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Oh very much this, stopping too early is one of the bigger factors in creating resistance.

You can basically destroy all good bacteria in your guts with that aswell. In Italy they automatically gave me probiotics with the antibiotics. Never got that in Germany but have bought them myself ever since.

Is you dutch?!...I'm dutch and i'm like..the antibiotics..! gotta speak up...yeah the resistance....something futile..

Yeah, we got MNRA bacteria, bacteria that is resistent to antibiotica.. that's more of a threat.

yeah , MRSA is a big problem. we wouldnt have any weapons against bacterias in a few years if we dont control the usage in medicine and animalbreeding.

I broadly agree, but I have a tiny nit-pick with "causes the bacteria to become hardened". Bacteria evolve like every other living organism, they don't get 'hardened'. Bacteria that survives exposure to Antibiotics have the opportunity to go on to infect others. Further, the bacteria killed off by the Antibiotic are not competing for resources, so the Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have their chances of survival improved. Summary unnecessary/overuse of Antibiotics literally nurtures bacteria resistant to that Antibiotic. So only use an Antibiotic when it is necessary/essential. I'm not disagreeing with the core meaning of your comment, just the meaning of 'hardened'. Best Wishes for 2024. ☮

Usually the problem is that people stop taking their antibiotics before the prescription ends. That way they have maybe killed part of the bacteria, but the remaining ones can adapt and become resistent to that antibiotic. So it's good to have some control over those. In Finland they have even noticed that most ear infentionsnon babies will actually heal without antibiotics and now it's more common to just ease the pain for them and keep an eye on the infection. Will do wonders for those kids later in life when their natural microbiom hasn't been killed multiple times for nothing.

Not only the overuse but also the wrong antibiotics may cause more harm than good when used for the wrong infection. Antibiotics is a general class of medication. Similar to "why are people not driving 'car'?" Because there are many different cars used for many different reasons. A so-called broadband antibiotic applies the big baseball bat wildly swinging at ANY bacteria in our body. Unfortunately roughly 30% of our body weight is made up of symbiotic bacteria that we desperately need for our digestion. Also they live in a biome which has only a limited amount of space and food so they effectively control the biome with their mass. If you take a broadband antibiotic you kill off a huge number of the beneficial bacteria along with harmful ones . That's why antibiotics should always, Always, ALWAYS be ONLY on prescription.

Exactly I’ve only had antibiotics twice in the last ten years. Short strong dose.

@@Garbox80 This is why I like my GP so well, he starts with advice on what to do apart from bed rest and sends you home for a week. Only if your condition deteriorates too much, or if there is no cure with bacteria at work, will he prescribe antibiotics. That people stop the antibiotics prematurely is something where I suspect a lack of education across prettymuch every nation. The day a bacterium with class 1 through 4 resistance emerges and starts to spread, we will either be very careful or learn from history first hand what bacteria like the Black Death were capable of when no antibiotic was available to counter it.

We don't all drink instant coffee. It is vile and fresh coffee is so much better.

​@@92fittySure, as long as it's not Columbian coffee. That tastes like a hot mud.

@@92fitty Filtered coffee can be made in the cup using water boiled in a kettle.

​@@MazzaEliLi7406Filtered coffee is disgusting. We love the real thing in Australia. 😊

instant coffee? yeeewsh.

I nearly started crying myself when I read this. Eight dollars !!! America is so f**cked.

Hard to say what it would cost in Germany without health insurance (depends on what kind of x-ray is being done, of course). But generally it would be somewhere around 50€-200€, which I think is in the same ballpark as it would be in the US?

Awesome, simply awesome Thank you Churchill for what is Euphemistically called equitable health care.

Beautiful, thank gor sharing

@@LordHorst From what I heard it could easily be higher but the biggest difference is that most people from the states cant handle a 400$ emergency and theyd have to go into debt for it. You would get help for that in Germany.

i just love your typo "not drinks like tea" 🤣are you a coffee drinker by any chance? 🤔🤣

@@kustanhardelus6919 oops

@@kustanhardelus6919 Lol yeah, for a second I was like 'Why the f are you excluding tea from that???" 😄 But yeah, realized it was just a typo.

US Americans really don´t know about kettles it seems. Wow. BTW, I´ve heard they heat the water for instant coffee in the microwave. And I thought, why not give it a try? Bad, Bad decision. The taste was just off. As if the water went bad.

@@ileana8360 the best thing about this is what they call it when they microwave something: they "nuke it" they "nuke" their tee water 🙃

That's all true... but in a developing country, doctors can be scarce. Not just overall, but particularly in areas with low population density. Also, in these countries corruption is a big deal, so it's not always a good idea to throw red tape everywhere when it's going to be ignored all the time.

Also "partial" use of antibiotics (not using your whole prescription duration) lets what it hasn't killed off yet develop immunity.

You forgot to mention that selling drugs outside of the medical industrial framework takes profits out of the pockets of poor pharmaceutical investors.

​@@Andreas-gh6is "In a developing country" ... like the US , which this video is about.

Here in Eastern Europe my doctor will do a blood test first to check for infection before prescripting antibiotics and they are often given by a course of injections so they can check you take them all.

Same in Scotland too 👍🏼

I do not agree with you saying that getting antibiotics without a prescription is a good thing. A. You do not know if it is a virus or a bacteria. If it is a virus the antibiotics will not work. They only kill bacteria, not a virus. B. Taken to often it will create resistent bacteria, specialy when used wrong. So in time we will not have antibiotics that work anymore... That is a real life problem right now.

Right!! But you're not only risking your own resistance but also the 'average' resistance of society. If you're loosing your resistance, you may infect others...

I giggled reading that. I visit Singapore frequently (❤Singapore❤) and the idea of someone thinking it would be unsafe is just too hard for my head to grasp!😊

Same in the U.K. I know someone who went sick with cancer, received surgery and ongoing treatment that was successful and spent several months recuperating. When he was cleared to go back to work he started off with his 5 weeks holiday, immediately followed by the Christmas and New Year bank holidays. Not a penny deducted, but he moaned about not getting his usual paid overtime and decided to emigrate to somewhere else in Europe for ‘a better life’.

Same in Denmark.

Same in Finland

Same in the Netherlands.

Same in australia

its an electric kettle boils water in aprox 3 minutes used for hot drinks automatic shut off

@@leslieperkins759 Three minutes? Either you are catering for a tribe, your kettle is rather low-powered, or you are putting in too much water and wasting time and electricity. I put in enough water for a cup of coffee for me and a cup of tea for my wife, go to the cupboard five feet away to fetch the cups, and then put the tea bag and coffee powder in the cups. By the time I've done that, the boiling water is ready to pour.

To be fair though, many of them do drink the 'Kool Aid'

@@kgbgb3663 In winter it will easily take 3 min and that's just for a cup. I boil 2l at a time - then fill thermos flasks for the day - and in winter it can easily take 15 min, the water is that cold.

@@ABC1701A Wow! Where are you? I've just done a timed experiment, measuring exactly 1 litre from the cold tap and letting the kettle turn itself off when it got to a strong boil. 2 minutes 35 seconds. (I'm in the UK, with water coming in straight from pipes underground rather than from an indoor tank, and with 230V electricity.)

seeing an american bill for that hospital visit you had would've caused you a second heart attack.

Ambulance ride in America costs $2000 alone.

Those stents cost minimum $10,000 each to the Aussie government so we do really well there 😊

120v electricity means a kettle will take something silly like 10-15' to boil so no wonder they don't use them.

@@sugoruyo Wow.. We have 230 over here! Not even 5 minutes for a full pitcher!

@@robertvermaat2124 Ha, I see what you did there, pitcher! lol.

@@geoffmerritt We call it a 'jug'. We used to have a jug exactly the same as the one in the video but upgraded to a really nice glass one with a blue light in it.

@@aussie6910 I'm sure that Jug/Kettle would have been a Woolies or Coles one for about $15

I'm continuously reminded of a saying I read about medieval France: "France wasgreat, butthefrench were miserable". I sometimes wonder if a country can become a world power without those social discrepancies, or if being a world power for a time incentives this kind ofmentality.

They live in a bubble.

As a kiwi I absolutely agree with you. Beggars belief eh?

@@junebartlett7494 Same here!!!🤣🤣🤣

​@@sergioaccioly5219I love how that statement was about medieval France considering it sums up France now

It is also about systemic racism against Roma, Africans and Middle Easterners. Racism is just as bad, if not worse, in Europe as it is in the U.S. TONS of people get pulled over for "driving while black", or middle eastern, or Roma, or any other ethnic minority. Ask most Europeans what they think of the Roma and you'll find out just how racist they are REAL fast. The racism is somewhat different between the U.S. and Europe, but having spent a lot of time in both, the overall level of racism isn't meaningfully different. The specific type of racism varies, but the overall level isn't particularly different.

@@hosermcmoose Idk where you live, but I don't see such things in Poland.

​@@hosermcmooseWe don't see that type of Racism here in Ireland.

@@hosermcmoose Race crimes get punished harder than normal crimes in Denmark. Also that type of racism really doesn't exist here, the only thing that could be seen as racism is a lot of people's views on immigrants, specifically Muslims, since they seem to have a hard time conforming to the laws and society of our country. If they would integrate into danish society properly, and accept the danish way then most people would agree that there's no issue, but it's when they stir up trouble because of the differences when people start having a problem with there being a lot of immigrants.

@@NocturnalPyro Thank your for accurately demonstrating what I mean by "systemic racism". I was struggling to put it into words, but you illustrated it well. Most Europeans don't "see racism" because they aren't the group being discriminated against. They don't feel the effects because they aren't the ones facing higher incarceration rates, lower wages or higher unemployment. In North America, we've started asking the questions. Why are black Americans 5 times (or whatever) as likely to be killed by police as white Americans? Because black Americans are 5 times as likely to cause crimes. Why are black Americans 5 times as likely to cause crimes as white Americans? Because they are much more likely to come from broken households and/or low income families. Why are black Americans more likely to come from broken households and/or low income families? Because they are less likely to be hired to well paying jobs and the state has forced them into negative living circumstances. etc. etc. Europe hasn't even tried to ask themselves these questions. That is why there is so much system racism in Europe. Not that North America is perfect, by any stretch, but Europe hasn't even TRIED to ask the questions as to why it is that Muslims, for example, won't "integrated into danish society properly". They haven't even asked why.

German police will to this (+ drug test), if it looks supicious. They will many look, that e.g. the first aid kit is there and usable, emergency stuff is there and reachable, your insurance is ok and the car has a valid TÜV * plate. (required regular technical checkup of the car), ...

@@martinjost5637 we don't have all those requirements, but if your car looks run down or they think its modified, they may look it over for things like balled tyres, not enough ground clearance, wheels to big (for 4x4's) and in some states if it has things like aftermarket turbo's etc.

Not always. They do simple licence checks as well. Got my first one when Mum was teaching me to drive. Glad it happened with her and not when out by myself. Also got pulled over for a rego check and my sticker was the the expiring colour. It hadn’t yet expired but I could tell them the exact date so they barely looked at the sticker. They’re like, “Okay, no worries”. I had about 5 days left on it, just waiting for the sticker in the post. They also team up with Main Roads for road worthy checks. I doubt I’ve had more than 5 RBTs in 30 years of driving.

But but but think of the trillions each sick working will cost their company if they can take a day or so off to get better and back to 100%!!!

eu economy, ESPECIALLY germany is collapsing. because the same ppl who cry about fair wages, rights, recycling/anti pollution then buy everything made in china..because made in any country that has those standards is "too expensive"

There are American companies that treat their workers well and give them insurance and ample personal time. Some also help you pay for continuing education and contribute to your retirement fund. If you speak in generalities, you will always be found to be wrong.

@@tartfuel that is a minority of companies. So I'm not wrong in what I say. Every time an American company comes to my country they get in trouble in no time because they don't realize they have to obey the law and that workers have rights and we have an collective agreement for a profession as a whole. For example for retail where all the workers in retail earn the same and have the same benefits and rights. They also try to get the union out. But it is the unions from the employers and employees together that makes those agreements. Some are gone fast and some try to fit in. It is the reason for example that Amazon does not have warehouses in the Netherlands.

@@Bruintjebeer6 Or partially why Walmart failed in Germany.

Yeah, that's the nightmare is the next super bug coming out of our factory farming animal torture camps T_T

It’s actually also under mandatory prescription in most European countries, specifically for the reason you described.

My sister and her kids are allergic to certain kinds of antibiotics, too. So if a pharmacist just gave her something without even looking to see if there's something they can't have, there's a potential lawsuit waiting right there.

Not to mention that any antiobiotic use opens your body up to fungal infection.

Any drug, recreational or prescription can be abused.

Yeah, i was watching bodycam videos from america at some point and i don’t want to defend their police, cause it is bad in some cases, but also. They’re much more intense and on guard because they have to work on the assumption that the driver might have a gun, because that’s a thing there. Like their officers have to think about that because it’s a real possibility, which makes them enter every situation on the presumption that they could easily die. When officers don’t have to worry about that, they’re A LOT more relaxed, and their interactions with citizens calm down to normal levels. Amazing to me that americans can’t seem to put 2 and 2 together.

@@Sebisajiminstan What works for us wouldn't necessarily work for them. Or at least, it's much, much too late for them to take our path. Even if they made private gun ownership completely illegal tomorrow, there are more guns already in circulation in the USA than people. A buy-back program would cost something close to their entire GDP for the year, and even more to the point, the sort of Americans who own several guns are the sort who believe firmly it's their *right* to own several guns, and taking guns away from someone who is already armed by force is... well it gets a very lot of people shot. So no, USA public disarmament is a unachievable fantasy. Simply can't be done anymore.

It's a hot water kettle. What the hell has that got to do with kool aid?

@@gerardflynn7382 Because he said "Isn’t that like, a water pitcher? Like for Kool-aid and stuff?” I recommend actually watching the video before trying to show off how smart you are.

I'm a UK born Aussie so of course have a kettle (and an urn in my case being too lazy to wait for water to boil) and I cringe when I see Americans on videos put coffee in a microwave to heat up. Yuck.

@@tkps They do WHAT?

@@Son_Daughter_of_Slaanesh Yeah the US electrical power is too weak to boil water, so they have to microwave it or boil it on a stove top.

Yes! I am an Aussie and can confirm..kettles are in pretty much every kitchen. 😊

What nobody has mentioned is that was a cordless kettle that sits on the electric power source that is plugged into a socket. Just thought I'd be precise as our American friends sometimes need extra details/instructions. :)

And the click was when it shuts off because boiling point was reached

An alien concept to most Americans. My cousin lives in the US and struggled to find a kettle.

i couldn't live without it... i'm using it for making coffee with a handfilter - makes me feel like a barista every morning ☺ i even use it to preboil water for cooking because it uses so much less energy than a stove...

I use a Quooker, a boiled water tap, combined with a kitchen tap, above the sink. Tea in an instant, boiling water for pasta or vegetables etc. it is ideal.

@@RealConstructori would love to try one of these but it's soo expensive... i mean it's like 100 times the price of an ordinary kettle...

Very good explanation for why healthcare should require a prescription for antibiotics. 👍👍 Hopefully @ItsCharlieVest will read and carefully consider your very good, thorough answer.. Best Wishes for 2024. ☮ (I'm adding this comment hoping your comment will catch his attention even more).

Same in the U.K. it’s free in the U.K.

Here in Germany it's the same. But here we would rather say: Antibiotics are on prescription cause people are just dumb and would get some as soon as they get a cold if they could, cause they aren't aware that it will do more damage than good, be it short term or especially long term. It is taught in schools what antibiotics does, where it helps and where not and stuff, but not everyone listens well in school or remembers after they are out in the wild afterwards. On the other hand, often when i was at the doctors with a viral infection all i got was a sick leave notice for my employer for a week, the advice to stay in bed, drink a lot of tea and water and some diet suggestions (eat chicken soup instead of steak) and to come back after the sick leave expires if it doesn't get better and come in immediately if it gets worse. Cause every medication they could prescribe me would only treat the symptoms and with a viral infection that's not necessary unless it's something like corona or a new real influenza mutation that went haywire.

@@olgahein4384 It would be like, 'with this medication, you'll be sick for a week. Without it, you'll be sick for seven days' I guess. I'm from the Netherlands, and I've heard foreign students complain about how difficult it is to get antibiotics perscribed here, and how their doctor always sends them home with just paracatamol and the instruction to come back if after a week they're still not better or sooner if their symptoms get worse.

Same here in Germany. You also need a prescription to get birth control.

check, why does he have to be a policeman at school? is it a school or a state prison? In Croatia, when the police show up at the school, there are already demonstrations for the dismissal of the Minister of Education

The only police I saw in school taught us about stranger danger. They showed up for one day, taught us the info, and left.

​@@Oddballkane exactly, when we were in first grade, a policeman came to explain traffic signs and rules and then we got on our bikes and rode on the training ground, while he "controlled the traffic"

We have a police officer in schools here in the UK, however they are there less for security but more for supporting students who may be a victim of crime or abuse etc. The work closely with the safeguarding teams

I can't even imagine any country would have cops in schools W.T.F?

I got into a big argument on line after commenting on a video where police had been called to a school. The kid was obviously autistic and having difficulties but police were called and the kid was handcuffed and arrested. I found it outrageous that police had been involved in this scenario at all. The kid hadn't presented any danger to himself or anyone else. He was simply refusing to do what he's told. I guarantee, in the UK when I was at school, EVERYONE would have found it outrageous that police were involved in such petit misbehaviour. Yet all the Americans on the thread were insistant that "the kid deserved it, what else could the teacher do if the kid is not doing as he's told?". Even though his actions didn't even amount to a crime.

I agree 100% ,the US is the worst place to live in the western world ,compared to the uk and europe it's very uncivilised! I wouldn't live over there if I was paid to !

I live in America, native born, and I completely agree! If I had the money, I would TOTALLY move to Europe... more than likely somewhere in the UK, as my sister lives in England, my heritage is Irish, and my partner's is Scottish. ❤️

I'm sorry to have to disagree but when civilized is spelled with with an "s" in the middle, it is far too often the epitome of British pseudo-civility where too many human beings (so-called) are never held to account for their outrageous behavior, at least in part due to an absence of available weapons. The US is far from perfect, but when you consider the alternative........

@@James-w1t Police in America end more civilian lives every month than the British police have in the entirety of their existence. You can keep your alternative thank you.

I've recently discovered why they aren't as popular in the USA. The US electric fixtures can only support around 1500 W at 18 ampere in one socket whereas most of Europe can easily support 2500 Watts at 18 ampere. Which makes most kettles in North America significantly slower in boiling water than here in Europe.

@@RustyDust101 Then that would explain why an American woman used a microwave to make tea the British way, That video appalled tea drinkers globally!

America uses 110 volt electricity supply so the kettle would take twice as long to boil without a voltage converter .

I couldn't believe you didn't even know what a kettle was!!! In the UK that's equal to not understanding what a car is...life limiting 😂😂

@@RustyDust101 At UK voltage (240 V) a Kw pulls approx 4 amps so 2.5Kw is approx 10 amps not 18. UK plugs max fuse size is 13 amps. (P=IV watts)

Yeah its strange, im from Sweden and it would be pretty strange if i go to Norway or Finland and they have police in the schools or something like that 🙈 And its strange to hear that many Americans dont even know Canada is so different, but i guess that a big difference for me as an European is that we travel a lot, i cant even count every time i have been to the Nordic countries, exept island 😊

Question: What borders on madness? Answer: Mexico and Canada.

@@BewareOfTheKraut That is excellent!

@@PowerMadLabRat Thanks mate.

Americans frightened of potential Shooters and astronomically High Medical Bills...so sad 😔. Still, despite all that... they always seem loud, positive, and happy.

Same in Greece... Some companies leave it up to the employee to work and get paid or take their vacation days but most companies force employees to take the days off. In the public sector it's not negotiable, you take the days, period.

German here, as Germany had been names. We have two kind of traffic stops. One is based on obvious (not that cops haven’t lied, though) indicators that something is amiss. Erratic driving, speeding, oil leaks. The random one was probably the general one, where they can pick anyone and have them demonstrate a few things, all related to road safety, lights working, mandatory first aid package in orde, etc. Technically, they are not allowed to check your trunk, so they need to step aside when you get them out to present them.

@@peterbruells28 Well obviously they're gonna stop someone if they suspect a crime. I said random traffic stops.

@@Zinetha Sure. But the random stops aren’t for petty crimes. They are just for road safety, which would usually be infractions, not petty crimes.

@@peterbruells28 Oh, my bad. Language barriers. I thought car-related small crimes like broken tail light or whatever were also called "petty crimes".

Probably why they don't have them in the US, the "moderately loud click" could be mistaken for a gunshot 🤣

@@OdinsTaco Oh, come on now. A kettle sounds completely different to a falling acorn.

@@harbl99 Slow clap .... EPIC

@OdinsTaco We do have them in the US, I have had one for over a decade and just got a new one like a year ago, and they sound nothing like a gunshot (more like a door latch clicking loudly).

How do Americans normally boil water?

Same here in Australia 🇦🇺

Same in Belgium

Same in Spain. Also for child seat safety or using seatbelts

same in Lithuania

Same in New Zealand😊

C'mon it's the US, they used to sell fentanyl on drugstores without prescription 😂

Yes, they can be abused and are bad if you use them too often.

until bacteria are resistant to that stuff.

Why ? Do they make people high if you take them wrong or something ? I'm not from USA and had no idea and still don't know why it wouldn't be sold ?

@@ytjessaie It just accelerates antibiotic resistance and leads to the emergence of new super bugs

yes i agree with you

that

Absolutely!!! Overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics = multi-resistant bacteria = back to the days before antibiotics existed and you frequently died from simple infections...= A VERY BAD THING!

Facts!

While I agree with a)"it is INCREDIBLY important to have antibiotics only on prescription", I don't agree with b)"we are seeing more and more resistant bacteria we have literately no other countermeasures for popping up with horrific consequences" being a consequence of a). The fact that we have more and more resistant bacteria is (mostly) due to CAFOs (caged animal farming operations) where you put up to several hundred thousand animals in close proximity and basically feed them with antibiotics. That is how we basically used up all of our antibiotics!!! And not only antibiotics, also antivirals. We had one medication against a H5N1 based avian flu (which is expected to be at least 100 times more deadly than corona) and we wasted it in CAFOs in the US and China. Ask any pandemic expert, this is a sobering and terrifying fact!

The fact that the kettle is an American invention is so shocking to me because of the lack of electric kettles they have 😅

@@scarlet5122 Except its not an american invention.. originally its attributed to Arthur Leslie (a brit) and there are various incarnations mostly made by british people

@@scarlet5122 It's their low voltage, takes forever to boil.

Yep, their power is so sht they can't even use kettles. They microwave instead or use a stovetop.

@@Shamiterrific We use them in Canada just fine. Americans just dont use them for some reason

Yeah, safeguarding rather than shielding

@@beccasalt8960 The schools my nieces go to are locked and you need to use a inetercom to talk to reception. When picking them up after school not allowed on school grounds. This is UK.

Same here in New Zealand, signing in as a student or a visitor is std. however we don’t have security guards or metal detectors

we dont have those either@@libbysevicke-jones3160

That said it was always super easy to jump the school gates lol

Accurately, you don't become immune to antibiotics, bacteria become resistant to them. ;)

​@@vechnoezabvenie Same difference. They sto0 working lol

Its true. Make your teeth yellow too. If you take too many they become less effective on you when you actually need them. When I was a kid my doctor used to hand them out like cough lollies

same here :)

Why would you go to the US without travel insurance knowing how expensive everything is there? It seems reckless. I can see US hospitals being really funny about accepting that they will be reimbursed by a government! They like to see a nice fat insurance card. What if you needed repatriation? I don’t think a state healthcare system should be paying for their citizens overseas with the uncertain costs that entails.

That is absolutely NOT how it usually works in Norway. You absolutely NEED to buy a travel insurance when going abroad. There is NO guarantee that the Norwegian government will pay your bills if you get ill while abroad.

Just an Aussie here but this might help some people. It is not uncommon for two countries, especially with strong healthcare systems, to have reciprocating arrangements. For example, if Australia and Norway had such an arrangement, it would mean I could go to Norway without travel insurance and be treated as a Norwegian and only pay what they would pay (probably nothing) and likewise, if a Norwegian got sick in Australia they would be treated like an Australian citizen and probably pay nothing, but the hospital would want to know about your residency status and country of residence. These agreements only exist between some countries, so check in advance and make sure you get insurance if such agreements don't exist, you are uncertain, or they seem like they won't provide appropriate cover for your trip. You may need additional travel health insurance to cover other medical expenses not covered by the reciprocal agreement. Also, side note, in Australia there is a difference between public and private, bulk-billing and non-bulk-billing. Make sure you DO YOUR RESEARCH, but it can sometimes be safe to travel without health insurance or with a lower level or different sort of insurance coverage. From a quick glance online I think Norwegians are covered for emergency care in Aus, though you may have to enrol in Medicare (I'm not following what the site is talking about too well, hopefully, your gov's site discusses it a little more clearly).

Ambulance flights to home can be extremely expensive, so a travel insurance is a must - would be stupid to ignore it. Europeans should apply for free European health card, which quarantees free health care in Europe where ever they have a vacation or a business trip.

Australia is 20 days minimum a year all paid, not including public holidays. I also get a Christmas stand down of 10-12 days. No leave required fully paid.

@@drsiigabb9935 In addition to 25 days of annual leave, we have 15 days of public holidays, some of which fall on the weekend depending on the calendar, after a leap year, most of them are during the week, all of them are paid.

Exactly... I've got to the point now where I will ask my doctor if actually really need antibiotics or can I just get away with uping the the dose of my pre and pro biotics for the short time it'll take to fight off a mild infection. About the only time I'll take ABs is if I open m'self up or I've had to have surgery, which I try to avoid as much as possible. I hate hospitals with a passion, they're full of sick people...😆 🙃🐨🇦🇺

Americans read? And understand? Ohhhh you good hearted,optimistic fool you!

MERICANS! don't know there is anything outside the US.

@@crocsmart5115 on the flip side, the existence and popularity of these videos is evidence more and more are looking outside the country in a way that has never existed before. There is 'some' cause for optimism

Some Americans are free in the USA but only them that can afford it.

@@crocsmart5115 😂😂😂

I mean... If you wanna ruin an electric kettle, you COULD put Kool-aid in it. It'll stain and smell, though. Even boiling 10% apple vinegar in it won't get it back to normal.

Most people in USA don't have electric kettles They heat water in a mug in microwave if they want to make tea

Heating clean water in the microwave is not safe.

@@rosewoods3007 WHAT?????? From Canada....

and to hear that they use microwave to heat up water is crazy

They do have kettles in US, but the power is 110v so they take ages to boil.

In Japan too it's normal

Trying to imagine what having a group of friends over is like. "The first batch of mugs with hot water is ready, next batch goes in the microwave now!" Lol

Every house in Australia has one. Essential for our early morning cuppa. Or a quick cup of hot noodles.

It has nothing to do with the voltage and is just a cultural thing. I live in Taiwan which has 110V same as US, and I use my electric jug multiple times every day.

Hope your foot healed ok 👍

I had a very large and heavy industrial fridge fall on top of both my feet many years ago. Despite wearing security boots, they needed surgery on 8 occasions for each foot before they were able to function normally (though still looking somewhat forlorn), so it meant one surgery in one foot at a time and then healing up before I could get the same surgery on the other foot (so as to retain at least partial capability to move around without help other than crutches and a wheelchair). As you can guess, it took years before it was finally over and I could return to work. It cost me exactly nothing. Not even for the painkillers or a rare infection in one foot after a surgery, and despite sickleave/unemploymentpay being a bit lower than my salary before the accident, I didn't loose a single øre in my monthly income. The hospital time and surgery was free in Denmark and still is. The medications were paid partially by the government program keeping them affordable when using them longterm, and the remainder paid by the insurance company that had the case as their fault to cover. And they also paid the difference between my sick leave payment and what I would have received if I was still working, right up to the day when I started working again. Denmark is far from perfect, even with long term illness or injury. But they beat the US to the point where the US is not even to be considered a third world country. They are all the way down to a fourth or fifth world country if there had been such a category.

Jug, if you are in New Zealand!🤪

Americans don't drink much tea, and don't drink instant coffee, so they rarely need one. They have a machine for filter coffee.

Bahahahaha 😂😂😂

Very true 😂😂😂

Nuns with Guns!😁

​@@defbybass Two souls, one thought 😊

@anniemayne-xe... Hello. Same with me. They scurried around our huge old (built in the 1400's) school and when going from one lesson to another would scare the sh!t out of us when they would suddenly appear from around a corner, gliding along like ghosts. The building and atmosphere was very Harry Potter but it was an all girl school and exactly like St Trinians! (Probably nobody old enough to remember that). Brilliant times.✌

Canada has the same type of outlets as the US, and the same type of electric kettles as the UK/Aus, so it's definitely not a logistical issue in that way.

Hi, I think US/Canada has 220V split phase. Thats 110V between Live & Nuetral, 220V between the TWO Lives. Speaking to an American, she said her 3 pin outlets are 110V, but they have 4 pin outlets, unfortunately she said the 4 pin ones are not above the kitchen work surfaces. They are lower down for things like tumble dryers etc. She told me plugging a kettle into a 3 pin outlet is slow to boil. Let us know, is your kettle plugged into 110V or 220V, is there a "cheat" to get around it. If on 110V, is waiting as tedius as she told me (although she is American, she probably filled it to the brim for 1 cup 🤣) . Cheers @@SabrinaVT

@@lesh4357 There is actually a US guy on RU-vid who looks into these things, and he has found 110 V kettles; they are not as efficient as the 220-240 V versions. His channel is called Technology Connections (sorry for the ad).

to be fair, in the UK you need a loicense for a kitchen knife, or an opinion, only only the "correct double plus good" opinions get a license. and so far, no license for food that tastes good has ever been given out in the UK, ever

On my first trip to the UK, I saw one of those and was, "damn, that's a great idea!" and bought one as soon as I got back. 110V is no problem; it's resistive heating, so you have more current (R=E*I, after all).

No lol loads of medicines shouldn’t be used unless you need it

@@davidz2690 Ofcourse but there are other reasons you really shouldn't use anti biotics.

worse, they microwave it 😂

I can understand why they don't use them - my friend moved to the US for work and bought an electric kettle when she arrived - she says that it takes forever to boil because of the different voltage.

@@gillianrimmer7733 I'm no electrical engineer, but I would have imagined they could be manufactured to suit the voltage - I mean are American lightbulbs dimmer, and irons less hot?

@@user-zu6ir6kj5g , obviously not - but they take a lot longer to boil in the USA.

@@user-zu6ir6kj5gThe amount of power you can draw from an electric line is Volts times Ampere. So with 240V and a 16A socket, you can pull 240x16 = 3840 Watt. In the US, with 110V and a 15A outlet, you get 110x15 = 1650 Watt.

In deed there even is the random control. As we don't have border-controls to our EU-neighbours any more these controls have been replaced by in-country controls (Schleierfahndung) and allow basic identity checks (to verify you are here legally or have no open warrant) and depending on the state also searching you for drugs, weapons etc. Of course if you drive weird you qualify easier for these... and it's really rare - I drive for >25 years and have never been controlled randomly... ok - I also did not live near the borders, where such controls are more common and am a typical German blonde, blue eyed, slight belly guy 😉

This explains something about the '80s BMW e28. In the boot was a pretty comprehensive first aid kit and a warning triangle that clipped to the underside of the lid. I assumed it was a previous owner's addition until I noticed they were BMW branded. Now I know they were a legal requirement.

Yeah.... the only time we'Ve ever been pulled over here in Germany by police was when they informed us, "One of your brake lights doesn't work. Please get it fixed soon."

90% of the random checks are to check if the 1st aid kit of slightly older car models (usually older than 3 years) is expired and if it is they tell ppl to get a new one. That was most likely what the guy was pulled over for. Very rarely someone gets pulled over for faulty headlights or suspicion of drugs or alcohol due to odd driving. If someone was suspected of racial profiling due to even a single complaint that would be extremely problematic and lead to an internal investigation which doesn't sound serious, but it really is. The policeman would likely be suspended for the duration of the investigation, all his emails and work documents would need to be screened, there would be psychological assessments in case the complaint can't be disproven and if it isn't disproven the officer will lose his job and might even be put on trial because as a police officer harassing innocent citzens due to racial prejudice is a crime. So yeah, even if a policeman is racist he would have to be extremely careful not to treat anyone differently in any way to keep his job.

They aren't truly random. The police still profiles. Used to get pulled over a lot when I was in my twenties in a shitty car. Now in my thirties with a nicer car I never get pulled over. That said the vast majority of german police is super nice and helpful. I got off the hook every single time, when there was some minor problem.

same in germany

In Canada some provinces have occasional randomized checks for intoxicated drivers. It's considered a justifiable infringement on people's rights because it significantly reduces the number of traffic accidents. Otherwise the police can't legally stop you without reasonable articulable suspicion that you're doing something illegal.

@@wizardsuth so as long as i (38, f, mildly overweight, white) don't raise suspicions in my 2009 toyota auris (wich would be a suspiciously small car in north america 🤣) they are not allowed to stop me and look into my car even if i smuggle kinder surprise to the u.s. border? 🤣 i mean to seach my car even the german police would need suspicions and bureaucracy but at least they can stop me for no reason claiming it's a general traffic control and then see if they notice anything suspicious and if not all that's lost is a few minutes of my time 🤷‍♀️

Canadian here. So once I was pulled over by a cop for random street check and bc I was so surprised and was watching him, I went over the curb and back on the street. I thought, "Oh shyte!" The cop had me roll down the window, stick his head in and asked, "What did you drink?" and bc he didn't smell any alcohol or weed from my car or on my breath, he believed my story, and let me go with a "Drive safe". LOL!

IKR i literally got pushed to my car cus i didnt take my vacation in 2years cus i didnt feel like it

New Zealand Employers can be prosecuted if staff don’t take holidays. I was on the management team in a large company and some of our guys had up to 2 years of holiday leave they have never taken. By law we could pay out half of that time $$$, but we literally had to ban them from entering the workplace until the rest of their holidays were used up. If we hadn’t done so, the company would have ended up in the employment courts.

@@libbysevicke-jones3160 Same here in Germany. It is less about workers suing and more about the state enforcing things.

Same in Europe (Romania in my case). It's not about employees suing the company, it's about the state punishing it for breaking the law.

I once banked/forgot about/saved up so much sick/vaca days... that I was able to book every Monday for an entire year off. It was the best year of my life.

Milo, Ovaltine, soup

Never heard of that happening here in the uk

Was it called St Trinian's by any chance?

@@stevet7695 I can't even remember...I think it had 'field,' in the name.

The same, when my wife died, my company told me to take as much time as I needed. The thing is, I had 1 DAY working on that company. Literally they hired me the same day she died. I've been working there since, for the last 13 years.

May I ask what kind of treatment did you take for fibromyalgia? My mother has it for more than two decades now and I'm lost at what else we can do to help her.😢