Juno News - August 02, 2021


Do we need to get rid of all COVID-19 protocols?


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4 minutes

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236.1726

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1,049

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73

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Canadians have been living under restrictions for the past year and a half. Is there any good reason for these restrictions? Is there really any point to them? Or are they just over the top and unfair?

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00:00:00.000 I got a lot of problems. Lots of concerns with the restrictions that Canadians have been living 1.00
00:00:09.280 under for the past year and a half. Lots of critiques and criticisms of the lockdowns.
00:00:13.880 Rules that you go, is there really any point to this? Any science behind it? Do these make sense?
00:00:18.640 Are they unduly punishing people? A little bit over the top, to put it mildly. And it's great
00:00:24.400 to see that most of Canada is stepping away from this. We've even got three provinces,
00:00:28.680 BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, that pretty much have no restrictions in place anymore. They're full
00:00:34.080 on moving forward, evolving their response. But I got to say, now as things are getting more and more
00:00:39.600 in the rearview mirror, there are a couple things that maybe I'm sort of kind of gonna miss. I know,
00:00:46.020 hear me out. I don't want to be that guy, you know, the person who talks about the new normal,
00:00:50.400 how much they love and so forth. That is not me at all. But maybe we can have a little fun with this.
00:00:54.280 Hear me out on just a couple of the things that we become acclimatized to that I'm sort of kind
00:00:59.640 of okay with. I don't mean the divisive, acrimonious stuff about calling the cops on your neighbors
00:01:04.320 because they had aunt and uncle over for dinner, or this acrimonious debate over vaccine passports,
00:01:09.080 which is still happening right now. I more mean some of the little things. Like, for example,
00:01:14.020 the movie theater going experience. Here in Ontario, where it works in the province where I am in,
00:01:18.700 50% capacity. That's kind of the rule. And let's be honest, movie theaters, when are they ever over
00:01:23.800 50% capacity anymore? This day and age, the Netflix streaming era. I mean, maybe top movie,
00:01:29.400 everyone's waiting for opening night. Fine. You'll get like 70% seats full. This is not the day of
00:01:34.000 packing the seats anymore. But anyway, you would go in pre-pandemic times when the movie theaters were
00:01:38.200 not even popular, you know, two years ago, they'd still largely be a lot of emptier screens only at 50%
00:01:43.160 capacity. You'd get there, you get the perfect seat for you and your family. You go, I love this.
00:01:47.860 It's fantastic. And then this guy has to come in. Tons of seats to choose from all over the theater.
00:01:52.400 He can sit anywhere he wants. And this guy comes in and it's always some guys like seven foot three
00:01:56.340 and he comes in and he parks right in front of you and your family. And you're like,
00:02:00.480 what are you doing? Why did you have to do this? But you know, what can you say? I mean,
00:02:05.100 the guy can sit wherever he wants if there's an open seat and not anymore. The new rules for the
00:02:09.780 Cineplex, at least here in Ontario, is that they got the little booking screen. So when you book your
00:02:13.900 seats, they have a little algorithm that puts people far away from each other, social distancing,
00:02:17.860 and so forth. And that guy would not be able to do that in the current situation in Ontario,
00:02:23.420 because they sort of make you sit far away from people. So you don't have that annoying situation
00:02:28.560 anymore. So I'm kind of like, you know what the booking and the spacing out and everything
00:02:32.320 kind of okay with that part staying in the movie theaters. I'll give you one other example.
00:02:38.080 Grocery store lines, always lots of drama, which line do you pick? And there's like the eight of them
00:02:43.380 or whatever at Loblaws. And you go, you know what, that guy, he's only got a few things. It's going
00:02:46.420 to be fine. You get in line behind them. And then you find out that there's someone who has to call
00:02:50.400 for customer service and their price checking or this and that. And you watch everybody beside you
00:02:54.460 in the other aisles. And they're just moving forward. They're paying. And you're like, what's
00:02:58.160 going on here? And even if you're not in a rush, you're still like, you know, it's very natural for
00:03:02.100 human beings to want to be like, I want to get in the right line here. I want to get in the line
00:03:06.720 that's moving fast. And of course, now they have the line management in movie theaters,
00:03:11.900 not in movie theaters, in grocery stores, pretty much all across the country. You got the guy
00:03:15.980 who's hired to go and say, you go here, you go there. And everybody gets in one line. And I got
00:03:20.540 to say, I kind of like the civility of it. I mean, you don't have people bickering with each other.
00:03:25.000 If anyone's bickering with anyone, they're bickering with the line management guy to say,
00:03:27.820 hey, why didn't you let me go here, there, and so forth. And he's paid to deal with all that drama.
00:03:31.800 You, you just want your groceries. You want to get out. And I find the line management system.
00:03:36.040 I didn't like it at first because, you know, well, you don't like being told where to stand,
00:03:40.180 where to go and so forth. But over the past year, that one's kind of warmed on me. It's kind of a
00:03:45.060 more stress-free experience. So those two, those two, if you keep those, I'll be happy. Drop all the
00:03:51.160 other divisive stuff. I'm happy with the movie theater signed seating. I'm happy with being told
00:03:55.980 which line to go into in the grocery store. Removes a lot of the frustrations. Which ones are you saying,
00:04:02.180 yeah, this one, I'm okay if it sticks around.
00:04:06.040 And you're going to teach them what the downside of those things in the grocery store. And so on a
00:04:10.040 good day, it may arise.
00:04:11.180 It's a very important decision to share your life with different sauces, if you think
00:04:13.220 that it can always be heard. Actually, I think that's something that you can
00:04:14.980 just do with or may not be solved. But if you have your own work, that WILLIAM plants
00:04:20.320 aren't you doing that, the way and cause it to support yourself? Let me think that, which
00:04:21.820 they have grown excited. Let me think that, because you have just been