Juno News - Alberta's reasonable path forward

00:00:00.000 there's a scenario unfolding right now in ontario pretty much every day that i think is perhaps not

00:00:11.280 all that fair not all that reasonable and i want to get your thoughts on this scenario and whether

00:00:15.740 or not you think it's something that should in fact be happening or not so right now in ontario

00:00:20.680 there are about 200 people a day who are testing positive for covid19 confirmed to have the virus

00:00:27.300 and they are being instructed by public health to quarantine to isolate at home for 14 days and

00:00:33.440 their family members must also isolate at home for 14 days now they don't break down the makeup of

00:00:39.720 these individuals in terms of how many are vaccinated unvaccinated just one dose double dose

00:00:45.180 that sort of thing how many have symptoms how many are asymptomatic i mean later on there are various

00:00:49.720 studies that come out and tell you that data but when you first learn about the number of people

00:00:53.360 who have tested positive they don't tell you all that kind of stuff but i can guarantee you of these

00:00:57.540 200 people a day who are being confirmed to have had covid19 to have tested positive for it

00:01:02.920 some of them some of them we don't know how many will be people who are double vaccinated and have

00:01:09.000 no symptoms so basically have just showed up on a test to be told yes you have covid19 otherwise you

00:01:15.480 wouldn't know it they got the vaccine they got no symptoms those people and their families are being

00:01:21.760 told by threat of major fines from the government that they cannot leave their homes for 14 days they

00:01:28.860 and their children vaccinated people no symptoms and their kids can't go out of the house during this

00:01:34.680 beautiful summer for two full weeks after you've been denied because there's been lockdowns for about

00:01:39.780 a year and a half regular living regular living now available in ontario things you can do

00:01:44.480 but uh-uh you must stay at home do you think that is fair do you think that is reasonable dr dina

00:01:51.700 henshaw in alberta clearly thinks it is not the chief medical officer of health there she has said

00:01:57.180 look in august now we're not going to do this happening in a couple weeks the rules are going

00:02:01.940 to change in alberta where if you test positive for covid19 well she wants you to take it seriously

00:02:08.000 she wants you to take precautions she doesn't want you to be cavalier about it so if you're showing

00:02:13.360 symptoms and so forth you know be respectful common sense do what you can to avoid spreading this

00:02:18.560 virus but no more is there going to be forced government quarantine now there's a lot of people

00:02:24.800 who are having a tantrum over this in alberta right now but eventually we're going to have to head in

00:02:29.800 that direction in every province in canada pretty much every country is going to have to head in this

00:02:35.320 direction sooner or later it's really just a question of when because as dr dina henshaw said there

00:02:40.860 are other things to weigh there are various challenges there are other medical issues that are arising

00:02:45.480 things that require the attention of public health and this idea that you've tested positive

00:02:50.620 for covid19 but you're very well maybe double vaccinated you could have no symptoms and you've

00:02:56.040 got to keep an entire family locked up in their home for threat of sometimes exorbitant fines over this

00:03:03.780 is that really the sort of society that we want to live in moving forward eventually do we not have

00:03:10.820 to ghost away from those sorts of things people have wrongly criticized dr dina henshaw for saying

00:03:16.720 well that's the letter rip strategy and so forth no it's not of course she's been speaking very much

00:03:20.680 about the need to take these viruses seriously the need to minimize spread take precautions and so

00:03:26.120 forth but is there a need to keep those people who you know they may be double vaccinated and so forth

00:03:31.880 they may have no symptoms to keep them at home under lock and key them and their children

00:03:35.960 for 14 days is that reasonable or is that unreasonable what do you think

Juno News - August 01, 2021