Juno News - October 14, 2021Do you #FeelSafe yet？ If not, you should #StayHome.
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Kelly talks about the growing number of people who don't feel safe in the public school setting, and why maybe the solution isn't more government rules and regulations, but maybe those folks need to be the ones to stay home.
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Can we please, please, please get to the point in society now where we all are pretty much on the
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same page, pretty much in agreement with the idea that if there are still some folks out there who
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don't hashtag feel safe after all of the restrictions that have been put in place,
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all of the measures, all this vaccine passport business, everything that's in place right now,
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and they still, they still don't hashtag feel safe, well then maybe, just a crazy idea here,
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just maybe the solution isn't to bring in more restrictions for everybody. Maybe it's not more
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government rules, more regulations, maybe, just maybe those folks who are not feeling
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hashtag feeling safe, well maybe they need to be the ones to hashtag stay home. Because things are
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getting more than a little bit ridiculous now. In terms of all the new things that could be
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introduced and proposed in terms of COVID-19 mitigation measures, I was thinking about
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this in recent weeks when there was debate and discussion about rapid testing in schools in
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Ontario. Now most people seem pretty content to send their kids back to school when they reopened
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based on how the rules were at the time. Some parents say no we got to bring in testing in
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schools now, it was going to be voluntary, although I think some of them would have preferred everybody
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pretty much to be tested, basically mandatory testing. And it's like, hold on, if we're here
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doing this now without all of this, why do we need to introduce this? Okay, well because these people
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don't hashtag feel safe. But here's the thing, there's already so many protocols in place, whether
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it's for schools or we can use various other examples, and you're saying I want this other thing
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introduced. But I don't know, things are proceeding more or less fine. There's an online school option,
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it's there for a reason. The fact that you don't hashtag feel safe in the current school environment,
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and you want there to be more protocols, more onerous restrictions, or what have you,
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maybe that's just a sign, not that we need to bring those mitigation measures in, maybe that's a sign
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that you just need to take the online schooling option, and not bring in more things that could
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potentially affect others, more restrictions for others. That's really where we're at now.
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I gotta tell you, pretty much every public health official in Canada is now using the phrase
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learning to live with COVID. I know that increasingly small COVID zero crowd, they don't
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like that phrase, but that's being used. Pretty much all the chief medical officers have uttered that
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phrase. In fact, I saw in a Toronto public health document relating to COVID in schools, they actually
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discuss, as we learn to live with COVID-19. So they're talking about it within the school setting.
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So there you go, you've got actual official government documents on government letterhead,
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using the phrase learning to live with COVID-19. I think most people are doing it, and there's
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disagreement on various rules and restrictions. Some people like some of them, some people don't like
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them. You know what I'm talking about. But right now, at this point in time, fall 2021,
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one, to those folks who are saying, oh, hold on a second, we need to add this, we need to do more
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of this, and more of that. You know, I'm happy to have you all be gladly participating in all aspects
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of society. But if that's your perspective right now, I don't know, I really think you're the ones