Swedish Corona infections climbed past 8,000 last week, the highest figure yet.

With vaccines just starting to be introduced how soon can we declare the Swedish experiment a failure or are there diehards here who will never admit it?

Dear mhaze,

Mate this was specifically posted with you in mind. No response?

Hi SR,

I suspect that Trumpf (and his followers) are so infantile that they think that the virus is now overcome, because the distribution of vaccines is somehow almost instant across the US.

But even if the pharma companies could ramp up the production of doses to, say, five million each day, and with everybody getting their two doses, that would still take nearly four months. In the meantime, the virus would keep spreading, gradually more slowly, before the number of deaths avoided started to decline - but that may take most of that time, perhaps three months at that rate of five million doses a day. So maybe that's another 300,000 deaths from the Trump Virus Response (TVR), bringing his total to around 600,000. Two hundred 9/11s on Trump's watch.

And after all, people who have been vaccinated may still be carrying the virus - they won't get sick from it, but they can still spread it. So we're a long way from overcoming this virus. On top of hat of course,care the half-wits who refuse to take the vaccine (because it's a way for Bill Gates and other Jews from inserting nano-chips into all of us), or even still believe that the whole thing is a hoax (are there really people that dumb ? In the US, yes of course.).

So what dumb-arses are still going to get infected in the US ? Those with a misplaced notion of 'freedom' vs social responsibility, those afraid of the vaccine, and those who don't believe it's all fair dinkum. Quite a sizeable pool of low-IQ people. What a pity that they'll be missed by the Republican Party.

Joe

The scuttlebutt I have is to wait 6 months after the introduction of the vaccine rollout before getting vaccinated because no one can tell us what the long term effects will be of the proposed vaccine.

But don't let that stop others from being first in line, especially those in the pro-Chiner camp like Foul-Mouth, Foxy, david f, Hasbeen, mhaze, and a lot of others.

Better them than me.

Joe these anti Trump posts of yours do demean you.

You know as well as I do that most of the Virus problem in the US particularly, is down to state governors & city mayors, even more so than in OZ. We have all seen the catastrophe that one stupid Labor premier in one state caused to boost the death rate here, & the US system gave Trump even less power to control the renegades in New York, than our PM had. The Democrat governor & Mayor of New York should be on murder charges for their handling of nursing homes.

These posts really are way below the standard of your usually well considered responses. Opportunistic is not a description I would ever have expected to apply to a post of yours.

The left do not come out of this problem well. Have you noticed it was the lefties, [Democrats], that screamed when Trump cut in coming flights to the us, & the same to a slightly lessor extent here. However it is the lefties screaming that Boris did not cut incoming flights to the UK.

As I said opportunistic politicking has been the order of the day.

Ironically it has been the lefty premier here in Qld copping it from the Liberals in NSW for shutting the boarder. To say politicians "aint what they used to be" like the old grey mare, is very true today.

Dear Hasbeen,

Demena him? Good god, are you serious?

That you should tie your coat tails to one of the most venal, corrupt, crass, and incompetent presidents of recent times is far more a reflection on you I'm afraid.

He is the very embodiment of what you use to detest in a politician and now your are fawning over him.

Trump referred to the virus as a “hoax”, he repeatedly said they had it “under control”, he claimed the US had the lowest fatality rate in the world when they were in fact 9th, and he claimed he had “launched the largest national mobilization since World War II” which was patently incorrect.

On H1N1 Obama declared an emergency within 2 weeks of it hitting the US. Trump took 9.

The list of his failures on this are so extensive it makes the eyes water but he still has you championing for him. A cult is the only logical reason.