COVID19 deaths in the USA for 2020 was 614 thousand. A simple Google search will show this. I can understand the US CDC putting out possibly a lower figure but not a 39% reduction.

Well you do have to state your name and address.

Excellent response.

Prior to reading the article I actually said to my wife that some people (i.e.In the US, Republican leaning voters) would "clutch their pearls" saying they are been victimised when so called vaccine passports are implemented. So I am not surprised to see the above comment.

If you want to travel to another country you have to carry or have access to papers (i.e. passport/visa) as well as meeting the appropriate vaccine requirements of that country. Can anyone point out the difference especially since many schools in the US and other first world countries require most children to be immunised prior to attending school?

What is so hypocritical is Faux News which actually requires the equivalent of a vaccine passport to work there, yet some of their "entertainers" (Faux's lawyers words not mine) use what are called "weasel words" to to spread misinformation about the COVID19 pandemic.

Let's see 2H2 + O2 --> 2(H2O) + Energy (Were is the pollution?)

The only problem is the possibility of uncontrolled combustion. There is a reason why Hydrogen was banned in dirigibles since 1937.

Err! Water is comprised of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, so using electrolysis there is no problem producing plenty of Hydrogen. As for the energy used for electrolysis that can come from solar, nuclear or polluting electrical power. Of course, storing a large amount of Hydrogen safely may be a bit problematic.

That said the Hindenburg sends its best wishes. \(*_*)/

Sure the WHO needs to be called to account for stuff-ups just like any other organization but just by reading your post, you seem to have a hangup on China. Yes, the Chinese government is dictatorial and I dislike that type of government, however, just about all governments have their plusses and minuses with the main minus being "greed" within the ruling party. Of course, it does not help when ideology (religious and political) takes centre stage as well, which throughout history has resulted in much misery for our species.

Response by WHO to COVID-19 is here with the earliest date being 31st Dec 2019. Sure you could say that was late but that would be the Chinese governments' fault for not reporting sooner. Granted that WHO did not declare the virus a pandemic until the 30th Jan 2020 although the first death in China was on the 11th Jan 2020, however, the alarm bells were already ringing and many governments chose to ignore the potential problem.

Italy has a population of about 60 million with a death toll due to the COVID-19 virus of about 33,229 and counting. You are correct in that Australia and New Zealand don't have anywhere near the amount of international travel that Europe and the USA have although most of our population is concentrated in a few cities. Fortunately, we have a very low death rate although we do have testing, social distancing and contract tracing in place. In addition, we also have quite a good health care system.

As to the Australian Government being owned by China. Australia (pop 24.99 million, landmass 7.692 million sq km) has a small population compared to China (pop 1.393 billion, landmass 9.597 million sq km) so our government has to be diplomatic since we do have trade relations. The same applies to many countries around the world including the US and Europe.

Because our Primeminster has supported the investigation into the COVID-19 virus relations have soured with China but because successive Australian governments after WW2 have basically followed US dictates we are now in a quandary as to how to approach China since the US government is not helping. Sure you could argue that China has a communist dictatorial government but like it or not they are approaching superpower status and have to be approached by diplomatic means since war would be catastrophic for all countries involved and even those not involved.

Citation needed.

Try looking at the timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic and how politicians reacted to the warnings. Using this site as an example, but if you say this is "fake news" then you have brought into Trump's lies and distractions. However, all is not lost there are plenty of web sites that will provide answers unless you are conspiracy theory enthusiast, then no amount of "evidence" will convince you.

I live in Australia which has a population of approx 25 million and to date, we have about 103 dead from the virus. Now let us compare that to the USA which has a population of approx 330 million which is effectively 13.2 times the population of Australia so we could use that number to multiply our COVID-19 deaths (103) to compare it to the deaths (over 100,000 and rapidly counting) in the USA. The bottom line is that the USA is actually leading the word in COVID-19 deaths and the way this pandemic ("plague" if you wish to think that way) is being handled by the USA politicians (especially Trump's Republicans) expect that number to climb dramatically in the coming months.

Actually that is what was said back in 1980 when I was doing my degree. Err it is now 2020 (i.e. 40 years) and still no commercial fusion.

Forget fusion, I want my flying car ;)

A simple google search will show you that for Australia from 2015 to 2019 there have been approximately 1,200 deaths for each year. Australia which has a slightly smaller landmass than the continental USA only has a population of about 25 million.

Of course, we could go rediculous here by contrasting Australia (pop 25 million) with the USA (pop 330 million) which is effectively a 13.2 multiple differential. So let's take the total death toll of CVID-19 of the USA which is 82,078 deaths and compare that to Australia (97 deaths) using the 13.2 multiplier and we get 1,280 approximately so no, the USA government has done nothing to be proud of.

You can even go further and contrast the number of CVID-19 confirmed cases in the USA of 1,389,853 with 82,078 deaths resulting in a 5.9% mortality rate to Australia which has 6,927 CVID-19 cases and 97 deaths resulting in a 1.4% death toll. It must be noted that you cannot use the 13.2 multiplier in this percentage calculation although it is valid when comparing the total number of CVID-19 cases and again Australia has a much better result.

Maybe these people need a crash course in basic maths. When you get worldwide confirmed cases of COVID19 being 4,294,636 with 288,988 deaths then the percentage death toll is 6.7% (i.e. divide 288,988 by 4,294,636 and multiply by 100). See the following .

You are spot on. I am expecting more conspiracy theories, misinformation and insults from this person.

Ok, let's look at simple arithmetic. To date, there have been 4.18 million worldwide cases of COVID 19 and out of those cases 286 thousand have died, Now let's divide 286,000 by 4,180,000 and multiply by 100, that will give us 6.8% lethality.

Now, why not take the USA. There are 1,388,187 confirmed cases with 82,010 dead and doing the simple maths again we get 5.9% lethality.

Of course, we could take Australia (where I live) which has (to date) 6,964 confirmed cases and 97 dead which gives us a 1.4% lethality. Australia has a very good health system (an emergency is basically free) and we have been practising social distancing, testing and contact tracing. The county is slowly opening-up although anyone visiting has to go into quarantine.

BTW. You can easily find information and numbers here .

Citation, please.

From the following WHO article "Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment". In the case of severe respiratory infection, the patent may need help with breathing by putting them on a respirator.

I take it that you know that humans can't survive without getting enough oxygen in their lungs. If you think hospital doctors would put people on a respirator without good reasons then you are a troll.

What's next, 5G gives you [name your pet conspiracy disease here]?

You are quite right. "Linux is the kernel".

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