Juno News - Do all social distancing measures actually make sense？

00:00:00.000 i'm wearing one of my golf shirts today partially in mourning in commemoration for the loss of the

00:00:10.000 masters golf's big annual event that usually happens round about this time of year just before

00:00:15.280 the opening of something else i always look forward to golf season in canada and we know

00:00:20.480 that stuff has been nixed cancelled as has most of the things that human beings enjoy doing in the

00:00:26.640 world right now incredibly frustrating but we all get it right we're all on board aren't we because

00:00:31.840 we all support the social distancing measures and we all support flattening the curve yes of course

00:00:37.520 but hold on a second as i have watched a lot of these things that bylaw officers have been doing

00:00:43.120 police municipal officials chastising people some of these things i don't know if they actually

00:00:49.680 make sense there's been a lot of the petty situations of people being ticketed and fined in public parks

00:00:54.880 and you know what if you're doing a big group rugby game or having a large group gathering barbecue

00:00:59.600 of people who aren't in your immediate family okay we got a problem here fine them ticket them

00:01:04.800 some of them i don't know though let's go back to golf for a moment this is a sport where you do not

00:01:10.480 come within two meters of another individual if you do you're playing it the wrong way maybe there could

00:01:16.800 be some smart opening of golf courses where say the rules are that if you're gonna only twosomes let's

00:01:23.440 say that twosomes no foursomes and the other person in your twosome you either must not stand

00:01:28.000 anywhere near them or you must be uh they must be an immediate family member of yours that's kind

00:01:32.240 of reasonable isn't it but no public health officials are gonna say nothing can't have anything

00:01:37.600 right at a time when people are looking to still be able to do some of their favorite pastimes outdoors

00:01:43.840 when it gets warm the canadian civil liberties association has already been complaining about a lot of

00:01:49.760 the enforcement of these rules that are happening across canada calling many of them unfair and

00:01:54.880 arbitrary and they pointed out that public order is not the goal here public health is but i can't help

00:02:01.280 but feel there are circumstances when there are things we could be doing they don't break social

00:02:06.480 distancing rules but they still threaten to fine us if we do look if the public are saying it's warm we

00:02:12.880 want to get out we want to enjoy the canadian spring the canadian summer because we all know it's short

00:02:17.200 enough as it is maybe our officials should acknowledge that and find ways to smartly facilitate

00:02:24.080 it talk about yes these are the things you can do this is the way they can be done in a responsible

00:02:29.760 way rather than just turning around and saying shut her all down because that's the message that's

00:02:36.160 the tone right now we hear a lot about the science and the evidence and the facts i fail to see how

00:02:41.440 the evidence tells us that banning golf is something that makes sense right now i think we should be

00:02:47.760 asking more and reminding these bylaw enforcement officers these public health officials that we're

00:02:53.120 not serving them they're doing all of this because they serve us and if the people would like to start

00:02:59.120 seeing things being allowed things that can be done responsibly and that don't spread the virus

00:03:04.720 well let's talk about it let's try to make it happen

Juno News - April 12, 2020