Juno News - March 27, 2021


Another lockdown? Seriously?


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696

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As coronavirus cases are slowly rising again in Canada, we are hearing renewed calls to bring this country back into lockdown. Does that mean we need to lock down again? Is there a better way to approach this?

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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
00:03:37.120 you