Comments by "David Aspinall" (@yt.personal.identification) on "Dr. John Campbell" channel.

When you need medical advice, ask a software engineer, that said the word "pandemic" 10 years ago. He MUST be the expert.
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As someone who lives in a place that locked down early and hard...successfully...I do wish the rest of the world was prepared to do what it took, properly. The lockdowns in most places were late and pointless. Don't use pathetic lockdown regions in the test. You either locked down properly (South Korea, NZ, most of Australia), and it worked...or you didn't do it properly so it doesn't count at all as a lockdown. Most countries didn't lock down properly at all. This will bias any findings. Try looking at the successful lockdowns, and their effect. Don't look at places that didn't lock down completely. It is either complete...or pointless. Mist lockdowns around the world were pointless because they were lare or weak.
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Made...being the key. Look at it's relationship map with all other variants. It has NO connection.
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@colehayes9922 The economies the world over have slowed. There is only so much to be made money from an emergency, when the entire economy slows. It solves the vaccine and mandate arguments, without political cost. It vaccinates the anti-vax side fast. Look at the result. Borders are opening. Economies are moving. Money is starting to flow. You tell me, who gains from all that?
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@brksymusic Watch the video in question, to avoid further embarrassment
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The US Health Care system leaves people with untreated comorbidities. It is too expensive for treatments the rest of us take for granted. In other countries, these are treated by Public Health Services.
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@navalfa7291 They are engineers. The stuff you build relies on the stuff they build for you to even get approval to be built. Respect is a 2 way street.
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What are you basing that on?
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@Lord A Are you claiming a TikTok video is indicative of what happens when the camera goes away? You can't actually think it means anything...can you?
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However, it is disingenuous to quote it in isolation.
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Needs more sarcasm. Glorious!
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Arm chair doctors with Kellogg's degrees on pharmaceutical research.
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@user-ii9we3hc4h They worked in places that did it properly.
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@user-ii9we3hc4h No. Lockdowns were not done properly in those regions. If the seal is broken on an air tight container, even by a pin hole, you have failed with the seal. Same thing with lockdowns. Looking at areas that failed, and blaming the lickdown is a pathetic way to absolve people of their blame. It works...except where it wasn't done properly. Done properly DOES NOT require ling term lock downs. Long term lockdowns happened when the lockdown had a leak. That is on the community...not the disease. If your claim was correct, they would have failed everywhere...but they didn't. This report looks at places a lockdown failed, and conclude lock downs don't work. The conclusion should be, the community failed to lock down. When a community locked down properly, it worked. This is what the study needs to look at. It's like looking at 3 tires that drive over nails, and saying that brand of tire can't stay inflated. It's flawed...badly.
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@user-ii9we3hc4h South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland, South Korea, New Zealand. All very successful, at eliminating the virus totally from community transmission, leaving them free to live without the virus for the majority of the pandemic.
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@user-ii9we3hc4h South Australia lost 9 people to the virus in the best part of the first 2 years. The majority were cases that arrived home from foreign countries, while positive.
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@user-ii9we3hc4h If lockdowns were done properly and fast enough, then any effects are greatly mitigated. You are comparing the effects of failed lockdowns, to avoid properly ascertaining the effects in areas where lockdowns were effective. This report claims they were not effective anywhere, and so only looks at social and economic effects where long term ineffective lockdowns were implemented. It totally ignores a true comparison of those effects in areas where strong fast and short lockdowns were successful, thereby mitigating the effects. It can ignore this, because it claims it doesn't exist.
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@user-ii9we3hc4h A death rate requires the virus to have active community transmission. Some states in Australia didn't have enough case of community transmission for a significant size dataset to draw an accurate mortality rate. The lockdowns were effective in eradication of community transmission altogether. That is part of the problem I have with this report.
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@user-ii9we3hc4h During the first 20 months, in most states in Australia there wasn't a statistically relevant number of cases to draw numbers from. That's the point. Look at the numbers of cases on the places I have stated where lockdowns halted community transmission entirely.
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If Victorian's actually did it properly...
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@colehayes9922 Pharma has already sold huge numbers of vaccines, and their research was taxpayer funded to start with. Now they switch to "treatments". Don't worry about pharma. They will do just fine. The over bought stockpile of vaccines will be dumped on other nations as a tax right off as "charity assistance", and used as PR to show they care. Win win.
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@johnnybeefum It turns out, our bars were open - in limited capacity admittedly - long before many other countries. The measures weren't perfect...just effective. There is definitely scope for improvement in the way it was handled, but the benefit of hind sight helps with that. Effective lock downs helped get the economy running again sooner so mitigated some ( not all ) of the wider issues.
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