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  6095. It gets worse if people aren't leaving there abode they don't need to clean anything not even the weekly shower
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  6096. Little do you know 2 days from the tariffs put on Australian barley , according to a US government website the US is a preferred supplier of barley. Coincidence or not?
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  6097.  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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  6098.  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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  6099.  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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  6100. 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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  6101. I think the boy that cried wolf and past experiences dictate the potential per capita rate of conspiracy theorists. Modern technology means these theories can spread quicker than and mutate faster than COVI SARS2 . The wide scale surveillance as leaked by Edward Snowden as a recent example showed Americans that both political parties in the US can't be trusted, however many would prefer to trust the political parties and call Edward a traitor. This is a psychological defense mechanism. If a long held belief is destroyed you must deal with it in some way or deny the evidence. Others dealt with it by creating a new belief that only the other party would do this which logically is impossible. Trump also got some votes by saying he is not one of them, so anyone who didn't trust both parties favoured Trump versus Clinton.
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  6102. Trump is confusing a trade deficit with a government deficit. Even if the US had a trade surplus like Australia has had in recent years it would still have a government deficit like Australia has. They are almost completely unrelated.
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  6103. You need data which means infected people and you compare the infection rates between the vaccinated group versus placebo group. Doing a phase 3 trial in Australia or New Zealand etc. would be pointless because nobody is going to get infected.
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  6104. Look how many death sentences were carried out by Trump, he did literally go on a killing spree.
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  6105. Have they died or we just counting cases now not the hospitalizations and deaths which is what matters. 1,700 cases in Queensland Australia today , about 20% of all our cases, while we have a few in hospital and the number will increase I can't see 0.29% of our population dying like Florida.
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  6106. I heard a cruel joke yesterday, the antivax nations should be given carbon credits for all the extra deaths resulting in lower carbon emissions. Anyway a proportion of them are actually stopping to breath on a daily basis in reference to your original point.
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  6107. Have to wait for winter considering majority of Brazil is south of Equator. Hopefully is fine and have time to increase vaccination rates.
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  6108. But your parents would've hated it.
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  6109.  @johnwang9914  WHO message has been fine, why do you think it is the worst case numbers of a country in Western Pacific region of WHO is less than 10% of US or most of Western Europe, you even acknowledge this in a different comment. Unless it's a remarkable coincidence WHO operates at the regional level how can it be 20 countries all follow for example what appears to be the Western Pacific region policy , 14 days mandatory enforced (usually hotel) quarantine for entry from any country and another 20 countries in let's say PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region all follow open borders 10 days voluntary quarantine. The probability is near 0 that this is a coincidence. Blame your regional office which is run by your country with it's neighbours. don't blame the WHO unless you think it should be some dictatorship led from the top.
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  6110. All these open border people, they could all be replaced by Latin Americans who will do the job cheaper since they're so fond of open borders. A country in this case 2 countries have a right to decide entry requirements, it's that simple. Will Washington and Ottawa back down for this rabble , of course not.
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  6111. But our PM didn't unless you are accusing him of making that one up.
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  6112. You hope some Canadian truckers will lose their licenses and get $100,000 fines and or prison time. Well aren't you a lovely person. You are also suggesting violence so they can get more prison time.
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  6113. No they said that's the uniform for border area workers. Pretty sure they don't have covid 19, if most states in Australia are still covid 0 it's reasonable to say that North Korea can control/manage restrictions at least as well as us. In Queensland we don't even have a shoot to kill policy on the Queensland / New South Wales border and we're going ok but look at New South Wales covid 19 cases.
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  6114. Some people are excellent salesmen , Trump is certainly one of them. In his personal business career he can lose $1 Billion and just start another business by asking for money of investors and banks and they give it to him. This method tends to guarantee success in the long run because the number of failures don't matter. He may very well win the presidential election again, voters are not so different to investors. Even if he loses there will be 40% of the population who still love him.
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  6115. If you don't put travel restrictions it's meaningless, to this day the US has only had voluntary travel restrictions and no lockdown because can drive or fly out of state no problems so by definition not a lockdown, just a local business and poor people lockdown.
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  6116. That's an appeal to the treasury secretary who can just say no, not a legal appeal.
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  6117. They have helped, less deaths. They are not perfect we know that, but until or unless there is a better vaccine it's the best we got.
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  6118. Seems they can't find the middle ground very easily.
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  6119.  @leo.m.brooks2848  I agree some people are heartless, my parents died relatively young and I have no older relatives or friends in high risk groups and I can't understand those who basically say oh well they were old or fat or had heart problems they were going to die soon anyway even if the soon could be 10 or 20 years. In response to Anonymous other death rates are likely reducing including the flu and other transmissible diseases and people are taking hygiene more seriously so it is quite possible life expectancy is currently increasing in Australia at this point in time. There is no evidence at all the often touted suicides are rising anywhere outside of Victoria and in Victoria so far as I am aware calls to help lines have increased, which is anecdotal evidence that suicides might rise not that they are. The projections put out that suicides could go up 50% over the coming years seem very unlikely to me and not really evidence based just based on wild assumptions.
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  6120. The difference is nobody forces you to smoke but people getting infected and dying earlier didn't volunteer for that.
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  6121. It might be like the gold that the French tried to collect. It's ours until we ask for it.
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  6122. The crazy thing is you were quick to produce vaccines along with European partners but people in other countries taking them while about a third of your own population won't. While not predicting the future Australia opening up and getting massive case numbers in one state by our standards but there is relative calm because that state also passed 90% double dosed for adults.
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  6123. How about voting, this might be worth a try.
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  6124. For those who don't realise The Heritage Foundation was the biggest public policy think tank in favour of free trade and removal of subsidies. Since MAGA seems to have taken over that organisation they seem silent now.
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  6125. What are you talking about, the world was informed on December 31 of the viruses existence and it was known on January 15 that it was outside China in at least one case in Thailand, on January 21 a few countries had detected cases so the WHO informed that it hadn't been contained, on February 21 the WHO informed the world that time to contain the virus was running out , meanwhile Europe and US doing nothing of substance and we see the results.
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  6126.  @iangoldsworthy2056  They didn't know early on about transmission etc. and the plans of UK were clearly deficient , same as the US. Australia had more detected cases along with all the countries like Thailand, South Korea and Japan as of 20 February, the approximate crossover date when the US started detecting more cases than Australia. It wasn't we had more cases it would seem but we were detecting cases which is significant and in hindsight did demonstrate readiness. The scientists etc. come from countries like mine and yours mostly, that is overweight with scientists from Western Democracies, so are we going to start locking up our scientists? Like really.
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  6127. He didn't say white supremacists but he told his supporters to stand down and stand by. In the context of what else he said it's inflammatory .
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  6128. It's not but it isn't accurate as the professor claims, that's all.
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  6129. Adam don't say $200 billion when it's estimated to be around $120 billion with most of that in weapons. They have wired some money basically to help pay government workers wages in Ukraine, not exactly easy to collect taxes in wartime. Totally agree China is threatening particularly to Taiwan and Philippines.
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  6130. Maybe she wasn't treated well and possibly lied to , however this is definitely the wrong course of action, should just quit if that's the case.
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  6131. The answer to who the boss , it's Elon Musk. He's been annointed by Trump. Regardless who the security are whether they be government employees or private contractors they told to do a job and do or they will be fired, they are not breaking any law. This can actually occur in any country and Trump knows he can break as many civil laws as he wants if Republicans in the senate are ok with it and nothing will happen except court cases which take time. People often don't understand the difference between civil law and criminal law. All governments around the world breach civil law and politicians can't be held responsible except through the ballot box. It actually has to be this way because breaches in civil law are usually accidental. It's not the case with Trump but he still receives that universal protection.
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  6132. The question is how many are economic refugees? Not saying none are leaving because of fear but certainly a lot see an economic opportunity and if you noticed majority fleeing are fighting age men, not women and children. People risk there lives crossing the US border and that's for a far lower net gain.
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  6133. Unfortunately your country is the furthest behind or in front depending on perspective on this issue in the world. It's literally destroying large parts of your society. The BLM protests and counter protests where people were literally killing each other. There were what can mostly be described as copycat protests around the world and to give an example in my country Australia it was estimated that about 70,000 people attending a protest day around the country, to do with indigenous people and the protests were all based on individual issues in the state they were protesting in. The 2 incidents that occurred were someone put an Aboriginal flag sticker on a police station so technically vandalism (nothing was done , I guess they pulled it off after the protestors moved on) and 2 people were pepper sprayed in a train station on the way home , that's it that I ever heard of. Other than those 2 extremely minor incidents nothing it was all peaceful. No idea how you can move forward but having functional government would help with a consistent welfare safety net and universal healthcare, get everyone the basics and it doesn't have to cost more, the public universal healthcare system in Australia is cheaper than the government funded healthcare system the US has and we have about 5 years extra life expectancy now, China is only 2 years behind the US in life expectancy, they will overtake you soon. Enough of my rambling and hope I didn't offend you because you seem like a decent person.
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  6134. He has raised expectations as has Fauci that a vaccine will be available late this year or early next year. Maybe production might be occurring but if you can't vaccinate the vast majority at once and as has been suggested the vaccine might only be effective for 6 months it's more of the same possibly.
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  6135.  @user-vx3pf3kz9b  the deaths of Blacks versus Whites at the hands of police is approximately the same rate as white versus black homicide offender rates. Also NY and LA police are staffed by less than 50% white people. This in general has nothing to do with race in the US other than the fact black people offend more and therefore I would suggest get into these situations more often . I do think there is an issue of police stopping black people more often for random checks, annoying yes but this is not the reason for black people being more likely to die in a police confrontation.
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  6136. Tesla is trading on a PE of 50 or so which is a ridiculous valuation.
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  6137. I notice many "close it forever comments" just wondering are any of them serious or just in jest?
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  6138. Well I'm Australian and certain republicans of the DeSantis clan identify me as a communist. While not keen on that description at least his mob won't visit Australia even when the border opens up. My comment is as relevant as yours lol.
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  6139. I have no sympathy for anyone who bought a gambling product and lost.
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  6140. Making lies illegal is easier said than done especially as it's over the entire planet. Some sort of legal framework and regulations would help however. It's basically new unknown territory AKA the wild west. The international community has cooperated and cracked down on child exploitation with some success. Maybe the successes and failures of that should be looked into and copied.
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  6141. Wait for the trial or guilty plea and we will find out.
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  6142. I think it will depend somewhat on the countries starting position, it's a lot domestically politically easier if you are in a country like Australia to help countries around us at a minimum of the same rate, but it's politically impossible I would think if it's a country like UK or US where they are doing worse than many of the poorer countries around them.
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  6143. If you are talking about international then it won't be as you envisage until entire population is vaccinated, and still have to wait and see if any variant/s gets around the vaccines. High case countries that have kept their border open almost the entire time will reopen regardless of the risks and accept those green passports between each other and low case countries might accept them between each other. Time will tell and getting entire populations vaccinated will take until towards the end of the year in most cases.
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  6144. If you are right about sexual assault that's really bad, but the other stuff , to be honest they have just started it, haven't been doing it for about a year like Western Pacific countries, who have ironed out the problems. Canada and UK are still on their training wheels.
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  6145. One thing not mentioned is an after dark rally is the same or similar risk to indoors, no UV light and usually the air is still unless seaside. This is why you can hear noises for far longer distances at night.
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  6146.  @barryhamm3414  "The plague state" is a bit rough, when this is over we can all be friends again hopefully. I am from Brisbane so NSW is certainly a concern.
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  6147.  @iamisaid2295  You are talking about historical performance and Victoria changed its policy from the same as NSW to be similar to QLD. What happened in the past can't be changed. Until it's over can't say who has done the best however NSW is by far in the worst position right now. NSW and VIC have both surprised me previously , I hope NSW can surprise again.
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  6148.  @davidjohnpaul333  You must think that people from NSW are genetically superior to those in the US or UK for example, 15,000 for a population of 8.5 million is less deaths per million than those countries I mentioned. With the vaccination rate now that number is probably high but I was talking about if nothing was ever done.
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  6149. The problem appears to be in this case the remote healthcare didn't pick up this person's decline, hence why died at home and not in hospital. Just a guess but if he was in hospital and monitored he would have gone into intensive care and survived. New South Wales seems to be almost accepting that they won't get rid of the virus or not confident of achieving that goal from the current situation and plan to vaccinate their way out. The advice in Queensland errs on the side of caution for young people getting the Astrazeneca vaccine and I know the Chief Health Officer of Queensland basically doesn't think the young should get it and should wait for the Pfizer vaccine. Queensland has had 7 deaths for a population of 5 million so we haven't done too bad and I trust our Chief Health Officer.
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  6150. He definitely has a soul but it's a dark one.
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  6151. I think the risk is low enough for children however schools probably shouldn't be opened because of the risks of children spreading it. Data doesn't really exist on this because everywhere else doesn't take the risk. The US can provide data for the rest of the world if some states go ahead with the live experiment in a highly infected area.
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  6152. It's accomplished some harm to trade and maybe some harm to general society as in it's dividing people. Somewhat going down the US path.
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  6153. Trump indicated that he might have 3 presidential terms, Trump isn't gone until he's dead.
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  6154. You'll get shot by armed 7-11 guard I guess. Businesses will be arming themselves.
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  6155. What surprised me was how easy it was for them to travel out of Australia, on a previous report the guy went to a funeral, many Australians couldn't do that in Australia and the guy complaining about discrimination. They don't even seem to realise hotel quarantine costs the taxpayer loads of money, the traveller only pays for the hotel room, governments pay for security , health , extra stay at far higher costs for positive cases and $10s of millions I expect cost for a city if it gets locked down for a few days. To be fair not all people of Indian origin will be like this but those that are , are completely ungrateful for what they have received.
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  6156. I think the original Wuhan Variant has completely died out, even the Alpha variant is hard to find now because Delta dominates most countries.
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  6157.  @rawword  What are you talking about?
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  6158.  @rawword What are you talking about?
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  6159.  @rawword  Read my statement again, it's a statement of fact with no suggestion about what should trigger or even that Australia should make the trade war hot. China is being a bully and Australia has put 0 retaliatory tariffs in place. My statement is no different to saying the Chinese military is bigger than Australia and they have nuclear weapons and in a one on one battle China will beat Australia. Read that statement, does it sound like I am suggesting China should invade Australia? If the answer is no then read my original statement again and ask am I suggesting that Australia should initiate a hot trade war?
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  6160.  @rawword  yes Trump started a trade war, nothing to do with Australia actually, we had to do some very fast diplomatic talking so the US didn't hit us with tariffs at the time, China was not the only target with Trump , everyone was. Decoupling is just a slogan and China was talking about decoupling from Australia at least 15 years ago regarding iron ore. This certainly predates all the stuff you are talking about, Australia wasn't at all thinking about doing anything with China one way or another at the time. I am not saying Australia is perfect as I said we could be a little more subtle but other than that we are taking the right approach. You believe agressive actions by China are the right approach, well that's your opinion. Australia has it's ally the US back again, it's up to China if they want to ignore the one that they said they want to talk to. The US has said sort out trade issues with Australia then they will talk on trade issues. The ball is in China's court.
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  6161.  @petersinclair3997  We could form OIOEC (organization of iron ore exporting countries, has a nice familiar tone to it) just us and Brazil and South Africa and Canada can join if they want , that would be 80% of all exported iron ore if they all join.
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  6162. That's the problem they don't wear uniforms , they just dress normally so can disappear, which basically means hide your weapons. If they wore uniforms the US would have beaten them 19 years ago.
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  6163.  @omarshinwari7823  Nothing to do with Western occupation otherwise moment the US troops etc. withdraw then should be peaceful, this is clearly not the case.
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  6164.  @jozefvervloet766  Nowhere in Europe locked down, it just didn't happen. Voluntary quarantine and free travel is not a lockdown. You can argue that Sweden's lockdown lite model which allowed massive spread through nursing homes was the best because other lockdown lite models the same thing occured. Don't compare lockdown that isn't a lockdown and only designed to spread the virus a little slower with a lockdown and appropriate restrictions designed to contain the virus. China has stuffed up with vaccination of the elderly, look at the numbers etc. In the wealthy Western Pacific WHO region countries and you can see we didn't have massive deaths on opening up. QLD had 5 deaths for a population of 5 million half the population of Sweden and now we have had 887 deaths out of over 1 million recorded cases. So about 10% of the deaths of Sweden but you reckon Sweden was great, it wasn't but I I do acknowledge that for a lockdown lite model that causes 10 times the deaths it's as good as it gets.
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  6165.  @jozefvervloet766  one thing about Sweden it actually did very well with the vaccine rollout, I haven't seen the final numbers but they were much better than countries like Germany which had strong resistance. It's hard to compare countries and since Omicron case numbers are meaningless. The underlying health of Sweden versus UK for example is much higher going by the obesity rate which is only about 20% versus 30%. I acknowledge that in Europe Sweden was one of the better performers but I still believe the Western Pacific had better policies and also didn't destroy any economy. China being considered upper middle income did well until it came to vaccinating the elderly, I expect they will fix that now but it's going to take a few months to have a large number triple vaccinated.
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  6166. No not first state to have it, just first to detect it. The national number for genomic testing in the US is 0.3% of cases, my guess is some states never do it.
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  6167. That's annoying no matter which way the wind blows you have some risk, hope there is significant spacing between you and them.
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  6168.  @factspoken9062  China is far right on the traditional political spectrum, only remaining part of communism is the state owned corporations but the profitable ones seem to be ending up in the hands of high ranking CPC members. Having 100 billionaires in China's parliament can't have all come from them just being good at business. Modern day they aren't starving , 600,000,000 live on about $5 USD per day according to the CPC as of last year. They are happy with the CPC because now they aren't so worried about starving and they have started to offer schooling to all. A part of the Xinjiang reeducation thing is because adults had no Chinese literacy and couldn't speak Mandarin because they never went to school.
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  6169. There is always an element of luck in success or failure. If you are born in a rich country you already in the top 20% just by birthright. A person born in a subsistence farmer family can normally just hope for survival as a main goal.
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  6170. Borders open everywhere the entire time, Trump never shut a single border. So no funnily enough the US has never got to covid 0
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  6171. The sound track is chilling.
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  6172.  @susan638  You only have half the ICU beds per Capita compared to the US and I am certain elective procedures are being delayed. Your deaths have been about 1 third that of USA so far on a per Capita basis. Which is better 60,000 protestors or body bags? That's not a trick question. Certainly can argue at the edges but getting the vaccination rate high is critical. Canada is fairly highly vaccinated already , and your government I suspect will just keep pushing it as long as they can, unvaccinated are expensive to manage. Best of luck and I hope things normalize for you soon which I expect they will.
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  6173. Being a cameraman he certainly would be and the thought it could have been me would have gone through his mind more than a few times.
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  6174. Ok young lady if that's your picture, why was Queensland Australia chosen as the only jurisdiction outside of China with a population of 1 million plus? To explain further we currently have 1.4 deaths per million from covid 19, that compares to for example the US average per jurisdiction of 2,400 deaths per million. Are Queenslander like me the chosen ones or something?
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  6175. It's only a matter of time when eggs are discovered being smuggled from Mexico. I saw a clip of someone in a Mexican supermarket where eggs were retailing for less than $2 USD per dozen. A semi full of smuggled eggs being wholesaled at $6 per dozen would be worth it for criminals.
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  6176. Not exactly, the plan was split Ukraine into 2 with Russia keeping some and the US getting the rest as a colony that hands over money to the US indefinitely keeping them impoverished.
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  6177. You are way off, Europe doesn't hold any Rubles so the price setting of how many rubles to the Euro or USD will be done by Russia. They can for arguments sake just say 5 Euros will but you only 1 ruble. They are not likely to go that extreme but they certainly won't be selling Rubles at a free market rate.
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  6178. After people come back out the battle of the variants can resume. The good money is on the UK variant for speed and South Africa variant for vaccine avoidance. Interesting the US is like China can't have the virus variant named after location of discovery, have to have beautiful bird names.
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  6179. Argonaut your statement is harsh but true. I am Australian and I have been looking at many key indicators of a successful society in countries of similar per capita wealth and government systems (FIVE EYES countries) we all trust each other . On every single metric the US underperforms other than number of billionaires. Road deaths, life expectancy, homicide rate, literacy rate, HIV infection rate and yet other than Canada at about 5% extra government spending we are all at about the same level of socialism. The answer to your question is the government system and constitution. A 200 plus year old constitution considered like the Model T Ford in its time is now going up against Lamborghini Westminster governments. Some African countries are now out performing the US head to head in areas like the homicide rate. One American commentator stated that some city might end up like Somalia regarding homicide rates, problem is latest data puts US homicide rate overall at a larger number and if you look at some cities about 4 or 5 times the rate of Somalia as a country. So randomly drop me in Somalia or I must stay in inner city Chicago I know which I would prefer as far as my safety is concerned.
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  6180.  @Taylor-sj2mm  The GDP per Capita of South Africa is about $6,000 as of 2019, so they aren't very low income and they do have an illegal immigrant problem, this doesn't mean they live like people in high income countries they don't but not starving either. South Africa is a country and there are much poorer countries in Africa where hunger might be a major problem.
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  6181. Same goes for US they are calling them bird names in their propaganda campaign. Search Covid 19 Pelican variant and you will see.
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  6182. You have to remember Trump is talking to his cult and they will believe him no matter what. Trump is not talking to regular people who know he's lying and Trump knows that most people don't believe him and he doesn't care.
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  6183.  @Dmdirmrjr33  Read the original comment, your comment is completely irrelevant. The original comment says how to stay safe. Just like running red lights is against the law you still wear a seatbelt right in case someone doesn't follow the law for whatever reason , including I might add a fleeing criminal.
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  6184. Lots of clowns in the comments wishing for their own country to suffer. I notice the Aussies are quiet at the moment, maybe our stupid Trump followers have realised Trump literally wants to hurt us too. America first means hurt other countries even without any reason, except for Israel of course which Trump likes to give money.
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  6185. @_wokeweaklingscryoverwords_  enlighten me with your wisdom. Tell me what I don't have a clue about.
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  6186. Trump was the only president ever that I am aware of that literally did chanting at his rallies, mostly lock her up for Hilary and I think even got a "lock him up" chant going one time for Obama. What goes around comes around, however Trump might actually be guilty of a crime.
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  6187. Did you listen to the commentary? Texas is fighting a local government to keep everything open and sees it more like a logistical challenge having people caring for the dying and sending medical staff. That state might as well be run by Trump.
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  6188. I think history books in the US will refer to it as the Trump recession or depression depending how bad. Internationally we will probably call it the Trump world wide trade war.
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  6189. Adam if your report regarding understaffing for air traffic controllers is correct and Trump wants even less of them it's insanity because with all the overtime payment it will cost more or alternatively understaffing will create safety issues. Even lots of overtime creates safety issues by itself.
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  6190. The compassionate flights were going to happen anyway, we have done it previously from India and now situation worse.
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  6191. The US is currently a member of the Axis of Evil, get over it or change it.
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  6192. Pat Cummins donated $50,000 Australian dollar equivalent I expect (Australian media said $50,000 so I think should be Australian dollars) so it's not true nobody from IPL donate. The game should be played without crowds, not sure if that's happening but that's a problem if it isn't and there are crowds. The game is using no resources that can help in the pandemic, probably contributes a relatively small amount of resources as in money.
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  6193. Because we can't go deep into the South China Sea or further undetected, stopping off at various locations for refueling wouldn't be very covert.
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  6194. Which non lockdown country are you thinking of? I am curious because all non lockdown countries haven't done well I think.
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  6195. When your citizens become smarter than a 5th grader it might occur, might have to wait a while.
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  6196.  @thegreenbikerider6189  That's good and bad news, the quicker the better that Omicron takes over (news reports suggest Omicron is now majority in Victoria), but pity it's medical staff getting infected. The tide might well turn soon, I am in QLD and we have no natural immunity and a lower vaccination rate. Everything is often so subtle, the density of Brisbane vs Melbourne and the weather I believe has played a significant role and same can be seen in Auckland, we all acted identically with Delta but only QLD got rid of it (obviously not anymore with our border open). You've done it tough down there, I hope and wish you, your family and your state the best.
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  6197. I would think probably not because the virus would die more quickly than your immunity goes.
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  6198.  @fatbelly27  Are you sure you weren't watching an old episode of Yes Minister or Yes Prime Minister. LOL
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  6199. It's interesting that when a black policeman kills an unarmed white lady it takes 8 months for an arrest but when a white policeman kills an unarmed black person in exactly the same jurisdiction and the arrest takes 4 days everyone is complaining how slow it was. Seems a bit inconsistent to me.
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  6200. That's trade stuff and economic bullying, those military bases in the South China Sea that weren't going to be built are more concerning. In the end China is cutting off it's nose to spite it's face because they will have to pay more for goods and ASEAN and South Asian countries will play a bigger role in manufacturing because they are more easily trusted.
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  6201. NZ is just the same as the big 3 Australian states. I think she would have done a ten times better job than Cuomo of New York state.
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  6202. Thanks for your input into the conversation. It's hard to find open discussion that doesn't have much bias. You have hit the nail on the head, it's corruption that's the main problem. The amount of money mentioned $400,000,000 AUD approximately $250,000,000 USD is sizable for a response. I do hope an appropriate amount reaches the poor for basics like food. It should be said the timely manner in distribution is important but to also acknowledge US and Australia haven't succeeded in this area to a high degree but we have the buffer of people not being in absolute poverty. I hope your family and neighbours continue to do the best you can to help those less fortunate and if possible literally be the ones handing out food packages or whatever it is you can offer. This will mean as much if not more than just cash. I wish you and your family and India as a whole the best of luck.
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  6203. Not true, it's only Republicans are more vocal about for example subsidies for pharmaceuticals. No other country on the planet deliberately pays above market rates for medicines.
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  6204. So which country isn't?
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  6205. What is a right winger? I am curious about your answer because I am Australian and we seem to different definitions.
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  6206. If the story is about covid 19 plenty of experts with youtube doctorates indicating cures. With this comment thread it appears youtube learning has gone into engineering with the number of salvage experts who know exactly what to do after seeing just one photo.
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  6207. If you believe the propaganda from either your Democrats or Republicans ok I agree with you and you should be ashamed. If you don't then hold your head high.
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  6208.  @Cosmo__Kramer  You pose an interesting question, is it better to have a high cost government funded non universal healthcare system or a highly functional lower cost universal healthcare system where tax payers pay less? The US is the former.
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  6209.  @Cosmo__Kramer  The healthcare market can't really be open to competition for certain drugs still on patent and emergency care and also unfortunately in your country doctors can get kickbacks for selling drugs. For non urgent matters as in elective surgery competition can help. I am in Australia and our healthcare is of a high standard but like everywhere you need to wait for elective surgery unless you pay for it or have insurance pay for it. Also you need to consider public health like the response to covid 19, in which case the US completely failed. If Biden gets to offer the public option this should help if they call the shots on how much they pay for services, insurance companies don't care how much hospitals charge and just price policies accordingly. I think the concept of " private healthcare" is too ingrained in your country to move more than baby steps even though you actually pay higher tax for it than other well run universal healthcare systems.
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  6210. Why not just give him 538, that's what a proper dictatorship would do.
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  6211. No law against what Clarence Thomas did.
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  6212. Homicide rates are higher in Texas and Florida. But only so much can be done with open borders. Texas purchased guns kill people everywhere, including Mexico.
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  6213.  @eandsm4620  see the top 2 responses to the original comment, people confused about their friends/associates behaviour, I responded to that saying most of us can be brainwashed given the right environment, it doesn't mean someone was always like that.
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  6214. While it might not be as much it's not only Canadians boycotting, the Europeans Australians and New Zealanders are too. Canada does an enormous amount of trade with the US so it will be more obvious.
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  6215.  @pawelnotts  your study is based on data 4 March to 17 May 2020. Completely irrelevant regarding Delta variant or even all those other named variants which were all more transmissible.
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  6216. They don't, look at the death toll.
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  6217. I think you're the most obese large nation in the world , so a little less food wouldn't be a bad thing.
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  6218. Dr John , you don't understand the Australian situation, the slow rollout goes back to decisions made over a year ago and that was that the AZ vaccine was going to be the main vaccine but as we know Pfizer has been favoured for younger age groups so taking time. The remark about seeing what happens in the UK is literal, we are watching you like a hawk because same vaccines and similar culture, not a joke at all, our cautious approach is dead serious. This same cautious approach can be observed in other Western Pacific countries. In hindsight it could be argued that the Delta variant was predictable however nobody predicted it. Another issue is it's not the starting point that matters it's the end point, New South Wales is far more vaccinated with at least one dose than many US states and in the 70 + age group I believe we as a country are actually ahead of the US. It's a pity about New South Wales and Victoria but they will get there relatively soon and hopefully other states remain at covid 0 for a while longer until high vaccination rates.
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  6219. Voting machines are quick. Maybe everywhere should use voting machines, I understand that is what you want along with early voting and mail in ballots.
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  6220. @Sophia With your last comment it's not that simple. Have to remember we have plenty of Murdoch media in Australia but we are nothing like the US other than being free federal democracies that speak English.
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  6221.  @youngyingyang  it's not about the money, the US spends more per Capita than Australia on publically funded healthcare yet has a 6 or so years lower life expectancy, China as a middle income country has just overtaken the US it would seem on this key measure.
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  6222. Content moderation will never be perfect. But blatant stuff is a different story. Interestingly MSNBC and Fox are now telling the same story. I would love if Fox and MSNBC become real news and reasonable opinion organisations again , no more extreme BS.
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  6223. Yes they would, for a start Pence would be acting President so a bit hard to hide that one.
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  6224. Actually the first detected case was from Botswana. Don't know if the lab was in Botswana which is a small country.
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  6225. The proven method is movement restrictions and comprehensive lockdown if required, test trace and contain. It is actually quite simple in a wealthy country, the difficulty is if the public service or politicians have an alternative plan and refuse to change course quickly when failures occur. Note the plan has been up to this point in time in the UK, basic mitigation only.
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  6226. You just said non alliance ( which isn't true depends on country) so they should create an alliance. First of all that's contradictory and what would they stand for , how does a large reasonably vibrant Indonesian democracy and say Communist Vietnam have common values?
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  6227.  @senoalamsyah7481  what do you mean?
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  6228.  @senoalamsyah7481  Well it must be news to you then that Singapore is one of only 3 countries that can train troops in Australia and actually has what can be described as a joint military base for training. If that isn't an alliance nothing will meet your bar. In the case of other countries alliances don't have to be way out in the open, just an understanding if this scenario occurs then we will do this action together, most of the time this is how it would be and not publicised. Foreign affairs and militaries would be talking to each other all the time, Australia has a policy of offering education to many foreign military personnel, this is a soft diplomacy effort to maintain contact and good relationships which could help if there is some problem. I am not sure current situation whether it's changed or not but Australia was criticized for not cutting off these types of initiatives with the Myanmar military earlier this year.
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  6229.  @senoalamsyah7481  never heard that term before but it applies to all alliances, Australia isn't in absolute agreement with the US all the time but any major conflict they go into Australia joins , the only country in the world to do so for last 100 years or so, this is so they are more likely to protect us should there be a problem. Singapore it's the same thing , should Indonesia do anything to either one of us we will act together. Every alliance in the world is built on what you describe as Realism in International Relations. We have no serious issues with Indonesia and it's just a natural precaution that both Australia and Singapore see benefits and is possibly based to some extent on historical events, while unsuccessful it was Australian troops trying to defend Singapore from the Japanese in WWII.
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  6230.  @senoalamsyah7481  I agree with your last comment that it's not formal and either party could pull out quickly from what has been agreed behind closed doors. Australia does have a formal agreement with US and New Zealand which says if any one of our 3 nations are invaded then the other 2 shall send assistance but even that isn't actually enforceable, it's just if a country broke the agreement at such a time nobody would trust that country anymore. Australia has no obligation to send troops to any other conflict the US is involved in we just do it for the reason I mentioned above. It's true NATO is a highly active and extremely powerful alliance, I don't know the details but I believe what you say about it being comprehensive.
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  6231.  @senoalamsyah7481  that's unfortunate , try to ignore such people. The internet has been excellent for world communication for just normal people but unfortunately it has given an outlet to nasty people and they come from all countries. As long as someone isn't offending me personally I have no reason to be angry, of course everyone has different opinions and sometimes strong disagreement. If someone attacks Australia unjustly I sometimes attack them or their country , so I am not perfect. I am guessing you are in ASEAN somewhere and I am very positive in this region Oceania plus ASEAN area, progress might be slow especially for those in the situation but if you were to look at Taiwan or South Korea 40 years ago they look like Myanmar looks today, things can change and my opinion is in ASEAN in an overall sense most countries will become wealthier with improved human rights but it can be slow. Although I don't know which country you are from I wish you and your country the best.
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  6232.  @ChhormBorith  So from what you just said it seems you are an American citizen who migrated from an ASEAN country, ASEAN has 2 communist countries they aren't going to change any time soon I would suggest. The concept of some united ASEAN is silly and who would ally with. Even a militarized ASEAN still needs to align with someone. Best how it is now, loose bilateral arrangements for the most part, nobody is anyone's puppet, sounds like you listening to Communist Party of China rhetoric, they call Australia and Japan both dogs and puppets of the US. China's target when speaking against Australia which is quite frequent is actually ASEAN I think. China likes obedience and pushes it's weight around like the US does in other regions, here the US listens to Australia, Japan and South Korea quite a lot which is good because we are all less interventionist than the US. Diplomacy is the only way and countries within ASEAN wish to keep a high level of independence which will never come from a gun but good diplomacy, even if all of ASEAN united in some military force it would still be less powerful than US or China or India . ASEAN and Oceania certainly don't want nuclear weapons and if any country went down that path I think everyone in the region would unite and object.
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  6233. Had to give that a thumbs up, the funniest comment yet.
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  6234. I wouldn't think so.
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  6235.  @inezm8444  Mandates for certain workers and travel are in most countries I think but saying every citizen above the age of 18 or whatever they have decided is only Austria and Turkmenistan so you advise me.
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  6236. Have you seen news clips at US airports, doesn't look like an emergency.
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  6237. It's more difficult to contain in Indonesia because of socio economic reasons. There's no conspiracy.
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  6238. You are correct, there was 2 terrible candidates and the worst one won.
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  6239. Last color map I saw on one of the US news YouTube channel showed the northern states just starting to increase slowly and southern states the cases reducing. Because the US big and different climate zones it's basically always a problem in one state or another but this time might be a little different because the vaccination rates vary widely by state.
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  6240. It would cost money but it's doable, have to pay to comment and no comment posted until checked. Can do the same for video, no live stream. Or someone fully verified can comment so can be held to account directly. When it crosses country borders however that's really difficult.
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  6241. Wouldn't have worked because the bottle itself was spiked.
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  6242. I thought it was funny him saying Biden beat Obama, hang on a minute weren't you the other guy in the race. Somehow I don't think Obama will get jealous about that, he's probably enjoying the clobbering Trump got in the popular vote.
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  6243.  @mrparlanejxtra  I haven't followed that, which airport, if you say Sydney it doesn't surprise me they have had more of those types of breeches than the rest of Australia put together.
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  6244. Weak leaders afraid to tell people what needs doing. In Australia and New Zealand our leaders told the truth and did the best they could as with other West Pacific countries. We have better international contact tracing than the US has in most states that don't even bother. The US has also set up an accelerated virus spreading plan and that's literally what it is, one state puts in restrictions people depending on distance and means in many cases can just drive there infected bodies across the state border to go partying. We actually have enforced hotel quarantine not this voluntary stuff in the US which is particularly important at the national border. Once an area in Australia has an outbreak the people in that area can't travel interstate without hotel quarantine. The US has about 400,000 people in prison for violating health orders, that is drugs yet won't restrict infected people who in the end kill others because it's against freedom. For a country with the most non violent offenders in the world in prison on a per capita basis I think, it would seem priorities are a bit messed up. Most European countries are similar to the US. Until a single US state government shuts the state border to non essential travel and puts in enforced quarantine and other measures I won't believe anything will change until vaccine very widely available. In and out of lockdown to come.
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  6245.  @jeanmcginnis9804  I metaphorically come from sheep country , Queensland Australia, covid 19 free at least for the moment and the Mexicans (nickname for people from New South Wales and Victoria because they always migrating north) still crossing the border despite having to pay $2,800 AUD and go into horrible hotel quarantine for 14 days. Seems sheep country with minimal restrictions most of the time and occasional hard lockdown is popular.
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  6246. Meme coins and for that matter bitcoin should be regulated like gambling because that's what it is even down to using it for money laundering.
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  6247. I hope your situation improves some how.
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  6248. This is North Korean stuff going on.
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  6249. If a state governor or legislature declares martial law many things can then become lawful orders. Maybe some red states might do that. It's not really clear that the president can or can't declare martial law as it hasn't really been tested in court.
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  6250. Government should be run like a business not as seems to be the case in the US more than in other wealthy nations , government run on behalf of business interests which is the complete opposite of running it like a business. A business hates to be overcharged by other businesses, some governments don't care if they are constantly overcharged for services.
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  6251. Hello scammer
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  6252. Not so, most states are happy with a virus free status and hope it stays that way and appreciate the work the police have done in helping to maintain this situation. Let's see first what sentence they get but also the reaction on mon 28 Sep when those girls who snuck into Queensland by lying see a court room. Maximum penalty is 5 years and I saw many comments saying they deserve the maximum.
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  6253. We know given his age he has a 5 % chance of death give or take, he is the person who is old and has comorbidities who paraphrasing his own words is a nobody who doesn't matter. Another issue is he would be less likely to recover in 2 weeks which is based on a person who is young and healthy, although we don't know average recovery times based on age group because it's never really been reported we do know some hospital patient have taken 90 days or so to shake the virus. There is a reasonable chance should Donald Trump survive he might not actually be the active President on election day because if he was to be in intensive care he can't do his duties and Pence would be acting president.
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  6254. Can't say for certain yet but driver's name is Sabry Nassar . So Arabic which neither makes it or excludes it from being a terror type act. To me actually the intent is not all that important. Person drove dangerously causing injury and should be punished accordingly.
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  6255. Once I heard the Sweden has protected the vulnerable and they have freedoms we don't have time to stop watching this video, there are not 2500 dead Queenslanders which would be a lower number per capita than Sweden and with an industry plan 25,000 people can attend a sporting event unlike the Swedish number of 50 and to top it off Sweden has remote learning for senior high school students, measures in bars and restaurants are identical to Sweden other than leaving details which anyone can put false information if they really don't care about the safety of others. Give me Queensland's lower than Sweden restrictions any day with 6 deaths mostly if not all from imported cases from interstate and overseas.
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  6256. Florida seems to have an excellent hospital system for it's population, those case numbers being hospitalized would collapse the Australian healthcare system and our population 25 million versus 20 million for Florida. I am thinking it's so good in Florida to cater for all those wealthy retirees that live there. It seems as long as hospitals don't overflow DeSantis supporters don't see the problem.
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  6257. Because you only lockdown the peasants, high flyers should remain high flyers right?
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  6258. Forget about the DOGE cuts. Private employers are sacking people bracing for tariffs and retaliation. Retaliation it would appear is already happening with Canada saying they don't back down unless basically USMCA is honoured.
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  6259. With a theoretical chance of death around 4 to 5% you are probably correct.
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  6260. Garbage he was protesting a year ago against continuous conflicts.
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  6261. If the market was down due robust and effective enforced of competition policy stopping price gouging in the US that would actually be a good thing. That isn't what is happening though.
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  6262. There are plenty it's just the are called mental health facilities now. Yes can be held involuntarily as has always been the case.
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  6263.  @andrewlilley3660  it's not the number of patients , it's because the procedures required to keep covid 19 out of hospitals are expensive and reduce the amount of patients that can be seen. In my state Queensland if a single medical staff member tests positive then the entire hospital staff will be replaced for 2 weeks. It happened recently when a nurse caught it off a covid 19 patient and from memory around 200 staff. My state is basically covid free with a few remnant cases from an outbreak and whatever imported cases coming in. We built a field hospital too lol.
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  6264.  @andrewlilley3660  State you mean, 6 deaths out of 5,000,000 people and restrictions less than Sweden other than travel. I am happy with that. I wouldn't be so happy if in constant significant restrictions and thousands dead to go with it.
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  6265. Then apply the same standard to 1918 where the majority actually died from bacterial infection and most likely certain underlying causes which couldn't even be diagnosed back then.
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  6266. It was said these test results come from swabs earlier in the month and the carriers it came from are probably not infectious anymore. So it's probably everywhere.
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  6267. Missed one, and the outbreak was most likely from the mutated strain which might well have originated in Wuhan. So the origin depending how you define it might be Wuhan.
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  6268. Yes they were prior to the conflict and so what?
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  6269. It's also taught them most likely the US isn't making such weapons because no doubt they would have wiped themselves out by accident.
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  6270. I disagree with you on one thing, you teach a 10 year old child the basics of history they will have only the emotion of thinking that was wrong. They can't relate to it in any other way than that unless their parents have taught them to be racist already and not allowed them to have friends of a different race. 10 year old children just want to eat and play. Teenagers the same will apply but outside forces like the media and or community if it's a bit racist can cause problems.
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  6271. My guess they wait until the impeachment is over because to start the process now would be pointless and the judge would agree to a delay anyway.
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  6272. I am a foreigner and I agree with you. The polls by reputable outfits like Gallup I think can be considered as unbiased. All polls have error so it could be even worse no way to know.
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  6273.  @IMGreg..  I am not so sure your last paragraph is correct, the previous Japanese PM resigned unexpectedly for health reasons and in my country Australia with 1 fifty-eth of the per Capita death toll the current government has actually polled lower on a 2 party preferred basis recently (the 2 party preferred is to do with our different election system where preferences are considered) However the PMs personal rating is far higher than the opposition leader so the polls not consistent. The Western Pacific WHO region might as well be another planet compared to the PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region.
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  6274. So you think 100% of the Communist Party of China's 100 billionaires in parliament is all "clean" money? Think of that political party's name as a starting point.
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  6275.  @koosvandeventer6606  Communist Party of China isn't communist. My point is the problem is humans, not any particular system. The most believed people in the world are dishonest people actually, conmen. While I don't know Zuma's story I do think it's highly probable his supporters believe him and for sure he says he is innocent.
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  6276. You should consider a wall, maybe US citizens won't be able to escape to Mexico soon , so guess where they would go if things get a bit tougher .
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  6277. I think QLD we just encourage it, not an unenforceable mandate. The main reason they want it reported is so they can get health staff to call them and see if they need any attention. Everywhere has had people dying at home with covid 19 and doing this process should reduce it.
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  6278. All these talks about launching nukes, just need a satellite phone and a shipping container, can deliver a nuke anywhere in the world and detonate it at the destination if you are an aggressor. Distance means nothing. Before you say oh but it would get detected, yeah not a single 200kg item or drugs has ever been smuggled across a border.
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  6279. If one was to just see this clip you would think QLD had done so bad and other states so good, had 18 months to get it right, ok fair enough why is NSW the good guys in lockdown if they are so excellent? Also just taking one sentence and making it like it's the end of the world, actions speak louder than words and 7 deaths for a population of 5 million so far is pretty good , yes opening the border now would kill a lot of people and we would probably lockdown just like NSW.
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  6280. I think they are right, however even if Trump isn't going to be vindictive he's still going to follow through with certain policies like tariffs that will hurt many industries. In some cases they seem to be lobbying Trump so their personal business is less affected.
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  6281. Ok 36% of American adults are obese, so more than every third person you see has an underlying condition with only one single measure. Are you suggesting those fat people should be left to die?
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  6282. It seems we now have a new "Dear Leader " of a country.
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  6283.  @thankmelater1254  Did they kill her or something, haven't heard this story yet? If it's in Victoria then so what some girl wants to protest , now you be Premier for 10 seconds, we just ignore everything and give up and 2,500 dead minimum and border shut until vaccine because some special person wants their 1 minute of fame or do we become like the other states in Australia who have put people in jail noting we are just requiring a mask to be worn. Note Dan Andrews tried the first method already of being really nice and asking people and no real penalties a few months ago. If the so called victim you describe is permanently injured or dead ok fair enough that's going too far, that would be American style policing which I hope never reaches our shore.
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  6284.  @7YBzzz4nbyte  thanks for that info, couldn't read much in the link but get basic idea. A big problem around the world people are spreading information which is inaccurate or misleading. Another thing that's happening is a sort of standard is being developed with parameters. So social distancing varies from 1.5 metres to 2 metres and 5 feet to 6 feet. Private gatherings from 6 up to 50 depending on cases around. Indoor spaces seem to be standard at 1 person per 4 square metres, don't know about US. For restaurants seems to be keep people in groups. For large events they want spacing or segregation of crowds and contact details for all run by professional starting with 50 person crowds up to about 30,000 or so in a probably virus free jurisdiction. In a way it's looking like different road rules of different countries.
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  6285.  @thankmelater1254  Really?,she said , I am sorry sir/madam I will put it on properly and they tackled her, sounds unlikely to me. I guess I will see this near death experience on youtube at some stage.
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  6286.  @thankmelater1254  well the couple of so called police state incidents I have seen so far were exactly what I described , one princess who posted on Facebook I think how to run a checkpoint and another refusing to give her name or drivers licence with and insulting the officer to get a reaction, so 2 out of 2 they deserved what they got, lucky they in free state Victoria, in Queensland or WA we probably lock them up for a bit.
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  6287.  @thankmelater1254  Thanks for the info and I say good on the Victorian police. If it was videoed by her or a friend the lady also got what she required. So everyone happy.
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  6288.  @thankmelater1254  now I just watched the Video you linked and it clearly shows an assault of a police officer. I hope she doesn't get charged for that but legally she could be because it's actually very clear in the video. I didn't hear any gurgling sounds when she claimed she was being strangled. Although a bit of a distance maybe the arrest could have been made in a better way. Once you physically assault someone however ( the lady not the police who doing hard job) you can no longer claim the high ground.
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  6289.  @thankmelater1254  where are you from? I would love to know, because you haven't indicated anything as far as I am aware. Are you in the free state of Victoria or one of the police states of Australia or the virus rampant non police states of the US or UK? In Minneapolis 44 people were made unconscious in a 5 year period by police and that is a non police state so not sure how your ideas work.
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  6290.  @thankmelater1254  I am from Queensland a state where police are a little less trigger happy however they mean business along with the government supporting them and if your offence is considered serious you will go to prison. Where are you from?
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  6291.  @thankmelater1254  Charged for what? Annoying an arrestee? Are you kidding. Pretty sure noting we don't know what was said before the video clip but the sargent or whatever would have said look I know she abused you verbally but you have to be more calm and maybe have a week off this is stressing you too much. Like I said it's nothing. I note you still won't say where you are from. Why are you afraid to tell me.
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  6292.  @thankmelater1254  you are rather evasive , where are you from? I am curious what sort of a state or country you are from and probably will comment. Because at the moment you are not willing to actually state your position on whether or not containment and freedom for the 99% is good or just the antimaskers should have freedoms and others have constant lockdown to pander to them or just let it rip and thousands die. Where are you from and what is your position?
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  6293. The most recent issues in New South Wales Australia just as many are protesting/complaining the lockdown was too slow and not comprehensive enough. Strangely enough such people aren't creating massive spreading events in public. Yes 10,000 or 20,000 people out of a city of 5 million did protest against the lockdown, they don't have majority support but of course highly visible.
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  6294. In Australia we have a system where until a graduate earns over a certain amount they don't have to pay any money towards the student loan scheme run by the government which is set at a low interest rate. I think our system works quite well however it's not fair that if that person after obtaining government funded education goes overseas and stays there never paying a cent, maybe it's not common so not cost a lot but morally wrong.
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  6295. Well please don't assume it's a "hate crime" . The offenders name is Sabry Nassar and surname is Arabic. We will find out eventually if it was or not.
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  6296. How about the vision of the massive super spreading event. Crowd thousands of people into transport terminals with virtually no social distancing. No the vaccines won't stop spread in such circumstances.
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  6297. Actually Russia is the main arms dealer to Myanmar not China who is second.
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  6298.  @OceanFrontVilla3  you are speaking semantics with regards to who pays, I did state that the tax is 75c per vaccine. I didn't state that 1 in 1,000,000 was the rate that's just an example , however if deaths are 500 per annum in the US and there are more than 100,000,000 flu vaccinations per year alone , it can be safely said the number of deaths is way below one per 200,000 because other vaccinations do occur. Interesting about people being rejected as you say and they don't go to fight in court which indicates they don't have a strong case or a no win no fee lawyer would take it on and go against the company itself. I am surprised that you say people are not aware because I would expect if an issue arose the doctor would provide information on the matter as a standard practice.
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  6299.  @OceanFrontVilla3  what you refer to as indemnity isn't. If a drug or a vaccine is not exactly what it is supposed to be, eg contaminated or the wrong dose or the trial to gain FDA approval was fraudulent and it harms you you can certainly sue in all those cases. If the drug or vaccine is to the specified standard, in the case of a drug you get nothing but in the case of a vaccine due to the scheme you would get out of pocket expenses at a minimum and I suspect a little more. This is normal for any product including food. If you are allergic to peanuts or groundnuts and you didn't know and you eat a peanut and it kills you the farmer or supplier of the peanut can't be sued. If however you buy manufactured food labelled as not having peanuts however it's contaminated with peanuts you can sue just like a contaminated drug or vaccine. What you refer to indemnity is a limit on what you can sue for, not indemnity.
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  6300. Trudeau isn't an all powerful king or something, he's just a PM in a federation. He can't lift any provincial mandates and he can't tell the US what restrictions or requirements for entry into the US. The fringe as you call them seem to want a dictator that's all powerful.
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  6301. I wonder who's behind it.
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  6302.  @cjfernandez9089  governments won't make it mandatory but the chance you can travel internationally will be quite low and if the government is the employer probably same story depends on the job.
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  6303. You can't be on the jury because you just made a statement. I do hope fair minded people are on the jury.
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  6304. BLM , only matter in wealthy majority European countries. Never seen them say a word about other countries.
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  6305. @redherring9497  well aptly named Red herring I don't have permission to move to internationally recognised Palestine because I need an Israeli visa which if I tell the truth as in I support BDS will never be granted.
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  6306. Trump is getting on a bit, should he be elected there's not an unreasonable chance of him dying in office. So this time it sort of does matter.
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  6307. On your reasoning Gandhi must have been a violent protester.
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  6308. Well we have no knowledge of that and waiting or substandard restrictions which is what US and EU doing will achieve nothing. On the other hand quarantine at the border can at least cause a significant delay, noting many covid 0 places went to no longer covid 0 after Delta because it was so much more transmissible.
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  6309.  @allahlovesyou7241  unfortunately it's a fairly long list, there's lots of smaller countries the same but they don't make the international news.
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  6310. Actually you do if you want to get a government job or a job with a government contractor in many states.
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  6311. They're just trying to keep roads open and eventually get the protestors out Ottawa. Not a single rubber bullet fired or a single canister of irritant sent into protestors, no riot shields or batons. Exactly what is it you are seeing that I'm not seeing, if this was the US in almost everywhere all those points I made would be null and void. This slow methodical soft touch approach (soft touch as in no violence but hefty fines if required) has worked.
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  6312.  Baron Bar  I looked up your link and eventually found the information and it says the Palestinian Authority shall vaccinate to acceptable international standards. There is 2 points here , there is no international standard and because Palestine isn't recognized as a country they can't access Covax. Unless you are some sort of international law guru it's completely unclear what happens under this circumstance, Israel has said that they will help the non citizens after all vaccinations are done with their own citizens. Just because Israel claims something doesn't make it correct and the language as I pointed out in the Oslo accords does not cover the current circumstances. As a good will gesture however since they are a welfare state of the US having received $200,000,000,000 over the years one would think that they could be a little kinder to the people under their control nationally.
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  6313. Because he's an extreme leftie. He is however right on issues like this and truth is due to people's prejudice especially by some fundamentalist christians in the US who support Israel no matter what only a Jewish person can speak that view.
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  6314. No they did take early action it's only 2 months this problem due to variants. What they didn't do is prepare for the worst, so now they are unprepared.
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  6315. Trump based on his rallies is the number one socialist in the US. He always talked about farm, pharma, medical handouts.
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  6316. Sounds like the kettle is blacker than the pot. Murdoch media seems far more obsessed with the ABC than visa versa.
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  6317.  Christopher Sim  where do you live?
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  6318. Tariffs on one product pretty much , steel each shape and size is a different case, a little bit of protectionism, just like China with coal. The other stuff which has nothing to do with protectionism by China is trade sanctions, that's what trade sanctions are. Huawei of course would you use a possibly unfriendly supplier for all government secrets, China isn't going to use a US company for it's 5g network this is just extremely basic common sense, and agreeing not to spy is absolutely meaningless.
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  6319. If he keeps his head above water financially and not convicted of any serious crime there is a distinct possibility he could make a comeback. Biden has a problem with a country in decline in many ways so in 4 years he might not be popular, now is the honeymoon period when he can't really do anything wrong.
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  6320. You do know every other state has done it right plus NZ, except maybe NSW but they are likely to because they don't like so many travel restrictions either. Once Victoria does eliminate it they will be set up to jump on any new outbreak like the rest of us.
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  6321. This has helped Communist China more than any other event in history because many Democracies are looking a little shaky right now but in particular the US.
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  6322.  @adversarysatan8059  Put yourself in the shoes of a small developing nation that needs help right now. The US under Trump has said openly the US shouldn't help anyone and I don't care my citizens are dying versus China sending vaccines out and showing they can control the virus in there own country. There are only two "Western Democracies" in the world to be in the same position but we don't have much sway in the scheme of things , that's Australia and New Zealand. Communist China doesn't look so bad when comparing to the US. China does seem bad to an Australian but we are a rich country who doesn't need help. But if you compare on just pure economic and keeping citizens alive and disregard human rights issues and democratic principles China is better at this point in time. This is why I say Trump has done more for the idea of Communist China than any other leader. If I wanted someone to help possibly convert the world towards my thinking as a Chinese Communist I couldn't wish for a leader of the US any different to Trump.
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  6323.  @stevenreyes5939  To add to that Trump and Tucker Carlson the best propaganda for the Kremlin in living history. Propaganda is a major part of any war and it was handed to them on a platter by an ex president that was wrongfully deposed and supported Russia over Ukraine also calling Putin a genius as honestly translated in Russian media and a top 10 media personality Tucker Carlson with honestly translated clips. When you run propaganda and you don't even have to make things up , you can't get better than that.
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  6324.  @charliefoxtrot5001  I explained before doing mundane things that don't require a policeman. There's no point tying up police resources doing traffic control and buying medicine for people in quarantine etc. The number 1 civil right is life, it comes above all other rights , you can say full civil rights have to be abandoned under such circumstances and so what , is allowing a significant number of people to die protecting their civil rights? In times of crisis like a war civil rights will be reduced also it's actually no big deal, the government isn't God and can't stop the virus with some magic trick. Putting restrictions in place for disease control is actually listed in the Australian constitution and in the case of the US although not in the constitution a federal court found it to be legal in the 1920's and nobody has challenged that. It's absurd to think a government has no power to protect it's citizens by putting controls in place.
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  6325. What's going on in Australia, tell me.
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  6326. And all our Premiers and first ministers and Chief Health Officers, they have done a remarkable job and in the scheme of things it's been a bipartisan effort. I hope NSW can regain control, I am not as concerned about my state Queensland or Victoria but they are at high risk too. The 200 daily cases of Delta in NSW is probably worse than when Melbourne had 500 daily cases of the Wuhan variant because it's so much more transmissible.
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  6327. You're mixed up many of those sent to war were mandated to do so it wasn't some choice and leper colonies existed back then, they weren't out to free the lepers.
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  6328. It's the other way around, the virus can only spread 10 metres or so, certain countries are making sure all mutations reach 3 continents in particular , Europe and the Americas with open border policies with only voluntary quarantine in almost all cases.
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  6329. Only achievable with a lot of nuclear and batteries and probably growing trees to burn. In other words aspirational. If you are Biden's age it's not like they can come after you in 2050 without a shovel.
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  6330. That bloke talking about "red flag laws" is correct. The only way at a minimum is to ban all new sales of all semiautomatic weapons to everyone except law enforcement and possibly extremely limited security type license. Otherwise it's no different to the US approach on healthcare, highest total spending with lowest life expectancy. Much higher than average OECD spending on publically funded healthcare yet it's not very universal. Same for Covid 19 response, half the country decided to fight against public health measures and you have the largest per capita deaths of any wealthy country. These things aren't rocket science, just do things properly. Turning schools into prisons with armed guards and high walls around the playgrounds, armed patrols I would suggest isn't good for children's mental health. Just locking classroom doors is bad enough you are teaching them to be scared. If you half do it the gun advocates will point out despite the half measures gun violence is up because it probably will be and shooters who want to target student aged people will find other places to kill them like busy playgrounds outside school hours or should they be also military garrisons.
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  6331. It's youtube doing most likely, it picks up certain phrases or words and then just deletes.
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  6332. On the rare occasion I visit Fox News YouTube channel mostly it's just BS but this one is truly scary, most comments offering full support for apparently banning over 50% of maths text books without a shred of evidence presented. Maybe one or two should be not included because they are substandard but this is Geobbles sort of thing happening here, without any evidence people believe if it's presented often enough. Australia's Sky News is almost as bad so please don't take offense. The Murdoch empire while it has achieved some good certainly has outlived it's usefulness and now is a detriment to the countries where it has significant sway.
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  6333.  orion Loses  it gets better than that, sewerage is being tested, so if it's found in the sewerage then a call for people to be tested in the area goes out. I think in the US that might not be helpful at this stage.
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  6334.  @alexhughes3698  Seems rather familiar. A bunch of Iraqis defected and advised of the chemical and biological weapons all over Iraq and the sophistication of the systems. They are to this day American citizens.
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  6335. Totally agree.
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  6336.  @darthnihlus3727  Well every good dictatorship needs a decent military, the masses live a hard life however.
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  6337. People speculating too much, as far as we know the gun was hidden somewhere, not in the bag or the locker but somewhere else.
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  6338. @K W that's just my screen name, originally because I was annoyed with my Australian government some time ago. Turns out I am always annoyed by something politicians are doing. Australia has had a good health response on this virus though. The economic response is pretty messy like everywhere. No way would I want to be in the US situation , Canada looks better but seems not to be able to get the virus to 0 and only contain any outbreaks.
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  6339. With open borders and voluntary self isolation you are right , just like a package from Amazon it will come to you.
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  6340. Must be confined to east and South east Asia, America has hurricanes and the rest of the world tropical cyclones. Not a bad saying though.
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  6341. Been reading the comments, give the guy a break, he hasn't said the election is rigged or anything like that and he is correct in saying when Trump has finished his most likely baseless claims to the court and recounts have been done that will likely change nothing some Trump supporters will be happy. Democrats you should want this to occur in Georgia and Arizona because Republicans running the show in Trump supporters minds will calm most of them. The diehard Trump supporters will say the Republican governor's were in on rigging the election and at this point in time have to accept some will be like this.
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  6342. He doesn't have any choice unless he decided to go against the only country the US actually answers to despite the $200,000,000,000 in aid Israel has received over the years, it appears completely unconditional.
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  6343.  @guys5240  In Wikipedia it says $ 146 billion since 1976 not inflation adjusted which means at least the number I gave probably much higher in today's money, 74% is to be spent on US arms, so a lot just cash. That's a lot of money for a country with only 10 million people today. The US gets nothing in return, Israeli companies wouldn't donate stuff to the US , they might sell things.
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  6344.  @guys5240  No only Israel receives aid, you might be talking about the F35 Joint Strike Fighter, companies are paid by Lockheed Martin some of which are in Israel I would expect and then the actual planes sold to allies for a profit. Israel assuming the arrangement is still the same has a certain amount of money they receive in aid from the US that they can purchase those planes or whatever they want but must be military equipment manufactured in the US. No idea how the contractors for components of the F35 were decided on but had to be allies of course.
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  6345.  @guys5240  yeah I did find an article about it, seems your version is the most modified. Components come from all over the world from about 6 countries plus different parts of the US and then manufactured in Texas it seems. Best of luck and hope somehow Israel/Palestine becomes peaceful one day.
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  6346. If it goes ahead it will be like the Australian tennis open times 1,000. For sure athletes and entourage turning up positive and need to be quarantined ( locked in hotel rooms for a couple of weeks) . It's just going to be a complete mess, athletes no doubt like in that relatively small Australian event will be complaining about everything especially their hotel prison rooms , the food, the room itself, for 2 weeks if they positive. If the government caves into athletes demands and gives them any relaxed standards then the Japanese public will become very angry.
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  6347. Sorry people did vote for Elon, it wasn't a secret he would be the chainsaw cutting $2 trillion.
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  6348. The problem it seems with hydroxychloroquine was many countries gave a high dose which was harmful. In Belgium lower doses were given and some evidence it might reduce fatalities by about 30% and hopefully a proper trial is done to prove conclusively if it works at the appropriate dose.
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  6349. If you aren't genetically pure sub saharan African you have neanderthal in your blood. I am pure European and we have the highest percentage I believe so don't knock my ancestors. US people have evolved recently into warring factions.
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  6350. Montenegro has 630,000 people , it doesn't even qualify as a large city. They must be pretty aggressive if they could start WWIII.
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  6351. I feel sorry for that guy with the long sleeved brown shirt. Pretty he's being forced to do that or lose his job based on his body language.
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  6352. Florida's real cases are set to explode, won't see any major rises in deaths for a few weeks yet because there is a delay from actions taken. The reason I say real case numbers is because if I am a Floridian and not in a high risk group and get infected I might not bother being tested because the virus is everywhere so I can't make any difference.
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  6353. None of the things you mention are real issues. Australia has the states having autonomy to run their own education systems. The issue is whether your federal government still provides the funding that they do now. I think your states are much more autonomous than you think they are already. A big problem in the US education system is reliance on part of school funding through property taxes meaning wealthy areas with low birth rates have great schools and poor areas with high birth rates having terrible schools.
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  6354. David the US is much more socialist than you may realise. Government spending on healthcare during normal times in the US is actually greater than quite a few countries with universal health care. Socialism just means in simple terms government control by direct and indirect means of the means of production. So in the US as a whole giving healthcare as an example I observed a few years ago noting government healthcare spending as a proportion of gdp was greater in the US than Australia. Right now with these abnormal times your government healthcare spending will blow out big time because of all the covid 19 testing alone. Problem with the US is how functional things are. $10,000,000 in February contacting and tracing you could have achieved the same results as Western Pacific countries but now the infections are so high your country is like a dog trying to catch it's tail and on the health issues costs just keep ballooning. So not about socialism but effective government that tries to care for the vulnerable.
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  6355. It's not the first time, so those who exclusively blame the current mob of Republican s are wrong, the same thing occured with HIV in the 80s.
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  6356. Actually have to disagree on something, while I am completely happy with the decision the Queen of Australian being one of her other titles is totally within her rights to speak her mind and her Australian subjects are too.
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  6357.  Matt Darrington  Your words are very concerning, as in I am concerned for your personal well being, I did look up that person you mentioned and he is a nutter. He's one of these people who hate success, he literally seems to think we should just go down the infection path like the US and kill 30,000 people to protect protect freedoms. The Australian Prime Minister has an approval rating over 60% . My state government in Queensland Australia had a 70% plus approval rating for it's handling of covid 19 , 6 deaths in a population of 5,000,000 and about 450 cases of community transmission. Australia isn't going to listen to the guy you mentioned , he is just a fringe conspiracy theorist, however got enough support to start a political party which is 500 members in any state to register in that particular state. If Trump had behaved like the Australian Prime Minister and protected lives and not tried to protect corporations and the freedoms of the wealthy he would be the most popular president at least since Reagan but he chose a different path and that's on him. When nothing happens on January 20 don't harm yourself and seek help if needed. Having such a belief can be very harmful when it's proven to be untrue. The US public has demonstrated at this point in time with all the military on the streets and the majority seem completely ok with this, that they would have been capable of a success with covid 19 restrictions required just like Australia if the correct leadership was in place. Trump let the virus spread to every major state and territory without any actions to stop it other than warp speed vaccines which isn't going as well as expected. Best of luck and take care.
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  6358.  Matt Darrington  I am uncertain of what homelessness has to do with what you are talking about. I did however have a quick search and to my surprise the official rate of homelessness in US versus Australia , the US it was about one in every 600 people and Australia one in every 200 people so on this particular measure it seems the US outperforms Australia. It is rare for the US to outperform Australia on key measures relating to the less well off and or general population other than average wealth at this point in time. So explain to me the relationship between homelessness and Trump, I honestly thought there was/is no relationship.
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  6359. Life expectancy is only in the 60s so a young population and less obesity I would think.
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  6360. As an Australian the situation I see is truly bizarre. Old white guy meets 2 presidents and is polite. Old white guy apparently invited by 2 presidents because of having a Spanish grandfather or something. I certainly agree it looks pretty racist, old white people being invited to the Whitehouse purely based on having had some Spanish or colony of Spain heritage.
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  6361.  @Sneedmire  I am from Queensland but keep hearing of the interconnectivity between Bondi and the Western suburbs , parties and lots of travel between. Maybe some tract of land encompassing those areas would be suitable.
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  6362. If you're American you are forgetting which country you are in, consider the example given which was pre meditated murder with a gun, lady got offended went home to tell her man and they came back armed and killed the security guard.
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  6363. In answer to the headline Musk is only cashing in on power, he isn't cashing in cash wise killing the Tesla brand everywhere except China. Edit ok and US government.
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  6364. The WHO isn't some authoritarian world power, they couldn't force countries to do what they suggested. It's run at the regional level anyway or a remarkable coincidence. Look at the performance of Western Pacific WHO region versus PAHO Pan-American Health Organization and European WHO regions, less than 10% of the death toll per Capita in the Western Pacific region of WHO compared to the other 2 regions I mentioned even if you exclude China. Border quarantine and other measures versus open borders and everything is voluntary.
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  6365. The strain was discovered in South Africa so what do you mean?
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  6366. Elon should have paid the $1,000,000,000 fee to break the deal, turns out it would have been much cheaper.
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  6367. Good
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  6368. There's a bit of irony in the last comment "we're trying to burn the Republican Party to the ground", well so is Donald Trump, so an unusual coalition. Maybe you could do an "Unusual Coalition" Ad.
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  6369. A blockade of 50% of a countries trade in Canada is fine?
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  6370.  @yolazerbeam3205  so less than 1% of the population holding everyone else hostage is ok. Interesting perspective I guess. The majority who aren't willing to do that will obviously fight back , the sympathizers who will do nothing will continue to do nothing.
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  6371.  @Peglegkickboxer  Canada is a functional democracy, nobody in government is holding anyone hostage , just at the provincial and federal level saving lives by having restrictions and mandates, the death toll in Canada is only 1 third that of the US on a per capita basis so clearly the governments have done a good job.
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  6372.  @Peglegkickboxer  I am in Queensland Australia and what you described didn't happen here and we only reaching about 100 deaths per million from covid 19 and all but 8 or 9 deaths occurred this year when transition from covid 0 to an open border. You can't apply blanket assumptions. The 2 states to my south didn't do so well. Population of Queensland is about 5 million and 4 million or so had about 16 weeks lockdown and the other million less than that, schools only ever shut for one term and a couple of other weeks. I understand the greater frustration in places that didn't do so well, however can recognize the difference between bad and worse and the US is far worse than Canada. Australia and NZ have done far better but NZ in particular and Western Australia a bit slow to open up. There are subtleties as there are in Canada however I don't know the differences between Canadian provinces only that there were.
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  6373. I suggest you see a psychiatrist. Sorry but you seem to have lost the plot.
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  6374. I have heard opinion on that and if it's close and he loses he might try to have never ending court battles. Hopefully whichever the election goes it's not close.
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  6375. Many democracies have a Senate which has regional representation and the US has the Electoral College for president and a Senate. So not all votes are equal other than in the house of representatives or congress in which I think all votes are equal everywhere that has independent electoral commissions which guess what some US states don't have meaning you can gerrymander to skew the election to your side of politics by drawing electoral boundaries that give your own party more seats.
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  6376. Strange comment, so one group of white people bombing and killing another group of white people who are fighting back and that's apparently nice treatment when compared to being put at the back of a queue to some extent when running away.
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  6377. Someone needs to make the direct arguments about money and the stock market. While it's hard in many circumstances to completely boycott US companies, it's extremely easy to reduce consumption. To give one example, Coke and Pepsi literally dominate the world's Cola market. In most countries but possibly not all alternative cola brands or a home brand exists. It's extremely likely Coke and Pepsi's international sales will decline enough to affect profits and therefore the share price. Now think of all the big multinational food brands based in the US, same will likely occur with them but probably to a lesser extent because they often own lots of local brands that wouldn't be immediately associated with a US company. Trump has already most likely hurt many industries inside the US. Even these countries recieving AID will still have US company products on their store shelves. Only destitute refugees have nothing, poor countries are still big consumers overall especially on the most basic products like soap and detergent.
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  6378. John did show a previous study that indicated that if you have flu and covid 19 together your chance of death was 2.24 times that of covid 19 only. So if the flu and covid 19 spread together it's far worse. Along with better treatments I do think this would be a major and possibly more significant factor in many cases, I theorise that North East USA and Northern Italy had both at the same time because the deaths in those areas are about double per capita of total population of everywhere else.
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  6379. Strange comment
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  6380.  @knightatdawndonbynight8432  While I am not a fan of China on many issues, there is no evidence that China's direct death toll from covid 19 is any more inaccurate than elsewhere. Of course in the beginning nowhere was highly accurate. They haven't as far as I know released the excess deaths caused indirectly by the lockdown, Chinese believe they are the exception to the rule , but it happened virtually every other country and China did a hard lockdown it would have certainly happened there.
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  6381. lol I was thinking a similar thing. In the US it's totally legal , just send stuff through campaign donations and companies that can provide services for the campaign.
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  6382.  @ianw0ng  I like your comment a bit humour helps
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  6383.  @danielw.8356  Well do you not believe China is the second most authoritarian government in the region after North Korea? If you come to the same conclusion as me you would agree it is and if other non authoritarian governments can achieve good results a more authoritarian government can actually do it easier. Not sure which of my comments you were responding to but it applies to any of them.
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  6384. @Boch Gole The Australian approach we looked towards other countries and still do as well as sharing all data and experiences between the Australian states and NZ. Dr Fauci , the US CDC and WHO would all be areas along with direct interactions between health officials around the world on occasion that information is collected from. Due to low case numbers in Australia and New Zealand we of course can't gather a great deal of data. So of course we look globally for information and to not do so would be ignorant.
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  6385.  @mikealbert2527  Never has a country contained such a virus inside it's borders and it was known on Jan 21 that this was the case, so then it's up to every country to do there own containment measures which if were done well at the start means containment like all but Indonesia and Philippines in the West Pacific.
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  6386. Not sure if helps me or not but interesting so thanks for that story.
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  6387. I am from Australia and always wonder a bit why in geopolitical terms Australia is closer to the US than Canada, I think it's because they are too close to you, that Pacific Ocean and a different hemisphere distance away provides a bit of a buffer. For my region I am happy Biden is in because although Trump didn't do any harm he was unpredictable and not consultative at all , I don't think Trump ever considered the opinions of other countries but Biden will at least listen and a more dependable ally. Domestically though he has an uphill battle with vaccines and the messaging isn't the best, should be telling everyone the vaccines don't stop spread at all , only slow it down and dramatically reduced chance of hospitalization or death, it's not 0 as many commentators keep saying which only increases distrust.
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  6388.  @knight9925  What have Nazis got to do with vaccines, nothing. You're now claiming pretty much every government on the planet are far right National Socialist. That seems pretty incoherent to me.
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  6389. Are you sure Bulgaria wasn't a typo as in decimal place in the wrong place and out by a factor of 10.
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  6390. @susanivy-o2r  Trump lies all the time, he's completely open about it because his policies literally contradict themselves like lower taxes while increasing taxes on the poor with tariffs and saying it will lower prices. A 10 year old can identify those 3 contradictory policies as all lies.
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  6391. Are you sure, your current allies are Russia, China and North Korea?
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  6392. Against who?
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  6393. There are plenty of white supremacists in Latin American countries. It's not like racism suddenly stops south of the US Mexico border.
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  6394. He's wrong , the military has been used many many times. In 2020 the national guard was sent into multiple states. National guard is essentially Army reserve and can be called up into the regular military as they were to Iraq.
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  6395. Not at all. Look at cults throughout history , many well educated intelligent people in them. It's about emotions taking over from logic.
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  6396. The strange thing is they mentioned hard and fast lockdown countries, South Korea and Taiwan. Immediate lockdown of border and proper supervised quarantine. The US and UK and many others have never locked down the borders along with the often praised Sweden. Lockdown lite in my opinion is the worst of both worlds high deaths and no chance of restrictions going away or to an acceptable level without a vaccine.
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  6397.  @bolnol5419  if you want to ignore Australia and New Zealand look at China then , 3rd quarter year on year economic growth. No evidence that a bar in Melbourne is faring any worse or better than one in New York or Los Angeles or for that matter Stockholm. The bar in Melbourne now is open with a high degree of certainty those others aren't which as you correctly say leads to mental health issues.
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  6398. Has Trump claimed credit yet for helping run the mission because he is better than the scientists?
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  6399.  @thedebatemechannel4746  I'll make one comment to your long passage, the US is the second best propaganda machine the world has ever known, CPC China is the first.
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  6400. Have you ever heard the saying prevention is better than cure, it's a fairly old saying. Treatment isn't 100% either otherwise there would be 0 deaths.
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  6401. The solution was get vaccinations over 90% at least. No it's triage, leave people in corridors to definitely die or have a nurse/doctor treat them who might give them a virus and they die, chance of life whether people like it or not is better with the second choice. But people shouldn't go to hospital unless really need to, don't go in for minor issues that can wait or elective surgery.
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  6402. Many people saying ban lobbyists are being ridiculous. There's nothing wrong with lobbying and it's an important aspect of any democracy. Having said that banning them from giving money to candidates which in the US can skim money from by setting up a company to provide services to their campaign as Donald Trump openly did should be either banned or at least heavily restricted. While I am not going to claim it's perfect here in Australia we certainly don't have the open moral corruption seen in the US by both major political parties.
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  6403.  @tarunmathew88  500,000 people I think it's up to now going through hotel quarantine is not a small number, it's 2% of the entire population. There is only the Western Pacific WHO region doing it , the rest decided on open borders or shorter quarantine times, China has now moved to 21 days because it's having problems too.
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  6404. About 2 or 3 weeks lag between catching it and peak deaths. One doesn't die after 1 day.
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  6405. ​ @LiberalDictate the consequence is X is broke and sinking like the Titanic.
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  6406. Every cryptocurrency is no different to tulips a few hundred years ago other than it's used for scamming and money laundering.
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  6407. Please don't use the term conservative when referring to radicals like the J6 insurrectionists. Although I am not American I am definitely a fiscal conservative, I have nothing in common with MAGA who happen to be socialists promoting protectionism and subsidies. If you do use the term conservative put an adjective before it, a fiscal conservative has nothing in common with a religious conservative unless they are both.
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  6408. You are correct in a sense. Australia and even China looks to you about this disease and possible complications because of your high infection rates. Currently Australia has 2 organizations working on potential vaccines and to test them if they reach that stage we look to you and Europe.
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  6409. I doubt your last point however there's likely to be cases of isolated violence.
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  6410. Elon can be crazy and a liar deliberately and very good at business and lucky. None of these are mutually exclusive and i think he is all of them. He's killed twitter and is now attempting to kill Tesla. Despite Tesla's ridiculous share price it's brand is losing value for various reasons, it's already dropped to second place for electric vehicles sold and isn't competitive on price , it's only competitive as an expensive sports vehicle. Also as other vehicle manufacturers catch up and or overtake Tesla there's no way Tesla can maintain up to 20% profit margins when competition heats up (except maybe in the US due to effectively banning competition through tariffs).
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  6411. I can assure you the lamb exports from Australia and New Zealand are not supplimented by humans.
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  6412. Even if you disagree with the sentiment, that last rap sounded pretty good actually.
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  6413. It's CPC by the way.
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  6414. Based on Trump's previous behaviour he will stuff it up and he wants it done his way not a way another country does it.
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  6415. Big win for Hasbara in this comment section. Suppose they have to have a win somewhere in a comment section.
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  6416. Nothing to do with the season, it's the same season in every other Australian state plus NZ, check the numbers. Check the numbers in warm Florida also just for comparison.
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  6417. In both vaccines it's based on a group of about 100 to become infected and working out the ratio of those who had the placebo versus vaccine. Not exactly large samples. The main thing is seems safe and even if the efficacy numbers aren't entirely accurate the vaccines do work.
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  6418. If you have MS there's things you can do that might help. The best correlation I have ever seen regarding behaviour and a disease is MS and per capita dairy consumption, far better correlation than smoking and any particular disease for example. Search by country milk consumption and look for yourself, after doing that cut out dairy if you think it could be a factor. Go on a preferably medically supervised elimination diet and cut as many harsh chemicals from your life as possible, use things like bi carbonate of soda and vinegar for cleaning. Bicarbonate of soda might not be as powerful but it's a great substitute for laundry detergent. Although I haven't got MS doing as I suggest above has helped my situation, I have cut all harsh cleaning products and by coincidence I am intolerant to dairy. Best of luck and I suggest you have nothing to lose by trying and maybe gain improved symptoms or even an improved outcome.
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  6419. I am not sure it will happen. I do like that you have recognized that others. I am white Australian. One thing I have not seen is any black person in the US call out black racists. For true healing this needs to occur. I respond to you because I am guessing you understand this based on your comment. I have seen this occur in Australia but rare. All people regardless of race need to be held equally accountable if they are public figures. I hope your country gets better but it'll be slow and it's impossible to fix everything and no country is perfect.
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  6420. @Evets Sirrah It's good to hear, Biden must have excellent engineers with all these tunnels, so you can be assured if a bridge or something is Federal it will be sturdy.
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  6421. Can only last another 10 years or so I would suggest, Trump isn't exactly a spring Chicken, he's an old rooster that will gone within about 10 years. However if he did get back in in 24 he will do as much damage as he can because he literally has a vendetta against the US itself because he was voted out.
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  6422. Sorry to break it to you but they are literally the second worst major political party of a wealthy country, the worst of course is Trump's Republican party. You don't get to be at the bottom on key measures like life expectancy or homicide rate without strong bipartisan failures. The Democrats believe in subsidies for big pharma and Obama care is clearly not worth the paper it's printed on if United Healthcare an insurance company not a medical provider can just refuse to pay for treatment about 1 third of the time. Wake up to yourself and admit Democrats are almost as bad as Republicans. Admit for a wealthy country you are literally the worst on many key measures.
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  6423.  @questworldmatrix  really you think a budget version of McDo is a great achievement? Anyway being Australian good if people eat more beef which is part of the menu, in the Philippines so Australia can sell more. The more burger joints the better.
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  6424. 40,000 people alive today that wouldn't have been is a pretty good outcome.
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  6425. Look outside your state and country, SA is in a pretty good spot, I am in QLD we pretty good too but slightly higher risk. So just wear the mask when you told to, the alternative is much worse.
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  6426.  @cloudpoint0  Masks alone will not completely stop any spread we know that, the point is it's one measure, actually seatbelts alone save very few lives, the airbags, crumple zones , padded vehicle interiors and road rules such as drink driving and stop signs in particular save lives , enforcement is an extremely important tool that's required along with the rules. There would be no way to prove seatbelts are effective either if you studied them in a jurisdiction without all the other things I mentioned, those community mask studies would mostly be in such settings with open borders and voluntary quarantine, so it means they are useless right?
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  6427.  @cloudpoint0  We don't seem to intrinsically disagree but you are coming from a very different viewpoint. You are coming from a point of view of failure, I am coming from a point of view of success. Would you make the call in South Australia that masks don't need to be worn knowing that you don't know if cases are out there and we will assume that masks are only 1% effective? Your gamble is a little inconvenience for the population noting everything is open versus if you are unlucky a $1 billion week long lockdown that could last week's costing many more billions and you might be voted out next election due to your failure. Yes open border no quarantine jurisdictions masks make almost no difference, Australia doesn't fit into that category, most states everything open with no cases and people are happy about that. But the 2 most populous states making up over half the population are having problems. Consider the vaccination rates are less than Mississippi at the moment and look at them. I expect we will end up with high vaccination rates but the paradox of success is vaccination rollouts are harder, nothing like the smell of death is as good a convincer of urgency. In relation to your mask comments regarding places that have failed and the misleading information of masks will stop the spread , well failures tend to stack up like you said and the easy political fix is pretend something. This isn't the case in Australia or as you mentioned China, masks are only one small tool when required, noting we have had mask mandates much less often than the open border countries anyway.
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  6428. Hang in there the best you can , unfortunately I tend to agree with your assessment because an open border policy let's in all strains and the risk is that only 1 evades one of the vaccines distributed on a large scale. Unless hotel quarantine for all becomes a reality this risk will always be there, most likely only half the risky strains have been identified and more are being created. Good news is cases going down which will be followed by less deaths due to a lag , but no guarantee that this situation doesn't reverse because of my above reasoning.
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  6429.  @Bandomeme  Trump's bad actions came into play in March, he wasn't responsible for initial failures in any way as far as I can see, the money was there and the approval was there for the CDC to do it's thing which it failed dismally at. Could the US have turned things around if Trump was say the equivalent of the Premier of Queensland Australia or the New Zealand Prime Minister, I honestly think yes it could have been turned around in a reasonable time frame but required good leadership. Mediocre leadership like that in many European countries although not as bad as Trump, in most cases but not all , almost the same results. So if you put the French President or Italian Prime Minister in charge of the US you would still have the same end results.
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  6430.  @PanzyTheOne  As far as Trump throwing away the pandemic playbook , he didn't, however some defunding did occur so less people available and less chance of advanced information, which would have made no difference as far as I can see because the playbook test and trace was done completely unsuccessfully. Fauci stated how well this was being done on 26 February because of the good US healthcare system , test and trace the US didn't have many cases. If you think Australia has done badly well that's your opinion which seems to be entirely partisan. What do you think of Biden stopping foreigners enter from some countries yet allowing US citizens from those same countries enter without hotel quarantine meaning will achieve nothing in prevention of any new strains entering?
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  6431. Adjusting for population you would be happy with another 49,000 deaths which is about the average of the open border nations. That's unfortunate.
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  6432. I don't think he is doing to enrich himself, he's destroyed Twitter and is in the process of destroying Tesla. I think Elon wants to be a defacto absolute Monarch.
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  6433. The WHO is run by European and US people mostly. It's entirely consistent with the country responses. So WHO is the US standard I would suggest.
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  6434. Other than state ownership , China is far right on the traditional political spectrum. I am confused by Western left leaning parties being more sympathetic than right leaning ones as appears to be the case.
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  6435.  @Thephilpw99  you mentioned other nations, I consider my country Australia and also Vietnam, Taiwan (although not looking good at the moment) and New Zealand to be other nations/jurisdictions who have done similarly well to China, we are all part of the Western Pacific WHO region where it appears we cooperated and decided on 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine usually in a hotel and the worst performing country in the region the Philippines has just passed the 10% per capita death rate of the US. The PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region decided upon no travel restrictions and 10 days voluntary quarantine, the office headquarters is in Washington DC so pretty sure the US had something to do with that decision, both the left and right side of politics in the US agreed with this decision so actually no division on a regional level or within the US. The European WHO region had the same policy to PAHO. A little knowledge goes a long way or it's just mere coincidence that 70 countries or whatever it was had policies that aligned with WHO region.
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  6436. But they don't, people who are dead from gun violence or covid 19 aren't free unless you consider death to be freedom.
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  6437. Depends on the country. Yes some are as bad.
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  6438.  @bnkk2001  I wasn't really thinking of it exactly as you write originally, however they just want to be treated fairly. If they treated fairly they will put up with the colonizers. In countries where freedom of religion and equal treatment exists for the most part people don't bother asking to turn the clock back 100 or 150 years prior. Like majority of Muslims in Southern Thailand give up on fighting the colonizers and accept they are Thai and they can keep their religion. They had some problems just like China and China has decided to go a different path, of course if you are forced into re education camps just for being Muslim you won't be happy. So feel free to interview people in Southern Thailand, I doubt the authorities would stop you and they certainly wouldn't have secret police following around everywhere.
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  6439. Do the best you can, hopefully you can recover over time. Seek help for your mental state if you need to. Take care
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  6440. Actually Sky News is British and completely different owners to Sky News Australia which is still Murdoch. They should really state Sky News Australia.
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  6441. That's not the problem, if the virus isn't gone it could get worse and or mutate around a vaccine, you might be vaccinated against current strains but no herd immunity or non pharmaceutical measures it will keep on going.
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  6442. The ID thing while might cause small improvements here and there is really not the issue because if someone wants to commit fraud with forged signatures they can, no election can properly check every signature, no ID required in Australia and we do fine also. It's about trust mostly and people just doing the right thing and accepting the outcome , Trump has successfully broken this trust along with his loyalists. Get 10 people at any election in the world to collude of course they can dump a box of ballots for example, it is however extremely rare and normally will only ever happen on a wide scale if a dictator is being deposed through the ballot box. Kim Jong Un for example doesn't need to cheat, he is popular in his country and banning any non aligned party helps too.
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  6443.  Leeroy  do you understand associated issues or in other words lockdown lite which kills people as does a proper lockdown but a proper lockdown kills far less because it ends relatively quickly, lockdown lite just keeps going. The excess deaths from January 26 to October 3 were 300,000 according to the CDC and only 200,000 were covid 19 related leaving 100,000 people dead from lockdown lite policies. If you look at countries that eliminated the virus deaths are down or in other words life expectancy increased because the overall effect caused less problems like the flu. Violence was also up with homicides up about 50% in 34 cities in the US in 2020. I am not saying Trump is to blame for everything but he certainly contributed significantly, to the point of encouraging people to get infected by what he said at rallies in particular and he knows his devotees will do whatever they think he wants, hence many capitol insurrectionists saying that they believe Trump wanted them to do it.
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  6444.  Leeroy  so the extra 100,000 dead from lockdown lite don't matter , fair enough that's your opinion.
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  6445.  Leeroy  Being on an island makes only some difference, the islands of Hawaii and Puerto Rico and Alaska because no mainland connection have done badly too, just better than average for the US. If you want to compare to Vietnam, China and Thailand with more borders that are difficult to manage ok fair enough, the US completely failed.
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  6446.  Leeroy  China certainly had some initial failures and the Trump like propaganda campaign by the CPC to blame the US or whoever isn't good, yes I certainly put those 2 together regarding propaganda which causes harm. You wanted northern hemisphere countries with land borders to compare to so I listed some. Yes Europe has done as bad as the US for the most part. If you look at the WHO regions , it might be these regional organization that had a great effect , so PAHO which looks after the Americas and the European WHO office which puts countries into 3 separate groups. Last time I checked all the top 40 worst deaths per 100,000 from these jurisdictions, South Africa was just outside that top 40 at the time. China corrected the situation after initial failures, the US and Europe did no containment measures until recently the UK has instituted some hotel quarantine and so has Canada. I am fair and you would be correct to say Biden's policy differs little to Trump , borders still wide open and no hotel quarantine. The US and most of Europe only have one trick up their sleeve that's vaccines and if that fails back to square one. While it's likely vaccines will do the trick it's not a certainty if some variant/s evade it.
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  6447.  Leeroy  hey why are you so angry? If you think the US is doing fine then you would have no need to be angry
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  6448.  Leeroy  where are you from? The US is a basket case that's just fact , just consider virtually any key measure and they perform badly. China certainly is laughing at the US performance. China of course is still far poorer on a per capita basis but they will continue going up for a while yet I think. The life expectancy in China now is only a year and a half behind the US.
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  6449. The Tianamen Square Massacre is referred to as "the event" by the CPC, maybe Republican can copy that term, it would be suitable I think.
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  6450. The media should just lump the Entire West Pacific together. More than 2,000,000,000 people with a few countries virus free ( other than imported cases) about 1,000,000 cases in total in East Asia plus ASEAN plus Australasia. Less than 100,000 deaths. Then see if they can argue their way out of that one.
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  6451. What amazes me is this open source training video. The Isreali soldiers are still opening windows which stands out like dogs balls. Even if the soldiers aren't in view the flutter of the curtains draws a load of attention because a moving object draws attention because of instincts. If I was an Israeli soldier I would prefer a few degrees higher temperature than giving up my position. 100% sure leaving windows open before evacuation would be extremely rare, I am certain if I was evacuating I would lock and close everything in hopes I can return. It doesn't make sense to leave windows open and let rain come in.
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  6452. Everyone keeps saying call police, but call them for what reason. There's even a police video of this house where all sorts of random people there. Seeing some random person isn't unusual and no crime was observed.
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  6453. Do any of these oligarchs ever pay tax in Russia, planes registered in Bermuda is a joke. No wonder despite the low population to resources available ratio there's so many Russian peasants and that's before they invaded Ukraine.
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  6454. Don't believe he's involved is very different to being ruled out.
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  6455. Fox your viewers are nutters, just read through these comments.
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  6456. If the shoe was on the other foot the crowd would have broke into some " lock him/her up" chant.
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  6457.  @williamm.3456  in answer to your hypothetical question, no idea, even she couldn't answer that because it never happened. I doubt the the motivation for the book is money because it probably wouldn't be much at all. Regardless it is wrong to act with prejudice against anyone. That is what people accuse Donald Trump of, if someone says everyone who is a relation through blood or marriage is as bad as Trump in the reasons someone has an opinion he is bad then the accuser is no better. Isn't that actually one of the reasons people don't like Trump? I am a foreigner and totally agree the US should control it's border for everyone concerned however Trump's rhetoric saying illegal immigrants are mostly rapists and murderers but some are not isn't helpful at all. That's just one example and given the US is a very violent country when compared to other high income countries making people angry isn't going to help the situation.
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  6458. @user-roadwander  governments run all sorts of businesses and under very different models depending on the particular purpose. Not sure how this relates to healthcare in the US though.
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  6459. @yackawaytube  it always has been in a social perspective. Economically and military it hasn't been for a long time.
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  6460. They will, but you have to remember these people are indoctrinated, Trump will blame the deep state AKA public service and they will believe.
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  6461. Yep bars and nightclubs open in some states and they can pass any state border at will. I am Australian and it looks like a joke.
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  6462. Well 100 years ago we didn't have antibiotics and virus vaccines were very rare. The life expectancy was about 40 then.
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  6463.  @joelunchbucket6000  during the Spanish flu life expectancy was around that number, of course WWI would have had an effect around that time and life expectancy was greatly affected by infant mortality, so if you make it to 15 or something your life expectancy was probably higher than 40. But the reason for the infant mortality would mostly be bacterial infections I am guessing. Most people who died from the Spanish flu actually died from bacterial pneumonia. Without modern medicine covid 19 would have killed as many as the Spanish flu in percentage terms through secondary infections like then. Have to remember no running water for most and no treated water.
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  6464.  @joelunchbucket6000  use of vaccines and antibiotics will never work 100% and moreso with antibiotics there is issues in 3 areas agricultural use of antibiotics, not taking a full course of antibiotics and in some places using them too often, as in rather than a doctor saying go home and rest and if whatever the issue is gets worse we will put you on a course of antibiotics they hand them out like lollies. Politics and culture in including people's propensity to sue seems to have led to over medication and too much testing in the US and no better outcomes than other developed countries just higher costs. The higher costs over there aren't only what I just said but it plays a part. I think one thing you might be hinting at is could a virus or bacteria start killing people like they did before modern medicine and I would suggest not because with the modern testing technology we can actually get rid of diseases by non pharmaceutical means, however not all countries would have the capability and like we see with covid 19 seemingly small errors at the time grow exponentially. I do think significant risk that covid 19 mutates somewhere like the US and gets around vaccines because all eggs in that one basket and for all intensive purposes only minor mitigation measures designed to slow spread down , not stop it other than by use of vaccines.
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  6465. Forget about far right websites, these plans were in therealDonaldTrump youtube channel. Did nobody monitor this?
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  6466. The video I saw only had the victim go to the front entrance and that is not trespassing. It is quite lawful to go to the entrance of any house and knock on the door.
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  6467. I disagree because your CDC has proven itself to be useless at anything other than data collection. Total and absolute failure with the initial response and it only got worse after the message came from on top I suspect but maybe not to keep taking short cuts or creating short cuts no matter the evidence before them.
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  6468. I hope your friend recovers.
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  6469. The timing was unfortunate
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  6470. Well of course there are Black supremacists in BLM and white supremacists in MAGA , what is your point , they are both bad and both organizations supporting whichever one are bad also. MAGA and BLM in their current forms should both be destroyed. Not American so I don't have any emotional attachment to the issue , just following things after lockdown in my state and country and even no lockdown continue to follow.
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  6471.  @ReggaeRedeemer  Not condemn or disown the white supremacists , same thing with BLM and black supremacists. Both supremacists have certain things in common like supporting violence for their cause and segregation, not all supremacists are like that but they certainly tend towards that direction. Trump directly appealed to such people to the point of people committing terrorist acts in his name, he disown them but not really, always a day or 2 late and deny all responsibility. The bloke with the Vikings helmet or whatever you want to call it is defending his actions saying Trump sent him and asking Trump to pardon him. All over the internet as in open forums like youtube it's now being said that the military is going to stage the coup d'etat and arrest the Democrats. Not going to happen but what will those Qanon Trump supporters ( his base ) do next?
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  6472. It's true regardless of the issue and or ideology.
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  6473. Nothing to do with police brutality, just one copper it looks like committed a murder, not some widespread issue, murderers come in all walks of life unfortunately. Should people protest against butchers because some butcher killed someone, it actually makes the same amount of sense.
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  6474.  @rinan.13  If one blames every police person for the actions of one then they are a completely intolerant person of prejudice, most people who hold one prejudice will hold others. The virus really doesn't care what reason someone is gathering in a group for, maybe things could be handled better but in the end you want that group gone , whatever the groups cause might be. People in various jurisdiction around the world were not permitted to funerals due to various restrictions and that's close relatives, why do these people need special treatment?
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  6475. It's not true Yemen hates them , obviously some do but others don't. The US taking sides in civil wars has probably ended badly more times than not.
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  6476. Is he going to institute export bans on oil products or nationalise oil companies like Venezuela did? This is the only way to bring prices down.
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  6477. Using blood plasma can only be done small scale and it's expensive. If you can afford it then great but it's not for the masses.
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  6478.  Tony Hovgaard  I am Australian so it's a hypothetical question and I can't say how I would feel if my country failed to contain it. I do wish your country the best of luck.
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  6479.  Tony Hovgaard  my state is fine but one state Victoria which has about 7,000,000 people so a midsized US state equivalent had 288 cases in last 24 hours. It's possible they might lose control. If you come from that state to my state Queensland you will be put in government supervised hotel quarantine at your cost for 14 days. If you lie about not being in that state in the last 14 days you can get a $4,000 AUD fine. It's true things can go from looking ok to not ok very quickly.
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  6480. Sounds very unlikely, consider it a rumour unless confirmed.
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  6481.  @papsphaks4408  a person with an Arabic surname Sabry Nassar . Since you know everything please explain to me because all I know is car drove dangerously and crashed into shop injuring people. Offender should and hopefully will be punished according to law.
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  6482. Realistically I think the US has no choice just like it would seem with most if not all Western European countries but to only try to lesson the damage and not overrun hospital capacities. In other words it's to late for most states to do anything else. Some states do have the option to get it under control if their current numbers are low but this isn't happening. Alarm bells should have sounded by the end of January when the US had less documented cases than Australia which given we are less than a tenth of your population and travel to and from China would be at least 5 times as great in the US using an extremely conservative guestimate. It would have been statistically about 1 in a million chance that Australia could have more cases. Also from looking at the CDC website it would seem to me that should be the organization to be monitoring and advising on testing under Ray Butler's section. The body that Fauci works for and has been a director of for 30 plus years seems to be more of a research body however there is some overlap with the CDC. I am wondering why no questions have been asked of Ray Butler and have to search the CDC website rather than see it on the news. Fauci and Butler both have a lot of explaining to do and in the end if Trump prevented them from doing their jobs properly they should say so but to me with the current information available all 3 are due credit and the fact no system existed to deal with such an issue is self evident at this point in time.
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  6483. Correction Jay Butler not Ray Butler
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  6484. The lefty media shouldn't overstate things, what McConnell and Barr are doing is important so that more Trump supporters accept the outcome. They both know from information available it will amount to nothing, wait a week or 2 and they will say not enough evidence. This is actually important because 40% of your nation give or take actually don't accept the result now.
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  6485. I am not American but my take is that Omar would not be my preference because of her political ideology, but Trump's attacks are disgusting and somewhat dangerous because some of his extreme followers actually aren't against violence. This is not to say Trump's followers are all like that because people vote according to what they consider most important. Best of luck Americans and consider your vote for President carefully.
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  6486.  @wvmike7008  In Australia nobody cares about that small minority of antivaxxers. No politician of note supports them.
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  6487. Both was looked down upon, this is why even 10 years ago Charles isn't highly popular. Being a royal isn't an easy job, everything is supposed to be a fairy tail.
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  6488. Who has advocated that the votes for Trump be considered null and void? Is there something I am not understanding here? Trump got his 74,000,000 votes , nobody is challenging that except Trump and his non elected followers and half a dozen of elected Republican representatives.
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  6489. So? And why is an old person like Trump or Biden supposed to speak at the rate of a young person? Do you want a drugged up President?
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  6490.  Prasanna Chitnis  search for yourself, while the other person commenting was under the impression that they were already sent this doesn't seem to be the case, waiting for response from Indian PM. If a charitable organization offers help (not the government of Pakistan) to refuse that help when it could save lives would be virtually criminal. Hopefully it's just a short delay and your PM accepts the offer.
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  6491. From my search it doesn't seem they have been sent yet , waiting for India to accept the offer. Ignore the negative comments, I am sure many Indian would be appreciative.
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  6492. Basically Trump has just declared himself the Absolute Monarch. He's said that all his secretaries are completely subservient and can't make any decisions.
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  6493. The "free state of Florida" , the number 1 book banning state of the US and would probably be top ten in the world. Let's see if the "free state" can one day overtake the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, I think that state is a little hard to beat but I am sure the "free state" under DeSantis will give it a go.
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  6494.  @govindashyamsundar  Australia isn't a proxy for the US, this is about trade and the US is our competition. Australia along with other countries wants the US to join the TPP and hopefully they will at some stage. We might be a proxy when it comes to other issues because China can slap tariffs on us as they have done with completely baseless claims at the same time increasing US market access. So possibly to create division between Australia and US on other issues not related to trade.
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  6495.  Brand Bioc-har  covid containment by Trump? Australia country of 25 million 28 cases of transmission inside the country. New Zealand 5 million people 3 cases of transmission inside the country. How is the US containment going or is there an actual deliberate intent to increase infection rates by holding large political rallies encouraging others to do same with big events? I can't even identify a mitigation policy by Trump.
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  6496.  Brand Bioc-har  What lockdown issues? Everything open outside of Victoria and probably 1 month they completely open too. Restrictions do exist and as a reference they are less strict other than travel when compared to Sweden.
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  6497. In Australia if the Whitehouse was in a rural area it would have gained covid 19 hotspot status triggering our federal government to consider the matter and discuss it with the state or territory involved. A hotspot definition is 9 cases of community transmission in a rural area over 3 days or 30 cases of community transmission in a metropolitan area over a 3 day period. So doesn't really meet the definition yet because it's in a metro area but pretty close.
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  6498. We can only go off historical figures and compared to the US in calendar year 2020 with about 15% of GDP government deficit , Australia had about 7% deficit. The economic growth for calenders year 2020 US -2.7% and Australia -1.1%. So not too bad but not good and Australia came from a better starting position, less public debt and at least an attempt to not run up debt like crazy.
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  6499. Nah that's what we say to the Parochial Mexicans (for Queenslander people from New South Wales and Victoria are Mexicans because they keep migrating north).
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  6500. Sydney and Melbourne are trying their best, give them some time.
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  6501. Outside of the riots it's just you. Although US crime rates are very high when compared to other high income country the rate is going down. I hope for your sake the current events don't change that trajectory.
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  6502. I think in a so called all white state you are actually safer. There is less racial conflict. The white voters in states with lower proportion of minorities voted at a larger rate for Obama.
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  6503.  @shelbytomy07  I have subscribed to your channel. I can attest to others that you haven't made any conspiracy theory or fake news videos and highly recommend others join.
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  6504. Nah , just means he's a sore loser. A sore loser never concedes not because they are strong but because they have extremely weak character.
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  6505.  @marcopolo2395  I think your comment might apply to you, first of all I am not American as my screen name suggests and if I was Trump is a protectionist which far left in traditional terms on industry and trade policy. A lot of Bernie Sanders voters voted for Trump first time round because of this. Second point Biden which from my personal perspective is good because he is probably more towards the center on industry and trade have to see how many handouts to industry and if he moves back towards the more free trade position of Obama Biden administration. Anyway best of luck to you and your country.
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  6506. Tedros was only following advice at the time with less than 100 known cases outside of China. Imagine if we shut down all travel everytime there was a disease outbreak, we would never have international travel again. The Western Pacific region of WHO which includes China , Australia and New Zealand etc. we all have 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine, why the WHO European region countries and Pan American Health Organization countries for the most part have no quarantine and free travel one has to ask what is the advice in these regional offices, seems to me that the WHO regional offices controlled by the countries that they represent are calling the shots, or it's just a remarkable coincidence.
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  6507. I have seen some comments say any Trump will do. His base or at least some of them considers the Trump family royalty.
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  6508.  @davidmurphy563  I have just been looking at wealth by country and came across a list done by credit Suisse that shows mean and median wealth by adult on a Wikipedia page. The US has the highest difference between the two numbers at 6.5 times and 3rd for mean wealth and 22nd for median wealth of adult population. Thailand was close second which surprised me a little. This put some perspective of why the number of Americans are angry, it's basically the wealth gap, the shrinking middle class should now be referred to as what middle class in the US context. I know it's off topic you talking about but it is related indirectly to the politics in your country. Australia was number 2 for median wealth and number 4 for mean wealth so very different. That's I guess partly why people outside of the US including myself find it hard to understand because our average very close to each other. My dad used to say there are lies damn lies and statistics and it's true, if you miss a crucial factor it can severely skew ones thinking.
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  6509. Worldometer is probably more accurate, the 997,000 will be official CDC data as of today.
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  6510. Don't be pedantic
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  6511. Interesting comment, big government spending is progressive. If that is accepted Trump is the most progressive President in history. Debt has skyrocketed, with plenty of protectionist and corporate welfare policies to create manufacturing jobs (dead end jobs mostly).
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  6512. Well if 20 countries did largely the same thing, border quarantine and another 50 countries had no border quarantine why is it surprising that the first 20 countries mentioned have less than 10% of the deaths per Capita on average than the latter 50 countries. It's extremely consistent. That's just one measure that's consistent, if you dig deeper you will find more things.
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  6513. The US system is very different, the President is equivalent technically in power to the Queen of all the constitutional Democracies mentioned. She has never interfered or vetoed anything and in the cases of Aus , NZ and Canada the governor general rarely if ever interferes as the Queens representative ( one case in Australia a Prime Minister was sacked because the alternate party held power in the Senate and cut funding so the government couldn't function) so on rare occasions it might happen. Presidents exercise veto power quite regularly and the operation of government is carried out by hand selected officials who are unelected rather than elected officials with a constitutional democracy. A constitutional Monarchy as practiced in many countries under Queen Elizabeth is superior to the US system I would suggest. The leader of a government , the Prime Minister can be sacked really easily by their own party it's just a simple party room vote so nobody has too much power.
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  6514. It's going to be a free for all I would think.
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  6515. Unfortunately neither of your political parties wanted containment and that was the consensus in the US. So in a way it wasn't political as the main point actually had consensus. Containment means closed state borders and taking it seriously. Time will tell if containment was worth it or not.
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  6516.  @DSQueenie  it's a matter of degree or reasonableness I think. In most countries the opposing political parties might argue about things like government assistance payments. But also most countries both political parties don't have any major disagreement on the actions needed to contain the virus. The US as I have pointed out earlier in the thread had both political parties in agreement with a "she'll be right" attitude to state border restrictions, this however seems to be changing at least with NY starting to insist on 14 days quarantine for air travellers. If it's not enforced it won't work , so yet to see effect. The open and major disagreements on other issues in the US are significant. But without every thing required it will fail. One requirement is interstate controls.
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  6517.  @marjolainezhong3654  There were medical staff that travelled from other parts of the US to New York so it's not like everyone in the US is like the commenter suggests but there are too many for an effective and comprehensive response.
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  6518. Not necessarily. You are speaking when the President is the head of government. In some countries this is not the case. The president's position can be like that of a King or Queen in a constitutional democracy. In Italy this would appear to be the case for example.
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  6519. I just had a look at that ranking, Australia was ranked 30, New Zealand at 32 and Singapore at 39. We must be doing so bad compared to Western Europe which doesn't have any country below 25 in the rankings.
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  6520. There's a clip on DW I think it was, really bad, people being refused care because covid beds full.
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  6521. Apparently , not that I would know they have used them in the sex industry for BDSM since the early 70s and sometimes the patients come out of the private rooms like Trump and feel 20 years younger. So from this anecdotal hearsay evidence I think masks must work.
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  6522. Given his experience you would think he would be more compassionate to others. Why didn't he just shut the border and keep covid 19 out, Texas clearly knows it's rights, it's keeping interstate electricity out.
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  6523. By a normal election process, I hope you mean and by sanctioned I hope you mean loss of votes.
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  6524. I would suggest your last comment is the most relevant, all those European countries have lower obesity rates and except for Netherlands a higher life expectancy (pre pandemic numbers). My country Australia is an anomaly because our obesity rate is fairly high but our life expectancy is also very high. Another issue might be the distribution by age of vaccines. If you dig down enough into the data you will usually find a logical reason but I doubt it would be natural infection rates because those are all very similar throughout Europe.
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  6525. Don't have to be rich can have a quality university degree especially for younger people who have just finished university but have no money.
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  6526. Interesting last bit of comment regarding Sam Altman making a completely racist comment stating basically that all white South Africans are racist. The inverse is likely to be true because most of the racist ones have left South Africa and the non racist ones have largely remained. My comment doesn't mean there's no racist South African white or black people , just pointing out they aren't all like that. Seems outright blatant racism is permitted in US discourse.
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  6527. Really? that's interesting, why are the jurisdictions where people who obeyed the orders and the governments enforced them virtually all open with few restrictions except of course travel restrictions to keep the virus out? Also people not dying which is a bonus I suppose.
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  6528. It's actually symbolic of the US response to the virus, always too little and definitely too late.
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  6529. But the sheep in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia ( except 1 council area) and New Zealand can roam freely inside our pens or countries if you would prefer. Only just recently the UK stopped people roaming internationally. American can still travel freely if anyone wants them.
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  6530. Because she is, hotel quarantine is prison but necessary.
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  6531. Destroy our own economy, no thanks.
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  6532.  @BitsandBobs01  no proof but looks like could be Asian girl . That's why I say think because actually can't see her properly. Hair is right but with modern hair styling technique actually maybe mean nothing.
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  6533. Leah , read through the comments in this thread it answers your question indirectly, both sides are more interested in blaming each other. Mostly the problem in the US is disfunction that produces inferior results.
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  6534. I think it's designed to pit the racist African American people against the racist Indian American people. All ethnic groups have racists in them, however it's probably not enough in this case to make a difference and the members who are racist of the aforementioned groups probably don't like white people either.
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  6535. Government funded broadcaster isn't a bad business model actually, and if you are just referring to the show itself it can get cut if no one watches it but hasn't been yet.
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  6536. In the context of the electoral college system you have for the presidential race , if this number was to actually occur Trump could still win technically.
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  6537. There are generous schemes in Australia for those in lockdown, many of those protestors would be receiving that unless they are unemployed.
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  6538. An interesting point was made about health orders, I am not sure if it applies to every Australian state but in my state the public health directions ( restrictions lockdown whatever you want to call them ) are issued by the Chief Health Officer of Queensland , I am certain the politicians or Premier could over rule this and needed to authorise the authority in the beginning hence the term issued by , but in Australia if a government over rules a public health officer and something serious happens , your shelf life as a politician with re election hopes could be counted in minutes if not seconds.
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  6539. That's the point this isn't basic at all.
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  6540. Just remember it takes a few weeks before decent immunity sets in.
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  6541. Florida is the state of death when compared to TX, CA and NY. Guess nobody cares because DeSantis seems to be some sort of hero going by the comments section. FL performs poorly on suicide, overdoses, homicides and second worst for Covid 19 out of those 4 big states.
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  6542. He can't get that much protection, he trusts/hopes the Taliban doesn't harm him. It's no different in any country, an army can kill anyone should they want. He probably does have security but that would be to reduce the chances of someone else assassinating him, a political rival or something.
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  6543. On that basis my body is truly battle hardened being a person who to put it mildly doesn't have excellent personal hygiene.
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  6544. The Australian government trigger for a place to be considered a hotspot is 30 cases in 3 days in a metropolitan area or 9 cases in a non metropolitan area. Once this is met the federal government will likely discuss the matter with the state or territory government concerned for possible actions involving the federal government I guess. So by Australian standards all of UK , probably Western Europe is a hotspot. Maybe a hot region.
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  6545.  @OceanFrontVilla3  if you want containment 10 cases in a day is a lot, because we know how easily it gets out of control and the economic impacts, for example a 30,000 + crowd will attend a football game in my city next month. If we have 10 cases per day it might be called off.
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  6546. I wouldn't accept any position offered to me if it was by Trump at this point in time.
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  6547.  @rhonda6791  About bushfires maybe but the pandemic of course he cares , in the end the commonwealth has supported the states well. Ignore a lot of the noise and look at actions, the military for example assisting with the NSW / QLD border control, probably the federal government doesn't want to but in the end they are there. The main problem with NSW seems to have been Gladys in charge not the CHO, some responses at press conference indicate this, politicians like to keep everything open so NSW remained arrogant and thought they didn't need to lockdown and then lockdown lite allowed the virus to spread all over the state. It's true in Sydney it might have happened anyway like in Melbourne because they did the right thing and locked down quickly but now looks like lost control, however as vaccination rates increase in both states in theory cases should come down at some point, I personally think little of the modelling by Doherty Institute, we have real life situation which will happen no matter what, the modelling doesn't really help other than give an approximate time line of when things might get under control. The other thing is politicians are contradicting themselves about what opening up means, some statements indicate let it rip and other statements indicate in reality it means allow quarantine breeches all the time but jump on them and go back to 0 without any lockdown. Cases only go 2 directions up or down they never remain stable.
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  6548. Homeless people doing fine? Explain this comment to me.
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  6549. In the US journalists are very soft even on the non biased networks. In Australia I noticed compared to the US journalists will attack politicians regardless of side they are on. Exception is Sky News Australia which is a Murdoch run outlet and as bad as and sometimes worse than Fox News.
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  6550. Trump has just increased the trade deficit from what it would have been with Canada and Mexico because consumers and for that matter businesses would be looking for alternative suppliers because trust has been lost in the US.
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  6551. It's not a trial like in a court room, he did nothing wrong but it doesn't look good. It's the same on the other side.
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  6552. Seems Faiza is a lovely lady. Sad to see how she has been treated. Even though i would likely consider her a bit much of a leftie i would probably vote for her if i was in her electorate.
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  6553. @sirmeowthelibrarycat  it's not an absolute thing, she is only an individual, so I would be completely fine with her being an elected representative. If people like her were a majority and could form a government then I would have an issue but this isn't the case. Having people to the left and right of what I consider centre in parliament is a good thing, just don't want them in control.
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  6554.  @MaxItUpwithMarta  follow your mum and mum's mum, eat healthy etc.
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  6555. The US has veto power in the UN security council making it powerless to do anything.
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  6556.  @USUG0  the irony is you are responding to an original comment in a country where measures were taken and 2020 at least and I suspect 2021 our country had a reduction in expected deaths and almost fully open (Western Australia still not open) yet all the whining.
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  6557.  @SGI999  You claim to be a constitutional lawyer and know that all vaccine mandates go against the constitution, well it could come down to one's job type and whether or not it's reasonable. My feeling is health workers have 0 chance of winning their case however others might have a chance in some circumstances as in it's not reasonable. If people are employed by the government then my guess they don't have a good chance. You're complaining about New South Wales government from what I understand and about historical things a few months ago. You also complaining about inflation, housing is the biggest cost in Sydney if you live there, move if you don't like it. There's plenty of food on shelves so you must be well off and complaining about not getting your favourite cut of meat or that if you like beef that's gone up a bit which is great , that means Australia is exporting more at a higher price, unless you want communism or to stop farmers selling to the highest bidder that's how it is for an international commodity. So I don't understand your concerns at all, only that you're scared of taking a vaccine. Omicron is the best thing that could ever happen, it gets things over with quickly and the Chief Health Officer in Queensland said in the most recent press conference that things are looking good and the cases are a massive undercount. He said they were cautious in saying anything up to now because QLD had 0 cases of natural infection so couldn't compare to other jurisdictions, however it's turning out ok, the vaccines are doing their job. NSW has peaked and QLD as a whole is about 2 weeks behind is the estimate. Cases are going down in your state cheer up a bit, doesn't mean it's over but it's probably on the way to being over, schools might be an issue we have to wait and see if the unions want to shut them when there's outbreaks or alternatively teachers required to stay home and quarantine when infected. My feeling is Australia as a whole will have less problems keeping schools open than say a country like the US. Australia having less than 10% of the deaths of European countries and the US is a good thing isn't it and you say vaccines might not be working but clearly they are in stopping severe illness and death. I understand your feelings towards your state government but NSW isn't Australia despite how our PM talks sometimes.
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  6558. Same
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  6559. It's an absurd idea, basically he's trying to create a new unregulated reserve currency to compete with the USD. There's probably a dozen or so currencies of reserve status with the USD and Gold being probably the top 2. Chinese government has actually been buying up a lot of gold in recent years. I know China is considering trying to make it's currency reserve status but it's still got too many restrictions on it to become a real reserve currency but i think it will happen one day starting in my region , basically the RCEP trade area. Contrary to popular belief this is the largest trading block in the world, it's not an entirely free trade area but nor is USMCA which is slated to end in a month anyway.
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  6560. You don't know how disappointed millions of us are now, we all thought we would get better wifi and internet after the vaccine as required for tracking us but internet connections are still the same.
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  6561. It's not an emergency here so giving emergency approval doesn't make sense and we don't know how long these vaccines will work anyway. Even when vaccines start being distributed I can't see the 14 day quarantine disappearing quickly.
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  6562. Trump has endured a couple of days of love however, one missed and one didn't get a chance to take a shot.
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  6563. Lots of Wumaos in the comments. Seems they get triggered by the mere mention of Australia.
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  6564. Haven't heard that conspiracy before, is it an Irish one or just an Irish joke.
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  6565. I think most do actually.
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  6566.  @susancorvalan6765  the rare cases of voter fraud which couldn't change any election results were bipartisan actually, both examples of Democrats and Republicans doing it.
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  6567. You'll need to cut down trees for the extra land for your organics, is that really the solution?
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  6568. The delivery driver admitted he didn't handle it that well and basically said he was having a bad day , and same probably applies to the other guys. To compare this to basically chasing down a black guy with guns in the case of Arbery is absolutely ridiculous. Just see it for what it really was based on information available a few people getting into a dispute and both over reacting. If the driver had given full details when questioned " I delivered a parcel to ..... and call him/ her if you want I just want to get my next delivery done" it would have been over in a minute. The reactions and minor escalations and de escalation by both to me indicates they could probably have a beer together and laugh about the situation now.
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  6569.  @lbarnx  Here is a question for you. If it was Trump tower would it be possible to deliver a parcel to an apartment without being questioned by anyone? If the answer is probably not then would a delivery driver just answer or say it's none of there business?
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  6570.  @naeshelle  I thought it was sold to multi owners, got that wrong . However the concept is still the same. Take another expensive NY building with multiple ownership then in place of what I said. I am sure reactions would be different.
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  6571. Trump's polls are literally through the roof, I would suggest acknowledging this. Liz Truss did far worse than Trump. Please acknowledge Trump has extreme high poll ratings considering he is tanking the US economy. Maybe ask why US citizen are happy with Trump so much despite the damage he is doing.
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  6572. It's recommended as a general rule to wait 6 months after infection to get the vaccine , best to ask a doctor so they can consider individual circumstances.
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  6573. Tucker is a joke, in the last 100 years according to him the Republicans were soviets.
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  6574.  @tuck295q  hey mate clearly you are not a fan of your government, however don't understate how well you have done. Despite the way politics works in Thailand and I have knowledge of this , the Thai public service is actually of quite a high standard and regardless of what government you have they do allow public servants to do their job. In January and up to February 21 Thailand like Australia my country , Japan , Taiwan etc. had found more cases individually than US and all European countries. We were ready and had border quarantine, US to this day doesn't have enforced border quarantine as is the case with most European countries. This act alone is considered controversial in US and European countries.
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  6575.  @tuck295q  you don't understand , look at the US if you want to see the difference. Why is the US public service so useless? Could it be because of the leadership. Currently Thailand is potentially on a knife edge if covid 19 breaks out in protests because would they stop protesting if required. People often don't appreciate what they have because it's not perfect or until it's gone. All government leaders said or did things that look stupid in retrospect regarding covid 19 with the possible exceptions of Taiwan and Vietnam. The government is in power and could have behaved like most European governments and US government did. I do understand the issues in Thailand regarding at what stage your democracy is at. Having things change slowly I would suggest is not a bad thing. Although there is certainly issues your current king doesn't really want to be involved with politics which is good but the change might be rocky. If what is happening now , happened 30 years ago in Thailand as you know bullets would already be flying. I hope this doesn't happen but it's not impossible. Transitioning from the previous kings idea to the likely path of the current king is uncomfortable for some. I know the biggest issues for many Thai is the current kings behaviour is not "king like" however in the scheme of things this isn't a big problem. I think in 10 or 20 years Thailand will have a constitutional democracy more similar to a country like England where the monarch and privy council are pretty much symbolic from.my understanding.
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  6576.  @tuck295q  I actually looked up USAID and what you are referring to was $4.2 million USD only, so a drop in the ocean, total aid was at $78 million of this the 2 main programs at about $10,000,000 each was for Burmese or Myanmar refugees and some military thing. I am not arguing Thailand is perfect or anything but just be a little more patient and don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Of course I hope things resolve peacefully and the constitution doesn't have the upper house controlled by the military anymore. As far as the institution of the palace , that's a hard one because while I might think it should be less involved do Thai people overall want that? Also what is your opinion on the Royal Projects which is funded by government but run independently of government. I did find out about probably the most contentious issue and that's the king having direct control over property such as palaces and in theory that he could actually sell them off or leave them to whoever he wanted to in his will. The amount the government is giving the monarchy does seem excessive but might not be and it lacks any transparency what it is for. As far as assets that could be considered private property it's sort of a mess and having finance ministers previously manage them is no different to now because either way conflicts of interest can be argued. However the tax now paid by the king on investments would be significant which is a plus I guess. Whether or not it's a good idea for the king to declare publically that income or not , I don't know and it has never been declared before under any king. Anyway best of luck and hope all goes well. I do have some money in the Thai stock market but haven't followed it for ages and my gf actually is in the military and fairly high rank , involved in the medical field. That's how I know some things. The difference between US and Thai government system is one is a Federation and one a central government, the overarching system in the US and Australia is the same, state governments deal with health and therefore the operational part of dealing with covid 19. Enjoy the end of your weekend. I hope both our countries stay covid 19 free.
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  6577.  @tuck295q  an interesting thing about foreign aid, according to Australia's DFAT Thailand is a net donor country actually, about ASEAN development. So you can be proud you help the poorer countries around you.
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  6578. It does, in fact the motive was roughly the same as the Oklahoma City Bomber, about taxes and the government. Wouldn't you consider them both to be terrorist attacks?
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  6579. Regardless the paranoia here there is no chance votes can't be counted if post marked by election day and arrived within the time frame unless fraud is proven to have occured in the post office putting back dated post marks. Pretty unlikely I would think although technically not impossible.
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  6580. After the vaccines were available about half or something, but they make up 80% of the population.
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  6581. Very true like it or not Mexico can grow foods like avocado which can't be grown in Canada, this isn't a one way street, certain seafood Canada can produce can't be obtained from Mexico as an example. Canada and Mexico should have their own free trade agreement, this isn't uncommon in my part of the world in Australia where we have 4 or 5 overlapping agreements with New Zealand and Singapore. I would encourage the US even though that won't happen and Canada to embrace free trade.
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  6582. A couple of comments, of course North Korea has it under control. If Australia and New Zealand can be authoritarian enough to succeed then I have no doubt at all that North Korea can put in restrictions and enforce them. With the cost of producing a vaccine it will have very little variation around the world and depending how you calculate it will not vary by more than 20% if done on the same scale, all material input costs are identical other than import taxes and the costs of robots and other machines is identical other than import taxes. Wages will only be a small cost in a highly automated process and if capital costs are included US and EU may actually be cheaper because of lower capital costs and low interest rates.
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  6583. To those Americans who are unhappy with Trump's behaviours and nominations. Well he's probably going to start a trade war US versus the world which will hurt everyone. The silver lining for us foreigners is it will be entertaining watching the apprentice on steroids , his cabinet is basically a reality show and Trump won't change he will enjoy hiring and firing them all, it will be very entertaining to the world.
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  6584.  @Midwit_Madness  there have been 3 states transport patients outside of their states , this is just my memory so could be wrong Alabama, Mississippi and might be Arizona. Transported intrastate El Paso and somewhere in Southern California. If you mean local authorities which should not be the main ones running the response it should be the states you are correct in that the majority of large cities are Democrat run, stopping spread in a large city is far more difficult than small cities or rural areas so obviously that will occur. In Australia at the moment all but 2 states are covid 19 free other than imported cases. There is 2 states with less than 10 cases a day total so probably soon country of 25,000,000 covid 19 free , just to pre-empt your next comment Australia is slightly more urbanized than the US we aren't spread throughout the desert. Now Australia's worst state for per capita deaths has done better than the best performing state or major US territory. Some states must be run by Republicans I guess even though you think the virus has gone political, evidence would suggest otherwise. Trump runs the country he is the government due to your system of government he chooses and commands all the secretaries normally called ministers elsewhere, so the people running government are actually unelected. Maybe that system should be looked into, a president is a bit like an elected king. Trump was creating a "better" economy by tax cuts to corporations and running up debt and that's before covid 19. A lot of business was created under Trump's watch through government spending or in other words socialist policies, now due to government failures drug companies etc. have plenty of customers and PPE manufacturers. I will be curious to see the ratings for the economic freedom index by the Heritage Foundation next year. It's is a pretty good guide for how socialist a country is. As a Republican you must be disappointed that the US is low functioning for a limited socialist economy.
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  6585.  @Midwit_Madness  Now I get where you are coming from , while there is some truth in what you say about the US being corrupt compared to best practice you are correct. The reason for it is your system of outdated democracy which in it of itself creates corruption. Voting in law enforcement , and DAs as one example will create corruption in small jurisdictions because you will be more lenient towards your voter demographic or you lose your job. There are numerous examples of this sort of system in the US. Gerrymandering is extremely harmful and is by modern standards a corrupt system, the reason it's so harmful is because those you are disenfranchising are angry for being discriminated against. As we can see discrimination and affirmative action which is another form of discrimination has created some very angry people who kill each other and destroy property, this is not normal in a high income country, although I don't know the details France seems to have similar problems having riots there somewhat often. Constitutional change is the only thing that can fix these problems in my opinion. Maybe because things are so bad now it might be considered or maybe not.
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  6586. You missed a few. Basically you mean consumer protection laws need to be reformed and enforced along with appropriate fair trading practices between businesses. Also you need government to become more functional and actually pay market rates for all goods and services which the US is really bad at.
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  6587.  @user-ji6mn3no1j  What is sickening is the largest peacetime killing done with intent this century against citizens of their own countries.
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  6588. One family had cases which escaped quarantine in Victoria Australia and contact tracing failed , due to genomic testing about 95% of the Victorian second outbreak came from this single event which amounts to about 15,000 cases. If you don't eradicate it after 3 months or so 1 case will be many thousands of cases and that's with restrictions, left to run wild maybe hundreds of thousands as we saw in March /April around the world.
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  6589. Qanon Shaman in plain English is Trump's Witch doctor. Not sure why people so shy to say this. Trump is the God of Qanon, try to find anyone they agree with other than Trump and his other followers.
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  6590. Travel restrictions do exist and if you are outside Victoria then some of the lowest restrictions in the world, so awful. Healthcare is still operating as normal. Aged care homes aren't old person prisons like in most jurisdictions in the world to protect them, another awful effect of travel restrictions.
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  6591.  @kirsten601  I realised restrictions existed with aged care and in South East Queensland the lockdown restrictions only just lifted from recent outbreak. 2 visitors plus the pre requirements is better than elsewhere. I guess they not allowed to go out because of fear they bring the virus in. I am surprised you say certain elective surgery only just restarted. Even if this is the case other places are much worse. I am in Queensland also.
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  6592. But Trump is the more socialist. He wants to stop international trade by taxing all imported products.
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  6593.  Gazpacho Suave  what is Guiri?
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  6594. The majority of commenters in this thread should be thanked by Chinese and Russian authorities for doing their work for them. It's amazing , the US is self imploding, all these people who don't trust their own government with even the most basic things like counting dead bodies and bodies currently in hospital due to a certain cause.
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  6595.  @Ethan-ly4tj  raw vaccine material exports from the US were never banned, what occured was orders by defence production act caused a shortage so it might look like a ban but it wasn't , if manufacturers could have produced excess then no problems exporting and anyway Biden and Harris have indicated that they will fix that problem soon if it hasn't been fixed already.
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  6596. They are rusted on voters, they wouldn't vote Democrat no matter what. As Trump once said he could shoot someone on fifth street and still get elected. I don't think he will this time though.
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  6597. What are you talking about? Other than with the Communists and Philippines it's colony it gave independence to with a terrible one sided trade deal the US didn't do what you suggest.
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  6598. All these comments , I wonder if an elderly relative or friend died because a healthcare worker infected them whether you would be so supportive of the right to chose at government expense, because you would also have to pay as a taxpayer for the hospital bed that person dies in. I can understand some arguments at the edges but healthcare workers must get vaccinated or sack them. Also anyone hospitalized who wasn't vaccinated should pay is a possible middle ground, if people agree with that then for me it's probably ok. A business should also have the right to protect it's customer and require that only vaccinated people enter if they want, businesses have rights too but implementing a voluntary scheme may be impractical.
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  6599.  @JohSentenza  I am aware of what you say and the science does say it dramatically reduces the chance of being infected but doesn't bring it anywhere near 0. So cutting the possibility by 60% in a standalone situation as evidence suggests is significant and worth it, if everyone in a hospital or nursing home is vaccinated then the effects will be greater than 60% because it compounds reducing the spread between each other. Nobody vaccinated basically the Delta variant will infect 100% of people in a fairly short time. It's like all measures in society, a seat belt in a car might reduce your chance of death by 50% but then add in the crush zone of a car and airbags and it goes up to 90%, can never reach 100% it's impossible and unless the virus is eliminated vaccines plus other measures also can never reach 100%.
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  6600.  @JohSentenza I do agree that as many different types of vaccines should be available , the Astrazeneca one would be available in France I believe which is the same as Sputnik regarding the platform of using a live adenovirus that's been manipulated. It would be good to have the Chinese ones available which although a bit less effective they are also lowest risk of side effects because they are just dead virus which is the oldest and simplest technology. The Astrazeneca is only recommended for above 55 year olds in France it seems so that's an issue. In Australia the position is with Astrazeneca recommended for above 60 and below 60 someone can choose to have Astrazeneca which is more readily available than Pfizer which is the other vaccine that is being relied upon currently.
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  6601.  @JohSentenza  just quick internet search regarding Frances current position on Astrazeneca. Anyway I guess every country will muddle along on whatever path, things still have a long way to go and the unknown new variants could change everything as Delta variant has in Western Pacific and South East Asia WHO regions. Without that new variant which is far worse than the Alpha variant countries like India, Vietnam, Thailand , Indonesia and New South Wales Australia in my own country etc. wouldn't have anywhere near the current problems. Can consider the Delta variant a whole new virus compared to the original Wuhan variant. Best of luck wherever you are.
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  6602. The Trump regime will collapse in support but it's unlikely to collapse in reality. What people tend to do under such circumstances dig in because as the cards start falling and they become aware they will lose their next election on a personal congress person level, they now have nothing to lose. People like Marco Rubio who I suspects knew even before he got his secretary position that after his term is up he's destroyed politically just took the job so he can say he was a US secretary/minister. When you are dealing with such people who are metaphorical kamikaze, you can't beat them until the next election which might not occur on time due to martial law.
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  6603. Nah we don't need more nuclear states, that only increases the chance of something happening I think.
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  6604. While i think it's terrible at least he has followed through with a promise. If or when he follows through with Trump tariffs it's going to hit low and medium income Americans and they literally voted for it.
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  6605. Lanko your comment is extremely strange. Go and look up the homicide rates by state and you will see despite mostly Republican states supplying guns to gangs in Chicago for example the Democrat states are much safer unless you believe Republicans only kill family members so the general public is actually safer in Republican led states despite the higher homicide rates.
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  6606. Less people have been killed than a single bad weekend in Chicago or Detroit or New Orleans etc. by your standard the US is fighting an eternal war with gangs.
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  6607. Nah it's according to WHO region what the general policy was and how effective on an individual country basis, Australia is in Western Pacific WHO region which has 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine and has its highest cases in the Philippines which has a bit over 200 deaths per million. The European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region had open borders and voluntary quarantine, high case countries over 2,000 deaths per million, it's as simple as that, policy.
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  6608. That means there's about 7% of people in complete denial because they hate Elon but are ok with Donald.
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  6609. The outcome is likely to be more police and less businesses. Only a brave person would set up a business any time soon in these areas. I feel great pity for the smaller business owners who have lost everything and there will be some in this category. This event might already be causing deaths due to covid19 and people in affected areas scared to leave their homes. Shame on the rioters. Peaceful protestors ok but they should no longer be out.
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  6610. The one's in the park shown in the last part of the clip were fine I think, it's the other ones breaking the rules that were being arrested.
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  6611. To everyone but US citizens, Europeans of Spanish heritage are considered white. You are an example of the racism in the US.
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  6612.  Shen Shen  You are biased because you say that the Western Pacific WHO region is run by China, all the other countries just copy China. Could be and very likely actually we all work together on this issue, we all have the 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine for arrivals. Nobody else does the test an entire city thing. China is however having problems now with Delta variant and they can't test the entirety of 20 cities at the same time so need to change policy one way or another. You are correct though if the world followed the Western Pacific WHO region policies we wouldn't have had the variants which is the problem now.
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  6613. As they say easy come and easy go. Tesla has a reasonable value of about 10% of its market price. Over time the market will always move towards intrinsic value. What's amazing is after a ~50% decline in European sales Tesla price hasn't collapsed already. Tesla isn't going to make a comeback.
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  6614. Not entirely true, it reduces risk of death by about 90% , so an 85 year old who's vaccinated and has a breakthrough case will still have about a 1% chance of dying instead of 10%.
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  6615.  @mohameddiakite4953  Depends on your age and just using age the number I gave was roughly right , if you are over 90 it drops down to about 80% survival rate unvaccinated meaning a vaccinated person at that age still only 98% survival. Below 50 especially if not overweight the survival rate even without a vaccine is very high to start with.
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  6616. To both of you take care and stay safe.
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  6617. It's to cause fear, same reason no other countries not yet targeted are speaking up against Trump's crazy trade war. However citizens in Europe, Australia and NZ who following this are boycotting US products along with Canadians and Mexicans. Outside of China and the US Tesla is looking terrible.
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  6618. Depending where, in Western Europe they are in a similar position. I am in Australia and have been following the US. Here in the West Pacific regardless of government type population densities, cultural differences we have had a similar response, responses from much poorer countries like Vietnam , Malaysia and Thailand make the US seem particularly incompetent. The alternative argument that my country and others of similar response might turn out to be somewhat true but as of now with the best performing countries in my region and a population to match or far in excess of if you include China and Indonesia ( Indonesia is not doing all that well but looking better than US) we have combined deaths that don't even come close in any way shape or form. I think our conservative approach so far is the best approach.
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  6619. Well you have to consider that it's only 1% of the population, however it's going to become impossible to keep doing this, Omicron is not like other variants. Only China has the ability to stop the spread and I would suggest not forever. They are delaying the inevitable.
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  6620.  @istvanglock7445  I haven't followed UK politics so I don't know.
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  6621. ​ @mollymcsunshine there's literally 1,000s of MAGA trolls here. Does it bother you if there's a few Democrat trolls? Are you really that insecure on this propaganda channel?
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  6622. There was an injustice. Trump is a tax evading criminal and he hasn't been brought to account for his actions.
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  6623. The US treats guns like covid 19, somehow an 80% success rate will work. Some things need to be 99% to have any real effect, any person who is unstable who just watched this show has been advised how to get a gun without any checks and legally. An unstable person doesn't mean incapable of carrying out simple tasks, opening a bank account is more difficult than buying a gun in the US, most people are capable of opening a bank account.
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  6624. They're just repeating talking points, there's no logic to it.
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  6625. The US will lose intelligence because defectors in particular will choose other countries they can trust more. Genuine defectors not those looking for citizenship are very valuable. China of course is the main threat because they have operations in all the 5 eyes countries.
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  6626. It isn't absolute. I personally don't have a problem with cannibalism but it's banned almost everywhere.
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  6627. @DickNemos  not at all. Just remember cannibalism doesn't include homicide necessarily. If my brother or child or whoever wants to eat me after I die in an accident then no problems.
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  6628. Not always, in as long as the arguing is done with relative respect. There have been and still are more border disputes in the states of Australia plus New Zealand than throughout Europe where it would seem rather soft border closures with no enforced hotel quarantine with guards outside your door. The effect of the border disputes in Australia was previously the states with cases asking those with no cases to open their border and the federal government wanting that too. Of course a covid free state says hell no we don't want your infectious people coming in without quarantine. Supposibly a verbal agreement was made recently about a hotspot being 30 cases over 3 days in a metropolitan area or 9 cases over 3 days in a rural area a hotspot otherwise borders open, only 2 out of 7 jurisdictions followed through so looking like we all need to be 0 otherwise other states will shut their border to you. They seem to have got cold feet when it came down to it. So the lack of political unity and direct self interest of each jurisdiction has probably created a very strong containment policy to the point where any cases occurring will likely shut your states border protecting the rest of the country.
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  6629. Not 200,000 of them.
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  6630. High level judges are always appointed by politicians in every democratic country at least however the judges themselves appearing to be highly engaged in politics is unusual. It's no different to choosing the head of the military of course politicians do that but again you would hope they don't have significant party alignment otherwise they can just do a coup d'etat if ever their chosen political party loses.
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  6631.  @ColdHawk  Well the biggest mainstream news organization in the US is Fox News and since until about a week ago they were extremely pro Russian to the point of supporting Russian invasion of Ukraine pretty fair to say any bad stuff you wanted to find on Ukraine is on that mainstream channel.
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  6632. Unfortunately he won and we must respect this.
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  6633. Let's hope the girls wake up to themselves and apologize etc. or worst case 5 years prison. I doubt the judge would do that but if they are combative and unrepentant it will affect the sentencing if found guilty which seems clear cut at the moment.
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  6634.  @lilychau1671  We will see or hear in a few days what happens, the slated court appearance date is 28 September so only a few days. I hope they act remorseful and genuinely are. They have had some time to think about it.
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  6635. I think you've lost the plot, Biden just has to have a pulse to win, he could be in hospital on a ventilator looking like he won't make and he will still get voted in.
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  6636. History could suggest the US might have reached a current trajectory of continuous relative decline, both sides of US politics are digging a deeper hole for disfunctional government. Trump's economic boom was government debt funded and never last forever. Social stability in the US is by countries of a similar wealth non existent, homicide rate of 5 or more times per capita than Western European and Wealthy Western Pacific countries. While Biden might be ok in 4 years all the structural problems of the US will still exist so it certainly isn't a given, Americans have an extremely high tolerance for forgiving anything, just like people in a poor corrupt country who think no choice/hope. 4 years people will have forgotten about January 6 event, almost a given there will be riots with killings somewhere during Biden's term and or domestic terrorist attacks. I hope for your sake Trump doesn't come back and both political parties consider moving away from the current non free market capitalist approach and towards limited socialism for those in need and not corporations. Per capita you are a very wealthy country just above Australia on paper but it's poorly distributed due to socialism for the wealthy or in other words corporate subsidies for chosen ones. The median wealth of an adults according to Credit Suisse in 2019 and can be found on wikipedia was about $69,000 for US and $181,000 for Australia, quite a large difference. Also look at Australia versus US on the economic freedom index, which is a reasonable measure of how capitalist a country is , so don't blame capitalism, blame your type of socialism.
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  6637.  Guelaug543  there are subtleties. So far anecdotally it seems at least not worse than other variants. The original comment quotes one particular story and takes it out of context, the doctor also said that there seems to be "less" hospitalization.
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  6638. It's not Victoria, Dan wants you to be able to travel. Us other states won't be letting you out though until it's under control so we won't be getting over it any time soon. Get things under control and freedoms return.
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  6639.  @phillip2921  I know all that because your state unfortunately failed and took a soft approach and failed with quarantine and contact tracing. A quarantine breach by itself didn't matter it was the lack of any follow up which was the true failure, quarantine breaches it would appear occured in QLD and NZ but both under control quickly it seems. The keep borders open to Victoria was being put forward to Queensland in particular. In other words remember history and don't repeat it, proper lockdown and contact tracing fixed you will be like the rest of us. The not fining anyone from those families maybe a mistake and too soft because now everyone knows the fines can be avoided. In WA and Queensland people are in prison for breaking rules. So I wish you the best the only thing likely to cause failure is the continuous soft approach which some see as possibly discriminatory enforcement. I don't think it is but if people think that it's a problem and a tough approach for all avoids that. Edit: your cases are down 90% hang in there, the reopening timeline is looking really good and in theory easy to achieve.
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  6640.  @phillip2921  Victoria wanted an open border, you can't remembered. How many in prison in Victoria for breaches, as far as I know 0. This second lockdown has been hard yes but as you saw things were out of control and it was needed. The original penalties in Victoria were really soft they have only come inline with WA and QLD with the second lockdown. By world standards maybe Victoria did have a tough first lockdown, but by Australian standards it certainly wasn't. No jurisdiction in the world has contained the virus with an open border. US and UK kept borders open the entire time and we can observe their results. London now has a lockdown with maximum of 6 people meeting but border still open with nothing but weak voluntary quarantine. You will look a lot better than London in 6 weeks.
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  6641.  @phillip2921  By the way I'm in Queensland, only real restrictions is the border and nursing home visits in South East Corner. No sympathy for the person jailed for throwing a party 2 nights in a row. No sympathy for whatever those girls get who went to Victoria and came back with the virus lying about where they had been.
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  6642.  @phillip2921  Well in the end I think Queensland will be judged well. It will be my first time ever I think but I am intending to put Labor above LNP at next state election. If I was Victorian I don't think I could vote for your state Labor, noting this issue in Australia has depended on individual governments not their party affiliation. You will be ok us sheep in Queensland are ok. Think of the sheep in WA they can't even get out of their state. I saw whoever it was warning them not to travel to Queensland for the AFL grand final. I don't think they can really stop people but it's almost like they were implying they might not be let back in or fined or something for breaking a restriction. WA had internal roadblocks during first lockdown, now that's a hardline state , not Victoria first time round. Obviously they are fine now so probably few internal restrictions but getting in and out is pretty hard and they will use the threat of prison time seriously. Just hang in there 6 weeks and should be you can laugh at the West Australians and there West Korean border.
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  6643.  @phillip2921  guessing what you are referring to, I am just pointing out current QLD restrictions which the nursing home one came in place after the latest outbreak. Some want QLD to apparently take the Swedish approach which would mean more restrictions than QLD other than travel, one Swedish restriction is total lockdown of nursing homes indefinitely as far as I know of visitors to nursing homes. While it has no effect on me this is a rather cruel draconian restriction in my opinion. I don't dispute it's needed but it would be better if it doesn't apply without the significant risk of killing people as applies in most of Australia. Anyway if I see your comments I will respond just take your anger out on me and others if need be and accept a little waiting and you are more free than most people in high income countries, with only travel restrictions which actually apply to a low number of people because the number of broke or without savings people in US or UK who can't travel is large.
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  6644.  @phillip2921  Ok you stay in Victoria and enjoy yourself I guess.
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  6645.  @phillip2921  how so? You are coming out of lockdown soon , get over it and fight your next battle. The majority of Victorians are not going to run around infecting each other even though you personally might wish for that.
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  6646. @neutrino78x  Well all agricultural areas are red areas so you shouldn't have any problems with retaliatory tariffs against agricultural products .
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  6647.  Palatinus88 03  Yes we know that , that's the purpose of counting them.
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  6648. That would make him god, so nah I don't think so. He might not be a perfect leader but he isn't god.
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  6649. Not Jan 2020 however after our PM said come home in about late March 2020 anyone who left after then or chose to stay I have little sympathy, but for those who haven't been able to return due to bad luck etc. with flights I have a lot of sympathy. They forgot to mention the compassionate flight/s from India earlier this year, hardly racist these people would have cost $10,000 each all up because government pays the lot. The BBC reported on the matter and there was some guy who travelled to India for a funeral whinging and complaining, no sympathy for him he knew the risk, many people within Australia missed funerals due to state border closures, sometimes it's damned if you do and damned if you don't. Australia was generous to him and he complains to international media because like you said things didn't turn out perfect.
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  6650. Sounds like this is plan B. To get rid of federal workers they have deemed as waste by cutting the funding to the point people won't get paid.
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  6651. Sydney is the new Melbourne in Australia, they'll be cut off from the rest of the country until they get their act together and do what it takes to eliminate the virus again.
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  6652. South Africa is slowing down vaccine shipments because of major vaccine hesitancy issues.
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  6653.  @christopherwalker5017  Well then why aren't you at 90% vaccinated for eligible?
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  6654. Only 3 places in the world come back from 500 or more daily cases and that wasn't with the Delta variant. South Korea as described is only in partial restrictions as described, not really a lockdown. They think the virus is a vampire or something so can't spread before 6pm. I think the virus is ok with day and night.
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  6655. Every state has different laws and enforcement policies. I don't know the difference between WA and QLD. Laws can be very different, maybe it's a small fine in WA and possibly gaol time in QLD.
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  6656. Are you referring to the MAGA crowd who are dropping like flies because they want the freedom to stay with their mob and not get vaccinated?
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  6657. Agree with you SQUEAKY, lots of authoritarians in the comments section.
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  6658. I just want to comment on the accent. Three words could swear he's an Aussie and next 3 words could swear he has never left the US.
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  6659. Thanks Suzanne for being ready I guess. Many of your overseas counterparts are going through a very rough time.
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  6660. The thing is in countries that contained the virus are more open except for travel. To get to that point a proper lockdown is required which includes shutting down the economy for a period until contact tracing can work and border restrictions based on jurisdiction which in the US means states. The US decided on no lockdown and continuous lockdown lite with constantly changing restrictions. The containment countries do no appear to be suffering from increased violence , suicides etc. however economic effects are similar but probably slightly less. It was a bipartisan action in the US to go down the mitigation path despite the Spanish flu suggesting containment states of the day did better economically with faster rebounds.
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  6661.  @gojb1998  It doesn't prevent the best local students getting in but might cause resentment sometimes to those who just miss out. The system in Australia is the Federal government pays for Australian students and I would expect at cost or as close as possible to that, the student gets a debt with low interest which only needs to be paid when they reach a certain income level meaning some will never pay or they go overseas and never pay if they migrate. The foreign students would pay free market rates but the system can also be unfair to them if they are actually not capable of successfully completing the studies, it might not be common but I am sure that it happens.
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  6662. Unfortunately the far right in Israel love this. Many Israeli's are just as bad. Have to remember racial supremacists like other racial supremacists as long as they are elsewhere in the world.
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  6663. It's too early for anyone to die from starvation, that takes about a full month without any food, however due to mental health issues , diabetes and some heart disease conditions people will be dying like other lockdowns.
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  6664. Texas your governor has said stuff you I'm the man. A bit reminiscent of one of the final scenes of Training Day with Denzel Washington . Metaphorically speaking let this situation end the same way as the movie. I may not be American but I do share the same common values, if I saw this happening in a poor developing country I would feel sorry for the population. You are not a poor developing nation and have nothing to be afraid of. As bad as they are , you have the power , not them, procedures in place will ensure the vote count is fair and they can't stop that.
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  6665. So no conspiracy if the report is correct just blatant incompetence, much like the early handling of covid 19 in January and February only testing 500 people compared to my country Australia with one 15th of the population with 10,000 tests. The reason I mentioned that time period of the response is because that's before Trump made it worse and he wasn't really to blame for the complete incompetence of the US CDC and his lead guy Fauci didn't have a clue that anything was wrong and should have.
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  6666.  Jiyon Min  Maybe only in Berlin in Germany but many examples around the world.
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  6667. According to the report Ukraine gets the first $500 billion and after that the money from royalties is split in half.
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  6668. WHO has regional offices, PAHO Pan-American Health Organization decided open borders and no enforced quarantine, unfortunately that was a bad policy. Compare to Western Pacific region with less than 10% of the deaths on a per capita basis. Blame your own region , not the world, no other region force this relaxed policy on the Americas, it was a home grown decision.
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  6669. What's wrong with you?
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  6670. Look through the entire comment section and not a single Trumper willing to admit a controlled border is a good idea. Rather amazing since the Trump administration tried to unsuccessfully copy our policies. Keep that Mexican border open without restrictions Y'all.
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  6671. I am a fan of Reagan and for that matter The Heritage Foundation, they probably had a direct impact on Australia becoming one of the great Free Trading nations. The Heritage Foundation has now been taken over by MAGA so they aren't what they used to be. To Americans why do you want to transfer wealth (yes selective socialism) to Elon Musk by effectively banning Chinese electric vehicles? Also for any Democrats out there why do you also agree because banning Chinese electric vehicles was a Biden policy also. Yeah it's sort of funny Biden was and is MAGA also.
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  6672. They never said he tested negative, only that he is not infectious by the standard. It doesn't mean he can't infect someone and saying no evidence of the virus replicating just means the latest test didn't indicate more virus than the previous test. Obviously if your body is fighting the virus to get conclusive evidence of replication would be extremely difficult unless the patient is going backwards and the body is killing the virus at a lower rate than the replication.
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  6673.  @taffshep1  Reports but only Anecdotal I think are flu is dramatically reduced. Peak is normally right now for Australia, the start of spring. With the UK or US it's clear containment will not happen, just copy Sweden and be done with it. The restrictions in Australia are less than Sweden other than travel and Victoria . Don't expect as good results as Sweden though because population is less healthy. The English speaking world is fatter than other major countries so more underlying health problems.
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  6674.  Blue Butterfly  you are just wrong about a few things, quarantine zones even for humans have been found to be constitutional by the high court challenge Clive Palmer versus the state of Western Australia. The only real challenge was the action reasonable under such circumstances. Victoria and New South Wales had an open border policy so a different approach in the beginning. Victoria also had extremely small fines by national standards until lockdown mark II. Victoria opened up a little more quickly than QLD which moved mainly because NSW did. The quarantine breach was not the primary cause of things getting out of control in Victoria, in fact the worst quarantine failure was in NSW with the cruise ship. Victoria's main failure was to contain the outbreak. Queensland had and equally bad quarantine failure to VIC with those girls that decided to go to VIC then sneak back in via NSW by lying about where they had been( court case slated for Monday 28 Sep with a maximum penalty of 5 years if found guilty). That quarantine breach only spread to 50 people or so. The single quarantine breach in Victoria caused 95% of the cases for the " second wave" and they know . If you are Victorian hang in there and do the right thing, a so far worst case scenario would be continous lockdown measures much worse than any state in Australia other than travel restrictions and 10,000 dead Victorians. This is approximately the New York situation adjusting for population of Victoria. The inconveniences which I acknowledge are major in Victoria is better than continuous lockdown lite and 1,000s of dead people in my opinion.
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  6675.  Blue Butterfly  I am in Queensland and you can have ago at my premier if you want. Unless something major happens in the upcoming state election it will be the first time for me to put Labor above LNP. The Queensland government has so far shown themselves to be highly effective in dealing with the health response to covid 19 and actually in the middle ground of travel restrictions. We have free travel in both directions to SA , NT and Tassie. With NSW it's not perfect but I support the border communities agreement with NSW. Personally I don't agree with the WA approach because a little too tough but it's the right of that state. You say that the high court of Australia doesn't understand the constitution or do you suggest they are corrupt for agreeing the quarantine measures by WA are in fact legal?
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  6676. Are you serious or did you make up the words?
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  6677. According to the doctors medical briefing he still has intensive medical care available in the Whitehouse with doctors and nurses available 24 7 or another way to put it he has better medical care available at " home" than an average person has in a hospital.
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  6678. The US doesn't give money to Saudi Arabia. Do you believe everything these commentators say?
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  6679. A lot of plausible genocide supporters in the comments.
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  6680. @brinjoness3386  Thailand does but a problem is that the person must choose a hospital, this means for somewhat urgent care it's a problem if that person is away from that hospital due to work or study or something.
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  6681. That's an extreme outbreak , no country has ever come back from such numbers. I remember Melbourne Australia had around 500 cases per day, they did one of the hardest lockdowns in the world and got it back to 0 , meanwhile Canada was having about 400 cases per day and then decided to open up and never put travel restrictions in, check the different outcomes of Australia and Canada with similar demographics and population distribution. My thoughts at the time well done Canada you're going to get rid of the virus , sorry Victoria Australia looks like you have lost control, I was wrong.
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  6682.  @natus99  The US never had a lockdown in a single state. Free travel for all isn't a lockdown, inform the prison population next time the prison governor declares a lockdown they are free to leave if you think free travel without any quarantine is a lockdown. China, Queensland, Australia , Western Australia and New Zealand , places that have hard and fast lockdown look at our case numbers, and death numbers and compare them to any US state, we are human like US citizens and we don't have any special immunity. If you want wide ranging proof look at PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region versus Western Pacific WHO region and you will see less than 10% of the deaths per Capita, if that's not proof nothing is. Don't confuse mitigation designed to not overfill hospitals with a lockdown for elimination purposes which the US never tried. By the way look at the economic performance of US versus Australia, half the government deficit and twice the economic growth for 2020 for Australia compared to the US and without the 40,000 deaths adjusted for Australia's population.
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  6683. The vast majority of MAGA are social Democrats also. Trump says he won't touch handouts. The problem is MAGA believe any things he says. They somehow believe taxing imported products will lead to lower prices of those goods because they will be made in the US. An average 5 year can work out that doesn't make sense when you explain to them what a consumer tax is. MAGA people somehow just believe because Trump told them too.
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  6684. As "make America great again" was Reagan's slogan, he will be turning in his grave. It's like the swastika, previously it was a good symbol for everyone.
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  6685. I am surprised so many and it's very sad.
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  6686. #DictatorsforTrump2020
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  6687.  @bostonlincolnshire8745  I do get the point and anecdotally when hospitals overflow or very close to that people seem to take measures without being forced to , I have seen this pattern in many jurisdictions. Under such circumstances the economy can't improve. A lockdown with contact tracing etc. to finish it more quickly has in every case I am aware of had superior results to what the situation would have been, including, economy, mental health, other health outcomes and much cheaper for the government. Why do so many people enjoy the virus because they have more freedom , that is freedom to travel internationally is beyond me. Most of the people complaining aren't traveling around the world or whatever but that's who's freedom everyone wants to protect.
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  6688.  @bostonlincolnshire8745  well you got your freedom you so desired. Obviously you weren't locked down, go tell someone in prison next time there is a lockdown you are free to leave if you don't like it. Many cancer patients etc. died from covid because their immune systems were low, the anti lockdown people as you are fully aware didn't care for them with their comorbidities and just said they would die anyway, as long as they get their international travel.
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  6689. Watch CGTN for a while and read the comments, you will understand how China thinks.
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  6690. Lots of comments about US social security. It certainly is an entitlement where on average you get more money than you paid in plus interest earned. The fund is due to collapse to $0 in 2035 according to those public servants operating that fund.
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  6691. "Uprising" or "Shaking off" or in other words protest. Intifada doesn't automatically mean violence. So you think peaceful protests should be criminalised?
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  6692.  @bar506  how many 10s of thousands of Israelis killed during these intifada may I ask?
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  6693.  @bar506  seems my response has been censored. How many deaths in those intifada?
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  6694.  @bar506  a little surprised you answered, so killing 40 thousand as the idf has done is ok. I don't think so apparently even according to your rhetoric they were only carrying out an intifada.
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  6695. Community policing in its most simple form is 2 police walking down a road. It requires more funding because these police can only respond to something close by and need to have time to walk the beat. It is good though if needed but it can't be done with less funding. It creates law and order having more police around. What is being advertised by the radicals doesn't fit the description of community policing in my opinion.
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  6696. A part of the problem was other countries weren't finding cases, however we know that many many cases missed especially by certain countries early on.
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  6697. They don't literally think it's not real do they? It's impossible for me to believe seeing NYC with the refrigerated trailers lined up outside the hospitals and the mass grave being filled up anyone thinks it's not real.
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  6698. Half a million body bags to his name , what a sacrifice others had to make due to his failures.
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  6699. For an ordinary person doctors and nurses includes all medical staff. Sorry but you are thinking too much.
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  6700. You also support 200,000 dead people due to your apparent freedoms, dead people might be free of life but I would suggest this is not a freedom which should be emulated.
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  6701. This might be an unpopular comment here but black Americans are more violent than their white counterparts. That being the case one has to ask why is it that an African country like Kenya is safer than the US based on homicide rates. Clearly it isn't a race thing because 99% of Kenyans are black African. There's something wrong with the US. The US is still controlled by white people, so whatever the problem is it's caused by white US people.
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  6702. Hey we do want the games and welcome everyone. We can just ignore annoying people.
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  6703. Of course it will behave differently in countries with zero immunity than countries where it's endemic and somewhere between many and some already have immunity.
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  6704. Vaccines are normally but not always used to stop infections, in the case of covid 19 a vaccine could increase symptoms and it's the symptoms as in immune reaction causing pneumonia which is probably the most common cause of death with covid 19.
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  6705. Obama was a good diplomat, this might sound unbelievable but he had a higher favourability rating in Australia than US when he left office. So internally I don't know but the world liked him.
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  6706. Of sanctions are an act of war, Biden even said as much and rightly so.
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  6707.  @ryandunn241  Not a bad idea, just put some random made up anti Trump or Biden comment and see if someone agrees.
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  6708. Then in 2 months people will say it's a cover-up and why weren't people warned of this even though some evidence already existed. What would you do?
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  6709. Dear Fox Lite, look at your viewers comments. You have burnt yourself and become a truly fringe broadcaster. It's a pity, we don't want to become the US however given your most likely lowering market share and the nutters you attract now seems average Aussies see through you, we support Ukraine , not Comrade Tucker Carlson who's the number 1 propaganda agent on the planet for Putin's Russia. Best of luck Sky News Australia and maybe consider new management, we are not Americans and hate your crap, you are also burning any chance of a centre right government in Australia after next election, of course the coalition tolerating your absolute BS especially the sister wing in the US it's somewhat self inflicted.
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  6710.  @vinnyboy1976  I am not a computer expert but I would image the computer manufacturer and software provider would know how to shut down there own system without needing to know a password. It would appear on the 2 smaller phone networks in Australia, Vodafone and Optus they use Huawei for 3 and 4g. Even hackers get into computer networks. If the minor mobile phone networks were shut down or parts of those networks that currently use Huawei it wouldn't have much effect. The largest private 4g network for a company in the world was for an Australian company by Huawei as of 2019, maybe bigger one somewhere now. This is long after they were banned from the NBN ( national broadband network) so the perception out there that somehow they are banned from everything or that it significantly effects other parts of their business would appear to be incorrect.
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  6711.  老人香港  Santos Limited as of 2019 had the largest private 4g network in the world at the time , not sure if still the case, also they provide services to some railways in Australia. So Huawei doesn't seem to be effected outside of the part of the business they are banned from.
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  6712. We discover all variants here because every case is genomic tested. The case would be in quarantine. Not sure about giving variants nice bird names, should names like vulture, crow, magpie, pigeon, names that indicate hazard not beautiful to watch. In fact snake names would be better.
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  6713. Well a bad Chicago weekend has more killings than unarmed people in the entire United States over a 1 year period by police. Every case is documented and arguments can be made whether or not justice is done in each particular case. The clearance rate for homicides in Chicago was 53% last year I think and that was considered really good because they were even worse before. More detectives are needed in that jurisdiction it would seem. Defund them is madness and this is the protesters main point.
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  6714. So a mere $20 million for a typical family of 4. Most rich people do have a family. Trump is damaging everything. International students will now favour the other 5 eye countries if they want an English speaking country. The other thing is if they get kicked out after finishing education the highly qualified ones will be able to find jobs in lots of other countries.
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  6715.  @ranthony2714  The only healthcare that it's probably essential the government runs is the emergency hospitals, other healthcare can be private , it just needs to be regulated properly, take drugs , I don't think there are any major government owned drug makers on the entire planet. If you look at the top 10 countries in life expectancy they actually have all the different systems from 100% private but highly regulated Switzerland to mixed models like Australia or Spain and totally public it would seem in Italy. So in the end it's the effectiveness of government and it's regulations regardless of the model, the US model is mixed and the government just hands out money left right and centre, more public healthcare spending per Capita than Australia but it's not universal healthcare. You might be confused I said Australia was mixed but it's backbone is the universal system but those who want extras like a private room or less waiting time for elective surgery go private. All emergency hospital care in Australia is run by our state or territory governments. For Covid 19 I believe this played a part in our response because if a state fails they're paying. In the US this was disconnected to a large extent with private and Federal government paying directly to the healthcare provider.
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  6716.  @ranthony2714  I think we are viewing things from a slightly different perspective, I am just looking at the cold hard numbers in a holistic way, life expectancy to me is this number because it takes into account prevention of disease as well as how functional the medical care is. From your comment you seem to be considering things like perception as in how happy people are with the services. Obviously covid 19 required a health response and showed stark differences in how health was considered and effectiveness of health systems along with the regional WHO offices overarching approaches. Canada as a large country stands out in a good way in it's response for the PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region but would be the worst country based on deaths per million in the Western Pacific region of WHO. At least Canada is rated in the top 20 for life expectancy so pretty good, the US ranks 46 however that's likely to drop when new numbers are worked out because of their covid 19 response with direct plus indirect deaths both increasing.
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  6717. Death penalty doesn't work and it's been proven in the US in the past many innocent have been killed and also currently those with expensive lawyers are much less likely to receive such a penalty.
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  6718. Possibly mother nature, he is getting on a bit.
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  6719. He must be a supernatural being then. We all deteriorate after about 50 or so. Joe Biden does just like Trump.
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  6720. The most common penicillin moulds which are green usually are largely harmless, before you see it , it is growing on bread for example and Brie and Camembert cheese you are eating penicillin mouldy milk essentially.
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  6721. The US isn't "the west" , which Western European countries have problems in their countries?
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  6722. Ignore the YouTube doctors in the comments section, best of luck, hope it went fine.
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  6723. @petec8706  10% isn't unusual, what's unusual is it's happening for some time.
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  6724. If it's been over a week and you are not very sick yet I would think highly unlikely.
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  6725. I think people are missing the main point and that is that doctors and nurses are under a lot of mental strain, as he said normally he would take it in his stride but on this occasion he is basically admitting he had thoughts of I don't want to treat this patient. He didn't act on the thoughts but having the thoughts shook him up a bit which is why he basically told others.
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  6726. He probably did aim for center of mass and happened to hit his head.
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  6727. I just did a quick search based on an observation. The data was a little old and didn't include my country. The US had 12% female officers in 2015 , the only country in the list that was lower was Japan . Statista was the website. I think if a female officer was on the seen regardless of color this event would have been less likely. Maybe putting a few more females in the job would help, and doesn't need to be positive discrimination , just encourage that they are needed and suitable one will come.
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  6728. While not directly endorsing your idea I can see some benefits, Melbourne is full of lefties and if they couldn't vote it could move our political positions a little to the right on certain issues.
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  6729. All this , oh it's a mystery, no it's not, if an average person in an English speaking wealthy country eats over 50% ultra processed food AKA junk food we know we at the population level aren't going to increase our life expectancy to 90 are we. If however we just banned almost all processed food and fast food chains and restaurants that don't serve healthy which is 99% of them because good tasting and cheap is bad , alcohol vouchers and ban smoking then maybe but there would be riots on the streets so life expectancy might go down due to violent death in the interim.
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  6730. That's transfer of a complex and relatively large creature, those insects. How about something so small you can't see it.
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  6731.  @waynedeadder664  Hey can call it 3 lice waves.
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  6732.  @nummer3sweden  I looked up the issue and and found an article and although it didn't give a number it stated that several teachers in Sweden had died from complications. So opening up of schools in highly infected areas of course will lead to some dead teachers, really no different to medical staff when you think about it although the risk levels would differ if you are a nurse or doctor directly dealing with covid 19 patients who it would seem are highly infectious compared to a-symptomatic cases.
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  6733. In the US hospitalizations and deaths are now rising , mostly in the unvaccinated. So it's incorrect to say in the Western World, your comment seems correct for the UK.
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  6734.  @daverok1113  I looked up the US CDC website and hospitalizations are up week on week, reported deaths are actually down however deaths lag as even you know. Give it a few weeks deaths will be rising.
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  6735. It's not a game changer because Free trade agreements already exist other than China with Japan all other countries have Free Trade agreements with each other. It does however solidify the current arrangements and improves on trade rules hopefully. Geopolitically it doesn't change much other than puts pressure on other parts of the world which aren't so free trade orientated. If you listen to the UNGA speeches I know at least my country Australia and China were hinting at this mentioning free trade in the speeches, probably other countries also but I didn't watch that many of them.
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  6736. Damn , a true contender for Trump's rhetorical devices. To convince more than 70 million people you must have some sort of a gift. Not sure Cruz is as good, maybe a wannabe Trump.
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  6737. China isn't open to Australia, can Australia just go and invest in any mainland China company without restrictions, no , can any Western nation bid to build 5 g networks inside China, again no. Can Australia control every MP and stop them from speaking things, again no we are a liberal democracy. China views anything said by any MP as the government position, as a one party authoritarian state no one is permitted to speak anything but the official line and seems to think we are the same. Australia is the last Western Democracy of any size left standing in successfully dealing with covid 19 and our allies are quite weak at the moment, particularly the US. Best to apply pressure to us and at the same time favour the US with trade, maybe we will fight each other but we won't. I think things will calm a little by about February when the US should be a little more stable than now or hopefully they are.
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  6738.  @Gasanwu  As a general rule no foreign company can go into China without 50% Chinese ownership in a joint venture, this is the arrangement with all the foreign carmakers. So no you can't just open up a business there. Tell me of the Chinese MP that has spoken against the CCP and not followed the party line, curious to know how that person is going in the communist party. Some backbencher can just say anything in Australia , it doesn't make it the government position. Otherwise why did the Chinese embassy say MP and not name them, was it for politeness and notably didn't say PM. Agree with you to a point on trade issues because the US is our competitor and was extremely quick to accept preferred supplier status with barley with the information on a US government website within 2 days of the Chinese announcement of tariffs against Australia. The trade versus security interests of Australia are difficult to juggle.
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  6739.  @Gasanwu  As an Australian I am not too concerned with the goings on, it's rather ironic at the same time we are having a "trade war" we sign RCEP and hope for ratification by the end of next year according to our government website. I suspect some issues are cultural and China over reacts and gets offended about literally anything. In my region or in particular ASEAN countries the US has been non interventionist for a long time, I suspect it's sort of designated as Australia's area of responsibility and we are different to the US, the most obvious example is Australia and New Zealand restored diplomatic relations with Vietnam in 1975, the US it was 1995, it's a bit like the US are poor losers and don't move on. I personally completely disagree with trade sanctions because it inevitably empowers any dictatorship by creating a common enemy and makes the normal people poorer, regimes are almost exclusively overthrown by the middle class not poor people. So keep everyone poor you will ensure the dictatorship survives. As bad as human rights are currently in China it's still a massive improvement on 30 years ago when they started to open to the world in ernest. I do think that a country like Australia should still point out what we consider wrong , it is important but no trade sanctions etc. Australia is very much a free trade country, see our rating on the Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation. China has used this type of behaviour with other countries, can't remember the reason but they were annoyed with South Korea about something so China stopped all tourists going there which of course causes a significant shock. That's the aim here hurt us so we tow the line, however other than possibly the delivery of the message there is no difference in policy between the government and opposition parties and that applies to trade also.
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  6740.  @leoncutajar1369  The rise of China has helped Australia greatly and the mining industry , coal and iron ore has helped China greatly also. We both benefit and neither country wants to stop our overall beneficial relationship.
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  6741. We shall see. Do you believe that a police officer should never chase a suspect? Do you also believe that firing a deadly weapon , the taser as defined by the attorney general, towards the police officer, the police officer should not respond? We shall see how the case goes.
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  6742.  @gutgolf74  I am Australian , however this is not about race many black and white people are on both sides of this argument. I didn't state whether I think he is guilty or not and that's for a court to decide in the end. I have my personal opinion on the matter but that is not a legal one. Unless you are a lawyer who has studied the particular charges in the state of Georgia you only have a personal opinion also.
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  6743. It actually seems most of their news is pretty normal now but their viewers are pro Russian, Pro Fox News people. I do think Sky News is probably a liability to certain politicians especially given their close relationship to Fox.
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  6744. You can, it's just you don't want to. Mandatory quarantine means locking someone in a hotel room for 14 days and that hasn't been tried over there. At the time the Australian interstate borders all closed but one about 20 US states didn't even have the virus all those low population states in the center of the US mainland just sat there waiting to be infected at the same time saying how great they were because they are Republican and look at New York and California. It never had to happen in at least half the US which actually had plenty of time to prepare. Anyway best of luck and take care of yourself.
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  6745.  @colliecoform4854  your constitution is similar to ours it just guarantees free trade between states. Governments can do anything for quarantine purposes so long as they are reasonable. In Australia there hasn't been any restrictions on interstate trade other than tourism and of course precautions are taken with trucks or planes delivering things interstate. If you can declare a curfew like has been done in some US cities to stop riots , you can certainly require someone to quarantine for 2 weeks if they enter your state, it's all a choice. Otherwise let's say your neighboring state had an outbreak of another virus that killed 10% of the population and had an extremely slow incubation time and 30 % of the population are actually asymptomatic. That means you would just allow it to spread throughout the country killing 20,000,000 people if you were correct. Do you really believe the government has such little power this would occur? Do you believe the CDC is lying when they say an area can be quarantined by the Federal or a state government. Common sense tells you this would not occur.
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  6746.  @TheKenzhang  they can't and would be at least 4 months to achieve the same, China never had hundreds of 1,000s of cases a day.
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  6747. Take care of yourself through this tough time.
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  6748. Yes it is in production. I agree with the Australia New Zealand TGA not giving out emergency use because there is no emergency in either country. Also from a pragmatic point of view if a serious outbreak did occur in one state or New Zealand best to lock that state off as usual and vaccinate them first. Having 1% of everyone vaccinated now would achieve nothing and no data on the efficacy after 6 months, maybe a complete waste of time.
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  6749. I believe you can in a private hospital. Call one of them.
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  6750. It will be more about if herd immunity not reached however I think the UK should be ok, US and France might be a problem, have to see.
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  6751. That's great your jurisdiction is covid 19 free without ever imposing tough restrictions. Where are you from?
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  6752.  @muskokadirty2728  First of all unless the provincial borders are shut reasonably tight with compulsory hotel quarantine it can never succeed. You might bring numbers down a bit but the moment you reopen at all they will bounce back, taking half measures produces terrible results and it actually facilitates spread of the virus because the well off just cross borders from high infection areas to low infection areas as can be seen perfectly in the US. I have great sympathy for you for your partial lockdown that can never really end until/unless vaccines produce herd immunity which is a long way off. No country in the world has succeeded with a partial lockdown, Ontario and Canada will be no different. The oppression of the less well off in favour of those with means to travel of course makes people angry and damages mental health because people feel oppressed and abandoned with some truth to it. Hang in there the best you can because of what they do, if you are an average person you can't change anything so try to live with it. Best of luck.
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  6753. That's a negative attitude and assumes all vaccines are ineffective. This could be the case but the experts think it's likely we will have an effective proven vaccine by middle next year give or take for widespread distribution.
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  6754. The US doesn't know much about it's home grown strains because to quote a wise old man , " if you don't test you don't have cases" , the US has ramped up genomic testing on a countrywide level to 0.3% so I think the saying applies. The California strain isn't getting much news maybe they don't know much about it yet.
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  6755. These corporations including that Aussie owned one are literally vampires.
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  6756. It's not targeting non white people as such but targeting the lower socio economic group I would suggest based on the behaviours of this group. Pretty damning words though we need to change voting laws to have a chance of winning.
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  6757. It's quite depressing actually, California seems on the right track but they are not. No compulsory quarantine of people entering the state or an outright closed border that I am aware of. If my knowledge is correct then ok only another 1000 per day or whatever the real number may be of new imported cases to continue the spread. You can't half stop it and expect major positive outcomes.
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  6758. I am down a hundred comments or so through the list and yours is the first one that's not outright negative.
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  6759. You are right , it's a pie in the sky idea and shouldn't be done by an elite club the G7 . Maybe G20 is ok because it has a diverse group of large economies and political situations in it and then onto the UN.
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  6760. The numbers are too low and would be meaningless I would think.
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  6761. It's being manufactured there so should be some time soon in theory.
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  6762. One of the first discussions regarding the virus in dealing with remote communities was basically nobody in and nobody out as much as is practical. Sensible people take the virus seriously.
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  6763. Actually first offer was ceasefire all hostages returned including 6,000 Palestinians held hostage in Israels prisons in October. The number of Palestinian hostages has dramatically risen since.
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  6764. #askDerrick this is a political question, it seems that the Western Pacific countries from China to New Zealand and the 20 or so countries in between including Pacific Island nations would prefer an elimination strategy which is what our region has tried to do with some success, most of Europe and the Americas have a policy of keeping borders open and just use mass vaccinations and hope the virus goes away without any full lockdown and voluntary non pharmaceutical measures such as voluntary self isolation with no enforcement for entry versus government supervised hotel quarantine or GPS ankle bracelet in Western Pacific countries. So my question after the ridiculously long sentence is which strategy is gaining majority support in the WHO because obviously the Western Pacific countries and visa versa will be stuck with the majority decision?
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  6765.  @johnnylightning1967  Interestingly if you listened to any mid west or rust belt Trump rally he made it clear that Joe is most likely not as much a protectionist and will sign free trade deals and not give industry handouts. Now while Trump's position during such rallies might be considered extreme because he was actually saying Joe is the man for the free market and I am for socialist protectionism, going by Obama's credibility on free trade Trump was a far lurch to the left. Check out the Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation and see how " far left" New Zealand and "moderately left" Australia compare to the so called far right champions of the free market. Trump is the most socialist president since the true change in direction under Reagan and every president since bar none towards free trade. Trump wants some socialist Utopia of all these factory workers with millions of jobs, go watch some old Soviet propaganda if that makes you feel good. Love him or hate him Joe isn't going to do anything radical in my opinion and to a soft extent Joe is more free market friendly than Trump on most issues.
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  6766. ​@ilanafitzgerald9000 yes but this is Westbank , nothing to do with Hamas.
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  6767.  @daverok1113  whatever you want it to be mate. Just count the body bags if it makes you happier so New York trucks for bodies, Taiwan no apparent need for trucks at hospitals. So whatever the test is detecting it clearly kills many people.
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  6768.  @daverok1113  you would agree they died with respiratory disease or not?
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  6769. Let's see if China does the same to Europe as they have to Australia, trade sanctions might be coming.
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  6770.  @cyjase  It is China who has cut communications with Australia officially and calls us dogs and puppets ( China's state run media is China ) and says amongst other things we should crack down on our free media if reporting is unfavorable to China. Other than cowtowing and submitting to China as it's economic colony pretty much , China won't be happy. Exactly what diplomatic steps can Australia take?
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  6771.  @cyjase  have you heard of the 14 grievances and the message spoken while handing the document to a journalist which was "if you want to make us the enemy we will be your enemy" , that's not mucking around and it's a pretty direct way of saying you are the enemy, no other nation has had anything similar that I am aware of in recent times, the US keeps getting praise in a relative sense.
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  6772. If you declare a trade war on the entire planet it can sort of be expected. MAGA people don't care they hate all foreign lands and blame everything on foreigners. Countries like China do the same blame everyone else type propaganda.
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  6773. Yeah I thought it was ridiculous he actually ran towards him after clearly seeing he had a non firearm weapon. At the range when he noticed the weapon there's about 0 chance the suspect could harm the officer and on top of that suspect wasn't running away so had time to negotiate.
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  6774. Most pro Trump comments come from Americans.
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  6775. Intelligence is irrelevant, many cults have intelligent membership. This is a matter of acting with the emotional part of the brain not the logical part.
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  6776. The original efficacy figures were based on 200 cases with self reporting of symptoms, the accuracy of those numbers especially with new strains might be up to 20% 40% off or whatever. When I see phase 3 genuine deaths data not just symptomatic self reporting evidence I will be more convinced. Currently it's all emergency use and not a single vaccine on the planet has finished phase 3, the emergency is people dying every day so much less will die from vaccines we are certain of that but can't give any real risk numbers on the vaccine causing any long term harm or unusual side effects.
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  6777. Negative test doesn't mean much and if the quarantine is voluntary like the rest of Europe , guess what it's near pointless.
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  6778. The invisible enemy is communism and he is fighting on the side of the virus in case you didn't notice, literally promoting it's spread. It's a reds under the bed campaign which depending on your age you might or might not be aware of the saying. Joe is to the right of Trump on economic issues if you actually dig down.
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  6779. Actually non voters won, they were a higher percentage than Trump voters.
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  6780. Not a good idea, it's very hard for Mexico and Canada to decouple. Mexico and Canada will continue to honour the USMCA between each other.
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  6781. She didn't know, simple as that. The probability of the shots killing someone is fairly low actually, but drive by and in this case walk by shootings being so prevalent of course people die. Think of the statistics given in Chicago recently, they give the number of people shot and the number of deaths. Most of these incidents involve multiple shots I would think and the statistics provided don't include drive by shootings where the bullets didn't hit anyone as far as I know. These types of shootings are for terror purposes , not only to kill.
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  6782. Well if you can't forgive his supporters you are just as bad.
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  6783.  @klonowskierklartrohrleitun4241  I agree with your last point that most European countries including UK seem hellbent on proving how free they are with freedom of movement, overcompensating I think for what they know should be done. The UK has however recently moved towards the Australian way but it's possibly counterproductive, giving people 2 weeks warning that a new restriction is going to be imposed means there is probably a rush back to the UK from countries like South Africa, no direct flights but that's meaningless, yesterday I checked where South Africa international flights go and one was Doha and plenty of flights from Doha to London. I just hope these vaccines work because it's actually the only real plan for many countries. On vaccine rollout I think the UK has the best strategy and that's one thing they do seem to have got right, in the US in many states it's a dog eat dog situation to get a vaccine, calling hours and days on end to get an appointment or with other states join a queue for 5 hours and hope the vaccines don't run out before reaching the front, the most vulnerable can't get the vaccine in the second case unless they are in a nursing home because queuing up like that would be too much. The best way to have a compliant population is to show success, if the government keeps failing people reduce their compliance and start protesting including in Melbourne but they did manage to deal with them and actually even they protested mostly they wore masks and socially distanced because they didn't want fines.
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  6784. Hate when Trump is right. But Trump gave the green light to more settlements as has every US president for 50 years or so. Assuming you are American your presidents are all to blame because they all funded new illegal settlements .
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  6785. But woolies is my only share doing well.
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  6786. A remarkable number of sick people in the comments section who are apparently going to hospitals all the time and declaring them empty.
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  6787. I think the concept can only really work if cases are extremely low. So likely to occur between Australia and New Zealand and work but I wouldn't want people from the US or UK coming in without quarantine and the tests on day 3 and 10 as is required. Virus rampant countries can use the concept like you suggest because better than the voluntary quarantine in the US for example but won't stop all cases.
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  6788. The large drug dealers in this region are mostly ethnic Chinese, so your assertion is ridiculous.
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  6789. Not completely close but have quarantine like Western Pacific WHO region did. Until Delta variant we were fine but because PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region and European WHO region had no quarantine in almost all countries. Unless everyone does it , it's not going to work. Consider this new variant to be in Europe and the Americas already, hopefully it's not worse than Delta.
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  6790. He can't answer simple questions because the Republican Party doesn't seem to have any policies, so his answer is that they need to make some with new ideas at an unknown future point.
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  6791. Have you ever heard the saying keep your friends close and your enemies even closer, I am not American but I would suggest that saying is quite reasonable. Watch Fox at least the YouTube stuff and chat to the people in the comments section, find out what they are thinking. Good idea to just chat, no insults.
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  6792. Well Australia had a few hundred less deaths for 2020 so a negative excess deaths number, a big contributor was less respiratory deaths because the restrictions dramatically reduced flu deaths. New Zealand would be similar. Lockdowns do cause deaths so there was about 1400 excess deaths from memory during the initial lockdown in Australia and the graph demonstrated that these deaths occured during March April 2020. So excess deaths number won't only be from covid 19 and the longer the lockdowns the more other excess deaths. So hard lockdown countries like Australia and China the lockdowns on average are shorter and everything open up again, this is becoming much more difficult with Delta variant, Sydney Australia is at a point where they might lose control, look at cases graph in Vietnam and you will see how bad the Delta variant is. Taiwan had the Alpha variant which isn't so bad and looks like they have regained control. Delta variant is estimated to be 60% more contagious than Alpha variant.
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  6793.  @SabinJBB  The lockdowns don't necessarily cause suicides and even if they did it wouldn't be significant in the overall numbers of deaths, I don't know why but people with diabetes and some types of heart problems the deaths increase during lockdown. I know it was found that in rural areas of Hubei province in China that there was a significant increase in suicides during their lockdown but they didn't supply the actual numbers (China controls information a lot but they did use the words significant increase). In the US there was anecdotal evidence of suicide increases but but I haven't seen the actual numbers maybe they are out by now and also very compelling evidence based on 35 city jurisdictions of increased homicides, maybe the full data for both is out now, I don't know. The excess deaths according to the US CDC from January 26 to October 3 was 300,000 for the US with only 200,000 attributed to covid 19, so the long partial Lockdowns caused a significant amount of deaths. That's why I suggest the intensity of a lockdown makes little difference , it's more about the duration and I would speculate that ongoing lockdown lite that seems to have no end if you are going through it is more damaging to mental health than short hard lockdowns and then opening fully most of the time.
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  6794. Have to feel sorry for the Victorian's , especially this time because South Australia's fault for letting an infectious person out of quarantine.
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  6795. Ok fair enough, compare the Australian response on covi sars2. We are both federations where the states playing the major roles. Is it your opinion that the US has outperformed Australia?
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  6796. @Ankit Singh yes the main thing is that all actions work together. Miss one and you have a major outbreak. 3 things are required , Border controls, effective quarantine, testing and contact tracing. If one fails significantly without a quick reaction things are out of control. The other is less important but needs to be done if things are out of control and that's "lockdown" as in major personal restrictions.
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  6797. I have read through a few comments. It seems the US can't take responsibility for it's own actions. South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand can contain the virus with the same information, why can't you? I didn't include Taiwan or Vietnam because they probably are watching China more closely but they achieved great out comes also.
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  6798.  @sharkymoon422  so according to what you just stated infections are at least 10 fold the official cases, that's pretty scary.
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  6799. It's impossible to predict, can only guess what government behaviour and personal behaviour will be. When hospitals overflow everywhere cases seem to go down, happened in parts of US and UK for example, I think because people even if the government does nothing become much more careful. Cases in Delhi should come down about now but what about areas that think they are ok, they might increase.
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  6800.  @UserUser-ww2nj  What you say about border closures is not a maybe , currently your country actually encourages spread by locking down counties or states or cities and then allows the highly infected to just cross whichever border to continue the spread. It's absolute madness but total bipartisan policy. With Australia's experience the 2 larger states wanted to do the same however over time they changed their position to the rest of us and any state with an outbreak will have people in those local areas of possible infection not able to travel to any other state without quarantine or an exemption like medical care not available locally as an example. The soft lockdowns in the US hurt the local area economically and spread the virus to other areas. The 3 jurisdiction that could do it fairly easily is Puerto Rico and Hawaii and Alaska because no daily interstate travel and not physically connected. It would also help their economies because vaccinated people (assuming vaccines as good as they say) and others willing to quarantine for 14 days would like to holiday or stay for a while in a covid free zone I would suggest.
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  6801.  @UserUser-ww2nj  Americans have a perception they are free but actually they are far more authoritarian than Australia and UK, look at the number and how they treat prisoners. Ironically they have more than double the number of health offenders on a per capita basis in prison when compared to Australia, drugs is a health crime that doesn't directly hurt anyone else . You look at a US police force and they are like Northern Ireland was many years ago and they are paramilitary forces when required. Also the social services in the UK and Australia are better and it's not about the amount of money spent because we all have government spending at about 35% of GDP however this will blow out everywhere for the last calendar year but moreso in countries with a failed response to covid 19. The US does spend more on the military though but not enough to explain the bad social services.
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  6802.  @armyman1245  and how did you work that out?
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  6803. It's called hasbara (explaining). Yes they are in support of a plausible genocide.
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  6804. Complete over reaction, the reporter let the interviewee explain the situation. That's what reporters do ask questions.
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  6805.  @msb778  Indian news never reports on news outside of India? Maybe they should then because then Indians could appreciate that compared to many European countries and the US given less resources they haven't done so bad on this issue. In fact if you can't find it on Indian news just use this channel and you will as bad story about those countries I mentioned, worse actually because nobody to dispute any assumptions because many countries have absolutely failed.
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  6806.  @jaikrishna5632  if you want bias I encourage you to look at Fox News or CNN or Sky News Australia, while some stories here do have some bias this wasn't one of them. Without asking those questions which do somewhat play on some of the audience bias how can the story get out that the vaccination plan will likely go better than the US and Europe? That's what the story actually tells people.
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  6807. On other clips it's been indicated needs about 4 weeks to start to get that sort of data you are talking about.
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  6808. Probably there has and it could be a business owner for example who didn't have mental issues before but lost everything, I think it could also be an issue for young people thinking there is no future for them.
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  6809. AR 15 style just means semi-automatic rifle in US news media language and sounds like it was. Don't you watch your own media?
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  6810. Pretty sure they are all bright yellow in Australia. If they aren't obviously color coded then they should be, not saying it was the issue but seems a possibility.
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  6811. China started blaming others from 12 March 2020, so you think the Chinese are racists?
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  6812. Having dual controls isn't entirely unusual, of course Biden drive it but if the Ford guy thinks he's going to hit a wall or something he will hit the brake. Another or alternate reason might be they want to sell it to right hand drive markets also , so good to have a prototype that is both for demo's.
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  6813. I don't think he meant follow all Floridians.
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  6814.  @thetsarproject6874  I think you mean democracies, not all democracies are considered Western , most people wouldn't consider the South Western Pacific islands as Western which is a subjective term however they are democracies. It's true that dictators don't have any issues about convincing voters through a free press, although they still have to convince the people so they just control the entire message with no dissent. So yeah agree with you. The question is , is it to the advantage of China long term and considering they are doing what the US tended to do in the last half of the 20th century , I would suggest it will eventually create resentment where the country can't pay the debt.
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  6815. Maybe things get better with supplies for medical care but slowing the spread to any great extent takes a few months normally.
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  6816. Hey we've done pretty good, no system is perfect but in Australia regardless of state we have done well. The thing that you say doesn't make sense actually does, the community needs to be eased into full opening and completely abandoning all measures and depending on which state or territory you are in there's a risk of significant problems in hospitals. What is certainly annoying for you does in a global sense for Australia does slow the spread a bit. Enjoy your unwanted holiday, just take it easy and relax or be a keyboard warrior , whatever you want.
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  6817. It's a probability calculation, it's not to stop it from ever spreading but that it will spread slowly and if a school hopefully not infect too many before it's realised.
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  6818. Anecdotally it seems some Russian soldiers are probably going AWOL and abandoning their military identity. Quite a few stories of Russian "running away" which seems unlikely they can't run all the way back to the Russian border and Ukrainian still have vehicles to catch up with them. They need to eat also.
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  6819. The tests seem to work in China , Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. Could it be possible that it's not the test itself but the fact that the Americas are full of people with COVI SARS2? Just a thought for you to ponder on.
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  6820.  @VIP_World  everytime anyone gets infected there is a chance of mutations, virus doesn't care if you happen to have got a vaccine. The mutation risks of vaccine escape are higher in the vaccinated group because the virus that evades the antibodies produced by the vaccine has an advantage. For the best possible chance need as many vaccinated as possible.
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  6821. In reality that's true but it's clear many Victorian's and New South Welshmen aren't happy because they're aware of the situation elsewhere in Australia.
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  6822.  @valeriequinn8942  once it's over whenever that may be (over is everything has run it's course and we back to normal) based on history there will be a strong worldwide recovery and it will be relatively fast.
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  6823. Don't worry I won't rush to see the delights of USA and if I do one day I will consider it a war zone.
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  6824. You have already given a good suggestion for a maths lesson involving working with volumes.
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  6825. Maybe next April it will.
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  6826. It's America , prices are essentially fixed everywhere.
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  6827.  Joeng Sui  The original comment isn't saying that this show is biased but that it points out the biases of the US media very well and that we don't have an equivalent pointing out our own biases to anywhere near the same extent in Australian media.
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  6828.  @nzplus7922  don't know about that. In Australia had about 70,000 protestors around the country but only for one day and 0 property damage and 0 violence so not an international story. Maybe 1 minute on NZ news because we are close to you. But at the time of the protests Australia had the virus as now under control. Victoria looking concerning but I think they will stop stuffing up otherwise the rest of Australia won't allow them out of their state.
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  6829. No, should learn how to vote and actually vote. It's a strange idea that people in other democracies have worked out.
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  6830.  Roberto The Don  giving antibodies only slows the spread or replication of the virus , it's up to the patient to still fight the virus with his or her own antibodies, a bit like countries with no enforcement of quarantine or self isolation, it will slow the spread because some will follow it voluntarily, but every country that does this knows it will not stop the spread and just buys a very short period of time. So a better question is why are governments against the science still insisting in voluntary measures only despite no country on the planet succeeding using this method and worse economic and mental health problems and more deaths from the virus and reduced other medical care.
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  6831.  Roberto The Don  I haven't looked into it but what could have occured is the patient is actually fighting the foreign antibodies weakening their immune system. A bit like in the beginning it seems many died from being over medicated and put on breathing machines much too quickly. It will be a long time before the best medical response by which country is known because it seems literally hundreds of different treatment methods with all sorts of drugs and doses and adjusting for demographics. Hopefully in the future some academic group does this without bias.
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  6832. I feel for you in the US because you not only have this problem you also have far right and far left people actually killing people. It's not a huge leap for that to become much worse. Stay safe the best you can from both problems and I wish you the best of luck.
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  6833. I just have to ask, have you been getting your information from Sky News Australia or Fox News in the US?
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  6834.  Hillary  What are you talking about, everyone new the virus was outside China in multiple countries on January 21 so they can't hide that. Most rich countries carried out evacuation flights towards the end of January and in February , are you seriously suggesting China should have detained US , UK and Australian citizens which would have made no difference at all because it was already out. If you are from the US you should hang your head in shame because you were not willing as a country to do anything other than watch it spread to every state and territory to the point of killing rural populations like in South Dakota. Wake up to yourself, your country failed. I am Australian and it's unfortunate China is behaving like Trump on trade issues. In part it is probably to do with what you say however the US set the standard and on barley when China imposed ridiculous tariffs the US promptly made a deal with China to be the preferred supplier as stated on a US gov website. On trade the US under Trump is certainly not a friend of Australia. China did lock down all provinces in March some time from memory to get rid of the virus which had spread throughout China meanwhile after a 2 week pretend lockdown in the US the president is saying Liberate ( has a connotation of armed conflict) pretty much every Democrat run state. The transparency from China is not ideal it's as bad as the US with Trump taped in early February by Bob Woodward knowing the threat yet he told the public the opposite and whoever else was involved didn't speak out also.
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  6835.  Finn Hansen  thankyou for what seems to be an honest opinion. Is there anyway I can communicate with you one on one?. I am just ordinary Australian citizen and curious further about your views.
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  6836. It can't spread around Australia because the borders are shut firmly to Victorians. 2 weeks mandatory government managed hotel quarantine to leave Victoria. Cost is $2,800 AUD for individual in QLD quarantine and if you refuse to be tested 10 extra days and the cost for that. A person in Paris can drive to London and go into 2 weeks of voluntary quarantine and stay with a mate who doesn't need to quarantine. I know John puts a lot of effort in but Australia has tougher border restrictions between states than Europe does between countries. Australia is foreign to John and possibly he doesn't realise the extreme differences. Of course having said all that any other state can become Victoria if we make mistakes. I think John is wrong about Canada, it's as urbanised as much as anywhere else and therefore prone to the same conditions, people aren't all living in isolated log cabins, just as they aren't in Sweden.
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  6837. Australia hasn't followed NZ, Australia is made up of states which had different policies and the policies of New South Wales actually never changed, Victoria which was aligned with New South Wales changed and all the other states have never changed position, you could say ScoMo changed to some extent as well as Victoria, that might be fair.
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  6838. Just watch Florida it's like the world's canary and coal mine.
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  6839. The title is misleading. A mass grave is what we saw in NY , many bodies in one grave. Can call it a massive graveyard maybe.
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  6840. You reckon there might be cross marketing campaign with nasal vaccine and cocaine?
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  6841. Well if you read through a lot of Wumao comments you will find some indicating that China will take back any colonies it might have had over the past 5,000 years. It's also pretty clear they will never give independence to their current colonies of Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.
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  6842.  @陈雷-p3i  Australia became a country in 1901 so very few Aboriginal people were killed after that time.
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  6843.  @陈雷-p3i  Interesting point , so why is China claiming Taiwan, shouldn't that be given to the indigenous people according to you?
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  6844.  @陈雷-p3i  What double standard, you are the one calling the shots I am just listening to what you have to say, you are saying non indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia etc. should all , don't know give it back whatever that means. So about 1 billion people have to go where? Please advise me. But this apparent rule you are suggesting doesn't apply to China and it's colonization or something.
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  6845. Don't know which rock you hide under but blocking roads has always been illegal anywhere in the world.
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  6846.  @pnwlady  Same thing applies though, trucks can't just park anywhere and block stuff which they did and are still doing I expect.
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  6847. But look at the SA homicide statistics, they remarkably make inner US cities seem not too bad. I am not South African and can accept it's probably not bad everywhere as in any country but overall SA issue really bad when it comes to violent crimes . I personally would love to visit South Africa one day but this would be a concern of mine also knowing my behaviour I like to explore and that might cause me big problems.
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  6848. Republican have a plan. That plan is currently to turn the US into an authoritarian state run by them.
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  6849. Not really but that's not what's happening. The country is being run into the ground to support billionaires. This is fully intentional. Hopefully Americans will wake up in 2 years.
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  6850. Probably not, but the timing would have been different and the US would likely be much smaller because a lot of expansion occurred when the US and England worked together conquering former Spanish territories expanding the US significantly. It's a relatively recent phenomenon of long term alliances , Donald is the first one to threaten long term alliances since WWII.
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  6851. About 4 years unless he dies or goes into a coma in the meantime.
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  6852. Joe Rogan endorsed Trump, he doesn't care about those pesky tariffs.
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  6853. That's not entirely true, the number of road rules makes covid 19 restrictions look like nothing.
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  6854. Take care, yes many countries that were successful up to now having outbreaks including your neighbouring countries.
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  6855. Zerg China has already taken some islands from the Philippines, if they take Taiwan why wouldn't they become more aggressive everywhere?
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  6856. Every country that has a diverse population will have this problem and Australia is no different. The racism comes from all sides and the video showed this because one of the attackers was not white. Overt racism tends to be more prevalent in lower socio economic groups of all colours.
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  6857.  @espreedupree  but if you looked one of the attackers was one of the groups you describe as a victim group.
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  6858. It can't really happen because needs at least 95% compliance rate to have a great effect, if the government of a jurisdiction doesn't care you won't get such a high voluntary compliance rate, it's a case of try to protect yourself and loved ones.
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  6859. Unfortunately in the US that isn't good enough. Some doctors are out there promoting alternative treatments also. They might be a minority but they do exist.
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  6860.  @marydumas5350  That's good if you say at least some of them have suffered consequences.
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  6861.  @marydumas5350  you misunderstood I think, I am not saying good anyone dying but that doctors who can't or won't do there job properly are sometimes suffering consequences as in losing their job.
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  6862. Well they plan to deport about a million, so the numbers sort of work. Of course I am joking ethnic cleansing is never a good idea.
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  6863. By weight fruit is much cheaper than junk food other than things like berries. It must be people's desire because it's not about price.
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  6864. Hey John you should have used a 2 ml syringe, anyone with vaccine hesitancy has just been shown a nightmare, they will wake up all sweaty not from covid 19 but a nightmare of your needle going into them.
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  6865. Looking from the outside so no direct personal feelings. While your President was not the only problem, he has turned out to be the biggest problem. At the current point in time he is encouraging the virus to spread by ignoring every government guideline. Him saying and this is a direct quote at one of his rallies if you haven't heard it " the CDC says 85% of people who wear masks get the virus" is an outright intentional misleading statement to ensure the antimaskers vote for him. Your president is as crafty as hell in his wording and considers every single word he says, it wasn't a slip of the tongue he does the exact same behaviour constantly with intent. While not legally responsible because it wouldn't meet the legal standard he is directly causing the deaths of people who listen to him and around those people.
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  6866. You only have less than 1 sixth of the deaths though. Rolling 7 days for deaths UK , 147 and US, 1032.
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  6867. I reckon, government order now, stay at home and we'll pay you (excluding some business) , before , you are required to join the military to save the country a good chance you will die a horrible death. I love how somehow they are equivalent.
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  6868. While amusing that's not possible because the virus hasn't been around for a year and to live that year longer you need to catch it at the age of 81 for man or 84 for lady something like that.
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  6869.  @geesehoward7261  people are dying from the virus after they have already lived longer, the virus can't have caused them to be alive and live longer if they have never had it like you suggested. We know that the largest number of deaths in Australia was in Victorian nursing homes. Due to low community transmission even in Victoria by international standards this probably pushed the average age of death up a little here.
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  6870. The problem is all these "alternative" don't have calcium so either you take pills for calcium or you need dairy or maybe canned fish that has bones etc.
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  6871. It's true even an imperfect plan but a full plan people will be ok with that.
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  6872. I am highly sceptical. How could they have done multiple human trials so quickly. First trial is young healthy adults. The proof is when it's given to small children and elderly obese people who are at greatest risk. I think they might have proven it in the lowest risk group only.
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  6873. Search Osterholm Update if you want to listen to a "top notch" person.
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  6874.  @ilnaeas  Travel isn't being banned, just like every other time it doesn't apply to US citizens and permanent residents. Then only voluntary quarantine or in other words not quarantine.
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  6875. If you haven't done it from day one it's not going to happen now. The so called travel bans aren't because completely full of holes. The restrictions required are like Western Pacific WHO region countries do with 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine upon arrival. With this variant Australia hasn't reacted yet and actually currently some states have moved to home quarantine only. We will see if our position changes back to what it was which of course our governments would hate to do.
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  6876. @Esmè Keaton In Australia and New Zealand as far as I know suicides aren't up. Haven't seen full year data so it might have changed but I doubt it. The places with ongoing lockdown and without a good social safety net I suspect suicides are up, so US in particular.
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  6877. @Will Reddish You said thanks to Biden they will go free. So explain that comment to me because a state crime has absolutely nothing to do with a president in any way shape or form. In general terms why do American speak like you? In Australia if there is an issue of something occurring inside a state nobody outside of that state does anything , that's a state issue. I observed this with the George Floyd incident and it made no sense, people protesting all over the country against the wrong people, they didn't even seem to be protesting against the state government who's jurisdiction it was. So I am curious of your strange culture that doesn't seem to assign blame in an appropriate manner.
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  6878. So according to the data the benefit is about 4 times rather than 9 times ( vague estimate). Yep so it's changed because those unvaccinated that have already died are out of the picture. So certainly the risk has changed and if you are American well in one way or another many of you want to die by virus or gunshot or traffic death. You are number 1 on all these problems in a high income country in a bad way.
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  6879. Well I live in a "lockdown state" , the state of Queensland Australia, population 5 million, while things will change when borders are opened up in the future the current situation is everything open except free travel and 7 deaths from Covid 19 so far, or 28 deaths if you adjust to Florida population. I disagree that Florida got it right.
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  6880. While it's a bad and disappointing situation as long as the military isn't killing people that's the main thing. So long as this is the case the international community can only really speak against it. The US has threatened sanctions, for your sake I hope they don't occur because throughout modern history it has only worked on one occasion with South Africa, every other time it has led to food and or medicine and or fuel becoming scarce and hurting the poor with no benefit, in fact to the contrary in my opinion, hungry people rarely fight for political reform they only fight for food and the dictator can actually oppress the people easier. I wish you the best of luck but I recommend you and your people consider very carefully any sanctions not related to weapons or personal sanctions on the military leaders like not being able to travel or having any foreign assets frozen. For reform to truly occur the low rank poor soldiers must be on the side of the people so don't attack low ranking people it's counterproductive because they have little or no choice. Best of luck , take care and stay peaceful.
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  6881. There is one thing that's not consistent with what you say, the total vote is easily a record and the highest percentage of potential voters for 100 years at about 67% I think from memory. Best of luck with your likely new president.
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  6882. While I appreciate your comment maybe you should have said more fascist instead of just only fascist.
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  6883.  @RebelEight-z7q  no 50% of voters many don't vote.
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  6884. Actually they should be treated the same way as every wealthy country does except the US on healthcare for example. What sort of idiot would agree to pay above market rates for pharmaceuticals? Answer: Republicans and Democrats in the US.
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  6885. The UK is pretty good actually, I think they doing about 10% which much higher than average.
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  6886. Her advocacy might have killed 100 people and now that she's dead we have to keep quiet. If a serial killer did that people would be dancing on their grave. Pointing out the antivaxxer advocate deaths is nothing and the families of these people should actually be ashamed of their relative. The person is dead anyway , no need to worry about the hurt feelings of the family who didn't care about others.
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  6887. You are describing a Stopgap quick fix that solves virtually none of the US's underlying issues, for social welfare and equity the US is 40 years behind other wealthy nations at least and it's not about money, take healthcare the US spends more than most countries on publically funded healthcare however it doesn't seem entirely universal, if you are in a certain income bracket , that is medium low to medium it can bankrupt you if you get sick or injured and this is coming from comments I often see plus my basic knowledge on the subject. The US is the second best propaganda machine in history after the Communist Party of China. Both the US and China are great for billionaire, I pity the peasants in both countries.
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  6888. @S J I am not American but I would say don't worry about the US becoming a dictatorship anytime soon, one thing that didn't fail was the public service didn't bend to Trump's wishes, technically declaring states of emergency etc. could have been done but it didn't happen, probably the generals said words to the effect that's an unlawful order Mr President so I don't need to comply. This will be discovered in 50 years I believe it is after documents become unclassified. As far as your point about guns an authoritarian regime doesn't need to take guns off people, in fact it's in their favour , it gives an excuse to execute people extrajudicially , if nobody has guns there's no excuse for killing people , you need to fill up prisons and to be honest they are already a significant burden on the state because they are overflowing at the moment.
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  6889.  @marshamarshamarsha4567  Australia is doing fine thanks.
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  6890. You afraid of being eaten?
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  6891. An oil refinery will produce LPG ( mix of butane and ethane usually) not Natural gas or CH4 so you seem unaware of what you are talking about.
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  6892. Right now the trade allies (every country excluding US, Russia and North Korea) are gearing up for a trade war. 100% chance China is quietly talking to Canada, Australia and Brazil in particular about replacing all agricultural imports from the US. China is ready this time and has unlikely allies on this issue. The US can't replace China for all their electronic and electrical consumer goods needs. While it's certainly going to hurt China it's likely it will hurt the US more. It's a bit harder to know who gets hurt the most in North America.
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  6893. Kash saying there's approval is pretty scary. He might say that Mexico has approved something. If something hasn't been approved in another country it's an invasion which obviously puts people in both countries at risk.
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  6894. That's the last line of defence, don't worry too much I think. The indication is testing and tracing is becoming very functional which is the first defence.
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  6895. As a troll congratulations on your comment being put last.
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  6896.  @dontsubscribe6229  The original commenter was just being silly.
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  6897. Covid of course. According to his fans he created the best economy ever and managed covid 19 well.
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  6898. Americans are so divided, the judge is just doing his job and doesn't want a mistrial. If it was in Australia he would probably be found guilty almost automatically, he was illegally carrying a loaded fire arm but of course comes down to individual state laws.
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  6899. Well some politician have done that pretty much, Bolsonaro, Modi, Trump and Biden. Turns out it somewhat harmed their popularity because not exactly true.
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  6900.  @wurzelbert84wucher5  Your example is great, Denmark 71% of population fully vaccinated and Germany only 60% fully vaccinated, if only the Germans would just get vaccinated in larger numbers it makes a big difference. My observation is probably that mob shown in the clip will prolong things because many of them will refuse to be vaccinated.
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  6901.  @wurzelbert84wucher5  you are viewing things in a simplistic manner, if the number of cases go up the hospitals have to cut back on regular services and those vulnerable people you seem concerned about die from other causes. There is society to consider also and young people sometimes with no apparent health issues die too, this affects people. I live in a covid 19 free state in Australia and I can assure you the vast majority are happy about this as in we don't want to be like our neighbouring state in lockdown, Australia is way less vaccinated and we seem to run a fairly lean health system so hospitals overflow quickly and outbreaks happen in hospitals killing the vulnerable too, Australian states have been 100% open about events occuring unlike most of the world where such tracing mostly isn't occurring and in the rare circumstances it is, it is being covered up, the US stands out for this practice, 600,000 dead yet not a single case of people catching the virus in hospital has been reported in the media. I think the full openness of Australia helps most people understand what is occurring. Such openness would have been helpful in other countries but now too late. In the US hospitals are overflowing in many states and a lot of medical staff are quitting so yet another problem from leaving cases out of control. Right now maybe the best policy in Germany might be when hospitals fill up we will preference vaccinated people and people in hospital for other reasons unvaccinated covid 19 patients will be put at the back of the queue and may not receive the best medical treatment under such circumstances, blunt reality might work.
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  6902. Glad to hear, the better again part.
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  6903.  @katiehettinger7857  you're confusing wealth and technology, Thailand during I think it was 2011 floods was producing 60% of computer processing chips in the world. Just like Vietnam a much poorer country makes LG and Samsung smart phones. Thailand was the first country outside of China to discover a case of covid 19. By February 21 Thailand had discovered more than twice as many cases as the US. One could actually argue the low tech approach of the US partly caused it's problems, they only did 500 tests by the end of February for a country of 330,000,000 compared to about 100,000 tests in South Korea, about 10,000 tests in Australia and about 13,000 tests in the UK. Couldn't find the Thai number but fair to say the US was decidedly developing country status in this part of the response, they had coded the proteins or whatever for the Moderna vaccine back on January 15 which was only 2 days after getting the genetic sequence from China so great at vaccines though. Thailand did however rely much more on lockdown compliance and never did any real mass testing except maybe recently.
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  6904. His plan won't work all exporters, importers and retailers will have less profit and less employees. The bond market will be funding Trump's plans.
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  6905. It doesn't matter at this point in time your friend went from a low infection country to a US state of which all are highly infected now.
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  6906. They only wanted to give one dose so trialed it that way, maybe is a little more potent than the 2 shot ones but my guess is an extra shot of any vaccine increases chances of being immunized. Great cost saving though because $10 or below in wealthy countries the distribution and actually giving the jabs will be the most expensive part.
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  6907. Republic versus monarchy indicates who the head of state is and nothing else. Whether a country is a current democracy depends how the government came to be, if Trump somehow hung onto power the US would not be a democracy for however long a period that lasted. How a democracy elects people is largely irrelevant. Australia is a constitutional monarchy, eg we have a Queen but we are certainly a democracy but with very significant differences in the operation of the government and all members of the government including executive positions are held by elected officials but the ruling party selects from within it's elected officials who does what. The Queen and the governor general or Queens representative do very little even though technically they have veto power for example under normal circumstances, about 50 years ago the opposition party held the senate and cut funding to the government which led to the Prime Minister being sacked and an election called, since that occured both parties have guaranteed they won't do that move again but of course that is a gentleman s agreement, Trump would do it for sure. A lot of things are held together by convention only not law as is the case everywhere. The US has one person the president who is head of state and the leader of the government and selects the entire executive government which is unelected. North Korea is officially a Republic but I would suggest in practice a monarchy and technically a democracy but one that doesn't really allow opposition parties.
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  6908. Is what you say true? If it is Trump probably copied it. He seems to have studied or those around him have about campaigns and dictatorships.
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  6909. A lot of pro Trump comments.
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  6910.  @rudolfo8544  an ocean makes absolutely no difference just look at Malta, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. It's wether you have compulsory quarantine or not. Victoria was out of control and had more cases than Germany at one point yet magically it didn't spread to other states. Now Germany just let things get out of control, not even putting police and or military checkpoints at state borders. Germany to this day has a 10 day voluntary quarantine for entry versus west Pacific standard or 14 days enforced quarantine. If you have an open border and voluntary measures you end with the same results, nothing to do with anything else, the virus doesn't walk across borders it comes through with people.
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  6911.  @steveberlin7784  Well search Dictator Dan Sky News Australia and you will see what the Victorian Premier went through having to change from a relaxed to strong policy, it wasn't easy anywhere. That said it's a lot harder when surrounded by failure in some respects.
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  6912. " We are respected around the world like never before ". Well at least he can tell the truth sometimes.
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  6913. On this issue the UK and US certainly suck however on other issues they are certainly much better than China.
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  6914. It's called weather, the comments here are remarkable, it's got nothing to do with politics or freedom, she's vaccinated and can go into a New York bar to have a drink but you can't move the weather.
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  6915.  @barbarawalsh6576  Are you literally arguing that the US should segregate according to political party?
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  6916. Well "Western Media" aka Free Media would have a minority that would do that however the majority certainly wouldn't. This is what occurs when you have free media, it's actually unavoidable.
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  6917. When are you guys going to open to Australian travel. Queensland my state has the best rules, NZ should follow us. Even WA ( Australia's hardest line state) opened the border to Queenslanders and any other states without community transmission for 28 days.
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  6918. It's probably good for the rest of the world on balance that China and US taxpayers subsidize technology advances so the rest of the world can benefit with the subsidized products that will be produced. Not sure how it's good for a poor to middle class US or Chinese citizen.
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  6919.  @ANHON888  CPC has a large majority support, no idea why you think they don't. China is in many respects like the Republican Party at the moment and the followers are similar, Chinese believe that covid 19 started in Fort Detrick and the US is involved in a major cover-up. Does any of this sound familiar, it should because Trump did the same campaign. China is a 1 party state that has continuously improved the economy in recent years and most people's welfare ( as long as you don't disagree with the party) of course vast majority support their government and all it's actions.
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  6920.  @LoisPallisterCIY  you have never heard of the flu vaccine?
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  6921.  @LoisPallisterCIY  the flu is a type of coronavirus, a family of organisms, like mammals have rats, bats and humans but when we think of mammals most people will think of large mammals , apes, cattle, horses and monkeys etc. Because nobody on the planet outside of medicine or science knew what a coronavirus is and especially the US media calling covi sars2 "the coronavirus" most people are unaware it's a family if viruses, virtually any respiratory virus humans get and 1,000s more in other mammals. The flu or influenza is one of them.
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  6922.  @LoisPallisterCIY  Actually I am wrong seems the flu isn't a coronavirus however yes the current vaccines were tested on animals and Hendra Virus a Beta coronavirus has a veterinary vaccine which I assume works or at least they think it does which has been around for a while. Whether the mutating strains manage to evade the vaccines with current non pharmaceutical measures or almost no measures with a large populations like Europe or US or South America we will see. I am a little pessimistic because I think reasonable chance mutations are quicker than vaccine rollout. However cases going down now which is likely at least in part to vaccine rollout.
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  6923. It's 3 days mate unless they find out things are like Victoria, get a grip. I am a Queenslander we have pretty much the same approach, not sure what the mask wearing suggestion is really for in NZ but it's only a request. Victoria tried a different more relaxed approach criticizing Queensland's border restrictions , for some reason they are now silent on the matter and have now changed their relaxed position to be the toughest in Australia currently. Most Queenslander support our government having fairly strict border controls, we don't want to be Victoria.
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  6924. Trump is actually extremely similar in behaviour and style to former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra . His base was the poor and the same sort of rhetoric coming from a billionaire who says he's not a politician. I believe Trump has probably studied up on how other leaders did what he has just done, I would say he has studied Reagan's success previously and the slogan Make America Great Again actually comes from the Reagan campaign. Trump is no Reagan though.
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  6925. In most circumstances the government sets the standards and if those standards were followed then no problems with the operator but standards need changing. Just like in some poorer nations a car might not be required to have seatbelts because it saves money, it's not the manufacturer's responsibility, they followed the law.
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  6926. Good for China and a few other Asian countries. They will need more stock soon.
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  6927.  Mdmchannel  lol
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  6928. You're right he does have bumbling charm as you call it. Very non threatening and likeable. No idea how he compares to your other politicians though.
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  6929. I don't agree, it's more a matter of making sure deals are fair and free trade advantages the developing country as much as the developed country. The US previously and now China are not being fair with weaker countries, this is virtually a constant throughout history but it's probably getting less over time. The US and China are both elephants and the rest of the world except possibly European Union don't even come close.
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  6930. I don't think UK or US will be anywhere near herd immunity in the next couple of months however the weather will get better and in theory at least most vulnerable vaccinated so cases and deaths should go down fairly quickly, but if a strain significantly evades more than one vaccine then could be a case of not much has changed but better weather means in theory could still successful before next cold season. Israel because of its rapid rollout and assuming Palestinian soon after which is fairly likely I would expect should be fine even if have strains that evade vaccines so long as put in hotel quarantine. We will see.
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  6931. It's summer in Australia and New South Wales has seen it's highest cases ever.
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  6932. Really there is only 2 options, quarantine everyone like Western Pacific region does or don't bother at all, as you indicated partial measures probably do more harm than doing nothing.
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  6933. Well he actually is. So on this occasion his thoughts are correct.
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  6934. Data seems ok for now and no reports of any severe adverse effects in any of them. I agree waiting a bit longer is better.
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  6935.  @mikewolf8909  Emergency use is only where these vaccines are at now which by itself means we don't guarantee this yet , I am in Australia and there will be no emergency use. The date we are being given for starting to use vaccines is March and I am thinking that part of the time frame is that's the earliest these vaccines can get full approval. So only trial approvals now but Australia is no good for phase 3 trials because no cases. For some countries including the US I think emergency use is appropriate but not ideal of course.
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  6936. To Trump it's not funny, he is actually serious.
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  6937. It comes from propaganda actually, the US is the second best propaganda machine in history behind the CPC Communist Party of China. Once you teach your population that they are superior and that they shouldn't look outside their own country or compare to anyone else because they are already superior. China does this too but with a very distinct racial element but they are as the US was before it got superpower status still looking outside at the previous superpower , the UK and trying to be better. China only looks at the US and considers all other countries in the world inferior and the US to be inferior in certain respects. In any other wealthy country in the world there would be a bipartisan action to call for immediate action on what's failing and statistics which are terrible when judged against peers being other wealthy nations. 6 times the homicide rate compared to all other wealthy nations except Canada which is only a third of the homicide rate of the US. The lowest life expectancy of a wealthy nation with the highest overall healthcare costs to go with it. The US is about 5 years behind Australia in life expectancy and a little under 2 years ahead of China as of 2019 according to UN calculation. CNN did a report saying that life expectancy in the US had dropped by 1 and a half years over the course of 2020 because of the pandemic [response] , if this is true it's possible China now has a higher life expectancy than the US. If the general populous of the US could stop thinking because of brainwashing that you are exceptional maybe things could improve because no country would want to accept being on the bottom compared to it's peers.
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  6938. NZ doesn't even rate top ten in the world for sheep population, it's just there isn't many people there, which can distort ones view. Most sheep are in China followed by Australia.
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  6939.  @MNZGA57  Quite an entertaining work of science fiction you linked to. So billions of people are just about to be sent to death camps around the world and it's starting in NZ. That actually takes a high degree of imagination to come up with such a theory even if it is only for dark entertainment purposes.
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  6940.  @lspthrattan  The last third or so of your comment suggests you completely understand what I have said. Maybe to add more context even though you have no care in looking at others to see if better or worse. We have got vaccinated to 90% + of 16 years and over, you need to achieve this first task and then although at a completely different starting point you can open up genuinely in a consistent but painful manner, the US as a whole doesn't actually have any plan, some governor's/legislatures doing one thing and others the exact opposite. It's nothing about being ghoulish, we couldn't have kept travel quarantine and restrictions forever and also fully aware people will die once these measures cease or reduce in a dramatic way. There needs to be a balanced approach which is actually different for every country and or jurisdiction.
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  6941.  @lspthrattan  The situation in the US is unfortunately you are fighting each other and not enough vaccinated and the highest per capita deaths from covid 19 of any wealthy country. Tell me what I got wrong in that short statement.
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  6942. The funny thing is they actually want some form of socialism where businesses are no longer permitted to make operation decisions. Discrimination on certain basis is not permitted but actually the store in question could probably pass that test if a disabled person wasn't permitted due to not wearing a mask because they will have someone get the products for you.
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  6943. Trump was openly against the rest of the world including allies so if Biden does absolutely nothing most of the world would prefer that to what was prior.
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  6944.  keirfree senior  no why, I am now a little though. The denier or sceptical arguments of Iraqis is the same here in Australia or any Western country and is not the majority. The challenging the virus I think meant the same as the Alabamans behavior might be occurring, I could be wrong on the challenges issue but how else do you challenge a virus other than by getting infected. My most difficult subject when I was at school some time ago was English and yes I am Australian born and it's my language. I am great at other things at least in my own mind but communication isn't one of those things on occasion.
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  6945. Not laziness, he isn't lazy at all, misguided and a scammer he is. Scammers often work harder doing the wrong thing than the work required to do the right thing with better results.
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  6946.  Laurie Cardiel  I do think one thing has occurred which would have happened more slowly if the US and others weren't seen as so weak at this point in time and that is what appears to be the complete takeover of Hong Kong by the communist party. While countries have condemned what China has done including the US we are in no position to do much about it at this point in time. From Australia wishing you the best and try not to worry too much about what Trump may have done , just be happy in 68 long days he loses his position.
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  6947. By January 10 the majority of people will either have recovered or be in hospital. It's somewhat pointless and guessing it's a PCR test which is accurate probably take a bit of wait time on top of that. In the case it is positive what is one supposed to do, can shed virus particles for months so need a doctor to check you over to see if you actually have the virus or not.
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  6948. It does sound less violent actually because when the word cut is used it implies slashing someone, face, arm whatever but the point is might disfigure someone and cause a bit of pain but unlikely to kill them ( unless of course is the throat but that implies that the person wielding the knife has subdued the other already). You only need to stab someone about 2 inches in anywhere in the abdominal or neck area and they might die. Stabbing is way more scary.
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  6949. Trump and Xi are extremely similar. They are both far right. Xi ironically is a bit less socialist and believes in free markets slighty more but not too much. Far right are National Socialist, that is they want to create a strong powerful country through oligarchs but don't care about the citizens or freedom. A lot of the political spectrum is circular, far right and far left are both Socialist but with different objectives, far right and far left believe in nationalism and racial or religious superiority. Far right and far left both believe in dictatorship. Far right and far left both hate free trade and believe in protectionism. I am a moderate libertarian meaning centre right on economic issues and centre left on social issues. I believe in free trade on everything except labour and equal rights for LGBTQ but not having transgender in competitive sports. I believe in a controlled border. Basically i am a typical Australian who thinks we are doing ok, one area we aren't doing ok is cost of housing and if statistics are accurate while the median wealth of an Australian adult is something like double that of the US we have a higher homeless rate. 2 things are most likely responsible for this, massive immigration as a percentage of our population and town planning restricting more housing.
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  6950. @Joon Park It's quite funny actually the Democrat rallies they say we only want a few attending and socially distanced etc. And for some reason they listen. Trump supporters should understand this if nothing else they listened to their dear leader saying covid 19 is less harmful than the flu and he wants big rallies like never before and he got bunches of people turning up maskless and doing the "lock him/her up" chants, a bit like some cult meeting.
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  6951. I am uncertain if you or Dr Chris Raynor are the biggest geek, but love you both.
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  6952. Not so sure, Israel is already paranoid , having him there would make them a bigger target.
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  6953. 700 meters is approximately 70 times atmospheric pressure, an LPG tank is 21 atmospheres.
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  6954. This is standard disease control, do you reckon a person with Ebola or bubonic plague or Anthrax for example if they were feeling ok they can just go about there business freely? All those pathogens I mentioned do pop up now and again.
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  6955. This is the most ridiculous claim ever made, so the only region the Western Pacific WHO region has failed, 10% of the deaths of European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region. Well hang on a minute a 90% improvement as in lower deaths sounds like success. Complete and utter joke these economist ideas. Failure is success apparently because big government in the failure countries have created short term economic success by big time handouts which helped big corporations.
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  6956. What a joke , 3 times the covid 19 deaths in the US compared to Canada on a per capita basis. So even by the mediocre standard of Canada, about half a million body bags attributable to the US response and some are actually proud of this.
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  6957.  @JordanMelbyVlogs  At the get go without even doing anything other than a basic observation 36% of US Adults are obese. Pre existing fatness. Time to carry a cull I guess. Is this really how you think?
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  6958.  LAST CALL  There is nothing wrong with having a little neanderthal blood. Unless you are racially pure sub saharan african you will have some neanderthal blood also.
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  6959.  @JordanMelbyVlogs  What jurisdiction are you referring to with regards to some mask mandate?
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  6960.  @JordanMelbyVlogs  If you are referring to Michigan the governor's last order was July 19 and in the order itself has no expiry date that I could see, so if the order does cease on November 5 then the only logical explanation is that it expires because an order can only be in effect legally for a certain period due to legislation on the matter or for constitutional reasons.
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  6961.  LAST CALL  possibly ,but better not to worry about it. I think getting angry or annoyed is what some people want so just respond to them normally, it would be rather off-putting to them I think and if they are attacking you because someone attacked them it allows them to reconsider. Some people I have noticed do calm down if you treat them with respect even if they were the instigator and didn't treat you with respect. Admittedly I don't always follow my own advice because sometimes people can get under my skin, but that only harms me.
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  6962.  @nonsibi1087  Your last comment is interesting and also consistent with the 1918 flu pandemic, the states with greater restrictions recovered more quickly, the US and Australia for that matter haven't really started recovery yet because our governments just running giant deficits hiding the real picture.
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  6963. Poland minimum wage of $4.50 USD per hour and seems the US sheep following Tucker Carlson think that's great.
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  6964. If you do that you will come to the conclusion agressive suppression or elimination (academic argument in Australia of what to call it) will bring superior results on all fronts. This doesn't mean however empirical results will be the same across all countries due to level of and effectiveness of socialism , including the economic stimulus ( socialist money injection) that every country that has the means has done.
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  6965. I had to laugh at the slightly overweight guy. His family members who are at low risk wear masks and him being in a medium to high risk group male a bit overwight and not young doesn't wear a mask ever.
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  6966. Suicide rates in your country are on the increase, maybe the nastiness should be reduced because that's what's killing people.
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  6967. I think John mixed up his numbers, there weren't even 300,000,000 in Europe 1900. The total world population was estimated to be 1.6 billion in 1900 and I am guessing at least half would have been China and South Asia. I am in Australia and apparently estimates of indigenous population before European arrival vary from 300,000 to 1,000,000. In Australia's case I go for the former mainly because no staple food, no corn, wheat, potato, rice or even coconut, there were things to eat but just consider only 1 commercial crop has originated from an Australian plant , the Macadamia. It's extremely hard to live without modern technology and no high value staple food. Disease did devastate the Americas and Oceania which didn't have the Eurasian diseases.
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  6968. Not a bad quote actually. The US people always say they have most science break through etc. Well of course if your population 330,000,000 but other wealthy Western democracies produce similar results if you change it to per capita. The US certainly has the most powerful military though and a while before China catches up if ever.
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  6969. Publically and privately you get different answers according to another clip on CNN and it makes sense, self preservation in public, in private the majority would prefer Trump just fades away. They should stand up to Trump publically , maybe short term pain but would be long term gain, now it's the opposite going to have long term pain unless the Democrats stuff up even worse.
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  6970. Don't give people false hope, 4 week claim is ridiculous especially in a non compliant society with open borders. If you want to know what it takes look at how Victoria Australia got cases from about 100 cases per million people per day to 0 with about 12 weeks of hard lockdown and that was with interstate and federal government support. Maybe can cut 2 weeks off it because of vaccines, so minimum something like 10 weeks with nightly curfews , police and national guard stopping all but truly essential travel across state lines etc. etc. To continue to offer false hope at this stage of the game is truly reckless and will make the situation worse if some governor does this half arsed approach which will fail.
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  6971. When you tell people at rallies a communist takeover is coming and the US will become like Venezuela or Cuba, that in it of itself is inciteful. If one believes Trump he has just said Biden is going to seize your personal property and some did believe him.
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  6972. This is a disgusting headline. The instigators of what occurred were Israeli's supporting the Genocide in Gaza and wanting to expand the campaign overseas. Truly disgusting for a nominally left wing media outlet. On this issue you are to the far right.
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  6973. My first thought was , really? , even China declared Australia the enemy they didn't run away. So it was a bit of a surprise but my guess is it's not a big problem, would be to satisfy French voters by doing something to show they are angry.
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  6974. If you mean that 28 day UK number it's not that meaningful at all. From and with are generally just a different tone in language however died with could theoretically include a homicide victim where the status of the virus is not relevant. Mostly those who want everyone to get the virus and they do actually exist in Australia despite what can be seen happening in other countries pick up on the fact that death certificates normally state multiple reasons for a death and only some have covid 19 only on the death certificate. I doubt many Australian death certificate would be like that but not impossible. I think the simplest explanation for only putting covid 19 on a death certificate is overflowing health facilities where the doctor isn't going to spend time caring for the dead and investigation of all the exact causes for half an hour when that body needs to be moved to the refrigerated truck outside and next patient brought in. The other possibility is that they can't determine exactly what happened without an autopsy.
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  6975.  @peterstarmes7110  very bad example, nobody dies from cancer unless the cancer directly shut down a particular organ directly. A cancer death will generally describe the shutting down of the body in the order it occurs. Just as covid 19 hasn't directly killed anyone, I think it's impossible, it's your body fighting it that kills you. The virus never gets to the stage of physically stopping any of your bodies functions.
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  6976. @David WP What you describe was not uncommon in jurisdictions that either didn't have testing capabilities at the time or over run, too busy with the living. There is nothing wrong with what they did and it would be reasonably accurate. If they referred them all to the coroner he or she would have just got overwhelmed within days when infections and deaths were rampant.
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  6977. @David WP Are those people dead? Then no because if they ended up in hospital in the trial they would have had 100 tests run on them and if they subsequently died their cause of death would be known with a high degree of certainty. It amazes me you seem to care more for the dead than the living. Now that testing is widely available and most covid 19 deaths have occured in the last 6 months the total death numbers will be reasonably accurate. An accuracy rate of plus or minus 20% would be fine , it would change no decisions. You can also compare data with accurate jurisdictions like Australia , Japan , South Korea etc. and see if anything stands out and probably suspected covid 19 deaths in New York and London early on would be over counted because of dealing with people already dead inside a residence or on the street. And so what if a few deaths are counted as suspected covid when it was diabetes or heart disease, the 2 lockdown killers in Australia responsible for about 1,000 excess deaths in a population of 25,000,000. So someone could probably do some adjustments and it will change nothing. I know that the lockdown was responsible for the excess deaths because ABS ( Australian Bureau of Statistics) had a graph for the first 6 months of last year and it clearly showed excess deaths in March/ April then reverting to below expected again. If the UK adjusted just using gross Australian data if the same spike is not apparent in the UK it can only bring the suspected deaths number down 3,000 which is very low and changes nothing, it would be nothing more than an academic exercise. As far as sky News Australia suggesting we should kill 30,000 people and be like Sweden which they often promoted previously , well although some supporters of that do exist it's not really a popular idea, we don't see people flowing out of Australia to go to partial lockdown countries with mostly freedom to travel, in fact we see those countries with high freedom of international travel reconsidering their position as the body count increases.
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  6978. @David WP People dying of covid 19 are for the most part dying in hospitals or nursing homes after positive tests. Let's say just to keep you happy 95% of the time in the past the doctors were wrong , this will still only move the death number slightly in percentage terms because not many deaths fit into the category of presumably covid 19. If this wasn't the case flu has been killing hundreds of thousands of people worldwide without being detected which I would suggest is impossible, they are testing people for flu also especially if covid 19 not detected and finding few cases. Flu plus covid 19 seems to be about twice as deadly as covid 19 by itself and although I am uncertain it appears the US does actually test for both quite often. I really don't understand why you are so concerned about the accuracy of death statistics, once they are dead they are dead and nothing will bring them back. People are dying in large numbers that would not have died if it wasn't for covid 19. As far as someone getting a runny nose and getting tested for covid-19 , they were never going to die from a runny nose from rhinovirus which would be the most common flu like symptom I expect. One good thing though, it seems in the trial they did say any symptoms please get tested, not just if get very ill. As far as efficacy of the vaccines I think they all work but don't necessarily believe they are as effective as they suggest and no data 6 months on.
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  6979. @David WP while I accept numbers might not be accurate and aren't 100% accurate anywhere I don't agree with you. So have to agree to disagree, you have a good day.
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  6980. One thing that must be considered is for every success there's probably 100 people who don't make it. Entertainment has always been that way.
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  6981. You've been a low functioning democracy for many years, it's just that it might accelerate. This could lead to revolution if it keeps getting worse. Your government has been controlled for many years by lobby groups. This is what makes you a dysfunctional democracy because the voters actually follow the directions of the lobbyists telling you who to vote for with their PACs if any politician gets out of line. All the powerful lobby groups are industry groups and even some individuals now plus AIPAC.
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  6982.  @ea9373  You're in the wrong country, most countries encourage both to some extent, some more than others. I was looking at a Singaporean government thing and they were going to do a public health campaign because the obesity rate went from 12 to 15% ( can't remember exact numbers but that sort of range) English speaking majority white countries and middle eastern countries are the fattest out of wealthy countries, US might be worst at about 35% but the rest of us aren't far behind around 30% when it comes to obesity as an example. I do agree with one thing you say about the US, because it's seen as indirect and not their cost it's possible that state governments often don't care about the health of their population.
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  6983. Antibody tests are not accurate.
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  6984.  @mkv2718  Drs are highly skilled process workers. They just follow a standard process. End of that process unfortunately if nothing found is often some psychological diagnosis.
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  6985. Slavery?
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  6986. Hate to tell you Americans but Iowa isn't known as some high tech hub of the world that China would steal intellectual property off. I speak from an an Australian state known for its agriculture, mining and tourism. That's great Iowa is apparently a high tech hub.
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  6987. Billionaires don't earn much personally, it would make no difference. Need to raise the corporate tax up to at least 30%. 35% as it was, was a little high but 15% as proposed is even worse.
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  6988. 160 potential pardons, Trump better get busy drafting the pardons especially if they have to be done individually.
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  6989. There are women virtually running Australia at the moment, only one state and one territory I believe where only men are calling the big shots which is covid 19 restrictions. If women can lock millions of men at home and tell them to wear masks etc. what more do you want. Having said that I am a Queenslander and regarding covid 19 we have done well, one of the most conservative and successful approaches which other than travel has led to a higher level of freedom than almost everywhere.
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  6990. But if you're a goth getting back to normal life I guess means what, going out a bit more to purchase dark clothing? Anyway take care.
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  6991. Let's say 2 / 10 by regional standard, only one country worse in Western Pacific WHO region and that's the Philippines. Sorry to say but pretty much whole PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region scores a 1 using the same scale.
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  6992.  @hotbit7327  Then look at Victoria Australia, the lockdown was in winter and now just coming into Spring but the drops in cases occured at a consistent rate during the winter part of the lockdown. So that can't be down to summer weather, also other jurisdictions at around the same latitude no out of control outbreaks. Proper lockdown plus testing and tracing works it is undisputable. Every lockdown jurisdiction has far lower cases. You might incorrectly argue that how about Queensland Australia or New Zealand etc. which currently have overall much lower restrictions than Sweden, travel being the exception, well if the virus is contained then restrictions don't have to be harsh other than travel restrictions to reduce the chance of the virus entering and getting out of control. Soft lockdowns only reduce the rate of the spread, the UK has only ever had a soft lockdown with voluntary travel restrictions to this day. The UK has not considered containment to this day so to say containment can't work if it was never attempted and a soft lockdown which allows the virus to spread is I guess a self fulfilling prophecy. You can say 'til the cows come home look these UK measures haven't worked and you are correct but you are not because working means only slowing the rate of spread not attempting to contain and stop spread. I do sort of agree a soft lockdown achieves very little so maybe if you go down that path might as well make it super soft and tell the public directly we are going to allow a certain number of deaths because they can be sacrificed for the good of the collective society.
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  6993.  @hotbit7327  I did see that analysis before actually and no lockdown country was included. All were soft lockdowns and in Queensland Australia I can assure you medical care is operating normally unlike with the soft lockdown jurisdictions. I expect is normal in other hard lockdown jurisdictions like New Zealand and Taiwan and Thailand and other Australian jurisdictions excluding Victoria. I am confused why anyone wants ongoing soft lockdown , because so far that just leads to a worse situation than a hard lockdown and become virtually disease free although difficult to maintain.
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  6994.  @hotbit7327  I have tried to find what went wrong in Peru but can't find what it is but think the 3 most likely possibilities are late initial detection on March 7, failure to contact and trace , quarantine failures. On paper Peru's response should have worked just as on paper the initial US response should have worked but we know the US had extremely poor initial detection and contact tracing and the virus was certainly wide spread mid February when Fauci said everything was looking fine. Australia had more official cases than the US at this point in time which we know even by simple logic it wasn't the case. As far as getting out of the problems entire societies must act in solidarity regardless of the path, if you are an open up and don't worry too much advocate so what?, unless the entire population agrees even without government intervention you will be at 50% lockdown, you can't force people to work (if they have means) and to go shopping and to restaurants.
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  6995.  @fatbelly27  I'm not a conspiracy theorist but if I was I could read into it some global agenda , because the lockdowns and restrictions around the world are becoming very standardised , like me being a smoker , if I could travel which I can't now I know the rules because the same everywhere. If you are locked down somewhere best of luck in helping to introduce the new world order run By Bill Gates and the CCP and watch out for those phone towers.
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  6996. The fossil fuel industries will be looking at solar power and electric vehicle take up rates along with new developments with battery technologies. Basically although it will take a long time fossil fuel use will decline except for plastics manufacturering and steel production where no cost effective viable alternatives really exist.
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  6997. I would say slight left slant but less biased than any US media and does show both sides.
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  6998. Trump has successfully expanded BRICS. The argument they make is to protect other country's sovereignty. With Trump it is now well known that the US is a threat to all country's sovereignty. It's not just Trump but the obvious support he receives from people at conventions and also from Fox News hosts and Fox News is the largest individual main stream media outlet. Personally i fear China and Russia more than the US but i can understand other countries thinking differently. The reason why I fear the US less is because Trump is an ineffective dictator wannabe. It's not because i believe Trump is incapable of stupid stuff.
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  6999.  @ab-hv8qs  government debt is going to rise also at a more rapid rate, that's sort of the same thing as printing money .
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  7000. @ab-hv8qs  yep totally agree. However tariffs won't decrease the deficit because of other measures like tax decreases for billionaires and corporations.
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  7001. @ab-hv8qs  certainly the laffer curve is a distorted bell curve. There's a few companies in the s&p500 holding hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and investments. They aren't producing any more economic activity. The US is certainly on the downslope for government tax income. You want to be owned by corporations well ok you likely will be.
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  7002. Haven't watched the full clip yet but a 40+% likes is incredible. Anything above 10% is really good.
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  7003. Ignore the other impolite comments
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  7004. Hello. What's that supposed to mean.
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  7005. I hope it is as effective as FLCCC seems to think it is.
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  7006. That's a bit mean.
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  7007. I thought you were going to say you'd really like to know who their drug dealer was.
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  7008. @brockstar1311  The decision on who to vote for will come down to which electorate you live in under what type of voting system. If your electorate outcome is a forgone conclusion then vote for anyone who isn't the 2 major parties as a protest. If for arguments sake you live in Michigan which is a toss up who wins on the Michigan presidential candidate, you have a lot of thinking to do assuming both Biden and Trump are the contenders. I am not American but if I was a Michigander I would begrudgingly vote for one of them because I consider one worse than the other. So vote against someone not for someone. Same applies to other parts of the election.
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  7009. I wonder what the plan is because 50,000 cases aren't exactly easy to manage assuming the other half of the population has a 1% infection rate.
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  7010.  @LednacekZ  My point about them is not that they would all have to go to hospital but having that many currently infected it's extremely difficult to stop any of them spreading it. The most common way is many of the infected will live with others so those households need to quarantine also to have a major impact. Enforcement would be really difficult because numbers large. Once numbers are large everything becomes really difficult.
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  7011.  @fritzhaber3994  Sounds like it's planned but I will say from looking at Melbourne Victoria Australia ( I am in a different state) it will be harder than they expect if they want to go for elimination which by the initial and drastic actions seems likely. The nay sayers saying that Slovakia can't go virus free are wrong because trade can still occur with strict precautions should they reach that stage, just need enforced quarantine for anyone coming into the country to stay. I wish the country the best of luck.
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  7012.  @janeinkaob  I think Slovakia might succeed in its ambitious plan because seems very serious and a lot invested in many ways. In Western Pacific countries it's a strict 14 day quarantine for entry , I think in every country still, it will be interesting to see how the shorter time period and having test results approach works. Pretty sure none of us will change unless it's proven elsewhere because if it ain't broke don't fix it.
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  7013.  @fritzhaber3994  the thing is the virus only spreads in 2 different ways and both are rapid, R0 of less than 1 it dies out in a relative sense quickly or R0 of more than 1 which is exponential growth. Slovakia did well in keeping it out from the beginning but got too relaxed. Politicians don't like to say going for elimination because it's difficult, only one I know who spoke like that was New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adern, maybe some Asian country speak like that too, I am unsure. They know without an effective vaccine 3 choices open then lockdown and open and lockdowns ongoing or do what it takes to get the virus under control which will lead to 0 cases events or low restrictions whereby the hospitals don't overflow but 2,500 people need to die most likely like Sweden with a population adjustment. Cases and deaths graph is exactly the same as Victoria Australia but out by a couple of months and 5 times as serious now approximately with 1% infected versus probably 0.2% infected at Victoria's peak. This doesn't mean Slovakia can't make a comeback , only that it's going to be real tough.
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  7014. Lots of crybaby MAGA in the comments afraid if a journalist asks their Orange Messiah questions that aren't Dorothy Dixers.
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  7015. He's saving face like a Chinese Communist. Chinese are known for their stubborn behaviour and to never admit fault under any circumstances. Interestingly Xi in the end apologized for the treatment of the whistle blowing doctor and wore a mask back in February I think it was. On this issue despite the initial failures which the US shared they don't look quite so bad now. If China could have stopped it why couldn't the US ? Is China that superior? This is what must be believed to suggest they could have stopped but the US couldn't.
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  7016. I would encourage you to look up the definition of socialism. What do you think compulsory payments to insurance companies based on work status for healthcare is? That to me sounds like the government is not offering me any freedom at all.
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  7017. Totally nuts lol. Victoria never locked down it's border and had the lowest fines in Australia until lockdown 2. So called Chairman Dan could easily pass for a Republican or Democrat governor in the US except for Hawaii which has done well in a relative sense. Sweden has tougher restrictions than QLD right now and a survey by pew institute shows there response somewhat popular but way below Australia or the Netherlands. Sweden is good to compare to UK and US because they have done so badly, with more lockdowns but not borders of course the primary defence used by Taiwan and South Korea and my State Queensland . Campbell Newman actually said Queensland should follow Sweden or in other words even if he didn't realise it promote a lockdown lite forever in QLD while allowing people to die.
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  7018. The plan I believe is tent cities. They'll need to build sanitation infrastructure however unless they going to use porta potties.
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  7019. Trade has nothing to do with a country being free or not. Just say the whole world.
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  7020. Because of the angle his hair looked fluffy, I think a Boris doll duster would be a good product.
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  7021.  @snowfox4704  Well Mexican truckers are required to be vaccinated crossing the border but haven't heard a peep out of anyone saying that they shouldn't need to be vaccinated. Make your position clear do you agree that Mexican truckers shouldn't need to be vaccinated? That is what you are calling for i thought yet as one of your fellow travellers indicates you might have a different view on that border.
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  7022. The wrong side of history is the largest peacetime killing this century due to US policy not an uncontrollable natural disaster. If China killed 1,00,000 people due to their ideology people would be up in arms. US and European ideology which by the way controls policy at WHO has failed. While the initial response in China wasn't perfect it makes the Communist Party of China look light-years ahead on this matter. Donald Trump has done more for the CCP and it's ideology than any other person in history.
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  7023. It surprises me after all this time people congratulating Canada and UK for letting the Indian variant in and spread and now close the border on India but cases are all over the world, travellers aren't even banned from the US, yet the US has 100% voluntary quarantine so every variant is there because no border is shut, not one, just keeping foreigner out , US citizens if they can get a flight can go to India tomorrow and return next week and quarantine voluntarily if they want to.
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  7024. A typical Australian doesn't fit on the US spectrum because we are fiscally conservative and believe in the free market much more than either US party. We believe in strong border policies far more than either US party. One thing I suppose we might agree with is the Democrats social policies , however the Democrats are incapable of running them effectively because of too much belief in crony capitalism.
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  7025. It took quite a long time to find the origin of SARS1 so it's not that easy unless someone already knows as in a lab leak that they are aware of. It could also be a lab leak that they are unaware of, a virus on a bat that was never studied at all but someone caught it. An animal can carry several viruses at once.
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  7026. They can't, Trump has absolute power as given to him by the constitution. If one of his underlings breaks a law and it's a punishable offence , Trump can just pardon them. Truth is as you're seeing now there's no checks and balances on your presidents power if that person has the support of his or her party which Trump currently has.
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  7027. The police in Thailand not that violent.
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  7028. The story sound believable except for the amount 5,000,000 Bt sounds way too much. Only about 5% of Thai would have assets worth that much. But in the end no violence. Thai police would be more corrupt on average but still much less violent than US police. I know Thailand having stayed there many times , have some investment there and girl friend there. The treatment of Muslims in southern Thailand previously can be compared to US in some ways but that was mostly military.
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  7029.  LAST CALL  exiled could mean fleeing prosecution for criminal activities and the US let them in. This would certainly not be unheard of. The US is easily conned sometimes look at the make up stories of WMD in Iraq for US citizenship and they got what they wanted.
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  7030. I agree, imagine living in the West Bank as a Palestinian where over the last 6 months approximately 3 people a day being murdered by illegal settler militias and the IDF. They are certainly what you describe them as.
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  7031. Elon laughs because he knows cutting $2 Trillion from the deficit is ridiculous especially if the corporate tax rate goes to 15%.
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  7032. Yes but hopefully and looks like Victoria has peaked.
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  7033.  @thunderdragon888  Consider though that the population of unvaccinated and partially vaccinated people in the US is more than double the entire Thai population and culturally a lot different, Thai's are largely paranoid about germs, they won't even drink their perfectly good tap water in Bangkok for example. Many Thai's in the past and probably still some wear masks because of pollution so masks etc. are culturally normal. But in the end if you can't stop the virus it will keep spreading but at a slower rate, the more rural states in the US took a long time to get high case numbers but they did little and many of them are as bad as the more urbanized states.
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  7034. For US cherry pickers and excuse makers please Choose any country you please in the West Pacific ( not US territory) any East Asian or ASEAN or Australasian country and see how successful you are, in fact why not just add them together, West Pacific 2,000,000,000 people and about 1,000,000 cases and less than 100,000 deaths, US population 330,000,000 , many millions of cases and 220,000 dead.
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  7035. You contradicted yourself. These are rockets not guided missiles. So you are accusing Hamas as being like Israel, fair point.
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  7036.  @johney3734  the ropes would have been fine if required, anchor points would have been only large tent pegs most likely, need star pickets knocked 3 foot in the ground or something for such an unexpected event.
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  7037.  @phildoodler2199  you seem to be watching , so you are helping to make him popular.
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  7038. To any Europeans or Americans can anyone explain what a half assed attempt at restrictions is going to achieve? I say this from Australia however applies to all Western Pacific WHO region countries pretty much, if you aren't going to do a job properly and it will have 100% chance of failure why do it all? In the case this is worse than Delta the citizens who have been fed BS will just be more angry in my opinion than doing nothing which at least is honest.
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  7039.  @Mogadorus  that one I am uncertain, antivaxxers might be big beer drinkers on average, not sure. I do drink but in the Australian context cask wine is the cheapest so that's my choice. Prefer beer but it's above my budget for now.
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  7040.  @burneraccount962  it is only 1 of several measures needed to get the R0 below 1. Please search information about one of the states in my country Victoria Australia, cases down from 500 per day 14 rolling average approximately to 0.? now. I think maybe one or 2 cases in the last 14 days. Masks on their own might decrease the R0 by 0.2 which will do little by itself if the R0 is 2.5 . Some places in the world require masks worn everywhere but inside the bars that are still open for business where you can have your superspreader event.
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  7041. Trump is more likely to die I think because he is obese and openly says he doesn't believe in exercise and that fast food might be good for you.
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  7042. I think if you are over 40 or overweight according to BMI chart or other health condition you shouldn't be doing the job at this point. Those who work now could get time off later to make up for any unfairness.
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  7043. Office of VP. Or in other words an Office of nothing.
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  7044.  @robertmatthews4124  You do realise the toilet paper market will crash if the virus is gone. Thousands of people hoarding shed loads. So Kimberly Clark which I think is the biggest seller in Australia might be infecting toilet rolls sent to Victoria to keep the virus in Australia. Because my comment compared to many online comments might be taken seriously, of course the second part I am joking but the hoards do exist and sales will decline a little when this is over, that bit I think is likely.
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  7045. They do genomic sequencing, in NSW probably samples and not every case but in QLD it's probably still every case.
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  7046. The people in that clip being taken off buses is how POWs get treated. Only thing missing was the hoods put over people's heads the way Americans and Israeli's do.
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  7047. It only needs to be one animal, it doesn't need to be an entire herd or farm. If it was 1 animal how could you find it, if it's now dead?
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  7048. He admitted helping out with a people smuggling ring, must have nice associates. Rather ironic considering Trump's immigration policy was about the only thing he got right but managed to destroy what was actually popular by selling his policy for the most part as "they are all criminals or most of them anyway". Biden is going to possibly restart the economic refugee program which destroys those countries that they are coming from because it's middle class keeps leaving , a teacher will move to the US to pick fruit or something as an example, so sad.
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  7049. Then when you get pulled over just fully comply with directions, never ever seen harm come to someone who has done so. You pull a gun or something well guess what.
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  7050. @DariusSharlow  Tesla isn't worth that, market valuation and worth or intrinsic value are different things.
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  7051.  @kathyheyne6030  I think the reason Chinese leadership has said nothing about Tesla is because it's a bargaining chip, Musk is probably viewed as a Chinese diplomatic asset.
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  7052. @dannyvine3605  to be fair it's 10% on top of existing tariffs. Trump's threat of 60% tariffs plus the 10% not eventuating could be due to Musk. So I agree it's likely that Musk has a significant influence.
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  7053. The individual countries of ASEAN , the democracies anyway can bilaterally do what they want, just not under the ASEAN banner. It will be in the form of telling them foreign investment will dry up because of risks if democracy isn't restored, interestingly Singapore is the largest foreign investor. ASEAN countries are more likely to use private diplomacy not publically announced stuff.
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  7054.  @gottagowork  Japanese are a skinny bunch, so while you are correct their measures 10 times better than the US , they could not have had the high death rates of a fat country like the US. Adult Obesity rate Japan about 4% , US about 35%. Having said that Japan would still have deaths over 1,000 per million if they took the US path because along with low obesity a population tends to live longer. I am Australian and we are a bit unusual , a top 10 life expectancy but obesity rate of about 30% . We seem to break the rules.
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  7055.  @squimped  Yes culture I think actually plays a far bigger role than is realized. If you just consider how people great each other the differences are quite large, Southern European often do that cheek kissing stuff, I am Australian so handshake is the norm and in Thailand they do a bow with hands together in the way people often pray so no need to even be close to each other. People are creatures of habit so even the authorities in Southern Europe would have said stop doing that not everyone would stop.
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  7056.  @cinderelladevil1687  I didn't say right now, are you saying Spain never had lockdown lite? Your original comment even seems to contradict this. Maybe you misunderstood my comment. Your country is extremely highly vaccinated compared to many so congratulations on that.
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  7057.  @cinderelladevil1687  Ok here's what lockdown numbers look like, Queensland Australia , population 5 million, 7 deaths from Covid 19 so far , had hard lockdown maybe 14 weeks since beginning of pandemic, rest of the time open except for travel which is heavily restricted and need to go through hotel quarantine if coming from an area of cases within Australia and anywhere from overseas. Our fully vaccinated rate is only 30%(Australian number my state is lower) or so of total population so we can't open up at this stage, Spain's fully vaccinated rate is over 70%. If 7 deaths for a population of 5 million is a failure then nothing will convince you. Of course when open up probably early next year sometime the deaths of course will go up significantly but still be way lower on a per capita basis than countries that only ever had lockdown lite. We can't change the past but had the entire world locked down the virus would most likely be gone and we wouldn't have Delta variant which is so problematic. My personal opinion is lockdown lite is bad , lockdown proper is good if done successfully because it's far shorter in duration.
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  7058.  @cinderelladevil1687  If you mean May 2021 I understand but if you mean May 2020 then why did your economy plummet by 11% in 2020 and a government deficit of about 11%. I realise it's not fair to compare Australia to Spain in some respects however the Australian economy dropped only 1.1% in 2020 and a government deficit of about 7.5%. Australia will be slower to open up and our economic growth , lack there of will be greater than Spain this year I expect but nothing we can do about it , our vaccination rate won't equal yours until the end of the year or maybe early next year. Queensland can't open it's border to infected people it would be a disaster and we are all open now anyway except for travel and yes effects inbound tourism and this is where Australia differs a lot we are an importer of tourism as in Australian spend more overseas normally than our inbound tourists so the closed border at the country level at least assisted in increasing our trade surplus. Obviously we are opposite season so things even in the states that have covid 19 in them should continue to improve as vaccinations go up and the weather keeps getting warmer. We are yet to see what happens this winter in Europe and Spain should be ok actually because not a very cold place and high vaccination rates. The US isn't looking great though because they are slow to get vaccination rates up. You're convinced Spain did a great job and Sweden even better, I don't agree, better than the US certainly but still not great. In Australia's case I think most states have done an excellent job with a couple that have done an ok job but still kept loss of life low. Your point that Spain has an older population is neither here nor there, deaths per million from covid 19 in Australia is 41 and Spain 1800 , clearly these numbers can't be accounted for by the older population. In the end if you are happy with your government then great but allow others to also be happy with there's without disregarding that person just because you don't agree. My government hasn't lied to me , the deaths show this and other effects are no greater than in lockdown lite countries and economic impact on average has been less in countries that have lockdowns including border quarantine versus lockdown lite. As far as the current situation yes Spain seems ok but not every country can be in that position and culturally as you can see with the US vaccine hesitancy they will continue to have significant problems. Anyway wish you the best.
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  7059.  @cinderelladevil1687  I know opening up will be very difficult for the states that currently have no cases and assuming we keep this status until vaccination rates high. It's hard to know how things will go and I know we watching the UK closely because using a similar vaccine mix of Astrazeneca and Pfizer and fairly highly vaccinated already. Also culturally fairly similar in some respects although weather and living conditions are quite different.
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  7060. Actually about 2 million excess deaths in US over the 2 year period. How drastic do you want it to be?
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  7061. Not most, some.
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  7062. Your country is authoritarian, stop calling yourselves leaders of the free world. That is just a Trump propaganda talking point. The US has threatened to invade or conquer 6 countries all whom are peaceful except Ukraine that was invaded already. Planning to divy up spoils with Russia is outright disgusting.
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  7063. That's weird.
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  7064. While he might not have been good on some issues Henry Ford.
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  7065. Excluding Vietnam and Taiwan who probably suspected things earlier because they watch China like a hawk the rest of the world had the same info. I think a few things affected it and basically relates to quarantine measures already in place in the Asian region. We and that includes Australia my country were really hit hard tourism wise with SARS1 which played a part and dealing with food and agriculture Australia, New Zealand and Japan stand out as countries that take it dead seriously. Quarantine is quarantine just people are harder to control than goods.
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  7066. That's the UQ one and a bit sad about that being a Queenslander. A couple of points we are manufacturing the Oxford Astrazeneca one already and none of these vaccines so far have proven to last long term because not enough time. We have 0 community transmission so no rush and it's only expected that vaccines start being distributed around March. So basically no worries for now.
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  7067. Trump has threatened the same thing against the entire world. Very quietly countries like my own Australia would be preparing a response. We have an election soon and we have only been affected so far with the steel and aluminium tariffs starting in about a week. It's not a very major effect so it seems we aren't going to respond and also it doesn't mean any loss of sales , it's not like the US can suddenly set up aluminium and steel smelters and everything else required to do that.
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  7068. RFK is a well meaning nutter. Problem is he is right sometimes which might lead more people to believe him when he is wrong.
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  7069. Yes I have read comments of that in youtube comment sections. January 20 was supposed to be the day because all the military around Federal Capitol Hill was to start "arresting/executing" people. He or she used that exact wording I put in quotes.
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  7070. It wasn't a hit. No hitman or woman will walk up to a front door. They will almost certainly be caught eventually. A person involved with her or husband in a professional sense or something to do with the son directly.
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  7071.  @Levanos18  No it's not a huge problem, it's just one person telling their experience and thoughts, not claiming to be a doctor or anything like that.
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  7072. The 3 smaller eyes are still ok for now.
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  7073. One of the chilling cuts was all travel cards of the EPA. This means they can't travel to a location to carry out tests in the environment to check for pollution or other environmental issues.
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  7074. In Sweden there is 20% adult obesity, in Australia 29% , in US 36% . A higher death rate if things are let out of control like US and Sweden would be expected in US eventually. Sweden has however tried to control the virus because the let it rip was not so popular when the deaths started mounting.
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  7075. One thing that comes into play now is whether or not the President is in hospital on election day. Given the statistics available there will be somewhere between a third and 50% chance of this occuring. If he was to die from it and the theoretical possibility of this is probably around 4 to 5% based on data available this will likely occur after the election if it happens because in general it takes quite some time to kill you if you are receiving good hospital care which is certainly a given with this president. Let's hope if he does decide to take hydroxychloroquine it is a low dose because a high dose will increase the chance of death however a low dose may reduce the chance of death if not taken with too many other drugs overloading the liver.
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  7076. This is what people voted for. Trump didn't keep it a secret. If the senate obstructs Trump's picks it will just make them hypocrits because before the election they were dead silent on the issue. If you don't like what Trump is doing you pretty much should be campaigning for constitutional change because it's your system that makes it so easy for a person like Trump to do what he intends to do.
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  7077. You trust Putin's word? I don't, it could be true but just as likely not I suspect.
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  7078. What would you call the following locations? China, Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.
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  7079. The senate has veto power, they don't nominate.
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  7080. Out of more than 20.
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  7081. There's probably worse out there. Such thoughts can lead to suicidal thoughts because you think you've lost everything and nobody will help you.
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  7082. A lot of defiant Canadians in the comments section. While i understand that from an emotional point of view you should not scared of Trump , if he follows through he will tank your economy. That's just being realistic about the situation. I am Australian and while we don't do a lot of direct trade with the US if Trump manages a major downturn in the Chinese economy it will affect us too. I am not arrogant enough to say Trump doesn't scare me , he does and if i was Canadian or Mexican i would be very afraid of the short and medium term harm Trump will do.
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  7083. Did you arrive after the lockdown?
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  7084.  @kitfisto5417  there was a 3 day lockdown and 14 days mask mandate in greater Brisbane area, you must have missed it. Brisbane always lock down harder and faster especially border restrictions that's why successful. Victoria opened up much quicker originally leading to that drastic lockdown because never got to 0 if my memory is correct. The harder and faster the response the less time locked down. So other than the original lockdown only those 3 days recently, maybe a bit lucky with those girls that brought the virus back from VIC that time, increased restrictions then but not really lockdown.
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  7085.  @kitfisto5417  I think in a couple of months will be better, if most of the hotel quarantine workers get vaccinated then it will reduce but not eliminate the chances of quarantine breaches I am thinking. I hope it's that way anyway.
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  7086.  @danielsatellite2485  What are you talking about, in Brisbane Queensland have only had it occur 1 time for 2 weeks, otherwise only for air travel and airport currently. Of course people going into hotel quarantine and those transporting them must wear masks. So actually a very small number of people. No government enjoys putting restrictions because nobody likes it but do like the effect of a virus free state with everything open pretty normally but travel.
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  7087. Think of a mask like a seatbelt in a car, it's the last line of defence after all else has failed. A seat belt won't stop you crashing but it might save your life.
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  7088.  @DaveWhoa  I think I would want that external fence if I was in the Whitehouse at the moment , wouldn't you?
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  7089. Are you kidding, if I was American and in a state where benefit cut off I am moving, probably I don't own a home so guess what I get in a car and travel a few hundred miles to a "benefit state" , also helps local business in my new state as I am an extra consumer. States cutting off free money are insane. By the way I think the benefits are excessive, Australia all enhanced benefits have been cut for a while now I believe.
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  7090.  @murtagh862  it also follows if you've got stuff and are comfortable why work. Welfare is important but it shouldn't be a comfortable lifestyle.
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  7091. In response to both of your comments, responses to having an outbreak when the virus isn't contained can be very different and both be correct. The culture, the initial health of the population, the response of the public and realities when dealing with the population concerned can mean different responses are more suitable. I am in Australia, Queensland not Victoria so basically virus free. The interviewer mentioned Australia even though it's really one state, 75% of the population less than 20 cases, 25% of the population Victoria 671 cases as of today. Things are probably more normal now in my state than Michigan or Sweden. The US so far has been incapable of serious interstate travel restrictions regardless of political party which gives the result of my state versus Victoria. Sweden is small enough to be similar to a large Australian or middle sized US state. Best of luck to both of you and stay safe.
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  7092.  @michaelhansson1242  Compare New Zealand versus Norway and if you read this and look into it get back to me whether your opinion has altered. You can use my state Queensland as an example also. 3 jurisdictions of approximately 5 million people and significantly different results. Similar population distributions, all democratic jurisdictions, all high income. Sweden has double the population but meets the other 2 criteria. It can be done even now, if that's what people decide.
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  7093.  @michaelhansson1242  Queensland and New Zealand have no lockdown. Queensland has maximum of 1 per per 2 or 4 square metres depending on size of establishment. We currently have a sports attendance limit of 50% capacity or 25,000 people whichever is lesser( currently under review because people crowded together at a sports event). Essentially the main tough restrictions are entering the state. Victorians are also Aussies so clearly we are not immune, there population is about 6.5 million if you want to see how different it can be in the same country.
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  7094. @donalobrien9422  that's a one off situation, you are correct however, that day those people eat less.
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  7095. Lol
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  7096. It's got nothing to do with cleanliness actually, it travels in the air, have to keep apart as much as possible.
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  7097.  @HuiChyr  I am sad to see the countries that initially did well falling over, even Taiwan and Vietnam look like they could lose control. Hope Malaysia as with the others can get out of this without going through a situation like the Americas and Europe.
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  7098. Not just likely it's definitely.
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  7099.  @foxgree5910  Look at Australia versus the US and you have your answer of what should have been done differently. The US can't even stop the virus in a single state including those not connected to the mainland plus Puerto Rico. That's what absolute failure looks like.
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  7100.  @moniquelestine8855  you are a country that has conscription in your constitution the right to infect does not exist and in fact the same rules exist in the US as Australia regarding covid 19 but it's 100% voluntary pretty much in the US. The processes for each state will often be different due sometimes to constitutional restraints and sometimes due to laws of that particular state. For a country that seems to have curfews for riots somewhere or another every month or so governments certainly have the power to make you stay home etc.
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  7101.  @moniquelestine8855  The problem with your argument is you are simply incorrect, if the US and state governments can't make rules regarding health and enforce them because of something in the constitution then your country has unlawfully locked up 400,000 people for such offences. Please do your bit for liberty and have them freed if you believe the government can't do this. These are people locked up for drug crimes and you lock them up at double the rate of Australia , so don't give me a lecture about your constitution and freedoms. Taking a drug can't kill another person whereas spreading a virus does. I do agree with drug laws however I also believe the US is locking too many people up regarding this issue , lock dealers up is fair enough , they are like a covid 19 spreader ( BLM protests and Trump rallies are morally equivalent). I repeat give me this police state any day if it actually means people have life. Check all your other premature death rates if you want and the US performs badly across the board. Obviously life isn't valued as highly as in other wealthy countries. A dead or imprisoned person isn't free, and this should be considered when thinking at the population level , what is freedom.
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  7102. I am starting to understand why some countries having so many difficulties. In Australia the day after the variant was announced this discussion was already occurring and even the Australian Chief Medical Officer said that this could be a good thing if it's less deadly. The South African Lady Dr was also on our news stating it. I find it really strange how others criticize Australia or any country in our region for that matter regarding our response. I also realize how important being open with the public is. The UK isn't as bad as some others though.
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  7103.  @mcn6447  Being open and honest with the public is the tactic used in Australia and the Western Pacific WHO region in general and it's worked extremely well. Deaths on a per Capita basis are less than 10% of that in the European WHO region. The UK isn't too bad in a relative sense but if you look at the US and large numbers of European countries they aren't that open with the public. Not being open with the public causes problem after problem, starting with voluntary compliance which doesn't work ending up with harsh lockdowns for the masses, rich can just fly to another country no problems creating more discontent. In Australia 9 recorded deaths from the AZ vaccine but because open about the situation most states and territories now over 90% vaccinated for 16+ using Pfizer mostly for younger age groups. I think the UK is doing the right thing now better to be a little cautious than just ignore the problem like in the beginning.
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  7104. It's not about the numbers of tests it's when they were done , wait a month as happened pretty much and the number of infected just went from 1,000 to 100,000 spread all around the country. Obviously not real numbers maybe it was worse.
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  7105. The corruption you describe is already well instituted in the Pharmaceutical industry. The corruption you speak of actually brought Trump into power because they see him as less corrupt whether you like it or not.
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  7106.  @condovo  You're exaggerating , quick search suggests $400 billion. However let's run with your argument, the US is giving handouts to rich foreigners while they have homeless people on the streets, highest homicide rate of a wealthy country (about 5 times average, Israel is extremely safe compared to the US despite the fighting), lowest life expectancy of a wealthy country about 4 or 5 years below Israel. The US is insane, it can't take care of itself but giving substantial handouts to a far better country (as long as you don't live in Gaza or West bank) on almost every key measure, absolutely insane.
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  7107.  @marekpodlecki7094  You are missing the point, he lied on his entry declaration and is of bad character breaking Serbian law and not quarantining. If you are high profile the expectation and scrutiny is higher, sports professionals get banned within their own sports all the time for bad behaviour. If he was a normal person he would likely have not got caught breaking quarantine but media will check due to his profile. It's his own fault. Fair enough to criticize Australia for having a bit of a messy situation but that doesn't mean Novak is innocent, he isn't.
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  7108.  @marekpodlecki7094  You are wrong , the court can consider did he lie in his declarations and it's clear he did. If you lie in a declaration you can be subject to penalties including being deported if you are a foreigner, if you were Australian probably a fine or jail depending how serious. If you are of bad character you can be refused entry, Novak breaking quarantine in Serbia is of bad character, a judge would only consider if that assessment is reasonable and to what extent it's bad character as in is it enough. J-walking for example wouldn't be enough. It's in the hands of the judge or judges now, our opinions don't mean anything they are just opinions.
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  7109.  @marekpodlecki7094  One thing you might not realise is Australian citizens when crossing state borders when restrictions were in place (still in place in Western Australia for now) being refused entry, fines and in some cases prison time for what you refer to as making mistakes, yes mistakes are made if you will and those mistakes have consequences which a rich foreigner should be subject to. Normal people can't just go to court like Novak.
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  7110.  @marekpodlecki7094  There were mistakes made in communication but it's gone further than that now. Most Australians support our governments measures, 10s of thousands inconvenienced versus dead. That's the reality, Serbia which actually hasn't done bad by European standards has 10 times the deaths on a per capita basis to Australia. We are now open other than Western Australia to open soon and mask mandates inside buildings and some restrictions in some states for unvaccinated. There's no need to feel sorry for us, we have had one of the best outcomes in the world and vast majority of the country by number of jurisdictions never had lockdowns of any significance. Melbourne and Sydney being the exception. Anyway we will see what happens and if I was to bet I wouldn't be confident of my bet however think it's more likely Novak loses this one.
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  7111.  @marekpodlecki7094  Freedom to infect isn't a right, necessary restrictions exist to save life, you can't have liberty if you're dead can you.
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  7112. Ridiculous
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  7113. You are the problem because you have just endorsed BLM rioters and Trump rioters, probably Trump himself also. Unfair seems to be an unusual term to use, is it unfair if your side doesn't win, ok best to do away with democracy right?
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  7114. Tsunami is the most common
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  7115.  @indy.b  I think Rab is correct but it's missing something that gives context, the ages, older people vaccinated first , young kids that virtually never die aren't vaccinated even now to put it at both ends of the spectrum. So Rab just wants to mislead.
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  7116. Yet to actually here of a physical attack against a Jewish person for being Jewish other than of course Jewish voices for peace members etc. who quite possibly are being targeted by the police and government authorities.
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  7117.  @peteranderson6068  How may I ask has Trump stood up to China?
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  7118. That's pretty bad actually, that's more deaths per 100,000 for the entire pandemic in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. So the way you are talking would someone realise how bad that actually is?
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  7119. Not backed by science? You got to be kidding, the US has 3 times the covid 19 deaths per Capita of Canada which has about 6 times the covid 19 deaths of Australia also on a per Capita basis. Clearly there's something different and I don't think Australians are genetically superior, our deaths are entirely consistent with South Korea and Japan that took similar measures to us.
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  7120. That in simple terms is saying freetrade versus socialism, and Trump is the socialist candidate when it comes to trade.
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  7121. It's not a lie and listen to the wording carefully. Basically it's reasonable to assume he tested positive however the viral load indicates that he is a low risk (not no risk) of spreading the virus. Saying the virus isn't replicating is a wild out there claim, maybe true , maybe not and maybe the tests are picking up dead virus only. I think we can be certain he tested positive otherwise they would just say directly he tested negative no need for all the other crappy wording . Just watched the end of the clip and they got a doctor biased towards Trump. CNN should do their homework and find a doctor not at all associated with Trump because they might as happened here put a nice spin on things. So now the US has real bonified "spin doctors". Quite amusing from Australia a very safe distance away, but it would be unsettling if I was a US citizen because if there is a direct attempt to mislead on this , probability says it's a character trait and a normal course of behaviour so will do it on any issue.
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  7122. Ever heard of the Spanish flu or 1918 flu pandemic, flu has been around for thousands of years. It's suspected it came from some animal and back to humans, Covid 19 infects some animals too. So it's certainly possible, that's why they killed off all those mink, but covid 19 has been found in wild deers for example. We can only hope it doesn't happen without any knowledge of the probability. Omicron was improbable, it surprised all the scientist.
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  7123. One thing that wasn't considered about social media is the level of access provided to the very poor that in the beginning was texting created a way to find jobs and know what is going on elsewhere inside the country so you can be treated fairly. Think how useful this is in a country where $5 per day is a normal wage and you can find a $6 a day job. It's quite impressive the Gates Foundation is like a large country in it's efforts for global health and probably more efficient.
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  7124. @Pat Ho you're right it means some Trump supporters accept Trump seems to be a goner until the supposed evidence of tens of thousands of cases of voter fraud is proven. I am wondering how many affidavit actually have lies in them. There will certainly be some.
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  7125. The Singapore model is to use cheap foreign labour to do all the dirty work, are you suggesting China is doing this?
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  7126.  Tlenon 2  I understand the original comment but don't agree that it fits with China, the Ethnic Malay and Indian Singaporean are and have for the most part been treated well. China isn't allowing the freedoms that Singapore allows it's minorities. Although I don't entirely agree with how foreign workers have been treated in Singapore at least young Singaporean and rights groups speak against the worst of past treatment and things have improved. The issue in China which applies to any religious group is lack of freedoms and outright hostility towards religions especially by the current Chinese President, the worst treated are the Muslims followed by Christians and then Buddhist, Singapore as far as I am aware has no problems with religious freedom.
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  7127.  Tlenon 2  the west is trying to silence you, what on earth are you talking about?
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  7128.  Tlenon 2  must be key words that the uploader banned or just sending failed, I have had that occur at times and don't know why but I don't think up any conspiracy theories, just ok for whatever reason doesn't work.
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  7129. One plane load of stuff is a drop in the ocean for a billion people. Hope they send millions of vaccines , that's the next most important after the emergency items.
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  7130. I was thinking that a bit too but this is different now, all countries previously virus free having quarantine breeches, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand , mainland China, Singapore and Australia, these new variants are far worse so I think it's the vaccine mostly this time causing lower cases around Europe.
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  7131. You take care, people appreciate you
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  7132.  @catbertevil750  Of course they would be bad at treatment because it's a new disease for them. Can't compare to jurisdictions that have had a years practice. However it could simply be the virus has spread through a large number of aged care facilities and or hospitals with the most vulnerable people in them. I would doubt it's the cases detected are really low.
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  7133. Leader in general terms about technology maybe but in practice clearly not, 500,000 people dead. Not a perfect health response I would suggest.
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  7134. Move your decimal point 2 to the right, you're out by a factor of 100.
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  7135. If you're over 50 or fat or something, it's a good idea to get the booster. The virus is still real. If you're younger and fit then it's not a big issue but probably still better off with it.
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  7136. If someone said "God is great" and " i support Palestinian liberation" I don't think anyone would bat an eyelid. Truth is the majority now in the majority of wealthy countries no longer support Israel's actions.
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  7137.  @ilovevag8437  The only restriction of significance is travel where I am and yes miss that. High vaccination rates will reduce that restriction over time noting if Australia was a US state we would be somewhere in the middle as far as vaccination rates go but still climbing every day, haven't hit any wall yet.
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  7138. I tend to agree and add to that the major interstate travel restrictions which are still very significant.
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  7139. You are completely uninformed, the US provides billions $s in military aid.
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  7140. I know in Australia at least as of a month or so ago they will not use the antibody test which is very quick outside of emergencies (like at a car accident for example) because it was totally unreliable, the one Trump is currently promoting. Maybe it's changed, but if that was the case the entire world would have changed over to the 15 minutes test, why spend so much extra money getting lab tests done.
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  7141.  @davidbarlow350  what year did the seasonal flu kill 0.1% of the population and in which country? I would also point out some jurisdictions are close to 0.2% now like New York.
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  7142.  @radharamanivasam7269  I think you meant carnivore , lol.
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  7143. The answer to your question is actually quite easy. The people looking into it looked at bulk data without considering why. Parents will try to protect their young children so they will take less risks themselves and be extra careful around their children to try not pass anything to them. So when schools got closed as happened of course they don't want them playing with those other (diseased) kids. Any other time they would encourage interactions with other children.
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  7144.  @kassrripples3659  Australia is making some of the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine. If the Australian vaccine candidate went ahead which it didn't we would have also been producing that. Without knowing the details reports keep coming out about ingredient shortages, it might make no difference at all how many countries producing the vaccines because the limitations is the ingredients whatever they are. Ingredient manufacturing might be the more important issue.
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  7145. The Victorian border will only close tighter if Victorians were to "rise up" . Other states who didn't make as many errors are happy of the success and don't mind the tyranny of restrictions against those coming from Victoria. I am a Queenslander and I want my state as virus free as possible.
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  7146. You are special because you are big and powerful, as is China. Prefer the US of course but as a smaller Ally I know our diplomacy matters. I would prefer the US became a little more functional even if it hurts us a bit on the trade front.
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  7147. Well we don't know because barely any swing state votes counted.
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  7148. Anyway seems he was right
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  7149. Vietnam did have an outbreak about mid last year that killed a few so they didn't keep that 0 deaths.
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  7150. If nothing else at least Biden won't be attacking every ally verbally and cosying up to questionable dictatorships.
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  7151. What does the word Babus mean?
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  7152. @Simon Says totally agree with you, compare Australia and NZ versus US and Sweden. Non of these economies are booming , the only difference so far is the per capita body counts. It's also very harmful to mental health either scenario, seeing the daily body count in the US can't be any better for an average person suffering mental illness and the US still keep doing soft lockdowns anyway when hospitals fill up in a state.
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  7153.  @idkm07  Sweden isn't entirely open, they are on continuous lockdown lite. No gatherings over 50 people, reduced capacity inside premises, high school students with remote learning. They have about 200 cases per day now with about one death per day. Their economy is RS just like the rest of us, possibly worse because they are a socialist country with over government spending over 50% of GDP prior to the crisis. I don't care that they are that socialist, that's up to them but I don't think I would want it for Australia and the majority of Kiwis would probably think the same.
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  7154.  @ilguitaro  England has an open border with what in effect is voluntary quarantine for people from some countries not all, no government supervised quarantine. I looked on their website , you can even catch a public bus to the hotel or private residence you a quarantine at. The people staying with you in the private residence are not in quarantine so if they catch the virus they can go infect others to their hearts content and it's totally legal. That's the current England situation and it is only mitigation not containment.
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  7155.  @ilguitaro  I looked up past media coverage and 3 weeks into the lockdown there was no checks at the airport for arrivals at all not even a temperature check. The UK has never closed down travel and at some point in time instituted the current weak isolation policy. There was no comprehensive lockdown in the UK at any point in time. There is certainly an argument to be made if you are going to have a mitigation policy then the Swedish model doesn't seem to bad. They restrict gatherings to 50 and limitations in bars and restaurants etc. and senior high school students study from home. They kept the same restrictions in place the whole time until now I believe.
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  7156. Unless you are a protectionist and isolationist, in other words a socialist you can't support Trump. If you are not American you are on the verge of being a traitor if you support Trump who wants to put tariffs on your country's goods. Anyone who supports the planned economic destruction Trump is threatening certainly isn't a capitalist and definitely not a conservative capitalist. This channel is literally nuts the lengths they will go to to support the dear leader who wants to hurt us.
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  7157.  @skythunder334  fair enough, so HIV isn't a problem because there is not a single known case of the virus directly killing a human being, all that virus does is affect your bodies immune responses and if you don't subsequently get another infection of something you will not die. If we use your premiss we can't count the 50,000 or whatever the number is who died from pneumonia caused by covi sars2. Virtually no one will ever die of anything if we adopt your convention of disregarding cause and effect.
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  7158. If I was American, I wouldn't be anywhere near a protest, there are people on the far left and right who have killed in or near these so called peaceful protests.
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  7159. Point 7 isn't valid, there's no such thing as compulsory voting, only compulsory attendance and you can tear your ballot paper up and throw it in the bin or send in your ballot paper if voting by mail incorrectly filled out.
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  7160. Maybe he can get a new nickname, "Trump lite"
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  7161.  @Living_Islamically_always  So the Taliban are a group of feminists now offering greater rights to women than men?
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  7162. Victoria was the free state, some people have short memories. The Victorian approach was more relaxed than all but one other state and kept it's border wide open criticizing other hardline states. Those in the hardline covid free states aren't about to open borders to Victorians, even the state previously on there side has put severe travel restrictions on Victorians. The vast majority of people in hardline states outside of Victoria have little sympathy for Victorians wanting to create chaos and spread the disease throughout Victoria and interstate. There is very significant support that Victorians can only enter other states by paying for 2 weeks government supervised hotel quarantine unless they have a genuine exemption. Note all the hardline states have less restrictions than Sweden other than travel, and travel restrictions are reducing internally in Australia in most states. Freedom is earned not granted, Victorians want more freedom get the virus under control. My sympathies and best wishes go out to all Victorians doing the right thing and trying to earn freedom not just expect it. For the business owners places in the world where the virus is rampant but things are open are having plenty of failures also and you have my sympathy especially you are combatting a government that initially failed due to a more relaxed approach and now you have a segment of the community that literally wants to spread the virus in defiance of the government as a protest.
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  7163. @AntiDoctor-cx2jd  That's simple not true that the government has to continually run up debt. Australian government went debt free in about 2007, we didn't collapse. I am not an expert or anything on monetary policy but what you say is incorrect. Can also run some debt but it's offset by actual investments, just running up debt to make billionaires richer makes no logical sense.
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  7164. @AntiDoctor-cx2jd  certainly after that the Aussie government run up debt and unfortunately kept doing so to the point we are only a little below 50% of US government debt compared to gdp.
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  7165. You are amongst a lot of company, the US only has voluntary quarantine, it only has guidelines at the national level. The UK in most cases only has 10 days self quarantine but they can stay with family or friends who don't need to take any precautions. In all cases it doesn't meet the definition of quarantine which is designed to stop or prevent spread, these rules are only to slow spread so by definition not quarantine.
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  7166. I am pretty sure the threats work in causing other countries and corporations to react. Think about China in particular, I am sure agriculture products purchasing companies are sourcing more products from other countries whenever contracts with US suppliers expire. It's actually fairly easy for China to not buy any US agricultural products, plenty of other suppliers around the world.
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  7167. Well done for stopping something that has never happened. Bravo, Bravo!
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  7168.  @coolman299  if you refuse to look at information available then what you say is correct, maybe look outside your country to any country that was/is relatively successful as in less than 10% of the deaths per million of the US and see what they did ( choose any large country of 1 million or more that belongs to Western Pacific WHO region, they all fit this category )
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  7169. I think about money, governments are broke most likely and also the privatisation mentioned in the story has possibly played a part.
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  7170. I think the problem might be at least in many states with overwhelmed ICUs they can't vaccinate at any high rate because nowhere to treat the people who get allergic reactions. When systems collapse they collapse completely because of a domino effect.
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  7171.  @johnsonpaul1914  there is another virus where people don't become immune, that's the flu virus , everyone would get it during their lifetime but it still kills people off when they get older and body more susceptible.
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  7172.  @johnsonpaul1914  if things continue there will be many covi sars2 virus as well, only one year and New variants that are 50% more infectious spreading at twice the rate and New variants that have seemed to reinfect many who have had a previous infection. Starting to be like the flu already.
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  7173.  @99dynasty  Australia didn't have it worse at all, maybe you can argue Sydney and Melbourne compared to some US cities but nowhere else. The effects of the massive death rate in the US is significant and the riots whether they be BLM/Antifa or Jan 6 indicates things are not ok in the US. Homicides up massively too from a starting point of 5 times the rate on average compared to other wealthy countries. Don't know how our schools will go in a few weeks when they open now that we have gone to minimal restrictions similar to the US and case numbers similar but much higher vaccination rates.
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  7174.  @patricksmith4148  Everything is open except still restrictions on Western Australian border. Everywhere else cases just like the US but we have much higher rates of vaccination, have to wait and see but only the New South Wales hospitals struggling so far with a peak expected in the next couple of weeks, my state Queensland doing fine for now but our peak likely around first week of February or so. Main problem with health systems so far exactly the same as the US, workers catching the virus and quarantine or self isolate.
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  7175.  @99dynasty  It really depends where you are, I am in Brisbane, the third largest city and subtropical like Florida. We held onto Covid 0 until 13 December last year and now in our state of 5 million there's 20,000 cases a day or whatever, just like the US the real number will be much larger than recorded number. We had 10 weeks lockdown in 2020 at the beginning and 2 times 2 weeks lockdown in 2021, so here nothing really. Melbourne which is the second biggest and densest city which is about the same latitude but south versus north as New York had massive problems, in part because Victoria took a more relaxed approach to begin with and their contact tracing failed, they had apparently 200 days of genuine lockdown throughout the pandemic. The reason I mention the latitude is it definitely plays a role because the subtropical or tropical climates no big peak whereas the more temperate areas to cold areas all had massive infection peaks, look around the world where the hospitals overwhelmed. Overall though people well supported by government largess if in lockdown and majority including in Melbourne supported the actions. Our deaths are less than 10% of the US so far on a per capita basis and I would suggest that that will remain the case even though of course we getting a lot more deaths, my state has had 3 deaths since our opening, doesn't sound like many but we only had 7 prior to that and of course it's going to accelerate over the next few weeks.
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  7176.  @patricksmith4148  had to give you a thumbs up. Your story amusing. There's small elements of truth in Sydney and Melbourne when they locked down.
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  7177. ​@PhilMoskowitz More likely stagflation which is an economy not growing with high inflation.
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  7178. ​ @jamesgollan8602 don't worry about the beef producers, if Trump follows through all imported beef will have a tax on it. As the US is a net beef importer the beef producers will be able to up the prices especially on the lower price end such as ground beef. This might not make up for high end exports that will dry up as Trump puts tariffs on everyone as he says he will. Interesting times ahead, countries like Japan and South Korea are unlikely to buy any beef from the US soon. It becomes an imperative that every country in the world retaliates.
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  7179. All partisans that blame one side only in the US are to blame. If you can't condemn your own side you would be better keeping your mouth shut. Allow those who condemn all bad actions to speak.
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  7180. I don't think so and the polling is also likely to be more accurate because they have adjusted the weightings of likely voter groups. I am not American so no first hand feel but to me this is looking like a landslide win for Biden because I think human nature will mean some polls will have actually overcompensated for errors last time and voter turnout for Biden will be more than expected. Comment back to me on Nov 5 when I predict the result will be clear. Maybe I am completely wrong so you can laugh at my prediction then.
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  7181. Atheists are generally not involved in this stuff it's mostly other religious people, in particular Abrahamic religions at the moment.
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  7182. I thought the opposite, his opposition can if they choose call it out as one Australian state looking worse than Hawaii and Alaska, every mainland US state looks worse.
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  7183. It's probably training. I doubt any military operations were being carried out.
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  7184. Made me laugh but you are completely wrong, the Wuhan variant died out long ago, the South Africa, UK, Indian, Brazilian and a few US variants have taken over with other lessor known variants I guess.
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  7185. Not insane but speak without thinking, think of it as the following "Pakistan and Bangladesh don't seem to have the Indian variant [widespread] at the moment" If you ever read newspapers and see the square brackets that's what they do correct someone who misses a word or 2.
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  7186. Take care the best you can and it will end at some stage in one way or another. Seek help if you need to via a friend or a helpline. There are many feeling the same to you so you are not alone.
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  7187. The US stock market is way overvalued considering what is coming. Tesla is the proverbial canary in the coal mine because it's the first and most boycotted product sold by a US company regardless of where production is occurring. Tourism is probably next particularly with Canadians, this takes a bit of time to work through because people with non refundable bookings are still travelling but new bookings being made would be plummeting. All capital investment in the US that requires imported goods of any kind or designed as an export company are on complete hold. To break trust is really easy to regain trust will take many years after Donald is gone. Even things like trusting the US as a supplier for militaries of the world will be broken with alternative suppliers of like products sought from other countries. Because defence is so critical to mid size powers this market might never return.
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  7188.  Alex Jones  yes being sarcastic
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  7189.  @krollpeter  yes the Australian vaccination program is set to start about March and becoming available to general public around July or so. Australia also must consider it's neighbours, after our most important are vaccinated I would expect we would try to facilitate Indonesia etc. getting it out more quickly, truth is we can be patient and getting vaccines out slowly is easier, no need for changing anything, just go to the GP when you meet the criteria. A lot of this is done quietly because of politics.
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  7190.  @krollpeter  yes better to under promise and over deliver but I think other countries are over promising because a big part of the timeline is assuming let's say 4 effective vaccines, now that is looking likely but if it doesn't happen and immunity only lasts 6 months some countries might well be in this same position to now in a year's time because they won't get rid of the virus and the first vaccinated need vaccinations again. Maybe I am playing devil's advocate but I don't like working on optimistic assumptions because so much to lose if wrong.
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  7191.  @abebuckingham8198  if you are correct, that's crazy, mass murder of 6 and many others injured just to flee the police.
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  7192. Happy you're receiving your cut of tax dollars. It's funded by tax payers and debt. The US is in downfall now.
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  7193. Sorry folks you are going downhill, the entitled culture of the US has never been seen before in the world but here it is. Whatever happened to the idea of a liberal democracy with limited socialism. Trumpers , BLM/Antifa and now school kids all calling for handouts yet not actually calling for a stop to corporate welfare , yep socialism for the rich or particular party demographics, farmers or inner city businesses or whatever, seems you have more in common with each other than whatever your warped view of the rest of the world is.
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  7194. Huh? It's impossible that 2 countries with no tourist receipts due to a virus situation would sign what sounds like a travel agreement. I think that's entirely possible and in fact quite likely. It's good to see though and without the virus probably they wouldn't agree. So this might be one of those silver linings where conflicts are put aside even if only for a while. I think this has occurred in many countries due to the virus.
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  7195. Not every American is an arrogant person like you. You might be personally. By the way have you ever heard of a bloke called Rupert Murdoch?
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  7196. Issuing the visa didn't require the documentation for entry, maybe it should and sure after this situation they will change some procedures. Entry requirements can change which isn't linked to the visa. At the start of a pandemic this has to occur because no way to have it as a visa requirement.
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  7197. 50 million Americans believe Trump won in 2020. Seems you can hide the truth from many and remarkably easily.
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  7198. The US media would need to independently research the issue and verify it and Americans don't trust their own media so they aren't going to trust foreign media. This is no good for the Biden campaign either because Trump just needs to say fake news funded by the UK government and how everyone in the world is out to get him which his base already believes. World leaders who are allies haven't spoken directly against Trump but if you listen to some of the UN speeches about misinformation regarding covid 19 I can't think of who they might mean, can you?
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  7199. Omicron hasn't been there in the community for long and they now have probably the toughest restrictions outside of China at the moment for "close contacts" in the world, still 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine at government run facilities for most. The cases are going to explode , the current efforts only provide some delays. Get back to me in a month, maybe 2, any delegation would just be looking at massive case numbers. New Zealand and Western Australia seem to have kept Omicron out for now but it's only a matter of time.
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  7200.  Anthony Quantrill  Well how about the alternate reality of the West Pacific, I am in Australia, half a dozen cases and everything open. It's a pity you prefer not to join that alternate reality with all the sheep.
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  7201. Any strip clubs in DC look forward to official pentagon meetings to be held there. Don't worry DOD can pay the bills, he can't bankrupt that organisation.
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  7202. It wasn't swirled down a drain, it was sent primarily to China for goods and they can buy your government bonds so your government can still function.
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  7203. The WHO is run regionally and has zero enforcement powers. How can you blame an organization run by it's regional members? Specify the region if you want , my opinion is the European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region completely failed and my region the Western Pacific region of WHO did pretty well, less than 10% of the deaths of those other 2 regions and less economic impact.
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  7204.  @chg1264  In the middle of February Tedros said the time for containment is now. Can't get much stronger than that and broadly speaking Europe and the Americas did nothing for an entire year and a half, just waited for the quick fix of vaccines. Nowhere had compulsory quarantine just voluntary schemes, don't blame the failures in policy of the various WHO regions on the WHO, as a person in the Western Pacific WHO region where the hardest line was taken and everyone in the region all 27 countries had border quarantine usually hotel and enforced. The Americas and Europe never went beyond voluntary compliance which completely failed. Africa and South East Asian region (South Asia plus half of South East Asia approximately) weren't as tough as Western Pacific region but still got comparatively good results compared to do nothing. The Eastern Mediterranean region which is basically the middle east I am uncertain of and haven't looked into it. Italy had a chance of elimination but never did it. With Delta the game has changed however and for some countries that were perfectly capable of containment with previous variants under the existing policies failed including 2 states in my country Australia and countries like Vietnam and New Zealand which previously had a very good record. I hope there is discussion about what was the best regional policy and I think it's my region and the open borders no quarantine regions should reconsider what they do next time but they were more concerned about freedom to travel and no lockdowns until hospitals overwhelmed than anything else. Is it possible that those 2 regions will ever admit they got it wrong, my cynical opinion says no they won't and geopolitically the Western Pacific region is far from a united grouping, Australia has been declared the enemy by China so even though essentially we took the same approach on the matter we don't want to give each other credit at the political level, behind the scenes though I think there's a very high level of cooperation throughout the region, contact tracing is truly international here although that will probably fade away slowly as countries "live with the virus".
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  7205.  @studebakerhoch4397  Ian is using a number that is probably correct but irrelevant. If you have twice as many recorded infections but they die at only 75% of the rate then you have a lot more dead people. Florida is one of the worst for deaths per million. There's lies damn lies and statistics.
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  7206. They can pay $3000 or something to leave the state and go into hotel quarantine in another state for a while. So they are free to leave if they really want to and can afford it.
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  7207. India is somewhat protectionist, it's up to India to fix that internally. Australia is pursuing some sort of free trade deal with India and India declined to sign onto the RCEP , I think domestic concerns over Chinese manufacturers out competing indian manufacturing played a big part and or the border issues.
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  7208.  @theccpisaparasite8813  Generally agree with your comments above , however China had nothing to do with the forming of the quad which was set up after the Indian Ocean Tsunami and about disaster relief coordination. Quad 2.0 is China's doing it's become more of an informal geopolitical grouping which as you say strongly objects to some of China's actions, particularly in the South China Sea. The CPC supporters all say that Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia are ok with it. I somehow don't think so, more like we a bit scared of all these foreign military bases inside of our territory without permission.
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  7209.  @troubledsole9104  How about spaghetti gate it even has the Chinese connection according to the story (which appears to be a myth) that noodles were brought to Italy Marco Polo.
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  7210.  @billcasey9672  I think it's more simple than that, the Chinese sent some assistance to Italy in the early days of the pandemic when they were the first disaster zone outside of China. When discussing Australian covid 19 response which essentially is/was the same as China Trump supporters would say Australia is communist because we were successful.
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  7211.  @ssaw88  have you ever compared the US to other wealthy countries? By the way Trump ran up the debt far quicker than Obama and now probably Biden is going to accelerate again, have to see first of all does any tax reform happen and then is it effective/reduces debt/doesn't harm business through unintended consequences. As far as the border goes yep Trump was right , actually it was copying the Australian policy, however he managed to stuff it up by being too inflammatory causing much resistance, actually the majority of US citizens would prefer a controlled border.
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  7212. What about the alternative, elimination and everything is open? I realise that the world has already decided on your path but wouldn't it have been better if the virus was gone already?
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  7213. The ingredients are innocuous [in the quantities given]. Very important to include those words because that's how they spread misinformation, just like if I told you your hamburger has lead and cadnium in it which it does would that sound scary, answer is yes but if I say it's less than a microgram of each in almost all circumstances and even if you become vegan like a cow you will still get some of course because where do you think the cow absorbed those elements.
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  7214. Piers isn't a racist , however he is a Zionist.
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  7215. @itamar4586  a person who supports Israel and it's actions no matter what. That's not the technical definition however I would say it's a reasonable definition. Piers didn't support the Iraq war so that's why I say he isn't actually racist. It's interesting how he is more capable of criticising the US and UK than he is Israel.
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  7216. I sort of see it long term as having another flu like virus with a similar deadliness , so each year the authorities watching out to see if it's going to be a bad flu or covid or both year based on the variants spreading.
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  7217. He certainly has it. For him to go to hospital for "an abundance of caution" is very difficult. Also the fact he is receiving all those treatments when an ordinary person would not receive them unless they are extremely ill shows he is sick. He is scared and taking pre emptive actions that others wouldn't and in most cases wouldn't have access to such care. His doctors would have told him based on the information we know you have approximately a 5% probability of dying.
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  7218. Yeah sorry about that.
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  7219. Probably the same reasons as the rest of the community, richer, older and fatter.
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  7220. There is often method in what seems madness. While I could be wrong if the protests go away the King will just pardon them all so long as they are appreciative and promise not to do it again.
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  7221.  @jeans4484  different countries are at different stages. To us it seems ridiculous however looking at my Australia sedition type law if I was to make an allegation against the Queen not in good will I could theoretically get 7 years prison. So maybe some Qanon person could get 7 years prison, I am guessing that they consider her one of the cabal or something. But if I was to say I think we should get rid of the monarchy and become a republic this is ok because I am expressing a legitimate concern that for arguments sake it isn't good for Australia to have our head of state be a foreigner. If you look at Thailand it is one of the better performing ASEAN countries and a big part of that has been the monarchy so it's not a one way street. Think of Myanmar or Cambodia 2 of Thailand's neighbours and you can see how Thailand could have been. Thailand will be ok in my opinion and evidence is mixed with the new King, he sort of doesn't seem to want the job.
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  7222.  @jeans4484  You sound fairly young and well off, and a Siam ( central Thai ) person. I am curious if my guesses are correct what makes you so angry?
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  7223.  @jeans4484  What injustice are you suffering from personally? I am thinking you are not really and what about your fellow Thai's who are less fortunate. The previous king produced a degree of stability however was much more authoritarian. Are if my assumption is correct about where you are from willing to give up some things that currently benefit you? Of course democracy would be good but I just can't see how Thailand can transition to full democracy any time soon. First step should be democracy for all provincial governments not just Krueng Thep , Chiang Mai and Chonburi. This would be a good starting point. Having unequal levels of democracy is problematic and centralizes focus when it might be better if people could be angry with their locally elected government otherwise everything directed to the national government. It would also make a multi party system more functional because if your local government is of a particular party and does a good or bad job some of this vote will follow through to the national level. Thailand has taken a long time to get where it is and even though colonialism is not considered a good thing anymore that's the history of Siam a colonial power that created Thailand and gave some of its colonial territory to England and France in order to survive a master stroke really and excellent diplomacy and strategy. As far as the conquered people well I guess it's just a matter of waiting until nobody remembers or cares.
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  7224.  @jeans4484  what you say I know is in general true. That hasn't caused you harm personally however as far as I know. Also if you are involved in the protests or whatever consider 2 things, what is it you want that's most important and how to get that. Going after everything but neglecting to consider others you may get nothing. Have you sat down and talked to people at an opposing pro royal protest and asked them what their concerns are. Because to change something the majority must agree. Even in a dictatorship the government still needs the majority to support , preferably a lot more to rule, if you look at Trump and Thaksin you will understand this because they were not against using non democratic tactics to keep power. Hey I would like to meet you in person one day, you seem like a good hearted person with a lot of spirit but .....
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  7225.  @TemplarX2  So you as a foreigner would like to see maybe 1,000,000 Thai's dead through a civil war where by all accounts would result in a more oppressive regime noting that the majority of Thai don't want to change from a constitutional monarchy but some possibly many want changes in how that works as demanded by the protestors and whether or not your assumptions are correct there is no evidence that the current king had anything to do with the sentencing outcome of a case that was started during the term of the previous king. Now the Thai person on this thread has legitimate concerns but pretty sure they don't want what you suggest and don't actually look up to Thomas Jefferson who has had a a quote attributed to him which is not true according to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and he was a slave owner of 600 slaves. If the Thai person does look up to such outdated behaviour then maybe they want to enslave those from Isaan , Lanna and the southern sultanates yet again being someone most likely not in those groups. I would suggest he or she doesn't but is looking at the issues from a very narrow perspective.
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  7226.  @jeans4484  see my other comment above
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  7227.  @histochronos  I am not suggesting slavery is going to reoccur in the conquered or colonial territories. The problem with Thailand is Siam the elite which includes the protestors against the king/military government will never have power how they want it, they are a minority who has benefited greatly from colonialism. Another problem is the military is less corrupt than civilian governments. Thailand certainly has corruption that it seems won't go away but it is reducing. I can't speak about the prior situation but former Prime Minister Thaksin was found to be corrupt from a land deal and it was blatent actually. How Thai politics works or at least did 15 years ago you just go and hand out cash to poor people in Isaan mostly but other poor areas too to buy votes and it worked and I would suggest would still work today, the population of Isan is about the same as central Thailand so central Thailand can never win if it's contended between them and rest of the country. There was and still is racism towards the people of Isan although it would seem to be reducing. It's hard to know what will happen and the current king should hand over the palaces in particular to the government to be held in trust. The biggest issue I see is the Palace and military who are closely connected won't let things fail under an elected government, so they won't give up power. If you accept democracy you have to also accept democracy can destroy a country through it's policies. Philippines is a democracy that by all accounts actually functioned as one and democracy doesn't prevent a dictatorship or reduce corruption as has happened in many countries including there. The average wealth of someone in the Philippines is half that of Thailand. Democracy is a luxury in a way and if functional certainly produces the best results but a reasonably functional very limited democracy like Thailand beats a more democratic country like the Philippines. Obviously don't know what's going to happen in the future but a highly functional democracy in Thailand is still a long way off. As you can see with the US it's about everyone accepting results and nobody accepting a dictatorship which is actually very difficult, when times get tough people often look towards a dictator because it's at least in their perception better than what they have got. Of course I hope things do get better in Thailand and freedoms increase and a more functional and true democracy , however if it moves too quickly it will fail because need everyone to agree and it needs to be functional.
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  7228. What a strange thing to say " I felt like I was a foreign correspondent" Has he not been watching the news for the last year with authorities attacking the media. The last time an Australian media person was attacked was when Trump cleared the mob for his photo op, in that case it was the federal authorities that attacked him. Do CNN reporters think they have immunity in their own violent country or something. Does CNN believe that an unruly mob who supports the authorities who attacked journalists would be better behaved? The US has a homicide rate 6 times that of Australia and much more violent than any country of similar wealth. Maybe CNN should send there reporters around the world so they can have a better idea because they are just like their violent American friends and can't accept that "American exceptionalism" is harmful and dangerous because it is basically being superior to all others and in denial of reality.
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  7229.  @ackers5861  No stats of vaccine efficacy come out of China , just as you will get no information out of Australia, without cases it's impossible to work out efficacy.
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  7230. It doesn't matter, in countries with thousands of people dying, 50% is better than nothing, it's also the bar the WHO decided upon a long time ago. While it might be sad that 100 people or whatever have died from vaccines themselves, noting just because some vaccines are studied more it might appear some are more dangerous leading to 1 death every 2 million people or something , it's fair to say in India or Brazil this is not being looked into the thousands dying daily from covid 19 is a bigger concern. Only either wealthy countries or countries with low case numbers will have any truly reliable information. Where Chinese vaccines are mostly going don't fit into a reliable category and most likely will be the same a death every couple of million from the vaccines.
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  7231.  @LoC28C  according to WHO one of the Chinese vaccines seems to be 79% which is less than some others and then you have individual variants which with all vaccines varies. People are still dying after having any vaccine , none are 100% effective against death as was being claimed earlier by many from extremely low sample numbers. As far as side effect deaths it's really hard to pick up one in a million, most health systems in the world couldn't actually do it. I am not critical of any vaccines actually but neither am I a promoter of any. In some countries like US and a few others people will continue to die due to the fact they won't get vaccinated. 1 death in a million is completely acceptable from the vaccines, up to 3 per 1,000 people out of some entire populations have died from covid 19 in some jurisdictions.
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  7232. The government paid for that so nobody. Now not sure but the first couple of years at least.
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  7233. They buy food, pretty simple.
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  7234. Not never but not in that election. I think previously there were some issues but so what. That's why he said I don't care.
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  7235.  @TSimo113  Actually you do , the US has taxes on alcohol and tobacco. Now you want to socialize the costs of Covid 19 to the entire community even when someone makes the choice of not getting vaccinated. Make them pay if you believe in free choice.
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  7236.  @TSimo113  Ok so Republicans are the liberal nanny state, I wouldn't have expected that comment from you. The federal tax might not be all that much but it's still $365 per year for 40 or 50 years so about $15,000 per smoker based on one pack of 20 per day. As far as deciding what is taxed and who pays etc. that's what governments are for, I am Australian so on goods we are very low taxed , we genuinely have free trade, the US is a somewhat free trade nation so a lot of taxes on goods with import duty and also you paying subsidy for ridiculous things like producing ethanol from corn. That's Republican territory , seems you might want to redefine big L Liberal. If you respond I am curious what you will say. One very big difference between Australia and the US is Australian states are extremely limited on taxation measures , can't have sales tax or any form of duty like that on alcohol or tobacco or any income tax. Those are all rights reserved by the federal government under our constitution. If you are unsure of my claims regarding economic freedom please search Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation. A country has to have a balance and of course governments of all shapes and colors will subsidize or tax according in part with their ideology, Australia while being truly a free trading nation also has high "sin taxes" for the public good and supported in both cases by both our major parties.
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  7237.  @YouREsoBEAUTIFUL00  please be specific, what exactly are you referring to. I can hardly answer you if you don't tell me what you actually disagree with.
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  7238. They could be attacks within, Putin certainly has enemies inside Russia and many Russian against the war.
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  7239. That's true mob mentality, people were scared to openly go against the mob position, it's not believable that 0 would actually take the vaccine, it's almost like taking the vaccine is like shooting heroin or something and you don't want your neighborhood aware of the fact.
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  7240. The protein issue is population observation, those who have eaten more unprocessed beans or meat have much higher micronutrient intake. Refined protein is about as useful as refined oil or sugar or carbohydrates.
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  7241. You make me laugh, and having already watched the inauguration it gave me one memory at the time, especially his motorcade coming in. This looks like North Korea , can only see military and the leaders vehicles.
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  7242. I think you would find it would be allowed in Australia, there's no law against aggressive advertising, however no major media organisation is likely to run it and the candidate would be condemned by all major parties.
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  7243. You mean manufactured in Thailand which has just started or is Thailand also going to import some as well?
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  7244. Just had a look at Australia's smart traveller website regarding USA, we are still kowtowing and not emphasising the real risks, only softly pointing out the US might be more dangerous. It's only a matter of time before our government departments be honest regarding USA.
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  7245. You're not Australian, your language wrong.
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  7246.  @andrijabaclija3375  you indicated we're or we are. That would indicate you are Australian. Anyway your name doesn't indicate whether or not you are Australian, 30% of Australia's resident population was born overseas. We have a lot of immigrants. Novak lied on his form, that doesn't go down very well. Australia is a country with a controlled border and we want to keep it that way. If someone can lie to get into your country and nobody cares well you have a different culture then. If one can do it then everyone will do it. It would have been better if he didn't lie, that's on him.
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  7247. So doctors, nurses and tradespeople are slaves, what a silly comment.
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  7248. The true rate of racism could be no more than the amount of the no vote in the referendum for Aboriginal rights in 1967. The no vote was about 8 %. I would suggest 2 things, you can't create systemic racism if there is only 8% supporting the cause and the other thing is we are probably a lot more tolerant now than we were then as a country so the proportion of racists would be lower I expect.
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  7249. Sorry but Scandinavia countries are socialist along with a few other European countries. If government spending passes 50% of GDP you are socialist in my opinion. I don't have any problems with countries being like that and clearly most people like it. I am in Australia which along with English speaking countries of UK and US for example are limited socialism, government spending to GDP normally around 35%. The outcomes are quite different though, the US focuses on protectionism and generally corporate welfare rather than Australia or UK which mostly focus on social welfare for the needy including healthcare. So naturally I prefer limited socialism but not the US kind.
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  7250.  @kommisar.  socialism is often defined as government control over production, government seizing 50% of the economic output for redistribution is pretty socialist. If you look up socialism on the internet you will literally get 10 definitions so to say you have a different definition to me ok fair enough.
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  7251.  @kommisar.  Yes every functional government on the planet has some socialism, if you don't society fails basically. I mentioned protectionism and subsidies , so yes regulations are controlling means of production. As far as Venezuela nationalizing things , governments often do that or seize private property and hand it to another private individual or corporation, the issue there is whether or not the person or company is properly compensated and in the case of Venezuela although I don't know the details the compensation was unfair from my understanding. You might not like me saying a country is socialist when the government literally controls 50% or above of the economy, what number would you give? Or alternatively should I say they are over 50% socialist with North Korea being 95% socialist, in other words the absolute number ignoring the regulation issue which makes the number greater. Also is it possible you are confusing socialism and capitalism with democracy and authoritarianism because by their nature full socialism or communism requires authoritarianism.
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  7252.  @kommisar.  You have strange ideas about powers of governments. Any government on the planet can seize an asset, it's only through laws in place and very rarely in constitutions that there's rules about how to do it. To give recent examples in the US , president Trump seized control of certain companies or parts of under the defense production act and forced them to make stuff for reasonable compensation, those companies had no choice technically. Every time a major infrastructure project is built the government seizes private property and compensates those at a reasonable rate it has acquired it off normally. Yes I told you it's my opinion that over 50% in other words the majority of a country's economy is controlled by the government that makes it socialist because the free capitalist part of the economy is smaller than the government part. Also communism isn't the same as socialism, one is absolute and the state will own almost everything. Anyway as I said in the beginning , I am happy with my limited socialism directed mostly at humans not corporations in my country. It's up to a country what it does and some countries chose to go down different paths and there's nothing wrong with that as long as they are liberal democracies.
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  7253.  @kommisar.  I didn't say Australia has no corporate welfare, just that it's much less than the US. I do however argue that non free trade is a socialist action as an example. In effect you are being forced to buy American products in some cases that are inferior or more expensive or buy imported with a massive tax on it and yes before you have a go at me Australia does it too but to a far lessor extent. If you look at the Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation Australia ranks 12 at this point in time and the US 25, although it's not a pure measure of socialism because it includes things such as judicial effectiveness and government integrity (corruption) it's a pretty good guide to how socialist a country is, on trade freedom Australia gets a score of 90 out of 100 which appears to be equal second best in the world behind Singapore getting a score of 95 and the US with a score of 75. You seem to think socialism and communism are the same thing but they aren't and socialism regardless of how it's carried out is government control in what is produced although it can't be measured in many cases. Why should you have to buy American if you don't want to at least on a personal level. Maybe those people in the US logging lumber due to the US import duty of 17% on Canadian softwood lumber would be doing something more economically productive. Free trade in everything but labor is a great thing in my opinion, self sufficiency as professed by Xi of China or Biden or Trump which obviously involves significant socialism isn't a good thing in my opinion. Not all welfare is bad and as previously stated limited socialism is a good thing, even from a cold hearted pragmatic view if you don't feed the unemployed they will steal stuff and then you need to imprison them for a far higher cost than just giving them food in the first place.
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  7254.  @kommisar.  seems your English is limited, mostly mean the majority or over 50%. So my original comment as you copied suggested that at least 50.0001% of welfare out of total welfare or genuine handouts in Australia is directed towards humans and I stand by that.
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  7255. I have been following what's going on and looking at history in your country and if I was to say only one thing, it is that the US political system and public service delivery is disfunctional. This is not easily fixed and requires fundamental changes.
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  7256. Add to that, US created Al Qaeda and the current form of government in Iran.
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  7257. The thing is he is right though, the reforms with Hawke and Keating and Howard and Costello got Australia where it is today and I have personally been disappointed in federal government's since.
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  7258. Yep same for Australia, but less than 10% of the deaths on a per capita basis than the US and the gap is actually widening Australia maybe 15 deaths a day and US thirteen times the population 1,500 deaths a day. Maybe Americans should get vaccinated. Singapore and South Korea have very similar rates on a per capita basis of deaths to Australia.
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  7259.  @nyla2408  The original statement is correct, opening up as in no more Covid 0 or no choice with Omicron means lots more infections. See my comment above.
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  7260. So 150 countries you can fly from to the UK without hotel quarantine, that's gonna work. Also the the 10 day quarantine not 14 like West Pacific countries because I guess short cuts have proven to work in the UK and US. Only need one case of a particular strain to get in then if it's a competitive strain the virus can do the rest.
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  7261.  @importantjohn  Don't give New Zealand or Western Australia any ideas, they have the equal second toughest borders on the planet after North Korea. If they start purchasing missile defence systems we should be scared.
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  7262. Have you not heard of stealing a PIN or in this case a security code?
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  7263. I do feel sorry for both groups actually. Australia is so peaceful , we had rallies yesterday and as far as I know not a single bit of damage with an estimated 70,000 people at rallies spread amongst different cities in different states. We don't have the same level of problems to the US but not perfect.
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  7264. Actually I think you mean trade sanctions. The last one being beef has now been lifted. Aussie producers will be looking to phase out exports to the US in anticipation of tariffs. The US exported high value beef and imported low value beef. Different producers inside the US will be affected differently. The low cost producers will see domestic prices increase whereas the high value exports mostly to East Asia will dry up in favour of countries like Australia and New Zealand and to some extent South American countries (they won't be able to achieve as high prices)
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  7265. When are Americans going to realise that a handgun won't stop a bullet from a rifle fired 300 yards away? I ask this genuinely because there's something really wrong thinking that having a handgun would stop such a bullet. Maybe restriction of weapons that can be owned would be a better path. The US as the most dangerous high income country needs to wake up.
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  7266. Oakland CA has had 100 homicides so far this year and that's for a population of 440,000. England and Wales had 695 homicides from 1 April 2020 to 30 March 2021 with a population of 50 million or so. The overall US homicide rate is at least 5 times other wealthy nations. The US doesn't see this as a problem and just says that's because of gangs. Given the overall rates I would expect the problem to be worse for every demographic, male or female in the US versus the UK.
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  7267. Everyone thinking she can nationalise healthcare has another thing coming even if she did get in. Applies to the other subsidised corporations too especially the banks with Fannie May and Freddy Mac and student loan guarantees by the government. This is probably the largest socialist scheme on the planet all in favour of corporations. US people all say they don't like socialism while fully supporting it, just Republicans don't like supporting social welfare schemes designed to support people instead of corporations and the Democrats aren't so different.
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  7268. It doesn't really have to mutate if eradication isn't the strategy because 6 months or a year maybe immunity is very low after a vaccine. I hope certain countries come to their senses and go for eradication.
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  7269.  amy may  Australia is fine, why do you ask? 4,000 people quarantined in SA now so it looks like every state is dead serious now, it was unfortunate that Victoria previously had a policy not so different to a US state with no substantial fines and open borders but saw how that turned out, with Dan Andrews going from the super soft approach to a somewhat strict approach and being called names by people like you despite your admiration of the original soft approach.
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  7270.  Mono Woman  Explain why you think I am mad please, because I am curious and will probably want to respond.
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  7271. Iran, Turkey and Malaysia all support the Palestinian cause openly.
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  7272. So blocking a road and shouting no justice NO PEACE is now peaceful?
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  7273.  @charliesmith6329  They aren't going to force them to go back at this point in time. Basically they are asylum seekers being held in detention as of the press conference.
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  7274.  @MrMann-gt1eh  Actually no we aren't the same unless WWIII breaks out. The extremely high levels of peace in the world have never occurred before since maybe hunter gatherer times when we could only kill each other with sticks and clubs. Possibly violence did peak in WWI and WWII due to excellent technology which is now way advanced since that, WWIIII would be a whole different scale of destruction with 1,000s of nuclear weapons followed by conventional weapons which are multiples of what they were in WWII when they run out if countries are still capable of fighting most likely.
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  7275.  @lc9902  Zelenskyy didn't start the war, that was old man Putin.
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  7276.  @kevjtnbtmglr  You mean like the US insurrectionists had access to free media. Things aren't so simple, the insurrectionists were volunteers , 100% of them, these are likely conscript and as such didn't have any duty to research what they were planning to do according to you.
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  7277. That is the fear and have to remember some teachers and similar already killed but seems so far not at the direction of the leadership.
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  7278. My impression is that people believe that the police should be able to chase a criminal and if fired upon be able to fire back. A taser is a deadly weapon according to the attorney general involved.
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  7279. Whatever happens it will still be birds of a feather flocking together, 0 case countries won't let any high case country travellers in without hotel quarantine vaccine or not, it's just not going to happen, but between high case countries it likely will. All depends whether vaccines really work, we will see after Israel and the Palestinian population are all vaccinated if they go to 0 cases or not. I think they are likely to be the first place where full vaccine rollout has occurred but also depends on their take up rate.
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  7280. @Kevin Castaneda all Western democracies are socialist, so what are you talking about? Limited socialism is necessary for a functional society. Countries like the Nordic countries and France are more socialist but still function pretty well, arguably better than the US at this point in time.
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  7281. There were plenty of missile launches under Obama and Trump, so are you suggesting all US presidents are a joke?
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  7282. I thought so too
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  7283. That's info that's difficult to find because some expect a 100% correct rate which is impossible, so it's either impossible to find in a given jurisdiction or well hidden. Consider the government's position, sometimes providing too much information will set things back.
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  7284.  @billcochrane9774  I know and just commented on the difficulties to do so.
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  7285.  @margaretliu3409  You're just a pro masker. Masks are last line of defence to slow not stop spread when all else has failed at the population level. All states of Australia plus New Zealand except for New South Wales and Victoria got to 0 cases without any mask mandate, just a request if you are feeling a bit sick then wear one. If you compare my state of Queensland to Taiwan they are very similar, slightly more imported cases into Queensland and it did spread a little bit last year so lockdown was about 8 weeks versus 3 weeks for Taiwan, the Taiwanese still had a mask mandate 100 days after their last case of community transmission, that's like protecting yourself from mosquito in Antarctica, pretty pointless actually and achieved nothing because you can't catch something that isn't around. I am not an antimasker but pro maskers are problematic also because masks don't perform magic and can't stop spread, lockdowns as required plus contact tracing plus border quarantine do and masks add a tiny bit to those main control methods. I guess you talking from the UK which has had an open border the entire time and only self quarantine where you can catch public transport to your destination and stay with family or friends who have no restrictions whatsoever which is only designed to slow spread so technically not even quarantine. Anyway best of luck where ever you are , the only thing that will stop spread is vaccinations because with no border quarantine cases will be coming in for years.
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  7286.  @TomNook.  Read your comment back to yourself, you are a racial supremacist. East Asians have more technology and knowledge, it's simply not true some East Asian are smart and study a lot etc. the majority just like any country know nothing of science or technology and the technological advances on a per capita basis are still lower than wealthy Western countries and this is to do with culture/type of education mostly. This might change in the future who knows but for now that is how it is.
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  7287.  @margaretliu3409  that you must wear masks indoors in the UK at the moment is entirely appropriate, if the virus was as rampant in Australia as it currently is in the UK any states with cases would have their borders shut on them and they would be in hard lockdown. The current case rate in the UK is higher than it ever reached in Australia, but the good thing is most older people vaccinated and the death rates are relatively low when compared to before. Japan is a case in point of why masks on their own don't stop anything, I think and guess voluntary mask wearing compliance there to be very high, Japan is now approaching 100 deaths per million and looking at their case rate it's looking like they could totally lose control noting an extremely low vaccination rate and low overall previously infected rate. India's current deaths per million are about double that of Japan. Anyway you stay safe as I guess you will, things are at least looking up in the UK due to vaccinations and a slightly more cautious approach than previously.
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  7288. These deaths are in no way helping democracy and if you've been following things quite the opposite with the US situation. China now looks appealing to poorer nations when compared to the isolationist USA.
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  7289. The commentary was new and the clips of rally goers was not.
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  7290. Student debt forgiveness is far lefty craziness. It should also be noted that higher educated people on average earn more. In the Australian system you only need to pay when your income reaches a certain level and it's subsidized as in the charge for the study is below real costs and the interest rate isn't a real market rate. Maybe the US should look abroad for what is the best system going forward and I would suggest the Aussie system is superior but maybe somewhere is better than us.
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  7291. Don't have to believe them, I can access government reports from the Philippines and police have killed 1,000s according to the government. Should I not believe Duterte's government?
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  7292. Internationally we can't do anything, just like we couldn't do anything about Trump or Bolsonaro, who seem to have significant similarities.
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  7293. 1500 deaths in a week, that's remarkable, maybe if you are correct they are slow to report numbers, very slow.
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  7294. The natoinal guard is military. People in the military are primarily taught how to kill others, they are not like police who at least in theory are taught things like proportional response and de escalation.
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  7295. Without state border restrictions it'll just keep on going. Look at Australian states a similar federal system regarding this issue and now every state has border restrictions. Look at Alaska and Hawaii, their geographic isolation has helped a lot it would seem. It is a bipartisan policy in the US to not have any serious border restrictions. So until it infects everyone or a vaccine comes or border restrictions are put in place (extremely unlikely) things will continue along pretty much as they are. The good thing is treatment seems to be much better than in the beginning.
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  7296. Nothing about race and nothing about Asia, maybe you are a US citizen where the homicide rate is about 5 times that of all other wealthy countries except Canada. Maybe it's your nation.
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  7297. He didn't come illegally but he became an illegal immigrant when he worked on his visa which didn't permit work.
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  7298. You have a naive view of human nature. Nazi party was voted in and very popular for it's ideas.
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  7299.  @LuisAlbertoRodriguezGoff  I didn't say they had a majority, they got in government with a coalition. Democracies somewhat often become non democracies because at the time a number large enough want that. There's a significant number in the US who want an authoritarian regime lead by Trump installed by a military coup d'etat. They are small enough in number not to get their way at least for now.
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  7300. Your number is out by about 100,000,000. Kettle calling pot black. Or are Democrats collecting votes from babies and illegal immigrants?
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  7301. Not necessarily, the reason for increased food prices will be taxing imports. As goods like food are supply and demand producers can't necessarily raise prices even if wages are higher. What can occur is the value of the farms go down as they are less profitable.
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  7302. This i believe is a major reason why people in the US are more susceptible. Because of programs like that which Edward Snowden exposed. This was occurring under President s of both major parties.
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  7303. Mexico is a country founded by white people and run by white people, go and check where Spain is on a map if you are unaware and then find England.
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  7304. At the start of your comment I thought hell no, we might have sent Rupert Murdoch to the US some years ago but you wanted him and doesn't mean we want one of yours coming here. Fortunately our Qanon membership isn't too high at the moment but if Trump arrived on our shores no doubt it would skyrocket.
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  7305.  @SeeingHimNow  I know
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  7306. A 60% tariff doesn't add 60% to the retail price because you have transport costs and mark ups. It will add a lot though and depends if the retailers reduce the percentage mark up or not.
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  7307.  @brandonyul1570  The people getting killed from the virus or gun shot wounds aren't exactly free are they and in general they are not volunteers sacrificing their lives for you. Consider others , being vaccinated reduces your chance of spreading it, yes it doesn't eliminate the chance but something is better than nothing and if you have a gun safely store it at home.
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  7308.  @brandonyul1570  Yes they "were" free until they got killed. So you think Americans are like free range livestock? In Australia we have a different view almost universally.
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  7309.  @brandonyul1570  They got sick and died because someone infected them and a 10 year old kid shot to death was certainly killed, like a free range chicken, didn't see it coming. It's interesting how your allies disagree with you and suggest Cuomo killed people but then again consistency isn't really a thing of your mob ( just a guess you are a Trump supporter that most likely supports a Trump dictatorship)
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  7310.  @brandonyul1570  Your questions are bizarre, no need to answer you as you think you already know and I can't convince you of the real situation. Pretty sure your questions are Rhetorical.
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  7311.  @brandonyul1570  I watch CGTN sometimes too to see what the far right Chinese propaganda machine is up to, your suggestion that if someone watches news outside of their own country that means they want to live there is ridiculous. Americans should watch more foreign news rather than the mostly highly partisan local news you have. Having some knowledge of the world is a good thing rather than always looking inwards.
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  7312. His last comment literally said if you are not willing to lie you are considered a RINO.
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  7313. If he was the mayor of Chicago he would be getting cheered on. This is nothing ok some guy swore in public "disorderly conduct" both sides did some yelling without physical violence. A non event really.
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  7314. According to the social security trusts they will run out of money in 2035. It needs more than tweaking.
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  7315. ​@marieravening927 the trust is paying out more than it receives relying on higher and higher contributions, it's a P*nz* scheme.
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  7316. He answered that, travel restrictions. Most of Australia's states have no cases also because of the same reason, nothing to do with diet. When all the borders open up with only home quarantine it might change however we are actually fairly highly vaccinated and at least where I live people are cautious and compliant with restrictions.
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  7317.  @harbselectronicslab3551  have you considered what emergency use means, it means we believe that the vaccine will save lives overall in the current situation or to put it a different way it might kill one in 50,000 people or leave them with permanent injuries or something but if we do nothing one in 1,000 will die from the virus. Would you be willing be the person should the 1 in 50,000 death or permanent injury eventuates to tell the families why the short cut was taken? On current settings which will largely remain until at least August or so regardless of when it is decided and assuming such a decision is made to mass vaccinate we can estimate approximately 0 deaths will occur. The population in our main area of concern Australasia is about 36,000,000 or so and currently I would speculate we might have 5,000,000 doses including I believe NZ is manufacturing some also. That number of doses won't change anything on a mass scale to possibly open up more. Some reports have come out about allergic reactions and unexpected deaths soon after receiving some of the vaccines, maybe it's nothing but I certainly would prefer we know first rather than rushing in. The US and UK and most of Europe emergency use does make sense so I am not criticising their authorities and believe it's appropriate in their circumstances.
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  7318.  @harbselectronicslab3551  Well I respect your personal opinion and if you wanted to take it knowing the risks are basically that of a phase 3 trial participant I sort of think that is ok however it's not how things work and unless you are 75 or older or a medical worker , including all workers at hospitals and nursing homes you won't be getting the vaccine any time soon even if it was approved for emergency use tomorrow. You might also find such approval would require an act of parliament because it would be over ruling the advice from the TGA and Chief medical officer who might be able to make a decision unilaterally. I would think even if just for diplomatic reasons you would need agreement with New Zealand. Just hang in there , there is no evidence that Australia will have any substantial outbreak with all governments now highly proactive.
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  7319. I am guessing he means vaccine nationalism as in discredit other countries to cause disruption. I don't think it's that bad but certainly there seems to be bias, looking at other countries vaccines with a more critical eye than their own country.
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  7320. Normal, there can be video of someone shooting someone, it will still be alleged.
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  7321. I had to laugh when Western Australia and New Zealand were referred to as countries, not sure if it was unintentional or deliberate but funny because WA is behaving a bit like it's own country, but we love them when the iron ore price is high because they pay lots of tax.
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  7322. I like the comment that the interview was fake yet he apparently has a copy of it. I wonder what was said in the interview which hasn't been released yet that is so bad Trump is calling it fake.
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  7323. That's silly, look at your restrictions now versus my country Australia or even China, get rid of the virus you get freedom not the other way around, look at the US.
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  7324. Americans are very uncomfortable talking about death. 1 million dead from covid 19 and it's response and barely a peep and the right to infect was never impinged. A story that 25 people might have had a few days shaved off their life all off a sudden it's a big issue.
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  7325. I have it's by the police against the pro Palestinian Jewish protesters.
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  7326.  @officerricky5065  if you denounce your other citizenship then they can't deport you because you will be stateless
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  7327.  Ellen Peba  I am Australian as I think you had guessed. The US has certain things we are very alike and other things we are quite different. But I find watching interesting. Also you know politics between Australia, UK and US is very interconnected. There are campaign advisors who sometimes work for the same sides of politics in different countries . There is also one media person that has had no problems crossing borders . Rupert Murdoch has influenced the politics in all 3 countries I think.
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  7328. Not all dictatorships are that bad. Many of them only restrict free speech but otherwise have reasonable governance. Trump wants to restrict free speech by using threats. Problem with Trump is he is no good at governance.
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  7329. Many Queenslanders are thinking just let him into WA and we can keep him out for a while. If nothing else mandatory hotel quarantine for 14 days on his return.
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  7330. So far Indonesia isn't so bad with about 1 eighth of the deaths per capita but without enough vaccines to stop the slow but continuous spread it could continue to get worse.
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  7331.  Aditya Chauhan  the schools are full of people too scared to stay in their homes. Israel less likely to bomb well marked UN run school. Pretty sure they wouldn't deliberately do it because lose too much support.
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  7332. Because he respects his wife's wishes not to take the matter further. Many rape victims don't report because doing so is traumatic also.
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  7333. What are you talking about, Australia is open?
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  7334. Let's hope they're wrong about deaths about to go up, barring some miracle cure deaths lag cases by 2 to 8 weeks for the most part so wishful thinking will do nothing.
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  7335. You mustn't be from New Jersey, or do you mean starting from now? Already 0.3% of their entire population dead and although much slower now people are still dying.
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  7336.  @clintonmallard8447  Mate how did you make it into the comments section?, it's the who's who of authoritarians commenting here, hardline trade unionists , Wumaos (CPC 50c army if you didn't know) and those that follow Trump both Australian and US citizens. None of them believe in civil democracy, only imposing their will upon others by force and regarding your point many of them consider it a right to infect and possibly kill another human so they can move freely a good thing. This isn't to say when maximum vaccinations are reached we need to somehow open up and accept a level of deaths but that time isn't yet.
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  7337.  @johndoe-cd9vt  The Adelaide Australia part of building submarines doesn't change, it just means will be building a new design. What appears to be the issue not explicitly said is nobody would let us have nuclear powered submarines and these diesel ones behind schedule and China ramping up it's military power big time. That's my speculation anyway. My speculation is based on certain things said especially by Australian PM. Another possibility might be Australia changed its mind about having nuclear powered subs because of China's changing position, so no need for diplomacy with them anymore, we already been declared the enemy. China hasn't declared any other country to be the enemy. The Chinese embassy in Australia gave a list of 14 grievances to a journalist and said " if Australia wants China to be the enemy we will be the enemy" paraphrased.
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  7338.  @johndoe-cd9vt  the hull is just a hull a lot of steel, that's the part that would be built in Australia and yes it's to use your comparison it's just metal fabrication, of course someone else builds the nuclear reactor bit. It's true like an iphone though that components will come from all over the place. The US isn't going to move it's navy here, they have Guam and Hawaii , nothing's changing in that respect and they already could come here any time anyway. I don't think there will be a war with China but they do need deterrent so they don't consider expansion.
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  7339. The US is unique for a rich country. While vaccine hesitancy might be 1 issue that doesn't make the US unique because one issue on it's own can seem to happen anywhere. The US in healthcare generally when judged holistically has the worst healthcare system of any wealthy nation, non universal expensive with widely varying outcomes leading to the lowest life expectancy of comparable nations. So why do people in a collective sense insist on paying more tax for public healthcare than say a country like Australia but don't expect it to be universal. Why does it not bother people that it would appear a middle income country China now has a higher life expectancy than the US. As far as the Chinese or Russians doing something why would they bother , we can look back to HIV in the 80s and same thing in general terms occured, the Russians and Chinese could not have had any possibility of disruption back then. The US is doing a fine job at dividing itself , it doesn't need any outside help and actually is causing disruption elsewhere, Qanon appears to be American and the dear leader of Qanon is Trump, unfortunately lots of Qanon people around the world.
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  7340. After China, Canada and Mexico might be the next most affected due to high cross border trade.
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  7341. Masks probably help a little bit , it's only a last line of defence though, a bit like a seatbelt in a car, absolutely useless at stopping traffic accident but should all other measures fail as in people refuse to drive carefully and the cars crumple zones have crumpled etc. the seat belt might save you.
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  7342. The divergence of culture on this issue which I thought would occur between countries that decided to eliminate the virus with tough restrictions or just keep the virus and hopefully hospitals don't overflow or lockdown lite and or stop containment if numbers go down is very extreme. High case number countries have many people just saying we give up let's not do anything to stop spread and low case countries people scared no matter how tough the restrictions that we might fail so shouldn't do any opening up especially with international events like the Australian Tennis Open no matter how tough the restrictions. Low case countries are having a hard time opening borders to each other yet the most blatent opposite policy is seems the UK and US will never shut the border or enforced hotel quarantine yet those 2 countries between them have every strain on the planet and very high case rates.
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  7343. I think they would both have them but Bangladesh has/had hard lockdown which seems to have worked. Look at their stats and graph on worldometers.
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  7344. It's a joke, deploying military won't stop the flow of fentanyl products mostly smuggled through legal ports of entry by US citizens.
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  7345. Well Trump got kicked out didn't he, so the majority of US citizens didn't like his overall behaviour.
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  7346. "Yang" is probably a composite person.
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  7347. I thought they were waiting for the microchips in the vaccine and everyone turns into cyborgs that can be controlled if they refuse to obey. Maybe you know more informed people than me. China has it's version, why do you think the military gets the vaccine first.
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  7348. This reminds me some time ago when Putin was prime minister of Russia for a while. He wasn't president because of 2 consecutive terms limit and seemed to be running the show however, but Putin has the right idea change the constitution. Trump flagged that maybe he could be a 3 term president, maybe if he lives to a hundred or so he could have 4 terms. Make no mistake Trump hasn't given up on his ambitions.
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  7349. Look at China , Vietnam and New South Wales and it will make sense to you.
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  7350.  @TomBedlammusic  Shouldn't be a competition and if it is then they can be rated fairly high as in one of the lowest deaths per million of any jurisdiction.
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  7351. For 88 he looks damn good, that's about 10 years greater than US life expectancy.
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  7352. The Lincoln Project can do ads that the Democrats can't. This ad is an example and would probably be seen as too risky for the Democrats to run it.
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  7353. Australian values means acceptance of a liberal democracy, China's value is you must all be the same and you can't practice any religion without state sanctioned rules. Australian couldn't care less what someones religion is so long as they don't practice religious law. In Australia you can be a religious nutter and communist at the same time if you want and advocate for both, try advocating for a multi party democracy in China.
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  7354. I think it will be mixed , some of those released know they did wrong, others have probably become more radicalised especially after getting pardons.
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  7355. I hate needles, no chance I want to watch someone inject stuff into me, I remember as a kid I almost fainted from watching, had to lie down, after that I always turn my head away.
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  7356. There's idiots in every race , ethnicity and country. It's only a problem if there are too many of them.
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  7357. Lol
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  7358. An embassy or consulate isn't foreign territory, it's only accepted policy that it will generally treated as foreign territory. Hence why ambassadors can be expelled etc.
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  7359. They do in most states, but checking postal votes is a timely process.
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  7360.  @Robert-ns7id  Not many Russians because on their censored media they got Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump supporting Putin and they would also believe the big lie and think Joe Biden has seized power and not supported by the majority of Americans.
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  7361. I would think even if it was possible this current process would remove the possibility because of double jeopardy.
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  7362. There are more poor whites in the US than blacks, the proportion is higher in blacks but the poor whites feel left behind too, they have sided with Trump to a larger extent. With males Trump received a higher proportion of votes from less educated white people than educated and the inverse was true with black males with a higher proportion of educated versus uneducated voting for him. The overall vote however was much more white males voted for Trump than black males.
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  7363. The dedication though is quite impressive.
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  7364.  @TheMagnificentGman  I would go slightly further, they are probably receiving death threats and the possibility some Trump supporter might assassinate someone is still real in my opinion. Only takes 0.01% of Trump supporters to be extremists and they would be extremely dangerous.
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  7365. If Trump is re elected it could be something to do with government debt. The stock market in the US is being supported by unsustainable budget deficits caused by very low taxes. The Congressional Budget Office which is non partisan was pointing the unsustainability of the federal government budget well before this year.
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  7366. Well they're not allowed to obstruct others and hold a country hostage. They can peacefully occupy a park or something and leave everyone else alone.
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  7367.  @samuelminick4594  Usually nurses can't go on strike, at least of they work in a public system that's the case. We are not talking about striking , if a pilot blocked a runway yep they'd be in prison pretty quick I expect. Shut down a large international airport and the authorities won't have much patience.
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  7368.  @samuelminick4594  Of course it's illegal, you can't just shut down ports roads or railways. Nowhere on the planet allows such actions which are normally part of war actions. One could literally gain control of a country with 1,000 people with the anarchy you speak of, shut down power, transport and communication only takes a handful of people.
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  7369.  @samuelminick4594  Yes you are talking about civil war basically and you seem to think any 1,000 people can just seize power if they want.
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  7370.  @rodpanhard  NZ has abandoned covid 0 and are reducing restrictions now despite about 30 cases per day which is a lot. The last 2 major jurisdictions to fall outside of China that I know about will be Queensland and Western Australia.
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  7371. I pay thousands in tax each year to smoke, I am paying for it.
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  7372. This might all be a complete waste of time, Trump will not be removed from office due to Republican support of him which is the only measure that can stop an all powerful person exercising their lawful powers. Therefore it's not unlikely and in fact would be highly consistent with previous behaviour he pardons every last one of them on January 19 , it's all Federal crimes it would appear due to being on Federal property and definitely the property crimes against the building is only federal.
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  7373. It's about the only thing Trump got right, but he managed to stuff that up by creating division . I think there are environmental concerns but much of that can be solved by highly guarded or monitored gaps to allow for wildlife to pass freely if that's an issue. The US should secure it's border, the harm caused on the human trafficking and loss of the middle class in sending countries hurts both sides, with the US having all the cheap illegal labor to support the agricultural industry which is receiving subsidies in a lot of cases. So technically subsidizing the use of underpaid "undocumented" labor at the expense of the lower socio economic group of US citizen. Rich people can have cheap cabbages and tomatoes I suppose.
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  7374.  @evanzhang3801  All that might be good and well, of course nuclear energy requires uranium which needs to be imported, wind and hydro require a lot of steel , so need iron ore, China has a significant deficit in agricultural products, some of that being animal feed, so unless China becomes vegetarian it can't feed itself. For China to go it alone which isn't going to happen would require drops in living standards, probably quite significant. No country in the world can go it alone and maintain living standards, China and US probably the best able to due to size but as I said means living standards drops. I have no idea what dual circulation is , clearly that's some slogan and it's not used in Australia.
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  7375.  @evanzhang3801  Ok now you have told me the slogan means protectionism based on perceived security threats. It is however still just a slogan. Can't see any war happening other than cold war stuff which would be really bad for the 3 rd party country but nothing like US and China directly at war and if that was to happen the start of the war all electronic to try to shut down things like power stations and market and transport infrastructure, both countries do train for this but completely unknown how successful either side might be. China would have food problems almost immediately.
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  7376.  @evanzhang3801  China imported 28 million tonnes of grain including corn, wheat, barley and sorghum. This is not including soybeans. If we multiply 28,000,000,000 kg by 100 we get 2,800,000,000,000 kg of grain in total for the year using your 1% imports number. This suggests every Chinese person gets 2,000 kg of grain per year, your numbers don't ring true. Maybe 99% self sufficient with rice which got no mention in the article I read. One thing it did say though is China had 4 months stockpile of wheat at the time so it would appear there is a degree of having a strategic reserve, so I think fairer to say China in the event of a war would have serious food problems maybe 6 months in.
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  7377. Why did you make the statement "the world needs you"?
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  7378. Imagine the headline then Police shot dead unarmed man named as Sabry Nassar. An internal investigation is taking place to see if the policemen committed a hate crime.
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  7379. Geopolitics and higher case rates help, nobody is going to donate vaccines to Australia or even be in a rush to supply paid for vaccines.
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  7380.  @bloepje  Well we are half way there, it's only the Western Pacific region that has hotel quarantine for about 10 months now, the rest of the world pretty much doesn't even have it or it's completely full of holes like the 30 countries for UK arrivals, guess what if was in that situation I will go and spend 14 days in a country holidaying that the rule doesn't apply before going back to the UK. So I would actually potentially increase the spread. Rules must be blanket rules otherwise pretty much pointless.
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  7381. I sort of sense that Victoria is still being soft. If this was in Queensland or WA someone would be doing time by now. Catch a protest ring leader in the act and lock them up for a while, it will be surprisingly effective.
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  7382. It didn't come from there almost certainly.
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  7383. Bangladesh seems to be on lockdown until after then and Indonesia has told people not to travel around the country. So depends on country I guess , probably after the fact we will find out which one did nothing.
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  7384.  @Heeyboii  A small number of vaccines were imported , not certain but I think mostly Pfizer ones, Oxford Astrazeneca I think we only got 300,000 so far. From now on I suspect that all the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine will be manufactured in Australia for Australian use and eventually when they come other doses will be donated to other Oceania and ASEAN countries.
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  7385.  @trentwise3762  totally agree with you.
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  7386. The US has the same laws but they don't have rule of law. You would find however if other countries had political leaders move in the same direction we could have the same problems. If there isn't bipartisan support that this behaviour is unacceptable then difficult to stop it. If Trump can stand at a rally smiling when his mob says lock her up regarding the Michigan governor which did occur the bar has moved pretty low. He said personally Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton should be locked up and no pushback. That is calling for political violence and nothing, it's now normalized and this wasn't the KKK, Proud Boys or Antifa or similar mob this was the president. But to me whenever a person regardless of side of politics has protestors who support the person who is in power protesting you have a serious problem, the NAZI " brown shirts " is the most well known historical example. Why would one protest on the side of the police and military who are controlled by their favoured leader, surely they can look after themselves.
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  7387. Lot's of Hasbara in the comments here.
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  7388. Have to disagree strongly with that NBC guy. By itself GDP per capita is a terrible almost worthless measure of living standards. If you can't get healthcare or reasonable social security safety net for all many people's living standards are low. If we adjust for these items plus the wealth gap the US is probably at the bottom when it comes to living standards for the bottom half of the population.
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  7389. Nah, I think legally it would have very specific meaning. Unless you are working for a government or a billionaire or are a billionaire I don't think you would qualify.
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  7390. Not maybe, definitely.
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  7391. It's always been the case in militaries of course and don't know about other countries but for long term stays in Australia like international students they have been required to have certain vaccines prior to entry, not sure which ones though.
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  7392. It's sport lol
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  7393.  @yogijohn42  Depends which state and when in the timeline.
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  7394.  @ginac7640  At least it's got some cap on numbers but racing is the worst spectator sport for spreading the virus. In Australia at least going to the races normally involves 8 hours of straight drinking and everyone is pretty drunk upon exit. Don't think ideal for social distancing. The hope is the crowd is young I guess and older people stay away.
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  7395. Your mythical all powerful being won't be voting. Voters shall decide.
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  7396. It's probably a plan to privatise NOAA, which company runs satellites already and could manage a few more. That's a possible plan.
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  7397. Lol
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  7398. They'll up the trade sanctions on Australia. China has up to now been friendly to the US and I would be surprised if that changed.
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  7399. Michael is wrong on one thing. Purely based on Trump's record. The funders of Trump's scheme will be whoever buys US government bonds, most likely US billionaires and other countries. It's completely inconceivable that tanking the economy if he follows through on tariffs, then handouts to exporters affected and a corporate tax rate of 15% and increased unemployment that somehow the import taxes will balance the budget. The US government debt is over 125% of GDP and both Republicans and Democrats are going for broke with all their national socialist schemes to prop up big pharma, banks and agriculture as the most egregious cases. One day the chickens will come home to roost, major reserve currency being the USD won't offer indefinite immunity.
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  7400. They aren't really, in the initial stages China was reporting Covid 19 only , not cases of Covi sars2. That is actually technically correct and other countries reported all covi sars2 cases as covid 19. They adjusted their numbers to follow the technically incorrect method. As far as them being able to keep numbers low after the authoritarian lock down, much tougher than anywhere else , well Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand , Malaysia Australia ex Victoria, New Zealand have all shown it's possible, the problem is keeping up the vigilance and not making critical errors. In Victoria and therefore Australia about 90% of the country's current cases all come from a quarantine breach involving one family and then failure to act quickly. This has been determined by dna testing of the strains current floating around in Victoria.
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  7401. Oh damn, more Kiwis going to migrate to my state of Queensland, the most popular immigration point for you people. Anyway just learn how to say fish and chips in a Queensland accent and learn what we call jandals etc. and you will fit in fine.
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  7402.  @joshb6993  Well you can borrow some gumboots off your kin until such a time you decide to return to the land of the long white cloud.
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  7403. I doubt it , as Musk annoys people they will buy alternatives to Tesla.
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  7404. You're comment is extremely vague and doesn't consider Eastern Europe it would seem. Countries are all different of course however there's no real reason successful ones won't emerge. Consider Asian countries, some are doing very well now like Taiwan or South Korea but go back 50 years and they were just your regular style dictatorship with lots of poverty. Looking at the GDP per Capita number of Uganda they are very poor, Botswana is 10 times that of Uganda.
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  7405. Actually they know that can happen already. One Australian lady went from positive to a month later negative and then ended up in hospital for a while. Outliers will occur, the standard 14 days in containment jurisdictions is to get 99% or whatever the number they worked out as a probability. Can never reach 100% unless extremely expensive searching for the virus in a forensic manner.
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  7406. Didn't you know he's the Terminator Mark IV , developed by Skynet ( AKA Microsoft ) . When he went to "hospital" to receive "REGENERON" it was for an update and the 5 yearly battery change. Maybe when Trump concedes you will hear "I'll be BACK" then you might believe me.
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  7407. This isn't about China, the plan is tariffs on all imported goods. Maybe extra tariffs for China.
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  7408. Iron ore mines , coal mines, iron and aluminium smelters, a few plastics factories and a heap of new US oil production and the refineries to process that grade of oil. Plus of course vehicle parts factories for every single component. Sounds doable.
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  7409. Reading through comments I think part of the issue is some people are a bit aggressive towards the nurse giving the vaccines and they resist back and yes if nurses not react but just calm the person down it will usually be fine.
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  7410. If they don't feel safe that is on them because they are safe, so far not even a single incident of harm done to any Jewish or pro Israel supporter. Blame the Zionist scare mongers if want including the dear leader Netanyahu himself.
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  7411. Actually it was said in this video indirectly. If blacks are 2.5 times more likely then if the racial statistics are correct more white people are dying but at a lower rate.
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  7412. China has far right ideology, so eliminated already. Maybe you mean eliminate 1 party authoritarian regime, well until the economy goes down there is no will for that, the CPC would dominate an election right now.
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  7413.  @jasondevon481  Apparently there is around 100 Chinese billionaire in their parliament, so big business and the CPC sort of seem one and the same. I do agree however the amount of state ownership is probably still very high so in that respect I have to say you are right. As far as how big their government is , well it's hard to judge or compare, they don't have any meaningful social welfare system, basically you work or you starve and medical care seems to be afforded to government employees mostly. China's government spending as a proportion of GDP is lower than Australia or UK and way lower than the northern European countries that are quite socialist as in very good social welfare safety net paid for out of very high taxes. So after CPC leadership primarily gets a lot of the state owned corporations privatized and into mostly their ownership then it will fully meet the criteria of far right. Maybe in time they will start to have a social welfare system which would wreck my theory, we will have to see.
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  7414. I think the real leaders might be in Doha.
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  7415. A gun doesn't protect you from a bullet. In other words unless you are psychic you gun is useless.
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  7416.  @collan580  Killing the host only matters over time, when 99% of a population is killed off. Myxamatosis for example killed off 99% of the European rabbits in Australia at one point in time, the virus is native to the Americas and the American rabbits aren't so affected. One can only argue killing off the host in humans will reduce spread because humans might either become highly symptomatic early on or take it more seriously and go for elimination world wide rather than only a few countries pursuing this strategy without vaccines.
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  7417.  @noneofyourbeeswax01  4 to 5% is purely based on Trump's age and that he is male. As far as his weight and other issues I have no opinion or idea if he would be better or worse than average for his age, non smoker and drinker is good but weight certainly isn't.
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  7418.  @marcleach6167  Most Australians don't hate maybe don't like or prefer something else. My comment is a general one not particularly relating to Trump. Trump is openly against every country including Australia on trade issues and military contributions. On one I agree the other of course not. However Australia is not that big and although it might cause some pain we can sell our agricultural produce elsewhere even if the price is a bit lower. Trump and China can set up there agreement on trade that displaces others. So obviously the other main issue Trump has produced continuity.
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  7419. That's a silly argument. There's no requirement to vote in Australia, only to attend or post in a ballot paper. You aren't required to fill out the voting paper, if voting in person you can literally tear the ballot paper up and bin it in front of officials.
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  7420. @fionamann1553  Other than if I happen to be overseas I always vote formally, I have never voted informal, no idea why you thought I didn't vote. Pointing out attendance is compulsory but voting isn't. I think it's good to make that point for international people who might think someone actually checks how we fill out the ballot as compulsory voting would require.
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  7421. They're not, the Taxman collecting more means less to spend, tariffs are a tax mostly affecting those on low and middle incomes who spend 100% of their income already.
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  7422. This might seem offensive but Bernie you're like a highly performing teenage girl. Keep it up given your age is almost double me you are a tough .......
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  7423. Rallies don't indicate much at all. Biden didn't even really have Rallies last time and he won.
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  7424. The problem is the US keeps going. If you were to take just 2 states out of the equation the tallies would be reversed most likely. The deaths per million in California and Texas as of now are about 240 per million. Both fairly populous states. If you just count 5 North Eastern states you get a number well over 1000 per million. Until it's over the US situation can't be described as better than Sweden. If you project current rates the US will overtake Sweden in months. Even this is not a fair comparison because the obesity rate in Sweden is 20% and 36% in the US so more deaths should be expected in the US with equal policy effectiveness because of an increased high risk demographic.
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  7425. What's with you mob? When cases hit a record you have record travel for the year. I hope the US isn't developing biological weapons because you will end up infecting yourselves.
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  7426. Maybe but first have to desensitize people to the deaths occurring. My country Australia and Thailand , even if we get our vaccination rates up to something like the UK I think it would be hard to convince the public to take the same course.
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  7427. It's better if you didn't, maybe when Trump is gone you can be friends again.
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  7428. It's not 100% the case It's more nuanced. If for arguments sake your only customer was a US customer and what you are selling is price sensitive It's not impossible in rare cases that the seller just has to take a hair cut or go out of business if not possible to sell at that price and no known alternative buyers.
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  7429. Canada should consider cutting off or putting an export tax on oil to the US.
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  7430. Ethnic Indians with US passports travelling from India , of course, the US has open borders for all citizens travelling from anywhere. Don't even need to quarantine or anything too, it's a voluntary scheme based on guidelines only.
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  7431. Yes it's not really like a bush fire. It's more like burning the felled trees to clear land.
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  7432. The Singaporean speaking out would have been considered carefully. The consideration would have been could the US retaliate against Singapore. The reason countries like mine Australia stay fairly quiet is we don't want to bring on a trade war against ourself.
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  7433. My response is a little flippant but maybe you should buy Aussie wine or smuggle it , at 10% alcohol or a little more it's only $2 to 2.50 USD per litre, just distill it a bit and you have your antiseptic. But seriously that's not good what you go through, truth is the higher the medical charges the better for insurance companies because they are a commission business, if prices go up they are justified in increasing prices at the same rate with an appropriate margin (commission).
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  7434. Once Trump gets into power his popularity will plummet after a month or two. When contradictory things are promised with no possibility of achieving both outcomes support will be lost. Let's just look at one policy tariffs and a world trade war US versus everyone else except maybe North Korea because they don't like to trade much either. Either Trump follows through and all exporters, importers and retailers have lower profits, hurting lots of billionaires. Middle and low income consumers hurt by the higher prices due to taxes and people being let go as American like to say from jobs in all those sectors. That scenario a lot of people unhappy. Opposite scenario is Trump doesn't start any trade war and all the foolish supporters looking forward to the trade war will feel they have been lied to and become disillusioned. Same sort of thing with mass deportations. Then you have the rise of the antivax block who are going to push healthcare costs up and make everyone else angry about that. All of Trump's main policies will actually increase the government deficit over the short to medium term.
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  7435. Why not ask the police involved in the other 44 cases of people becoming unconscious due to choking over a 5 year period in that police department, maybe they can answer because they did the same thing. The police chief was totally aware of this and Clearly approved of it because no policy changes. I don't trust that police chief for a millisecond. This is a case of closing ranks and throwing one individual under the bus, a true scapegoat.
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  7436. The rampant virus countries which will be so for about another 8 months or so until something like herd immunity better hope the crossed fingers approach works on the continually changing strains and they don't evade vaccines otherwise guess what the rampant virus countries are back to day 1 and counting, the virus free countries can although inconvenient continue as is.
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  7437. To use an effective bioweapon you need to vaccinate 100% of your own population. Not exactly the best thing for Ukraine to attempt because they can't even get 50% of their own population to take the covid 19 vaccination. In other words it's impossible that they would even consider such a move.
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  7438. I would put more blame on leadership, while compliance has its issues in Australia, the way it's dealt with has meant so far that we haven't lost control, Sydney unfortunately is at risk of losing control now due to high case numbers of Delta variant and a protest planned for tomorrow so have to see what happens with that. There's going to be a very large police presence and the vast majority of the people don't support the protestors because they could cause the lockdown to go on longer.
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  7439.  @shawn_mf166  Why do you compare the US to countries with vast slums and no money. India has managed to slow it but it's impossible to stop it, Brazil like the US just let it rip. The China let it out is ridiculous , it's truly amazing that less than 1,000 cases ever got out of China if you exclude Taiwan. No country has ever been able to stop a respiratory virus from spreading to other countries in the history of mankind. Every country was aware it was outside China as of 15 January with a case detected in Thailand. As far as flights leaving China the US government wanted it's people home and the US government facilitated this, was China supposed to not let them leave? What was China to do? Maybe China believed the wealthy countries would be able to manage people entering their countries. From Australia one of the hardest hit countries with 15 cases on 20 February, can you remember what Trump said at the time as the US had also detected 15 cases. The initial failures are that of the federal government, Trump reduced the capacity of a pandemic response which was initiated by Bush and Obama carried it on reinforcing the need. Trump is the outlier, Bush or Obama would have done a better job.
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  7440.  @shawn_mf166  I haven't given my opinion on what the US should do now, only commented on the failures that created the situation. My opinion is you should follow Sweden nationwide plus masks because infection rates are so high however states that want greatee measures to still be allowed to do so. Following Sweden would mean higher restrictions in some places. Best of luck.
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  7441.  @shawn_mf166  it's true many European countries are disaster zones also.
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  7442. Effective Vaccines might be coming. I hope for your sake they are because otherwise what you say is correct for the next few years.
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  7443. How so?
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  7444. China is doing that to every international grouping, pick New Zealand for 5eyes intelligence alliance, Cambodia for ASEAN and Sri Lanka and Pakistan for SAARC. China wants to make it so no international organization can make a joint statement of any kind against China.
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  7445.  pace kenelm  China chooses the smallest and or weakest to target, they target Hungary for example they aren't going after Italy , France , Germany or Spain. If the small country is led by a dictatorship even better because the dictator doesn't care about their country , they just want power.
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  7446.  pace kenelm  Well talking on this forum , some South Asian people explained SAARC is really more of a concept than a reality because they argue too much between each other and of course China wants it to remain like that.
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  7447. I think there's some truth to what you say. Imagine the rhetoric if the lockdown failed, noting if they're not careful it could but I think Victoria won't make the same mistakes again and when freedoms come back all the talk of leaving the state will subside.
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  7448. We don't know from the video if police were aware or even if it is the case he was holding a gun at the time. Let's wait and see, the YouTube jury is awaiting further evidence.
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  7449.  Adam  I tend to agree once the suspect had fallen down even if armed should keep a good distance and wait to see what happens.
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  7450. Read the other comments in this thread and around, not a good idea , some basically say they "are either really old or have serious underlying health issues" , these people don't care if " the weak" are killed off and wouldn't particularly care about patients. The first quote is from Trump at a rally actually.
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  7451.  @NORTHBROOK1978  you've lost me in your last comment. Without being cryptic, what is unconstitutional? What do you need a gun for , are you going to shoot the virus? I am in Australia which is virtually covid 19 free and my country has a homicide rate one 6th that of the US on a per capita basis.
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  7452.  @foodandhomeprep8425  You better free those 400,000 Americans who went against health orders and are currently in prison for an offence that doesn't kill others. This is an approximate number of people incarcerated for drug crimes. Do you support any laws restricting drugs?
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  7453.  @SOGFLY1  funnily enough the sheep countries that have been successful have lower restrictions, no martial law or anything like that. You are possibly going into lockdown because your government failed or just didn't care. I feel sorry for you if you acted as a stupid sheep and followed the advice of the slaughter man.
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  7454.  @SOGFLY1  for a lockdown to be successful it needs to be comprehensive and cases need to get down to about 10 cases per million for contact tracing to work. The problem mostly is places get on the cusp of achieving this and then open up fully and cases go back up rapidly. If you look at Victoria Australia 3 months ago it was looking pretty bad by the then world standard with many places in Europe and many US states looking far better, now they have 14 days no new detected cases. Weather seems to play some sort of role in spreading rates but exactly what seems uncertain and might depend on culture and living conditions. If you look at tropical areas around the equator it might be the case that because of no real seasons it makes for a flat year round spreading pattern versus we can see the spread in Europe and US now as it starts to get cooler. I wish you the best of luck and take care. What an individual can do is very limited other than do the best to protect themselves and family. Let's hope the vaccines will turn things around over the next year.
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  7455. Hello scammer
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  7456. There are 2 logical conclusions about what is occurring, Biden is the smartest criminal mastermind in history getting a minimum of 5 states to conduct widespread election fraud including by 2 Republican run states and getting 5,000,000 extra votes out of thin air in the popular vote literally making this Biden seem like he would outsmart Einstein in his prime of life in a minute or Joe Biden won the election because more Americans in states with a higher number of electoral college votes preferred him to the alternative. Let's just say Biden looks a bit dopey at times especially because he is getting on a bit so I think 1 scenario is a little more likely than the other.
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  7457. Just regarding the covi sars2 response, I think you could pick 2 random 10 year olds to lead the US and UK and at worst not notice the difference in leadership style or effectiveness.
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  7458. They built a large wharf much bigger than required for Cruise Ships in Vanuatu, there is thought it might be the same plan.
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  7459.  @kianyeelee9307  You are right in one respect, this is going to cause China problems, the US was doing the same sorts of things last century, either they don't get paid because a lot of these deals are uncommercial or they seize control of assets creating resentment. China should look at US behaviour in the past and not repeat it but they are doing the opposite, going full steam to sign as many countries up to unpopular deals. Often the population doesn't even know because China likes to deal with like minded secretive governments that hide things.
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  7460. Even though a bit underhanded not a bad ad.
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  7461. You got half way with the medical thing. Priority also for insurance companies, hospital companies and pharmaceutical companies, as long as they're healthy profit wise all is fine.
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  7462. So Trump is going to tank 4 large economies. As an Aussie there's a slight silver lining, while it will affect our exports particularly to China Trump will be busy fighting the 3 largest US trading partners and won't have time to put or increase tariffs on the rest of the world.
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  7463. Look at the New York statistics. 160 deaths per 100,000 so far. New York they estimated might have had 20% of people get the virus. So to get to possible herd immunity we need to triple the number at least. Treatments might have improved so the ongoing mortality rate might decrease. This is contingent upon hospital space being available. This also displaces regular patients. When it gets to the situation as seen in Wuhan, Northern Italy and New York City, doctors make decisions on who to let die and who to treat. This in turn will kill some medical professionals and cause mental health problems also. Is all of this ok to you? The evidence is out there. We excluding Victoria due to their failures have much more freedom than your average US citizen . The evidence is clear and if you like the Swedish model just remember we are more like the US with health demographics, rates of obesity etc. The Swedish didn't do nothing but did much less. I have seen comments from Swedish people who are not happy and would never recommend going down their path.
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  7464. It's not only vaccines, still need quarantine and some restrictions like masks when outbreaks occur. I am guessing you have such restrictions in some places.
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  7465. I am from Australia we deserve reparations from Europe and the US, for infecting many of our citizens and the costs to quarantine them in hotels. China only sent a few, the breeding grounds of the virus were elsewhere.
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  7466. It's actually irrelevant the current situation would exist in the US if 10 cases or 10,000 cases came in undetected because the virus was completely free to spread on US soil. You look at testing rates in the US by the end of February , about 500 tests and Australia my country about 10,000 tests. The US dropped the ball from day one which is not really Trump's fault but what happened after was.
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  7467. What do you mean?
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  7468. Many steps in Queensland was only hours notice. This is the way it needs to be otherwise people will take advantage of the time to spread the virus. People are people, majority will do the right thing and the minority need to be catered for unfortunately. Don't take it personally which I know from myself having similar reactions previously.
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  7469. Should have a mash up of all the "lock her/him up" chanting at rallies with Trump doing his smile thing enjoying what is a very close thing to a lynch mob , ( lynch mob causes death not only indefinite detention so quite similar but not the same) . Since lynch mob came from someone called lynch describing extrajudicial killings, maybe a Trump mob can just be extrajudicial imprisonment which is what he was advocating.
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  7470. The speed at which such viruses mutate I wonder how many variants can be now considered made in the USA. New Zealand has just recently had issues and it's interesting to listen how they have tracked down the strain to give an idea of where it's from. In the US if they could do it you probably have like the New York strain and Texas strain etc.
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  7471. I think it's extremely difficult to go from a relaxed policy to a hard policy. Victoria Australia has this problem and is overcoming it but a lot of angry people. I am in another state Queensland that was far more strict first time round than Victoria with real penalties and enforcement. Victoria has introduced tougher legislation and enforcement policies actually somewhat equivalent to most other Australian states for fixing the problems that arose. So although we can see this example in Australia you can see it very clearly at the country levels, the so called dictatorships have much more internal freedoms but significant border restrictions in all cases. The free countries in particular US and UK have a focus on freedoms and have much higher restrictions internally because the virus is rampant and virtually no border restrictions and a next to 0 enforcement policy of the internal restrictions( as you just said orders are meaningless because everyone knows the government is weak and won't do anything to individuals ). In simple terms total disfunction of government. Once government puts in laws and then openly ignores their own laws , that's what true disfunction is.
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  7472. I don't understand Elon getting into bed with Trump in the first place, it's definitely going to hurt tesla internationally. You think the Chinese government for example isn't going to tell people to boycott tesla when the tariffs hit. I am in Australia and if i was going to buy an electric car i would choose a non American one out of principal.
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  7473. The irony is that statement by Trump was correct. China did work hard and only a handful of cases ever went directly from China to the US. China has also defeated the virus for all intensive purposes. The millions of cases are home grown.
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  7474. Not a bad analogy.
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  7475. Thanks for your information it's interesting. The Chief Health Officer of New South Wales in Australia yesterday said based on data from SA and UK and some of their own limited data the hospitalization rate was about 60 to 80% less than Delta. The problem is Delta isn't gone in the world and Omicron won't be the last variant, the next one could be as transmissible as Omicron and deadly as Delta. I certainly hope that doesn't happen but don't think it's impossible. Best of luck and keep up your good work.
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  7476. Well it's believed that approximately 13% of people in high positions in the corporate world are psychopaths, it would be the same in high levels of government so at least a 1 in 8 chance a head of government is a psychopath. I don't know whether the ones you mentioned are or not but they caused more damage than if they weren't there and health professionals ran the show.
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  7477. You are correct actually, the UK and US are the experiment. It benefits the rest of the world at least. The Western Pacific WHO region is firmly stuck with continuous mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine for any international arrivals and for many of us a 0 cases strategy. Don't know what's going to happen but looks like a long road ahead and also most of the world still with low vaccination rates.
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  7478.  @CuriousDiscourse  Without other measures the so called border closures didn't prevent any deaths. You don't get to have one of the worst case loads and deaths in the world and claim that's an excellent job. Not a single state managed to keep the virus out or to very low numbers.
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  7479.  @CuriousDiscourse  the US has the same state federal relationship as Australia. Yes you can say every governor inside the US mainland did poorly also. Initial failures were at the federal level though with a completely inept CDC great at theories ( Australia listened to them and WHO primarily I believe) and completely useless at implementation. Australia detected 15 cases by February 20 the same as the US. There were no serious quarantine measures at any border state or federal other than voluntary measures by people entering. An absolute failure all in all especially the smaller states who had a lot more time than California and the NE states near New York.
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  7480. He's right and wrong at the same time. The comments by Vivek don't give any nuance and don't accept that diverse groups of people create the best outcomes. The US while being diverse in some respects is extremely insular , you unfortunately in my opinion don't look for best outcomes based on evidence. The US has similar policies to China in some respects, far right socialism that subsidises corporations to produce export products. Basically you both want to subsidise the world and pay a personal cost for it. Exporting subsidised goods is bad for both your countries and also hurts some other countries, why do you want to pay agricultural subsidies for broard acre farmers to crush poor poor people in other countries and yourselves. I am fully supportive of the Australian free trade agenda which a few years ago was supported by Republicans who thought Reagan was onto something, but now Trump has literally reversed 90% of Reagan's policies including the free trade agreement between USA, Canada and Mexico.
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  7481. It's a state based thing in Australia. So far the situation as in case numbers hasn't warranted such an imposition in other states. The Victorian government has got dead serious for a reason and you will get a fine if you don't wear a face mask in public. Yes it's draconian but it's needed. I think all other states now treat Victoria like another country, compulsory hotel quarantine at your cost if you want to leave Victoria, certain exemptions for transport etc. The impression I get is majority of Victorians understand that this is needed. I am not Victorian.
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  7482. You never know, if Trump tariffs every country the US might actually bring the prices down on commodities they import like beef for the rest of us. Not for Americans though , your beef will get dearer especially ground beef. There will be other products like that but that's the only one I can think of off hand and it also being an export from my country Australia.
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  7483. He is openly saying the US won't help any other countries until all US citizens have access to the vaccine. In other words don't care about other countries. This is inconsistent with many world leaders, Xi now looks better regarding this on more than one level and not without good reason. Why is it the Bill Gates Foundation is now way ahead of the US government ?, and Trump's conspiracy theorist base even want to destroy that. Is the US going to be just some failed isolationist super power (like Russia) or a part of the world community? This question will be answered relatively soon I guess depending if Republicans decide to make the government disfunctional for ever and Georgian voters help to make this occur.
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  7484.  @charlesdemarest1171  I didn't say he is king of the world even if the US portrays it's president that way. The US under Trump has made it clear it will not be part of any international efforts to get vaccines to other countries, our Australian PM and the UK PM and the Chinese President have all made it clear that they will support international efforts to get the vaccines to the world in a somewhat equitable manner. So the only one that is constantly referred to as the leader of the free world , so a significant proportion of the world, is the only one denying all responsibility and being isolationist.
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  7485.  @charlesdemarest1171  actually I quite like your reasoning in your last comment. It does do something at least in the short term though and that's sending a message. In some ways assuming the transition under the circumstances is as smooth as it can be it gives Biden a bit of a boost because if he just behaves like a regular world leader ( not necessarily leader of the free world ) he will look good without doing anything out of the ordinary.
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  7486. All Murdoch media regardless of country is pro Zionist.
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  7487. Trump should be charged by the ICC. While he might not have committed a war crime yet I would suggest threatening to commit multiple war crimes should be an offence. Invading foreign territories and settling them and annexing them is considered a war crime. On top of that Trump threatens complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza and Netanyahu just spoke favourably of Gaza becoming US territory that Israeli's can live in. Trump wants the US to be the new Empire. Absolutely delusional and dangerous because 3 other countries have the same ambition, Russia, China and Israel. Israel would be an extension of the US empire because the US would and already is funding and supporting the greater Israel project.
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  7488. The funniest thing is $100 million dollars on condoms for Hamas. This sort of suggests Hamas members on average have sex a hundred or thousand times a day. I wish i was as strong as Trump considers a Hamas person regarding sex.
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  7489. Well before it was toilet paper hoarding and now petrol/gasoline, not a good mix actually.
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  7490. It does create equity issues because eligibility can be different in different states.
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  7491. Is Trump and the Republican senate communist? I realise Trump is far left when it comes to industry handouts and protectionism but I would consider it socialist not communist because he doesn't nationalise anything , just give hand outs to control the means of production which is the simple definition of socialism.
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  7492.  @felipekennedy3135  Well if you believe what Trump said in the first half of each rally Trump was claiming Biden will cut industry welfare , then second part called Biden a communist , so which half of a Trump rally do you believe? Trump on trade was certainly to the left of Obama Biden so my thinking is if Biden can he will try to move the position in more of a free trade direction.
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  7493. She's lying. We know this with high certainty because the suggested injuries seem inconsistent with her account. Wrist and shoulder injuries would be a very violent action, like pulling at her arm and dragging her. Her own account didn't say this is what occurred.
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  7494. I would say second most because the most vulnerable are those in nursing homes , which in some jurisdictions the virus has run through them. The next most vulnerable group are aged that still live independently or with family assistance.
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  7495. To be blunt a lot of them die off in lockdown it would seem according to duration and a large number of the covid 19 patients have such conditions , that's why they need intensive care. For any non urgent matters hospitals like nursing homes are perfect environment to spread the virus and it's better to delay all but the most urgent issues. Australia we had 1200 excess deaths for the first 6 months of 2020 and they show a graph which shows the spike during lockdown and they give the highest contributing factors which was heart disease and diabetes. The US CDC did the numbers from January 26 to October 3 and there was 300,000 excess deaths to normal and 200,000 of them were covid 19 related so 100,000 from their model of ongoing lockdown lite at the time. More Australian actually died from the initial lockdown than the virus however the total for 2020 was 140,471 versus 140,363 for the 5 year average actually indicating a slightly higher life expectancy because the population is larger. Respiratory deaths were way below average, because flu wasn't around and so few died from covid 19. At years end it seems heart disease wasn't an issue at all coming in below average but diabetes was much higher. Maybe the disruption caused diabetics to care less about diet etc.
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  7496.  @hgbnkbggj2915  Check Queensland and Western Australia, yes maybe more difficult but borders can be shut to a large extent but impossible to stop all quarantine breeches.
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  7497. Trump is a socialist, he has a record on this, he will subsidise them.
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  7498. I am impressed with Canada, although off to a bad start your per capita new case numbers are about the same as Australia, we have a bad outbreak in one state causing problems now.
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  7499. The vaccine is fine, although the efficacy is not really known. China's choice of who they send vaccines to first is geopolitics just like Western countries. I hope my country Australia can help a little bit also at some stage but have to see. I hope the situation gets better for your country soon.
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  7500. Different country.
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  7501. If you are correct , Trump has created a mini boom in the industry, but things will get slower if covid 19 is contained and there will be a slump.
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  7502.  Jesus Christ  I didn't know that but did notice another shirt on someone else had alternative logo's. Not very good for a confrontation because then both sides look the same in a fight.
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  7503. Based on other comments wait a couple of days because the queues will be terrible on the first 2 days.
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  7504. According to Gallup polling the one mentioned by Trump where he said he had a 56% approval rating currently ( real number 46% ) for his followers to spread such information, he had an approval rating of 45% on day 9 of the job so Americans would approve of anything or anyone because day 9 of his presidency he can't have done anything too good or too bad. Interesting to see how things go.
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  7505.  @geeetube1  while things might not be perfect Australia isn't doing too bad. So I don't think I would want Trump here.
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  7506. As an Aussie it's clear her general statement that police officers don't stop crime is correct. The US has a homicide rate 5 times that of every other wealthy country on average and notably NY is a low crime state compared to many red states. You are a violent country and also remarkably have the highest imprisonment rate, so tough on crime isn't working either. Sorry US but you are a mess, institute decent social welfare including universal healthcare like the rest of wealthy nations and you will do better.
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  7507. That assumes a closed border for ever. With an open border which we want one day the calculation you give is completely different.
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  7508. Two thirds of the voting population either support this or are ok with this even if every Democrat that voted isn't ok with it. Is he qualified is basically a question whether or not he is literate. He has a Master of Public Policy degree so he is overqualified for the job. All he needs to do in the job is be capable of reading reports given to him and the advice contained within. That's not a hard job actually, the public servants within DoD run the show AKA deepstate as Donald refers to the public service.
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  7509. I know how terrible , Trump knows many many people who think this and that, he never names them though just people. A pity Biden doesn't know so many people.
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  7510.  @AllPeopleUnite  I read a good comment some time ago, Australia and New Zealand being liberal democracies and yes authoritarian to get rid of the virus it was sort of all about the Great Reset starts here etc. etc. and someone commented (paraphrased) , "well if there was going to be some Great Reset why did they open everything up and no masks and everything open, seems it's not going to happen" . Hang in there hopefully the vaccines work and no variants escape them all, looking positive but it's not a certainty. In Australia now all that we have achieved if a state government had 100 deaths they will lose the next election, vaccine or no vaccine. Our vaccine rollout has started, I think only border, hotel quarantine and some medical staff pretty much so far, so it's good because in a few weeks a quarantine breach becomes much less likely. Observing from afar the US population has sort of resigned to whatever happens, happens and hopefully good news soon.
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  7511. I don't think anyone would have any gas left by now, they using scrap wood from rubble to cook. I don't believe the Israeli's anyway unless they release the video footage.
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  7512. Now I understand all the rhetorical attacks on the Australian government by Trump supporters along with unusual allies of Communist Party of China loyalists and rusted on Labor voters (Australian Labor Party is centre left like Democrats). 2 things niggle Trump about Australia, we handled covid 19 far better and AUKUS would really piss him off.
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  7513. Herd immunity is really a concept with no defined number, it depends on behaviour, health and age of population etc. The Philippines has a very young population with median age about 25 and obesity rate at about 10% so the proportion of population susceptible to severe disease or death is quite low. I don't think you would have herd immunity but then again maybe in some parts of the Philippines or for example slum areas maybe it infected far more people than is realized. Best of luck and I would suggest with the vaccine if it's longer than 6 months since you had covid 19 then consider getting it.
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  7514. Buy a pet fish then put it in a fish tank with water and a bubbler, try to keep fish alive. This will give you slightly cooler temperatures and a bit of humidity if the tank isn't covered up significantly.
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  7515.  @vercoda9997  you're wrong all foreigners are puppets of the US, China only talks to the US.
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  7516. He included India and can say the 5 countries in ASEAN threatened by China in the South China Sea aren't happy about it.
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  7517. The US has local police forces and Australia has state based so very different. The behaviour of our police was probably similar to US 30 plus years ago but we have improved dramatically but of course not perfect and there is some differences between the states in Australia. In the Western world the US is an outlier on law and order generally. High crime and high incarcarceration rates. Differs by US state a lot.
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  7518.  Anathema  I am not young but when I was I was locked up 2 times and possibly 3 times but my memory is vague. So that's 20 plus years ago. On one of those occasion the police lied to me. It was regarding a dispute with a taxi driver ( I became a taxi driver some time after that) , I was in the wrong and the policeman said if I pay the money I won't get locked up but proceeded to do so anyway. If I was a different person I would have resisted and that could have caused me harm. Every occasion was locked up 8 hours give or take so just watch house. This is in Brisbane QLD. In Australia on every major measure we don't compare to the US at all. Incarceration rate about a quarter, homicide rate about one fifth, deaths in custody about half, police shootings causing death about one tenth. Whatever measure you look at we are better on average by a large amount except indigenous incarceration rate versus black American is about the same. I think all state and territory governments in Australia are trying to reduce this in 2 primary ways, try to reduce arresting people for minor offences and try to help Indigenous communities to reduce their own crime rate in particular the youth. We are not perfect and perfection can never be achieved but we have come a long way , this is on both sides, the indigenous community isn't calling racism , racism in the way it's occurring in the US and this helps too.
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  7519. If it backs up the refineries then the oil price goes down, so in the rest of the world we should wait and see and delay for a bit if possible.
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  7520.  lipingsky duerer  Hello Q . I just learned a little about you yesterday.
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  7521. Please take this as dark humour or stop reading. In some ways the internal turmoil in the US is quite entertaining, if I was to stop following things for a few weeks it's ok just like a soap opera, buildings and or cars burning, troops (paramilitary police or military) on the streets and it's real. It's somehow more interesting when it's real however hope things there improve or a bit worse so there is bipartisan agreement for change. Take care.
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  7522.  @avaparker9603  many federations I believe have a Senate system where smaller population states have the same number of Senators. Australia has that also. We don't have a president so that doesn't apply to us. Personally I think the US presidential position itself is flawed because one person chooses the entire government that is all the secretaries (called ministers elsewhere) and can hire and fire them at will and they need not be elected officials. In some ways Trump has made it very clear how powerful the position is even giving secretary positions to family members , which normally only happens in dictatorships. The US Congress and Senate to use Westminster system terminology are backbenchers. Just like our backbenchers they don't have to do anything just turn up when they are sitting. I agree that the US president should be directly elected and as pointed out take some power off them and give jobs to other elected officials wouldn't be a bad idea in my opinion. Your president is akin to an absolute monarch because he or she chooses the entire cabinet and has absolute power over them. So an elected Monarchy instead of by birth. There are few absolute Monarchies left in the world.
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  7523.  @avaparker9603  About 40% of governments according to Wikipedia have a bicameral system, which will have directly elected officials chosen by numbers of votes in an electorate and for the upper house or Senate normally representation from a secondary governments jurisdictional area or in our cases states. I think 2 houses of parliament is good. As I said previously don't agree with an elected monarchy and the cabinet being unelected. Why do you object to states having an equal say in the checks and balances? Anyway I think a bicameral government is the right way to go for any large country with states or provinces.
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  7524.  @Southeren  I reckon you might be from Mississippi or Alabama.
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  7525. Israel is genocidal country that continues to steal more and more land in the West Bank and promotes anti semitism by saying real Jews support the genocidal behaviours and war crimes etc.
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  7526. Like your name , quite appropriate because that's the nickname of Aussies and Kiwis at the moment for obeying government and getting rid of the community transmission of the virus.
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  7527. Interesting Louis, you're an antivaxxer so why would you care about Trump, you don't trust him and have some delusional belief that "Trump's vaccine"is killing people.
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  7528. I think Victorians because you talk to an average Queenslander or West Australian and we are ok , actually not just ok with it we think imprisoning covid 19 restriction breachers is good. Our Premiers aren't soft like Dan . The few Victorians who want to spread the virus in protest are nuts. Do they ever want their border open to anyone.
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  7529. Because it is , the amount you put in has little correlation to what you take out which is currently on average more than you put in and of course your personal benefits depends on how long you live. The system itself is operating like a Ponzi scheme needing new entrants into the job market to pay for those receiving benefits. The trustees of these funds predict if nothing is changed the funds dry up completely in 2035.
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  7530. Why the soft language, if fentanyl crosses the US Mexico border it's smuggling and criminal but US criminals smuggling guns to Mexico is called selling them guns.
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  7531. That would be a declaration of real war, iron ore is considered a national security item by China, so it would have the same status as oil for example.
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  7532.  @philosop.HER_  I'll be honest , I don't understand what you mean. Do you support or not support the riots and why?
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  7533.  @endintiers  the thing is though border restrictions is a partial lockdown and need to get cases really low internally too, both Japan and South Korea increase restrictions internally now because they never get rid of it. An open border only locks down poor people because rich can just travel to another open borders country with fewer restrictions whenever they feel like it. It amazes me people refer to open borders as still a lockdown, tell that to some maximum security prisoner next time they have a lockdown they are permitted to leave the prison, pretty sure it won't make sense to them.
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  7534.  T West  that's just a silly comment. Guns and large numbers of people might have something to do with conquering indigenous people in the US.
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  7535.  Polly Ticks  interacial marriage was only permitted by law in Alabama in 2000. Just a few years after 67.
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  7536.  Polly Ticks  the law in Alabama was unenforceable because it was unconstitutional as you have just pointed out. The thing is keeping that in the books until 2000 sent a certain message and not a good one unfortunately. Symbolism matters a lot to some otherwise why does anyone care about some statues of people that died more than 100 years ago.
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  7537.  @autismospectrumlini914  not exactly, the African is technically a pure breed homosapian, all the rest of us have neanderthal in our blood, it can be as high as 2% apparently. Those in Asia Pacific have Denesovin in there blood also.
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  7538.  T West  yes disease killed many but the proportion , I don't know and that was the same in Australia also. There are many parallel but significant differences between what occured in the US and Australia regarding the indigenous people.
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  7539. Not a religious Aussie but I totally agree with your sentiment.
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  7540.  @izsoftie7283  I was born that year or the year earlier so nah can't really remember but have seen photos of it occasionally. Of course I wish the people going through that well but I can't pray for that because not my belief. You have a great day.
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  7541. Well things do magically disappear when you go 'round a corner. If you prefer burying your head in the sand like an ostrich and that apparently works for the ostrich because I guess it can remain still until trouble has passed. So don't knock Trump on his methods the Whitehouse isn't a beach with sand.
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  7542. Australia isn't getting nuclear weapons and nor are you. If it was nuclear weapons the whole world would go crazy including Aussies, we wouldn't want that.
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  7543.  @NafuttoID  That's the purpose of us getting these, so we can be in the South China Sea to deter China. I understand the fear it might accelerate China's aggressive behaviour and or if Chinese and Australian fighting in Indonesian waters because unless things change dramatically China wants our iron ore. I think things will be fine and it's years away anyway. No country in the world can go around taking the territory of other countries anymore without serious consequences. Outside of Africa , Middle East and to some extent South Asia the world is actually quite peaceful, think of how it was 100 years ago.
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  7544. The difference is the leadership, some Republicans are calling for violence indirectly whereas no Democrats in leadership roles are doing so. We know from the Jan 6 committee Trump wanted more armed people let in and we know the instant Trump said go home during the attempted coup d'etat they did.
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  7545. It's a bit like previous colonisers giving necklaces and mirrors for large tracts of land that the indigenous people agreed to. I actually don't think this is impossible because we are seeing it in real time and surprise surprise eggs and oil products are controlled by the free market, so unless Trump does a Venezuela the price of oil products is mostly international and the only way to ensure cheap eggs is subsidies.
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  7546. You mustn't drive. I drove a taxi for about 15 years and probably was breath tested 100 times, a standard checkpoint in every state in Australia I believe.
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  7547.  @12344567ist  Free is a relative term that is highly subjective. Some Americans feel feel free because they can purchase a military style semi automatic light fire arm. I am Australian I feel free because the homicide rate is one sixth of that of the US. My lower chance of being killed makes me feel free, the example American feels free because at least maybe he can kill the other guy and he doesn't really care about dying. Just an example.
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  7548.  @LakeNipissing  I just search the issue and Canada has only adopted such a practice this year at least on a national level. In the US the road toll is over double. Canada to some extent can't decide if it wants to follow the US or other Western democracies with regards to personal freedoms which inevitably cause the deaths of others or a more community based approach with acceptance that minor inconvenience unless you have done something wrong or intend to is acceptable. It's no surprise that the US can't do much about covid 19 because they won't put any broad based restrictions in. So the Australian response you see as heavy handed but the vast majority support it and the vast majority in the US actually don't know what they want because they kept their freedoms yet complain about their governments who followed their wishes. Is pandering to the annoying young lady and abandoning Australia's containment policy which will likely kill 10,000 Australians a good idea. The choice is that stark you only have to look at the US.
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  7549. Maybe they weren't social distancing.
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  7550. The funniest thing is they having a go at Chinese press who said this was not a surprise and the administrations policies caused it. I have looked at other non US media and seems a bit like the Chinese going soft. Every media outlet state owned or privately owned outside of the US has exactly the same opinions. LOL. Even Fox News in the US points out the arrogant behaviour of the Trump family at the debate showing how powerful they are and ignoring a direction to wear masks.
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  7551. This is "making a call" and is normal in most if not all Western Democracies, Australia it's the same as this.
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  7552. Soldiers are required to take all vaccines the military deems fit. This has always been the case. Covid 19 vaccine is no different to all the other vaccines they are required to take. If you're an antivaxxer you can't be in the military.
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  7553. India is at about May or June last year relative to the US and UK, your figures mean nothing much until it's over. In theory India should have a much lower mortality rate overall because of demographics particularly lower population age and much lower obesity rates.
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  7554. North Korea will have no cases, the other problems are probably terrible right now but at least they don't have to worry about covid 19. Yes North Korea has border controls and internal movement controls if required (this is actually the normal state of North Korea so of course can do it) If Australia and NZ can do it why would you think China , Vietnam or North Korea couldn't, they are actually a little more authoritarian despite some people thinking Australia or NZ must be more authoritarian at the moment. Authoritarian governments have done better overall.
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  7555. If you look at the speed of spread, it could easily have been in the countryside somewhere inside or outside China for months without being detected, it's only when you hit a big city or things like nursing homes or hospitals it explodes, plus seasonal factors. We wait I guess to see if they find a virus close enough in a bat to possibly narrow down the region.
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  7556. Consider it the benefits of socialist healthcare for some. If you had a universal socialist healthcare for all it would require better distribution.
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  7557. A guideline, I think you will find many civil laws are like this. I am in Australia and unfortunately I have found this to be very much the case in one industry I invested in. Basically the powerful can just completely ignore the law and you can fight them in court with your own time and money and no penalty to them, worst case they might pay your court costs but the powerful person might not have any financial interest so they pay nothing. I am talking about strata title property industry or whatever you call it there.
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  7558. They do, some at least. They are the ones that say fake news, Australians would say biased normally if they don't like the message.
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  7559. You need new cases down to at least no more than 1 per 100,000 per day for contact tracing to work. Anything above this it fails and that's if the contact tracing is good and test results within 48 hours.
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  7560. So to summarise it's totally legal in the US for foreigners to fund a superpac via a "charity ". Good to know if i ever become a billionaire because i am Australian.
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  7561. I am Australian and based on the Taiwan position it's questionable if China decided to invade us whether he thinks we should be helped. The US needs virtually nothing from us for critical business interests.
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  7562. One of the amazing things is China is becoming a more free market economy than the US. Not saying it is yet but if Trump gets his way it's a definite possibility.
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  7563. He shows a chart and have cases in the +65 age group, so maybe you missed it. It's more common in younger people that's all.
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  7564. The commentator is wrong about Australia and New Zealand being countries full of folks living in the countryside. Our urbanization rates are higher than US. It's true that the US does have some very large cities so in the other 45 states or whatever it is it's actually no different and probably easier to stop the spread than Australia. How many US state borders have significant travel restrictions similar to crossing into Canada? The answer is 0 and that's the primary difference along with failed testing and tracing of why almost every state in the US has problems versus only 1 Australian state at this time with a somewhat serious problem.
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  7565.  @satriojumeneng7055  What a silly comment, the Quad was formed after the Tsunami regarding coordinating relief efforts. It's role has changed a little because of China's actions , so no the forming of the Quad had nothing to do with China.
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  7566.  @damianpos8832  Your comment is really strange, Slovakia has restrictions too, does that make you communist? Also Australia is a federation so are you suggesting it's comprised of 7 different communist states with different political parties. Also your comment that Slovakia has a successful treatment regime seems to not agree with the number of Covid 19 deaths in your country with 0.23% of the entire population dead from it, one of the worst rates in the world.
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  7567. It's pretty simple last 2 weeks about 1000 dead per day on average, reduce that number a little on the assumption people will take a little more care , multiply by number of days.
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  7568. @drew13600 very correct, you can't forecast human behaviour. Human behaviour including political decisions decide the outcome. Not highly predictable.
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  7569. Well from a technical point of view riots cause a lockdown effect and actually probably slowed the spread of the virus. A study was done and that was the conclusion that it either made no difference or slowed spread. Most normal people stay in their home if rioters are on the streets because it's dangerous. The Trump rallies and biker get togethers are different, one difference is the average age of attendees and the other is I am not afraid that my house or business will be burnt down from some drunk bikers or people attending a Trump rally so I will continue to do my normal thing.
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  7570.  @billypardew2337  why would a country infect it's own population deliberately, surely they would release it in enemy territory? They also contained it quite well with only hundreds of cases getting out of China with warning. The evacuation flights were the responsibility of the country doing them, China couldn't detain foreigners but foreign governments didn't quarantine anyone, that's on them not China.
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  7571. Looking at that Canadian produced projection graph for the UK strain now I know why my city Brisbane was locked down for 3 days with 0 cases of known community transmission and based on a single hotel quarantine breach with a worker catching it.
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  7572. A dam in it of itself should not be a big issue, the question is how much water is being diverted for agriculture etc. ? I don't know anything about the situation so just asking if you know.
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  7573. It does actually. Quarantine is specified in our constitution.
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  7574.  @johnspirit6826  Thanks for response , my understanding is that the states actually possess the same powers but underneath the Commonwealth so the states can't override the Commonwealth in most cases. As far as closing borders I think that's ok but don't know about the quarantine measures and a court may determine there has been over reach for example in QLD they say can't travel more than 50km unless for certain things. I think that is overreach because if I was to travel 200 km away with full tank of fuel and food and I just want to go sightseeing and stay away from others and businesses what harm can I do.
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  7575.  @johnspirit6826  thanks again, I don't agree and I think best we agree to disagree. I respect your opinion though.
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  7576. BETTER IF AT THE END OF YOUR COMMENT SAYS PLEASE RESPOND IN CAPS BECAUSE MY VISION IS POOR RATHER THAN YOUR CURRENT COMMENT. YOU ARE A BIT AGGRESSIVE REGARDLESS OF CAPS.
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  7577.  @effenkat3893  Just general tone, not necessarily the caps.
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  7578.  @effenkat3893  I don't disagree with that
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  7579. Audio from the bodycam will let us know in time I expect. I am guessing the officer or suspect said something around that time.
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  7580. We drive on left hand side of road like all civilized countries. Drivers seat on right.
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  7581. What's truly amazing is the Trump regime doesn't seem to have found any fraud anywhere otherwise they would be prosecuting people very publicly. It could be all smoke and mirrors and actually the fraudsters are in bed with the regime 100%.
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  7582.  @stringmonkey568  The problem is Trump decided not to tell others of the dangers, how were opposition party members supposed to know? He had behaved this way before suggesting a muslim countries ban on entry to the US without good reason, a case of crying wolf.
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  7583. First non prejudicial comment. I like it. Eventually we will find out the what and why it happened.
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  7584. Listening to other countries in the region is a strength not a weakness. The US might have been like China in the past and still is unfortunately to some countries. China going it alone to take on the world by bullying and belt and road debt with mostly dictatorship will give them a similar reputation to that of the US in the past for doing similar things. China is in its learning phase of how to be a superpower, it thinks it's so much smarter but when those dictatorship that run up debt with China are removed people will naturally become anti-China.
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  7585. Australia and New Zealand got all the information pretty much from CDC and WHO initially along with information out of European countries on an individual basis because until recently we didn't have enough cases to know anything. Yes ironic that the CDC is actually good at providing information but useless at implementation because of internal issues and the states just ignore the advice. The fact it took them and Fauci a month to realise that detection and contact tracing was a complete failure set things in motion and the US has to this day never got on top of cases with the response always deficient to what is required at the time. The US has tested far more than Australia for example, and I think Trump possibly believed Australia must have more cases than it does and it's about testing.
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  7586. John , go onto the CGTN YouTube channel and look at both the response by China which is Trump style why hasn't the WHO investigated Fort Detrick ( no request or evidence produced to WHO) and look at the comments and remember people in mainland China have little access to the internet. As of 12 March 2020 China has been running the Fort Detrick conspiracy theory of course along with many others all saying it must have started in another country that China isn't friends with pretty much.
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  7587. Seems to include anyone not Qanon at the moment.
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  7588. It's scary that the ad against him is he isn't a complete nutter. Wanting to keep guns out of the hands of gangsters and mentally ill, gee how radical.
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  7589. I think this might actually be the best ad from Lincoln Project. The make disappear punchline is pretty good.
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  7590. Americans did vote for this. That's just reality Elon is correct. The only plausible argument that can be made is Americans are stupid and didn't know what they were voting for.
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  7591. It's insane and these people love Trump with 210,000 body bags to his name. Sort of a messiah that can do no wrong. Complete hypocrites, and never mention that if Victoria was a stand alone country it's done better than most Western European countries and beats USA by a mile and contact tracing the real problem seems to be fixed. Contact tracing was the failure because many other places have had quarantine failures and will continue to do so because impossible to stop all quarantine breaches.
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  7592. Trump was very easy for the CPC to understand, they have a lot in common actually. Biden is difficult for them to understand and deal with because you can't just show him some shiney beads and other countries come into play, Trump was isolationist and didn't care even about allies.
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  7593. Although I don't like a lot of the comments here, it's about his family and friends, he is dead, he is gone and obviously couldn't care less. I think it's bad to dig the boot in so to speak for those living. Whether someone agreed or disagreed with his politics that's really irrelevant.
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  7594. She is right on one thing, CNN should choose it's words more carefully. When cities were burning from rioters CNN couldn't get the words the protests have turned violent out of their mouths and continued to speak the myth of peaceful protestors, if a city is on fire and you continue to protest then you at a minimum are protecting and supporting the violence, the rioters can just blend in no problems, set a building on fire and rejoin the march. CNN might as well have been seen as rioter propaganda network. Same goes for Fox news coverage of the insurrection , especially in the aftermath, they might as well have been called the Trump information service or something.
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  7595. Lucky he wasn't in Queensland, the first person to throw a party in lockdown received a fine and a warning not to do it again, so being a smartass they decided to have another party the next day, got 1 months prison time.
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  7596. Technically it's totally correct. That is the US system, entire executive government as in all ministers/secretaries chosen by your temporary king/queen.
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  7597. You are right to be scared unless you have long finished your chemo treatment. Take care the best you can until fully recovered from your current or former problems. In the end do what you think is best for you depending on all the factors in your life. Best of luck and hope you fully recover from your cancer and don't get covid.
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  7598. @Paul Flusk You need to learn English some is not saying widespread.
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  7599. @Paul Flusk Some is the word I used and you stated widespread not me.
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  7600. @Paul Flusk now you are off on another tangent speaking nothing about what I have said. Australia's economy is better than most if you must know.
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  7601. @Paul Flusk The international border is open so in regards to that question it is no longer. Of course like every major country on the planet international inbound tourism is lower and yes in our case almost non existent. Domestic tourism on average is booming, the current downside is opening the border means we go back to net tourism exports, a contributing factor to our increased trade surplus last year was people not traveling so less people importing (going overseas) tourism services. I think we will handle the letting people spend money overseas again, our economy is pretty resilient.
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  7602. @Paul Flusk it differs by state but minimum is home/accommodation quarantine for 3 days and required to take 2 pcr tests one within 24 hours of arrival and one on day 6.
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  7603.  @mikel1784  Your name and birthday and address identify you on the voting roll as a citizen, the ID itself only needs to be reliable to prove it's you, not prove that you are a citizen because that has already been proven or at least in theory it has.
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  7604. @Airbus A380-800 Airbus and Boeing are most to blame they caused the spread.
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  7605. Maybe a good name for a cocktail. 2 shots scotch whiskey, 2 shots dark rum , one shot of vodka served on ice with a slice of lime or lemon. Drink that you can think you're on the moon no problems.
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  7606. Covid 19 is far more consequencial for the world because affects all countries of the world moreso than both the GFC or the 9/11 terror attacks. 9/11 and associated terror attacks around the world affected less than half the nations of the world. To an American maybe psychologically 9/11 was worse than the other events.
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  7607. Obviously he's so can't be 100% healthy, age does that to everyone, however he's not overweight or obese, exercises regularly, doesn't smoke and my guess drinks in moderation so very healthy for his age.
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  7608. I was thinking I would have nothing to respond to but from the algorithm you came up about 4th. The entire Western Pacific WHO region did exactly what you suggest with genuine 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine plus quarantine internally. Yeah even though seems like the rest of the world hates one or another of us we have still had the best outcomes.
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  7609. It's a US cultural thing, I am not American but understand that much , that it is common there and not elsewhere.
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  7610. Their deaths are up actually because I am sure you are aware that excess deaths are around 300,000 at the moment in the US year to date and not all covid 19. Because health systems are struggling in many cases etc. You are right more are dying than just the headline number.
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  7611. But he can't. The likely crimes will be at the state level.
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  7612. Public compliance certainly helps but it's not everything.
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  7613. It does because of the different weather patterns around the country , so different times are more conducive to virus spread in different parts of the country.
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  7614. ​@dt6750 you pay more for public healthcare than Australia, why do you think that's good? Wouldn't you prefer to pay less for universal healthcare than you already pay.
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  7615. The chance of dying in a terrorist attack is about the same as a bee sting. The chance of dying from covid 19 so far in most 0 lockdown jurisdictions is 1 in 500 or 2,000 deaths per million. Every day 1,000 people in US die from covid, haven't heard of any major terrorist attack in the US since 9/11 and that's only 3 days covid deaths.
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  7616. The thing the nutters sometimes cling to is suicides are rising but anecdotal evidence so far indicates that those jurisdictions that have contained the virus this doesn't seem to be occurring and it's the places that kept things open and no restrictions until it gets out of control then restrictions get imposed anyway which causes more mental health issues. New Zealand has stated that suicides have decreased. I say anecdotal because just one jurisdiction saying it doesn't mean it's the same everywhere, only time will tell.
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  7617.  @jfrankerickson8993  Wouldn't it have been better to teach children responsibility and a few weeks of lockdown and ongoing travel restrictions and have virtually no community transmission cases in your state with schools open hospitals operating next to normal and minor restrictions like numbers of people inside an establishment , like the Swedish model but with travel restrictions and virtually no deaths. What I say is too late now but it could have been done.
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  7618.  @OlJackBurton  Probably same to New Zealand, it only takes one case to enter the population. Victoria Australia's 90% of current cases come from a hotel quarantine breach, which was picked up slowly and acted upon slowly. Victoria is a good case study in how quickly you can lose control and how much harder it is if you don't act quickly.
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  7619.  @ruthmaloney4378  By the time you return to Melbourne it should be fine. They appear to be getting it under control now, it's just a lot harder than it would have been if they had acted a week or two earlier. Pretty sure after this experience Victoria is unlikely to repeat the error. It's also helped other states and NZ not become complacent, it's one thing to see what is occurring in far away lands of the US and Europe, it's another thing when it's your neighbour.
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  7620.  @ruthmaloney4378  You take care. Severe border restrictions is the price that has to be paid for now with countries with a containment policy. I still think we are on the right track though for the time being, those places that have allowed the virus to get out of control haven't done any better economically as of now.
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  7621. What you talking about Thailand has won the battle?
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  7622. I like random comments like this. You think he might smell like Pence.
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  7623. Yes you are missing a few things , there is no gap in fact the US is currently a net exporter of oil and oil is priced internationally and oil companies are not subsidizing US consumers.
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  7624. Trump is a socialist, what do you think tariffs are for and handouts to farmers etc.?
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  7625. You might find it like NY was where a large proportion of officers going out sick leave. But if protests were to continue even peaceful protestors probably won't follow the rules of not coming if at all sick.
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  7626. She was involved in drug dealing, that's not breaking some rule . The drug dealing involvement was marijuana which is legal in many states now anyway. Saying she can't speak any of the language is probably an exaggeration because she was born in Thailand in a refugee camp to obviously Laos parents. So that's sort of not adding up. Maybe she isn't fluent and or the dialect of her parents is significantly different to official Laos language. Should she have been deported, no, but I don't think making stuff up or major exaggeration is helpful. Should she have done some prison time in the US, well yes if that's the law. She has 5 children actually and a husband with brain cancer. The heartlessness for in the scheme of things a relatively minor offence is terrible especially for the children even if someone doesn't care about her.
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  7627.  @jamesl9371  How could a person with Lao parents not speak any Lao? It doesn't add up. The exaggeration most likely is to gain sympathy. She arrived in the US with her parents, not as an orphan.
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  7628. How did you end up so high in the comments, Wumaos, Trump supporters and English commenters until your comment all bagging Australia. Very strange alliances these days.
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  7629.  @andrewhazlewood4569  We are Australian , Sky News Australia the equivalent of Fox isn't taken seriously and to be fair the printed press , newspapers are ok, I will consider Financial Review or The Australian the same , both quality balanced national newspaper and from slightly different ideology. The local papers maybe a bit different, but as a Queenslander with basically only Murdoch press we are doing ok.
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  7630.  @Nofearforever21  media companies don't get your data , facebook keeps that, facebook just has to give some money to the media companies. Nobody is forcing you to watch or read any news, what are you talking about? We are not talking re education camps here.
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  7631. They looked exactly like many of the BLM mobs, threatening and intimidating.
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  7632. There's plenty of different alphabets too.
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  7633.  @breakthroughchiropracticcl3526  Well the most compelling evidence is the consistency of approach by WHO region and consistency of outcome up until the last few months with the new more contagious variants. The entire Western Pacific WHO region has mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine for all international arrivals and as pointed out in another comment SARS affected our region significantly at the time with tourism so some preparedness because of that. 3 of the toughest quarantine countries in the world are in our region , Japan, Australia and New Zealand so we take quarantine very seriously and have systems in place. The most compelling despite all that I just said is actually the fact that countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam that were doing as well as others in our general region (Thailand and Malaysia are in South East Asia WHO region which tended to have shorter mandatory quarantine) have completely failed. Sydney is now experiencing great difficulties due to the Delta variant with about 100 cases a day and they have the hardest lockdown in that state excluding the initial lockdown from over a year ago. The other aspect look at the diversity in our WHO region , China, Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Australia , New Zealand, The Philippines and Papua New Guinea along with a lot of small Pacific nations. Collectively we have nothing in common except our overall response particularly with borders. I have raved on for a bit , up to you to consider what I have said.
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  7634. Hey folks in the comments Australia, New Zealand , Japan and South Korea are all first world, just so you know for future reference. This isn't to take anything away from our lower income neighbours who have done much better than Europe and the Americas.
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  7635. Interestingly all Wumaos supporting dictatorship and violence in a neighbouring country.
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  7636. It's not relevant. The only relevance is from the point of arrest and if it happened in the store the investigators would have it.
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  7637.  @MrBeast-1  how about white kids with a Spanish speaking background like in Texas?
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  7638. @faraibamu405  it is a bad thing because it creates resentment. MAGA is created from this type of resentment and my opinion from afar is MAGA isn't good.
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  7639. You clearly hate free trade or you are racist.
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  7640. I would expect some sort of hotel quarantine , not some voluntary scheme.
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  7641. I am sortta warming to Trump's idea as an Aussie. I reckon Australia plus New Zealand plus Canada plus the US states of California and New York and a few others and the territories of Puerto Rico and all Pacific territories plus Hawaii would make a great country. Not sure what it should be called but our values align. Yeah only joking but my idea is actually less crazy than Trump's.
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  7642. The deportations will happen first with those easy to find and not working for big business interests. So someone working in a restaurant or takeaway is easy to find. About gold it hasn't collapsed it's just dropped about 5% from an all time high. When it is known Trump will cause instability gold will likely rise to a new high. Gold is the friend of chaos, Trump is chaos.
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  7643. So in simple terms Blackrock is the largest 0 risk commission business in the world.
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  7644. They don't, this is a small minority.
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  7645. Maybe because you felt more relaxed after having the vaccine and had a few too many beers to celebrate, so it could certainly could be blamed on the vaccine.
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  7646. It's only good for corrupt companies. US companies will be less welcome in non corrupt countries. This could even affect the USD.
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  7647. They don't have to put guns down, just stop taking more land and acknowledge Palestine and give it freedom.
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  7648. Well at least Australia and New Zealand have open borders (but can shut at a moments notice) we can only travel between each other for now. I was hoping for Vietnam, Thailand , Singapore, Taiwan but they all have cases now and mainland China is out of the question I think because of our diplomatic issues, not health issues. That virus inc game is playing out even countries previously virus free as the ones I mentioned above getting problems, these new variants are terrible.
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  7649. It has to be severe otherwise it wouldn't be picked up.
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  7650. Which government propaganda? He criticises all governments. He thinks the overall policies of Australia and New Zealand are good but that we should vaccinate sooner which our TGA (Australia New Zealand therapeutic goods administration ) clearly doesn't agree with and hasn't given emergency use authorisation. Now if all rich countries did follow us originally the world would be virtually virus free.
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  7651. Well the few hot spots is every mainland state. Hawaii and Alaska are doing ok, so technically it's only the wrong emphasis, should be we have a few areas doing well instead of a few hot spots.
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  7652. This is not like HK. The harshest policing and judicial system in the free world is supported by the majority of Americans. Violence against violence . Americans can vote and continuously vote for tough on crime. You have the highest crime rates in the world for a high income country. The policy are not working. Even in this line of comments people are saying let's kill those police. So advocating more violence to fix violence.
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  7653.  @richardhorn7688  If 13% of people 65+ died in a period of 2 years I would be surprised. The other thing is bad habits aren't very contagious.
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  7654. With such low case numbers for now they would genomic test them all.
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  7655.  @danielkelly5038  They won't tell you here in Australia either now that our cases are through the roof but previously under covid 0 they genomic tested every case, not sure if patients would ever find out but my guess is they might because I am thinking the doctors would be told and then tell the patients. Doctors need to be told to collect the statistical data regarding variants. When cases are really high they just use statistical averages I guess. The US CDC is publishing data about Omicron severity and there's no other way they could do it.
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  7656. Mostly they are younger and not obese , so very low risk, the problem isn't them it's when it gets into older population.
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  7657. Well according to Trump a 15% corporate tax rate is fair. Do you think that's fair? Have to remember what is considered fair is subjective. The majority of middle and low income people in the US believe a 15% corporate tax rate is fair because they voted for it.
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  7658. I am in Brisbane Australia so technically the closest country to me is the French territory of New Caledonia.
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  7659. Why is this being played down so much , it's not just the direct deaths that matter. While not suggesting a solution to get to excess deaths you need to add about 30% to the Covid 19 deaths because of secondary deaths due to reduced healthcare in other areas and although I don't know the exact reason with Australia's initial lockdown deaths spiked and excess deaths for the first 6 months of the year were from heart disease and diabetes. We will have to see what the data is for the final 6 months because unfortunately one state needed a hard lockdown, however all other states remained open with some limited restrictions. The US is in a worse position and what is occurring will have a more severe mental health impact than in Australia I would suggest and even the state that did a second lockdown at least they knew it would end being as bad. The false hopes that in your winter the 20,000,000 doses of vaccine given to 10,000,000 people by the end of the year will solve everything is more than a little optimistic given your population. Many people are wanting financial support which doesn't seem to be forthcoming causing more mental illness than would otherwise be the case and people will work sick and infect others if desperate. Best of luck to you all and look after numero uno because the government isn't coming to rescue you any time soon.
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  7660. Believes that they don't know, I believe that , so are you suggesting that they found the first case in a village or wherever even though it was only found as far as reports go after many cases in a Wuhan hospital? The only thing they have concluded is it's likely that the virus went through an intermediate species from bat to human and both a leak from the lab and frozen food are unlikely but not impossible. I am confused as to what they would find now or a year ago considering it was only picked up after many cases.
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  7661. Let's say their is intelligence that a white supremacist organization might be about to carry out a bombing. Do you think that the police and or other authorities should concentrate on white males between 16 and 40 or just randomly look for anyone? If you can answer my question you have answered your own.
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  7662. I wouldn't think she is traumatized, only a bit of shock and fear for an hour or so. He never did anything to her in the end thank goodness.
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  7663. It should be looked at in perspective, vaccination rates lower than Mississippi and Alabama and no natural infection immunity unlike Mississippi and Alabama, for NSW , VIC and NZ to open up would make those US states seem in a pretty good situation. In other words for now it's called no choice.
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  7664. All this over health restrictions and a bunch of US citizens calling for a coup d'etat in another country and sending money hoping for it. There's a reason anti US sentiment exists. If Russia or China do the same to the US is that fine?
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  7665. With most European countries plus US having open border , voluntary quarantine policies it's looking more and more likely because every strain circulates around these countries and only one strain needs to evade vaccines and no apparent plan to be rid of the virus just vaccinate a lot of people and cross fingers.
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  7666. It's not due to Trump but the CDC proved itself to be great at theory and terrible at implementation of a plan. If you listen to what Fauci said on February 26 that the US was doing well and not many cases because of good health care and contact tracing you realise everyone failed. The problem is when the failures were apparent nothing was done and Trump certainly contributed to this and probably exacerbated it. If Trump did nothing the health outcomes would probably be not as bad but he discouraged mask wearing and campaigned against governor's who were trying to get things under control.
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  7667. If martial law can be declared it then becomes relatively easy to do using National guard or regular military.
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  7668. I am not entirely convinced that in cold weather an area should be highly ventilated if it makes the space cold because is it known whether the physiological reaction of the nose becoming runny with a sudden temperature drop might assist viral spread. If course great ventilation and a 24 c temperature is probably ideal but 10c open windows not so sure.
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  7669. There were protests in Western countries. They didn't however devolve into violent riots.
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  7670. Americans you need a constitutional change not allowing your president such powers, I am not against the idea of pardons completely but should have a check and balance.
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  7671. The problem is it's as John says correlation only. Those who take supplements are likely to take more care generally because someone who doesn't care and is a risk taker will expose themselves to more risk. So that is meaningless to me. The other correlation is that people already infected have lower levels of vitamin D, so unless I am advised that nothing can cause reductions in vitamin D levels, maybe the disease causes the reduction, not the other way around. In fact what I said is just as likely after a couple of minutes research, a cause of low vitamin D can be liver damage and it is believed liver damage can be caused by covid 19. So at the moment the correlation is only a correlation with little evidence either way.
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  7672. She is the ruling authority now at least symbolically because unless there is some sort of constitutional crisis her position is largely symbolic.
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  7673. Maybe he does, people who give from the heart often don't go around grand standing.
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  7674.  @juicygoldengrapes  it's better late than never. In the US he would be considered the best governor of the country based on performance with this issue. He just looks a bit out of place here, but it's good because he has a lot of pressure. Australia wants to open to NZ but Victoria is preventing that because other states understand Victorians would be offended and lose the plot, in other words internal diplomatic issues. Normally such situations don't exist.
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  7675. Disagree with your last point but admire your support of getting rid of your current government despite harm to yourself.
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  7676. I think you mean by Israel not of Israel, your statement says that Palestinian are illegally occupying Israel in that sentence.
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  7677. It's actually a great propaganda piece whether willing or not, his worst concerns of bad treatment is having to cut his own hair, I think a lot of US prisoners who number in the millions who saw this clip saying I want to swap prison. He has even had one shot of a covid 19 vaccine which is an absolute luxury to most of the worlds population.
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  7678. Most states have Victoria needs to succeed then they can be like other states.
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  7679.  @Alliwantedwasapepsi  Are you kidding. They have a 60% voter turnout give or take.
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  7680. The video too long, that's why they have the 1 to 2 minute ads.
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  7681. Lol thanks for the education on all the different names of land or sand or rock surrounded by water.
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  7682. If you look at recommended intake in Australia they actually explain the studies they looked at to come to the recommendation. All recommendations are excessive to have a buffer and does take into account likely rate of absorption. If you look around the world the recommendations are slightly different but within 10% or so of each other.
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  7683.  @TheOracleNetwork1  Why do you refer to yourself as the king of Thailand, I think Thai's would be offended?
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  7684.  @TheOracleNetwork1  Chakri is royal Thai family so Chakri King means the King of Thailand
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  7685. It's got no power most likely and even if it has power some mechanical failure means it can't.
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  7686. One thing nobody has commented on is the rules of engagement have changed, no more body cams , it's war now not peacekeeping and that's a big difference, in a war you kill the enemy and crossfire casualties are acceptable, in peacekeeping you are like a policeman with total scrutiny. So I don't think it is at all a given that the Taliban can win, it might cost more innocent lives short term but 20 years of less innocent lives ends up being more innocent lives overall. Hopefully when things heat up this is what happens, it's just a hypothesis, not saying I am right.
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  7687. What a dishonest scumbag. While i am no fan of the Iranian government or Hamas it's incorrect to say either them don't want a two state solution. A genuine 2 state solution with 1967 borders has never been on the table.
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  7688. To Adam on a personal level inform him the biggest defenders of Muslims who aren't authoritarian are athiests. To be fair many Christians are the same but many Christians are to this day crusaders especially in the US. They are also Zionists. I am Australian and although Indonesia and Malaysia aren't perfect and still have some draconian religious laws against their own people for the most part they leave other religions alone.
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  7689. Here's a question for you, what is a safe distance from a Trump Rally or the Whitehouse?
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  7690.  @robharris8844U  You do realize that Australia is more urbanised than the US and UK right? Funny thing is we aren't spread out evenly accross our continent , greater Melbourne has a higher population than Republic of Ireland which has a fairly low urbanization rate. The funny thing is no quarantine and open borders all in general terms produced the same results. Look at Western Pacific WHO region which is a very diverse group of countries from China to Philippines to Japan to Papua New Guinea to Australia and others we have different government systems and possibly the most diverse culture of any WHO region however we all had a policy of containment with 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine for all arrivals, in the case of Australia and China these restrictions applied internally also, right now today you can't enter Queensland from New South Wales or Victoria without an exemption or 14 days mandatory enforced hotel quarantine. Exemptions are primarily for essential services and border region bubble. Never did England, Wales and Scotland do this for any length of time and still had voluntary quarantine or in other words not quarantine.
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  7691. You need to bring in Chairman Dan ( mean nickname of Premier of Victoria Dan Andrews) of Victoria Australia, he reports case numbers daily and despite previous failures looks like Victoria will get to 0 cases at some point. You can't mention ethnicities though because that causes other problems. He is virtually being accused of murder especially by the Murdoch press who probably gave him the nickname and sees nothing wrong with Boris or Donald's approach. Sky News Australia (news corp) might be a different company to Fox Corp in the US but the ownership and control is remarkably similar.
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  7692. Not really, vaccines aren't perfect but they do reduce risk of death or severe illness by about 90% if people decided to use them. Check the rate of deaths in Australia right now versus the US and then check the vaccination rates. While there is other factors one factor in the negative for Australia is no naturally acquired immunity, it's all for intensive purposes from vaccines. Yes infection rates are shooting up like crazy but not deaths, about half of our recent deaths are in the unvaccinated.
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  7693.  @jacobmcbeth6922  Yes that's right, so keep 20% of the elderly population unvaccinated they will keep dying. It's fact that doing something only has a 90% effect on reducing deaths give or take, so why do nothing and then whinge and complain. You want a loved one to pay with their life on some principal that you think that Pfizer or Moderna misled you, have to say that's serious dedication to your cause.
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  7694.  @jacobmcbeth6922  back to your original comment you said "it wouldn't have been a problem", well at 90% effective against catching or spreading you would still have 20% of oldies unvaccinated so it would have changed little. The conspiracy theorists actually only need 1 case to prove their point.
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  7695.  @jacobmcbeth6922  I said it's barely effective at preventing catching it, but so far all evidence points to very effective at stopping deaths but only if you take it, if it was 99% effective the antivaxxers still wouldn't take it is my point.
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  7696. It's pretty scary actually, Everything between MSNBC and Fox offer better information than Facebook and X and wherever. This is nothing to be excited about. It's almost like we are entering the Misinformation Age.
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  7697. It's a protest actually, of course they know they can't win.
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  7698. But it's so it's high for certain words searched for. So headlines on youtube will be designed with likely terms people search for in mind.
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  7699. Look at Victoria, do nothing and wait a month and that's what you would have.
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  7700. Those people aren't conservative.
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  7701. No worries their, Isreal is a far right apartheid state, it certainly isn't a liberal democracy which continually claim to be.
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  7702. Yep shut down free speech sounds like a great idea. He shouldn't have sweared but I guess he was following the Chicago mayor's lead.
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  7703.  @sotorodrigo33  they can but they can do so by not drowning out the other. Both sides guilty in this particular case.
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  7704. Don't know but they would have one major advantage over Russia or the US led coalition and that is they haven't been there before or at least not in recent history.
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  7705.  @jaydoggy456  I have a question for you. Australia spends less on a per Capita basis for publically funded healthcare which is universal when compared to the non universal US publically funded healthcare. So my question is why do you like paying more tax for a service you might not receive?
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  7706.  @jaydoggy456  You've answered the question, you want to pay higher taxes for something you don't even want. Strange for me I like lower taxes and still have the choice of buying whatever I want. Australian life expectancy is 5 years longer than the US so enjoy your time while you've still got it. Best of luck with those higher taxes you enjoy paying to support your ideology.
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  7707.  @petero9584  I agree with your comment if it wasn't only Victoria maybe a very different outcome. I think if any 2 out of Melbourne Sydney and Brisbane get out of control turning things back around would be extremely difficult. I am in Brisbane and I am confident it won't get out of control here but as we know it only takes a few errors for things to turn really bad.
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  7708.  @waycam77  I had to laugh a bit at your comment, reminds me of the Victorian that snuck into Western Australia, it's possible they didn't understand the term lockdown measures so now WA is teaching them in a small room with bars on it for a while. People have the ability to sneak into anywhere now especially on the internet.
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  7709.  @allangibson8494  That's great news, even though it's largely symbolic having a zero death day I think would lift Victorians spirits a little and that the sacrifices are working.
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  7710. It won't achieve much because there's nothing stopping PACs working accross state borders. What would be more effective is stopping funds flowing interstate. The NRA for example only has to run campaigns when a politician gets out of line, they don't have to run them everywhere and they get money from all over the country. A local community can't fight them.
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  7711. You know you share a name with Australia's second longest serving Prime Minister?
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  7712. The number of cases doesn't matter, it's if people require hospitalization or die that matters and that's when it would be picked up.
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  7713. Why's that, the majority of truckers and the major union don't support these truckers. Anyway they are just reporting the news this isn't Fox or CNN supporting one side like a propaganda machine.
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  7714.  @johnsonpaul1914  South Dakota has 1650 deaths per million from covid 19, this is in a state with about 45% rural population and a population less than 1,000,000 , it seems they have actually infected farmers to get what you consider a great number. California has done better despite the population density.
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  7715. That shows she is real American. She should have just said Chinese but didn't want to for some reason.
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  7716. The irony is it's a Republican responsible yet again for the vote switching [stupid stuff up]
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  7717. The rich were the target, the interviewee couldn't afford his own private plane and if flights stopped you need to go private or to a country that doesn't care first which will up the cost.
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  7718.  @milicajokic6617 But the US government pays for those US weapons, pretty bad economics. Israel currently gets $3.8 billion per year and 74% I believe needs to be spent on US military equipment. Because Israel builds the wings for the F35 jet the US is in a net sense doesn't even get all that money for weapons back, in theory Israel could be getting the entire amount currently, depends what they getting for those wings.
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  7719.  @congener496  No both parties have the same approach. They also spend a lot on getting public opinion so they can roll out policies effectively. Have to remember we are a federation and just like the US different states are at different points on the political spectrum, I am in Queensland and generally we fairly conservative compared to say Victoria which is full of lefties and this is regardless of which political party.
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  7720. To get to that number it includes payroll taxes, which is the sneaky tax making the largest contribution to the increase. He chooses to pay the 10% state taxes because it's not like he can't afford to move to a state with lower income taxes or none at all in some cases.
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  7721. In Australia we are back to normal except for occasional localized lockdown and travel. There is no big conspiracy theory, get to herd immunity or elimination then things close to normal , only really normal if whole world vaccinated or eliminated virus.
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  7722.  @irenez7439  Sad as someone waiting a year or possibly 2 to get married, although nothing stopping the Australian going to the US as long as they intend to stay there for a decent period of time and the US let's them in which I believe is possible. The US has had rising homicides and suicides as well as the 500,000 direct deaths from covid 19. I don't believe that allowing 35,000 Australians to die which is roughly the number that would need to die if we opened our border like the US would be a good idea and 90+% of Australian would agree and inevitably it would mean internal lockdowns as well causing more mental illness.
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  7723.  @irenez7439  Yes the anecdotal increase in suicides and to some extent homicides in the US were caused by failure to ever actually lockdown which includes things like quarantine and travel, so literally a year of lockdown lite which killed a lot of people. Wouldn't 8 weeks of proper lockdown have been better and 15,000 or so dead from the virus? Wouldn't a government budget deficit of 7% be better than 16%? In one way or another the US will be paying for this for years. Admittedly the initial testing failures and surveillance which was an absolute failure in the US probably would have meant a longer lockdown for the big cities but about 45 states or so would have remained basically fully open after 8 weeks, just can't travel to places like Miami or New York City or Los Angeles.
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  7724.  @irenez7439  Well you are happy with all the freedoms you enjoyed over the last year and the cost to the government and the deaths, I am happy with my state and country's response, so we are both happy I guess. Enjoy your holiday I guess.
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  7725.  @suzque63  I used the words I guess in response to someone else indicating that I guessed they were happy with the US response and seemed to be enjoying a holiday. I am happy that in my state of 5,000,000 there has only been 7 deaths attributable to covid 19 , as I indicated this required about 10 weeks fairly hard lockdown depending how this is defined. Where ever you live where you most likely have had that freedom of no hard lockdown and freedom to travel you are probably happy also.
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  7726.  @suzque63  Why would millions of medical experts, plus politicians of all countries be they dictatorship or democracy or anything in between all collude to make something up? Who could convince these millions to do this, who or what is this higher power more powerful than all the governments in the world put together?
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  7727. I wouldn't be so sure, I think it will have an effect on sentencing.
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  7728.  @briankh2007  I did pay close attention and the legal expert said it has no chance of getting them off but he seemed to be agnostic or at least didn't give his opinion on whether it helps to be released on bail. I am not going to claim to know US federal sentencing guidelines however normally in liberal Democracies sentencing takes into consideration 3 things if the judge has leeway as in not a mandatory fixed sentence, punishment as a deterrent, rehabilitation so they don't re-offend and protection of society as in the risk that if released they might re-offend. If a very hardline is taken anyone who spoke of or took particular actions to commit murder or kidnapping could be charged with those attempted offences depending what the law allows. My personal view even though this might sound a little authoritarian throw the book at them all if sentencing guidelines permit, maximum sentence for every one of them that even put a toenail in that building for trespass minimum, but not the death penalty because I don't believe in that. Under the US system the president of the day could pardon the lessor offenders when the risk has subsided and a reasonable time period had passed and agreed in a bipartisan manner.
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  7729. Oh sore winner, can anyone take this seriously?
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  7730. Flights to the US are no problem from India, it's just you need to have US passport ( apparently such a passport protects one from catching or spreading covid 19). If you don't believe me search Mumbai to New York , I am sure other flights available but that's just the one I check for tomorrow.
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  7731. Half agree with you, still as much attention on India but more on Latin America.
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  7732. It's longer than that if you want to search for it.
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  7733. Terrible tanker analogy, he just described the titanic crash and big tear down the side of the vessel and engineers believe if the titanic hit head on it probably wouldn't have sunk because it would have only damaged one compartment.
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  7734. The images are insightful as in they have spread out, however the explanation is an hypothesis which may or may not be correct. In some cases if they weren't given enough food for example they might be searching for food for arguments sake. Being near buildings though means can't fire missiles at them without risking hitting the buildings.
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  7735. Well I think the classic was a CNN reporter in Atlanta saying how the protests were peaceful and didn't damage the CNN center much with a 100ft building fire in the background. Based on that classic reporting, a bullet wound will be referred to as a scratch and any deaths as falling over in an unfortunate manner .
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  7736. Have to change the game rules, quadruple the spread rates in Europe and US and have Western Pacific countries containing it.
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  7737. If you are alone or live with someone, it won't change anything. If it's in a group environment like a workplace, I would actually say don't be in that situation at all if possible. If you are in such an unfortunate position wait to see if the Dr gives you his opinion.
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  7738. It's not that simple, Singapore has a very large government debt. Singapore's net government debt probably isn't too bad. Australia has a sovereign wealth fund and it was actually set up when believe it or not our government had 0 net debt.
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  7739.  @Icecream_ghost  The biggest problem with the new CDC study is it's time constrained as in 90% of those with previous infections had them in the preceding year and it was with Delta variant and we know that catching Omicron is far easier for everyone although less deadly by about 70% it would seem so far. The CDC recommends everyone over 6 months getting the flu vaccine every year and everyone catches the flu in their lives. Australia has the same recommendation but also has a strong recommendation for certain groups, below 5 and above 65 if by age and of course healthcare workers, more vulnerable people etc. Everyone saying that the next variant will be less deadly is just parroting a proven to be flawed theory, if that was the case the flu could kill nobody and there wouldn't be such a thing as a bad flu year because it's been around for 1000s of years, the 1918 flu pandemic was in the end just a mutation coming from an animal they believe and many mammals can get covid 19. Of course I hope the next variant is less deadly and overall it should be due to natural immunity (the weakest and or unvaccinated dying off already and survivors getting increased immunity) and vaccinations but there's no guarantees. The US despite it's higher natural infection rates is having more deaths per Capita than Australia now with much higher vaccination rates but virtually no natural immunity. While our demographics are a little different, obesity rate about 35% in the US versus about 30% in Australia, they are fairly close (Japan has an obesity rate of 6% or so, Sweden 20% as examples). We will have to see what happens in 6 months and it's our winter, maybe things won't look so good then and that's why the US likes to compare to the UK which is doing better now because of their higher vaccination rates. Their demographics from previous infections is probably very similar to the US overall.
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  7740.  @stevenleonard7219  Just out of curiosity with the different vaccines did you find that the side effects were significantly different? I ask that because I have had two AZ shots but will get either Pfizer or Moderna at some stage, I am 48 male and only just over 3 months since second dose.
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  7741.  @PFL44  I am certainly not against that drug and think it's good to investigate further but I am highly sceptical. Hopefully it's helpful and if it's really a game changer that's great of course. My Prime Minister advised that it would be hard to watch the deaths in poorer nations, he was right except the poorer part, it applies to both rich and poor nations but on average the rich nations have done worse.
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  7742. He's kept the border open. Lockdowns are for the lower classes who can't afford to travel anyway. Western Australia won't even let Clive Palmer in so at least our restrictions are less class oriented.
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  7743. Yes the USD protects you. If that was to change then it might cause significant problems.
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  7744. They operate under the Westminster system of government, he can be deposed by his own party and replaced in minutes. What's your problem? Are you suggesting the minority as in opposition gets to choose the PM, that would be completely undemocratic.
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  7745. The US has too many different police forces all coming together like a Hollywood movie talking about jurisdiction etc. etc. So I review my earlier opinion that Hollywood movies are ridiculous, they are accurate for the US.
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  7746. They are causing as much economic damage as BLM did in the US, just because it can't be seen doesn't mean people and businesses not being harmed. Well done some right wingers you've managed to become what you claimed to detest even demanding that the US have open borders and no vaccine mandates for foreigners. Interestingly not much talk about the Mexican border, I wonder why.
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  7747.  @zoeysalim9707  I agree
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  7748. Actually if reports were true about authorities doing spot checks of compliance with making sure customer check in using QR code I believe actually fairly easy for the first step, the second step however is the issue because families need to be told.
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  7749. It will go up and down in price certainly, however China was saying the same thing about replacing iron ore 15 years ago and they haven't achieved anything relating to that goal. The decoupling idea came from China and as far as a country having trade sanctions on it , it would be strange if the politicians said don't look for alternate markets. China has difficulties in international diplomacy because they are used to just telling everyone what to do internally and getting their way, international community isn't like that.
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  7750. Lack of response equals $16 billion USD. I hope the US doesn't respond to me and give me 0.1 percent of that money.
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  7751. It doesn't work though. US has 5 times the homicide rate of other wealthy countries.
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  7752. We haven't seen the deal, of course the original deal was terrible but the indication that Ukraine keeps the first $500 billion in royalties and after that split might not be so bad. We have no idea how long it would take to accrue that amount of royalties.
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  7753. Interesting comment in this thread. You seem to be against funding Israel. Other commenter are complaining that Israel isn't funded enough.
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  7754.  @OneWomanShowGC  are you for funding Israel or not?
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  7755. @OneWomanShowGC  your government gives money not individuals.
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  7756. @OneWomanShowGC  if every senator and congressman/woman gave $1 million it still wouldn't be enough. Israel is your welfare state.
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  7757. I think when the Australian cameraman was hit it's more real to those outside of the US and a wake up call inside when an ally is asking about press freedom.
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  7758. Victoria Australia , no cases of community transmission for 8 days currently but in September was about 500 cases per day when the whole of Canada was around 400 cases per day. Seems your lockdown is approaching the toughness of the Victorian lockdown. If it is as tough and contact tracing works and not letting people in from other provinces you will be rid of covid 19 in 3 months or so.
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  7759.  @matchu4444  the US CDC says 300,000 excess deaths occured from January 26 to October 3 , out of this only 200,000 of those deaths involved covid 19 , so in countries that failed there tends to be a lot of people dying that would still be alive had covid 19 not been around.
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  7760.  @mayhem1974  It's correct to say there is no proof of the percentage reduction in spread can be attributed to a single measure when 10 measures are taken, but there is the proof if your province followed to the letter the restrictions in Victoria Australia along with enforcement etc. that you will achieve the same outcome but it could be slightly slower or quicker because of the different living conditions , local culture and weather. The governments that didn't take decisive action early on end up being the most disliked because freedoms are restricted on a continuous long term basis and often end up being tougher than those that were tough in the beginning, my state Queensland has had low restrictions in a relative sense ever since ending the first lockdown. Travel restrictions remain of course from any infected area in Australia and all international arrivals except for New Zealand with 14 days hotel quarantine. Hopefully where ever you are things get better over time.
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  7761. So one Antifa shot another Antifa, that sounds strange.
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  7762. UAE is a slightly larger population than Israel , fair to call them the same unless you include the Palestinian population.
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  7763. 10% an exaggeration are you kidding?
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  7764. Whatever is wrong with Texas it doesn't compare to many African countries, Iran , China and North Korea where he'd be dead or in prison by now for speaking up. Nothing to do with race.
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  7765. If you Jewish automatic citizenship if you want it. Where do you think all the settlers come from.
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  7766. You are just gambling, as long as you know that and don't risk money you can't afford to lose you will be ok.
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  7767.  @briangoss4011  But Biden is to the right of Trump it would seem on free trade and industry policy and is definitely more fiscally conservative. Obama was and no reason to think Joe Biden will be any different. Very few people are as you describe, I would suggest many like countries such as France or Sweden which are fairly socialist and government spending and therefore taxes 50% of GDP and there might even be a few that like Australias or New Zealands position which is actually less socialist and more free trade orientated but decent protections for workers , free healthcare and welfare for needy humans and not corporations. Check economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation if you are uncertain of what I say about us actually being less socialist.
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  7768. Reagan actually started the negotiations for NAFTA. Trump is about to end it at least in the short or medium term.
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  7769. Because idiots are willing to be loyalists.
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  7770.  @ripvanwinkle4532  Constitutionally it's the same with Australia and the US and the non enforced voluntary quarantine is no different legally speaking than hotel quarantine. Australia's federal government has worked with the states and set the framework , most states were the ones to close borders to other infectious states, the federal government initially didn't want that, however has provided limited support with the military, unarmed but doing things like hotel quarantine, border checkpoints and in a couple of cases provided some medical personal which obviously is very limited. Lockdown lite is the worst of both worlds, destroys business and as many deaths anyway especially with the US policy, but to do absolutely nothing like that state I mentioned it would be even worse, at least poor people can't travel because no means and this probably reduces their deaths a little. If you were in Australia you would most likely be ok with restrictions because they get results, some people still nervous though and think we will fail but that's just a psychological condition without any real basis at this stage. Mentally I think you will find Australian or New Zealanders are doing better than people in US , UK and Canada where it never seems to end and vaccines are pretty much the eggs all in one basket approach, hopefully it works but it's not guaranteed. Anyway take care and personally speaking even it seems bad it would be good for the US to lockdown properly for 12 weeks and most states would be virus free or close to it, I doubt it will ever happen though with currently 0 states willing to close the borders.
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  7771. If it was through DNA being a big country can actually be an advantage because everyone will have a relative that's on a DNA database unless a recent migrant.
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  7772. It'll probably accelerate as Trump and Musk annoy more countries. One place sales are still strong for now is China.
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  7773. From the little I have heard about Critical Race Theory it's divisive and virtually states that an entire race of people who weren't even alive at the time are guilty of something. Do they teach that 90% of the slaves sent from Africa were sold by Africans for example which shows that the world was a pretty brutal place a couple of hundred years ago regardless of race, everyone was colonizing everyone else and enslaving them across all continents. It's only the US pretty much that can't come to terms with it's history and move on. While other countries like mine , Australia aren't perfect we seem to have less problems. This holiday is good and will help people move on I believe but CRT will send you backwards.
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  7774.  @patrickc3419  I'm Australian, what exactly is it you believe I have suffered? I am in Queensland to be specific, so relate your answer to Queensland.
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  7775.  @gameshot586  You're all over the shop, you complain you got sacked because of market forces, now you talking about communism. Why complain about losing your job when the market decided you were surplus to requirements? I ask you what you would prefer as in higher socialism and you don't answer. If you are getting Australian minimum wage of $20 AUD per hour and complaining about to the cost of food $1.40 for cheap bread and $12 per kilo for beef mince, $3.90/kg for whole Chicken. So you poor thing have to work 1 hour per day for excess food requirements. Maybe you want prawns and wagyu everyday, not my problem I am ok with Chicken and beef or kangaroo mince and veges for $1 per kilo if I can be bothered going to budget fruit shop instead of supermarket.
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  7776.  @gameshot586  So now you tell me you are sitting pretty with a great job, good for you , stop being paranoid. A big part of inflation or high retail prices in Australia is high wages. You're right about big corporations becoming dominant which is what happens in a free market, look at the fast food chains, they dominate now and people like that. No Rothschilds doesn't own the world. As far as government debt yes it's an issue but we still in a much stronger position than almost every wealthy nation on earth. Anyway you take care.
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  7777.  @gameshot586  Yes but things are not going to double in price any time soon. You point out beef is up a bit , but chicken on the other hand is the same price. Australia is a free market economy and the price of beef is international, higher beef prices are good for Australia actually, we have to sell something. The issues affecting beef are improvements in ASEAN and East Asian economies along with issues in the US which is a significant market for low cost beef as in mince for hamburgers. You do support Australia being a free market economy I hope and yes means mince is a few dollars dearer but our country needs revenue so keyboard warriors like us can import phones and computers as an example.
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  7778.  @gameshot586  Good
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  7779. But the economy was great. It's a low minimum wage in most states which is the problem.
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  7780.  @2Bros-OVO  yeah the wages in the US is the problem, companies are making record profits and the economy is doing great. Billionaires are getting richer and richer. Are you unaware of this phenomenon?
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  7781.  @mj-lb6er  That's a strange comment that people who watch this are communists who hate Australia.
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  7782. Rudy is correct, the settlements in the US are ridiculous. But Americans support this system and Rudy hasn't cared before.
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  7783. Russian oil and gas being a free market product created the Russian situation , nothing more and nothing less. The only way it could have been avoided is if everyone just said we aren't buying cheap Russian oil and gas and we will pay extra elsewhere or in other words go to a strong socialist system. Australia could do that too we could set up a highly pollutive and probably expensive but in the end effective way of not importing oil by setting up massive coal to liquid plants. Although the amount is small in most places any renewables reduce the reliance on other energy.
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  7784. Lockdown deaths based on first 6 months Australian statistics is from heart disease and diabetes. There was a spike in deaths during our lockdown. It should be noted however this is one lockdown only and subsequent lockdowns may have more or less effects.
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  7785. Are you serious about the 10 days thing? In Australia the standard is something like interviews with 90% of positive test cases within 24 hours and all within 48 hours. 10 days in the city of London is pointless because if people can infect after about 2 days , that's potentially 5 steps and you would end up with potentially 1,000s of people that might have been exposed. Some states in Australia have had problems with getting test results quickly though recently because of some ramp up of testing in some states that weren't prepared and taking up to 3 days which has to be added to the contact tracing time.
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  7786. Australian can't buy any mainland Chinese company outright so that's a 100% cancellation rate. Australian company or any non Chinese company can't bid to build 5g network in China. So you're comparing a somewhat open market to one with the door almost completely shut.
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  7787.  @jasonjean2901  Australian company can't buy any mainland China company, only a minority share. So yes if Australia block some Chinese transactions so what, many years ago we blocked Shell from buying out Woodside on the same grounds, this is normal. We are not compelled as a country to sell everything to foreigners , that would be ridiculous. There are very few countries in the world that foreigners can buy freehold land for example, well Chinese do own some freehold land in Australia and the other way round , I guess we have a long term lease on the embassy site which we can be thrown out of at a moment's notice. We haven't been kicked out so far , so we are still on talking terms even if it's a bit rocky.
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  7788.  @jasonjean2901  What's happening now is unfortunate , however things will sort themselves out. While not perfect Australia is very much free market orientated, China isn't doing this about trade anyway and knows our farmers aren't subsidised. With Huawei not being allowed to build the 5 g networks I do agree with this because it's a risk not worth taking. China would never in a million years allow a foreign company to build it's 5 g network and that's fair enough. Things will calm down over time it's not like China and Australia are going to abandon our trading relationship.
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  7789.  @jasonjean2901  I looked into anti dumping tariffs on the Australian side actually and the process seems quite robust. While you state 104 "investigations" , this is on a product by product basis and only seems to come about if a local manufacturer complains and it will be all companies and or countries selling that product into Australia, so out of the 104 I think you would find 80 or so is multiple countries , with multiple companies in each country normally and the remaining 24 China is the only exporter selling into the Australian market. Things can always be skewed , I haven't read the article you suggest yet but it already sounds alarmist , but I will search for it. Unless we refuse to export iron ore things will find a way of sorting themselves out.
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  7790. Well first time I've heard it, I only watch occasionally on youtube though.
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  7791. It depends on the contract and monitoring of the contract, private enterprise will produce better and cheaper outcomes, however if the parameters in the contract are wrong then it can end up with really bad outcomes. If it's purely focussed on cost what the government might have done with intent is outsourcing failure so they can pretend they aren't to blame. The government wrote the contract and if it has been followed to the specifications the government is to blame, if it hasn't been followed to specifications and this has been ignored by the government and or no reporting required the government is still to blame. Only if the company broke the contract and deceptively covered up their non adherence to the contract is the government not to blame. We shall see what the case is eventually, Governor Abbott is clearly putting all the blame on the company now but my suspicion is it's the government's fault as it usually is. Governments of all persuasions in capitalist societies have the same failures.
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  7792. That's a good point, I think every single quarantine case is sequenced throughout Australia plus New Zealand and maybe what you say about family groups if it is over the last 6 months. One reason they genomic test every case is to identify if cases have spread either on the plane or in quarantine.
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  7793. Loved the Tennessee Brando country song. So many people voted for the slogan "Make America Great Again", it sounds good right however Trump's policies are not designed to bring that about and the US has actually never been great at the societal level it's only been great in power for around 100 years and a bit.
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  7794. Never believe Trump's word. He's a known complete liar.
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  7795.  @Carlton_Wilson  Are you being sarcastic or serious?
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  7796.  @freddielong2275  now idea what you mean by "this" , on Trump's Youtube channel I observed people talking about how they would take up arms and that they were more powerful than the left because the left doesn't like guns as much to ensure Donald Trump remains president some comments stated that there will be civil war if Trump is removed and this was on Trumps YouTube channel , that to me was certainly an open threat that the president should have been aware of, is it really possible nobody monitors Trump's own social media accounts open messages? I think that's impossible but maybe the US is that disfunctional, what is your opinion?
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  7797. Americans are so outspoken, even if I think my Australian state is the most corrupt in my country I am not going to speak it so openly.
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  7798. I think Trump is just as smart as in intelligent but his way of doing things is terrible and he is a gambler. He has offended just about every country on the planet including allies because this appeals to his base and if the US got rid of covid 19 he is a hero so the gamble that US would be better off because others shut down but not the US.
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  7799.  @AdamHanin  technically editorial which isn't news. I have to say I am amazed the number who don't seem to understand the difference between the 2. But when news is deliberately doctored by leaving out critical information it's not good and it's fairly common unfortunately on both left and right leaning media. I find the most reliable news comes from business media but their subjects are more limited of course. Business people aren't looking for any slant just information so I think that is why they don't put a slant or give equal say to opinions on a matter.
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  7800. "They" might increase in numbers if anything happens to the dear leader. Trump will be a victim in many peoples mind, consider what they think now, do you think having been deposed as the rightful and dear leader and then imprisoned is going to make them any less supportive of Trump?
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  7801. The African death number of 9 in a week is unbelievable, while it might be low that number is wrong.
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  7802. @UCKN7x-depIE1N90CbfvJIPg Some countries love to live in the past and blame ancestors or even victims according to their assigned grouping, China and US both do this talking continuously about what happened over 100 years ago, other countries tend to move on. I will be dead in 50 years most likely so I will never know regarding this subject. Australia is a country that tends to move on, this doesn't mean everything is perfect as no country is perfect but we strive to be the best we can.
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  7803.  @jeandelenfant  While I think China is unlikely to listen , I do agree a different diplomatic approach on this issue would be more likely to achieve some results. The current approach sort of guarantees no results and probably actually causes China to be more authoritarian by making sure nobody airs any grievances. So I am in general agreement with you.
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  7804. Looking from afar you guys are crazy, the only thing that separates you is are you crazy lefties or righties.
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  7805. You have the most expensive criminal justice system on the planet and police forces in your country have not been defunded even if some were calling for it. Locking up 1% of your entire adult population isn't cheap and isn't working, you have a homicide rate 5 times that of the average wealthy country. You need to fix the underlying causes which would end up defunding the criminal justice system because you wouldn't have so many people in prison.
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  7806. She is younger, female and not obese so at maybe 1% of the risk compared to Trump.
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  7807. 44 cases of people becoming unconscious due the chokehold in that particular police department over a 5 year period, this was standard practice despite what you might have heard in the courtroom. The police Chief threw Chauvin under the bus, and then became a BLM supporter taking the knee. Police Chief has wrong skin tone to be questioned seriously.
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  7808.  @HeartDocAndrew  I'll be right thanks.
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  7809.  @HeartDocAndrew  somehow you are doing my head in lol
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  7810. Actually look at your skyrocketing public debt, your previously paid taxes don't currently cover the functions of government. More accurate to say borrow more money and hand out the cash. An alternate method might be to tax rich people and big companies a little more and direct welfare away from corporations towards social welfare like other wealthy countries do.
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  7811. Some are. The irony that they consider it a right or left issue. Sweden is far left by Australian standards with government spending over 50% of GDP in a normal year yet the people often claiming to be on the right are following a socialist country. I am center right I guess and can't understand how people can't comprehend that it's real, thousands of doctors and politicians agree , left or right it doesn't matter. As far as the reaction to it ok argue about that fair enough but nothing whether it's real or not. Personal view of Sweden is it's done a better job than others with the mitigation doctrine. I think containment is better for now at least and that has saved thousands of lives because even if everyone gets the disease now treatment seems to have gotten a lot better with lower mortality rates.
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  7812.  @SandyWolf-  thank you for your answer. I guessed that's what you were thinking. Problem is all terrorist in the world who have attacked on foreign soil entered legally and in the US illegal immigrants are more law abiding than Americans. Most illegal immigrants entered legally to the US and overstayed visas. I certainly agree you should adopt Australian policy which compared to the US is very hard-line but you need to recognise the problem first.
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  7813. Others don't like paying for it and might be refused care for other issues because hospitals can't cope and or catch the virus causing their death while vulnerable going into an infectious hospital. This is not being reported widely in the US but as nursing home deaths increase so they do from being infected in other institutions like hospitals.
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  7814. Why is everyone blaming Tedros, he is only the leader of a democratic bureaucracy run by regional offices. Blame the countries including your own in your own region if your region has done poorly. If every region had followed the Western Pacific WHO region policies it would be over.
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  7815.  @tungleson7066  well done
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  7816. Clearly you have never heard of the West Bank and believe the world was created on 7 October 2023.
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  7817. Positivity works but we are not pre 1900 when people really could be told anything about other countries because difficult to verify. If only he was born 180 years ago it would work. Now anyone with internet access can check just about anything in 5 minutes flat if you are in a free country.
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  7818. There are different cultures and times in history, north Korea is stuck in 1955 unfortunately.
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  7819.  @kennyz6271  only time will tell and I wish you the best of luck. The military might have more problems than you realise if funding for government wages is drying up but it will effect everyone if this occurs. I can't see the military being able have the government function for very long if protests continue without outside help which could come from China or Russia.
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  7820. Well at least one got let out by Trump so probably less than there should be and this guy might do a runner.
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  7821. I think treatment is a smaller but significant issue and the bigger one relates to getting flu and covid together as explained in yesterday's video. My suspicion is northern Italy and North East US had heaps of flu at the same time as covid 19 was rampant because the initial death rates were very high.
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  7822. If you are talking about rapid tests it is known they are not that accurate, no other country uses them as far as I am aware. A new president which is looking likely is over 2 months away and at the current new cases rate that's a very long time. Maybe a vaccine available to some will appear by then but so far no company has finished phase 3 trials so it's only speculation that an effective vaccine might be available.
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  7823. It's really just gambling. Sort of like a game of poker hoping the bluff works.
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  7824. Yes everyone knows that difference is almost all countries of the world don't do that now, can't change history though, every country was brutal 150 years ago with widespread slavery throughout as an example.
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  7825. In relation to your last statement of it being talked about as if it's the flu I would suggest depends on the country you come from. I don't know the exact date but it would have been in March sometime the Australian Prime Minister urged all Australians to come home and he stated "we are going to see a lot of deaths in poorer nations which will be hard to watch" . He was half right, turns out the responses have been more regionally consistent and less to do with wealth with many poorer nations out performing some of wealthier nations who in theory had far greater resources available to achieve a good result.
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  7826. I disliked your comment for the hell of it, I am also curious how many disliked your comment.
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  7827. No offence but NZ is friends with Australia but not that important. You rank 8th as a trading partner as of 2022 according to a Wikipedia page. One that surprised me is Singapore is actually a larger trading partner with Australia than NZ.
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  7828. @damiester1  the main export of Singapore to Australia is oil products , so it would mostly be refined fuel. This is what pushes their number up so high.
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  7829. Southerners as in Southern hemisphere, 2 of them in particular.
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  7830.  @moatazgoubarah7424  Well a suicide bomb or mass shooting suicide is the same thing, same motive just different means. This can happen anywhere however in the US it is relatively common and in other first world countries over the last 20 years or so although rare has tended to be religious extremists.
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  7831.  @ejbh3160  the only significant restrictions are in Victoria but they are allowed 2 hours exercise which of course can't really be enforced and I think still have distance from home restrictions, I am not sure. They are on track to go to low restrictions in a few weeks if all goes well. As far as people getting light on their skin I think might be like Spain, actually many don't because these days more people in front of keypads than picnic under trees.
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  7832. One needs to be found guilty first for it to apply and the process is that if 2 thirds of the senate find him guilty. Likely he will be found not guilty because need 17 Republican senators.
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  7833. Strange thing is the first 2 areas to defund police have a majority of officers who are minority. I don't disagree with the other programs that might be funded but really what a kick in the face. It's completely contrary to other messages. Seems like black lives matter as long as they are not police officers who are facing possible redundancy along with white colleagues. Americans please stop the madness, knee jerk reactions are really bad, if over time due to crime reduction less police are needed go ahead, but in the mean time maybe more training and better policies from those running the police. The Frontline officer should not be blamed for bad policies. If the officer breaks the rules of course prosecute them.
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  7834. Amazing that all the Fox viewers now support open borders, you better let Brandon know.
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  7835. Sad to see that
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  7836. The problem is 25% is still Delta, if Omicron fully takes over then that's great. Hopefully we don't get another bad variant or at least not too soon and large numbers gaining extra immunity from Omicron.
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  7837. Lol, even DOGE doesn't pretend that.
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  7838.  Captain Reason  So now if you live in a virus free area that means racism? Really. Where might you live?
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  7839.  Captain Reason  racism, must have been that auto spell thing with a mistype
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  7840. So fascism I missed the s before the c is auto corrects to racism, I am a bad speller. Anyway where do you live?
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  7841. The majority of comments in this thread and the original comment is disturbing. Why is one violent mob considered better than another violent mob? That's a question for anyone who supports whatever violent mob. Certainly don't want either in my country and you should want the same in your country. Whenever a violent mob takes to the streets it should concern you. Not that's ok they're my violent mob. You have one of the most powerful militaries in the world and paramilitary police units in all large cities, let them take care of things and if they don't vote for whatever the opposite party is. Some states and cities are effectively one party states because people want it that way, so if you keep voting the same mob back in no matter what you can expect an unaccountable group of politicians because you made them untouchable. In a democracy it's your collective right to be stupid maybe discussions should be had about why people prefer this status quo in so many areas of the US.
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  7842.  @wokuginger528  I am Australian and you are making some pretty wild assumptions. Australia is a peaceful country with only one 6th the per capita rate of homicide and has a 90% plus clearance rate. We also don't believe in killing each other with a virus and mitigation measures that kill people and on that score if the trend has continued in the US since 3 October when excess deaths were recorded from Jan 26 to October 3 was 300,000 including 200,000 by covid 19 directly meaning 400,000 plus deaths now or if trend about 450,000 . This is a rate about 40 times that of Australia. If you believe a country that internally has everything open and no paramilitary police is somehow more authoritarian so be it. The violent mobs be they Antifa or heavily armed protestors which according to the FBI went on to make a threat on an elected officials life , the governor of Michigan you are nuts. If you believe killing innocent people for your freedoms to basically kill and possibly get away with it especially in Chicago with a homicide clearance rate of 53% last year , which was apparently an improvement you are nuts. Trump was right bring in the military however his grand standing was pointless, get all levels of government to agree then military comes in to clean up what is worse than many low level war zones. Good luck with whatever it is you consider freedom.
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  7843. Israel claims to be a modern liberal democracy, it isn't and should be held to the standard they claim, not some other standard of a tin pot dictatorship.
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  7844. Soon the cartels will be smuggling them into the US. They might even be traded in the same way as drugs soon with some shady person on a street corner saying I got ex larges and mediums in caged and if you want the premium ones I can give you a good price on pasture raised. 2 or more eggs I can give a bulk discount.
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  7845. You are full of crap my girl friend who is below 40 in Thailand got her second shot of Astrazeneca yesterday.
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  7846.  @Absoloootly  What an earth are you talking about , you change the subject then call me a liar. Certainly Thailand has lost control and didn't contain the Delta variant so people are dying, what is your point? Thailand's vaccination rate is lower than Australia but as you can see with the outbreak in NSW a lot less people dying than when Melbourne had it's problems last year so the vaccines regardless of brand are saving lives.
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  7847.  @Absoloootly  Why have the deaths remained completely stable in all states in Australia other than NSW and VIC ? That simple research shows that people aren't getting the virus from the vaccine or whatever you seem to be thinking.
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  7848. I am from Queensland a hard line state. 6 deaths out of 5,000,000 people, state more open than Sweden. I am happy with my tyrannical government and majority supported the extra travel restrictions imposed recently for entry into my state. Currently about 10 active cases or so.
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  7849. So what is the term if it's a black woman who really puts someone in danger or gets them killed over minor issues? The security guard at the $ store was shot dead in a pre meditated murder when what's her name ordered an apparent hit on the guard because he was apparently impolite in requesting she wear a face mask or not enter. Another what's her name opened fire at a McDonald's because the dining room was shut hitting 4 workers. So I want to stay on top of terminology so as not to offend, so could someone please tell me what to call these individuals.
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  7850. Yeah but most of us are mongrels with some neanderthal and denisovan. only subsaharan Africans that haven't mixed are purebred humans.
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  7851. This sounds really bad, money seized from fraud is now going to be effectively stolen by the US government instead of returned to victims. The US appears to becoming a criminal organisation itself.
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  7852. A corporal can't become a commissioned officer, even Trump can't pull that off.
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  7853. His offer of anyone who spends a billion dollars gets quick approval won't attract investment, US people will be poorer so a shrinking market and if Trump follows through a country that is completely isolationist with trade. Compare that to my region which I'll call ASEAN plus. Certain ASEAN countries have free trade agreements under the CPTPP Malaysia and Vietnam. While generally these agreements lower tariffs over time those 2 countries plus Australia, New Zealand and Singapore which have the same market size but higher wages. Our market size for all countries mentioned with some having even more is China, South Korea, Japan, all ASEAN countries, UK, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru. That's slightly bigger than the US domestic market. These are the sorts of countries multinational manufacturers want to invest in because of the free trading markets available. Certain investors if they wanted a high end manufacturing plant where the government is stable etc. might consider countries like Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Another thing that's likely to occur but not certain is general investment flows into the US might reduce because of serious instability. I am sort of referring to indirect investments by pension funds etc. into the US stock market.
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  7854. Good afternoon scammer.
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  7855. I have read through your governments rules and one made me laugh during self quarantine you can stay with your travel companion in a hotel room for 10 days , should try to stay 1.5 metres away from them and no hugging , kissing or sex. In a survey by pew research that includes 14 wealthy countries Netherlands had the highest support of the government response, you beat Australia by 1% I think it was. Another funny thing is countries like yours welcome Australians without any restrictions but our government won't let us out.
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  7856. Financial news papers or financial section within a newspaper I have always found to be unbiased.
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  7857. It was started by US in a bipartisan manner with the approval of the UN security council. Any country on that council at the time including the 5 permanent members and both political parties of the US all have equal responsibility, blaming now because it hasn't worked out very well is complete hypocrisy.
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  7858. @Kate are you serious, about 7 cases of the virus being caught by hotel quarantine workers out of 211,000 people going through the hotel quarantine system. If that's starting to fail what on earth is your standard? At the end of the month approximately those workers will receive vaccine shots so that risk which can't be stopped will be dramatically reduced. You are right however even with the occasional breach it's not a problem at all because every state will take appropriate measures to get rid of it.
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  7859. You don't need to completely close travel , returning citizens and permanent residents is ok, however it only applies to 30 countries so it's full of holes and possibly a complete waste of time, the virus doesn't respect borders it travels on humans.
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  7860. I thought he sounded like he had a bit much tequila or whatever his fancy might be.
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  7861.  @OceanFrontVilla3  No autopsy has been completed yet I would think. Also consider if road speed limits were changed to 50km an hour it would cut the road toll by 90% but we don't do it, it's all about risk return.
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  7862.  @oliverfirst7040  I only looked it up a few months ago so can't remember details but at least both organisations do give details of how data is collected. Also not 100% sure the 28 days one is NHS but that's what I recall. Search ONS UK covid deaths and you should get to many of their webpages on the issue in the search results which should be helpful.
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  7863. I have no idea why Trump didn't just staffers for cost saving or something because it would likely be completely legal.
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  7864. All I can say is thank goodness
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  7865. LOL probably. There is no surprise in this video . Thailand was the first country outside of China to detect the virus.
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  7866. It is hard with certain things like oil . Yet to see if Trump is going to do this globally like he said he would. If he doesn't then some strange trading arrangements are going to occur. If for arguments sake Australia gets left alone other than the steel and aluminium tariffs which is universal we could find Canada exporting Uranium to China (assuming they don't now) in the amount Australia does currently and our Uranium that was being sent to China being sent to the US. Same applies to beef as another example but there's a quota limit on that which might actually get used up.
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  7867. Without capitalism then there wouldn't be any vaccines, all covid 19 vaccines that I am aware of are being manufactured by private enterprise.
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  7868. The clip has absolutely nothing to do with what you just said. Australia taking good care of it's ordinary people and according to some survey result we are more against China than the US, probably something to do with trade sanctions against us.
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  7869.  @montoyali  You've been listening to Zhao Lijiang too much, the US doesn't force Australia to do anything. China fundamentally misunderstands Australia and is incapable at this point in time of understanding why we have the positions we do, they are used to dealing with poor and or corrupt nations which do to a large extent shut up and do as they are told. Australia is partly to blame too because we don't understand them but the person I mention above makes things impossible, he is doing damage to China's reputation around the world. Australia isn't the only country to effectively have trade sanctions but we have had the most and it's probably highest profile. Australia is an influence of calm in the region especially with Joe Biden at the helm in the US who will listen to Australia amongst others to a far higher degree than Trump who cares for no one. Consider Australian and New Zealand view towards Vietnam, we resumed diplomatic relations in 1975, the US took until 1995. Fundamentally nothing has changed and China choosing to bypass the entire region and say they only talk to the US is really damaging. On the Covid 19 issue it was decided by region actually or a remarkable coincidence, the Western Pacific region of WHO has 4 countries extremely closely aligned on the matter, China including Taiwan, Vietnam , Australia and New Zealand. I don't know what discussions went on and by which countries but we all agreed to 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine usually in a hotel, PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region and European region of WHO all agreed to 10 days voluntary quarantine and we can see the results is less than 5% deaths per capita in the Western Pacific region of WHO compared to the other 2 regions I mentioned. So behind the scenes you might find even Australia and China in full cooperation on the matter of the response.
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  7870.  @montoyali  I don't know the details but when you say some Senator say something, well so what, they don't represent the government, you have just given an example of how China doesn't understand, we don't listen to our backbenchers why is China. I did look up who you were talking about because I was unaware of it. If a backbencher makes some remark it gets ignored but China thinks it's some big conspiracy. Backbencher is a politician with no position, just elected member nothing more than that. Of course out of 220 people who in total , so maybe 180 backbenchers there will be varying views on things and remarks said, nothing remarkable about that, however it might be remarkable in China if a backbencher was to criticise Xi for example. Even if you don't listen to Zhao directly, I don't either clearly indirectly the info comes through, people share things he posts in the hundreds of millions of users on the social media platforms in China.
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  7871.  @montoyali  No Zhao Lijiang is the official spokesperson for foreign affairs , what he says or displays is the government position. It's completely different to an elected member of the party who holds no official position saying something, same applies to the US although different democratic structure and ministers (secretaries of this and that) aren't elected they are chosen by the president, so if the president or his ministers speak that's official, in effect all elected officials at their federal level except the president are actually backbenchers. Calling Zhao Lijiang the spokesperson by definition means it's the government position even though technically he isn't in government I believe but more akin to one of those US ministers. Freedom of speech allows the calling out of the bullshit , in China they bullshit even more and nobody can say anything.
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  7872.  @montoyali  The reason that the CPC can bullshit more is because nobody can really criticise, talking amongst friends doesn't count which Chinese people often note they are free to discuss things privately. I can find within the same documentary type format arguments that say Australia should just comply with China as well as the widely held and strengthening position , stuff China no way in hell we are going to crack down on our media even the parts the majority consider to be a little crazy. How many times have you seen Chinese media highly critical of the agressive actions in the South China Sea or criticisms of economic coercion policy, that is trade sanctions against any country who China has a disagreement with? So to give Trump as an example he bullshitted all the time and it lost him reelection because the free media was free to criticise.
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  7873.  @montoyali  you too
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  7874. It's to slow it down however in the US there's no quarantine so pretty meaningless because only some will make any effort at all to isolate, the ones getting tested are doing that for family members, many will catch the virus in those queues for testing though.
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  7875.  @TheEnd-eg6wq  I just looked up your CDC and it says they reckon 125 million to 171 million infections so average about 145 million. I think they don't have a clue, the pandemic should be over for you guys because add in part of the vaccinations , because will be some that vaccinated and infected at some point and should have very high immunity levels against death. The deaths of over 1,000 per day don't seem to fit with the numbers of people who should be dying in my opinion. However if their number is correct then you should be nearing the end of hospitals overwhelmed in various areas of the country pretty soon.
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  7876.  @PassifloraCerulea  Now you're being silly check the "covid 19 dashboard Queensland" over 5 million PCR tests and about 2,500 cases, seems like there's no false positives or at least that they are insignificant. Do you really think 2,500 cases in a population of about 5 million is way over the top?
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  7877. Many do actually, Gates, Buffet and Soros all vote Democrat. They openly say they don't pay enough tax.
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  7878. Lol
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  7879. Hope not, but possible.
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  7880. It passed that number about a day ago, now about 102,000.
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  7881. We know the cure, get rid of it but vaccines alone may not achieve this.
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  7882.  @kayvan671  no he or she isn't because get the name wrong, Chinese get annoyed when say CCP , they are CPC Communist Party of China.
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  7883. The irony is the ACT shows 100% vaccination rate and wouldn't be far off it.
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  7884.  @thelastpinster  Well the protestors are 1%ers called rabble. What are they even doing their I don't know, they have taken their unvaccinated asses into Canberra. States set the mandates anyway other than healthcare and aged care where there's 100% agreement and to be honest they don't look like nurses.
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  7885. Ask a foreigner like me. The entire US political system to the point you need constitutional change to become highly functional.
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  7886. The FDA doesn't work like that. Finding contamination in products is done usually after a bad event, not much proactive testing occurs.
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  7887. The thing about project 25 is how MAGA (modern version) has taken over the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation used to be a bunch of fiscal conservatives who believe in free trade hence their main activity of creating a Economic Freedom Index. Trump and the modern Heritage Foundation are meddling in all sorts of social issues and aren't really fiscal conservatives or free trade advocates any more at least when it comes to the US even though they still do an economic freedom index which under Trump the US will get worse ratings.
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  7888. The answer to that question is whoever will give absolute loyalty to Donald. Treasury Secretary number 1 qualification is to support running up government debt and having a trade war against the entire world and not saying a word against it.
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  7889. Bring in some Australian state Premiers, they'd get the job done.
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  7890.  @fishon279  Truth represents about 30% of your entire population who can spout the same words verbatim, the only other group I have seen as consistent and loyal and will believe anything is Communist Party of China loyalists, there is a lot of crossover with these groups ideals, they both support for example the military coup d'etat in Myanmar. They like authoritarianism, far away from supporting democracy or freedom.
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  7891.  @JP-ks9nh  If you really want to go all you need to show is you have leased a property elsewhere. So sign a 6 months somewhere if you so desperate to leave. You can be locked down or forced to wear masks etc. when you reach your destination.
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  7892.  @JP-ks9nh  Have you travelled internationally without a passport before?, because unless you have done that you have asked permission every single time. Normally it's granted quite easily and the priviledges you get from being Australian are significant because under normal circumstances , you have the money to do it first of all and most countries will allow you to go there. Imagine if you were born into a family with $2 a day income in some poor country with no real hope of rising out of that. My late mother used to say the saying life is what you make it when used in a broad context is ridiculous and it's true. It's unfortunate that you didn't really care for the 40,000 or so people that would have died and would have preferred we took that path so the government could run up a much larger government deficit to allow you to travel around the world, if we followed the UK or US examples with double the government deficit. So stop whinging. At least you aren't in the US the bottom 10% or whatever have to go and live off food handouts. Anyway you do have the choice to leave at any time you just have to make an effort.
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  7893. It's the gross rate. Other rates are given like Trump likes the mortality case rate , the rate of people dying out of the total case numbers. The other rate often used which is the best in my opinion is the rate per capita because it accounts for everything. The US deaths are .0.044% of the population. NY deaths are 0.16% of the population.
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  7894. The comments show how the US is so backwards, a homicide rate 5 times that of other wealthy countries and the answer is to lock up more and more people when that policy is a proven failure, worst in the world in fact for a wealthy nation. The definition of insanity is .....
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  7895. If a large number of waves is a good thing then my state of Queensland Australia is way behind we are only in a genuine context the second wave, over 10% of our total case numbers occured yesterday, now we going into the real deal of a proper wave and opening up our border for good.
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  7896. No one is saying he has no right.
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  7897. Why doesn't CNN do a just slightly in depth report. Here I'll get you started, 100 USD billionaires in the Chinese Parliament and as of middle of last year approximately 600 million people living on $5 USD per day according to the government. For the most part these people living on $5 are happy because now they don't fear starving and with the recent introduction of universal education even the poorest people can now at least have some hope their children will have a better life. University Marxist groups are banned and the Communist Party in name only doesn't permit socialist discussion hence the "Socialism with Chinese characteristics". The government of China is stoking Chinese ethnic supremacy and refers to any ethnic Chinese person anywhere in the world no matter how many generations they are American for example as "Overseas Chinese". Imagine if Germany were to start referring to all people of German ethnicity around the world as "Overseas Germans" , there would be an outcry that Germany was trying to reincarnate the 3rd Reich. Watch this space and just remember history. That said most ethnic Chinese who were born in other countries are not loyal to China at all but this isn't universal.
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  7898.  @thisisisabella3634  No the CPC is far right socialist. Socialist if you look it up just says government controls means of production, far right does it differently to communists which have the state own everything. China started off far left and has become far right, noting far left and right are close together just like centre left and right are close together. Bernie Sanders voters voted for Trump over Hillary on average. I think Bernie Sanders is a good bloke actually and on social issues he's right but a bit far to the left on certain issues for my liking noting I am not American so really my opinion is nothing more than that.
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  7899. This is madness, in future people won't get vaccinated deliberately because they wait for payment. The ones who got the vaccine through community spirit as in a 25 year old who is fit and not obese are effectively being punished for having community spirit, their taxes paying for those who don't have community spirit.
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  7900. Not compared to Queensland Australia and we have had more imported cases than Taiwan and Taiwan hasn't had a Delta outbreak yet as far as I know, that's been misreported, it was Alpha. Edit: Taiwan did have a Delta outbreak while already in lockdown from the Alpha outbreak.
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  7901. They have no way of knowing which virus without a test. In the end it doesn't matter which virus it was the effect is the same. Best of luck and hope you continuously improve.
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  7902.  @ashakabeta  I didn't suggest you don't vote, all I am suggesting from afar is the problems go very deep and the dis-function is very real.
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  7903. AOC said nothing about the police. So what's the ridiculous assertion that she slammed the police in this circumstance. If we look at homicide rates in the big 4 states you find that Florida and Texas have a higher rate than California and New York. Clearly Republican policies at the state level lead to more violence for whatever reason. It's a pity with Fox tunnel vision and propaganda only Democrat states can be criticized and big picture issues about the most violent wealthy country on the planet are ignored.
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  7904. Brazil has the largest rainforest in the world so pretty humid country I would imagine, check their cases and I think it will answer your question. However places with more stable climates as in islands or towards the equator don't have surges and declines related to different behaviours of people during different weather, this of course is only one factor a new variant like the UK variant spreads much more quickly in any setting than other variants would.
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  7905. ​@Faluzeer If Trump goes ahead with tariffs against the entire planet that could cause a lot of long term damage. When other suppliers make inroads into markets currently supplied by the US due to retaliatory tariffs. This can literally destroy industries with no possibility of recovery as they won't be able to just start up again and other countries won't trust the US. If I was a US investor in the stock market I would be looking very carefully at what I owned especially if they are exporters and importers because both will be affected.
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  7906. A big point is being missed, a functional somewhat honest governance is required. The Democrats weren't that and nor are the Republicans. Seems people in the US will just keep changing the federal government after each failure, Trump will fail of course. The only ones that benefit from Trumps policies are the rich and corporations not affected by tariffs and retaliatory tariffs. Trump's policy is literally to tax the poor more with tariffs and the rich less with a very low corporate tax rate.
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  7907. Well whichever states are doing that you should be happy, the insurer wants to know so if you are vaccinated you pay less insurance next time and the non vaccinated the insurance goes up. The states where this wasn't asked probably everyone's insurance will go up the same because verifying those vaccine cards will take forever.
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  7908. Why is he non-white but Zimmerman a person of the same complexion was white?
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  7909. If you listened carefully the corporations would only extract what is extractable. Of course if they are price gouging which they probably are then they can drop prices significantly at the drop of a hat, it's only the reputation damage which might be an issue.
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  7910. A prison ship with room service, that reminds me a bit too much of 200 years ago, but still worthy of consideration. Could give them catchy names like HMAS Quarantine and HMAS Covid Colony [name of state]. Plenty of available cruise ships could be repurposed, maybe deck one out like 200 years ago for an historical experience.
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  7911.  @anguswilliam2141  the problem is the numbers, like now in QLD where I am from commonwealth and state both building facilities to cater for 1000 each, ok that's about 10 planes every 14 days carrying 200 people, not exactly going to cater for opening up should hotel/purpose built quarantine continue.
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  7912.  @anguswilliam2141  Although I hate it and there is no guarantee that we can still stay at 0 in QLD or WA we should try, I don't include the smaller states or NT because they probably can get back to 0 due to population. I want to go to Thailand because I have personal relationships there but in the end I understand accept and agree with our cautious approach, 7 deaths in a population of 5 million is the lowest in the world for a jurisdiction of over 1 million and outside of China. Eventually we need to open but let's see what happens in NSW , VIC and NZ first, VIC probably lose control now and NZ on a knife edge.
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  7913. This is somewhat reminiscent of Medhi Hassan on MSNBC. He wasn't sacked but relegated to not being on air in any significant way.
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  7914.  @fugak-han0072  The thing you have to understand is the cultural difference between very poor people in a very corrupt country with lots of problems versus people in wealthy liberal democracies. The acceptable number of unjustified killings by the authorities in the latter is 0 , in the former if 500 people are killed without justification and results achieved in significant reduction of crime in general poor people in corrupt countries accept this as necessary. Some comments in the general comment thread actually say this and from talking to people in another country that was in a similar situation I know this first hand that , that is how people think. I would and always will argue you can have both as exists in Western Europe and Australia and New Zealand and South Korea or Japan, the US which the Philippines continues to look up to is a failed model, in some jurisdictions they only catch about 50% of murderers which is probably little different to some jurisdictions in the Philippines. So understand the cultural difference and look to best practice which certainly isn't the US.
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  7915. 41% don't believe tariffs will increase prices. It's official, 41% of Americans are flat earthers.
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  7916. Taliban says they will allow girls to go to school now, I don't believe a word of it, maybe a ruse to reduce anyone fighting against them returning to power.
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  7917. I'll be honest I am Australian and the comments that some who have been hospitalized for covid have survived but ended up with a $70,000 USD debt I am highly sceptical of. This scenario is impossible in Australia and that is why I am highly sceptical. So do you believe those comments?
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  7918. According to some websites it takes around 15 seconds of you are highly skilled weather permitting. Essentially they were a 1 shot weapon and apparently if you could you might have a few weapon's and therefore a few shots , someone can run at you 100 yards with the bayonet before you can reload. In a group however you get a few volleys off.
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  7919. Just picking who he wants in each role and asking them if they want whatever job. This needs to be done a fair bit before January 20.
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  7920. I feel for you but can't see how it can be done in your country because no state is willing so far to put serious travel restrictions in place so it can never be got rid of. In Australia with 7 major jurisdictions only one border was open during the initial lockdown and all flights were cancelled. To get there it takes a very serious effort. If a few states went it alone they could but seems unlikely. Also in some parts of your country very difficult to shut state borders because some states so small and interconnected, so maybe would need regional approach. Best of luck and stay safe the best you can. Everyone hoping for vaccine because even in countries with no or little covid the travel restrictions means no international tourists or students.
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  7921. Your comment seems to be one of the more rational ones at the moment, a bit of a worry.
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  7922. Here's a question to all in this thread. How are you lucky if you live in either PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region or European region of WHO? The reason I ask is because they collectively killed about 0.2% of their population due to those WHO regions deciding that open borders with only 10 days voluntary quarantine is the way to go? An alternate question how is Vietnam and the Philippines unlucky when they belong to the Western Pacific region of WHO where we (I am Australian) decided that containment was a better policy without travel freedoms and enforced 14 days mandatory quarantine usually in a hotel with a regional death toll per capita about 1% that of the 2 other regions I mentioned in the first question? I am lucky to have both, being in a wealthy country and my region, however getting vaccines is relatively slow compared to wealthy countries in the failed response regions because impossible to justify us getting a high priority.
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  7923. That's normal, especially with a member of the UN security council where untouchability is written into the agreement. Otherwise what is the UN supposed to do, invade and occupy a country, of course can't.
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  7924. Just remember low ranking soldier and police are not the enemy. They are Burmese also and they don't actually want to be out there crushing protests.
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  7925. They are below 18 most likely so why would you expect pictures so quickly? Also does it matter?
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  7926. Unfortunately the most vulnerable it might be too difficult for them. However it's still a good sign because should be available all fairly soon.
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  7927. I am wondering if you are being funny. Anyway I just read that people from the UK have 8 days to make it back without any hotel quarantine , starting 15 February apparently. Even when that's instituted will only apply to 33 countries. It's up to an individual country to protect itself which most notably the UK, most European countries and US have chosen not to do. South Africa has the same voluntary quarantine schemes going like UK it would seem so in answer to your question yes South Africa isn't locking down properly because of leaks in the system, almost certainly the UK strain either is or soon will be in South Africa, so think of it as a virus exchange program.
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  7928. That's a silly thing to say. What exactly are they supposed to do when a witness says they saw someone commit a serious crime? Just ignore it.
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  7929. Every president since Nixon has lied about being able to control the price of oil. You Americans can't handle the truth so politicians lie to you. Many people from both the left and right want price controls on oil products in some way shape or form or in other words a socialist paradise like Venezuela where subsidized fuel is cheap. You need a presidential candidate who comes out and says they can't do anything about an international commodity and have no intention of going down a radical socialist path and win. Do you think the liar making the impossible promise will win or the one telling the truth after 50 years of lies by every presidential candidate?
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  7930. Trump is one of a kind I think of major country leaders at the moment.
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  7931. All Australian media outlets supported it so Guardian Australia or Fairfax support it. It happens to be Murdoch media is the biggest private media group but it doesn't follow that it's somehow only them. As far as your comment about some US surrectionist thing Sky News Australia could be accused of that and rightly so in my opinion but that's only a very small part of the media group.
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  7932. All insecticides are highly toxic, that's the job kill insects. It would seem to me that banning one organophosphate may not achieve anything and could cause more harm if another organophosphate is used in higher concentrations as a replacement which is a likely outcome. The highest risk for this product group is children getting leukemia in agricultural areas with crop dusting. This has been known about for 30 years and practices have improved. So it's fine to identify a problem but without providing an alternative it's not going to change. If there is alternatives for mass production at similar costs then ok. I personally favour organically grown produce but only at a certain price point.
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  7933. I hear the PM is in direct talks with the Wuhan and Fort Detrick labs to cook up a biological agent to take on our mice.
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  7934.  @justme2423  That's entirely up to you if you see no value in having awareness of other countries and not necessarily Australia. I think if you are interested in politics, to only take an inward view you are missing out because things can be learned by looking at others and will give ideas and understanding that you may not have thought of. It's also good to compare the country you belong to , to see what is done well or not as well as it could be.
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  7935. Indirectly it's antivaxxers fault and they are in parts of Europe and US mostly.
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  7936.  @kansasgoldilocks  It is different. In my state Queensland their are police at a checkpoint on the border. If you don't have a pass to enter you get turned back . Basically the same restrictions between US and Canada. Goods and workers can cross but there is a process. If it's a traveller it depends where they come from how they are treated. If you lie you may face fines or jail time. Some people who lied and caused infections to re enter our state are going through that process. If you can bring in the military for riots I am sure if the police were not numerous enough they could be used. As a person in a state that is virus free ( hopefully given recent events) I am supportive of our border restrictions. I hope the vaccines coming work because if they don't it's probably years more of the same for you guys unless proper lockdown and travel restrictions which I see as unlikely.
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  7937. It's a hub and spoke logistics system, the mixing happens in Vegas but the actual spread will be elsewhere mostly because they don't stay long enough to get very sick and bring it home. My guess the staff all vaccinated so probably not much spread inside Vegas.
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  7938.  @tonypacke6954  according to Wikipedia 36% of US Adults are obese. I am in Australia we are about 30%, surprisingly England is not too bad at 28%, Sweden however is only about 20%, so the per capita toll in the US will catch Sweden soon enough I expect.
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  7939. Arms was a fair weather weapon (if it's raining the powder gets wet) called a musket. A musket might be able to be reloaded every 20 seconds or so by a skilled marksman in good weather and probably had reasonable accuracy up to 20 yards or something with it's low velocity ball of lead. Maybe the founders didn't envisage semi automatic weapons that are highly accurate to 300 yards with high velocity bullets and only need to reload every 30 shots.
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  7940.  @jimboydejuan7869  in past history everyone was racist and so what. Australia is welcoming to all however this doesn't mean we don't have some racists of all shades just like every country on the planet.
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  7941. It amazes me that any foreign politician supports Trump. He literally campaigned to hurt every single country on the planet with tariffs. Of course heads of government need to be diplomatic so the approach of saying nothing at all until your country gets attacked by Trump is probably the best policy.
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  7942. Not according to Israel who says they will occupy Gaza indefinitely.
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  7943. It's a flawed democracy like US. In other words not exactly perfect and it can't be if another country is occupying large parts of it.
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  7944. It's not just Russia, China will be thinking it might be a good time to take Taiwan and and probably parts of Philippines.
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  7945. Nah eggs should get cheaper, the US is a stock feed exporter including to China which will purchase from other countries in the future. It'll only be short-term though because farmers will produce less if it's loss making unless it's subsidised.
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  7946. I hardly agree with any One Nation policies however I am a strong sympathiser. The media doing things like this means I might put One Nation top of my ballot if there is a candidate in my seat knowing my vote will count because of our great preferencial voting system in Australia. The big parties do look at the protest votes and act accordingly. It's very important that we keep all views and discussion in the public realm without fear of consequences. In the US now there are people being sacked for speaking against BLM. Australia so far as I am aware , hasn't got that bad yet. We should be proud of our tag along BLM protests here numbering an estimated 70,000 nationally with 3 people getting pepper sprayed for being idiots, certainly beats cities on fire etc etc. We are a peaceful nation let's keep it that way. Things are not perfect and never will be , but nothing beats civil discourse .
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  7947.  kaiss-K -Ci  under Trump's watch Iran proved they could have made a weapon by enrichment of 1600 pounds of uranium to 20% , so they could have done a smaller amount to 90% required for a weapon no problem. So they have 300 pounds or about 150 kg of U 235 enough to make 75 nuclear weapons. A nuclear weapon only needs about 2kg of enriched uranium to about 90%. Just remember enrichment is logarithmic as in to 20% is over half way there to weapons grade.
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  7948. Agree but depends in part what you mean, people like to compete in things , most know they haven't got a hope in hell of winning a medal but going there representing your country even if you don't even make it through the first heat is still enjoyable. This year might be different, maybe you can be 20th rated marathon runner and 15 of the higher rated runners get covid 19 and you are in with a chance.
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  7949. Actually and unfortunately the worst offenders have been in democracies, vote them out. China is using this to promote 1 party authoritarian rule in sometimes not so subtle ways.
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  7950. Sorry Godzilla , you're just jealous.
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  7951. If I was a conspiracy theorist I would have to conclude that Fox news is being controlled by the CPC (Communist Party of China) , because they are running far more effective disinformation campaigns than China could ever achieve externally from their own propaganda machine. One thing I have noticed is Trump and CPC supporters are actually one and the same , just change the place from Wuhan to Fort Detrick and visa versa and the conspiracy theory is identical. There is however plenty of crossover , China doesn't run conspiracy theories against itself and Fox runs conspiracy theories against the US , so they end up reporting the same conspiracy theories against the US sometimes.
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  7952. Sorry but the US along with the other permanent members of the UN security council are above international law and so is any country they support no matter what.
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  7953. It's for the local audience " all politics is local". If not the US should have nuked about 5 countries while Trump was president because he threatened that also.
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  7954. What is the no lockdown country? There are none of substantial size. The hard lockdown countries like China, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand are doing ok I would suggest and the softer lockdown countries like South Korea and Japan are still doing better than the open borders extra soft partial lockdown countries. Interestingly the UK has moved towards taking it seriously even appearing to want to control it's border and hopefully it starts to produce results with the vaccines. Lockdown with an open border and no enforced 14 day quarantine is a complete contradiction.
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  7955.  @cfs8118  I just looked at the Wikipedia timeline on what you speak for Finland and they certainly had a lockdown and claim to have 14 days quarantine upon entry. They closed schools etc. for a period of time. They limited gatherings to 10 for a while. All this is lockdown so not sure what you mean they had no lockdown. They did detect the first case on January 29 which means they weren't completely asleep like Italy which only detected a case on February 21. Whichever country you are talking about are the demographics and population densities similar to Finland and if are talking of US or UK then say Wales or a mid sized US state are somewhat comparable if they close the border and enforce quarantine to the same level the Fins do which has only recently occurred and no idea to what degree. However I would expect the Finish to be healthier and more compliant so have to take this into account. Hard lockdown and get rid of the virus is best otherwise it just keeps coming back.
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  7956.  @cfs8118  the deaths per million in Finland is 105 which is only 10% of the US or UK rate so definitely much better.
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  7957. The numbers aren't adding up. New Jersey USA has had 0.23% of it's population die already yet the number of confirmed cases is about 8% of the population. For the 0.48% CFR number to be correct New Jersey must have the worst testing regime in a rich country or managed to infect almost all nursing homes to get the death rate up. I don't think either of these 2 scenarios are likely and therefore the CFR should be higher. Also the theory that the virus will become less deadly is based on nothing because this virus isn't killing off people before they can reproduce, mutations are random so if the virus both comes more transmissible and more deadly at the same time and add the possibility of vaccine evasion we are back to day one.
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  7958. I don't think the US can, there are too many divisions. Even the use of handcuffs for the most minor offences and non violent is for a high income country only in America as far as I'm aware.
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  7959.  @mohammadrahman1447  I guarantee you as a white man if I threatened to crack a policeman's jaw they would arrest me. The issue here is first we don't know what happened prior and was the force excessive which it appears to be.
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  7960. Not sure he can because it was raised to pay campaign debts and a little bit on campaign legal fees. If he spends it paying his personal or business debts it might be a crime.
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  7961. You might be but most Americans are extremely inward looking and to some extent brainwashed. If they weren't things would be different.
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  7962. Deaths will likely be 2,500 plus per day by then and hospitals and hospital staff in an even worse situation. Hard to say this but hopefully you reach rock bottom before Christmas and common sense prevails.
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  7963. If we apply these standards some countries choose to do with possible rare effects of vaccines to vehicles we need to ban every vehicle on the planet or maybe just seat belts and airbags because they kill sometimes, saved millions of lives but probably thousands killed by wearing seat belts and air bags. This just doesn't make sense, maybe recommend women in that age group get another vaccine might make sense , not stopping the rollout.
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  7964. Way way more.
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  7965. It's not exclusive to democracy. People can be stupid no matter the system of government.
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  7966. You forgot the other major ally, Communist Party of China. All have near identical philosophy. Yes racist East Asian and racist whites can get along, remember Germany and Japan were allies.
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  7967.  @mashbury  for a free wealthy nation, the US is on a whole different level to other countries. Nowhere is perfect but the US is not the same. It might not be the case in every state or local police department but it's certainly common and seems handcuff use for example is near universal for no particular reason.
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  7968. They didn't pull it down? The one set up near our Royal Brisbane hospital was dismantled a long time ago, but our vaccination rate is second worst in the country so if you Mexicans bring it into Queensland and we lose control we are in big trouble.
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  7969.  @moon_struck6573  CDC US, NHS UK etc. etc.
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  7970. It was a stroke of luck actually, look at all the countries that had vaccines first, they are less vaccinated than us now. Time was needed for people to become confident in the vaccines.
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  7971. People's general health has gone both directions, some people have gone on a health kick also. Nobody is shoving unhealthy food down people's throats and stopping them from going for a walk outdoors even if it's more restricted in some places.
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  7972. You make me laugh, although a sad situation , the only references I get from media or here is that it's a hard lockdown but sounds like the hard 3 days lockdown in Brisbane , my city is much tougher when ignoring the length. I came back from a trip yesterday and very few people on the streets and 100% of the people I saw wearing masks even though it's the first time we have been required to do so. The compliance level anywhere in Australia now is really good which means no need for significant enforcement for any lockdown. It's the results that count, eg. high resistance to restrictions in places that have seen no success.
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  7973. Yep both at over 1700 deaths per million so it means 2 jurisdictions in the bottom 10% going by world standards , such a pity you people (most Americans) think that allowing people to die is a political issue and not a health issue.
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  7974.  @seanc3317  if you want to be honest then the first place to look is demographics, Texas median age 5 years below Michigan, Texas GDP per capita in 2019 about 20% above Michigan, life expectancy in Texas about 1 year longer than Michigan indicating better overall health of population. So quite likely demographics play the biggest role but this would need to be assessed by looking at every state and calculating out the demographic outcomes in the case of the US, Michigan based on 2010 data is actually 10% less urbanised than Texas which should favour a better outcome in Michigan actually. Weather also plays a part because of people's behaviour during different seasons can cause more variability in areas with more variable weather and possibly how buildings are built. So tell me what it means and how you are indoctrinated. You sound like you have studied all states and looked through all the demographic data and travel patterns of people considering all borders have always been open to non essential travel including the national one. As far as masks go they are only but a small factor in the scheme of things in a country that never really tried to stop spreading the virus. This doesn't mean masks achieve nothing but it could be close to nothing in a country which on every other measure has allowed the virus to spread rapidly and much of that with intent and sometimes just due to incompetent government (about 500 covid 19 tests by end of February 2020 in the US versus about 10,000 in Australia in the same time period, a factor of approximately 1 to 300 by population ). You think Texas is now a great success , good for you.
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  7975. At a low level, it might be different with the leaders, however still risky I think.
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  7976. Looking in from afar i don't really agree with your rant but understand your frustration. I would also point out Trump theoretically had about 2 thirds support of potential voters because choosing not to vote means you support his direction at least as much as Kamala's positions. 2 thirds is an extremely large majority, normally only seen in dictatorships where people are close to being forced to vote.
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  7977. Well it's not , X for example promotes the right wing speakers and at the same time suppressing left wing speakers. So clearly has nothing to do with free speech.
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  7978. Actually he does , previously he said it was used for scams and money laundering. He was and is correct, he just realised he could make money out of it. Trump is actually an open book mostly. Yes his lies are completely blatant but his actions are totally transparent actually.
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  7979. Why you put such a silly comment?
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  7980. 14 day average is best because approximately 1 cycle of infection.
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  7981. I am not American or from the American continents but as a complete outsider i have little sympathy for those who either voted for or if couldn't vote supported Trump because they thought they were protected but had no concerns about others in similar situations where were clearly not protected.
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  7982. Infections have to run through households first before any real slowdown. This could take a while.
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  7983. Man now we have a verified communist in the comments believing in cutting of the trade in fossil fuels.
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  7984. If Trump follows through with tariffs on all imported goods he'll actually cause more harm to the US than the rest of the world. Economically the US is about 25% of world GDP. Once Trump is done that'll probably only be 20%. The US might actually cause it's own irrelevance as a major trading nation as Trump is literally copying Chairman Mao's great leap forward policies.
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  7985. @ChrisPBacon-vf2dz  the highest vaccination countries have more elderly.
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  7986. Forgive Trump's failures but if you believe Biden is a better candidate then try to vote him in. To hold onto anger only hurts you.
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  7987.  Sheri Pardue  Because I am Australian, I don't have any real skin in the game. From my Australian perspective I couldn't support either side and would vote for least worst which would be decided by what I consider most important and whether the other candidate would do a better job. So for me it's all hypothetical. The key societal measures of the US are worse on all accounts basically. If compared to the most similar countries culturally , the 5EYES countries of which Australia is one, the US has lowest life expectancy, highest incarceration rate, highest homicide rate, highest suicide rate, largest wealth inequality, highest government debt to GDP, highest proportion of the population who are illegal immigrants (US and South Africa also, refer to them as undocumented residents) and arguably healthcare inequalities in excess of the other countries which all have universal healthcare, noting Australia probably still spends less as a proportion of GDP on public healthcare than the US. So if I was an American with some general knowledge of the world my position is where do you start. The internet means anyone with an internet connection and basic skills can find out a lot of information in literally minutes. What is your starting point if you don't mind telling me other than get rid of Trump? which I can certainly understand many people wanting that.
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  7988.  @BrianHolmes  I said "like" or the 5 EYES countries, meaning US, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ. You are still a rich developed country.
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  7989.  @BrianHolmes  I'll give you an example to ponder on. Look at the covi sars2 response in USA and Australia. Australia relied on the US and WHO primarily for information and advice on the beginning, on paper we did exactly the same thing until mid March. So why is it the per capita deaths are at this point in time in the US are 20 times that of Australia? We are both federations where the states run health. Think about that for a minute, not a single US governor had the courage to close a state border, in Australia 5 out of 8 major jurisdictions (4 states and a territory) closed their borders in quick succession. This is common sense, it's impossible to control a virus if you allow infected people to continually enter with no restrictions. The US completely failed at first detecting the virus and then at containment. Do you think your president would have behaved in the same manner if he was accountable to his colleagues? He is king , he chooses the membership of the unelected government (secretaries in the US and called ministers elsewhere) and can fire them at will meaning they will act in a less open manner than if power is more balanced. Donald Trump has in no uncertain terms pointed out the power of his position. The people of the US are just people, the failures are not because Americans are stupid but the system where in the president's case controls the entire government like a king is a little outdated. Change the constitution on not only this matter but others and the US can advance especially socially more quickly.
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  7990. What does China have to do with a hundred cases if that entering the UK and was warned by the WHO it's outside of China and the UK new this because they found a few cases and UKs completely failed response creating even new strains?
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  7991. They didn't want to sign a document making them a colony of the US. Who would have thought that might happen?
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  7992. That's a lot, the population of South Africa only one sixth or so of the US.
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  7993. Wondering why the previous video clip had comments turned off. It would be interesting to see what people on your channel thought of the mild pro Trumper. He said that Trump is better, a person literally threatening to tank the North American economy, carrying out a retribution campaign and increasing the US government deficit as just a few examples. How anyone who is American supports that I don't know. What stood out about that person was he knowingly is supporting that, he didn't seem to be a MAGA cult member who can't believe his eyes and ears.
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  7994. Canada seems to be somewhere in the middle, not hardline like Australia and New Zealand but not keep everything open with no restrictions like the US and UK to a large extent. Australia hasn't had much politicisation and in the beginning the 2 big states by population took a different view to all the other states, party affiliation didn't come into it that much with those 2 states being run by different political parties. Anyway just some anecdotes from Australia.
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  7995. As an Australian this story gives me mixed feelings because it points out we have idiots here but this is the story of a reformed person which is good. I think if their spiritual leader Donald Trump is voted out they will subside but a risk of violence by some at that point in time.
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  7996. Not sure if China is in BRICS but Spain is. My guess is the letters that stands for are Bulgaria. Romania. Ireland. Cameroon and of Spain as we all know. A sort of European group plus 1.
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  7997.  dev0n james  define white?
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  7998. No you are right the average shareholder will probably be ok. The ones who actually get hurt are the poor because those corporations pay a lot of tax and you dramatically reduce their profit much less tax. Much less tax means less public services.
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  7999. I am sceptical of all of them with the initial data being about 200 total infections for each trial. However it's enough data to show the regulators that they work, WHO cut off is 50% efficacy. Only time will show real efficacy and different efficacy according to particular strains where data available like many European countries that are doing significant genomic testing. The other thing that nobody really knows is how long the effects of the vaccines last because haven't been administered on a large scale for even 6 months yet.
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  8000.  Simo Hayha  I read the comments between you and france and tend to agree with you but implementation of what you would prefer seems almost impossible because both major US political parties are beholden to corporations. I do like Joe's plan of introducing medicare for all by stealth by putting in a public option insurer , but the insurance industry will fight tooth and nail against it and probably win. Read my comment to france .
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  8001. How do you deal with $45-50 Trillion in government debt? I don't think either party is capable of that and government debt will keep rising rapidly until a major problem occurs. The only real protection the US has and the reason why nothing has happened yet is the USD being the main reserve currency of the world.
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  8002. Not all vaccine manufacturers have applied to the WHO, that's probably got more to do with anything than what you suggest along with what stage they are at, only 2 approved so far from what I can see.
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  8003.  @TAL142  The problem seems to be other than the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine all the rest have plenty of vaccine nationalism attached. To me that's the only one that comes out looking good because they allowed any qualified manufacturer to make it without any royalties or anything for the " time of the pandemic" and manufacturers must sell at cost. If all companies did what they did things would be better. The US , China and Russia all just as bad in my opinion. Russia seems to be doing the opposite to say the US and selling the vaccine elsewhere even their population not vaccinated which they don't see to care about. I expect Covax will only work properly when most rich countries with the most serious problems get their situation under control. So Covax nice in theory but not working as well as it could, significant money has gone into it though.
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  8004. Who the antivaxxers in the comments section or the commentators in the video clips?
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  8005. A quick search reveals 10 covid 19 deaths in Sweden aged 0 to 9 and 5 aged 10 to 19. You can say there's few deaths but saying 0 is incorrect.
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  8006.  @LordPinky455  they are not the same virus, be like saying a horse and a deer are the same.
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  8007. Same with Australia but a significantly different result, not saying there isn't a problem but it's not what you identified. The UK it's divided into 4 jurisdictions, one for each country within the Kingdom. Within about 2 weeks of it getting serious in Australia last March sometime if my memory is correct , 5 out of 8 states and territories shut their borders with stricter controls in place than ever happened in Europe for goods movement, every company needed to come up with a covid safe plan and have it approved for each state they travel to and from if one of the closed border states as an example. Otherwise only essential travel unless exemption like urgent medical care or special border zone travel permits with certain states. If for essential travel 14 days mandatory enforced hotel quarantine at $2,800 for a single, extra 10 days if refused to get tested at extra cost ( Queenslands rules), the cost could be exempted on compassionate grounds, probably not the extra 10 days if anyone was stupid enough not to be tested. The actions taken by Australian states could have been done by all countries mentioned, but exactly 0 states/provinces/countries (in the case of UK) took these actions, seems your provincial governments are cowardly. It could be due to listening to PAHO your regional office of WHO, all countries in the Western Pacific region of WHO did the same as Australia around the same time, top 40 countries last time I looked were in the countries covered by PAHO and European region of WHO. Maybe it's total coincidence but I think not, your offices of WHO might be to blame but only people from your region running them, WHO as a whole shouldn't be blamed and I would suggest the Western Pacific WHO office has done a good job, behind the scenes outside of politics our diverse group of countries are probably cooperating quite well, China is in that WHO grouping.
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  8008. Not sure about your screen name.
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  8009. Get rid of the virus and you get freedom back. Protest and spread the virus Sydney will be like Melbourne before, for a long time.
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  8010. What on earth. "Member", are they now blaming the customers for a roughly one third refusal rate. US corporations have disgusting gaslighting language. Calling employees associates and team member and calling customers they treating disgustingly members.
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  8011. I thought they thought it shone out of a certain oriface of a certain person. Ok maybe you are talking about the other half.
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  8012. Comments didn't disappoint , all the anti and pro China stuff. Pro China people think non Chinese media shouldn't tell any news about China no matter what because the CPC might get offended and anti China every problem in the world is from China so even if this space junk does no damage , it doesn't matter they are probably causing some other problems anyway.
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  8013. In the context used "children" means below 18 and while people shouldn't be arrested for criticism the criticism itself is not fair because it's older people that are at risk not teenagers.
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  8014. I think they do even though 50% of illegal immigrants enter legally and 90% of drugs are smuggled through regular ports.
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  8015. VIC and NSW will be ok because of high eligible vaccination rates. I think the rest of us are actually at higher risk now when borders open to lower quarantine requirements. Best of luck and take care.
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  8016. One of the Tequila brands is advertising in Australia on YouTube at the moment. They probably looking for more secure markets.
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  8017. So you don't believe the ridiculous story of the IDF who actually claims responsibility? The ridiculous part isn't that they bombed this area but something about a weapons dump.
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  8018. It's a bit like that, alternate between Fox and CNN and you can get a good handle on all partisan spreading events .
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  8019. Not bad.
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  8020. Oh, so Trump never gave any pardons. I must be insane because I remember he did. Where should I seek help? Google clearly can't help me because if I search Trump pardons heaps of his close associates come up.
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  8021.  @Brisingr-b5f  just pointing out the absurdity of your assertion.
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  8022. @Brisingr-b5f  Previous and next president caused the deaths of 300,000 Americans through mismanagement of covid19. Sorry but I think causing the deaths of that many people is a bit worse than letting a corrupt son off possible charges. But hey all freedom for you, bow down to your orange God.
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  8023. So where do you live now? Mainland China?
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  8024. It does seem proven because it was a different strain, however at this stage it proves nothing other than a possibility it can occur. The WHO says don't be concerned about it at this point in time. It could be a one in a million chance of reinfection reoccurring so quickly as far as they know from a single example. If however it's because the strain is different enough to the immune system of that person and that is the reason then that's a whole different story. Let's hope it's the first possibility and very rare.
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  8025. So what, do you want a system like Venezuela where fuel is subsidized or do you want pricing to be international market pricing? There might be [,I think probably there is] problems with retail pricing in the US not actually representing the international oil price however but that's a different issue. Internal competition policy in general in the US is not optimal, labor union and big money interests inside of the US both are damaging.
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  8026. The whole clip is on YouTube channel Piers Morgan Uncensored.
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  8027. First part of your statement is correct, however your reasoning isn't, North Korea wants at least some amount of independence from everyone including China who really doesn't want a nuclear armed North Korea but also doesn't want it to be non communist. North Korea shut it's border pretty much to China because they don't trust the Chinese and think they will bring covid 19 in. They are technically less friendly to China than the US at the moment, maybe similar to Trump previously.
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  8028.  @patrickdayton2080  yes of course and that's why I said some amount of independence, just like every country. As the clip said actually the more North Korea wants to be isolated the more they will have to rely on China.
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  8029.  @matthewvarnam4302  I know North Korea will never be friends to the US, my point was only they not exactly friends with China either.
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  8030. @lonesomefencesitter3186  I am pleasantly surprised we voted yes, I guessed we were going to abstain.
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  8031. It definitely could get worse but there is no evidence of any of the leadership acting like Trump, Bolsonaro and Modi, this makes a big difference, people are taking the matter seriously in all of SE Asia, even if not perfect no blatent encouragement for large gatherings or it's over declaration.
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  8032. I notice in comments sections Australians are joining the Canadians especially as we have personally been attacking also with tariffs on steel and aluminium. It's not a large part of our economy but it's the principle. Well done Donald you will decrease the Australian trade deficit with the US. No Australian politicians could ever achieve this, Donald will make Australia great again and Canada and Mexico and EU. At least the dear leader of China actually works for China not other countries.
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  8033. I just looked at the news on that, 23 was in quarantine so nothing wrong there and 2 linked to a port worker meaning a quarantine breach which is also ok because seems detected early. The 25 total is meaningless and sensational reporting if it isn't made clear that 23 cases detected in quarantine and 2 cases of community transmission linked to a known case of a port worker. The headline figures confuse people when it relates to countries with a strict quarantine process, because the people in open border countries without formal quarantine can't relate.
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  8034.  @theleaderofummah2183  every government has some corruption and now you speak that the Taliban is higher than every other government in the world. I agree should release some funds but to virtually suggest they are superior to everyone else is ridiculous.
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  8035. Didn't see that, it was a left wing person who sprayed someone and got shot.
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  8036. He doesn't care about the people, only the Senate.
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  8037. It's not about formal education. Many Americans believe in American exceptionalism which is a nationalistic superiority complex often touted by politicians of all persuasions. This crosses party lines and education levels and is a form of brainwashing. Ideology has gone to a ridiculous level where to give one example healthcare the US government spends more on a non universal healthcare system than some countries spend on a universal healthcare system yet it's apparently superior because it's not socialist. This one example shows how brainwashed people are.
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  8038. If you follow the money it's not because of the activities overseas, it's because of internal disfunction.
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  8039. I think Elon has made a bad move, the educated people who typically voted Democrat this time around are going to boycott Tesla and X and the MAGA people are generally poor and less educated can't afford a Tesla and are unappealing to advertise to on X.
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  8040.  @gloriaturetta8177  More than a ripple I would suggest, Russia and China might start seizing territory if the leadership is anything like now.
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  8041. Not sure which country you are from but sound like one of those countries that had no quarantine at all or tiny partial measures, quarantine completely full of holes. You are expressing discontent with your countries policy of lockdown for the peasants I am guessing, small business are peasants too but international travel for the well to do is fine.
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  8042. There's nothing wrong with being conservative, radical or fundamentalist is a problem. MAGA followers fit in the last 2 categories.
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  8043. The healthcare system of a country is only an exacerbating factor. It's the initial reaction and plans already in place and ability to readjust those plans that have made all the difference so far. Those countries that treated it as nothing until the end of January have done the worst.
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  8044. Nazism clearly wasn't defeated it was subdued and is now rising again in the US.
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  8045. @Angelum_Band  Really so North Korea and Hungary and the US are all anti Nazism, interesting take I must say.
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  8046. Saying it will be is wrong on 2 counts, if it is already proven then should be approved already and secondly the obvious if the data isn't available it can't be approved. Hopefully it is approved when John says but that's only hopeful not reality. I do believe the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine has gone through a more thorough process than the already emergency approved vaccines.
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  8047. I take issue with one thing, not only chat rooms, Trump's Youtube channel people openly talking about an armed insurrection of some sort. To so openly threaten violence demonstrated they thought it was totally ok. It's true that armed militia threaten this continuously by stating they have the right under the second amendment to arbitrarily remove a government. The second amendment states a well regulated militia, so apparently the government has agreed they can be overthrown should a militia decide to do so. Maybe the government should specifically point out it is for helping the government in a time of need like an invasion or something, the ballot box is for deciding leaders. Muskets were used back when the second amendment was written, so a fine weather short range low velocity weapon with a reload time of a minimum of 15 seconds under perfect conditions by someone highly skilled, not sure the founding fathers were thinking of AR 15s or nuclear weapons for that matter which can be transported by an individual so it stands to reason if it's absolute one can bear a nuclear weapon on a trolly.
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  8048. Well probably because they're not a race. Maybe there'll be ethnic profiling , using common Spanish names.
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  8049. A lot of people actually. The blind devotion of some towards Trump is nothing that America has seen before at least in recent history. There are a significant number of people who no matter the evidence presented to them will not even look at it or research by other means to corroborate what is being presented because all media outlets regardless of how bias they might be are fake news and dishonest except Fox.
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  8050. While that's true , the teachers in Chicago I believe were mandated to be vaccinated along with all other city workers in this case. For teachers at genuine risk even after vaccination could be excepted but I would think that would be a fairly small minority.
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  8051. It's like a times 5 deadly flu. So about 5 times the death rate something like that.
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  8052. We don't know how many reviews were due to complaints. On the good side it appears they must write a report if they ever draw a weapon. I wouldn't be so sure this is normal in every police department. So I draw no conclusions without knowing more.
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  8053. Well he does actually, Trump gave it to him. I think what you meant to say is he didn't go through the standard vetting process usually conducted by the FBI but I think none of Trump's secretaries went through that process, that's the Trump standard.
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  8054. Once the information is out there's nothing they can do about it. If they can find out who leaked it which is probably unlikely that person might get the sack, however sacking them might bring more attention so that's not a given.
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  8055.  @gabemendoza1052  Other countries are watching the US in real time and for diplomatic reasons not speaking their mind. Lowest life expectancy for a wealthy country despite highest health spending and above average public health spending. That's just one example of your disfunctional system. Hopefully things change but unfortunately could be bad to worse, have to wait and see. Best of luck.
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  8056. How so , Americans keep calling Australia communist because we handled covid 19 quite a bit better. Apparently only communist according to them can be successful.
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  8057. They didn't say that , they said extremely unlikely.
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  8058. The world can only apply diplomatic pressure which it is doing. The rest must be internal including reaching out to rank and file military and police members.
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  8059. Looks like NSW and VIC going to be in lockdown until New Year because of some determined to make public policy fail, well done "freedom fighters" causing such harm to your fellow citizens.
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  8060. Actually it's not a coincidence, it's the UK and Indian variants, same issue in Melbourne Victoria right now.
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  8061. It's sort of a first in best dressed deal. It's generally accepted if a person has no other citizenship you cannot cancel it. I am hoping Canada actually does it, not because I have anything against Americans but you did actually collectively vote for it.
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  8062.  @effortukate  that's impressive.
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  8063. Sorry you guys are mad in a collective sense, left and right having giant rallies. Both groups are human and can catch it and spread it to the vulnerable. Contact tracing at a BLM or Trump rally, LMAO .
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  8064. Brutal retaliation, yep that always works.
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  8065. Well the Trump campaign would have to hire those buildings. Maybe you are a Trump supporter and would donate that but most people would not.
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  8066. We sort of know Trump's playbook when it comes to non white females. Let's see how the electorate reacts to his sexist and racist overtones. Trump will not be able to help himself.
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  8067. Maybe bombing the dam itself.
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  8068.  @filmonhabtom8915  Wait 3 months and Biden will be in and the US will likely still be a disaster even if a little more stable and CBC can point out the failings of the new president which I am guessing you won't mind.
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  8069. Lol
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  8070.  @kelperdude  what's that supposed to mean? Asians can vote for whoever they want.
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  8071. They weren't, real numbers in Western Pacific were good. Pretend soft lock downs were a failure. Do a job properly or not at all. Elimination of an entire region in a study is disingenuous at best or outright lies. The data in Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand is good.
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  8072. Europe has had open borders and self isolation from day one, so basically no change. The virus doesn't care which passport one uses.
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  8073. In some ways that's not a great concern, the people in the cities including the elderly would have smartphones and the cities are the bigger risk of spread. Many of the older people in villages wouldn't want to travel far, the vaccine has to come to them.
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  8074. Israel is exception , the US and UK aren't any better off for now. Hopefully when the time comes the rollout will go well.
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  8075. Hope you and your friend going ok. Take care.
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  8076. They shouldn't have opened it to everyone without the available vaccines, go down in 5 year age increments would have been much better, having 50 year olds competing with fit 25 year olds for a vaccine isn't right.
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  8077.  @anjaoldnettle2841  I think your last comment is fairly accurate.
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  8078. Equal worst goes to European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region.
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  8079.  @TheOnlyCathyCat  Deaths per million in Australia less than 10% of the average for those other regions. Doing well doesn't mean perfect, nowhere is perfect because that's impossible.
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  8080.  @maddoo23  Yes that's correct, to the extent it applies to the public 5g network. I don't know where you are from but would you be happy if another country who you know not to be honest, South China Sea military bases and one country 2 systems until 2047 changed to no one system will do , had such power that at the flick of a switch they could shut down pretty much your country, shut down communications and banking will cease immediately, obviously financial markets cease . Think how many days of cash does the average person have, banks can't switch back to manual transactions. Would Beijing allow a US company to have such power inside China? Ok Australia could have said it more diplomatic but banning Huawei from the public 5g network was and is the right thing to do. As far as spying Chinese CPC loyalists say China is the only G20 nation that has never and will never spy on another country. China is full of angels I guess , I know Australia carries out covert surveillance as do all other G20 nations.
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  8081.  @maddoo23  very first line of my last response said we ban Huawei from the public 5g network, there is no outright ban. Tomorrow I personally can order a private 5g network if I could afford it. China said why they decide to start trade war with us , or as reported " if Australia wants to make an enemy of China , China will be that enemy" that's not at all in dispute, 14 grievances. Pretty strong wording, we don't call China our enemy but they say we are the enemy. Anyway what is my dishonest statement, I am unaware?
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  8082.  @maddoo23  The covid 19 investigation arguably tops the list of the 14 grievances, China made it clear that this was definitely an item involved in their decision. So not dishonest maybe lacking in clarity if you want to say that. Huawei isn't a sanction, no more than it would be a sanction if China was contracting for their 5g network in the free market ( which probably doesn't exist for that in China) and stated that all electronic equipment must come from China. That's a national security issue. Just as I said before coal was protectionist not a trade sanction. Banning or restricting something for a reason is not a trade sanction. A trade sanction is the only purpose is to hurt the other country, no other reason.
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  8083. Very true previous presidents and opposition figures in Ukraine all united. Meanwhile in another land an ex president wannabe dictator is siding against Ukraine.
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  8084. We have perfectly good relationships with Turkey, Italy, Germany and Japan. I don't understand what you are getting at and no idea what T is.
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  8085. Something like that.
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  8086.  @ernestchacon4928  Hey it's just a suggestion and my screen name was many years ago me annoyed with my government. I keep the name because I am usually annoyed about something. To make my point a little more strongly even though it would seem most people have made up their mind being a little more diplomatic can't hurt and there is a slim chance something you say somewhere could change an undecided voters position. Although not equivalent for my Queensland state election in Australia I intend to vote for our left wing Labor party, something I have never done in my life because they have done very well with the Covid 19 response. The thing that actually caused me to take my current position was an ex Premier of the party I generally support (sort of similar to a governor) said we should follow Sweden, which would have meant more restrictions than currently exist in my state. In other words unless the current leader of that party denounced the statements by him I can't trust them. If you've read this far sorry for rambling on and I hope you are ok with your upcoming Presidential election regardless of outcome. Can only do your best and polling and betting markets indicate a close race.
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  8087. What a bunch of entitled brats, thousands can't go to work at all and have already been vaccinated but this mob still allowed to work at reduced capacity, it's just they need to get vaccinated like the majority of eligible citizens in Australia already have.
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  8088.  @peacefuljourney4994  You might be interested in moving to a country called Utopia, I am uncertain where it is but I have heard of it. In Utopia apparently it's perfect.
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  8089.  @peacefuljourney4994  Your 12 questions were is the vaccine like no other that currently exists in the world and perfect so yes you are looking for Utopia in regards to Covid 19, no vaccine in the history of mankind could you have got different answers. Best of luck finding Covid 19 Utopia.
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  8090.  @peacefuljourney4994  Which country do you actually come from? I ask because it seems you are a bit annoyed about what your government and or media has told you.
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  8091.  @peacefuljourney4994  So you are secretive about where you come from. It's interesting you find some clip on Sky News Australia which demonstrated that we had protests just like US, Canada, Thailand, UK, Belgium, France and Germany. What is your point? Ok some people struggling mentally with the restrictions or they are just idiots who want a fight, Australia is not unique in this way but as stated in the story only 1.5 deaths per day from we are one of the best results in the world. Your answer is we should have caved into a small minority and killed 50,000 people, well thank goodness we didn't. I would note the clips were all in NSW and VIC and those 2 states had much more problems because they were relatively slow to lockdown hard on different occasions when it mattered.
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  8092.  @peacefuljourney4994  Nobody likes what the pandemic has caused and being from a covid 19 free state it would certainly have been better if those 2 states I mentioned were more cautious and there would have been less problems. It should be noted that compared to Ontario both NSW and VIC have been locked down far less time, I only know this because someone from there commented that hairdressers were shut for 9 months. If we look at economic performance last calendar year Australia did relatively well, Australian government deficit around 7% of GDP and at least our trade surplus increased. We are not as vaccinated as Canada so we simply can't just open up, even in the US schools aren't fully open, but all the Australian states with the most cautious approach from the beginning are all fully open except of course for travel, we would like VIC and NSW to join us of course.
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  8093.  @YY-jv4uu  It's simply untrue that in Australia suicides increased last year, they didn't. It's true to say there were more suicides than covid 19 deaths, the suicide rate of the nation is about 13 per 100,000 based on 2019 data so around 3500 suicides per year we are now about a year and a half into the pandemic and there have been over 1,000 covid 19 deaths and around 5,500 suicides assuming the rate was roughly in line with 2019. Obviously the pandemic was never going to stop suicides so I am unsure what your point is, lockdowns do increase diabetes and heart attack deaths mostly I think it is , obviously evidence has shown the hard and fast lockdown jurisdictions like Queensland, Western Australia and New Zealand that this is the most effective because the shortest time being in lockdowns and very few deaths, the cautious approach has proven to be the best, if the entire world followed this the pandemic would be over now. I think you will actually find suicides and homicides increased in 2020 in jurisdictions with long lockdown lite measures like the US, based on 34 cities in the US homicides increased by about 50% which is massive and on top of the 5 times the rate of other wealthy nations, the US is the poster child of how not to do things and the only thing they have been successful at is producing vaccines but not very good at actually getting high vaccination rates.
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  8094. So now Texas go down the authoritarian route and mandate that private organizations can't protect employees and customers. Basically an authoritarian regime that kills. Texas and Florida giving China a run for it's money, another Great Leap Forward. The US is now number 1 deaths per million for a wealthy nation, just overtaken Belgium in the last day or so according to worldometer. Well done US, lowest life expectancy for a wealthy country behind middle income China, highest homicide rate for a wealthy country by a factor of about 5 times on a per capita basis, one of the most expensive public healthcare systems in the world but not really universal. It's possibly the fall of the US Empire occurring in front of the world's eyes.
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  8095. The tropics at least close to the equator don't get hotter air temperatures actually because it's either rainforest or sea.
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  8096. Dam now when I can travel again chewing gum and non mask wearing in Singapore are almost criminal. I don't chew gum normally and I will work out the mask thing if needed.
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  8097. Yep and leaving the borders open to US citizens and permanent residents with only a voluntary self isolation scheme in place for arrivals while touting "travel bans to foreigners" seems a bit like doing the same thing for a year now which it is. It's almost like US leaders want US citizens to believe that US citizens can't bring virus in but foreigner can.
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  8098. I think you mean the Confederate army flag.
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  8099. It's probably about same as Spanish flu with modern medicine. Have to remember 100 years ago things weren't the same and when the black plague pops up now and again it's really easy to control not like this.
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  8100.  @rogerstarkey5390  I'll go one better Queensland Australia population : 5.1 mil Covid 19 deaths: 6 (1.2 per million) Hope it stays like that. Taiwan population:23.8 mil Covid 19 deaths 7 (0.3 per million) It's good however Sweden's deaths are down and the nursing home restrictions seem to work. In the end Sweden looks better than quite a few countries and is one of the better lockdown lite or mitigation models, Netherlands policy whatever it is has more internal support than in Sweden according to a survey by pew research and the final analysis is up to people who live somewhere not outsiders. So while I think Australia overall has done great if you are happy with your country even if the policy is completely different that's up to you and your fellow citizens who are the ones that matter most.
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  8101.  @zeroneutral  in answer to your queries and assertions, the death numbers will be highly accurate in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan , Thailand, Australia and New Zealand because very low cases means other than at the beginning all suspicious deaths people will be tested and even the strain of the virus will be tested because unless it is through known contact they want to check it's not a new outbreak. The high case rate countries will be less accurate but I would suggest if they are a high income country then at least 95% plus accurate versus the low case countries being 99% on average more accurate, ( a case could always be missed and if deaths are really low percentage terms it could actually be less accurate). The hard lockdown as you put it in Australia is different state by state. Every state has some border restrictions and all but one state Victoria have very relaxed internal restrictions by world standards. I will give the travel restrictions of Queenslanders and it might amaze you. There is a border zone where residents of New South Wales and Queensland can cross the border after going through a Queensland checkpoint but must stay within the zone specified. If someone comes from New South Wales or Victoria and are not exempted like trucks for example or the border zone exemption. To travel into Queensland a Border pass (sort of like a visa) is required and you must declare where you have been for the previous 14 days and if you lie could be 6 months imprisonment. If you have been in Victoria or New South Wales in the last 14 days you need to be quarantined in a government supervised hotel at the cost of $2,800 AUD for a single, extra 10 days plus costs if you refuse to be tested. Other states people can enter without quarantine, however some states are a little tougher than Queensland. To give the most extreme example , to enter Western Australia basically you can't unless you are going there to live permanently or visit a very close relative or something. So sort of like a permanent resident visa I guess. Western Australia has virtually said to it's residents if you leave Western Australia and it isn't for essential travel you might not be permitted re entry. The example is they are being told they can't come to Queensland to see a football game because it's not essential. Western Australia of course has same quarantine procedure but not sure of cost. So travel restrictions in my opinion have gone a little crazy however I do agree with the rights of the states to do it. I think my state is about right with travel restrictions and sort middle of the road by Aussie standards at present.
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  8102.  @zeroneutral  Which costs? There is only one cost, the ability of free travel. If you look at economic impacts and government stimulus spending you will see exactly the same numbers as a proportion in Sweden for example. Everywhere is doing it tough and every country has bankruptcies occurring. If you look at UK economic decline it's the worst I believe and truly catastrophic. UK had open borders from day one or as you might say did nothing, the policy on paper was very similar to Sweden, just stop hospitals overflowing. Sweden comparatively did a better job and looks economically similar to Australia while noting Victoria will probably push us to a little worse than Sweden for the 3rd quarter.
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  8103.  @zeroneutral  what you are referring to is travel and I accept that cost has increased. As far as you mean staying at home the handouts from the government have skyrocketed to the point people are actually getting higher incomes on average and the savings rate has increased. There is no possible way to make everyone better off. Every country has unemployment increasing and many countries would not be so generous with the hand outs. In Australia you don't see 3 hour queues for food handouts from charities or modern day soup kitchens like the US. If you expect perfection you will not find it anywhere if you look properly. If travel costs over borders are a concern you are probably not doing it too tough. Some borders are almost shut tight anyway, including Australia s external border.
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  8104. What's that got to do with anything? The only time the AUD is likely to go higher than the USD is if there is a massive resources boom. Average is something like 75c or 80c.
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  8105. Yeah but leaders in power can't speak out because Trump might punish us with higher tariffs. It's remarkable that Trump has unilateral power over this form of taxation. It should be changed so it has to go through congress because it gives the President too much power to just be mean to whoever he wants, even sending companies bankrupt at will if for example they are a major importer of something for their manufacturing plant and it can't be sourced inside the US.
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  8106. The right to cross the US Canadian border was never a right set in stone either country could impose conditions at any time, just drive in your own country it's not the end of the world.
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  8107.  @judywaddell6065  You think Australia should open travel up to unvaccinated foreigners, well you would be in an extremely small minority Ma'am.
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  8108. It's too early to know, needs to be at least 3 weeks with a lot of cases then start to get death data. Discovered less than 3 weeks ago.
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  8109. Blame Reagan , he shouldn't have let that Aussie in. While I actually believe on balance noting the amount of Murdoch media in Australia is greater than the US as a proportion it hasn't been a negative here, I have to say on balance it might have been/maybe is in the US.
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  8110. WWII , WWI and Korean war. Basically it's been a while.
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  8111. If your president isn't removed he will likely pardon all the special people. For whatever reason people aren't alarmed that this will likely occur. How can he openly do exactly what I just said previously with other pardons yet everyone including Democrats believe him when he says they should be arrested, yes he needs the list of who to pardon. Trump should never be underestimated and anyone Republican or Democrat who doesn't follow through and remove him only have themselves to blame. The only check and balance with an US president is removal otherwise he is just an elected king under the laws of the US or that beloved constitution. I expect he won't be removed and pardons will occur even possibly the murderers.
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  8112. I think for US now it's mostly people don't want vaccines, most of the rest of the world because short supply. The US isn't in a good position because so many things are still unknown.
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  8113. He has but it's unsustainable, dropping the corporate tax rate of course increases the capital value of the investment, problem the gov deficit went up and is getting larger especially with covid 19 added into the mix.
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  8114. It's a 0.01% version of the current situation in the South China Sea.
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  8115. See if you can watch or at least find out about "Planet of the Humans" and you might not consider your comment so sarcastic.
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  8116. Because of antivax people and to check vaccines aren't killing people. They would be checking mostly if there is anything in common, like if they all suffered from the same rare disease or something, so you know to stop giving to that group. The CDC has apparently said about 85% of deaths where covid 19 was present it was a major contributor.
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  8117. This is called reporting, if you want pure editorial which CNN does quite a bit actually find a clip that suites your taste. Al Jazeera has come out with a different position to AP.
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  8118. It should go to those with businesses burnt to the ground. Pretty sure if you are white your shell of a building has the same effect on you but anyway , it sends a subtle message don't have a business in a neighborhood that might burn it to the ground if you are white. A segregation idea.
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  8119. The Likud party has from the river to the sea in it's charter and it predates Hamas. Maybe Hamas just copied the Likud party noting it's not in the Hamas charter any more.
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  8120. Yep totally morally comparable. Killing millions in an ethnic group versus idiot fails to show drivers licence and gets arrested as they wanted to create the video.
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  8121. It's up to the Trump administration to tell us but for whatever reason it's a secret.
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  8122. I probably despise Trump as much as you guys do despite being a foreigner. Joe Biden selling parts of potential future wall for scrap probably to be processed in Asia somewhere is childish and looks ridiculous. This is a win for MAGA pointing out the stupid childish acts by Democrats. 2 wrongs or in this case stupid childish behaviours don't make a right.
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  8123. Amazing how many lefties in North America who think occupation of government assets and obstruction causing harm to innocent victims is fine , just like the BLM CHAZ occupation in Seattle. Strange political alignments.
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  8124. Cover up number 3 on Covid 19 , The ex president of course, Florida not counting cases particularly well in October 20 , sends armed raid to whistleblowers home to gather evidence of releasing government information ( don't know what happened , haven't followed it) and now we find New York disinformation campaign. Wuhan China local government covered up also and got sacked. China and the US are morally equivalent when it comes to covid 19 cover up behaviour, in fact the US is probably worse because 3 known cases is systemic behaviour. Probably a lot more state governments have done it one way or another.
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  8125. Ka Boom. Good news it seems because over soon and overall percentage of deaths from all causes should be lower.
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  8126. Protests starting in Cuba now, we will see if they escalate.
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  8127.  @sc-to4uf  I am unaware of any circumstantial evidence, I looked into all of China's conspiracy theories , note none of these conspiracy theories were presented to the WHO team because they have no basis in reality. High flu season occured in China , US and Australia in 2019. Guess what a virulent strain of flu went around the world and the numbers are based on PCR tests so yes it was the flu. The people getting sick in Wuhan obviously were testing negative to the flu. This is just one conspiracy theory run by CPC and Trump and Qanon , just change location according to conspiracy theorist motives however the conspiracy theory identical in nature. The Wuhan lab 10 km from outbreak, that is real circumstantial evidence.
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  8128. Russia and Israel both essentially have the same policy, just keep taking a bit more and a bit more incrementally. Big difference is the US is on the wrong side with Israel.
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  8129.  @nondhimmi1  I don't agree sky news is scum but they were completely counterproductive rabble rousers when Victoria was going through it's most difficult time even inviting some commentators in virus free states suggesting Victoria become Florida or something. If they did it after the fact and Victoria was all good then totally ok with that but the commentary that lockdowns don't work has remarkably disappeared when at 5 cases per day rolling 14 day average and their Donald who can do no wrong up at 60,000 cases 7 day rolling average, fair to say adjusting for population won't help much. Fortunately I think very few followed the sky news Australia mob. Congratulations to Victoria, almost home free it seems.
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  8130.  @oinkoink5080  the reason for your government not opening quickly is, put your mind back 5 months, you were at about the same situation then and remind yourself of 2 months ago and what happened. An abundance of caution is certainly needed because strict lockdown can't happen again.
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  8131.  @oinkoink5080  no many states have had outbreaks from quarantine failures, the failure in Victoria was contact tracing. New Zealand just had a quarantine failure a few days ago with a port worker. Quarantine failures will keep happening it's detection and containment through contact tracing that matters and truthfully Victorian contact tracers are the most experienced now, places like NT or SA are at high risk because never done contact tracing along with WA if they ever open their border.
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  8132. @Diana p and due to those restrictions in Victoria an extra 3,000 people still alive give or take. I think the majority of Victorians would be happy and proud of that and by the way I am not Victorian.
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  8133.  chocolate milk  So how about reality and not knowing who is sick and going to spread the virus killing people and no reasonable way to determine who is exactly sick because can't test millions of people in one go? Would not fighting the virus so all can be free more worthy than protecting freedoms knowingly causing deaths of people who didn't volunteer to take that risk?
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  8134.  chocolate milk  I am Australian and believe that the sacrifices made are reasonable to save 15,000 lives, freedom for one that disregards the freedom of others is certainly not freedom to the victims. No Victorian was ever at risk of starvation or something and what is appropriate for Cameroon or any other country is only relevant after considering all circumstances. If Cameroon is typical in Africa a less aggressive approach than Australia is probably appropriate because life expectancy is less and therefore much lower risk to general population and as you point out other considerations like food and general health care may be higher. I hope where ever you might be your country is doing the best it can under the circumstances considering the local situation. Do I have criticisms of other rich country for example the US with 300,000 excess expected deaths year to date,? Yes, it is not good however I do acknowledge the right of the US to make their own stupid decisions. I wish you the best , please take care.
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  8135.  chocolate milk  the life expectancy in your country is about 60 and obesity rate about 16% and GDP per capita is very low so based on all of that it's probably best your country focus on other things but offer strong health advice about protecting the elderly. Australia has 80+ years life expectancy and 30% obesity rate and very significantly higher GDP per capita so the government feeds the people so to speak if in lockdown. I don't disagree with your country's policy for your country and am unsure why you object to my country's policy on protecting it's citizens the best it can as your country appears to be doing.
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  8136.  chocolate milk  Just for future reference Australia is in the southern hemisphere unlike your country, look where South Africa is on a world map and then look to the east over the Indian Ocean and you will see Australia. Not so sure why you think Australia should change course and cause the deaths of 20,000 of it's citizens based on the USA data and to be blunt Trump seems to be a leader you would love with 300,000 excess deaths in this year so far under his presidency. In Australia outside of Victoria who is at the end stages of containing covid 19 there is no mask mandate anywhere that I am aware of but in my state of Queensland we are encouraged to wear one of sick and consider wearing one on public transportation for example. I wish the best for your country and would hope that your government tries to improve people's lives. The level of poverty makes it a lot harder of course and if corruption is a major problem which you are implying to an extent I hope it can improve and you get a government that isn't bad.
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  8137.  chocolate milk  just we know if the West Pacific region implemented Trump freedom policies 2,000,000 plus people would die in my region, what is difficult for you to understand? The effects of policy will kill knowingly so that is pretty direct.
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  8138.  chocolate milk  if you read all my comments I stated Cameroon should probably take a different approach due to demographics, I am unsure why you disagree when I am agreeing with you. I am also uncertain given the per capita gdp how travel restrictions affect Cameroonians should a border quarantine policy be introduced which is not going to happen anyway. Please stop with your moral superiority and accept some wealthy countries and 90% plus of the Australian population agree with current policies even if we don't agree with every single measure. We don't live in fear because protective measures are in place.
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  8139. ​@xgtwb6473 yes there was a thing called quarantine, same through out Australia, however NSW and VIC had problems.
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  8140. ​ @AndyJarman they weren't, impossible everyone asymptomatic
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  8141. We are doing fine, just chill. Our calendar year trade surplus for 2020 up about 7% in AUD terms. Maybe we should be like North Korea for a few more years with borders shut stopping Australians blowing the surplus on international holidays.
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  8142.  @hiuszenoom809  I think discover China is the real deal, never responds to any comments and spreads the CPC line across many news networks, not a Wumao but a CPC real employee for information dispersal, or whatever funny title a CPC employee might have.
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  8143. Of course they aren't because they can look across any border and see a more successful situation. If Victoria was in the US Chairman Dan ( his unflattering nickname) would be seen as a tyrant yes but a genius for being so successful about turning around a dire situation. Victoria is in Australia, if they don't get it under control it will be mandatory 2 weeks quarantine for $2,800 for a single to leave the state indefinitely. Victoria has no choice , it isn't surrounded by failure. The situation is looking much better than almost all US states and UK. There is light at the end of the tunnel if they have fixed contact tracing.
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  8144. You're a soya bean Republic, the farm to China. I am sorry you look down upon bananas and think Soy is superior.
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  8145. As above comments and a little surprised someone saying they want to come here to Brisbane, normally it's the Gold Coast or Byron Bay or Barrier Reef. Glad someone not from here appreciate my city.
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  8146.  @tonys8243  not unofficial in all states but NSW and VIC, every other state makes it clear elimination is the only way. It goes back to the original open borders states those same 2 a year ago.
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  8147. Well it was during Nixon's time that an attempt was made to end the electoral college system and had bipartisan agreement in the house but blocked by both Democrat and Republican senators from small states. Can't say for certain but seems Nixon wasn't opposed to the change.
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  8148.  @MrHarumakiSensei  Without checking I believe you, unfortunately the only region to get a good grasp on the situation is my region Western Pacific WHO region. While in Australia we say we are opening up that isn't without restrictions such as vaccines for travel and still keeping contact tracing in place with only an emphasis change but still chase covid 0 and largely still have the capacity to do so. If the virus is rampant it kills others , sometimes indirectly from mental issues , increased stress and less non covid medical care. An "all of the above" approach has been the only approach proved to be successful in a relative sense. My region excluding China as the outlier still has less than 10% of the per Capita deaths from covid 19 of European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region. Vaccines don't solve everything but they help a lot.
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  8149. I watched several of the pre 2020 election Trump covid spreading events and that's exactly what he did, all politicians do it to be fair but he took it to the highest level. At the beginning of the speech he would roll out his socialist credentials and how Joe wasn't a [socialist] like him and was going to cut Medicaid/Medicare for a Florida audience for example and cut farm subsidies for an Iowan audience etc. then about 20 minutes later to the minute just about he would be talking about Joe being a socialist, after a few rallies he thought bugger this not a single bit of pushback so just said Joe is a communist and the US will become like Cuba or Venezuela. The cheers for the pro socialist and anti socialist Trump at the same rallies were indistinguishable. They were putty in his hands.
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  8150. @Mother Hen You aren't considering cost at all , it's cheaper just to vaccinate everyone, antibody tests are just another cost which achieves no greater outcome. The US is excellent at over medicating and aggressive treatment regimes for some and ignoring others, you don't manage to be the lowest life expectancy of a wealthy nation through an excellent holistic health system. If the reported drop in life expectancy is correct then the US has a lower life expectancy than China now which is a middle income country. The thing is for cancer treatment or heart surgery or whatever you can find the best hospitals in the world in the US , where it all falls apart is there is no coherent system. The US government actually spends more on publically funded healthcare than many countries.
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  8151. What everyone in the comment thread seems not to recognize is a partial lockdown, ( closing some businesses locally) isn't a lockdown by definition, go tell an inmate next time they go into "lockdown" they are free to leave the prison, I can assure you that they will look at you strange. Not a single county in the US locked down and not a single county had 0 infections. The US has had completely free travel both domestically and internationally for those who can afford it and voluntary quarantine, in other words no quarantine.
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  8152. Saying I will crack your jaw is not freedom of speech. The only issue from the video we have seen is the force used to arrest excessive and I think it probably is.
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  8153.  @t.a.ackerman4098  no it wasn't. They made a larger county police force, They also closed down open drug markets (street corners for drug selling) and demolished derilect buildings. This has produced the result of really bad to bad.
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  8154. I think in part because of course UK is his country and both have good data and information in English.
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  8155. Of course the UK virus is everywhere and the US virus another more transmissible strain will be everywhere, they can compete.
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  8156. @doof goobins 50% of the US population aren't "healthy", just counting fat people it's 36%. So to say only unhealthy or old should get the vaccine means actually everyone over 50 or so and a significant number below 50. If you're over 50 you'll have some condition or another.
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  8157. The problem is it will create more unemployment according to the analysis as presented? So 900,000 out of poverty and 1.2 million in deeper poverty. Probably it should go up in your country but doubling it is too quick.
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  8158. Australia and NZ should be ok but parts of the other countries you mentioned plus Myanmar and Philippines , China will say look it was a part of our colonial empire 1,000 years ago or whatever , so it belongs to China.
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  8159.  @wissembourggirl  The entire population of a certain age has to spend 1 year going through re education and it's estimated that 1,000,000 at any given time. I am not saying that's accurate and given these types of issues it's probably larger than the real number. If for arguments sake it's 100,000 only it's still the same thing and doesn't make it good. According to China's official population numbers there are 12,000,000 ethnic Uyghurs in Xingjiang , so 1,000,000 isn't outside the bounds of possibilities because they wouldn't want the program to continue forever and out of the 12,000,000 maybe 4,000,000 or so might be in the target age range that this is occurring to.
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  8160.  @davidchin1008  what country are you from?
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  8161.  @rayz6724  As I said it's a general estimate used by many media organization. Do you know how many are being put through re education 24/7 hours detainment and re education required and the other group permitted to return home daily? Maybe China should release such numbers , both are a violation of human rights if no offence has occurred however one situation is much worse than the other.
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  8162.  @justpray365  The cartels buy there weapons in Texas, it's estimated 90% of illegal fire arms in Mexico originate from the US. As there's no gun register either in Texas or nationally anyone can just buy a gun and sell it to the cartels. I wouldn't be surprised in fact my guess is that the cartels own a few gun shops in Texas so they can launder money and have unlimited supplies of weapons which they sell to ghosts. Critical thinking is very high amongst some it seems. The US is arming the Mexican cartels probably through multiple channels, just as states like Texas arm the gangs in Chicago.
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  8163. Any of the manufacturers that give donations to NRA. There's 22 corporate partners of the NRA which are gun manufacturers or gun accessories or ammunition. So basically all the major manufacturers support the cartels. If you support the NRA by definition you support the cartels as the NRA ensures easy access to weapons by cartels by ensuring lax laws as much as possible.
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  8164.  @dumplingdumpling2205  the lower class is similar stock, do you think being sent on a 3 month journey where you might die on the trip and have to serve 7 years hard labour for steeling a loaf of bread or if you were a lady lewd conduct such as being dressed a bit sexy and outside at night is so different to escaping China and then possibly becoming a slave or close enough to it is so different? A simple search will indicate that slavery existed in Singapore back then. Things were quite different in the 19th century.
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  8165.  @dumplingdumpling2205  Your too serious, I didn't say all just like not all Australians are descendants of convicts. I am not comparing modern day cheap foreign labour to what was occurring 150 years ago which was completely different, yes some were migrants getting paid , some were not and addicted to opium etc. Do you really think stealing a loaf of bread if you are starving makes someone a criminal, in that case criminals all over the world back then because not everyone had enough food to survive.
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  8166.  @dumplingdumpling2205  You think whatever, I have no idea what bothers you. It's almost like you care if your personal ancestors were noble men/ladies or not. If you go back far enough in your family tree you will find a slave and a slave owner and a criminal by today's standards because statistically we all have that in our family tree.
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  8167.  @zhangmanjun0719  Yeah can whinge and complain but look at the situation in other countries and consider this is only for probably a couple or few more weeks. So what if you can't get your favourite cut of meat for a while. January is very quiet for many businesses normally. I am in Brisbane so we probably a couple of weeks behind you and all I can see ahead is sunshine, I don't believe any government in Australia will seriously back track with the possible exception of Western Australia given their very conservative approach up to now and border still not open yet. Take care.
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  8168.  @alexkelly8131  What has just begun?
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  8169. Strategic interest. Those countries you mentioned have nothing individually that China needs.
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  8170.  zhmz888  China needs iron ore and wants it cheap which means from Australia, they don't need anything from the other countries because multiple suppliers.
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  8171. Probably couldn't find survey results anywhere, should he just make up some numbers for countries?
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  8172.  @quintonliu1146  No they weren't, no New Zealand and had Sweden. For your info 5 eyes is US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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  8173. The comments are interesting, very different to US news sites where the comments have continuous racist and comments about race and blaming each other. Both sides guilty. Also unfortunately a common comment there is violence and destruction of property both public and private will achieve a great outcome because talking doesn't work. It's probably the same people who don't vote . Many US jurisdictions have black police chiefs which are not being questioned or called to account, one might guess on the basis of race. The police chief of any jurisdiction is responsible if there is systemic problems in his police force.
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  8174. 109 homicides in Oakland California in 2020 with a population of 480,000 giving a rate of about 22 per 100,000 . Keep building those prisons America maybe it will work one day or maybe your society needs a rethink.
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  8175. So you support running up US government debt to help billionaires?
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  8176. Nobody is taking the direct threat of blocking the aid package seriously. The threat is if you don't vote for me you won't get money until the end of January. This will certainly win a certain number of votes the question is will it lose more votes than it gains, it's all a numbers game and unless the Republicans say this is wrong it will work. I am not American but curious if anyone reads this is the threat a positive or negative for the Trump vote at this stage?
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  8177. Maybe in a few hundred years there might be a note in history of the second dark age in the US.
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  8178. Is it possible to find 100 or so people willing to be traitors at $2,000,000 a piece? I would suggest yes so getting faithless electors shouldn't be a problem, so can Trump get state legislatures to knowingly choose such electors? Don't know but it isn't beyond the realms of possibilities and I can't see how the Electoral College vote could be overturned because the votes although cast in a "faithless" manner are still cast lawfully it would seem. Wish you guys the best of luck and hope those state legislatures don't go down this path. From Australia 🇦🇺.
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  8179.  @tomjohnson4681  Interesting link but means nothing at this point in time until the autopsy is done. Maybe it's related to the vaccine and maybe it isn't.
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  8180. So now a pretend government agency in the US has a cartoon dog in it's emblem. At least it's amusing, give them credit and it's probably low cost.
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  8181. He hasn't picked any family or extended family members? What's going on. He isn't going to follow a Trump tradition?
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  8182. Trump might have united the middle east to some extent because now everyone in the middle east except Israel hates Trump.
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  8183. I didn't believe your number but appears correct. You could build a lot of really big hospitals for that.
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  8184. In Australia we are fine, the privy council just observes.
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  8185. Trump is an extreme socialist willing to have a trade war with the world by taxing imports hurting the poorer people mostly.
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  8186. You are a corn and soy socialist republic. That's about all you export to China and is subsidised. To demonstrate you are a reputable democracy the last thing that should happen is imprisonment of an opposition party, that's authoritarian dictatorship take over. Trump won in a legitimate election and now he has lost its that simple. Any state charges or charges relating to his business dealings will just continue on to conclusion , but forget about making him and associates political prisoners because what you say you don't want to be seen as you actually will be.
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  8187. The US has 5 times the homicide rate of the UK and in both cases borders open and disregard for life has killed about 0.2% of the population, of course this gathering should not have occured, killing another person in the name of Freedom is also wrong.
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  8188. Americans have to stop speaking b.s. "emergency authorisation" means we believe it's pretty good and safe and it has some efficacy but we guarantee almost nothing hence the wording emergency use. Better if he speaks the truth I think.
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  8189. One thing that's highly notable is it seems all the countries or people giving him money seem not to be democracies or at least not highly functional democracies. Part of that is probably if a vibrant democracy did it they would be voted out.
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  8190. Build that wall, I have seen videos of the US/Canada border and it's like the US/Mexico border people can just walk across and it's not even patrolled it seems like.
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  8191.  @cristinac.7024  I was responding to the original comment, so talking about your other border and jokingly. Don't have a strong opinion either way about your southern border other than it should be completely sealed to unlawful entry because a country should not have an open border and 10,000,000 illegal immigrants give or take causes problems. I am Australian and we have a policy of a controlled border which I think is better.
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  8192.  @jeffreycapron3172  Have you ever heard of boats, also have you heard of visa over stays. 3% of the US population give or take are "undocumented" , it's a policy choice . Most illegal immigrants arrive into Europe by boat at some point and they are not so different to the US. Everyone knows where most of the illegal immigrants can be found but it's gone too far so realistically amnesty needs to be given and then stop it from continuing.
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  8193. If your Canadian 60,000 fellow country men and women alive today because of provincial and federal government's. So damn right it was ok.
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  8194. Much of his wealth is tied up in Truth social which is actually worthless. I have no idea why people buy into a worthless company just because it has Trump's name attached.
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  8195. Probably but not necessarily, depends on the public health messaging and if people follow that message. If the message is if you have any symptoms please get tested and also the hospitals are acting in a precautionary manner or just to collect data they get as much information as possible. So I wouldn't assume anything.
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  8196. Are you sure you would want the pro rata by population of their government debt. While Canada does have government debt that's too high it's much lower than the US at about 120% of GDP.
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  8197. I am Australian, I know China and US spy on us. Usually industrial espionage in both cases. It's sort of normal actually Samsung stole technology off apple I think it was. Without mentioning the incident Australia spied on another country bugging politicians to get a better deal for something. No major country is innocent and has intelligence agencies that don't gather intelligence.
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  8198. @Win Mag no Australia isn't a manufacturing hub for fakes, that's done in generally low income countries. I am not aware that any Australians eat bats but as far as the spread of that virus internationally, I would point out never in history has a new respiratory virus been kept inside a single country's border so it's happened before and will certainly happen again.
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  8199. Come out of house isn't defense, that's offence.
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  8200. Because they are often out of touch and have no idea what they are talking about, sort of like a king in a castle who thinks he knows how the peasants feel and what they want. The problem here is it's gone way beyond that to objecting to issues that are clear and should be non political like vaccines. Australia hasn't suffered this problem, our problem is a little different, success has reduced the desire to take vaccines because people see no point and the risk return individually is lower however I think vaccine hesitancy even under this different scenario is still less than the US, hard to know for sure because of our limited access to vaccines so far which is unlikely to change.
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  8201.  @exopisode  if it started in August it's all throughout Europe already I would suspect and most likely the US.
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  8202. This show isn't saying which party responsible. But watching US news is sometimes bizarre because there are leaders for example the governor of Michigan joining protests , who is she protesting against she is a leader? Is she protesting against the mayor and police chief in another state, is she protesting against mayor's or police officials in her state. Someone should ask her this and any other government official with power at any level that are protesting. Nobody has called these people out yet, not even Fox news. Australia I have never seen someone in power protesting against themselves technically.
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  8203. Taiwanese and Victorian s are different people. Not particularly applicable looking at other Australian states is more applicable. Also once cases at 0 with no cases in the community it's all irrelevant other than border quarantine measures. The border quarantine measures are almost identical in many countries in the Western Pacific, 14 days enforced that's it. Of course it's not impossible for failures Taiwan has had only 50% of the imported cases compared to New Zealand or Queensland Australia so at lower risk of border quarantine breach.
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  8204. Wait for 10 variants of concern probably doesn't increase your chances.
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  8205.  @daverlb  I haven't followed NZ or WA too much but I disagree with your assessment but agree with part of your sentiment. It's better that NZ and WA open up now especially it's the height of summer, the delays will only make things worse especially if the weather cools. I think both jurisdictions will be fine but they have become almost/maybe paranoid. I am in QLD which previously at a point in time was actually more hardline than NZ or WA but with 2000+ cases yesterday we aren't ever going to consider covid 0 again, it's time to cautiously open up.
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  8206. So put this mash up on a loop and a bright screen to go with it.
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  8207.  @MrBallynally2  if you decide to use it remember you aren't a horse so don't overdose.
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  8208.  @jarnylagrata6064  research what? No novel coronavirus has ever been contained inside of a country. China kept it to maybe 1,000 cases that escaped the country.
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  8209. He shouldn't have tried to run, those steps on the airplane are not standard size, the depth much more shallow. Or he should get some practice steps to train on so he can look good running up them lol.
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  8210.  @lew2875  I agree with you. I don't think the police officer used excessive force based on what I can see. Police have the right to push someone away if they are being attacked. It's unfortunate the way she fell but that's not the policeman's fault. These things are bound to happen given the numbers of people.
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  8211. It won't. The underlying causes of the problems in the US don't really exist here. Of course we have our issues and things aren't perfect. The problems in the US seem intractable but over time the race issue should get better simply through intermarriage.
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  8212. I didn't see the AR-15 s or city blocks on fire. Of course things problematic but even in those Mexican states things not that bad (Mexicans is a nickname for people south of the Queensland border so Victorian's and New South Welshmen because they keep migrating to Queensland)
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  8213. It's about numbers. Trump believes he will lose less voters than he gains by doing this. He might be correct. So the question is how many Republican voters does he lose versus getting the entire white racist voting block. If he loses 2% and gains 4% then it's to his advantage. It doesn't mean the other voters are racist but they vote for him for other reasons.
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  8214. I can see you put some effort into that and have seen it elsewhere, needs to be shortened though otherwise very few read it. It's not about health or freedom, it is as you correctly point out something else. BLM is immune and Trump rallies are immune just to name 2. There are currently 400,000 Americans in prison for violating health orders ( drug offences) yet they have not hurt another directly otherwise they would be in prison for the other offence because a violent offence would normally be considered more serious. Compare the responses on the 2 health matters.
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  8215.  @btd_blazeit123oof7  the US has about 5 times the homicide rate of comparable wealthy countries except for Canada which is about half as bad as the US. So the US is the most dangerous wealthy country and more dangerous than a lot of middle and low income countries.
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  8216. In the US it's nickname would be patriot act. Something along those lines.
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  8217. Not mine as I am not American. However I feel sorry for the middle and low income Americans who are going to be taxed more and losing jobs when Trump tanks the economy and causes job losses should he follow through with tariff promises.
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  8218. Like the hospitalization graph, that's available if you want to look.
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  8219. Agree but targeted sanctions are ok.
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  8220.  @TheRandomASDF  It may not work but do no harm, purely symbolic things really like freezing any assets of the coup d'etat leaders that are overseas, not accepting their nominations of any diplomats , things like that, just sends a message we don't consider you to be the legitimate government. For some this matters and for some it doesn't. The biggest sanctions are already on the government from internal forces, mostly disobedience and not going to work, or in other words wide spread strikes.
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  8221.  @Martyntd5  I can't speak to your situation which is very different to Australia. What I said before is correct about getting cases down but have no comment on the effectiveness of spending in UK. Whatever they do will be extremely expensive while case numbers are high and stable or rising.
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  8222. That would make a former Australian Satan.
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  8223. The point that possibly people are getting a smaller dose when infected is interesting, also the mode of infection may have altered due to behaviour changes. The survival rate from Anthrax is about double if the infection is through the skin when compared to the lungs. Although Anthrax is a bacteria the same principle may well apply, also why don't they infect a few young healthy volunteers using different methods to find out if it's a factor. I know it's possibly "unethical " but given the low risk versus something like anthrax or SARS1 for example which would be unethical due to high risk.
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  8224. Canadian truckers trying to make the border like North Korea. And what's with the agricultural tractors?
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  8225. Sort of yes
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  8226. Thanks for that I like to see alternative views. Fortunately I am in a safe area but am following things out of curiosity more than anything.
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  8227. Unless Trump is impeached and found to be unfit for office he is all powerful especially with others, it's highly questionable that he can pardon himself but he can an will have a big pardon list on the 19th or on the morning of the 20th. I don't think it would be beyond Trumps moral values to pardon every single person who committed a crime including murder at the federal Capitol building. We have to wait and see and Republicans who are not going to remove him are complicit if it occurs because they are not stupid and know who he is.
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  8228. What a load of crap that clearly Zionist person was speaking. It's the Palestinians that refer to what is happening at university protests as student intifada yet world wide not a single example of violence other than by the police or by the pro Zionists at UCLA. The Palestinians are not calling for the protests to get violent It's simply an outright lie.
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  8229. 700,000 body bags and counting, yeah authoritarianism is the problem. Maybe just maybe there's another problem.
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  8230. The reference to African people versus those in the US with similar genetic profiles is ridiculous. Most people of east Asian race to die from covid 19 are in the US and UK and other European countries. Funnily enough malaria isn't a problem in east asia and the government responses in east Asia are closer to government responses in Africa. Although age and underlying health does play a part the evidence so far indicates genetics only plays a minor role in whether you die from the virus if you get it. Culture and government responses and the effectiveness of the government responses are the only factors of significance along with living conditions ( more spread out the population like in rural settings the easier to control).
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  8231. Maybe in this part of the world we should call it the Victorian virus. People have been gaining illegal entry into Queensland saying they haven't been in Victoria so we have tightened border controls. Even one people smuggler some New South Wales person I think put a friend in the back of his hatchback to sneak across the border. So what you say isn't entirely out of the question lol.
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  8232. It doesn't work like that and we are a federation just like you, it's state by state. If you were in a Canadian province in lockdown and all other provinces open and no cases trust me you wouldn't feel good and read through the comments of people from New South Wales and they aren't comparing to jurisdictions that completely failed outside Australia. Now Victoria join them although they responded correctly this time and a couple of factors of why they failed , mostly lower compliance in my opinion because they failed last year and had a long lockdown so pandemic response fatigue.
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  8233. That's terrible people do that but good they got caught.
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  8234. I see a lot of people jumping the gun. Consider the average age of population and "getting admitted for other reasons". When I most likely had covid 19 herpes flared up, tinea flared up and conjunctivitis to the point couldn't open up my eyes after sleeping without manually removing dehydrated puss or whatever it's called with my fingers. I note my symptoms meaning if I didn't have a virus most likely covid 19 these other issues are not an issue at all. We will see in a month or so when the fat old unvaccinated people in wealthy countries are infected to find out if this is some "harmless" variant.
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  8235. What you saying is some places the government works for the people not all is like depicted in the documentary with rich politicians and property developers hurting the people. Good to know not everywhere as bad.
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  8236.  Brit Mk 2  No, British people are just humans, if the government has a relaxed mitigation strategy why would the public take any notice. If they don't care ,why should I? To this day your government allows people to enter the country and go into what is effectively voluntary quarantine and if your quarantine site is in an English household the people you are potentially infecting are not required to quarantine. Look up your governments policy, it's a super relaxed approach of mitigation. It's much more difficult to cross state borders in Australia than it is national borders in Europe. Although unlikely a Victorian Australian can travel to England and undergo the quarantine procedures as I partially outlined by one example. If the Victorian was to travel to Queensland , 14 days mandatory government hotel quarantine with 2 tests to be done during your stay. You will be required to contribute costs for your stay which will be more expensive for one person $2,800 AUD than the £1,000 penalty if you get caught breaking the extremely relaxed quarantine procedures in England. If you refuse to be tested an extra 10 days in quarantine and I suspect more costly. Just a few days ago one person was sentenced to 2 months gaol because they broke the government orders in April on one day by throwing a party and got a $1,600 fine I think it was and then the next day did it again hence the prison sentence. The government is a function or representative of the people and visa versa. Going to school in Queensland hasn't been considered an issue recently, they will just shut an entire school down if it is found a person who tested positive has been there and everyone gets tested and reopen in once people have got the all clear, probably a week or 2 but I'm not sure. I wish you the best of luck and think you should just keep yourself family and friends as safe as you can, your government isn't going to protect you, they only care about hospitals overflowing in my opinion.
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  8237.  @sailaway8244  of course you can stop them, a country with nuclear weapons can't guard the border? you chose not to. Yes look at NZ a minor hiccup. It's true can't completely eliminate the virus from entering from outside without heavier restrictions than the North Korean borders, but you can get cases to 0 and be alert to any new outbreak. Nothing is perfect but it saves lives and contrary to what's being said out there seems to reduce suicides (suicides are slightly down in NZ) whereas mitigation with continuos deaths and rolling lockdowns seems to increase suicides , I saw a media report suggesting that occurred in New York but can't remember details.
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  8238.  @sailaway8244  I am not sure what you mean and which model , mitigation or containment model. Containment model the countries and states are more open with less lockdowns but border restrictions. Mitigation countries and states have continuous ongoing internal restrictions and in effect an open border policy. It's true if an effect vaccine doesn't arrive there might be a segregated world for a while based on which model a country chooses to operate under. No country is going to change course at this point in time in my opinion, mitigation countries will remain mitigation countries and containment countries will likewise.
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  8239.  @sailaway8244  You have to realise that out of Australia and NZ there only 2 places with much tougher restrictions than the go to standard Sweden other than travel restrictions, that is Melbourne and Auckland, Aucklands current tougher measures will probably be down graded along with the rest of NZ in a week or 2. Melbourne has fairly tough restrictions at the moment and the rest of Victoria a little less, I think it could be another month or so for Victoria because many cases. It's only 1 jurisdiction but NZ has seen a small decrease in suicides, Australia it has apparently remained flat. If the great depression is anything to go by the by product of the economic downturn is likely to be increased life expectancy. I saw from a commenter but not official that hospitals in NZ are having less cases of food poisoning. In Australia the number of flu cases has dropped dramatically . You must factor in human behaviour which people are not doing and just applying a negative attitude to everything. Having parents stay home with kids has of course helped many families and brought them closer together and it has been said but only anecdotally that child abuse might have increased but actually no evidence at this point in time, only that it's a concern it might happen. So should that be looked into and monitored of course but don't jump the gun and just assume suicides and violence are going to increase. In uncertain times I would think people reduce risky behaviour but that's just my thought, all I have to go off is the years when the economy declined in the US during the great depression life expectancy rose. So I can't see why relatively short term economic decline in it of itself causes any long term harm overall. I don't think we are likely to agree, I think 10,000 dead Australians is a price too high and as far as ok protect them , nowhere other than Singapore has succeeded at this and pretty sure Australia and NZ we couldn't, our societies are not as compliant.
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  8240.  @exodus3518  Mate I am just going by that far left organization maybe could call them ultra left, the Heritage Foundation and the economic freedom index. It puts countries like Cuba and Venezuela on the bottom but more notably it puts the US below it's peers , Australia , New Zealand , UK, Ireland and even Canada which I have to be honest surprised me a little. Sorry your socialist leader is going soon.
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  8241.  @exodus3518  you clearly don't understand what socialist is then. Industry protectionism and handouts as he proudly said to farmers at some rallies and about pharmaceutical companies at other rallies. He claimed at those same rallies Biden will cut industry handouts. So Trump thinks he is a socialist or he is a liar. Socialist is to control the means of production which is exactly what Trump claims he will do with a manufacturer and farmer wonderland. Does any of this sound familiar to you?
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  8242.  @exodus3518  every time I Google socialism it says controlling the means of production and to go further by ownership of production ( communism) or by regulations, ( tax and punish some industries like retail so they produce less and give those tax dollars to farmers to produce extra product as one example)
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  8243. Brazil looks the same to India at this very moment other than they bury the dead and don't burn them.
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  8244.  @beverleylumb8048  the data is ok everywhere around the world, even if case numbers and deaths were out by 50% in a jurisdiction it doesn't change the overall picture one little bit. If you are someone who for example doesn't trust North Korea, just ask yourself, do you think that North Korea would have difficulties in enforcing restrictions and you will have your answer. North Korea however could be going through other crisis and true we wouldn't know but covid 19 won't be that crisis, they virtually cut themselves off from China even.
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  8245. Equally divided can't happen, should just be the pre 1967 borders and that's it. But until the US has a position on the matter nothing can change in my opinion.
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  8246. Search vaccine hesitancy rates and look at prepandemic statistics and it will move up your list.
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  8247.  Anthony Egidio  it actually makes a big difference. This is why less educated white people prefer Trump. There are more poor White people in the US but their voices are not being heard or at least that's what they perceive. Proportion is lower but gross number is larger.
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  8248.  @ngoandrew8  judging from history if convicted he will get 12 and half years same to Mohammed Noor in the same jurisdiction.
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  8249. More than half the population didn't, they either weren't alive or couldn't vote.
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  8250.  @macmcleod1188  I think the theory that viruses become less deadly is incorrect in so far as the virus doesn't change it just kills less over time as immunity is increased in the population. The black death or plague kept going. As long as humans or any species can reproduce the virus has no reason to be less deadly. A true killer virus tends to knock out 99% of a population in nature. Consider myxamitosis used in Australia to wipe out European rabbits and it did initially kill 99% plus. So if humans just ignored a virus and it was truly deadly noting it's impossible for this to occur a virus could easily kill 50% of a population. If viruses such as Ebola , Hendra Virus , avian flu , even MERS became highly transmissible with a slow incubation time it could be a real disaster where the outbreak occurs. I threw in Hendra virus because it's from Australia and the most deadly based on very limited data but no known human to human transmission so we are safe from it for now. So if you ever news story that Hendra virus has had an outbreak and human to human transmission is occurring close your border to Australia and forced quarantine for any evacuees.
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  8251. Observation from afar, because the US doesn't know how to deal with such issues. This is not the first time , if you look at many hurricane responses, responses to law and order, response to HIV, you will notice that the US underperforms like countries. I think constitutional change is needed, having a king who selects the entire government and bends them to his will doesn't really work that well, even if the king only can serve 8 years and is elected. So a state of the art constitution for 1800 better than being ruled by an English king or queen. I am Australian and the entire government is made up of elected officials not just one person, the Queen who is the head of state has never interfered and the governor general who is a representative of the Queen has only ever intervened on one occasion. A prime minister can easily get the boot because he or she is at the mercy of the political party they are a member of. Just some thoughts and maybe compare US to Canada because culturally the closest I guess but a different system of government. I think Canada has virtually the same set up as Australia although there are bound to be some minor differences.
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  8252. Thanks for your comment, that's exactly the impression I get. Yes Wuhan government do the wrong thing and the lockdown was too draconian initially which probably caused some deaths but at least it occured and the national government did something , including sacking the Wuhan government. Despite the comments and possibly excluding the US most people don't blame China. I am in Australia and we did the same things and got the same results. We do get called communist though because some American believe that containment of the virus is only for communists which is ridiculous, has nothing to do with politics or at least it shouldn't.
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  8253. Before people go crazy over Murdoch, Australia has less than 1 fifth of the homicide rate of the US, almost 5 years extra life expectancy, universal healthcare that's cheaper for the government than the non universal healthcare of the US. Don't blame one person, he doesn't control you and forgot the most relevant one covid 19 free and approximately 8% lower government deficit to GDP. Americans man the news desks at Fox and people sit up and listen , Australians man the news desk at Sky News Australia and we mostly ignore them. You can't blame others for the vulnerability of people not to make a judgement and being a blind follower. Murdoch media is far bigger in Australia as a proportion than the US and we are doing ok.
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  8254. Every single jurisdiction in the world has been stuffed if there's a major outbreak, NSW is no different.
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  8255. Your comment is just silly, even if you were over 90 your chance of dying from covid 19 unvaccinated would only be 20% or so. You probably support mass shootings at schools because you weren't unlucky, it's the same theory.
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  8256. It doesn't affect the economy but it can over time affect who owns stuff, as in foreigners having more investments in the US than US investments in other countries. For most countries at the moment I think the US has more overseas investments than the other way around.
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  8257. The US is 15 times Australia's population , I don't see any train except at Melbourne station and it ain't no Florida or New York depending on which political party you blame.
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  8258.  @abood-2639  I like the per square kilometer idea, only Vietnam has done better than Australia for a major country.
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  8259.  @scillaburton2965  you've got to be kidding, the US health system is massively over funded. Most expensive in the world on a per capita and gross basis. Functionality is the issue , not money.
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  8260. It's actually a partial hand out because on average people take out more than they put in.
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  8261.  @christineashton-pi5et  the funds are invested in Treasury bonds only and the funds receive that interest, according to the fund managers themselves the fund which currently has a couple of Trillion in it will actually go to 0 by approximately 2035. You can look it up yourself it's publicly available information. While Social Security system in the US might have originally paid out approximately the same amount being put in it would seem it never got adjusted for an increasing life expectancy.
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  8262. I don't understand the motive to be in charge of a trade war and as inflation hits and people in retail and export sectors lose jobs, he'll be one of the most hated person in the US behind the president himself.
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  8263. Now that my friend has informed you where this show is from, why is Australia so messed up?
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  8264. I am not American and don't agree with a lot of her positions however I certainly believe she is a genuine well intentioned person and I do also agree with some of her positions like this one, even it will probably get nowhere at least it's a protest.
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  8265.  @hamishmclaughlin9238  They are doing the same, some of the exact same measures but possibly not comprehensive and the 4 or 5 days warning is madness, I know in Queensland and I think also many other states including Victoria a little less than 24 hours warning when restrictions were changing quickly. It's unfortunately given a window for mass spreading. Slovakia and possibly Wales and Ireland are starting to look serious and possibly go for elimination or close to but the countries shown seem to trying to please people with a warning, the virus is very appreciative I think. I do wish them all the best but it seems a competition between many European countries and US states along with the rest of the Americas who can outdo each other in an unfortunate way.
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  8266.  @feh7854  Let's say all the vaccines are virtually useless and only 20% effective, if our population took that then we would be in the same position as a place like New York. Everywhere is hoping for a vaccine and actually no country has said what happens if no effective vaccine.
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  8267.  @feh7854  Don't know what's going to happen but I would expect if you travel international then you will need to do 2 weeks hotel quarantine at your cost after a vaccine is available and vaccinated people don't need to quarantine in a country like mine. I have probably already had covid 19 so a vaccine isn't going to hurt me or at least that's what I think.
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  8268. I am not a parent but I would say it depends on circumstances. If your child and everyone in the household is healthy and not overweight or above 40 then the risk is low enough to take. But if your household has anyone not inside those parameters it's better to act with caution.
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  8269. It should be noted some of those goods have import quotas on them when imported from Australia. So with beef and sugar Australia can take up the slack for a while most likely so price increases on these goods will be minor. However the moment all quotas get filled from Australia and any other countries with similar arrangements that's when prices will increase substantially and or those goods become difficult to find. This of course will apply to other goods, i just mentioned ones applicable to Australia.
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  8270.  @LowkeyUzi2614  yes and the main component is most likely socio economic group regardless of the race of the person
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  8271. I do agree India's numbers aren't accurate but I would be surprised if more than double the official numbers. Even doubling it they are not too bad , but they are a fairly young population and the poorer people less likely to die because they are not obese. Delhi however is actually one of the fattest cities on the planet with a 50% obesity rate , that's why at least anecdotally they were so bad.
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  8272. As stated by Trump it's a policy to hurt every country in the world as long the US is hurt less. It's sort of a blame all the problems in the US on every other country and take no responsibility.
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  8273. Yeah rightio mate, and not one study suggesting those refrigerated trucks to support morgue overflow have real bodies in them. Maybe it's a multinational blockbuster movie being made by Hollywood.
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  8274. To be fair consider how the US has behaved at least 2 states covering up numbers or delaying them. No proper reporting whatsoever of people catching covid 19 in hospitals. Not a cover up just check nothing and it doesn't exist.
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  8275. Trump is planning to tank the entire entire North American economy and this has become clear and US citizens are supporting this. Americans have truly lost the plot.
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  8276.  @ringoinah  the real question is why maybe 5,000 cases let out of China became 50,000,000. China doesn't control your borders, your countries actions and allowing the virus to spread rampantly. Given your comment I guess your country did far more to spread the virus than China ever did. It is true China's initial response wasn't perfect so how does that relate to your country completely failing on the matter and deliberately spreading the virus?
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  8277. It's for the drama, would hells kitchen work if Ramsey was super polite and quietly spoken?
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  8278. My Gosh Tucker Carlson is now pro vax, he actually said "life saving" when referring to vaccines. Keep it up Tucker, your viewers are dying. I am beginning to understand why Americans have formed 2 hardline sides, your left and right are both nuts in various ways.
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  8279. You're probably right but not sure how Trump is going to change anything, he will likely make things worse. I don't think most Americans actually know what they want.
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  8280. They don't watch this channel, have to wait until the great editorialist Tucker Carlson gets onto the matter.
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  8281. Hope it all goes ok for you. The worst part is being so close to Christmas because can't stop travel very easily on Christmas Day and it could spread around Sydney area. Really bad for those that planned to go interstate.
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  8282.  @snells-window  What you said is exactly why we won't have a problem. In the containment and elimination countries time is measured in hours not weeks and the public are not forgiving. Also the public will cooperate with all measures or at least 90% of people.
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  8283. She is in the lowest risk group possible, young female , not overweight. She is likely to have very mild symptoms possibly nothing noticeable, like a runny nose or whatever that could be anything.
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  8284. What does "west" have to do with anything? Are UAE and Japan for example "West"? It's about rich maybe I would suggest. The other thing is when your country has had 5 times the death rate it's hard to justify urgency for others. By the way totally agree that countries shouldn't worry about third shot at least until next year sometime, in the end it's probably going to be an annual shot I expect for some time to come for those who want it.
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  8285. So look at your weapons if that gives you comfort in this time of disappointment. Just don't consider doing anything with them.
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  8286.  @streamylc  Yes I'm from Australia, to sum up my point would be both sides of your politics accept extreme views which should never be accepted and the majority of Americans seem to be ok with this and their chosen side. I am uncertain why you mentioned socialism, both your political parties are protectionist at the moment, that's actually something they agree on and from an Australian point of view I think it's a bad idea, see Australia's ranking in the economic freedom index by Heritage Foundation compared to the US. I think you are well meaning but maybe unrealistic at the moment at least, the hope is something changes the direction of the US.
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  8287.  @streamylc  Actually your last explanation helps me understand where you are coming from. Anyway I wish you and your country the best, maybe something will happen that changes the general course of things, eventually something has to happen and I hope it's positive that's from 2 perspectives, for your country and for the world, a US collapse would have significant effects especially to do with China and Russia and their expansionary goals in my opinion.
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  8288.  @streamylc  thanks
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  8289.  @darlacink7956  in the "hardest hit" countries actually covid 19 deaths don't add up to the number of excess deaths recorded so not sure why you think the numbers are inflated actually the numbers are worse because lockdown kills best to have as few of them and as short as possible meaning virus elimination lockdown not just hospital isn't full let's open up.
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  8290. They have no reason to cover up anything at this point in time. This doesn't mean they aren't but it will be insignificant in the scheme of things, there isn't hundreds of thousands dying there, it would get out.
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  8291.  @YukiPyro  ok let's say i want to consider your proposition. Where is your information coming from? I could accept that you might be right if the official number is 50% of the real number, maybe even 33%, but your suggestion it is out by a factor of at least 20 seems ridiculous. Let me know where this information has come from, China is one of if not the most authoritarian large countries on the earth, locking down people and travel restrictions are not that difficult. Even Australia and New Zealand can do it and we aren't dictatorships, but in Australia we can't and haven't been as successful. New Zealand has and so have many Australian states at this point in time.
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  8292.  Bubble Eye Ridah  Really, then why as soon as not required , no lockdowns and sporting events with 10s of thousands of spectators. Anyway we did lockdown in Australia and New Zealand and now everything open and very few restrictions. But you prefer to have neverending lockdown lite (without vaccines) , lucky you are in the US where you have your wish. Truth is as the video showed just travel to a state without whatever restriction that bothers you , you aren't locked down. I sympathize with US people who would prefer to have locked down properly and opened up fully.
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  8293.  Chris Stevens  Japan has a hard border lockdown and quarantine measures, they are spending 40% of GDP on economic stimulus measures. I acknowledge the personal lockdown was voluntary however people of Japan seem to comply better with a voluntary lockdown than many do with a hard lockdown. The economic performance of Japan is inline with the world. Every country has a Rat sh*t economy propped up by government stimulus regardless of health policy. So you seem to agree certain hard lockdown measures are ok because Japan's border is basically locked shut. I don't believe any other country can emulate Japan because culturally they are highly cooperative so should not be compared to Western countries that much. Japan's contact tracing seems really good. The UK has never locked down the border so not a hard lockdown and contact tracing etc. failed. Don't compare a half open failed lockdown to a proper lockdown. Of course Japans equally drastic lockdown to UK has produced different results and totally agree a border lockdown is required , because no country with an open border has contained the virus.
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  8294.  laughing hard chuckling  Which country you from?
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  8295. This is becoming like a few seasons of the apprentice rolled into one. Your fired is becoming a daily thing, no need to wait for new episodes.
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  8296. Wouldn't matter because of compulsory quarantine, a measure most of Europe and the US haven't considered yet.
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  8297. Well is stupidity a comorbidity? It's government responses that have had the largest impact , good or bad. To this day the 3 interconnected powers that be value short term limited freedoms of some above deaths and significant freedoms for all, the 3 are wealthy European countries and US and the WHO who is supplied in majority by scientists and doctors from the nations of the first 2 mentioned, an uncanny consistency in policy. The tyrant states full of sheep like Australia and other countries in my region seem to think limiting the travel of rich people and quarantine is important, lock up only those it's necessary to do so to stop spread etc. not lock down lite for the squalid masses and small businesses and freedoms for the well to do.
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  8298. It doesn't mean that at all. It means you over a long period have access to debt. Debt isn't disposable income.
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  8299. I don't agree, he's disappointed that we as a country couldn't keep it up , however I think he does to some extent not understand about vaccinating a population with few cases, it slows the process down for various reasons, however that's largely changed now. In simple terms , if the closet covid 19 case of community transmission so far is 2,000km away , pretty hard to make someone think getting a vaccine is urgent, if the local shopkeeper just died last week from covid 19 people are much more willing to make the effort to be vaccinated. There is also the issue of supply because we only manufacture Astrazeneca which took a while to ramp up and not recommended for below 40 unless there's an outbreak. The supply from other countries was a bit slow because countries with no cases move down the queue, that's changed to a large extent now as countries become fully, as in everyone who wants the vaccine so far has got it, vaccinated
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  8300.  @patriciahoke4722  Actually getting the vaccine a little slower I am guessing will actually lead to very high vaccination rates, over 70s 88% have had at least one dose. Rushing it makes people more nervous I think. That's my hypothesis, we will see if I am correct or not around January most likely when everyone will have had opportunity to get a vaccine of their choice most likely, some older people waiting for Pfizer or Moderna and they are at the bottom of the queue because evidence based there is little advantage to that age group and no increases in adverse reactions with Astrazeneca. In remote areas our vaccination rates are all over the place, that's an important area to focus on if we open up because of course health services less available in those areas.
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  8301. The US is great by size only. Most key societal measures compare very poorly to other wealthy countries. To just pick one the per capita homicide rate in the US is around 6 times that of Australia. Wouldn't a peaceful nation be something that Americans should aspire to and accept that currently the performance is very low on this score. I am not making a partisan comment , what I have just said applies to all Americans.
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  8302. I think unlikely, he hasn't gone below jurisdictions with about 5,000,000 people that I am aware.
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  8303. Probably
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  8304. Actually you are wrong, it's the reaction and continued denials by 45% of sitting politicians which is the wake up call. January 6 event didn't happen according to almost half the country. The largest mainstream media company in the US also takes the line that nothing happened that day.
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  8305. She's a converted lefty and they say converts are usually the most radical. I think she is compelling evidence of this theory.
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  8306. Because the US government has failed, it's no better than a poor corrupt country. To give the most blatant example the US government deliberately pays above market rates for pharmaceuticals. That's morally corrupt insanity. This policy is bipartisan. So essentially you have 2 corrupt political parties that don't care for their constituents. So US citizens have split themselves essentially down the middle of blaming different political parties, when they are both to blame. Until they accept their favoured party is morally corrupt nothing will change.
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  8307. Things can't be normal while the virus is rampant.
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  8308. It's true it's not the internet. Hitler and his counterparts in other countries never had the internet. The internet makes things really fast. Not all powerful people are bad though.
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  8309. As much as it is clear he is anti Cuomo .
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  8310. It is essential actually for people's mental health, things need to be kept as normal as possible. Watch some clips of the North Korean News reader, that might give you a sense of how it might feel if we emptied out the television studios.
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  8311. I wouldn't go that far but it's true some people don't mind the deaths because it reduces the government bill for aged care. This opinion is specific to people not countries.
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  8312. Well the restrictions they had in place we're essentially working fine for the old variants and they did have hotel quarantine for 7 days for entry which slowed any cases coming in much more than the US or UK with no meaningful quarantine and full of holes. So they weren't prepared for the new variants, also seems some bad advice may have played a part talking about herd immunity and superior immune systems of the population. Western countries are partly to blame for that, some healthcare people theorized basically any country that was doing better had people with immunity from other viruses, as in these are disease ridden countries so people have better immunity.
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  8313. Not entirely because the vaccination rates of those most at risk aren't too bad, however the policy of going to 0 will remain for a long time because would you as the PM or one of the First Ministers come out and say we are opening everything and 5,000 will die, this type of number might still be the case even if fully vaccinated or all that want it get it.
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  8314. Well as I saw a clip with Nancy Pelosi some time ago and Trump was demanding a $300,000,000,000 part of the funds to not be assigned to certain covid 19 response measures giving Donald Trump executive powers to spend it as he wished a bit like the allocation of funds to build the wall. Should the Democrats have agreed to this slush fund in your opinion? Maybe he could have finished the wall calling it a quarantine measure to keep the infected Mexicans and other latin Americans from crossing the border.
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  8315. I wonder that a little too, maybe because he is more open about it than they can find in the US, which is obviously the holy ground that Trump walks upon.
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  8316. I have read a fair few comments, I really find them disturbing. We have a President and a Mayor acting like 5 year olds. Give them a sand pit. How can anyone say either leader is great?
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  8317. Just looked up what Canada imports from the US and other than oil products it's actually very easy to replace US imports which is mostly machinery and vehicles. Can easily just change to European and East Asian suppliers.
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  8318.  @rayskidmore1786  You never heard of Persian carpet or cats and also the misnamed Tahitian lime actually came from Persia. So you can sit on a beautiful carpet stroking your beautiful cat while having a refreshing drink. I am sure other things too.
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  8319.  @lesongliu7111  if that occurs in the near future Australia and China go from on top to in deep recession. It's not going to happen everyone have too much to lose , no iron ore and metallurgical coal to China and we are as I described, both stuffed.
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  8320.  @lesongliu7111  by the way 3 voices on the internet or sky News Australia is not Australia. Out of 1.4 billion people in China if not censored I can find 10 people who will say anything, it's just a matter of probability. Australia doesn't have any significant censorship so I can find 1,000 Australian people who actually support China against Australia, actually not that difficult.
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  8321. We have wait to see what eventuates. After that for sure hollywood will put out a movie like "Infection in the House" or variety of other possible names.
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  8322. It's not racist it's nationalist. Previously viruses were often named by there place of discovery. Queensland Australia we have 2 , Ross River fever, a mosquito born disease that occasionally kills people and the far more deadly Hendra Virus a suburb of Brisbane. This virus has infected people going from bat to horse to human, no known cases of human to human transmission and mortality rate in the range of avian flu or Ebola although due to the very low case numbers it might not be accurate although the mortality of horses was in the same range. Hendra has a horse race track that's why a suburban setting was a relatively major outbreak place.
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  8323. Be careful what you wish for. For Trump's approval rating to go that low things will be pretty bad.
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  8324. Joe Rogan is simply a moderate version of Alex Jones. He's still in the end just a right wing conspiracy theorist.
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  8325.  @ehtishamcosmos  I agree but not entirely, the initial cover up was still a cover up and it's possible things might have been different if actions were taken a week or 2 earlier. Trump did the exact same cover up methods as Wuhan even after he knew the problem was serious in March, but he never changed position. Wuhan government sacked so at least some accountability I suppose.
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  8326. Nah gangs can "police" the streets. Without police they will probably have more resources than the police do now.
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  8327. Typically it indicates someone is an angel. Probably best to leave the argument alone of what it might represent.
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  8328. Exactly, the Zionists of which Ben appears to be one believe in expanding Israel in the West Bank illegally according to international law and against the wishes of about 180 countries. The notable Zionists are the US government regardless of party and Israel. I don't support a "greater Israel " and consider myself antizionist. Many Jews especially in the US don't like the Zionists. I support those Jewish people on the right side of history even if they might be in the minority.
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  8329. Dr Bright is correct. Truth is Australia and US followed the plan or close version of it in an almost identical fashion. It's the implementation that failed. You only see major divergence of what was being done after the US had failed at containment and entered the mitigation phase which is where you are at. The difference in outcomes is largely down to implementation. The other thing that Bright said is there seems to be nobody in charge coordinating which is the most important job. So some great big task force which you have without a leader. Truth is there is nothing wrong with "the plan" regardless who developed it and Australia who did exactly the same things at the same time until situations were very different had very different results so far. I hope Americans identify the actual problem and yes the President is certainly one of if not the most responsible person . What I have said doesn't really help anything now but maybe next time out comes can be different.
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  8330.  @jocelynstuff1947  That's not true a virus can become more or less deadly as long as it doesn't become too deadly. Have you ever heard of Flu pandemics that kill more than usual numbers of people, well that's a virus becoming more deadly.
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  8331. Depends on the test you had, if it was PCR they are extremely accurate so probably flu but if any other test then not highly accurate especially if viral load was low at the time.
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  8332. You should consider at least getting the covid shot, the problem is if you simultaneously get covid 19 and the flu you chance of dying approximately doubles compared to covid 19 only.
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  8333. Here's the thing. Trump has made an excellent move. The implied threat is if you don't you are fired. If I am a career public servant and due to my skill set would find it hard to find another job I would have to consider doing what Trump says, I don't lose anything, it would be my department or agency breaking the law and not me legally speaking.
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  8334. The gentleman is wrong, if 3% of votes don't get counted it will affect all candidates equally , it's impossible that all lost or slow mail would be all voters of one candidate only. While it's not good if it occurs other than if it's malicious and a certain area has its postal service being slower it will have no effect on the result.
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  8335. Much better chance with the TPP currently called CPTPP. Trump was a protectionist if nobody noticed, he even threatened us with tariffs but only hit Canada and Mexico. So for trade issues having someone closer to the centre is a good thing.
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  8336. Jesse from Chicago looks like an elf. Nothing against that but maybe if an acting role comes up for such a role he should consider it.
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  8337. Another comment pointed out they might not do that with family groups which I think is a valid point and fairly likely.
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  8338.  @ArmTubeYou  Sometimes I laugh when international media talks about new variants of concern, Australia in most cases of the most scary variants finds cases often before the US and most of Europe. I read some article that said Australia had at the time the most variety of variants of concern. But the good thing is those variants die in quarantine or if breech quarantine we lockdown as required. As both our population have very low vaccination rates if any of those variants got out of control we would be in big trouble, they are much worse than the virus a year ago.
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  8339.  @shaejen127  which countries. Australia , New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, HK, Thailand all did lockdowns, are we worse off? Most country mentioned are opening up. The key was the initial response and taking the threat seriously and good contact tracing and testing in the initial stages of the pandemic. The US can only do mitigation not containment now because of previous failures . While we could descend into your situation you can never get yourself into our situation. Christie is the first person I see in US politics talk about mental health which was a serious consideration in Australia even a month ago, which probably has reduced the timing in our reopening. I wish the US the best of luck . Ok I just discovered maybe Taiwan didn't but their initial response leaves even Australia for dead, pardon the pun.
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  8340.  @charlesklempner8273  It's not that simple and if people lack the confidence and hide in their homes as you put it jobs won't be available anyway because of no customers. Calling people names won't achieve much in my opinion. Yes if you are aged from maybe 10 years old to 40 years old and don't have health issues including obesity your chance of dying is probably 1 in 1000 or less but just consider others.
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  8341.  @charlesklempner8273  thanks for reply. I look at US politics because it fascinates me. We do have some of the same issues to the US regarding people s animosity to each other but we have a multi party system and not a 2 party system which allows for those on the extremes to join smaller political parties. This makes a difference I think because major parties don't have to have extreme policies in some cases. Both political groups have people not even willing to listen or consider alternative views and sorry to say it just act in anger which reduces those people's chance further of actually being listened to outside of the echo chamber. So I would encourage you to not throw insults if you want a chance to be listened to. When others do it to you it feels bad so why do it to others. I have thought a bit about what should the US do now , noting I haven't thought about that till now. Australia's situation at the moment is completely different so what I want for Australia is completely different to what I think the States within the US should do. Looking at the numbers I think most states should probably adopt the Swedish model now and due to political restraints I apply that thinking to all. Protect the vulnerable and continuous testing for hospital and aged care workers. If resources permit once an outbreak in either of these settings is confirmed replace the entire staff with people who it is believed don't have it. I do differ with mask wearing compared to the Swedish or Australian model because that is what US people want. If testing the groups mentioned above after that test others with flu like symptoms and 2 weeks enforceable quarantine in the case of a positive result to ensure hospitals are not over run. Best of luck anyway and I have no idea how but I hope the US becomes less divided.
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  8342. Maybe it should be voted on and don't protect them if the Mexicans come for them.
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  8343. I use my knuckles. It's pretty hard to pick your nose or rub your eyes with your knuckles.
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  8344. By our do you mean Australia or the world?
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  8345.  @JaayTea2595  China did alert the world with the Wuhan lockdown in January, however I agree with the statement towards the end if they had been transparent at least some other countries would have taken it more seriously. I think the West Pacific countries ex mainland China were very transparent and also willing to tell of errors which we all learned from creating relative success.
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  8346.  @sophiawilson8696  Wuhan lockdown was 23 January so what are you talking about, cases were discovered outside of China in many countries by 21 January, so every reasonable person knew it was dangerous and already here in any medium or large country.
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  8347.  @CJDcow  Huh what are you talking about, what does Trump's domestic failures resulting in his election loss have to do with anything? Biden wasn't running to be president of China so not sure how anything relates.
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  8348. So Alabama and Mississippi are lefty states are they? Check out their deaths per million.
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  8349. Subsidies aren't the answer, the US already provides plenty of subsidies mostly for things like corn, wheat and soy much of which is exported. So basically the US wants to subsidise foreign consumers by selling products for export at a loss. No David MAGA are outright socialists, they only believe in free markets and no subsidies for Democrat voters, it's that simple.
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  8350. It's incredible there is only one leader of the world behaving in such a manner , it would also be incredible if the entire US media didn't report on this leader's behavior. Watching from afar in covid free Queensland Australia.
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  8351.  @susansuewwilliams  all communists are socialist but not all socialist are communist. The US has limited socialism on a level slightly higher than say Australia or New Zealand, see Economic Freedom Index by Heritage Foundation which is a pretty good guide of how socialist a country is. The US likes to direct it's socialism to the corporate sector and farmers, not to provide a social welfare safety net including healthcare which people in the US for some reason don't like. People in the US prefer to pay more in taxes for what is a substandard public healthcare system which isn't universal. Consider the last year it's likely the public healthcare bill has blown out considering all the Covid 19 costs and just the ppe alone and 400,000 excess to normal deaths. The universal healthcare system run by Australia has possibly led to 15,000 excess deaths ( population adjusted number) however we won't know the real number until the complete year is accounted for and it's possible Australia increased life expectancy because fewer deaths from things like the flu. So the socialists supporting your current system in the US are totally ok with this and are often beneficiaries of the socialist system in place like old people on Medicaid. The majority of people in the US have decided for now that's how they like it. No true communist countries exist anymore where everything is state owned and no private enterprise, North Korea is pretty close though.
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  8352. Oz might be a doctor but he certainly isn't an economist. A 20% wage hike which is what a 20% payroll tax is, would be inflationary. To use Walmart as an example wages around $35 billion, net profit around $11 billion. So at 20% payroll would mean prices need to rise around 2% to maintain a similar profit. Obviously everything supplied to the store would be more expensive because the entire supply chain within the US would have higher wages that need to be covered and things like store fit outs also more expensive. So the idea would just mean low income people can buy less, it would be a nice fit though with Trump's tariff plans which have exactly the same effect.
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  8353. Judge Jeanine look at the thumbnail in the corner, that's your future look. Looks like mum and daughter, identical facial features.
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  8354. Probably because all over the news, anyone from Bolton is like a leppar , no one accepting visitors from there and who wants to go into a leppar colony if you don't have to. So a non governmental containment zone.
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  8355. You like the seen but not heard approach. That's what my mum said of me when I was a kid.
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  8356.  Enricco Palazzo  600,000 American and 150,000 Brits would disagree with you if they were still alive that is.
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  8357. Of course, if you're gonna release a bioweapon you need to vaccinate your entire population with a vaccine near 100% effective first. China's vaccines unfortunately are a bit lower standard than the MRNA vaccines which themselves only come in at about 90% effective preventing deaths, maybe a bit higher after 3rd shot.
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  8358. BZ search , "list of common coronaviruses" , there's heaps of them but in US English you decided to call covi SARS 2 coronavirus. Maybe now it'll have to be like the difference Coronavirus versus coronavirus just like Liberal Democrat versus liberal democrat. Could you Americans please stop messing up English?
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  8359. If you've ever read the disclosure statement for an investment fund it always says "past performance doesn't predict future performance" , same applies here, just because the Democrats haven't done it yet doesn't mean that a future or even the current Democrat leader won't do it. Go back 30 or 40 years and nobody would have predicted what happened during and after the 2020 presidential election.
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  8360. Contact tracing just means if you might have been exposed you will be asked to take a test and or self isolate for 2 weeks since most recent possible exposure. They couldn't care less about your medical records, they just want if you are infected you don't spread it.
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  8361. It just happened how would they know, the suspect needs to be interviewed.
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  8362. Delta isn't gone and it's the main killer at the moment. Think of Delta like a mass shooting at a school and Omicron is like an annoying teacher or something telling kids to do homework and all that.
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  8363. Ethically they can't because need permission I expect and not going to ask the family of a person on mechanical ventilation. It's a difficult one and do agree that the worse the image the better the effect.
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  8364. One thing looking at graphs without realizing the numbers behind it can be misleading. The current new cases in the UK are the same as Thailand, in other words that what looks like over in the UK graph is the peak in the Thai graph. UK and Thailand have almost identical population. If you were to overlay those graphs the Thai graph would just be a straight line along the bottom, you wouldn't even see the spike.
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  8365. MAGA definitely believes the 2020 election was stolen. Currently they believe putting taxes on imported goods will cause the US to make them inside the US at lower prices. Electronic goods for example are typically made in countries with a minimum wage around $15 USD per day, so they probably get a little more for a gruelling factory job. First of all who exactly wants a boring tedious job and secondly who wants to work for $3 per hour to keep costs as low as overseas? But hey the members of the cult haven't actually bothered to even think, they just believe.
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  8366. If Epstein did keep a diary releasing it wouldn't be helpful unfortunately because it could be made up. Whether people like it or not upholding rule of law and not defaming people is important. If evidence actually existed of crimes committed by others then they would have already been prosecuted. If theres proof of crimes having been committed however the statute of limitations has caused that to no longer be able to be prosecuted releasing that information is ok.
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  8367. Evidence tells us that the rich get it first then it spreads. So a country like South Africa it would spread slowly first but extremely difficult to stop spread once it gets a hold in a shanty town for example. I think people from very different countries should not criticise. South Africa has an extreme violent crime problem and if they go down the US or Swedish path I don't blame them. I wish South Africa the best of luck. I do think in poorer countries people will follow government advice more if they can noting the pressure if the poor to just get food if the government doesn't assist.
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  8368. More peaceful in a sense yes but actually more disruptive, shutting down 20% of an entire country's trade is bigger than most trade sanctions countries get put under. This is the equivalent of the trade sanctions against Cuba. If it goes on for a month hundreds of thousands of workers out of a job and both US and Canada going down at a rapid rate and running up wartime style government deficits, crime on the increase , suicides increasing etc. make no mistake how disruptive this is.
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  8369.  @UrbanLikwid  how about the million lives lost from the bungled covid 19 response? To be fair 900,000 because about 100,000 unavoidable in the US situation. Million is the CDC excess deaths which Jan 6 and BLM riots in some areas had an infinitesimally small contribution. Having hundreds of thousands out of work causes more suicides and domestic violence and possibly homicide. There is cause and effect and shutting down significant proportions of economies does kill people indirectly.
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  8370. Chrissi I see your quote but how does it relate to you? If you are either A US or UK citizen, the policy was life is not an important liberty and having business open and schools open wasn't important, the important thing that topped all other concerns was both transnational and international travel without quarantine but "lockdown" the peasants with small business. Was this the essential liberty you were talking about or was international travel without quarantine essential, please explain your thoughts.
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  8371.  @ci5030  the US purchased temporary freedom, that is free travel and no quarantine and it cost at least 500,000 deaths and counting and caused the entire country to be on partial lockdown for an entire year as was the PAHO Pan-American Health Organization response probably led by the US. In Australia a part of the Western Pacific region of WHO we had travel restrictions and quarantine. So be more specific, which approach was better up to now , which freedoms are important, you can't keep all it's impossible.
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  8372.  @ci5030  I have been following the situation in Australia , New Zealand, UK and US quite closely, all information is available at ones fingertips. What do you believe is my ignorance regarding the US?
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  8373. Our jobless receive more money than those migrant workers. US a bit different, don't lump us together.
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  8374.  @good2freelance1  As of 2016 the most recent year that seems to be available China's suicide rate was 9.7 per 100,000 and Australia's 10.4 so not really statistically significant. If a country's economy is growing in general terms suicides tend to go down and visa versa. Criticise countries like South Korea if you want, it has a really high suicide rate for a developed country.
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  8375.  @KarnageGaming  look at Italy now, maybe better than some neighbours but not good. Have confidence that the Vic government will stay the course, that's why the number was set so low for complete opening.
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  8376. As a non American I have no idea and just judge based on what he just said and with possibly a slightly different emphasis I agree but totally agree mental health is a serious issue.
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  8377. Actually there is a study on that and technically it would appear to be correct. Riots so far have achieved the best lockdown for the masses. When you see rioters on the streets burning down buildings and being violent to passers by in some cases there is a good reason to shelter in place. So it spreads through the protest mobs but reduces infections in the general public.
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  8378. There isn't none but far less than countries like France, US and Japan.
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  8379. Wrong country, US is the country where battle of the strains is occurring, this isn't Wuhan B strain anymore which seems not so bad now.
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  8380. What is being discussed has nothing to do with education. People who join a cult are often well educated. I think Rudi Giuliani might fall into this category, he appeared to me to actually believe in what he was/is doing.
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  8381. In wealthy liberal democracies there is no strong evidence it will reoccur. If those country become poor I guess it's a possibility. If you go back 200 years ago this video without of course the modern technology could be anywhere in the world.
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  8382. I think the only way for the company to recover outside of China is completely new ownership.
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  8383. Although not significant any sales outside of North America will basically go to 0. I am Australian and we get tariff free vehicles from countries like China, South Korea, Japan and Thailand.
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  8384. Lol the reporter said at the very beginning it was entirely legal.
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  8385. If you go to the about section in the youtube profile it shows his Twitter , facebook and linkedin , hopefully one of those ways you can get a hold of him, previously he did show his email but I guess unfortunately he was getting abused so took that off his profile. Best of luck.
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  8386. A poor Indian or Indonesian which there are a lot of were in "lockdown" by US standards even before the pandemic, if you only have enough money to survive you aren't traveling all over the place going to bars and restaurants, also if people know they are vulnerable they take precautions. There's no guaranteed expectation that you will get a hospital bed unless you are rich. But more broadly speaking countries that have restrictions have far lower deaths, compare the Western Pacific WHO region that all had 14 days mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine for entry, less than 10% of the deaths per Capita of PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region and European WHO region both without quarantine just some voluntary scheme. The numbers speak for themselves and the thing about the Western Pacific WHO region is it's extremely diverse, China, Japan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia as examples we have significantly different cultures, governments etc. but we all did the same thing and have similar results. India and Indonesia are in the South East Asia WHO region and there policies far more strict than Europe or Americas but less strict than the Western Pacific and their deaths and cases are in between.
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  8387.  @jimjamson9534  Your last point which was different to your original comment, nobody knows why case numbers plummet at a certain point usually about 2 months after cases accelerate quickly but people taking more precautions does play a part. Your point that Indonesia is pretty slack in restrictions is correct but you were comparing to the US, a couple of points when compared to the US, a 9 Year lower median age and only a bit over 50% approximately urbanization versus a bit over 80% urbanization in the US. Those differences are significant. Let's compare regionally, only 2 countries have higher deaths per million than Indonesia in 2 WHO regions , Western Pacific and South East Asia WHO regions, Malaysia and Fiji. So yes compared to the region Indonesia is in and it's adjoining region Indonesia's approach hasn't been the best and I already knew that but it's been a stellar performance if you compare to the PAHO and European WHO regions. Demographically Brazil is fairly similar to Indonesia except for urbanization rate and similar weather, with no restrictions pretty much Indonesia would look similar to Brazil most likely. Light restrictions by regional standards you end up with one of the worst results at this point in time.
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  8388.  @jimjamson9534  I get it now your original question was completely rhetorical and you were just pointing out that Indonesia and India have a lower death rate than US. You take care.
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  8389. ​@dilbertdoe601 senate elections aren't popular vote, it's by state, a Californian has a tiny representation per capita compared to say an Alaskan.
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  8390. Does Biden control the weather now, that's really impressive. Let's see if he can stop tornadoes and hurricanes to show it wasn't a fluke.
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  8391.  @kelperdude  I know Biden did and that cold snap in your country would qualify as a dark winter I am thinking.
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  8392. Of course it didn't, Sweden versus UK are just 2 different lockdown lite models. Lockdown proper with travel restrictions and quarantine is the West Pacific. Most countries other than Philippines and Indonesia due to lack of capability to stop the spread are as open or more open than Sweden other than the travel restrictions.
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  8393. Diet plus sedentary behaviours match the excess deaths.
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  8394.  Alexander Van Burk  In Victoria to anywhere else in Victoria. Not entirely sure but I think the general standard for other states to let Victorians in without quarantine will be when they reach 28 days of no cases.
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  8395. The problem is the job wasn't/isn't finished. Australia or China and a few others there is only one number to go for and that is 0. Another 8 weeks maybe Portugal back where they were , so many countries and jurisdictions have done this including many European countries this is why people in countries with continuous failures don't believe in lockdowns.
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  8396. For agricultural products I am sure Canada would be actively trying to increase sales to China.
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  8397. Genocide includes destroying a culture, the re education is aimed at destroying culture, it doesn't have to mean killing.
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  8398. No about 200 dead in a state of about 6.5 million. This is a state issue in Australia.
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  8399. Still alive and well in Australia, in countries where the virus is rampant it's every man woman and child for themselves.
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  8400. Yes of course but like China they are untouchable. China is creating it's own enemies without the help of the US.
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  8401. Australia had more cases than US in the middle of February. Good to see that America could win in the end when they worked out how to do testing. The contact tracing it's fair to say is a work in progress at the moment in most US states but I am sure they will work it out eventually. Think of 50 Victoria's plus an incompetent Federal Government , that's the easiest way to explain to an Australian. Victoria looks pretty good actually by US standards.
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  8402. What a silly comment. Race doesn't determine who is or isn't an idiot and does or doesn't follow the rules. You give one example in one area that you are claiming only contains one particular group, and then claiming the entire outbreak is due to that particular group.
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  8403. @James Anderson Yes ethnic Victorians. Other ethnicities like Queenslanders aren't like your mob.
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  8404. Very slick hasbara. It gives the appearance of being balanced while by significant omissions and completely misleading lies for example the definition of intifada pushes the Israeli agenda big time. Another thing is who is funding this slick hasbara effort, it doesn't come up as sponsored for no reason. Is this Israeli government funded in any way?
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  8405. @UNPACKED  well that's their problem, the word intifada simply means uprising and doesn't denote method. The US students protesting were nicknamed the student intifada by the Palestinians, the Arab spring protests were considered intifada.
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  8406. You miss the point it wasn't working, fact is there was no other way to increase vaccination rates, just asking more would achieve nothing or take way too long.
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  8407. Well I don't agree , it's good to have it and the risk is no higher than all the returnees, currently 3,500 in quarantine hotels in Queensland and that's only here , 1,200 extra people isn't much for Australia and they would overall be lower risk because they will be wealthy people who protect themselves more than average I would expect. Hopefully no outbreaks in Melbourne and can have decent crowds which is good for public morale. Same complaints occurred in QLD with the AFL Grand Final and I think after the fact virtually everyone ok.
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  8408. 3 weeks isn't that long and that's when Wuhan went into lockdown.
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  8409. How exactly do LGBTQ people cost money. I am totally confused please enlighten me.
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  8410. 1 event in one state in an entire country made up of several states with different approaches has made you judge an entire nation. Good luck with that concept. I assume nothing has ever occurred in Germany for 20 years and you live in Utopia, best of luck in your Utopia.
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  8411. 26k comments at the moment i post this . Wholly hell
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  8412. Likes and dislikes are irrelevant in cases like this because some will dislike and like for the same reason, like because something is being done about it and dislike because of the wrongdoing.
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  8413. Well on a positive note Trump didn't threaten to invade Mexico this time, only Canada and Panama.
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  8414. Well he is about the complexion of Zimmerman, let's wait and see. I think someone will describe him as white because the title becomes arbitrary. Race isn't the issue , just young man kills someone, not good.
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  8415. It's compared to the absolute failures of US and UK , so it's all relative. Also which has been left out of the argument every country on the planet that can has provided economic stimulus the amounts of which we won't truly know until it's over. Sweden has the advantage of already having government spending above 50% of GDP in other words a fairly socialist economy probably suffers less shocks.
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  8416. Second world is communist, aligned with the Soviet Union traditionally. I don't think Trinidad and Tobago is communist.
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  8417.  @ebonynyle1824  Personally I prefer if it's about wealth , low or middle or high income country. I just had quick look at your GDP per capita and would say you are a middle income country. I think most middle income countries have universal healthcare. The US is unusual being the only high income country without a universal healthcare system. I am in Australia so a long way away from you guys, hope all is as well as it can be.
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  8418. Don't look at Western Europe, they failed too in the beginning. Look at Western Pacific countries who largely successful in the beginning until now. For the response after the initial failures Western Europe is appropriate to compare to in many ways.
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  8419. The European region WHO office and PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) are the open borders keep things open jurisdictions, the death toll is telling. See the WHO West Pacific region, China, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand etc. all have 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine for arrivals and a whole different approach, can't blame China for the disasters these 2 particular regions have caused.
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  8420. Well US citizens will be paying for it and of course it's more costly to build and run than mainland US.
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  8421. It's not possible, it would take a long time to source the goods from elsewhere. Some things It's easy like agricultural products. Some things It's very difficult like machinery especially parts for already owned machinery. In some cases it might be extremely difficult to integrate new machinery into an existing factory or whatever and use a different brand.
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  8422. Fill the olympic pool with the diluted water to check the safety.
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  8423. I am outsider don't worry I not provide undue influence. But Red is the Chinese Communist Party and Republican party. Best to be safe red and orange and yellow are also a symbol of a poisonous creature and danger. So red tie, orange face and yellow hair seems like a decent warning. Read the biological warnings.
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  8424.  itchydiscoman  unfortunately your words may be profetic
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  8425. Innocent until proven guilty, he should have been allowed to have a computer for his defence. If the case is so weak that it falls apart when the suspect views the evidence then obviously he should be found not guilty. Punishment should only occur after a conviction not before.
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  8426.  @tonybonesthefisherman  Actually many Spanish flu deaths in the US included dying with bacterial pneumonia. An issue that doesn't exist now in any developed country because of antibiotics which didn't exist 100 years ago and life expectancy was around 40. So conventions haven't really changed in 100 years.
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  8427. Cryptocurruncy is literally a bit of data. With today's average smartphone we could assign everyone on the planet some data and we can all be millionaires.
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  8428. Disagree with the headline, nothing shocks the world any more about Trump. He has threatened to annex many other places to create a massive US Empire. Isolationism and imperialism aren't mutually exclusive. It's not like Japan and Germany were ever trying to make friends in other countries around 80 years ago. Stop saying you not sure what he means, Trump means what he says, a president for life that wants to expand US territory by any means possible. Will he achieve it probably not but his intentions are very clear.
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  8429. ​ @Mike_Honcho_8653 The congress is owned by the billionaires. They're literally paid for.
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  8430. There are about 600 million people living on about $5 USD per day as of last year in China according to the Chinese Communist Party and they are totally confused like you, the party has about a 90% approval rating and there are 100 billionaires in their parliament. A US Republican Party dream.
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  8431.  @nikhilnewse3318  are you calling Fox News a Democrat controlled organization, interesting take on the matter for the most watched news source. I was referring to Republican Billionaires who do want to keep wages low and crush unions etc. just like they do in China. It's good to know some US Billionaires believe in treating the less well off better or you would become like China in 5 minutes given the amount of control lobby groups have in Washington.
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  8432. Unless my hearing is particularly bad or i have gone crazy, when Trump talked about the money collected from tariffs he was using Billion and Million interchangeably. Of course every number is made up or exaggerated but 1,000 times plus lol.
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  8433. As was stated it's already "infringed" last time was by Reagan banning automatic weapons.
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  8434. Frank what are you talking about. Victoria is a state in a federation. They stuffed up first lockdown so now they are fixing the problem to align themselves with other states and a territory plus New Zealand and get the situation under control. My state Queensland has fewer restrictions than Sweden now and 6 deaths out of 5,000,000 people. We hope Victoria will succeed this time around and be free like the rest of us.
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  8435.  @sinpros  if police are not in complete servitude , just like the military you have a failed state. In the US most police are in complete servitude and the ones that aren't should be removed. What has gun ownership regulations got to do with policing other than it's much more dangerous to be a cop in the US? The US citizens aren't going to take on the US government, many US police departments have paramilitary units and the kit to go with it. If guns are keeping anyone safe in the US why is the homicide rate 6 times that of Australia and yes that's per capita. While guns don't cause a society to be violent it will exacerbate problems if that society is a violent one to begin with.
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  8436.  Paulie  Travel restrictions are a small price to pay at this point in time. I don't mean everything is back to normal but it's more normal than most jurisdictions in the world.
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  8437.  @kingpin5283  Victoria and Melbourne are making a name for themselves now. Sydney is best known not Melbourne until just now. If you were to ask people to name 2 Australian places I think Gold Coast, Great Barrier Reef and Melbourne would rate at a similar level until now where Melbourne is making a big name for itself. Six weeks and things should be not so bad in Victoria, I hope the same errors will not reoccur and think this will be the case.
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  8438. Deaths per capita not per case , maybe the gentleman should have a look at US versus Japan in this regard. It's a hundredfold difference.
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  8439. The problem is the US constantly creates problems in its neighbouring countries. This has now come to bite them.
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  8440. @inspirationalspirituality2690  well Buddhists think they are religious.
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  8441. The real public health crisis in the US is the suicide rate of white males, it's through the roof. I don't know the age statistics on it but I would think young to middle aged white men would be a large proportion.
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  8442. Intifada means uprising. It can be doing something as little as carrying out a peaceful protest. Do you object to peaceful protests?
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  8443.  @Bordeaux1979  what does that have to do with someone protesting in another country calling for peace?
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  8444. This is actually quite scary that a lacky will be in charge of the Fed in 2 years time.
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  8445. Troll, you said you voted for Trump in another comment .
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  8446. My understanding is they said they were of Singaporean nationality and the poll was conducted in Singapore only as in they didn't ask anyone overseas at the time. Your nationality is what is shown on your passport not where you are living even if for an extended time. It is a poll though so possible some said they were Singaporean but weren't.
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  8447. Documentaries will be made in 50 years about this period and everyone will think the real news clips were faked.
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  8448. You can't undo the vaccines and unless a variant evades the vaccines at least deaths down to about 700 per day, can't go much lower (seasonally adjusted to some extent) if more people don't get vaccinated .
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  8449. Are you serious, sounds like a silly comment by a politician. The problem is supply of course.
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  8450. So you're an open border advocate with no restrictions, well good for you, unfortunately Biden puts very minor restrictions unlike the almost completely open border policy of Trump.
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  8451. Australia hasn't said no to Chinese products.
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  8452.  @DineshTwanabasu  Of course Huawei is banned for the public network , would you use the computer of someone else who you are not sure you can trust to send all communication through, China's military or intelligence agencies certainly wouldn't be using US equipment to communicate on. What international tenders , what are you talking about? Then you say racism , if China is removed from Darwin port which it hasn't been yet , probably not good but nothing to do with racism, a Singaporean company can take it over and we wouldn't have the slightest problem, Dubai owns many of Australian ports unless ownership has changed since I followed such issues.
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  8453.  @DineshTwanabasu  of course dealing with an ally is different to a non ally, in fact a country we don't really trust, of course we know the US can spy on us, what is your point?
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  8454.  @DineshTwanabasu  You just said because US has the capability to spy on Australia that makes us a vassal state, meaning China is jealous because we are not their vassal state because we don't want that Chinese capability here. Alliances are formed by governments by actions and or agreements, so militarily you can say Australia's closest alliances are US , Japan and Singapore because all can train military personnel in Australia, Singapore even has what can be described as a joint training base here. Obviously to allow another country's military inside your own country requires a lot of trust. Another alliance is intelligence, the 5EYES which was established about 70 years ago after WWII, other loose alliances exist for all sorts of reasons, Australia , Singapore and New Zealand seem to have an unspoken alliance on promotion of free trade and it's not a coincidence that those 3 countries rank very well on the Economic Freedom Index put out by Heritage Foundation. The Quad is another loose alliance originally set up to coordinate relief etc. in a natural disasters like the Tsunami which was the cause of it being set up, it has changed a little since then because of shared concerns on another issue. Not entirely sure why you keep shouting racist at me. Seems you might be racist because seems you are labeling every white person on the planet a racist which is a racist act.
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  8455.  @DineshTwanabasu  How racist to say all countries spy, China gets caught doing it occasionally as do Australia or US , nobody says China doesn't spy other than Wumaos , that's just absurd. It's true that there is more foreign investment from allied countries and they are more trusted I suppose , so like any relationship China should just take it slow, depending which propaganda is being listened to it took China 60 or 5,000 years to open up to foreign investment and it's still highly restrictive. Any country goes to buy up lots of farmland in any other country will face resistance. China still has plenty of trade and investment barriers so it's a bit hypocritical to say other countries can't do that. Australia wasn't made rich by China that's simply untrue, we have been in the top 10 since federation on measures like per capita wealth and medium income. The fact China is our major buyer at the moment means little, the buyer and seller both benefit, just as the other direction , Australia gets cheap manufactured goods. Australia being a free market economy and having social welfare and the second highest minimum wage in the world currently is what makes Australia what it is. The US per capita wealth is the same to Australia but median wealth only 1 third that of Australia, China is like the US in the respect billionaires matter, more billionaires in China's parliament than Wall Street.
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  8456.  @DineshTwanabasu  Australia actually has nothing to do with any trade war, a government not buying 1 individual product which falls outside of any trade agreement does not make a trade war. China putting sanctions on Australia doesn't make it a trade war either.
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  8457.  @DineshTwanabasu  you believe whatever you want and keep calling anyone who doesn't support everything China does as racist. Best of luck to you.
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  8458. So this governor wants vaccine free entry for all foreigner. Not going to happen. If you do it for one small group which is 10% of Canadian truckers everyone else will demand the same. One day the mandate for vaccinated foreigner will be lifted but it's likely not for some time. Interestingly nobody has talked about letting in unvaccinated Mexicans who are subject to the exact same entry requirements.
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  8459. ​@cindytripp Not that simple both your parties support protectionism. Biden could have joined TPP but he didn't. So now we have CPTPP. It's sort of funny some goods from Mexico will be cheaper in Australia than in Texas if Trump follows through.
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  8460. It's a personal choice but I would suggest if I was in that age group, don't worry about it for yourself personally because unless you are obese or other major health issue you are extremely low risk. But as a courtesy or especially if you live with older relatives who might be at risk or when going into grocery shops where old people frequent consider them and don't put them at high risk.
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  8461. Not actually responding to original comment but the many comments to Investigative audit. I actually looked at their channel and appears to be a Muslim conspiracy theorist based on their name and something about Israeli getting the best vaccines or whatever. I am not suggesting they are Muslim or even a conspiracy theorist, sometimes others pretend to be something they are not to cause harm or in other words it could be the complete opposite, no idea, just saying take everything with a grain of salt. The irony is Biontech is run by a married couple of Muslim scientist who worked with Pfizer which is it seems the only vaccine Israel has actually used. I didn't see the Investigative Audit comment because it's gone , hopefully that person starts to see reality, my guess is yes they are Muslim conspiracy theorist who actually believes what they are saying. Better if that person was proud the most used and trusted vaccine was actually developed by fellow Muslims not the crazy stuff.
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  8462. That's a lot of protein, 4 times 200gm of meat per day. Eggs are only 10% protein so double the weight if eggs included. An 8 egg omelette to get 40gm.
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  8463. Trudeau doesn't have any power to stop mandates in provinces of Canada or the US border, so what exactly would he tell them when he doesn't have any power to do anything?
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  8464. Read your last paragraph again, these are the people responsible. Yet I haven't heard a single remove the police chief or mayor. If you agree with what is said need to remove those responsible not those at the bottom end of the food chain which is the officers. Maybe some should go but government officials first.
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  8465.  @stephenlennon7369  You answered a different question, I said recognize, I didn't ask anything about the details of the recognition. So do you want to answer my question directly.
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  8466.  @brianmanning9271  surprisingly enough outside of the 4 largest US states Australia is much more densely populated, search urbanisation rates by country, you are correct the US stayed completely open as far as the virus is concerned , in fact better than completely open by putting restrictions in high infection areas encouraging people to travel to low infection areas. If I was to imagine a biological war I would be thinking of how to make the biological agent spread but in the US but not only the US the government would do it for me.
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  8467. Huawei can do business in Australia, just not the 5g network.
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  8468. I had to listen twice. Trump's entire tax plan as he stated before the election was to reduce the corporate tax rate to 15% and to put tariffs on all imported goods. The obvious effect is some billionaires get richer , not all though and middle and low income people pay more in taxes through tariffs. Supposedly Republicans voted on economic issues the most, they liked his plans but seem to be having buyers remorse even though so far it looks like the corporate tax rate will remain at 21% and not be reduced as promised in the campaign.
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  8469. They are lonely being the only "blue state" completely surrounded by red states.
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  8470. Tesla is still doing well in China. Musk is clearly close to the Chinese Communist Party.
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  8471. The guy putting pressure on the torso is equally responsible at least in the beginning. I think he would be having evidence collected against him for same charge.
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  8472. That's ok if you bad at maths, at least you probably still on board with the tariffs.
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  8473. I am not American but to me if you do that it's a good idea because it sends a message. I would still vote though if I was you.
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  8474. Imagine starting a 3 way trade war on a Saturday. Every land and sea port is going to be absolute chaos with officials checking where goods come from more closely and there'll literally be people trying to smuggle things like food accross the border in personal vehicles. Also forgot the air ports where many goods are imported from online purchases and stuff.
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  8475. Some are looking forward to the chip, they want to be cyborgs. Good for passport control if already chipped can use express lane like a diplomat.
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  8476. Everyone's missing the point , a government agency not connected to any political party so truly independent should be doing it.
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  8477. Forget about covid , if you have any medical issue requiring hospitalisation. You can catch the virus in hospital you know so it's a bad situation. Even Australia couldn't keep the virus from getting into a hospital early on in one case, Vietnam the same, yet not a single report of this occuring in the US. The probability that Vietnam and Australia are so incompetent and the US has created a miracle is not particularly high given they couldn't even keep it out of the Whitehouse and Pentagon.
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  8478. Depends which Asian country, mostly they only want trading relationship with China.
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  8479.  @satoshiyoshida7530  it's what happened after you were a colony that's the problem, a one way trade deal where all US goods could be sold into the Philippines tariff free and all Philippines goods were taxed and quotas as well was made by a corrupt president that destroyed your economy. That situation lasted for 20 years and then supporting dictatorship like Marcos. Things are better now however the Philippines is too shut off to foreign investment based on historical fears. The US no longer treats the Philippines bad though, problems are internal. Now China wants your sea. So can understand why people in the Philippines think the way they do. If you look at the outcomes of ex colonies on average English colonies have done better than French or Spanish and other European or in your case Spanish and then US. My opinion forgive the US for the past , China is a direct territorial threat especially if you want to keep any sea on the Chinese side of your country.
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  8480.  @javierwho9745  how so ?
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  8481.  @justingates4985  Nothing to do with capitalism, look at the top 4 jurisdictions in the economic freedom index all have done well with covid 19 , the next 6 of the top 10 haven't done so well. It's true that communist countries have also done well regarding covid 19, I would suggest covid 19 doesn't care for politics, but can spread easily is a country with certain areas of disfunction.
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  8482. Gaza was under seige since Hamas was elected there. It was never peaceful if you are Gazan.
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  8483. The "war" was not a hot one, but hearts and minds, of course lost big time and I agree with you, no other choice. Now have to wait and see if the Taliban keeps it's word and how the changing of the guard to China plays out.
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  8484. I reckon Elon has his eyes on NOAA. Basically privatise it to himself at little cost. Then he will get the costs down a little bit and the public will love him not realising he paid nothing for it and that costs to the government will go up more quickly than inflation, so after a few years it will be more costly than a properly run government service. Americans are suckers especially when it comes to pharmaceuticals.
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  8485. I don't think it costs anything extra, the staff already getting paid. Might as well give them something to do. Maybe it'll save money if less traveling.
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  8486. Georgia looks very lonely with no friendly neighbors.
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  8487. Sorry but terrible reporting, Republicans say outright that all citizens including criminals should have absolute access to semi automatic weapons. Don't down play it. The stated goal is absolute and is technically the policy of both parties at the moment. Well done on a homicide rate 6.5 times the average rate of other high income countries.
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  8488. You closed down Confucius institutes. That sound rather authoritarian to me, what crimes had they committed?
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  8489.  @MrBlue-dm5li  unless it was being done by Chinese nationals your country doesn't have free speech it would seem. In Australia or the US for example if someone wants to be a communist and espouse communist propaganda they can, so long as no crime is committed such as inciting violence.
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  8490.  @MrBlue-dm5li  So you can set up a communist party of Sweden office. That's good because anything less would be authoritarian as you rightly point out just like China.
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  8491. Cultural appropriation regarding using kale , how completely ridiculous. I remember my girlfriend in Thailand wouldn't eat carrot because it wasn't "Thai" , now in Thailand any reasonable restaurant serving locals, carrot is now a standard ingredient in fried rice. Tell any Korean critic they aren't allowed to use Chilli or any plant from that family because that was brought to Korea by the white man a few hundred years ago, completely untraditional. I give chilli as the example because it seems chilli is required for modern kimchi. A quick search it even seems Koreans have discovered the potato.
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  8492.  @gunsandpoker7432  are you serious, Trump didn't control the price of oil and nor can Biden unless you become like Venezuela who subsidizing fuel which is what you claim you want.
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  8493. If at his sentencing he gets a little prison time it will create a constitutional crisis. While it's not likely it is possible.
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  8494. No China directly said you are the enemy.
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  8495.  @bobcharles7716  China directly said if you want to be the enemy , you are the enemy. So they declared Australia the enemy. As far as your point about trade there is only one country that China needs as you put it and that is Australia with iron ore, they don't need any other individual country on the planet. Australia actually doesn't need China as a buyer, other countries can produce steel and replace China's steel exports which is enough to be ok, meanwhile should such a scenario occur China might find they don't have enough steel for themselves for manufacturing other export products and domestic construction. Someone who is indifferent doesn't declare one country the enemy and ignore other countries in a literal sense who actually put trade sanctions on them. Our location has something to do with it I would suggest.
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  8496. You missed Trump, he didn't go willingly.
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  8497. From my understanding you have 4 police forces, the US literally has thousands, probably the only country in the world where local governments control and largely fund police and it just doesn't work. Of course needs some sort of national register which again probably exists in every other country in the world.
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  8498. There was a youngish black guy in the mix. No while some of the mob were certainly racists there were plenty that weren't. Race should be ignored because what can occur now if authorities think like that is a potential terrorist will be missed because wrong profile.
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  8499. Adam you are confusing freedoms with democracy. Whilst they regularly exist together aa a democracy can be authoritarian and a dictatorship can on occasion allow fairly high levels of freedoms ironically, Singapore is an example of this. Usually dictatorships aren't benign but sometimes they are. There are benign dictatorships in some US red states where the gerimandering is so bad it's virtually impossible for the Democrats to ever gain power.
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  8500. We don't know the religion but the person's name is Sabry Nassar , the surname is Arabic.
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  8501. I am seeing you aren't I the biggest mainstream network in the US with Comrade Tucker Carlson working for Putin. Oh and now we go to covid 19 , 1,000,000 dead that's impressive.
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  8502. The way you describe it , sounds like he works on people on his days off being a vet for livestock.
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  8503. Not in the West which can be a geographical term but normally a political term. In the USA, no other country has fallen to the Axis of Evil.
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  8504. Ironically that's far right thinking, business has to take care of itself it's not up to the state. Both US parties are coming to a reckoning.
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  8505. I'm Australian and that's scary, I doubt Musk would give that information to adversaries but he might not secure the information properly allowing it to be stolen. It's also possible or likely it has information on spies in 5 eyes countries like mine Australia. I think 5 eyes countries would be afraid to share intelligence with the US unless it's regarding a terrorist plot against the US, other non urgent intelligence is probably being withheld and any terrorist threats to other countries just tell the affected government directly.
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  8506. It's more complicated than that, at the same time China pressures Australia it buys more agricultural products from USA. Notably the US is now a preferred supplier of barley announcement on US gov website within 2 days of tariffs against Australia, I think not some remarkable coincidence. Maybe China wants us to be angry with the US , that might play a part. What trade war has Australia launched? China is the one launching a trade war.
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  8507. In reality it's only about optics, both the US and Israel support settlement expansion in the West Bank and both support trying to establish a puppet regime of some sort in Gaza. Only disagreement might be about putting settlements in Gaza which Israel is hinting at.
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  8508.  @abcdc197  Actually it's not that simple non religious mortals know when they dead they are dead, religious people believe that they will live forever so can take more risks however should be in less of a rush. I am one of those mortal beings that will literally turn into dust so have to have a careful weighing up competing longevity and enjoyment, hopefully reasonably long life because when I am gone I am gone.
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  8509. Have to wait a week, he could become gravely ill, but he can hide it longer in the Whitehouse. I saw a news segment talking of past president's in your country and covering up the health condition of them was almost standard with one being honest and about 4 covering it up. Knowing Trump I think he will be the average (which is to cover up) if things start to go bad.
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  8510. First all nobody is prevented from buying private healthcare. The US system is the worst period. Lowest life expectancy of a high income country. Another point to be made is the US healthcare system is highly socialist with medicines in particular being charged for at multiples of the free market rate.
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  8511. Not that simple, what about a vehicle parts manufacturer as an example, they might have one US carmàker as their customer.
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  8512. Yep and nobody ever mentions the nursing homes which are in full lockdown right across Europe I think. Sort of like old person prisons with no visitors permitted. Even regular prisoners are permitted some visits. In south east QLD we had that but lifted now. To me this situation is a tragedy, I don't have any relatives in a nursing home but for those that do it can't be a good feeling. I hope soon all of Australia will be at covid normal meaning strict international travel restrictions but restrictions inside our country a bit more relaxed than now other than when outbreaks occur ring fence that area until under control.
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  8513. We are in a much better position than the US and although it's taken a while due to conspiracy theories mostly our indigenous population has a reasonable vaccination rate which will be high soon. A big issue in WA , NT and QLD is communities a long way from major hospitals, having to transport more than a handful of people in a day to city hospitals is not easy. That's the main fear. I am in Brisbane, literally 3 major public hospitals within a 10 minutes ambulance trip, city people take it for granted , we have small population centres in Australia 500 k's from a big hospital and sometimes further. Our medical staff aren't burnt out like the US other than a few in Sydney and Melbourne, the rest of the country the workforce will have much higher moral than the US. We are going to have significant deaths and for all the previously covid 0 placed it's going to be hard mentally for some.
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  8514. You might be in the wrong country at the moment.
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  8515. They did actually, a jump to 1, 000 deaths in a day from a low of 250 or so.
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  8516. On that basis we must be a boring bunch in Australia.
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  8517. USA isn't God.
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  8518. Yes reading through the comments plus the news clip doesn't tell us anything at all. Maybe 1 out of 100 have a sneezing episode for 2 minutes after taking the vaccine and then they are fine. "Allergic reaction" is in effect completely subjective and must have definite protocols to determine what matters or doesn't matter.
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  8519. It's slower moving than that, deaths per day can't reach that. But it can continue for a year without effective treatment or vaccine.
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  8520. That he's an Aussie or that he is a migrant from South Asia? It's said that 63% of Qanon supporters in the US are white, as the population is 70% white , if the numbers are correct then minority groups are actually over represented but only by a small margin. Qanon is an equal opportunity cult, if nothing else at least they aren't racist.
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  8521. No because in Australia we don't do any antibody tests to see if someone had the virus. If it is a live virus vaccine however then yes. I am not sure if any possible live virus vaccines are candidates.
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  8522. You must be a socialist because that's what Trump is . A socialist who favours the wealthy and doesn't like free trade.
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  8523.  @americandee7721  We'll be right thanks mate, we have a secure border, minimum wage about $16 USD per hour, a homicide rate on sixth of the US and universal healthcare. Best of luck to you in the US when Trump starts a world trade war putting tariffs on all imports.
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  8524. To get to 90% celebrating needs a lot of non christians yet some of those christians still scared. What do they want?
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  8525. Just like HIV, Hepatitis A and B and others.
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  8526. What amazes me is this was a problem in the 80s in Australia now we have independent electoral commissions for each state plus for the national government. How do you still have this problem in 2020? It's like the US just refuses to change.
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  8527. The same reason Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia are virtually virus free and multiple very small nations. South Korea and Japan are close also considering their populations. 1. Quarantine at border, 2 weeks mandatory hotel quarantine 2. Test anyone with any flu like symptoms and encourage people to be tested, test results must be fast for step 3 3. Within hours of finding a positive case interview that person finding out everywhere they might have been while infected, publicise and try to contact all who may be at risk of having caught the virus and encourage them to be tested, in the countries mentioned a high level of cooperation due to consistent government messaging without opposition parties undermining the process. It's actually pretty simple technically but hard to do because any mistake can set a country or region backwards in a few weeks.
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  8528.  @elizabethbennet4791  I get your point, it's true some places in wealthy nations aren't the cleanest either.
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  8529.  @lazarmarinkovic7611  It shows he is of poor character, would Serbia want Australian to enter who breaks health directives which can kill people? Can anyone enter Serbia and lie on the visa application and nobody cares? Based on your question to me why should you care whether or not Australia let's your citizen enter Australia.
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  8530.  @tromblon1  Novak seems like a generous guy so shouldn't take that away from him but that doesn't entitle him to ignore the law otherwise every billionaire would be completely above the law, they just have to donate something. In reality very rich people while not being above the law have means that normal people don't have, if Novak was just an average tourist coming from Serbia he would be gone already, need 10s of thousands if not more than $100,000 to make court challenges.
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  8531.  @lazarmarinkovic7611  Australia isn't his country , what on earth are you talking about. Also read my last comment , I said in response to another he seems generous but that is no excuse for other behaviour, they have nothing to do with each other. If you think he is owed a status above the law due to generosity then it's not a gift but buying privilege, I prefer to think he's a generous guy and it was a gift without conditions.
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  8532.  @lazarmarinkovic7611  Novak has acknowledged that his entry declaration was a lie about not being in any country other than Spain for 14 days, but blamed his staff and he has also admitted he broke quarantine in Serbia. The previous judgement had nothing to do with these 2 issues which were discovered after and by the media I believe. Novak has accepted he has done wrong but instead of apologizing profusely offering to pay maximum fine and begging to stay with a full apology to the Australian public he thinks it's all ok and will fight legally. That's his choice but he can't expect Australian people's sentiment to support him. If an Australian got caught crossing an internal border and lying on the declaration regarding covid 19 restrictions they got a fine or prison. Novak isn't being treated any more harsh than any Australian but his sense of entitlement is off the charts.
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  8533.  @lazarmarinkovic7611  breaking quarantine could kill someone, you do realise the purpose of quarantine right. That is bad character. Would you want Australians who have no regard for anyone entering Serbia? But the border declaration as I said was a lie. You agree with Novak's absolute sense of entitlement and that's your personal opinion even to the point apparently breaking the law in Serbia which could kill someone is totally ok as long as you are a tennis star. You said he donated for the covid 19 response in Serbia , so theirs no excuse he didn't realise the problems with the virus even if he is an antivaxxer.
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  8534. It's the deaths that count, mass shootings happened so far this year more than 1 time per day, need a 24/7 mass shooting channel to properly cover them all.
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  8535. So now the axis of evil as described by Bush I think it was now includes the US. Well done.
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  8536.  @ajs41  Nowhere has a covid 0 policy in Australia, look at our case numbers. Western Australia just wants to wait until 90% of 16+ population double dosed vaccinated before opening border.
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  8537.  @marleneholloway7775  in person you are probably nice but you seem completely out of touch with the worse situations in other countries. Given your age it surprises me and I don't mean offence by this but when you were young life was far tougher for everyone in Australia. All the modern technology and wealth we have now as a country couldn't really be imagined. If we had open borders and deaths through the roof from covid 19 we would also have a much worse economy. I hope you somehow don't get covid or in the 90% or so in your age group that don't need to be hospitalized. Best of luck and take care.
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  8538. Australia will perform well being a country that has handled the pandemic well. Mental well being is favourable for athletes.
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  8539. Does Biden have a pulse? If so he can do a better job at uniting the country. In fact he could be in a coma and do a better job than Trump and disunity is a big issue in the US. Contrary to popular belief a president listens to advice from others they don't have to be a genius , the only mental acuity required is the ability to listen, Trump seemed lacking in this department if it wasn't the echo of his own voice. A good leader or manager knows how to listen more than anything else.
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  8540.  @P83-o2k  what protests? The difference is Trump stirred up those on the fringes and although Biden doesn't speak against the crazies on the left at least he doesn't encourage them which can't be said across the entire Democrat Party.
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  8541.  @colinfraser8317  When you burn down buildings and kill each other , both left and right there is a problem. You might say it's only 50 killings and 200 serious injuries, well it does a lot of psychological harm to people. Same goes for covid 19 both parties agreed that protesting and rallying was more important than life itself, pretty shameful really. Biden didn't speak against this and would have been better if he did, Trump openly encouraged it.
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  8542.  @colinfraser8317  he openly encouraged irresponsible behaviour and meeting in large maskless groups, you didn't notice he had a few rallies? He continuously said it's just a flu and at one rally said it's amazing it's less deadly than the flu unless you are really old or have major comorbidities. Did you consider this responsible? I am Australian and totally different approach and can't see daylight between the position of both parties. You might have noticed we have a different result.
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  8543.  @colinfraser8317  the 1800 number is deaths reported as being from covid 19 for that day , not total deaths which will be about double according to what you just said.
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  8544.  @colinfraser8317  that would not be possible because official death totals are weeks or maybe a month in arrears. Even that 1800 number is not the standard ONS ( office of national statistics ) number from death certificates which is the normal official way. For highly accurate up to date death numbers regarding covid 19 you need to look at low case jurisdictions like Taiwan, South Korea, Japan , Australia , Singapore and New Zealand. When there are hundreds of deaths and this is prior to death certificates being counted with reasons for death being collated and not accurate. Low case countries can report the small number of cases real time. An overrun hospital the doctors care more for the living , that I would suggest is in part the large number at 6% of covid 19 deaths on the death certificates putting covid 19 only which is impossible I think because the virus causes a symptom that kills the person, people die of something, heart failure , suffocation due to pneumonia, blood clotting etc. But does a doctor care about investigation to have a complete death certificate if 10 patients waiting to get into intensive care as they cart out the dead bodies , probably not , covid 19 is good enough. Even you die from a gunshot wound the death certificate won't just say gunshot. It will tell the actual cause of death, like blood loss, or lungs filling with fluid, or brain stopping functioning because the bullet went straight into the brain etc. Covid 19 conspiracy theorist would declare that few murders occured because only in let's say 6% of the cases was gunshot listed as the only cause of death. A gunshot victim can die from a heart attack, it's a pretty stressful situation, the day I see someone get off by arguing they had a comorbidity and the gunshot didn't directly cause the death I will eat my words.
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  8545.  @colinfraser8317  you are indicating that the UK is extremely inferior and weak because they new that it was there on 21 January and did nothing, to this day no proper quarantine measures and it's a year now. Might the information have got out a week earlier if the Wuhan government didn't cover things up ( noting that they were sacked), maybe and it would have changed nothing based on a weak country that failed in it's response. The culture in the West Pacific on this matter is completely different, Australia is closer to China than the UK as in did something about it.
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  8546. Sweden and New South Wales have a similar population, New South Wales has less than 100 deaths, what's Sweden's number?
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  8547. Problem is they are likely anonymous emails from newly created accounts, so difficult to report.
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  8548. No change as presented.
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  8549. They are not contradictory, the UK has given first dose of vaccine to far more and this is accelerating the rate for the most at risk group. India on the other hand needs as many getting first dose as possible but shouldn't have opened up to the younger age group this quickly in my opinion, because the older at risk aren't all vaccinated with at least one dose.
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  8550.  @sridharsami209  I know and think that was madness. It's hard to say but I hope things improve, the current measures would have probably worked on previous variants but the new variants spread much easier.
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  8551. You do realise Trump is far left on trade and is an outspoken protectionist. The ALP are far right on this matter compared to Trump . So no thanks, Australia can't afford to go back to the good old days of industry handouts. It's sad our car makers are gone but it's a good thing, giving handouts to Japanese and US companies was never really a good idea. Look at Australia on the economic freedom index along with some of our neighbours, this is a fairly good guide of socialism and we don't want any far left protectionist in Australia.
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  8552. Much better than farmed still.
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  8553. 50,000 tonnes is almost a kilo per person. So it's obviously a big Christmas thing for the French.
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  8554.  @deborahfreedman333  My comment wasn't as clear as it could have been, I mean people who have gone to hospital for one reason not being covid 19 and coming out in a body bag because of catching covid 19 in the hospital and dying because of it and of course if they are in hospital they will almost definitely have health problems to begin with. 0 cases of this have been confirmed in the US and if anyone believes that 0 cases of that occurred they are misguided. Even Vietnam was more open about this occurring.
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  8555. People don't want to because you will come to the unfortunate conclusion that Victoria took the most relaxed approach. Virtually no penalties for rule breaking until lockdown mark II , keep borders open and open up quickly. Queensland and Western Australia harsh penalties and enforcement with very high support of protecting our states, Victoria still doesn't have any prison time for breaking the rules as far as I know.
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  8556.  @user-ef8ve9hh3n  It's not exclusively an Australian cultural thing and we definitely aren't the worst. As it regards to Dan I think that government did fail in many ways but also I am impressed with the comeback which is certainly unusual in the world and credit should go to the federal government also in helping the turnaround.
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  8557.  @user-ef8ve9hh3n  well what is your opinion?
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  8558.  @buckcampbell4292  "the science" term is bandied about too much, most of the science is social science anyway. Fauci and Osterholm are both well intentioned but they disagree that's all. American scientists and doctors think the US has a mentally weak population that can't be restricted and or alternatively politicians will make things fail no matter what so best to offer advice based on this. Maybe offering advice based on the assumption of political disfunction inside the US was the right thing to do, can't really fix the inherent disfunction during a pandemic. Same applies to Europe especially the EU, maybe they all refused the idea of any significant border restrictions early on so scientist went with that, however my feeling is actually the scientists are a representation of there own population and believed what they were doing is best. If you look at the regional offices of the WHO the policies of countries very much line up with those regions. The Pan American Health Office looks after the Americas and almost all similar results and the European region split into 3 areas. The regional offices may have amplified general culture of the regions. The top 40 countries for deaths per million from covid 19 are in those two regions, South Africa is just outside the top 40. If you look at the world map color coded for this it's very obvious. The Western Pacific region, South East Asia region, Eastern Mediterranean region and African Region all much better. It might just be a correlation but I don't think so. I think the WHO region you are in almost determined your fate. All Western Pacific region countries have 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine usually by hotel. Not sure about South East Asian or Eastern Mediterranean or African regions but all of Europe region seems to have adopted 10 days self (voluntary) relaxed quarantine and same goes for the Pan American Health Organization area. If one is to be scientific, next time put the West Pacific WHO office in charge because we will do the job properly. The European and Pan American can just follow and do as they are told ,other areas can work with the West Pacific office. Not going to happen but the failures of the WHO seems to be mostly the regional offices and the countries representing those particular regional offices.
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  8559. So what if it doesn't the number of cases against the US in front of the WTO if Trump goes ahead will overload their capabilities taking years to consider. While I don't have knowledge on how hard it is to dissolve a Free Trade Agreement I am sure there will be a way.
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  8560.  @ghostridersinthesky21  I didn't say the virus will go away because it would be unrealistic to think all countries could eliminate it. All I say is it can be eliminated in a country. This is unlikely to occur in any European countries. Greece was looking ok but seems they have given up. If you look at their current numbers and compare to Victoria Australia, it's still technically possible for them to eliminate it because they are not as bad as Victoria got and Victoria is now at about 10 cases per day and looking good for elimination however it's not a certainty until they do it. Greece would need another hard lockdown so looks like they won't bother. Of course living in a virus free state within Australia I sort of feel privileged because everywhere the virus is rampant higher restrictions and many problems with the exception of Florida with a no restrictions let it rip policy at the moment which is likely to just see cases explode in aonth or so. I am ok with the travel restrictions because having the virus rampant is worse.
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  8561.  @tiptoe6214  Queensland Australia is up to it's 6th or 7th week of mask mandates since the pandemic began. We are the most dystopian of all along with some other Australian states, New Zealand and mainland China. The interesting thing to note is we have had mask mandates far less it would seem than the freedom places.
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  8562. Technically they aren't being forced however the effective tax on not being vaccinated sounds pretty high.
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  8563.  @WallaseyanTube  I actually agree with your comments or questions. Even if only 5% of people are truly antivaxxers it might make them quite angry. Where vaccine mandates have been put in place for jobs over 95% get vaccinated everywhere that that has been done , it does however leave an out for a true antivaxxer, they can just find a job where it's not required. The other thing in my anecdotal observation is that after all the nurses and doctors as an example get vaccinated those who are hesitant but not antivaxxers are then ok to get the vaccine. In many countries absolute mandates only apply to 10 or 20% of the workforce but adults vaccinated at over 90% rate.
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  8564. You are free to leave if you demonstrate you will be gone for a while. Get a lease signed for a flat in London, I think you will be welcome there and best of luck.
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  8565. I remember watching another video on this channel. About playing dirty. I had a pair of leather sole shoes about 30 years ago and they are as slippery as anything, whether Donald made it up or it's true I will pay it and the water thing is certainly true, because he doesn't want his face at a bad angle or a drip on his tie. Could someone tell him that natural white skin versus whatever he does to get that funny facial skin color is actually ok. Just a bit of make up for the cameras is good enough. Maybe everyone one was scared to tell him or they might be fired. I think the next video could be of how many people he has fired, I think he might not have realised he isn't on the apprentice any more.
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  8566. Damn that AI is good. It's ok being used like this but scary how it could be used.
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  8567. Because they fill up hospitals meaning delayed elective procedures and if really bad people dying in the corridors of Emergency Departments regardless of why they are there.
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  8568.  @JamesSmith-vz8yr  Certainly they are in highly vaccinated countries because the unvaccinated adults are only 10% or less. Vaccines don't make one immortal , they only reduce risk by 90% give or take and considering the vaccination rates in the 70+ age group might only be 95% or so the vaccinated in this most vulnerable age group will be the most common hospital patients.
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  8569.  @aleebea  There's actually truth to that, have to remember a 75 year old is at least 50 times more likely to become seriously ill compared to a 30 year old. The Chief Health Officer of Queensland said he considered those 50 or 60 years and older getting a third shot is more important than other groups (paraphrased). Every 7 years of extra age roughly doubles the chance of death, a 15 year old has virtually 0 chance of dying vaccinated or not but if vaccinated will slow spread because of faster recovery and in the unlikely case they would die from covid 19 it reduces that chance.
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  8570. I have a different take on it. Trump won't cut welfare, more likely it gets increased. What Trump is more likely to achieve is sky-rocketing government debt and lower taxes for corporations and higher taxes through tariffs for low and middle income people.
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  8571. You almost sound like Trump, maybe infect them all with covid 19 to thin them out.
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  8572. I don't think your concern is warranted and there needs to be an election fairly soon. As an Australian though your system is bizarre to us. A PM with multiple nationalities and unelected is truly bizarre, as the US system is bizarre with the president picking unelected executive government all by him/her self.
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  8573. 500,000 dead, the plan worked. If the plan was to allow that many to die with a federal government deficit one of the highest in the world at about 16% of GDP for calendar year 2020 it was hardly a plan.
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  8574.  @someonenew3547  Every US state has large numbers, you don't get to be top 10 deaths per million in the world without a lot of failure. Keep pointing fingers that'll solve the problems.
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  8575. Your comment is nuts.
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  8576. The really funny thing is suing advertisers for exercising free speech and saying X isn't a suitable place to advertise. The irony of someone exercising free speech being sued by a free speech advocate. At least Trump acknowledges he is an authoritarian.
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  8577. @amybookbinder7395  looking at reporting on the matter it seems the next UN resolution is likely to only be a suspension of hostilities to appease the US. The previous voted on resolution was more comprehensive it seems but the US voted no. Bernie said in his speech he was disappointed with that vote.
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  8578. And nor should you on average if you are Australian. In the US apparently 50% of people "know someone" now. If almost everyone knows someone that's had it then the death toll might be like New York 0.16% of the population.
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  8579. Exactly my thoughts. In reality it's an order to do the best they can, one can't be held responsible for not getting something done if it's impossible.
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  8580. The UN has 5 permanent members of the security council with veto power, not much the rest of the world can do if they don't agree.
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  8581.  @jibreelmeddah6136  My personal opinion if both sides had aid cut off other than food and medicine if required , they might be more willing to reach an agreement, at the moment there is no repercussions due to any actions, in fact this might increase aid.
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  8582. Yep, your country is a symbol of peace and tranquility, with cities burning and a per capita homicide rate 6 times that of Australia and the suicide rate is higher also. Best of luck with those guns. If you had said maybe this is poor judgement, I would agree , unfortunately in the US your incarceration rate is approximately 4 times that of Australia, so explain to me why so many in prison at the same time so many homicides? Explain to me why children being killed at school or in drive by shootings is better than AUS. Explain to me why your military has been on the streets recently in a law enforcement capacity (not saying that's all bad by the way).
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  8583. Yeah you're probably right, however 99% of the time it's an irrational fear.
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  8584.  @susanmaddison5947  I think you miss the point completely, the US never quarantined anyone after the evacuation flights from Wuhan and never even shut a single internal state border. There was nothing but the initial voluntary compliance which countries in the Western Pacific started with too. The US never changed its position. The powers that be in Germany and US in particular were the keep the borders open because it was openly stated. China has nothing to do with anything after February or so and by mid February on 21st I believe Tedros said time is running out to contain the virus. The US managed 500 covid 19 tests by the end of February compared to 100,000 by South Korea and in second place per Capita Australia with 10,000 tests. The US never changed course it did shut the border on non citizens though if from certain countries. China itself had some of the same problems in the beginning, nobody knew for a while that people with virtually no symptoms were spreading it. The thing is the US and Europe had a couple of months to change direction but it never happened, freedom to travel overruled all other concerns. Currently Greater Sydney is in lockdown, it's now more difficult for them to travel interstate than it is internationally to the US or UK in respect of quarantine. Australia , China, Vietnam and New Zealand took the hardest line consistently and we have the least cases but the Delta variant is nothing like the original Wuhan variant, so Sydney is struggling.
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  8585. Populations go through phases, all of them and sometimes that means moving towards Authoritarianism, sometimes legitimately so and as reported sometimes not. Australia has of course moved towards a more Authoritarian approach with covid 19 and 90% of the population are happy with this because we successful in eradication meaning most of the time other than travel we have actually had relatively more freedoms than those countries , particularly in Europe plus the US that wanted it both ways, that is do nothing much and hope the virus goes away but then end up with continuous lockdown lite.
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  8586. Normally I like Dr Gupta but he seems completely ignorant to the measures taken in different WHO regions. PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region and European WHO region both had a policy of open borders and no quarantine only some voluntary scheme, it's not rocket science to work out under such circumstances the virus will spread and in the Western Pacific region of WHO of which I am a part of in Australia the deaths per Capita from covid 19 even if you exclude China is less than 10% of the aforementioned regions, quarantine at the border and for infected individuals works and lockdowns as required , the evidence is overwhelming. However Delta changed things significantly because of its extreme transmissibility so many countries lost control when it gained a footing.
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  8587. Leeches produce a great anesthetic , so you might not notice them for a while. They don't generally cause pain just a bit of an itch later on after they are gone. So that's not so bad, it's not like they are gonna take all your blood.
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  8588. Adern is similar to QLD premier and WA premier, that is risk averse and honestly it's served us well. I am from QLD so actually the most relaxed out of those 3 but have to consider local condition also , obesity rates in certain NZ populations are through the roof and this is the best indicator of susceptibility to the virus. I have thought my own state a bit tough at times and NZ a little more so but better that than what we see in EU or the Americas.
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  8589. People keep saying we didn't vote for this is absurd. Yes you did as the largest group of people who bothered to vote. Those who didn't vote approved of this also.
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  8590.  @MeYetAgain  I expect they will be forced to self isolate, that would happen in other states.
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  8591.  @subtle_duckness2623  fair enough, the cases in the following countries were greater than the US or any European countries as of 20 February, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia and China. Ok I didn't manage to get 5 with 20 cases or less per day unless you consider Taiwan a separate country to China so up to you if you delete post. You might notice a higher number of new cases in Australia and China however these are because of imported cases and China it's usually 0 for community transmission internally and Australia it's a mix but the internal transmission cases are less than 20.
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  8592.  @ianrichie7746  there are actually many island nation's that have no cases but fairly small populations. You could go to Thailand they are opening up for tourists but I have seen the quarantine system and it looks like they might get some outbreaks because too relaxed , which of course can change the rules.
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  8593.  @subtle_duckness2623  if you search covid 19 time lapse you will have some videos come up and one of them I found shows a graph with case numbers by country.
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  8594. Unless you are an elected member of parliament you get no vote.
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  8595. Pretty out of date headline. News would be 14 days rolling average of New covid 19 cases hits a 1 month low.
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  8596. I don't really agree because made up news with an extreme slant can spread just as quickly. For discerning people it's great but for those that just follow and don't check things they will be misled.
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  8597. You are only partially correct. Consumer confidence is a strong economic indicator, it's apparently the lowest it's been for 10 years. That means economic activity is slowing even if you can't see the numbers yet.
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  8598. Do nothing and cross fingers vaccine comes soon and highly effective.
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  8599. That's not fear mongering, it could almost be forgiven for being the government propaganda mouthpiece it's so calm. Border still wide open for another 8 days , very reminiscent of the New York rush in about March last year I am guessing. All the Covid 19 strains from around the world can enter the UK over the next week unhindered. Why this doesn't seem to cause alarm I am uncertain. In Australia even one case of the UK strain escaping hotel quarantine will lockdown a city depending on that particular states approach, happened twice already, Brisbane and Perth. Geographically we are a long way away but on this particular issue you look like aliens to us and probably visa versa.
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  8600.  @frankbrown536  this isn't exactly a Jihad or White supremacists channel, speak freely and keep it reasonably civil that's all.
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  8601. Let's say in most cases those using cheque book diplomacy are concerned about debtors ledger diplomacy. From outside perspective but inside it's more complicated. Most Chinese AID is actually debt but any genuine AID without strings of course good for a receiving nation.
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  8602.  @luckydave328  The US is diverse. It's the inequalities in different parts of the country that make it stand out in my opinion to any other high income Western democracy. No idea what the solution could be though.
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  8603. Just remember the behaviour wasn't normal most likely unless very rich or something. If someone visits things go up a couple of notches.
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  8604. What about Australia?
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  8605. Speak for yourself, we don't need more punishment. However if it was the same format and planet America still exists China would be quiet on it because it would draw attention to the fact Australia's free media even the government owned network can criticise anyone.
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  8606. Why put engine oil in a car if it runs on diesel? Answer that and you should be able to answer your own questions. The virus is being isolated all the time , that's how you can do genomic testing to find out about the strains.
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  8607. Trump is the closest to a Marxist with his trade and industry policies. So the Marxists are happy they got their candidate more aligned with their beliefs.
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  8608. There is no evidence of that but a broken system, as I saw one report it basically said unless sick people who eventually get admitted to hospital and tested they just get taken away for burial or cremation. So the real number of deaths will be correct although that data might be delayed and they will be able to calculate the excess deaths to what should be expected. They will never be able to untangle the cause of the excess deaths because 3 contributing causes occur, covid 19, preventable deaths from other causes due to not being admitted to overstretched hospitals and deaths caused by lockdowns . I don't know exactly why but the Australian data showed excess deaths from diabetes and heart disease during our countrywide lockdown a year ago, numbers were quite small because the lockdown was fairly short, the US had 200,000 deaths from covid 19 at the same time as 100,000 excess deaths not from covid 19 from January 26 to October 3 as calculated by their CDC because of their continuous lockdown lite model so it is real, I don't know the breakdown of what those excess deaths were in the US.
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  8609. Officially it does. End of February officially it looked like the US had dodged a bullet .
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  8610. It's not that simple, by modern standards every country was uncivilized 75 years ago. It's about trajectory and is China getting better or worse, I would suggest both at the same time, people aren't starving anymore like even 20 years ago was the case so that's certainly better and freedoms have probably actually improved but nowhere near the levels of a liberal democracy. Some backsliding on freedoms seems to be occurring at this moment.
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  8611. Trump is coming for your hamburger, the US is a net beef importer.
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  8612. The problem is that's 2 and a half months away. If trends continue states will do something but there will be no national policy and have to wait and see about an effective vaccine , if that eventuates and when. I wish you the best of luck and take care.
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  8613. Which basically means only use what are called legacy news media because all other sources are useless and full of lies. Even the biased legacy media channels like MSNBC and Fox mislead viewers by eliminating critical information in their reporting.
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  8614.  @bp8220  Are you suggesting Queensland and Western Australia are provinces of China? I hope not I live in Queensland. Your other proposition of being like Sweden , well you can't do that either people are refusing to get vaccinated and Americans are a lot fatter and less healthy from the get go. The US is basically just throwing money at the problem and achieving the worst result of a wealthy country. I think you will keep throwing money at the problem until that becomes overwhelming. I would be curious to know if health including all the covid stuff has topped 20% GDP and my guess is it would be 25% by now.
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  8615.  @xjunkxyrdxdog89  finding alternative means like I saw in one video is ok also. Don't come in but please provide a list of what you want and we will pick it for you.
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  8616. I think things much more simple than that right now, China just wants some discount stuff. Food is an international commodity, cheapest is best, iron ore and coal the cost in most cases delivering to market in China from Russia far more expensive and takes years to build the necessary rail infrastructure. They want cheap oil, gas and food while they can get it, simple as that and Putin being in a weak but strong as in can control what happens makes Russia the perfect victim for now.
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  8617. In one of his press statements he said " people are starting to get violent" and he was talking about PA. To these persons that might have been the signal in their minds to not stand by anymore. Trump of course uses words that he can always claim innocence " I didn't tell them to do that" while knowing full well how some react like the El Paso shooter " stopping the invasion" same terminology as Trump and some Fox pundits. So it's not like he doesn't know.
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  8618. They should all be mixed government and private. Government is better at some things and private enterprise is better at others. Having a functional government is the key where decisions are evidence based.
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  8619. But they will go to bars and restaurants too unless they are shut.
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  8620. Well could do a Weekend at Bernie's style administration, most MAGA adherents wouldn't notice.
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  8621. This is different to McConnell and Barr, who haven't made any claims and have acted in the best interest of the US by making sure a process occurs that will satisfy at least some Trump supporters. What Pompeo has just done the opposite so when as likely is the case and all legal avenues exhausted he will then be seen as someone like Trump who keeps Trump supporters thinking they have been duped. This is bad based on my observation from afar.
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  8622. This is crazy, create currency out of thin air and make it back the USD. Then at the same time say how secure the USD is as the world's main reserve currency. You will lose that status if Trump gets his way.
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  8623. If you consider public executions in town squares for whatever the Taliban doesn't like as peaceful.
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  8624. In large part because they don't trust their governments.
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  8625. I think you are wrong because the longer a person takes to achieve the ultimate aim of being a Prime Minister or President depending on the system of government the better they tend to perform and surprise because of all the experience and mistakes they have personally made over the years and they also know where the biggest problems are that need fixing. Hopefully you are not correct because having both US political parties be in complete disarray is good for no one.
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  8626. The PAHO and European WHO regions were an experiment very early on, just let it spread because well off people need their freedom to travel without quarantine. Now unfortunately because those areas became breeding grounds for new variants countries like Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand and Japan have lost control and become a part of a new experiment of can these new highly contagious variants be stopped once hundreds of cases a day occur. If borders were closed to travellers or they quarantine worldwide when one region did that then it would probably be over by now. Less than 10% of the deaths per Capita in the Western Pacific region of WHO is clear evidence and without the new variants probably have a lot less cases than now and no cases in some countries I mentioned.
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  8627. It's not the time to do so, when Victoria is back to normal is the time.
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  8628. People protest against their own government normally and since governments are opposed to this unlike the mixed messages with Israel who exactly would the protestors be protesting against, no point protesting against China, it's not like the protest will be broadcast inside China.
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  8629.  @Raviraj-dc5mh  Muslim countries if you are talking about them have their own problems and are poor or authoritarian themselves. You can't expect them to care really especially as in some cases their own country even worse like Syria or Afghanistan, it's up to the middle class in the wealthy democracies of the world.
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  8630. Not really, need large amounts of equipment too, Canada probably has the skills for example but no equipment.
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  8631. We can't import foreign labour at $3 per hour it would be unacceptable politically.
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  8632.  common since  the US is currently equal fifth with 2 other countries for deaths per capita of total population from covid 19 and when it's looked at objectively has a bipartisan approach of open borders and voluntary quarantine in all cases. Maybe your media should do a non partisan story of 1 year of absolute failure but not going to be popular because everyone will look bad. Cover ups are the next best thing I guess and it shows intent rather than intent plus absolute incompetence and disfunction of the US. It's my personal opinion an in depth story covering all failures with this situation for Americans to get rid of "American exceptionalism" wouldn't be a bad thing. American exceptionalism is really bad in my opinion, homicide rates , life expectancy, poverty of bottom 20% of population etc. etc. is all excused because you are exceptional and don't need to look outside the US for what might work better. I am Australian and I probably offended you but the US really needs a wake-up call of some sort. Edit: maybe "American Exceptionalism" could be the title of the documentary.
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  8633.  @Gena7486  No I am suggesting although I won't be listened to on this forum carry out measures as the West Pacific countries including my country Australia and at least suppress the levels of virus floating around or if you actually want to open up fully other than travel restrictions go for elimination. The Florida Experiment is in progress which is no restrictions other than try to take care of people in nursing homes but no real plans there either. It's the only jurisdiction on the planet to go down this path so we will see how it goes. Florida is going for herd immunity and is a brave jurisdiction in doing so, a world first. It would make more sense in a country with a low life expectancy however let Florida take the lead, I am sure many are watching with interest.
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  8634. The savings are insignificant so far and certain costs are going to rise. Have to wait and see what he does , last time Trump ran up debt at a crazy rate and I expect he will again especially if he gets the corporate tax rate down to 15%.
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  8635. Not really but maybe the anchor could have just asked once, he got his answer as a doctor he hopes it happens and although said in a funny way the other part of the answer was basically I am not the government nothing I can do about it.
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  8636. NY covid 19 deaths so far 0.16% of entire population. Maybe 20% of people been infected so far. Multiply this number by 3 or 4 to work out likely outcome of no societal controls.
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  8637.  @GrrMeister  the US homicide rate is about 4 times that of other high income countries, comparing one failure with another is an interesting concept. Road fatalities in the US are the highest for comparable countries also but not so extreme. Cancer deaths are actually a good sign generally because mostly the rate is determined by people living a long time.
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  8638. We don't know Chinese Communist Party is a secretive organization, they don't even release the number of people they kill via the death penalty.
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  8639.  @lingard1744  proof of what? All I stated was CPC is secretive and doesn't even advise how many people are killed by death penalty. Is there something incorrect in what I say?
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  8640.  @lingard1744  did I say anything about genocide, no point talking to you, I am sorry but you have decided to do my thinking for me and present my arguments, please continue to do this , you don't require me.
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  8641. @dogzdigital  I did find something that the IDF put out, based on the size of the people in the infra-red image the 2 explosions shown seemed reasonable as in a blast radius of high heat about 10 metres or so in diameter. A grenade with only 180gm of explosive has a kill radius of about 5 metres. As far as the tent fires 170m away from the target nothing is making sense because Netanyahu apologised for it and called it a mistake, how can it be a mistake if it was some random event. I believe 10% of what the IDF/Israeli government says and only 50% of information provided by other sources. The truth is the first casualty of a war. I am just guessing but seems there might have been multiple or at least 2 different locations of air strikes. I think we will need to wait and see on this one however the next atrocity will have probably occurred by then and it might not make the news cycle.
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  8642. @dogzdigital  what key words should I search to possibly find that footage, I am curious to see what you have seen.
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  8643. Well you don't give it to people with heart problems. Maybe the 50% better survival rate is because it is given to more healthy people.
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  8644. Did the BLM protestors shut down a significant amount of Canadian trade holding the country to ransom?
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  8645. That sounds about right, US back to regime changing again. They tried that in many countries. Anyway the US has leaked more classified information than all the rest put together by a long shot. Maybe the US should be suspended from 5 eyes for a while. Trump can't even stop leaks in his unelected government cabinet chosen by him. Why does the US have a king. In other countries the government cabinet has to actually be elected officials.
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  8646.  @kahuna414  Nah that's not correct. In the Westminster system the parliamentary members of the party can vote to change the leader within their membership. There is no one person who decides who the leader is. All the ministers are elected officials. Trump can choose anyone he wants to be ministers and there is no need whatsoever for them to be elected officials , they refer to them as secretaries. These are the people running the country. In an absolute monarchy it's the same thing. In a constitutional monarchy, normally as practiced the head of state does virtually nothing and the governor general only acts in rare circumstances. Nobody has a high level of power like a president under a system like that of the US.
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  8647. Masks reduce risk , not eliminate it so still better if people wear them so long as still social distancing.
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  8648. What do you mean cases too low? That's a strange statement, if you contain a virus and stop it spreading it goes away.
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  8649. Stop advertising AR15 rifles, you are really a part of the problem. Call it what it is and that is a semi-automatic rifle.
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  8650. So majority of Americans are evil?
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  8651.  @dunxy  everyone South of the Queensland border are Mexicans because migration is always north.
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  8652. Tesla's stock is still way overvalued. There's plenty of European and Asian EV brands that are either just as good or better value wise.
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  8653. I don't know if people are aware but it has been said by an official that criminal charges will not be laid against those 4 police. Search nine news Australia Minneapolis. Maybe it's the only main stream media willing to go on the seen and being foreign offers some protection.
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  8654.  @YohannesKristiawan  alcohol as well right or not?
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  8655.  @YohannesKristiawan  yeah I know it had some sarcasm, I think you will find alcohol is a bit worse, speaking as a man I can tell you my behaviour will be a bit different and more risky.
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  8656. There is a lot of crossover, one can only be one or the other but scrimpers will usually be hoarders to some extent. I am both I guess but not quite to the extent of these documentary but definitely to the extent it's not healthy for me.
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  8657. I just read the first amendment it only states that Congress can't make a law to stop peaceful assembly. If someone is blocking a street it's already not peaceful because you are restricting others the right to use that street in a lawful manner, to travel and or transport goods. Really it means you can meet on private property. So Antifa can have 10,000 people assemble on a private farm for arguments sake. This I guess is why KKK can't be designated as a terrorist organisation and rallies if held on private property can't be stopped. Are you certain that amendment is 100% positive? It really comes down to the government how they act because there are always ways around everything.
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  8658. Problem is 1% already cut off from the presidential election, those citizens that live in Puerto Rico.
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  8659. Being the most violent wealthy country by a factor of 5 based on homicides you're going to have to do a lot of talking and thinking. The answer is actually all around you in every other wealthy nation. Consider that you also have the title of the most people in prison for a wealthy nation and almost all nations. So just locking people up isn't working. More consistent handouts for the needy including ex felons because in many states they get out of prison get no support and then of course commit a crime sometimes intentionally to go straight back in. Universal healthcare wouldn't be a bad idea and it can be cheaper than your current publically funded healthcare which is more expensive than Australia's genuine universal healthcare. Change to an egalitarian society, not sure how that could occur but at the moment the US certainly isn't that, wealth and privilege are seen as something to be looked up to and if they do the wrong thing that's considered ok, poor people tend to beat on other poor people as a rule. Just a couple of ideas.
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  8660. From a technical perspective increasing money supply is inflationary, Trump of course will be doing this by running large government deficits. Tariffs per say aren't inflationary because what happens is ok that item with the tariff on it goes up however people have a limited sum of money so it will be offset by something else, most likely land values in this case. A house will be more expensive to build so unless people have more money the land value must decrease.
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  8661. The US is very elitist. Other than the Attorney General position which should be run by a lawyer every other position only requires someone to be literate in English. You might not like Trump's picks but they are all qualified as in can read English. It's not like the Defence Secretary leads troops into a battle or does some strategic work behind the scenes, they just read reports that's literally all they do and in the case of Defence Secretary they have no power to do anything because congress funds stuff and the President makes all final decisions.
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  8662. Take care.
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  8663. You completely underestimate "saving face".
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  8664. I think it's only a US thing.
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  8665. I think what Fareed said here pretty much sums up US political doctrine. While every country has the same issue the US seems incapable of change, it doesn't matter how bad the situation gets for example with inner city crime , nothing gets done, to clean up crime there will be some innocent victims, so instead 20 or so inner cities have homicide rates above 20 per hundred thousand and nothing gets done other than let's have less police from the left and let's just keep them out of the suburbs on the right. Neither side has any credible plan, it's like people in those areas have been abandoned. 20 per hundred thousand homicide rate doesn't look good in a poor corrupt developing country.
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  8666. Real sugar dadies are harmless. This is a criminal pretending to be one.
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  8667. @lisabrightly  someone takes you out one night a week and gives you a few hundred dollars each week, how is that harmful. Going by your logic a broke person is harmless because they're poor.
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  8668. About it being widely reported and well known that's a good thing. Although hopes are slim better to get help from neighbors who likely have some equipment Indonesia not have and more looking means more even if slim chance.
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  8669. You can have both you know, compare US to Western Europe and Australia and New Zealand. Duterte would appear to have the same approach to the US which has 1% of it's adult population in prison and about 5 times the homicide rate and I suspect more drug related deaths than the other countries mentioned. Killing of journalists and activists who might not like the approach is not acceptable and if the government isn't directly involved it does appear they don't care and seems this crime of political related assassination is increasing.
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  8670. Can you imagine if they didn't? Locking up a man of color for no reason. This is not minority report, you can't keep someone locked up because they might do something.
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  8671. Well Fauci did just say the fast tests are inaccurate . In Australia we don't use them at all, I think medical staff might have them for emergency situations where the person is being treated for an accident or something.
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  8672. Sounds like a group of sci fi geeks who do it for fun.
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  8673. The vast majority yes but not all
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  8674. ​@roughhabit9085 Young Turks is a left wing media outlet in the US, they have some youtube channels.
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  8675. The deaths start to lower or increase about a month after a health measure (such as bars opening or closing for an example that has a dramatic effect) is put into force or removed and continue for another month or so after the effects are first noticed. See Victoria Australia as a good case study on what occurs with good testing numbers giving as accurate a picture as can be done. Of course consider number of nursing home outbreaks as this is the worst setting.
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  8676.  @787UrbanApparel  One can see if someone wears a mask, pretty hard to verify if someone is wearing a condom.
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  8677.  @787UrbanApparel  you're the one who brought up the condom issue and although can't cheat death there's no reason to have everyone run towards it. I was pointing out that people wearing condoms is rather different and as long as it's consensual completely different. You not wearing a mask can kill another who didn't consent to the risk. Anyway time will tell if Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand have chosen the correct path of containment as recommended by WHO or pretty much all others who have the technical capability who have chosen a different path. I love the idea of freedom that exists in these countries with tight restrictions when required and far lower restrictions overall.
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  8678.  @787UrbanApparel  I am Australian, our country made the choice of containment. Assuming you're from the US your country decided no containment was necessary. I don't expect or think it's possible at this stage due to political reasons for the US to change it's course. Masks are the last line of defense after all other things have failed although can assist in slowing any outbreak but in it of itself will never contain the virus. The US as you know is relying on a vaccine as is every country to get back to normal, if that doesn't occur there is still a very long way to go of more of the same.
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  8679. Deaths lag by a few weeks and the vaccines don't work for a few weeks, hopefully just those 2 reasons.
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  8680. Basically the police are saying they have no leads. Not ruling out could be to do with her lifestyle. A lot of comments of people jumping to conclusions. I hope the police get some useful information to give the family and friends some peace.
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  8681. Sales are holding up in China, however Tesla has lost a little bit of market share of EVs in China. Their market for EVs is growing extremely quickly. China will overtake the US economically eventually. While I don't like the authoritarian nature of the country, they are getting some things right. Big modern factories will outcompete often old legacy factories found in the US regardless of wages.
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  8682.  Calvin Parish  You completely miss the point you are probably one of these folks shouting fake news when listening to editorial opinion which isn't news. When Don Lemon or Tucker Carlson are not news presenters and there opinions in both cases are for the most part highly biased. With the news itself CNN and FOX being at opposite ends of the spectrum what they both regularly do is report stories with improper context so they don't lie they just forget to mention something important and highly relevant. It backfires though quite often , for example playing the race card continuously isn't helpful especially if people listen to it too much, the insurrectionists had some racists in the mix , however it appeared to me the majority probably weren't and yes ethnic minorities of all shapes and sizes were involved. According to some poll Qanon supporters of whom most will support Trump has 63% white non Hispanic meaning actually in this group non white people are over represented. Trump actually saw small improvements in his relative vote in predominantly black inner city areas, it's been suggested it was to do with defund the police however could it be Qanon supporters actually.
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  8683. Soft is the wrong word, why are some paranoid about the vaccines? Well you take a natural fear and have influential people exacerbate that fear and or belief in conspiracy theories. To use a natural example is a big snake or a mosquito more scary? Based on our instinct the big snake is more scary but in reality the mosquito is far more dangerous, in almost all cases of snake bit fatalities you need to step on the thing or disrupt a log or something it's sleeping under, mosquitoes just keep coming for you no matter what and carry various diseases.
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  8684.  @edmaphis9805  So you are suggesting that the mostly Republicans and black people are following the Democrats and not trusting the vaccines because Trump apparently promoted them. This doesn't make sense , I thought Republicans trusted Trump and they're still the same vaccines.
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  8685.  @sociolocomtsac  are you from the US?
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  8686. @UCibXqh2dVdsn2_ScR1JjyFA you stated you doubt I have lived in either, so it seems relevant to you. The problems of liberal democracy in the US are not as a result of it being a liberal democracy, just as China's current success isn't a a result of it being authoritarian. Australia doesn't have the internal problems of the US or China to any significant degree. I have visited China some time ago but was only short and never been to the US but on almost every key measure they perform badly compared to other rich countries except for average wealth. 4 countries mentioned in the video so not sure which 3 you mean.
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  8687.  @sociolocomtsac  if you say the US isn't a liberal democracy then what do you think it is?
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  8688. You go place the biggest bet you can on a Trump win at the bookmakers if you are so certain, much better return than the stock market.
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  8689. They don't need to, it's assumed that people are aware of this fact. Everyone knows if you eat a lot of fast food you will become obese and it will shorten your life as in kill you at some point. KFC or McDonald's etc. are not responsible for your death.
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  8690. Straws are for girls, real men can drink from the glass or can or bottle.
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  8691. So deserves judge Dredd treatment?
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  8692. What I believe that did in Melbourne and possibly elsewhere is 2 steps if the case was of unknown source, that is the infected persons contacts and those contacts of the contacts and quarantine the lot of them 2 weeks at home or other arrangement regardless if others are found positive. The initial interview to start contact tracing should be done within 24 hour and tests should all come back within 48 hours. When Melbourne really got their act together they were doing about 80% of the interviews within 4 hours of a positve test. Countries where it's out of control don't even do step one and just say if the first group of contacts become symptomatic then get a test and if positive go into voluntary quarantine as is still the case in the most of the US. The numbers of people put into 2 weeks quarantine in Adelaide suggested the same approach after the hotel quarantine breach relatively recently.
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  8693. There is no in between. You either go to 0 or back up to 15,000. There is no in between. Andrews just doesn't want to say it because he will be attacked , he will reduce the lockdown measures but has to be sure contact tracing works which was the true failure because 95% of outbreak was a single quarantine breach , other states (NSW and QLD) have done better with contact tracing not quarantine. SA and WA have never contact traced from a quarantine failure so they are at high risk if they both open up fully.
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  8694. The Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is being produced in many countries on the basis you suggest. It's manufactured in Australia, China and US also and other countries. If as it's been suggested ingredients is the issue then maybe all vaccines of any type are being produced more slowly than the optimistic projections early on.
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  8695. I have to say it, Trump will be demanding reparations if it's discovered in the US because the Danish Virus should have never been let out of Europe.
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  8696.  @kannermw  If your type of people exist in large numbers in the US this is why on this issue your country is literally a failed state propped up by socialist government spending with no end in sight especially if not enough people take a vaccine if an effective one comes along. In other countries things are all open with limited restrictions, hospitals operating normally and mostly no requirement for masks ,however that depends on jurisdiction. You in a collective sense are locking yourself down not those who would prefer the virus gone.
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  8697. On a different subject the aerial view of the protests all bunched together just feet away everyone practicing perfect social distancing on the baseball field.
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  8698. To Canadians out there please remember 48% of Americans according to recent polling support this economic warfare against you, don't back down.
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  8699.  @krollpeter  I don't know about the other countries you mentioned but I think the conspiracy theorists relating to covid 19 in the US is literally 20% or more until someone they know dies making public health measures in most states extremely difficult. So if Biden gets elected and makes a national order regarding health measures it will fail in my opinion because some governor's and local authorities who are the only ones who can enforce it will just ignore him.
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  8700.  @krollpeter  Truth is yes if there is an element of the population that won't cooperate then some heavy handedness is required. My girlfriend is actually Thai so I know for the most part , moreso than a country like Australia anyway , people would have complied with the health orders for the country. This is very apparent in Taiwan with people continuously wearing masks even when no cases for months. So the heavy handedness will appear on youtube from countries where some, noting it is a small minority in Australia don't want to cooperate.
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  8701. That's why the pope doesn't want him gone is my guess.
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  8702. Let's hope that shark doesn't swim to Taiwan or they'll eat it. Whale sharks can travel very long distances.
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  8703. The Republican congress is all in and doubling down. So it seems waiting 4 years is the only way.
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  8704. The US system as practiced is the same to Australia. In practice the states are running their own responses, however if the Federal governments in either case wanted to literally take over they could, but the only healthcare workers the Federal government has is military personnel and very limited infrastructure for this purpose. The federal government can impose quarantine zones and rules but again their only enforcement mechanism is the military because the numbers of federal police is very limited to one agency in Australia and a few different agencies in the US. States run healthcare and have enough enforcement capabilities and either can be topped up with the military if required , as has occurred in both Australia and US. The decisions by the US states of open borders and no travel restrictions means the virus can never be contained, only mitigated against. In Australia currently the problems are pretty much all contained in Victoria. A US state can put in travel restrictions for quarantine purposes if they want, they have just chosen not to do so or in an extremely limited manner.
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  8705.  @shopart1488  Sounds really tough wherever you are. Hope you are doing ok now. Fortunately in Australia other than some delays in elective procedures and Melbourne and Sydney over relatively short periods we haven't got close to overwhelming any of our hospital systems. Of course things aren't predictable and have to wait to see what happens in our first winter of living with the virus in 5 or so months time.
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  8706. I think the problem also has been distribution of such testing. California has been fairly good with that the entire time from my understanding but most states barely bothered.
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  8707. Donald is doing a great job. If polling is correct or close to that he has united Americans overall thinking both parties are bad. The job isn't finished he has to cause a recession with lots of job losses so that he can sink the Republican party properly. Like a Phoenix something will rise from the ashes from one party or another.
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  8708. I am Australian and we take quarantine issues very seriously, if there's any major disease outbreaks in the world we will be asked if we have been to those countries within X days previous. It's only a matter of time our incoming passenger card will be asking if we have recently been in the USA. The US is now looking worse than many poor countries because they are actually destroying the infrastructure to detect and track disease outbreaks, even very poor countries don't do this.
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  8709. It wouldn't have emerged in Vietnam because no cases until recently, they just discovered it so it's already spreading somewhere else.
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  8710. I think the issue is both Americans want to be known as honourable and selfish reasons. America is now seen as a dishonourable country on trade agreements and AID. Not sure if it's a net benefit for other democracies but it is a net benefit for non democracies. As an Aussie it will likely mean buying less Chinese Tesla vehicles and more BYD Chinese vehicles and so be it. Of course it's more than that but that's front and centre.
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  8711. To be fair there was a lot of hope that Russia would become a democracy, however it became a far right dictatorship as did China. It is interesting to see how China transitioned from far left to far right seamlessly.
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  8712. That's an internal US issue and do some of the problems you suggest flow to other Western Democracies , I suppose yes. Have to remember many countries if not most don't allow immigrants either at all or must be same religion and the same race. Wish the best for your country and do consider race to be a significant issue unfortunately, because it seems both sides of your politics are using it as an issue.
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  8713. Even if you don't like the guy he is doing the right thing. Wait a week and Barr can and as far as we know will come back in a week or so stating no significant issues that would change the result have been found. If he doesn't do this Trump supporters will be less likely to accept the outcome.
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  8714. Yep anyone that has dealt with US treasury I would think.
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  8715. The hotel quarantine problem wasn't the main problem which was identification of an outbreak and contact tracing. Queensland and NSW have both had outbreaks from quarantine failures even if not always directly the government's fault and dealt with it.
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  8716. Reading through many of the comments in this thread I am thinking the military members should be carrying alfoil hats for distribution. The army assisting the police are just lackies they have no power they will be just doing as the police tell them , the boys who go buy the coffee and stuff man any check points things like that. They can't lay a finger on someone, only a policeman can do that unless self defence or something. Fast hard authoritarian regimes like my Queensland, Western Australia and New Zealand haven't needed the military so much , once things are out of control it's much worse , Melbourne learnt the hard way but this time they seem to have control but NSW waited way too long for Delta, too arrogant unfortunately however don't hold it against the government too much, you have had less lockdowns up to now but this one will be hard. Best of luck and take care Mexicans. (I mean that in a friendly way)
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  8717.  @mantis10_surf85  Wrong sunshine state.
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  8718. Adam is probably a boy.
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  8719. In countries with a prime minister they can be removed any time, who cares about a glorified backbencher?
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  8720. By definition it's close as 43 states already decided, only 7 in play.
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  8721.  @Jojoeatrer  the thing is some people consider society as a whole not just themselves. I am 47 had the horrible virus a bit over a year ago, probably I was worse than I thought at the time but it obviously didn't kill me. Given that I am not personally afraid of the virus however I am concerned about the society I live in which is Queensland Australia, no way do I want to see us end up like most of the rest of the world. Not sure how we will come out of it being in our current situation which is virus free essentially, the dilemma will be opening up some time in the future when very high vaccination rates which will cause some deaths. A very different dilemma to many other places.
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  8722.  @delos2279  not that I am aware of, they haven't changed position at all. Nothing was said in the preliminary report that drugs caused the death but that they were there. The current charge could not have been made if the preliminary autopsy didn't indicate that the police officers contributed to the the death in a major way. I am same age to Floyd I have hypertension and probably other issues, so what, about 50% of males in my age group probably would. I don't have strong opinion on who is right, I don't know I am not a medical examiner. Others should take the same view rather than rush to judgement, I have no reason to believe either are acting in bad faith.
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  8723. Not their jurisdiction for the most part , those were state crimes.
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  8724. The way I think of it is like a plant seed, it's not alive but can produce life. Being alive as my understanding is when something is happening, cell replication. But I think with virus my definition isn't technically correct.
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  8725. That's what Trump said in an interview. It is quite funny though.
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  8726.  @rehehehehehehehehehe  It's interesting because QLD policy is very similar to WA but we seem to have more protests. It might be partly a factor of population size and maybe remoteness.
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  8727. The Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is already in production in the US and many other countries. Why has it been approved in the UK and not the US , who knows but hopefully a good reason. I do think the UK approach of give as many people 1 shot rather than 2 is a good approach.
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  8728. I actually enjoyed watching a few of those shows. It was entertainment only, watching someone be fired in real is different. The most stressful thing that happens at a workplace is getting fired , the second most stressful thing is to fire someone. As Musk and Trump display no empathy at all it's not stressful for them, in fact it seems they enjoy hurting people.
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  8729. It's been a little time now, hope you are doing ok.
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  8730. You are actually being optimistic or only including people in rich countries where governments have partially paid for vaccine production prior to the vaccine being approved. There are 7,000,000,000 people on the planet so maybe 1% have got it in that time frame realistically noting they are all saying that 2 doses will be required. Maybe I am pessimistic and hopefully I am wrong.
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  8731. Enforcement of immigration policy has nothing to do with your constitution.
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  8732. This one's the funniest yet.
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  8733. You can't blame them, that's what you have a border for.
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  8734. The strangest contradictory thing at the moment is so many bars being open and public officials saying don't visit them. Another take on that is do whatever you want .
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  8735. @pavithranraju8017  enlighten me what crimes Fauci and Cheney committed. Yeah we all know Hunter Biden committed crimes including Hunter Biden himself, so in relation to Hunter Biden no he doesn't believe he is innocent.
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  8736.  @werunapologeticallyprolife2279  i think you are reafirming my comment. While not in my state in our 2 major cities violent protests did occur and if that didn't happen at all in Canada that's great and really good.
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  8737. We are in a free world, US news outlets criticize other countries too. LOL
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  8738. It's not a maths problem, it's far deeper. A significant proportion of US adults are conspiracy theorists. No amount of data will change their thinking when they won't even accept the CDC collects accurate data.
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  8739. 100 billionaires in China's parliament, the billionaires are running the joint. The 600,000,000 living on $5 USD are where they should be I guess, a pool of cheap available labour.
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  8740. Well if the Yanks are doing that right back at them. Plague metropolis. I would bet that the US has just as deadly strains but as the old adage goes if you don't test you don't get cases. The US has ramped up genomic testing to 0.3% now as apposed to UK sitting at about 4% or ten times as much. Australia detected the UK and South Africa strains just as quickly as the US and we only have imported cases to find them. Not sure if they found the South African strain yet but be assured it's there and sneaked across the voluntary quarantine , that is unless the local strains killed it off.
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  8741. On the issue of dealing with covid 19 he is as damaging as Trump was, think of the French speaking African countries they will probably follow when vaccines become available to them. Leaders of G20 countries get listened to even if we would prefer that they aren't sometimes.
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  8742. To me it looks like some Republicans are using the excuse of the lawyers to not directly go against Trump. Maybe a couple more will follow with the actual impeachment process , not acknowledge that Trump is guilty but vote in favor based on the legal arguments presented, blame the legal team. It doesn't matter who the legal team is actually, everyone knows Trump used the same language as militias use, yes those groups who say they are there to overthrow governments if they think they are tyrannical, they never actually use the words not elected fairly, they are not in favor of democracy actually despite their misguided and possibly dishonest interpretation of the constitution. The founding fathers didn't create the second amendment so that if someone is unhappy with the government you can just seize power. It says in the preamble of the second amendment " a well regulated militia" that means the government controls the militia not the other way around.
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  8743.  @NIGHTHAWK-8050  how do you know someone will kill you on your behalf?
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  8744. Trump is a socialist. So I don't understand your contradictory comment. Taxing all imported goods is socialism and it's Trump's policy.
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  8745. Whether you support or don't support the protestors, you shouldn't be embarrassed. I hope it doesn't turn violent from either side. Sawadee Krap
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  8746. It wasn't that clear but seemed to be a bit like that.
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  8747. While not smooth sailing I would suggest some countries were, if 0 cases isn't success then what is?
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  8748. A sweet young man.
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  8749. Fair go, criticize about whatever but finding Ukraine on a map for anyone outside of Europe we almost all couldn't including myself and I suspect you also. Finding Italy or UK or France or something as in large western European countries is something that's reasonable.
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  8750. More likely these days they say" is this Australia " , I have seen the claim multiple times that people don't have to wear masks in the US because the population has guns and the government can't make them do anything. Strangely enough when hospitals overflow even Republican governor's make people do things.
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  8751. The pillow guy believed his own BS I think so not a sociopath, just crazy. This fellow could be a psychopath if he doesn't believe what he is saying or just crazy like the pillow guy if he does.
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  8752.  @terencesam2191  China has more billionaires per unit of GDP than the US and 100 billionaire in parliament, saying but outside the top 10% or whatever they are equally poor, how exactly is that better distribution, that distribution is more akin to a feudal system which I would argue it actually is with all the billionaire running the country.
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  8753. It doesn't matter does it? Wouldn't Taiwan be like Australia and not let them in anyway? It's a long time before we are going to let Europeans in and to be honest with the Australian and Chinese diplomatic situation we might be cautious about opening to Taiwan at a different time to mainland China, who probably won't open to Australia any time soon because they don't like us at the moment. Australia needs 0 cases of community transmission for 28 days for any chance of open border and ironically currently the only large country to probably fit the criteria is mainland China.
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  8754. Nothing exclusive, MSNBC is telling the same story.
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  8755. Yeah but you're probably going still buy from US companies. As an Aussie you need to eat canned beetroot sometimes and the choices are Australian beetroot from Simplot or New Zealand beetroot from Heinz.
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  8756. If your last paragraph was followed it would have let's say rather interesting outcomes. The Western Pacific region of WHO Which is from China down to New Zealand where such a policy as you suggest exists and the worst performing country the Philippines has less than 10% of the death toll on a per capita basis compared to US and many European countries. At least China would be taking trade sanctions off Australia I suppose but not sure such a new grouping applying sanctions to European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region , the countries with open border policies would go down so good.
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  8757. That would be forgery which is generally considered a crime. What is your point? I am not anything you ask for other than not US citizen .
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  8758.  @maryilia1639  well I have no idea because Musk and Trump's wife were both illegal immigrants previously due to them working illegally. Based on rhetoric they should both be subject to deportation, however we know they aren't. It's about reading tea leaves to find the answer to your question.
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  8759. I live in a part of the world that isn't revolting, maybe your part of the world is revolting in which case try to move to a nicer place.
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  8760. Sorry Adam but your comment about population and trade deficits or surpluses have absolutely nothing to do with population, that's as stupid as Trump relating trade deficits with budget deficits. Don't stoop to Trump's level of stupidity.
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  8761. Ask before you get vaccinated, they will have a list of potential risk factors and advice regarding it.
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  8762. Americans don't have a problem with food prices otherwise they would be skinny, they have food addiction problems.
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  8763. Well the UK has about half the new cases per population compared to the US, we will see how both countries go over the next two months or so.
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  8764. But beaches much lower risk than closely grouped together protestors yelling stuff.
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  8765. Maybe living in a different state but literally walking distance for any healthy person.
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  8766. I think the general position of governments is they want you to get the vaccine so you are better protected and therefore less likely to catch it and spread it again. In other words in theory it should help for herd immunity.
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  8767. That's not true , the lowest inflation number was only for G7 if my memory is correct and that was only at a certain point in time , not for 4 years.
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  8768. Maybe toilet paper is a very essential product for protection against verbal diorhea. A lot of that has been occurring in the last few months . The highest risk is at news time when the politicians get to speak to everyone.
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  8769.  @bonkersblock  Good point. I think you're probably right too.
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  8770. About 40 US states are smaller in population than New South Wales should we not count all those US states? Vaccine rollout in the US as in Australia is a combined effort of state and federal governments.
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  8771. You never heard of WWll?
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  8772. The shooting victims families in El Paso might not agree with you. Suggesting one is ok but the other not sort of makes you one of them.
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  8773. Mainly because of the very different form of government compared to Australia. It's almost impossible for a Trump like person to become PM otherwise Pauline Hanson would have made it, her political opinions are extremely similar to Trump. I actually don't mind Pauline Hanson, however I wouldn't want her as PM.
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  8774.  hellasow  But it's impossible that every single person would get it, so you can't say that 1% of the population could die if the mortality rate is 1%.
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  8775.  hellasow  Yes with zero measures it could get close to 100% of the population in a city where it's impossible to stop it spreading with minor measures. In rural areas however I think you would find for example many older farmers would probably protect themselves well and won't get it. In any city greater than maybe 200,000 or so it's really difficult because people interact a lot. Australia has gone down a different route to the US which I describe as containment versus the US model of mitigation only, however one Australian state Victoria did have very significant problems but now is looking like they will get things under control, but it means very serious intervention measures you will not see in any mainland US state even a nighttime curfew. Border restrictions between different jurisdictions are very important a measure that no US state is willing to take.
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  8776. But you're number 1 for homicides for a high income country.
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  8777. Funny arguments in this thread governments are paying for the lot and once Oxford found a partner in Astrazeneca smart governments should have all said everywhere in the world at cost thanks just like this good company. They would have agreed because they still want the government funding and at cost means not losing money because will cover all costs so no risk and good publicity. The development of the Moderna vaccine was done with the US NIH.
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  8778.  @fritzhaber3994  You don't get my point the US government at least with the Moderna one paid for the trials and development as a part of operation warp speed. If you pay you call the shots. The company took no risk so was in a not lose/win situation, the US government put themselves in a lose lose situation, why do that? Germany funded the Biontech research with €375 million Trump claimed the Biontech Pfizer vaccine was a part of warp speed but the company said differently. So Biontech was in a win not lose situation and the German government in a lose lose situation. If you pay for something you call the shots. Both the German and US governments handed over money so that companies don't have any risk and asked nothing in return, not even limiting the profits. Bad policy.
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  8779. It's helping not completely stopping infection and deaths.
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  8780. @aimeesolomon8757  look online look at youtube and pick one of the 10s of sources available. Just search administrative detention Israel. These are people imprisoned without any charges by the idf , their numbers have exploded since October 7 and I am only talking about Palestinians in the West Bank. These are hostages, no hamas in the West Bank.
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  8781. Yes our region did the right thing. It's funny and sad at the same time the behaviour especially of the US, all the Trump supporters and other antivaxxers turned on Australia but now they are going silent. There's far softer rhetoric about Europe for some reason. I think you should open your border however because your vaccination rate is really high and it's summer, opening in April as the weather starts to cool is more risky in my opinion.
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  8782. Looking at this comment section one would think you're servicing all your military equipment to make sure it's in working order.
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  8783. I find it interesting all the whinging about our government. Now being in the select group of countries including South Korea, Thailand , Singapore and NZ, I am wondering why the harsh criticisms. Do we want 1,000s dead and hospital overflowing like European and North American countries and no better economic outcome either. Our dilemma with those other countries that have effective quarantine noting every country on the planet had the same information available is actually keeping our population calm while we decide what to do next.
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  8784.  @yochananbenavraham9332  I don't think I am fear mongering or didn't mean to, I like the position we are in as a country and hope it stays that way with continued easing of restrictions
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  8785. I think that was a typo , I saw the clip and he looked confused after reading it, so a staffer wrote it for him. If he wrote it he would have corrected himself and not looked confused.
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  8786. All countries have racist people in them and where there's less diversity it will tend to be at a higher rate. This is normal and in normal circumstances it's not too bad, these students living in cities were doing fine, the war is the problem and yes they got put at the back of the queue to some extent which is also normal. I am white Australian and before covid 19 travel to Thailand quite a lot, I know it's racist there even between their own ethnic groups, however it's reduced significantly over the last 15 years. Better advice is just be aware and if you are going to a potentially dangerous place , know the risks and don't expect someone else to rescue you. Although I've never been there places like Chicago or New Orleans and about another dozen inner cities in the US are extremely dangerous places, doesn't matter what color you are and that's during peace time.
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  8787. They are the middle man lol.
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  8788. Because their total populations are less than 1% of India's population so gross numbers are really small in comparison. Listen to any US political speech, they play on this all the time saying they have the "most/biggest .... in the world", they have the 3rd largest population in the world so often doesn't give an accurate picture at all.
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  8789. From what I understand the district attorney is elected, this position should be a non elected official otherwise of course it's going to lead to corruption or the perception of corruption.
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  8790. There's been as many outbreaks connected the Whitehouse as Australia and New Zealand put together in recent times.
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  8791. Then how did Japan , Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand come out so good. My country Australia is having problems in one state now but we are not in denial and know how bad it could become.
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  8792.  @mypillowguy445  now, if they had access to CNN or Fox or any other news network everyone new on 20 January when Wuhan was locked down. This is not in dispute. Cases had already been found outside of China at that point in time so it was also known with a high degree of probability that there would be infections in the US.
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  8793.  @spzaruba5089  it's unfortunate that the political duopoly in the US is totally disfunctional. Both political parties in the US are behaving like spoilt children ( not saying all politicians are bad). If your point is regardless whether Democrats or Republicans were dealing with this issue failure was inevitable I think you have a point. Really the US needs a new constitution. The electoral college is hated by many and you elect a quasi king or queen. Under the Westminster system a government is made up of elected people and nobody has real power. In the US system the President (quasi king) runs the entire government choosing usually unelected officials to be secretaries (ministers). 200 years ago this was probably the best democratic system available like a Model T Ford of it's day, versus a Ferrari of today. Extreme left and right inhabit your duopoly of political parties because other parties are effectively excluded. Your Federation of state versus federal responsibilities is not clear and there is a heap of overlap which is completely inefficient. Just some food for thought for you.
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  8794. Mostly blame your WHO region and or country. If you look at India as an example the death toll is currently at about 15% of Europe and the Americas on a per capita basis. India is a part of the South East Asia WHO region which decided on a mixed quarantine model for travel as in a short time in hotel quarantine and then some voluntary quarantine. The European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region had only 10 days voluntary quarantine. The Western Pacific region of WHO had 14 days mandatory enforced quarantine usually all in a hotel. Guess which region is looking better.
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  8795. I would like to ask Derrick, how do they test for the virus in sewerage given what would be extremely low concentrations or does the virus replicate in sewerage? Another question is how many places are using this to detect new outbreaks? I am aware that this is being done in New South Wales and Victoria Australia, guess it's being done in other Australian states but not sure.
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  8796.  @generalfluffyproto  It doesn't show what you assert of a cover-up of the pandemic but a cover-up of the problems they faced and the failures at the time.
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  8797. The US has most likely the most paramilitary police in the world for groups such as yours and one of the largest militaries on the planet. Exactly how are you protecting Americans and from what?
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  8798. You have basically described why the US is the only failed wealthy state in the world. This doesn't mean everyone is doing poorly just like in low income countries there are rich people doing very well.
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  8799.  @tahaabdullah8833  Actually they did, just as they did in New York. It might not have been as obvious but in both cases people might be inside a hospital ok they got a bed but treatment rationed. So you can say and it looks to be the case that the situation in India now is worse as in significant numbers not even getting a bed let alone treatment. Definitely the same thing happened in some parts of Brazil where oxygen ran out in some cases.
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  8800. Not sure having the it would appear racist guy saying 9 year old children are making goods in South East Asia in the clip was a good idea. He doesn't make your side look good he talks like a MAGA person.
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  8801. Hey seen a Woolies or Cole's you've seen them all. I assume Melbourne has such supermarket chains. Maybe some will have to switch chain not a disaster.
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  8802. Good to see the Wumaos and Trumplicans in perfect alignment in the comment section.
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  8803. Trade and other issues are separate in Australia, we value China greatly as a 2 way trading partner, it doesn't follow that we agree on the Chinese system of government and their actions in our region regarding the South China Sea we are on those ASEAN countries who might be affected side, we are against human rights abuses inside China , in particular treatment of minorities and no religious freedom, of course these behaviours are incompatible with Australian values.
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  8804. ​@dorianshadesofgray2981 no indication that any Jewish person involved.
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  8805. The behaviour of people can be very localised. Anywhere there is a single racial group and especially if lower socio economic demographic people will be more racist.
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  8806. It doesn't give Israel the right to commit a plausible genocide.
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  8807. The swamp has some infections going around. Be careful of the swamp it carries subtropical diseases known to infect bats and humans. Batman watch out.
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  8808. Actually they do, a significant amount of US government bonds are owned by foreigners.
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  8809. That's no good especially in a relatively poor country.
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  8810. You just want more pretty ladies to look at.
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  8811. Yes you're right. Victorians will win the battle against covi sars2 just like the rest of Australia, not virus free but close. I wish you the best in your battle in a southern state of the US based on your partial flag.
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  8812. I personally use the racial homicide offender rate statistics and they demonstrate a high level of consistency with rates of incarceration. Dead people don't lie and it's not a statistic that is easily manipulated. It could be a little inaccurate due to a low clear up rate for homicides meaning those involved in non crimes of passion homicides will be under represented (gang violence mostly). Crimes of passion always have a high clearance rate.
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  8813.  @midnighttoker8663  I'll get back to you probably tomorrow. Had a few beers now.
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  8814.  @midnighttoker8663  search for homicide rate by race USA and you should be able to find some FBI webpage giving 2018 statistics. You can also search homicide clearance rate USA and you will find something, I think each individual jurisdiction has reports available. Chicago clearance of homicides last year was only 53% which is actually good by their standards. If you consider that homicides other than crimes of passion are more likely committed by minorities in gangs it would indicate a few things, such as lower recorded numbers due to lower clearance rates and more will also be able to overturn convictions more often due to the fact for example a drive by shooting is 10 times harder to prove especially if multiple gunmen. You have to prove who fired a shot that actually caused the death. Man kills wife or lady kills husband relatively speaking is a walk in the park.
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  8815. To me this is a big serious concern because the chance , if it is like they say of once per 100 years means a 1% chance of another just as bad virus this year. Combine the effects of 2 occurring at once will be much worse than only one at one time. Hopefully the one you site isn't that one and probability says it isn't, also seems to have been detected early.
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  8816. I agree the charts are problematic, the number of confirmed deaths per capita in countries of similar probability of confirmation of cases (high income countries grouped together for example) would be the most accurate I would think but still could not be called highly accurate.
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  8817. Children in otherwords people below the age of 18 are approximately 50% of the casualties and the remainder of deaths are probably around 25% men and 25% women.
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  8818. The most dangerous suggestion ever. Nobody should become vigilanties supporting a government in power which is what ends up happening. Think of Trump's MAGA mob storming the Capitol.
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  8819. It's got absolutely nothing to do with population. If Canada didn't have oil excess to domestic requirements, Canada would have a trade deficit with USA. Australia has a smaller population than Canada but as a percentage of our trade with USA we have a massive trade deficit with USA. The numbers are small though.
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  8820.  @Canadianstoner21  How so? Read my comment again. All I pointed out is that the original comment was incorrect regarding population having anything to do with a trade balance. I did not comment what Trump's motives might be.
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  8821. I know it's like the worst comments actually directed towards the states not locked down are some how the failures, great job NSW in particular and VIC last year continuously asking for open borders. A bit premature, when NSW isn't locked down and people are happy in that state living with covid 19 then it's time to talk, i don't care for modelling we have a real life experiment taking place once they successful and we in QLD also have the same vaccination rate ok it's time to talk.
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  8822.  @murdochrc-imback7680  VIC did make some errors last year but they changed course as in act quickly and ironically have identical policy to NSW after NSW changed to a hard lockdown after letting the virus spread throughout the state , most are partisan hacks here who only want to criticise Dan Andrews and keep quiet on the now identical policy of NSW. In the end Australia has done extremely well, some of the political point scoring especially now is a bit disappointing and both parties are to blame.
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  8823. Racist in general yes, but they aren't all crazy enough to agree less policing and violence is good, they just want better policing.
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  8824. Nah Murdoch is all yours, he gave up his Australian citizenship.
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  8825. First of all it's impossible to achieve, if however by a miracle it was achieved it would likely cause the opposite because the consumer base has just reduced by 5% or so. Fruit and vegetables might go up a little bit due to labor shortages but everything else will go down in price and you will have deflation which is scarier than moderate inflation. A caveat though the public debt could get out of control with a reduced gdp causing the dollar to weaken causing inflation.
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  8826. Look at Osterholm videos, he has info about that. Search Osterholm update to find youtube channel.
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  8827. Typically swamps are breeding grounds for many fish species, drain the swamp you have less fish. Not a sensible environmental approach.
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  8828. But what if both choices have that in common? I think quite a few people don't like the behaviour of either party or presidential candidate.
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  8829. If you mean like a drug cartel then yes.
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  8830. I think you meant to say find them interesting. Enjoy suggests you like watching violence to the point where people die.
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  8831. Nah, the only defence is for the Chinese to believe it isn't worth it. They can just blockade it and bomb any agriculture they wouldn't need to fight on the streets.
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  8832. In wealthy countries the data is quite extensive and you can work out each particular cause and how it relates to covid 19 or the response to it. In Australia the initial lockdown caused a small spike in deaths due to mostly issues relating to diabetes and certain heart issues. But because the lockdowns in Australia weren't actually that long in duration overall and there was always light at the end of the tunnel excess deaths overall decreased in part from less respiratory infections. Duration of lockdowns and lack of actual planning showed that lockdown lite was actually more harmful in most cases, Sweden with it's lockdown lite was an exception to the rule because at least it was predictable, basically they put a setting and left it about the same for a very long time. The critics of lockdowns tend to live in jurisdictions that had lockdown lite for long durations and achieved poor outcomes in every sense, US stands out in this regard, drug overdoses and homicides even have shot up.
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  8833. It's really better to compare response by Australia and NZ and to an extent South Korea than China because the lockdown method etc. in China couldn't work in an open Western democracy.
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  8834. Trade has brought immense development to China, it's a 2 way street but it's clearly untrue that the "west" has brought nothing to China. If you are a communist or communist party supporter guess what even i hate the ideology it came from mostly a German who was living in exile in England a guy by the name of Karl Marx. So it's a Western invented ideology rejected by the West.
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  8835. Because the person has been charged they must be highly confident otherwise it would be have a person of interest in custody.
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  8836. Similar treatment is reserved for Xinjiang I guess.
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  8837. Trump is genuine threat to democracy around the world, first he gave the biggest boost ever to the CPC by failures in the US on Covid 19 and his ranting and raving. China would privately like Trump being in power for that reason. Whether good or not many countries look to the US not elsewhere when it comes to democracy and currently it doesn't look as attractive based on that one country. It's also a high risk Trump comes back in 2024, the steady decline of the US will likely continue under the Democrats and Chinese economy will be pretty close to overtaking the US in 4 years and for reasons of jealousy this will annoy many Trump supporters even though average wealth of Americans will still be 3 times that of China. It's like they want others stay poor. Hoping Trump isn't back in 4 years for your country, he will likely just accelerate government debt again to create another artificial boom being the biggest non war time raiser of debt in your history.
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  8838.  @topdeckdog  We aren't the US we don't need a riot crew to board stuff up. To the original comment maybe, maybe not it all depends on consumer and investor behaviour.
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  8839. Abolishing IRS is a load of crap. Eliminating income tax on people and corporations is just ridiculous and even Trump knows it's ridiculous but his cult followers believe him.
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  8840.  @nicolascage8015  Counting body bags isn't that hard, we aren't talking about cases.
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  8841.  @nicolascage8015  No that's just being silly, had covid 19 as a part of the cause of death listed on the death certificate written by a doctor obviously.
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  8842.  @nicolascage8015  So you are saying doctors all around the world are putting out fraudulent death certificates, well I can't convince someone who believes that there's some massive conspiracy involving millions of doctors world wide. Why would they do this in such a coordinated manner, what are these doctors trying to achieve?
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  8843.  @nicolascage8015  Not everyone is right however that doesn't mean difference in approach by different countries can both be good. Sweden as a socialist country with a reasonable standard of health in the population(Tax above 50% of GDP my definition), can afford things other countries couldn't. If the US took the Swedish approach they probably even worse off than what has occurred.
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  8844. Hispanic just means heritage from Spanish or actually Portuguese speaking ex colonies usually. Got nothing to do with race and it's also personal identity, grandchildren of such migrants mostly just call themselves American and probably black or white or whatever.
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  8845. The Oxford Astrazeneca is the cheapest because manufacturers only allowed to make a nominal manufacturing profit. None of the efficacy of any vaccine is truly known and the "efficacy" numbers given are for symptomatic infection with Moderna and Pfizer. All emergency vaccines are still in phase 3 trials , hence the emergency use category. Any efficacy is better than nothing, but the cutoff they go by is 50% or more to be worth it and it's believed with incomplete data that they are all better than 50%
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  8846. It's difficult especially with a system based on turnout more than who they would vote for if at a voting booth. Every country has difficulties of course because of landlines becoming somewhat redundant.
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  8847. Different laws in every state. The one that amazed me is 1 to 20 years for putting foot on shoulder. Possible 20 years for that is ridiculous. But depending on sentencing guidelines maybe could be as low as 1 year non custodial sentence of probation if the judge decided so. This and the kick are not really disputable but the extenuating circumstances should determine the possible sentence.
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  8848. That's Doherty Institute , Dan Andrews is actually just a Premier yet you think he is a dear Leader, what is wrong with you and all premiers are saying the same thing.
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  8849. The Heritage Foundation historically believes in free market capitalism, it has been overrun with other ideology at this point in time.
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  8850. Hang in there, your government failed with contact tracing previously but it looks like it's fixed and better to be safe than sorry because almost impossible to do another hard lockdown and you would be cut off from the rest of us for a long time. Best of luck. Should only be a few weeks and your restrictions will be some of the lowest in the world.
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  8851. Trump's already lost so what are you talking about?
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  8852. Sorry mate but the trolls are almost exclusively isolationist Americans who don't believe in allies. There's a good chunk of them over there. Fortunately Biden isn't the same as the former president.
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  8853.  @CommaCam  Look at the comments on the Fox News clip of the same thing and to give them credit they showed the whole thing not just Biden and the comments are consistent to the comments here in my opinion.
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  8854.  @CommaCam  I'll agree on one thing there's going to be some foreigners in the comments section. By foreigner I mean not from US or UK or Australia in this case because involves our 3 countries.
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  8855. Should Elon be deported as he was an illegal immigrant who unlawfully gained citizenship by ignoring his illegal behaviour?
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  8856.  DJ BANE  China , Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand didn't stop testing, proper lockdowns to contain any outbreaks and repeat for each new outbreak due to quarantine failures. Republic of Ireland plus Northern Ireland should look like New Zealand, similar population size and an island, but decided not to stop entry of the virus and keep borders open without hotel quarantine for returnees or essential workers, that was your governments choice , no one else to blame.
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  8857. As someone from Queensland Australia I can assure you lockdowns do work, 8 weeks or so in March , April border controlled with compulsory hotel quarantine as required, now state fully open without any significant restrictions. My state has had more imported cases than Taiwan so the border quarantine is most definitely a critical component. A half arsed lockdown actually accelerates the spread by causing explosions in cases upon reopening too quickly when cases aren't under control and low restriction hunters who can afford it bringing their infected bodies interstate or international.
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  8858. If only Geobbels worked for a different organization. He was a smart guy ahead of his time actually.
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  8859. In most US states they as useful as that bloke on the factory floor that is told to sweep the floor and look busy when machine breaks down. Just give the appearance that something is being done if the big boss comes past. The big boss is the public and the elected officials are the supervisor telling the worker ( contact tracer ) to look busy so if the public looks they see some work being done. Next election no doubt they will proclaim how they did an excellent job , maintained freedoms and kept the death rate down ( even if highest in the world many Americans of both political persuasions believe Trump that all other countries on the planet are lying). Until the US citizenry comes to terms with it's great leap forward moment not much can change just more rhetoric claiming that the public don't need to do anything even coming from Biden saying just wear a mask which only slows a little not stop anything. Vaccines are your only hope it seems until a mutation occurs making it an annual thing which isn't unlikely.
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  8860. How so, CNN hasn't made any prediction?
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  8861. @Duude125  That would make all Australians silly then. Australia has a robust free trade agreement with China. So Australians can buy cheap electric vehicles from China or the expensive Tesla also from China. I hope people are choosing the Chinese brands more often and Tesla's less often. Have to remember Trump and his buddy Musk have threatened the entire world with a trade war.
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  8862. China put tax on our barley about a day after the US became a preferred supplier of barley to China. What da ya think?
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  8863. They can't because they don't trace anything, in many states a let it rip policy where they track nothing but the deaths, so they have no proper idea of who recovers because they have a voluntary quarantine system and no requirement to test negative to return to normal life.
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  8864. I think it goes even further than just fossil fuels, mines as well with no EPA.
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  8865.  @geoffatgandm9983  You mean countries like South Korea, Japan , Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. Maybe we aren't perfect but I wouldn't describe it as out of control.
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  8866.  @geoffatgandm9983  In Australia's case have to wait until next winter and see how we go. I am in Queensland and had hardly any cases at all, a few short lockdowns and back to 0 our vaccination rate is reasonable but not high at the moment. When the border opens significantly with greatly reduced quarantine we might be in trouble however we are very compliant with restrictions so if the government says masks on the vast majority will do it. I hope we ok but no guarantees.
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  8867. Not so sure, if Republicans control the senate they might just obstruct everything so government doesn't function which has the possibility of working in their favor. It might backfire also. I am not American but just my observation is anything can happen. I certainly hope you are correct because even if some things he did were actually good the bad he did was far worse in my opinion.
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  8868. Don't be sorry , we sent them Murdoch.
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  8869. He's upped his fear rhetoric. For people who enter the right wing propaganda bubble he will win over some. One interesting thing is Trump actually has increased his male vote especially with minorities. It makes no sense to me but it has happened.
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  8870. If done properly, very effective but lockdown lite not so much.
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  8871.  @dalecrocker3213  I am in Queensland Australia and the first jurisdiction to go from genuine Covid 0 to opening the border and letting it in. Yes covid 0 needs good contact tracing, a compliant public which requires good messaging from the leaders and enforced quarantine for entry an absolute must. I looked at the England and London was in "lockdown" yet there's 5 flights a day or whatever to New York and the quarantine was voluntary and even sticking to the stated rules you could go home to a house full of people and only you had to be quarantining, those living with you can do whatever. So if you're wealthy you could just leave the country if it went into lockdown and choose a fully open country or US state. The lockdown lite was for peasants only. During 2020 in your summer your numbers did get low enough to go to covid 0 but there was no will to do so and it came back as we know far worse. Anyway hopefully it's somewhat over and soon moves to being treated like the flu. Once Omicron is in not sure if possible to ever get rid of it, lockdowns other than China style won't work.
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  8872.  @dalecrocker3213  We still have Delta but vast majority is Omicron, about 90% in my state, not sure about other states but would be similar by now at a guess. Yes Omicron isn't as bad but the case numbers are massive and still could cause major problems with hospitals and has caused staffing problems already. So far not too bad but New South Wales is starting to struggle. There's no attempt or even suggestion of any major restrictions, just masks in shops is about it to slow it a little.
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  8873. In most states in Australia at the moment if you were wanted for murder your case would be put on the back burner as the police are busy hunting down suspected covid 19 cases and close contacts. It doesn't bode well for criminals in the long term though because the police have been getting so much training tracking people down and getting dam good at it.
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  8874. It's not a justice issue because it's a political trial , not like a trial in a regular court of law.
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  8875. Yes we can. I don't think Trump is going to start a world war or something.
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  8876.  @cybele_m  I don't think 2 or 3 or whatever number of people required to launch a nuclear device would follow the order. He doesn't literally hold launch codes, he has along with the vice president and a few others (should the president not be capable or dead at the time) a method of contacting whoever needs to be contacted in some secure way. The "launch code" would be some sort of communication code, not literally to launch a weapon.
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  8877.  @Horrid1960  The middle East is actually relatively peaceful at the moment and even though it's extremely slow I see things as getting better. Iran might be an issue and my personal view is continuous harsh sanctions probably has a negative effect. In the end if Iran does want a nuclear device they will get it, the raw material cost of a nuclear weapon is less than $1,000,000 at market rates so a drop in the ocean for a country of 83,000,000 people or about $0.02 per capita is not much. Same applies to North Korea. The real reason for sanctions has nothing to do with money or to stop capabilities, it's to cause delay and to hope the population will overthrow the government , which seems counterproductive to me. If another country was hurting my country, my enemy would be the other country even if I hated my government. Whether Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon or not at this time I have no idea, I don't trust intelligence on this matter much because Iraq was invaded on that premiss which turned out to be false.
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  8878.  @cybele_m  I hope your relatives stay safe as is possible. Of course nobody outside of the need to know circle would know the procedure of launching a nuclear weapon otherwise a potential enemy knows exactly who to target.
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  8879. Strange comment, deaths per million in the bottom 5 percent or so and that's a failure?
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  8880.  @TheAbrantino  the number of days in lockdown in most city's and all regional centres since start of pandemic would be in the bottom 50% so how is that a complete failure? It's not a race and all things must be considered including life.
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  8881. I would add one more thing to your list, functional government. To give one example comparing to Australia the US spends more per Capita on publically funded healthcare than Australia yet your healthcare system isn't universal. You are right about freetrade and especially in the context of your other problems with neighbors to your south, stop importing people for cheap labor and trade with those countries instead, let their economies rise up which is more humane than continuously removing their middle class for unskilled labor. I see the bleeding hearts not realizing the damage this is doing and very unpopular amongst low skilled workers in the US.
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  8882. You forgot, he is a lover who was voted out. He is the leader of no country. Ex leader ok
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  8883. Well explain to me how a secret biolab has been openly on government websites for 12 years. Doesn't sound very secret to me. In the context of biosecurity of course need a lab that can detect and retain samples of pathogens. Anthrax as an example is a problem for livestock and relatively common, Ukraine has had outbreaks and so has Australia on occasion. So of course tucked away in some not secret labs in Australia and Ukraine you will find anthrax samples which wouldn't be taken out of the bottle very often I would suggest. When it does get taken out possibly the technician would need to be vaccinated, not many people would be keen on taking this vaccine, however if Russian military were to try to create an event the soldiers carrying out the leak or whatever would be vaccinated. So there's absolutely nothing that Tucker said that changes anything, I could make up conspiracy theories too but missing the key point of it not being secret at all but by repetition convincing the target of the propaganda that somehow something freely available is secret is truly amazing. Look through the comments section.
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  8884.  @ComdrStew  your comment doesn't seem to have gone through or got deleted but appears in my announcement, maybe post again and not use the word We'pon , see if that solves the problem.
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  8885. The wrong question seems to have been asked of google because people want video content and the search would be through youtube . So how much does the YouTube subsidiary make from searches about news, don't think it would be $10,000,000 gross revenue before expenses.
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  8886.  @Obi_boy  I think you should say cultural genocide because just saying genocide causes confusion which doesn't help your cause.
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  8887. Hopefully nobody is developing biological weapons, all you need to do is infect a few staffers in the Whitehouse and they will distribute the weapon willingly throughout the country.
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  8888. I like it
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  8889. Why are you complaining, it means more trade with Vietnam?
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  8890.  Chris Sardelis  freedom of speech and democracy go hand in hand . Thailand the military takes over quite often in recent history, there is democracy in the US, but I am not there , but do see it might not be highly functional and when mobs start shutting down reasonable free speech I suppose that's as bad as the government doing it and some governments mostly local are supporting such actions.
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  8891. Because evidence suggests it increases protection, he used the term "wicked protected".
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  8892. I think it's time to suggest it and yes I'm not American but Biden is the modern version of Reagan.
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  8893. Probably people north of the sun belt states are just reading through the comments thinking as long as they don't move north and move between each other we should be fine.
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  8894. You can just offer bad healthcare and public services , then the old people just die off. Is this really a better way? While not using excessive force isn't encouragement to have more or less children depending on a countries circumstances a good thing?
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  8895. It's a bit hard for Australia to tariff Tesla because they're Chinese made and we have a free trade agreement. Not a good idea to start a trade war with China, personal boycotting is a better approach and it seems to already be occurring. There's plenty of other Asian brands that are also tariff free and in my opinion much better value for people who don't want a sports car.
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  8896. You have to understand how the virus spreads in large ASEAN countries, the younger people often work in the cities because there is work there and higher pay, when they get holidays they travel back to their villages it's impractical and logistically difficult to send the vaccines out all over the country to reach the more elderly population which stays in the village. Also the rapid spread occurs in the big cities like anywhere, not in small villages where people stay put other than those that work in the city. To me it makes perfect sense in their situation. John finds it difficult as do many to understand the local conditions and therefore work out the logic behind certain measures. He does look at too much info without fully looking into one area in detail quite often. I remember 4 or 5 months ago he looked at the Australian numbers and made certain assumptions about weather etc. , not realising it was only 1 state and most states were virus free and travel restrictions between London and New York were far less by a major factor than to cross from an infected Australian state to another Australian state. Those restrictions are still much less between London and New York with no hotel quarantine.
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  8897. Well there's more than 5,000 deaths from covid 19 according to the Swedes for a population about 10,000,000. Did they make it up?
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  8898.  @dduckman1423  Currently Sweden is running at about 200 cases per day and one death per day, so it's certainly dropped off for now. Adjusting for demographics an older Swedish population and a fatter Australian population and adjusting for Victoria population , Victoria can expect about 3,500 to 4,000 deaths if it changes course and be on lockdown lite with many ongoing restrictions like 50 for a gathering, reduced business capacity in restaurants etc., Senior high school students required to learn at home no physical school. My only point was well Sweden considers it real and their policy has caused significant death at this point in time.
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  8899.  Elishia Montenegro  Human behaviour can't be predicted. Everything relies on humans. Different cultures will spread it differently. Look at the differing results by jurisdiction. It can be a matter of a single different action that can cause significantly different outcomes. Compare Queensland versus Victoria, it's not just luck. Queensland 225 cases of community transmission including close contacts. That's the total , not 1 day. Queensland's contact tracing and quarantine has proven to be highly effective. Victoria had multiple quarantine failures and were slow to act and took a very relaxed approach small fines and opening up quickly and don't care about the border.
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  8900.  @mr.liberty5086  I am guessing at the time hospital capacity might have been an issue like New York, do you know if that was the case?
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  8901. While you might be correct about China's internal behaviour they had no control or even influence over European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region, those 2 offices of the WHO that agreed upon open borders , no quarantine etc. are the superspreaders. The numbers don't lie. In the Western Pacific region of WHO the death toll on a per capita basis is only 10% or so of those other regions and no variants of concern emerged here.
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  8902. It was badly handled but going to the "human rights commission" whatever that is because it sounds like a United Nations body not something a state would have is a bit over the top also. A more sensible approach would have been to ask all officers if they want the task due to its high profile nature noting if anything was to occur at all it will be investigated intently. This is not special treatment , more a case of poor judgement. The killers they frequently look after are no different and on some occasions a lot worse I would think. The procedure that caused the death of Floyd was done on 44 occasions in that police department over a 5 year period causing unconsciousness. So it's reasonable to say it was standard practice that the police commissioner was aware of. If such actions which this case appears to be based on for the second degree charge why on 44 occasions were no charges laid at all it would appear?
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  8903. Umm it was some pictures with no editorial. What is the bias may I ask or did you just not like the photos?
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  8904. To the Aussies here are you happy with the trade war with us that Trump is promising. I hope you not a beef farmer.
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  8905.  @Paul-to6iw  Read my comment above.
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  8906. He's trying everything. Here's a strange idea, if you want to change the illegal immigrants protection within the constitution, get some legislation through congress and senate and change the law. All this executive order stuff is getting a bit crazy and Republicans are cheering it on.
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  8907. Sawadee
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  8908. That's what the bloke in the Santa suit was singing Merry Christmas and Happy Lockdown , something like that. Don't blame them for factual reporting.
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  8909. Normally only dignatories view the popular events anyway, normal people are virtually locked out so TV is the best option if you want to see some event.
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  8910. Your first 2 points are completely irrelevant, your third point might have some relevance in whether Trump was aware of his actions which of course he is claiming to be unaware of. I think showing posts on his youtube channel with people talking of armed civil war if Trump isn't reinstalled could be helpful because wouldn't someone be monitoring his social media.
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  8911. How do you know it was Omicron? There's still plenty of Delta around. Hope you recover without further problems, best of luck.
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  8912. You need to ban all of EU and North America too because it's already in those places, the UK detected cases from February 22 and Canada's detected 39 cases, so too late. Either shut the border to everyone or no one the results the same, half of all outbreaks from Quarantine in Australia and New Zealand were the B117 or UK variant and cases came from everywhere.
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  8913. What's a matter of time?
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  8914.  @tonybrasi2676  do you mean a nuclear attack and who do you think might do that and why?
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  8915. The total death numbers are but takes a while to be fully compiled, India would certainly rate low in listing causes of death properly at this time, much lower than any other country I suspect.
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  8916. Yes Biden offered continuity of policy and didn't reverse tariffs on China or handouts to farmers. He just didn't make things a whole lot worse.
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  8917. Trump is claiming to be God and the US media doesn't push back. He also completely disregards issues in Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Myanmar and The Congo. It's sort of like no countries outside of Europe, North America and Israel exist and the US media plays along or even worse agree with Trump.
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  8918.  @swampsprite9  No they don't otherwise they would have at least done a protest vote in the case of non voters who must hate Harris too.
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  8919.  @vaffankoolo  the non voters were happy with either candidate otherwise they would have done a protest vote.
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  8920. I have thought about that. If someone was putting weight on his torso that could be an equal contribution to the death because the lungs could not fill to capacity.
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  8921. Lol if Thomas was alive today and saw that the US had the lowest life expectancy, highest obesity rate, highest homicide rate and biggest wealth disparity of any wealthy nation he would as a politician does backpedal on that and still claim the original comment was correct.
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  8922. They all are but only US and UK get near fully vaccinated (most who want it have got it)
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  8923. Flights have continued inbound to all countries for their citizens, it's the quarantine process that matters, Taiwan started off like the rest of us with a non enforced quarantine but soon discovered that wasn't going to work. I am not certain but believe they were the first country in the region to change to enforced quarantine ( usually in a hotel and generally called hotel quarantine or more specifically government supervised enforced hotel quarantine) which to this day doesn't exist in the UK or US. I think not everywhere always uses hotels but totally enforced with daily visits from authorities at a minimum and serious penalties for anyone breaking it, 6 months prison is maximum sentence in my state Queensland Australia. Japan has had an interesting journey and seems relied upon public shame as their enforcement measure but even they are considering hard penalties now.
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  8924. The company is Taiwanese.
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  8925. @GeraldineMendelsohn  I am curious where you got such an idea that a large white farmer was poor , it certainly didn't come from me. Australia interestingly is possibly the only country with net inbound immigration from USA so I am unsure of what you mean when you say people are leaving my country. Pretty sure South Africans of any colour are migrating towards Australia and not the other way. Australia welcomes both black and white South Africans who have skills or are very wealthy .
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  8926. Call it a blue fence then. The blue wave actually was fairly big with Biden ahead by 4,000,000 + votes but only slipping in comfortably with the electoral college.
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  8927. So is their age and life expectancy, did you want a 20 minute interview? Not many would watch it because attention spans these days are low.
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  8928. Yes have to remember that documentary War of the Worlds when they all died because of the diseased humans.
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  8929. I would take everything with a grain of salt, often data is not up to date and the other thing I think it was one of those states shipping sick people to other states , reality kicks in when it gets that bad which can change behaviour, or self imposed lockdown.
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  8930. So now it's only overvalued by 100% or something. Outside of China which appears to be holding up well sales are tanking.
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  8931. Even if he doesn't or can't follow through he's increased the possibility of a terrorist attack against Americans everywhere.
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  8932. How come Americans use crap fuel? That clip showing the gas pump called Octane 91 premium and all the other choices were worse. In Australia Octane 91 is regular and the lowest grade and premium is Octane 98.
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  8933. Constitutional changes could change everything. The US Constitution elects a King/Queen who chooses unelected officials secretaries of portfolios, equivalent of ministers in other countries who are elected. The electoral college for electing a president was being discussed as a problem 200 years ago under President Jackson I think it was. The separation of powers between state and Federal in the US are not clearly defined unlike in Australia creating duplication and unfairness. So what I am saying is the technical capability is certainly there but the constitutional framework is outdated. In 1776 it was a top of the range constitution. A bit like a top of the range computer bought in 1980 versus the cheapest smart phone on the market today.
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  8934. Interesting comments from Americans. Seems they/you don't approve of letting 10s of thousands dying because of executives legally denying care. The ACA is clearly useless but better than what the Republicans have on offer which is we openly support the status quo because it's not communist. They are correct so far as it not being socialist this is far right fascism. In every high income country except the US we have socialist healthcare in some form. We also all have a higher life expectancy than the US.
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  8935. Seems the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine doesn't get a mention yet it will be the most widely used vaccine being manufactured all around the world without royalties and at cost until the end of the pandemic. Payback is future reputation which is really no strings attached.
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  8936. Interesting nobody in this comments section care about government waste. This is going to be far more expensive than keeping people in the mainland of US. Seems different rules apply to authoritarian actions.
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  8937. It's not possible without cutting welfare and military budgets. Employees are only $350 billion or so. Even if you cut every single one of them it would only change from a really massive government deficit to a massive government deficit.
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  8938. @TonyMasterson-b3z  It's not quite that bad, no need to exaggerate an already bad situation. The last fiscal year deficit ending 30 September was around $1.8 Trillion . This is still an enormous amount of money, there's no real way of getting out of that without higher corporate taxation and effectively cutting handouts by increasing them at a slower rate than inflation. It's unlikely either political party in the US is willing to take those steps so the debt will continue to rise as a proportion of GDP until it causes a serious problem. The timeline of things going really bad is unpredictable because the USD as the major reserve currency of the world protects the US from what happens to most other countries if they reach your situation. Japan interestingly can survive with really high government debt. I don't know how they get away with it.
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  8939. Strange question, does your country allow people about to be deported to just go free? While because of his profile he might not be a "flight" risk and can't just go and hide in the community doing illegal work we just have one rule. It's simple that way.
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  8940. The second amendment is for "a well regulated militia" automatic weapons were banned by Reagan and nobody has challenged that, a ban on ordinary people having semi automatic weapons which do the most damage seems legal and bans do exist in certain jurisdictions but it's like the covid 19 policies of the US, guns are so freely available in a lot of places they end up everywhere. So my take on it is it's nothing to do with the second amendment.
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  8941.  I'm a misanthropist  Ok you seem to be correct to a point, it stated "in common use" so you can't just have any arms, you can't go and buy an RPG I would expect. I suppose hand guns are the preferred weapon of gangsters and AR-15 are the preferred weapon for mass school shootings. So I suppose they are in common use. The US has 5 times the homicide rate of any other wealthy country, gun culture is a contributor , give an inherently violent people compared to other countries full access to guns and some will use them.
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  8942. Things change. If you want to go back 200 years slavery was universally accepted, in various forms.
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  8943.  @ronvara2929  Are you kidding, a country that practiced binding women's feet , ok China is Utopia the only heaven on earth. There are even photographs of this so not exactly ancient China. Slavery was outlawed in 1910 in China but since slavery didn't exist why was the law made?
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  8944.  @frankblangeard8865  I am Australian , just saying things change.
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  8945.  @ronvara2929  ok fair enough a 10 year old girl would choose to cripple themselves. Yeah to 19th century China the only free country.
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  8946. Yes but you do realize that allowing you to move freely would have had a greater chance of killing you anyway. Hospitals are the same as nursing homes, viruses spread like crazy. While most countries never reported it early on it became clear people were dying from going to hospital not from whatever reason they went there for. Australia and Vietnam at a point in time had 10%+ deaths from people catching covid 19 in hospital. UK acknowledged some death's occurring this way. The US has a better coverup operation than China and exactly 0 reported and confirmed cases of transmission of covid 19 in hospital. Don't know where you are from but ok you believe the US propaganda if you want, 1,000,000 dead but not a single confirmed case of transmission in a hospital.
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  8947. It's called coming from a low base, people are poorer and suffer more than in say a Western European country right now this day, but unlike 20 years ago at least it seems nobody starving.
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  8948. AKA far right.
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  8949. He is. Of course he enjoyed doing what he did. The management of UK healthcare is a completely separate issue. I honestly feel sorry for the countries who didn't take the threat seriously in the beginning. I hope the country that succeeded will be looked at without prejudice on this issue once all is done.
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  8950. So Trump has moved to the back of the herd again, now he isn't even the leader of the sheep or the shepherd , he just follows the sheep now.
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  8951. Only if it's done in deep red states or areas. Republicans aren't going to care about protests in Californian cities or NY or Washington DC.
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  8952. Australia and China can't cut ties , it's technically impossible or we both go into very deep recession for quite a while, however Australia could become the steel maker for the world and China can stop building stuff, actually not a real solution.
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  8953.  @yellowbird1170  No real reason Australian steel would be expensive , in fact the opposite , they in a closed market would have the cheapest iron ore and metallurgical coal, miners would of course lose out big time. It's not a practical solution for anyone and as I stated it would send both China and Australia into a deep economic downturn.
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  8954. Size makes a difference though, most people they would have got the hand cuffs on and that would be it.
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  8955.  @hizzlemobizzle  if it's chest pain go to hospital, if it's aches and pains sort of everywhere that's less of an issue. If you are suffering chest pain I don't think a hospital could refuse you but be sure to tell them you think you have covid 19 so to not risk others.
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  8956.  @hizzlemobizzle  I don't know who you have previously called and talked to but if you haven't called Florida health directly then do so and tell them your situation they have a 24/7 call line 1 (866) 779-6121
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  8957.  @asmirann3636  India literally believed (not everyone of course) that either Indians had superior genetics (could see the UK variant going crazy in Europe at the very same time you say preparations actually reducing) or completely ignorant and didn't even look outside India or thought the lower overall age and obesity rates of the Indian population compared to Europe and US meant India was safe. I don't know what the prevalent thinking was but it can really only be the 3 things I mentioned above because it would have been well known the border isn't sealed properly to stop new variants entering.
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  8958. Canada was quiet aggressive actually taking US liquor of shelves. There's going to be warehouses in Canada just storing US liquor.
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  8959.  @dorianshadesofgray  that's because of lockdown, look at Mississippi and Alabama with much higher vaccination rates than anywhere in Australia and they have a lot of natural immunity on top of that. NSW and VIC would make Mississippi and Alabama look pretty good if the virus was let rip.
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  8960. I don't think the financing would be the same.
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  8961. You haven't watched any US news for a year it would seem, killing people in the name of Freedom with covid 19 was ok in fact endorsed by your president noting they were really old or really sick, BLM/Antifa mobs killed people and of course right wing extremists killed people , the el paso shooting using the president's terminology comes to mind ( ok a bit longer than a year for that one but particularly memorable I would suggest). So no in the US this is anything but odd , it's actually normal, you have some work to do.
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  8962. There has been no change in the Australia US relationship since the forming of ANZUS alliance, Joe will be no different, that is no change.
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  8963.  @Jesusexplains  why would he do that? Remember he was 2 I C for 8 years and it didn't happen then.
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  8964.  @Jesusexplains  your last point I agree Trump is likely to challenge the results, first point I don't agree that it will change anything but we will see. My screen name has existed for a long time , I am always annoyed about something so I figure if it ain't broke don't fix it. You have a great day and don't be too annoyed also if things don't go the way you would prefer.
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  8965. What about South China Sea, are you waiting until they take it all before mentioning it?
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  8966. You better go tell the billionaires that, they getting richer by the day.
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  8967.  @censorshipisreal3153  yep, wealth distribution is the problem, not the economy.
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  8968. You forgot one. The accelerated transmission policy. When 1 state gets high cases and puts restrictions it's recommended ( by default of doing nothing about it) you go to a state with low transmission rates and no restrictions, the borders are all open and don't worry about voluntary quarantine, it's up to you, we want you to be free.
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  8969.  @istvanglock7445  Another Australian here and whether or not Boris Johnson is good , he certainly shouldn't be compared to Trump, Trump is in a league of his own for a liberal democracy (ex) leader. Viewing from Australia of course the UK government stuffed up covid 19 as bad as the US however Johnson never told people it's less deadly than the flu and virtually suggesting people get infected. He has compassion if nothing else which can't be said of Trump and haven't heard of him attacking Australia on anything, Trump was a nationalist who insulted all nations friend or foe. I agree the vaccine rollout looks better in the UK than EU and US. Maybe not a high bar to reach but better than nothing, same goes for finally having hotel quarantine, poorly executed, not comprehensive and 10 months too late but better than the US situation. Time will tell I guess if the UK vaccine strategy works better than the US , my thinking is it won't be worse and might be better.
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  8970. I don't agree with the "put down" statement. In a country with about 5 times the homicide rate of other wealthy countries it's probably not good to encourage this behaviour.
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  8971. The videos I saw of farms I agree to a point. If free range I am ok with it but they were kept like battery hens.
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  8972. Dam your ads are good. This was professionally done and sounds like a US style ad.
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  8973.  @DavidGetling  Be fair, you don't know Julie's personal circumstances or age. If she is in a low risk group 20 to 40 and not overweight or any major health problems then I would say don't worry about it too much. If for whatever reason she is high risk then yes take care, we have seen Victoria , however NZ seems it acted quick enough to get it under control, similar active case numbers to NSW and even if they haven't been perfect not looking like it will get out of control. I have the impression NZ is a bit like QLD, you could murder someone and they would find the last covid case before the authorities come looking for you. In other words very proactive and taking nothing for granted.
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  8974. He did
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  8975. You are considering it from the wrong angle. I am guessing most likely it's a phobia and she isn't a conspiracy theorist. Ask her and find out , just ask are the risks of getting very sick or dying greater from the vaccine or the virus? If she can answer that correctly it's a phobia, she has an irrational fear like most of us do about something. She might have witnessed someone suffering an anaphylactic shock and the thought of a needle in her arm makes her fear that will happen to her. Encourage her , maybe even go with her to be vaccinated so she is less scared if she's open to that.
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  8976. @DLL-y4p  That's a strange comment you have. Maybe you are a MAGA Australian want the US to hurt us. I know such people do exist.
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  8977. @Propakistani1224  Nothing to do with any individual country. I don't like subsidies because they usually make low income people poorer and rich people richer. Maybe you support Chinese and American billionaires and that is your right, I personally don't agree with making them richer at low income people's expense. Having said that if the subsidy is only a tax break for a limited time for a new industry , for example electric vehicles at the moment I think that's ok.
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  8978. @tooltalk  I think you will find all car manufacturers are subsidised or protected in some way, other vehicles not always. Subsidies are never illegal, it's only an issue with trade agreements where one country subsidises something or not but is perceived to have and the other country puts a tariff on that product leading to a dispute.
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  8979. @fungj4126  not in the market for a car but if I was I would buy a BYD Dolphin for around $20,000 USD new.
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  8980. @Mano-z7t  The only subsidies of note that exist in Australia are for social welfare and environmental reasons. While I might disagree sometimes these types of subsidies aren't aimed at helping billionaires and are aimed at low and middle income people. Those types of subsidies are generally fine. If as we used to subsidise car production in Australia I would be against that and was against it at the time it was occurring. So my more nuanced position is certain subsidies are ok if for the correct reason, if they are to prop up unprofitable businesses then I am against them and Australia doesn't do this to any great extent. The only other thing is national security and making sure certain things are produced in a country especially regarding military equipment is ok even though it's protectionism.
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  8981. @fungj4126  There was a reason China put some sanctions on Australian and that was because we called for an investigation into the origins of covid 19. Personally I think the Chinese overreacted.
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  8982.  Malaka90  the death rate is because of measures taken and tests conducted what's your point.
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  8983. Where are you from?
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  8984. If you have been following things , you would be aware that India is likely to go to 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 cases per day. This is dead serious and for you to make some political point is ridiculous, when cases were out of control in UK guess what reporting was about UK, now the countries in the worst situation are probably India and Brazil. Another point at no point in time in this report was any comparison made to other countries. You have chosen to do that.
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  8985. Every year the UN does vote in favour of what you say. The US votes against it.
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  8986. If you want to see an effective public health ad, a little old but search grim reaper aids ad Australia. It was really effective. I think it could be replicated and adjustments made so granny and auntie die, as in older family members.
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  8987. 95% approximately
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  8988. It's a scam of course but Trump has a record of permitting super sized handouts during covid 19. What Trump could do with permission of congress is handout checks being given out with imaginary savings. He can say anything on Fox and won't be questioned.
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  8989. Mask is not important actually unless major outbreak maybe. Look at Australian per capita numbers we are head to head. Some major difference in approach regarding the border though.
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  8990.  @dankoyun4822  so far we are both fine, Australia and South Korea. I do think if infection rates were to be high then masks would probably be important.
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  8991. After December they were relatively transparent, at least as transparent as the US anyway. The Wuhan government wasn't transparent at all, they behaved like Trump.
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  8992.  @hendrikdependrik1891  in Victoria Australia they openly said any more than 50 cases a day in a population of 6.5 million contact tracing can't work, it's just too difficult, evidence would bear this out , no jurisdiction with significant case numbers achieves much at all with contact tracing.
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  8993. Well he can , no matter how stupid or illegal orders might be he can't be held accountable, it effectively just clogs up court rooms.
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  8994. No reports of a single death, no live shots went into the crowd. If a death occurs someone with a phone will show it, we are in the 21st century now.
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  8995.  @efghotguy  live ammunition has been fired into the air above the crowd and 1 or 2 cases of against people, extremely rare based on evidence I have see so far. If it was a US city with protests of similar size would be much more violent, to be fair mostly because of their protestors who are not peaceful.
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  8996.  @efghotguy  I am neither justifying or condemning just putting things in perspective. Of course I personally would prefer civilian government reinstated and that's it it's over.
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  8997.  @efghotguy  The gun rights thing is irrelevant people will find other ways and every civil war in recent history shows a lot more have guns than expected. Please don't compare the violence of US protestors to these peaceful protesters. The US capitol Rioters/Protesters managed to kill someone and brought alternate weapons or aquired them.
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  8998.  @efghotguy  They probably don't care about civilian lives and certainly don't care for democracy, what's that got to do with anything? The only point is at this stage it hasn't escalated much. The military probably do care for civilian lives so far as how it looks, they are probably hoping the protests get violent then they can use full force. As far as the comment regarding the Australian, most likely he would be taken care of well because he's a foreigner but of course he shouldn't be in jail at all same with the local politicians and protestors, it's the local prisoners I would be more concerned about.
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  8999.  @efghotguy  Then you agree with me , they care because how it looks. Unfortunately the situation does seem to be worsening but one thing that's hard to know is the numbers of protestors, some indications are that the numbers are shrinking significantly but I don't trust reports that are somewhat contradictory. I think CGTN says only about 500 protestors, I don't believe that, here they haven't indicated numbers which to me indicates probably less than before. I don't know how there can be a good outcome without very wide spread support which they have but the people are fairly poor so can't afford to protest all that long is my feeling even though vast majority of protestors middle class , still difficult.
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  9000.  @efghotguy  Your last comment gives me some hope.
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  9001.  @JohnFreedman0  I don't know much about Canada other than when it comes to trade you have a temperamental unpredictable neighbor. Trump whacks tariffs on you and now back to the on again off again pipeline, it's a bit like that massive Russian pipeline with a couple of kms to finish. I don't understand why the US and Canada at least don't have completely free trade, under the CPTPP and the Australian-US FTA you both would appear to have a freer trading position with Australia than with each other. That trio at the top of the economic freedom index are aggressive free trade advocates, we keep trying to stack deal after deal on top of each other, so virtually impossible to unravel, between the 3 of us we literally have 4 different free trade agreements stacked on top of each other, a bilateral one with each and 3 multilateral agreements on top.
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  9002.  @JohnFreedman0  OK so the silly trade things are 2 sided, both Canada and the US seem similar towards each other. Looking at the WIKI page on Canada , you have quite a few free trade agreements, China not being on the list is notable though and the FTA with the US as you describe isn't as good as it could be. Anyway best of luck particularly with your big neighbor.
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  9003. I reckon he's a lefty, but you are correct he doesn't bring politics into it. In Australia the health response has remained unpolitical, a bit of push and pull over other issues , mostly the federal government wanting states to open all borders and states pushing back saying if one state has cases the border should be shut even if only a few cases. It seems now our internal borders pretty much open without any forced quarantine in almost all cases.
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  9004. Yep unless it's all semiautomatic weapons it's going to keep happening, it's true handguns because of much lower velocities might not kill the targets as easy but really to these gunmen that's usually not an issue, they just keep shooting targets until they stop moving even with the more powerful weapons and usually have heaps of ammo remaining because it's difficult in the school setting to get into multiple class rooms usually.
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  9005. I am 100% against emergency approval with no emergency. Emergency approval means partially tested for shorter than usual times.
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  9006. You've only got 2 main parties because it's written into law about the government registration of those 2 and no preferential/rank choice voting system.
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  9007. Holy Crap, the Fox News viewers now support open borders with no vaccine requirements for foreigners at all. Interesting you now fully behind the slightly more relaxed policies of Biden compared to the open border policy of Trump. Without a border Y'all you don't have a country people. But hey support Biden and Trump policies, the heroes of your time for allowing a right to entry and internally for all a right to infect. Your service men and women actually never fought to free the lepers so don't BS any more. Your ideology is an open border, most Australians don't agree and we have the second highest number of citizens who are immigrants in the world as a proportion. Keep your border open to all comers with irregular immigration if you want but accept other countries have the right to control their border.
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  9008. @questioneverything349  they are your federal police. They are the only ones to investigate federal crimes not covered by jurisdictions ICE or ATF. So no FBI means no federal crimes any more.
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  9009. I don't think so, it would actually be the closest he has come to conceding if it occurs.
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  9010. This is an example of the worst part of US racism, all whites are guilty if they don't kill white suspects who most likely didn't resist arrest. There are about 10 examples per year of both white and black people who are unarmed being killed by police for whatever reason. White people and Black people in the US commit approximately the same number of homicides and therefore encounter the police by number of individuals about the same number of times. Until you accept facts and stop acting as if every white person should be killed nothing will ever change , just as you are a significant cause for Trump supporters because poor white folk are guilty from the day they are born , Trump is the best thing in propaganda terms that ever happened to the CPC of China. I am not American but can see , my own country isn't where you are but at risk, when people act with such intolerance as you do.
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  9011. Introduce some Emus and Ostrich and see which one dominates, none are native so no risk to the environment and easy to kill off the dominant species later on, just eat them and tan their hides.
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  9012. Well they need reforming which ironically big government Republicans tend to object to, not that the Democrats are much better.
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  9013. He is the highest ranking Republican representative in the US. Truth is Republican politicians won't say anything because more of their base than Democrats base support Israel no matter what.
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  9014. Hello scammer
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  9015. It's a pause for a few days for the moment but of course it won't reopen to NSW for a while, I would expect they reopen soon but state by state.
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  9016. Sorry, outside of tinpot dictatorships the US seems to have the oldest leadership. Sort of seems a choice in the US, a nursing home or a political position when you get really old. The answer isn't term limits or anything like that, it's just change the voting culture. Having one or two elderly who are physically and mentally fit to represent the elderly isn't a bad thing. They just shouldn't be running the show.
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  9017. The reference is cultural genocide, not killing people. It's unfortunate China hasn't advised you of what the allegation is.
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  9018. Your last part of your comment is the problem because when the weather clears people will come out en mass and if the primary reason for dropping cases is nobody going out and also not getting tested, could be wave # whatever the US thinks it's in. However a large number of older people already vaccinated so deaths shouldn't be as bad if it does occur.
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  9019.  @chrisquinn394  I don't think your assessment of getting milder is correct, back in the 1918 pandemic you either died or got immunity, so it was more a case of the population getting stronger at fighting it not the mutations. Flu pandemics in 50s and 60s actually killed a lot of people so viruses can mutate to more deadly. We don't know what the variant after omicron might be maybe it's more deadly but as more of the population has immunity through vaccination or natural infection it might appear less deadly, but an unvaccinated person with no history of infection might be at higher risk than with Omicron.
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  9020.  @chrisquinn394  Yes I didn't say it was your random opinion , just that the evidence actually doesn't point in that direction as I explained. Everytime there's a bad flu year the mutation is bad and more deadly. The virus will stay within a sweet spot or a range on the deadly scale but it will go up and down within that range. Covid 19 started off within that range clearly and hasn't moved outside that range although Delta has been more deadly compared to the original Wuhan variant to younger groups mostly through ability to infect it seems. The theory of becoming less deadly only if it goes way outside the range, if a variant started to kill 10% of people guaranteed actions would be taken to make sure it's stopped no matter how hard those actions would be. In the current situation killing about 1% of infected not accounting for age many politicians don't care and think letting it spread is ok.
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  9021. See Sydney cases then multiply it by 5 or so, that's what you would have if everything open and no restrictions.
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  9022. The UK is now thinking about hotel quarantine 10 months after the Western Pacific, forget Canada they haven't done so well although some provinces have. If the UK vaccine strategy works then elimination is considered you can get to a bit more normal but no overseas holidays for a while until other countries virus free.
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  9023. I think Elon is planning to be a genuine monarch by privatising certain functions of the government and getting the contracts by seeing competitors bids which he can undercut slightly. If this scenario plays out Americans will fall for it and think Elon is great.
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  9024. Well the Oxford Astrazeneca one is like that and very low cost during the pandemic, however getting enough scale has proved difficult.
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  9025.  @jamiec4478  So Queensland Australia a hardline state from the beginning with a population of 5 million and 7 covid 19 deaths and you say restrictions don't work. Oh well there's no convincing you. Queensland isn't the only jurisdiction in the world to have a similar outcome.
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  9026.  @jamiec4478  Suicides were not up in Australia last year so to your point that more people have died from suicide in the same time frame so what the number didn't increase. In the US with no proper lockdowns people literally killing each other homicides in 2020 were up 50% yoy in a sample of 34 cities. An increasing homicide rate that is already 5 times that of Australia isn't a good indication of better mental health outcomes.
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  9027.  @jamiec4478  Why would you expect larger countries to have higher suicide rates? The rate is in deaths per 100,000 per year. Homicide rates are calculated in the same way.
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  9028.  @jamiec4478  What on earth are you talking about Queensland internally is fully open with minor capacity restrictions and masks in some settings for another week or 2. How is fully open a failure?
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  9029.  @jamiec4478  I don't have to watch tv to know the lack of restrictions in my state other than interstate/international travel. Certainly 2 states and one territory in Australia are struggling, that doesn't mean the other states and territory have failed does it? You might say eventually your state will fail and you might well be right however a significant number of people are already vaccinated although not enough for full opening so worst case scenario it's impossible from the available information that things could be as bad as in many jurisdictions around the world, even NSW , VIC and NZ this is the case the previous restrictions have already saved many lives because vaccines do work in reducing mortality and hospitalizations which is important to the general healthcare system. Success doesn't mean perfect you know, no place on the planet has had a perfect outcome because it's impossible. The caveat to what I say which you can't predict is a variant that renders the vaccines near useless and the mortality rate of the virus jumps up and we are all stuffed.
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  9030. It will and the government's involved will do what's needed.
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  9031. Without knowing details a GP has a lot more people and costs a lot more to run, worst case for tennis need to find a tennis court nobody is currently using and set up a camera.
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  9032.  @carolwalker2425  I understand your point about people being stuck elsewhere but that's really a matter of resources as in it costs a lot bringing them back, the tennis doesn't change this fact and if it runs at a profit overall for the state including all the extra business activity then it makes further resources available for the repatriation process. As far as the thing about other states, it's really got nothing to do with this, interstate travel restrictions aren't going to change because of anything regarding a sporting event.
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  9033. Your statement is totally true Canada failed initially in the same way as the US and while not turning it around completely at this stage has done a lot better. I don't know but I am guessing divergence occurred at the same time Trump started contradicting Fauci. Fauci and the CDC did fail in the beginning which was significant but at least it would appear not intentionally.
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  9034. That number is remarkably high. The US is literally trying to conquer Canada by bankrupting the country in his delusion.
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  9035. What a biggotted nut. Salami isn't just an Italian thing.
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  9036. That's my thinking too, either she is a hacker which I doubt or someone must have given her the "state secrets" . Or of course the charges are made up. 2 of those are possible but my bet would be on my last suggestion.
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  9037. The first extra judicial killing system that never hurt an innocent soul. Well done on your Utopia , might as well do away with the entire legal system now because the perfect God like creatures called police can now be judge , jury and executioner due to their superior humanoid status.
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  9038. Smerconish doesn't understand the word exotic, it means foreign, don't think they travelled internationally.
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  9039. Yep
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  9040. Lots of lefties in the comments, I am sure they supported CHAZ in Seattle because this is no different, in fact this is worse in many ways blockading a significant proportion of an entire country's trade. Or is there something else at play something like 2 wrongs make a right noting the US connection to the current Canadian problems.
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  9041. Australia we did real lockdown and most state borders still heavily restricted. But must think looking good is important because barbers and hairdressers remained open. I actually don't say that lightly. It may well have been to keep something normal to an extent. If someone cares about their appearance having long or unkept hair would be a daily reminder things are not right. I don't know that to be the reason but I think it's likely.
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  9042. He didn't have to go to Trump rallies, the internet meant half a world away he could become a "member" .
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  9043.  @AmericanVermin  how dare you deface Burger King, AKA Hungry Jack's in Australia as the ad goes " the burgers are better at Hungry Jack's" , I am a bit of a free market man and I quite like Macca's too.
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  9044. You're wrong on one thing, fraudulent or multiple voting can occur in person or via mail so no difference. Especially this time because voting in person does not identify the person at all other than skin tone or sex. If you have a mask from the bottom of you chin to just below your eyes and you also obscure your eyes with goggles as added protection from covi sars2 , how could I identify anything other than male with dark skin?
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  9045.  @AmangRaymond  Because you responded I have thought about it and did watch the video you showed. I am Australian so our national vote is all one method and run by our federal government And to vote in person it's just give your name and address , so no actual identification process but have to be registered already. We have compulsory voting and if you are registered and don't vote you might get a fine but easy to get out of it. So in our system if I know someone's voter details I can pretend to be them. Actually our system is quite insecure in some ways but seems to work. If it's standard practice throughout most states that you must sign something that matches your voter registration that is slightly more secure I guess if voting in person. That signature will only be checked if the vote is close I would expect because checking 10,000,000 signatures in a large state how would that work , seems impractical. In reality unless we are forced in my country or yours to have a national ID card I can't see how we could have a truly secure vote. It's based on a high level of trust and observers from both major parties making sure things are done right. I wish you the best of luck and hope your country accepts the vote whichever way it goes. It's sad to see the US in what can be described as a period of self destruction rather than getting better and I hope it ends and gets better.
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  9046. The checks and balances are an illusion. Any country with a President that is both head of state and head of government is at high risk of having a dictatorship. In a parliamentary system while the risk isn't 0 it's far far lower because nobody has that much power and the head of government is easy to remove. Trump wouldn't last 5 minutes as Prime Minister of Australia.
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  9047. Sad to know it was a Ukrainian plane.
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  9048. Of course Elon loves Trump because Trump's policy is to stop US consumers having a choice in what they buy, 200% tax on electric vehicles from China is a win for Elon. It's outright corruption, why should American consumers be taxed to death in favour of billionaires.
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  9049. If you take the 5 richest US citizens, I am pretty certain 3 will definitely vote to increase taxes on themselves and 2 could vote either way. Truth is the money has to come from somewhere and Trump's massive deficit spending leaves no choice but to do something. There are some billionaires who are driven by pure greed but I think you would find most aren't and can understand the situation of the country and will vote according to what they think is best for the country , whichever way they choose to vote in this election.
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  9050. No violence
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  9051.  @jesserotnak7324  Why not? I am not pretending to be American, quite happy for you to comment on Australian issues if you want to. I think it's good to get perspectives from everywhere, but preferably should be respectful.
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  9052. Without support from military personnel and or police personnel against the coup d'etat it will fail. Of course protesters should engage with the rank and file of police and military , they are people too.
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  9053. Singapore has a good idea I think if you have problems with the vaccine full care and or compensation from the government and not vaccinated ok you pay.
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  9054. The power is most likely gone, Trump only needs to find 20 or so loyalists with the skills to carry out spying operations. Only hope is he can't find them because difficult to ascertain who is a loyalist.
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  9055. Japan has done reasonably well with mitigation measures so low case rate compared to many at this point and they are skinnier than some African countries with obesity rate at 4.5% compared to about 36% in the US which is the worst for a big country.
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  9056. Unfortunately it seems his businesses have become critical suppliers. Hard to end some of those contracts.
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  9057. The US is a strange beast, the most violent by far wealthy country in the world based on homicides and a call for less police. Overwhelming force as in numbers without the militarisation of police is what's needed. Chicago has a clearance rate on homicides of about 50% or at least that's what it was. So a professional killer as in a hit man would probably never get caught , the police appear too busy or something. One thing I think is a big issue is many police forces in the US are too small to be viable and the elected Sheriff situation, an elected Sheriff would find it hard to prosecute his or her donors. Anyway I have rambled a bit , if you are American best of luck, hopefully one day things will be sorted out.
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  9058. If you're a corporate tax payer you might get a tax cut. I guess you are rich to support tax cuts for the rich and more taxes on middle and low income people.
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  9059.  @ehjj1723  China was talking about getting iron ore elsewhere 15 years ago, China has always done this , they are the instigator actually.
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  9060. Have you ever heard of the Vietnam War. Ukraine has approximately the same population as Vietnam had 50 or so years ago, US troop numbers peaked at over 500,000 and that's not counting other allies including South Vietnamese. How did that war go with the US having far higher troop numbers than Russia has now.
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  9061. I just looked up what shoot for the moon means and it seems to have different meanings, the one I think of is go for broke, or risk everything, but an alternative meaning says go for it and it will succeed in some way. So I think the interpretation can cause a person to think differently. Not sure if in UK if the saying always has the meaning that is preferable, seems it might, but if it doesn't then not exactly good name.
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  9062. In US English liberal has a different meaning to the rest of the English speaking world. For the rest of the world it just means somewhere near the centre and accepting basic freedoms and non authoritarian ways of doing things. So centre right and centre left parties are both liberal. In the US the Democrat party isn't liberal and nor is the Republican party. They both cross the line and bully and don't accept election results. Both parties will target political enemies, a good example on the left if Gavin Newsom governor of California giving tax breaks for electric vehicles but not Tesla, the guy is no different to Trump saying he will target companies or individuals he doesn't like. Hope one day your political parties actually become liberal.
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  9063. Where in Europe, that covers Western Russia to Ireland?
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  9064. So some Canadians support their own destruction. Everyone wants restrictions eased and you indicate a slight majority think that should occur now. Do Canadians believe in open borders now? Very interesting that you don't believe a country has the right to restrict entry to whomever they want on the conditions they want. People crossing the Mexican border should just go straight to Canada now, that's apparently what Canadians want or haven't they thought this through.
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  9065.  @369universal4  To the 60,000 extra Canadian alive now due to the governments actions it does matter even if they don't know it.
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  9066.  @nicolelawrence5177  the contribution to spread by open borders from illegal immigrants is neither here nor there, the Delta variant didn't come from Latin America and the Delta variant makes up 90% of the cases in the US. If you are against open borders then it's unfortunate if you are a US citizen because it's been the same policy the entire time, there hasn't been a single day of compulsory quarantine for arrivals the entire time except for a few evacuation flights from China very early on. So why talk about illegal immigration if it's a health issue and bipartisan policy anyway.
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  9067.  @nicolelawrence5177  You agree with me then, not having any quarantine for arrivals for the entire pandemic up until now was probably not the right decision and it was a bipartisan decision. Of course Australia isn't going to change it's policy, we don't want the same as the open border countries (regarding covid 19) which is all of Europe and the Americas. Florida if it wants can close it's border to the rest of the US unless compulsory quarantine , nobody stopping them.
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  9068.  Indi Pillai  You are a person of extreme prejudice to even suggest such an idea that Trump followers are basically all racist people who sympathize with those who commit lynchings. Quite a few lynchings have been carried out by supporters of both major US political parties recently. How many innocents do you want to die? Should a policeman be lynched, should a Trump supporter be threatened with lynching, should a Trump supporter go to a rally with the intent of killing someone if need be to protect property ( yet another lynching). I am not American but it saddens me when anyone says only the other side is guilty when literally lynchings have been occurring on both sides recently. Because it's possible you are not aware a lynching is an extrajudicial killing.
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  9069.  @messenjah  I am a foreigner mate. Aussie means Australian for future reference. Whether Trump stays or goes until both sides completely without qualification denounce lynch mobs of any persuasion you can't move forward as a country. Is it ok the BLM occupiers lynched a person driving a car into the occupied zone in Seattle? I think not and is absolutely equivalent to the 17 year old kid who went armed to defend businesses in Kenosha. If you consider both these lynchings really bad and the leadership of both major parties lacking for not treating both cases equally then there is hope for you. Vote for whoever you want , a homicide rate of 6 times on a per capita bases when compared to Australia is certainly nothing to laugh about or point blame. It won't be fixed unless both parties admit failure and do something about it together I would suggest.
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  9070.  @messenjah  Well yeah I am Australian as I stated and my screen name implies. If you want an American equivalent of the so called "great firewall of China" so that you can't interact with foreigners I guess you should write to your Congress man or woman. I have no problems if foreigners offer opinions on Australian politics but if I disagree I will certainly let it be known. I actually don't have a strong opinion on who might be the best US president next time around , only a strong opinion that the current conflicts between both major US parties is making things worse at this point in time and both sides are deliberately outraging the alternative side. This doesn't apply to every person on either side.
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  9071. Every drug or vaccine has been through this process, it's nothing new.
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  9072. The diversity thing is interesting. In the US based on my observation it certainly doesn't represent the population. Apparently 13% of the US population is black but it's certainly way higher in news presenters and reporters. Having 2% of Australian presenters being indigenous versus 3% of the population is nothing to be ashamed of. The choice of career is probably the biggest factor as pointed out with the student intake. I am totally against just giving people a job because of ethnic grouping however the private companies do have that right so long as it isn't discriminating in favour of white people. So encourage more indigenous or whatever ethnic grouping to study journalism, that's the answer to the perceived issue. To me they are just Aussies in most cases and couldn't care less who does reporting or journalism. A good journalist doesn't need to be of the same ethnic background to be good, either they are good or useless regardless of background.
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  9073. No need to be embarrassed, all countries have people do and say silly things.
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  9074. I think all of South Asia but other countries not as bad as India yet, but in a few weeks they might be.
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  9075. The Indian national government saying it would be available for everyone even though they haven't finished the over 50s and know they don't have the vaccines is wrong. Unfortunately I can see a possibility that better off young Indians in their 20s at very low risk being vaccinated well ahead of for arguments sake some poor rural 70 year old.
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  9076. the South West Pacific is doing fine thanks but pretty isolated.
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  9077. It's useless at stopping spread but very useful for stopping hospitalizations and deaths, about 90% effective based on current data.
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  9078. What on earth you talking about, the side effects are listed e everywhere. You know more people have died from paracetamol in the last year than vaccines.
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  9079. You people have watched Training Day too many times. A good movie if you haven't seen it but I don't think representative of your average police.
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  9080. I agree, that's the sort of thing to apply pressure.
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  9081. You can't send sick people on the field and US liability laws even if asymptomatic. Would you take the fall if one of them dies?
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  9082. Last shot cold blooded assassination. No excuses for that, the guy on the ground dying.
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  9083.  @quid-pro-quojoe_4969  Are you joking ? Maybe 1,000 cases came from China that's whether travel ban or no travel ban. The US managed to breed the virus to infect whatever million we are up to now. If one case got in it would still be the same as 10,000 cases getting in with no plan.
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  9084. How about 12 weeks then it would be gone in most states. Other jurisdictions can do it.
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  9085. @Al LivesMatter Masks are the last line of defense and help a little bit, it's hard lockdown measures that work, soft lockdowns do more damage to business and people's mental health because there is no end, you are still at day one when truly considering containment , so fair to say even the concept has been abandoned in the US. I truly hope vaccines work as well as hoped because not enough information that immunity will last long and or that they will cover the ongoing mutations. If one US state could break ranks and decide they don't want the virus and stop all arrivals from other states without 14 days hotel quarantine that the traveler pay for containment could theoretically work, easiest jurisdictions to do this because no cross border daily workers is Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico. I feel for you in your situation because your response indicates you are not anti everything but very negative due to the situation and lack of any tough leaders around who could get the job done. Maybe Biden will surprise but his rhetoric so far is "just wear a mask" which simply isn't good enough and waiting to see if vaccines really work on all strains over the next year or so with current mitigation measures only and no plan B is high risk in my opinion. Best of luck and take care of yourself and those around you the best you can.
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  9086. There are over 2 million foreign workers. It's not a lot, however it depends on how they died and they wouldn't as a rule be old because they are still working.
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  9087. We can't stay united but we can have sympathy for the approximately third of the population who actually voted against this. If we remain united the US is about to invade or conquer 6 countries. The world must not agree to this.
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  9088.  @robertfrutiger647  The bigger problem is the parents, I get the impression that people don't like democracy if the majority don't agree to their personal way of thinking. The authorities are to blame mostly however because in most countries people just accept the decision of the authorities , the US is a bit different though and things have just become partisan and both sides are being quite aggressive. I haven't heard of this occurring in any other country.
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  9089. Australia made no allegations against China regarding covid 19, Trump is not our president so your comment is strange.
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  9090.  @tinatang1  You would appear to be incorrect, first search on the matter 2 articles popped up on April 29 2020 saying Australian intelligence officials fine no evidence that it might have come from Wuhan Lab and May 1 Scott Morrison distances himself from Donald Trump's claims. So not sure where you get your information from but appears unreliable.
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  9091.  @tinatang1  We support ASEAN over China regarding the South China Sea and proud to do so I would suggest. Australia hasn't had an aircraft carrier since 1982 so the ship you describe must have been a ghost, you should really find better news sources.
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  9092. If you've got them too they are also invasive, Indo Pacific they come from. In Queensland Australia we call them sand crabs and they are native here.
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  9093.  @rikilamaru  Interesting, the problem is using common names, search blue swimmer crab and you will see a similar looking crab to the blue crab found in the Atlantic. The reporter stated that the crabs were from Indo Pacific so I am thinking it's our species. I'll watch the video again to see if clear enough to see which one it is.
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  9094.  @rikilamaru  just checked and if you look at the top of the shell you can see it's the Indo Pacific one because of the patterns I am certain whereas the Blue Crab from the Atlantic the top of the shell is pretty much one plain color.
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  9095.  @rikilamaru  you're lucky you got both then.
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  9096. No the PCR test detects all covid. A genomic test is required to determine strain and the US doesn't do this testing to use Fauci's words as much as they would like and hopefully can improve on that. Extremely likely all strains are inside the US, still no quarantine at the border only a voluntary scheme pretty much guarantees this.
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  9097. It's certainly theoretically possible, however certain goods would be 10 times the price and for certain minerals maybe 100 times the price.
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  9098. He has never had policies other than a wall and trade protection. Second policy is a tax on the poor and highly socialist. His health policy is coming soon apparently.
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  9099. It spreads like crazy, it's just this time versus last year your contact tracing is working and you didn't wait for 50 cases a day to lockdown. Look at Sydney and they have been really good at contact tracing the whole way through.
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  9100.  @mercedesb2299  unfortunately you are uninformed. The University of Texas has an affirmative action policy which I have to assume includes immigrants because poor English language is taken into account along with race and ethnicity. Search their website, they refer to affirmative action policies as UT Austin holistic review process. The other quota is set by a "Jim Crow " law as inferred by the original journalist who used the term. A Jim Crow law is to racially discriminate against black people by not directly discriminating but by chosing laws that affect certain populations more. These laws it can be argued are actually still in place regarding what is or isn't a felony. But how the state of Texas does it for universities is to accept the top 6% currently of highest performing students at any school. This is designed to discriminate in favour of uneducated people at useless schools which on average will contain more "minorities". Californian people will be voting in a referendum I guess at the same time as the presidential election to reintroduce affirmative action into places of education. Currently Harvard has been accused of creating an "Asian quota" which if true is affirmative action for white , black and Hispanics. Affirmative action of many groups would appear to be live and we'll. The worst thing is accepting poor academic performers into University of Texas is hurting the recipients. They are more likely to drop out or not make a career of it and end up with a massive debt they can't pay. I hope a victim comes forward and litigates against the university and government for accepting their money and enrollment in full knowledge this would hurt the recipient.
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  9101. Yes and unfortunately in the US many such people exist of different racial backgrounds, it comes back to unfair government policies affecting poor whites and blacks for the most part which are the 2 main groups. Without addressing the underlying problems and reasons you can't solve the problem. I am in Australia and while we are no devoid of this problem it's far less of a problem at least at the current time. Unfortunately there is one incident that stands out being the Christchurch New Zealand mosques attack carried out by an Australian white supremacist. Because of the internet these groups or individuals can be radicalized across national borders. Not sure how that killer was radicalized exactly but pretty sure the internet played a part and might have been international.
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  9102. I have a question, what is so different about Trump and why China was so friendly to Trump? Should Australia have taken Trump's approach because it seems it ends in China being friendly?
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  9103.  @sonicspeed9164  That's great Trump involved in executive orders paying for the vaccines, pity his followers don't trust the vaccines and by extension Trump.
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  9104. In Australia the Shepard's need to guard their sheep. Our Prime Minister seems to have run away from the infection areas back to the Lodge, his official residence in Canberra which is good. He did take a holiday to Hawaii when bush fires were raging previously and that didn't go down well and holiday was cut short, so I think he learnt his lesson and along with the state Premiers has done a great job with Covid 19. I wish you the best in Canada and keep that southern border shut for now.
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  9105. It's not that simple because some of the oil extraction has no place to go other than the US due to pipeline infrastructure. Shipping oil by road to a sea port would be too expensive and building more pipelines to sea ports takes years.
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  9106. @Clara OT9 really a policeman would go to jail for pushing someone and causing nothing more than an upset ego? What country do you live in?
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  9107. The comments in this thread are quite disturbing, collectively you are literally killing each other at a rate 5 times that of other wealthy nations through homicides and your life expectancy is now lower than that in China. But according to half the comments in this thread death is the last human right and the first human right is to be selfish. So I guess those that think that way can't really be unhappy if a gang shoots up your neighborhood and kills a loved one because half the population doesn't seem to care including yourself. You are the only country to break into a simmering civil war over "freedom to infect" , noting other countries are gaining greater freedoms including life through cooperation.
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  9108. I think there is a long goal here too, make it so no building owner dare rent to media because you could lose everything. It's apparently not the only building housing media to have been targeted.
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  9109.  @wendy9232  it seems it's a recent announcement and have to wait reaction of other countries and sure scientists will discuss the matter. If you think of ocean currents it will disperse around the entire planet over time so if it is bad I am sure many countries will object. The other issue is can those tanks where it's currently stored withstand a major earthquake, if they can't I would much prefer a slow release than after the next major earthquake it all gets dumped at once. We shall wait and see.
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  9110.  @dianprasetyawati8246  You have certainly looked into things a lot, but it's not so much about the money with vaccines, it's a matter of getting them and in the meantime there is a pandemic out of control. I wish Indonesia the best but looks like things will get worse before better.
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  9111. That's not true, look at Lincoln Project and Republican voters against Trump. I would encourage you to look at Lincoln Project's youtube channel, some pretty hard hitting ads of the style of Trump himself.
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  9112. Major importers and exporters will be. Also most retailers. Many billionaires will make less after tax than they would have because profits will go down more than the extra tax cut.
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  9113. Just watching for the conspiracy theories. Anyone who follows the guidelines will not be overweight and have the best chance of being healthy. If you are overweight you are clearly eating too much, this isn't a conspiracy theory, you will get fat if you eat too much.
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  9114. Yes rich countries in a general sense are more vulnerable, partial exceptions is South Korea and Japan and other wealthy Asian countries because lower obesity rates. Rich countries are also older.
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  9115. How so ?
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  9116.  @insignificantother4194  you mean hospitalisations not cases. Hospitalisations are 10 % of cases, something like that but really depends significantly on age group infected, so very different jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
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  9117. Holey moley 2,000 comments and over 250,000 views in 8 hours. The Lincoln Project is really getting traction now.
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  9118. H5N1 virus has a known mortality rate in humans of about 50%. If this virus becomes transmissible between humans it's the end of the US as an economic superpower. Europe won't do much better. It will be the rise of Western Pacific countries, both the democracies and the authoritarian countries. Look at the death rates from covid 19, the covid 0 or close to countries had far fewer deaths.
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  9119. The payout rate is higher than contributions on average, it's definitely a socialist entitlement.
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  9120. ​@greghuff3316 go and look for yourself at the trusts involved, their own actuaries say if nothing is done it runs out of money in 2035. It only has one investment and that is US government bonds, so forget about theoretical market returns from other investments.
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  9121. Their husbands are going away for a long time, no reason to rush the decision.
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  9122. Trump is actually excellent at bringing prices up. Businesses need to adjust to his threats right now, ongoing costs like replacing machinery and electrical items need to be accounted for before actually purchasing them. Any large business is making larger allowances for everything to run there business. The flow on effects will affect every business in some way.
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  9123. The ķilleŕ had a traing room and area . I say this because of the speed to kill so many with a knife so quickly . Also very disciplined, wasn't going to increase time killing 2 more that were separated (one could call police).
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  9124.  @peterjg  it doesn't matter the app achieved nothing most likely, it's better to do everything you can which might work than not enough. If every measure that Australia took needed to be proven first we would be in a very different situation.
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  9125.  @originalkk882  I find your comment interesting in what you have been told regarding not having any serious entry quarantine for travellers. The number of cases it can reasonably said is not relevant any more, if it was only the original B strain coming out of Wuhan it does make sense however for months now it's been known that strains have mutated more than expected and posed a risk of being more transmissible or more deadly or more likely to evade a current vaccine or any combination of the 3 known risks. What you have been told if advised that since about October is either a slack approach or they don't care about those risks that were becoming very apparent a couple of months ago. What has been very consistent between the approach of different countries is some take every risk, in particular Western Europe and US and others consider everything a risk that should be taken seriously which is the Western Pacific approach. The Americas mostly aligned with risk taking and rest of Asia and Africa mostly risk averse. You can actually quite easily identify general regional differences.
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  9126. Rich countries for sure, for low income countries it would be the other way around and middle income countries it doesn't matter probably about same.
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  9127. Fox doesn't lie on facts actually but does use omission sometimes like CNN to give a slant. Editorial content however is something different and it's a pity many people don't understand the difference. If you watch the news on one particular issue as reported from CNN and FOX and you combine the information in the case one or both put a slant on it you will get a pretty accurate and complete picture.
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  9128.  @irishsaber18  Why the border question to someone, Trump kept the border open and so has Biden, what relevance does it have to your situation? You can't turn the clock back unless you are annoyed with both political parties and still nothing you can do because most Americans fully support an open border (not talking about illegal immigration). At least the vaccines are available.
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  9129. Are you serious? Do you think that all that has happened hasn't caused a single bit of distress or anxiety to anyone. People losing jobs and some knowing due to their age may never get another one, people going bankrupt, people losing multiple family members knowing in some cases it was preventable. Ok you stick to your opinion if it helps your mental health but maybe keep it to yourself.
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  9130. They are but don't want to go against Trump through fear of retaliation by Trump and MAGA.
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  9131. Actually it is a simple black and white issue, the oppressors, Israeli Jews refuse to give freedom to the Palestinians. There's literally about 100 ex colonies in the world and none of them have a problem. How many terrorist attacks by black Americans who were literally subject to slavery in the past? 0 because they have their freedom even if they are still subjected to discrimination on a personal level. Once you accept that Palestinians are just human beings you will understand what motivates some of them to become terrorist and what would stop that motivation.
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  9132. It doesn't stop them breeding because it mostly kills older people, so I don't get your logic.
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  9133. The failed audits in Department of Defence is to do with valuations , not fraud.
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  9134. Interrogated , you got to be kidding. This was like the easy questions on "are you smarter than a 5th grader" . Interrogation is a little different.
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  9135.  @earlgray7003  I agree and governments should point this out but they too scared to offend their fat voters I guess and as I said obesity is very fat , so the real number of overweight is much higher than the obesity number.
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  9136. People , especially media exaggerate things. There is no real panic otherwise Australia would attempt to cave into China's often ridiculous demands . China was talking of decoupling 15 years ago regarding iron ore and so far they have got absolutely nowhere with that.
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  9137. It's an exaggeration to say there's no one else , we have Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia , New Zealand and Canada that give aid but we can't replace the US contribution and it is true China will gain more influence.
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  9138.  @user-mb3dx5fl9f  worrying about something that you can't do anything about isn't going to get anyone anywhere, I don't know where you are from but there's only 3 things a country can do to protect itself, good market regulation, a fiscally conservative government so firepower is available in a crisis and a functional government with a relatively happy population. Australia scores reasonably well on these measures, certainly could be better though. How does your country perform? Your analogy of a neighbor with their property on fire is different because you can probably intervene to stop the problem getting bigger.
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  9139.  @user-mb3dx5fl9f  I certainly wouldn't cheer the Chinese economy collapsing and said I hope they have a soft landing and continue to move in the direction of having a better and better social safety net. I am realistic though about the possible situation. One thing you indirectly touched upon is government helping with transitions and Australia as we have strived to be a free market economy and done that well in an overall sense but haven't been very good at helping those affected by the transitions. So without knowing exactly what you are referring to I do agree government plays a big role in softening blows, often psychological as in mental health and think Australia could improve in that respect.
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  9140. You mean you would prefer it was "satirical fake news" but it bothers you it's real?
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  9141.  @Borvo1  interesting ratio. Same as incarceration ratio ironically.
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  9142.  @disf5178  the number of tests is not relevant. If you have contained the virus with a possibility of elimination the number of tests required will become lower. In Australia's case we are going for elimination but not calling it that because we are not overly confident. New Zealand the same along with other Western Pacific countries.
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  9143. You must have slept for an entire year, Trump kept all borders wide open for the first year of covid 19. I am wondering why you were not concerned then. I guess the virus never spread inside the US for that year. If you want a change in policy well you need to criticise both sides of politics because they have the same policies overall, no quarantine and no border restrictions for US citizen. The virus clearly doesn't check passports.
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  9144. Because it's rate of increase in percentage terms not gross numbers.
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  9145. Yeh mate 75% of the population of Australia have less restrictions now than Sweden, it's so tough. Victoria has had some problems and are going to fix them I believe so they can join the rest of us.
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  9146. How would you split the military and in particular nuclear weapons? I am not so sure as a citizen from a nuclear weapons free country that we would be too happy with another nuclear power.
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  9147. Well at the extreme level you could be refused entry to a hospital and die on the footpath because hospital resources been used up already. This has already occurred in many countries including developed wealthy ones, if really low vaccination rates it can occur again, also are you personally willing to pay another 5% tax to cover these costs to protect people's freedoms?
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  9148.  @jb888888888  it's over the top. The main thing that needs to change is a specific requirement of number of voting locations and staff per population of legible voters. Nobody should have to queue for more than about 30 minutes during a peak period.
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  9149. Trump and Musk are excellent salesman which is where their wealth comes from. Being an excellent salesman doesn't indicate anything about overall IQ, I was actually tested about a year ago and my IQ came out at 113 so not exactly a genius but well above average, I performed at just above mentally disabled with some tests. Basically i am slow at carrying out a routine task basically copying manually. Not sure about Musk but with Trump it's extremely likely my IQ is higher than his.
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  9150.  @tuntejaable  Trump did actually say that he would consider flattening quite a few countries with nuclear bombs and if you are on the receiving end which I am not it would be rather unsettling as I guess it is to Israel at times. Two wrongs never make a right.
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  9151. Maybe a bad idea but it went nowhere other than maybe 2 or 3 jurisdictions out of thousands and the majority of Democrats don't support it anyway although they could have spoken up a bit more.
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  9152. Are not all lives equal, what's wrong with just having murder, up to the judge about the sentencing?
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  9153. That's ridiculous, good cops would be behind a desk in weeks because criminals watch the cops too. They know which ones to fear and they would set up complaints real quick.
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  9154. Arizona has lost the plot. The order should be shelter in place unless you are an essential worker. Testing only for essential workers and immediate family of essential workers and at risk populations (elderly , obese people and those with other serious conditions) . Having a test that might take 3 weeks is as useful as tits on a bull.
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  9155. The people who don't take vaccines are antimasker so of course they ignore guidance. I think you will find some of the ones wearing masks are those who are already vaccinated but at some risk. Your CDC has basically said we offer no guidelines anymore , we pass all responsibility to others.
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  9156.  @ajs41  The lockdowns are short and sharp, even the lockdowns in poor old Melbourne would be less in total than anywhere in the UK however they do proper lockdowns and when it was bad nobody can leave the state without hotel quarantine. The closed national border has increased our trade surplus because we are a net importer of tourism as in people travel overseas and spend a lot of money, in our region Bali Indonesia and Phuket Thailand affected because that's the 2 major destinations for Australians. It's been very hard on Thailand because tourism made up a large part of their economy. If the UK closed it's border it would have helped it's economy also because my guess UK is an importer of tourism also spending money in Spain or Greece at a guess. The only issue with the closed border is foreign students which obviously significant if half way through a course.
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  9157. It's relative, maybe in 100 years the US will look like Mexico now and Mexico will be like the US, again in a relative sense because there will be plenty of technological advances by then.
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  9158. No he doesn't. Although I don't know what the actual system is the president having the nuclear codes is a myth. He has a coded way to send a message to some general somewhere and then it would require more than one person to activate anything. The safeguards would be enormous but the government isn't exactly going to tell people what they are.
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  9159. Yep I am a globalist deep state operator or on the other hand a bored keyboard warrior , it's up to others to decide.
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  9160.  @kemartyndall1800  ok I can be both LoL
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  9161. When is the GOP going declare the "War on Puppets"?
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