Juno News - Another lockdown？ Seriously？

00:00:00.000 as coronavirus cases are slowly rising again in canada we are hearing renewed calls to bring

00:00:11.780 this country back into lockdown particularly ontario let's lock down again a third time a

00:00:18.120 hard time harder than ever the grandest lockdown of all they say the grand finale in all of this

00:00:23.640 the people who really pushed previous lockdowns the people who never wanted us to leave lockdown

00:00:28.240 in the first place they're the ones most adamant we gotta get back down into lockdown but hold on a

00:00:34.400 second even if cases are going up even if they start to go up more than they're going up now at

00:00:39.180 a greater rate does that automatically mean that the conversation has to be locked down or not

00:00:44.720 locked down or maybe can we evolve the conversation can we mature our response to all of this you would

00:00:50.700 think that after a year we've learned a few things and that we would be able to do things a better way

00:00:56.200 in fact that is actually the opinion of dr kareem kirji he's the chief medical officer of york region

00:01:01.300 he says don't touch york region a district just north of toronto in the gta he says we got it we

00:01:07.960 got a handle on all of this if cases do explode again we don't want to go back into generalized

00:01:12.660 lockdown we want to do targeted informed responses to go after the actual trouble spots wow what a novel

00:01:19.620 idea to actually take this year's worth of data that we have gleaned that we've put together and use

00:01:25.540 that information to determine okay what is the real problem here how is coronavirus spreading

00:01:30.720 where is it spreading who is the most vulnerable and let's do targeted responses to all of that

00:01:35.660 one of the things that is has frustrated me and really flummoxed me to watch unfold for this past

00:01:40.820 year is that canada we're a developed nation we got a lot of really educated people intelligent

00:01:45.680 people great minds in this country a lot of scientific minded technological minded individuals

00:01:51.240 we live in the age of big data big analytics we're crunching all the numbers we got more information

00:01:56.640 than we've ever had in human history and yet we have this virus that is thankfully not been as bad

00:02:02.420 as we first anticipated it would be and for whatever reason we can't actually figure out a smarter

00:02:08.180 approach than lock everything down this is a virus that well it spreads from person to person so let's

00:02:14.640 make it illegal for people to be near other people i mean is that not a very blunt

00:02:19.340 unnuanced very immature and almost all definitions of the term response to all of this a year later

00:02:26.000 why can't we figure out a better way to do all of this even the who they said well hold on a second

00:02:31.560 this lockdown thing yeah it's a thing you do at the beginning to kind of just grab your bearings and go

00:02:36.860 all right what is this virus we're dealing with let's figure this all out here but it's not a thing that

00:02:41.240 you do in perpetuity in fact i think it's rather embarrassing rather i don't know shameful that

00:02:46.700 epidemiologists and public health officials they have not been able to evolve their response in all

00:02:52.200 of this i mean you guys are saying you have an inability to learn or something or like what what

00:02:56.580 have you been doing this past year dealing with all of this now it should be noted that there are

00:03:01.520 jurisdictions all across north america all across the world that have actually uh moved towards this

00:03:06.500 more evolved response york region isn't the only one but it goes to show there are many other

00:03:11.100 directions one can head in so when you hear people saying we gotta lock ontario down again

00:03:15.120 we gotta lock canada down again well even if they're right that cases are unfortunately rising

00:03:20.020 hospitalizations rising and so forth we don't want any of that of course

00:03:23.200 but lockdowns are not necessarily the only answer in fact there is a better way out there

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Juno News - March 27, 2021