Juno News - February 06, 2022Canadians are done with lockdowns
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Summary
The lockdown is lifted, and people are ready to get back to their lives. I tell a story about the first day back at the gym after a lockdown, and how things have changed since then. I don't know about you, but I think it's pretty obvious that the mindset has changed since lockdown was lifted.
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I want to tell a little story, a little anecdote, about why I think it is just plain obvious that
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people all across Canada are ready to be done with these mandates, ready to be done with all
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these overbearing COVID-19 rules. Yes, there's the poll numbers that say, all right, people are
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wanting this show to pretty much be wrapped up right away. There's the public health officials
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who are saying, we want to treat this like the flu. And then there are, of course, all the people
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going to protests on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, you see it in Ontario, you see it throughout Alberta,
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all of that happening. I want to tell a very simpler anecdote, though. It's something from my
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daily life that I've been reflecting on the past few days. So Ontario just got out of its, I guess,
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fourth lockdown, if you can believe it. That's unbelievable. Fourth lockdown. And I went right
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back to living my life as soon as it was over, as soon as the lockdown lifted. And I went to the gym
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right away on the first day, really just a few hours into the lockdown being lifted. And I always do
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this whenever a lockdown has lifted. I'm like the first one back. And it's actually kind of odd that
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I now can talk about having many experiences dealing with the first day after lockdown being
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lifted. But anyway, so I go on the first day and I noticed that the first day at the gym was very
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different than it's been in past first day after lockdown days. Now beforehand, you'd go back to the
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gym the day after lockdown and it would be like, oh, we're walking out into this kind of new uncertain
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terrain. What do we do? Be careful. You know, everybody's extra sort of cautious and showy
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about the fact they're using the hand sanitizer and they're all quadruple checking the mask,
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making sure it's on tight. And whatever protocols the person at the front has to administer,
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whether it's the vaccine passport, relatively new. In past times, it was other protocols that
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were very rigid about it all. And people were walking around the gym like very, oh, I've got to keep
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my distance from this guy. I've got to show that, you know, I trust the science and everything.
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I'm going to follow all the rules. I got to tell you, just the other day in Ontario when the lockdown
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lifted, none of that. Absolutely none of it. People just walked in in droves. They're like,
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hey, what's up? Yeah. And kind of just went through the motions following those things. You know,
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okay, fine. I'll do the hand sanitizer thing. Oh, I'll write the mask. Okay. Anyway, back to business,
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back to life. And I thought that that little incident that I experienced, that little situation,
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I thought that was just so telling that folks of all walks of life, probably different political
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views, go into the gym and just like, yeah, okay, I'm done. This lockdown that we last had,
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we didn't particularly need it. I'm not aggressively scared of COVID anymore. Let's get on with our
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lives. And I don't know how these people would answer public opinion polls in terms of lifting
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restrictions. Yes or no. But it's pretty obvious that the mindset has shifted. It's pretty obvious
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that everybody's ready to move forward, to make progress, to lift all of these rules. People
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are ready. What's the holdup? Let's follow what all the other countries have done. And let's just do this