Juno News - April 19, 2020


Are we overreacting about the coronavirus？


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5 minutes

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144.04094

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788

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2


Summary


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00:00:00.000 the corona virus has changed life utterly in Canada we have shut down the economy to alleviate
00:00:12.000 the risk shuttered our citizens in their homes saving except for the occasional forays to the
00:00:18.040 grocery stores pharmacies or liquor stores on 9 11 I was in Calgary on business and did probably I
00:00:28.200 don't know 20 radio and TV interviews over the course of the day talking about security and
00:00:33.500 what's changed my salient point on that day was that life as we knew it had changed and changed
00:00:39.440 utterly could you have imagined on September 10th as an example being told by a TSA agent who didn't
00:00:46.680 exist to take off your shoes in order to clear a security screening area in an airport in order to
00:00:52.820 board a flight the corona virus is much the same thing will there be a time in the future when we
00:00:59.380 return to shaking hands as a matter of course when greeting somebody I don't know but what I do know
00:01:07.140 is that hand hygiene and social distancing are now a part of life while I understand all the reasons
00:01:14.480 behind all of that I like many other people are questioning whether we have overreacted in shutting
00:01:22.160 down our economy the same is happening across the United States the last few days have seen
00:01:28.960 protests in Michigan Minnesota California Texas Florida and Maryland demanding the governments rethink
00:01:38.160 this and restart the economy people are hurting from not being able to earn wages or do business or
00:01:45.440 even just move around their communities in the way that they're used to I worked hard all my life to
00:01:51.680 enjoy certain things I have a membership at an exclusive golf club that's closed I also belong to a
00:01:59.440 private club which is where I worked out at the gym to stay fit and healthy that too is closed a small
00:02:05.920 gym in my condo building is also closed why I'm a smart guy I understand social distancing why is it okay for me
00:02:16.400 to go to my local grocery or liquor store and maintain appropriate social distancing but not to go to
00:02:23.280 Mark's workwear world as an example to buy a pair of jeans I don't get it people are not stupid and while
00:02:30.880 I sometime argue that common sense is rather inappropriately named most folks understand that
00:02:38.640 there is an incredible overreaction by government for example in BC all but three of the COVID-19 deaths
00:02:47.840 reported have occurred in the long-term care facilities the same is true in Ontario and Quebec the most
00:02:54.400 populous of the provinces in the country on a national level coronavirus deaths have accounted for
00:03:02.240 approximately point zero zero zero six percent of the population seriously and for this we have shut
00:03:10.960 down the entire economy and put more than a million people out of work and forced many businesses to
00:03:16.800 stare bankruptcy in the face how does this make sense to anyone life itself is not without risk no matter
00:03:26.720 how much the political left think they should control everything to mitigate that risk every time I walk
00:03:36.000 downtown I run the risk of being run down in a crosswalk by a taxi or a bus that's life cannot mitigate
00:03:44.320 all risk in life in the security world when we look at situations we discern what the risks are we put in
00:03:52.400 place solutions to mitigate that risk but we can never eliminate it all entirely there is a point
00:04:00.080 where we say that this level of risk is tolerable it is the same in life at what point do we say that
00:04:08.160 the risk of the coronavirus is acceptable versus shutting down the entire economy the government of Justin
00:04:15.520 Trudeau has thrown a ton of money at the pandemic and it has and will do absolutely nothing to stem the
00:04:24.480 problems created by shutting down the economy Trudeau seems to think that we are in this state until there
00:04:32.160 is a vaccine which is likely at least a year or a year and a half away how does he think money will be
00:04:39.680 generated for him to lavish it out on whatever pet causes he has if the private sector which pays
00:04:46.720 all the taxes that fund government is shut down I harbor no illusions that Justin Trudeau or his cabinet
00:04:55.840 ministers or his close advisors actually understand how the economy works point of fact I would argue that
00:05:03.920 none of them actually do I also understand that listening to the bureaucrats at the world health
00:05:12.320 organization is very very foolish indeed the u.s is returning their economy to some semblance of normal
00:05:21.120 so too should Canada and right now for true north i'm leo knight