Juno News - October 06, 2020Does Doug Ford love lockdowns？
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For a while there, it seemed like Ontario Premier Doug Ford was becoming another lockdown-loving politician. Public health officials across Canada are asking for more and more restrictions to be placed on businesses, activities, and people's livelihoods. But on Monday, Ford said no.
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For a while there it seemed like Ontario Premier Doug Ford he was becoming another
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lockdown-loving politician. We got a lot of public health officials across Canada
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asking for more and more onerous restrictions to be placed on businesses,
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activities, on people's livelihood. Toronto Public Health, they're putting
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forward more proposals to the province, seeing Torontonians actions further
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restricted including saying you can't leave your house unless it's an
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essential activity from a list that they have deemed are the things that you are
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permitted to leave for. They also want to see a whole bunch of new added
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restrictions to business. Now look we're all reasonable folks here and if a case
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is presented that well this particular setting that we know is driving cases
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here's the numbers here's the data here's deaths that have been caused by this
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setting being open, people congregating in it. Alright well let's talk it out and
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well maybe we can actually work something out here, shut down those sectors, support
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those people in the interim and so forth. But that's not what we're being
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presented with here. I've discussed before about how various reporting has
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proven that they don't know for certain what is driving a lot of these cases.
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Oh gyms, restaurants, gotta shut them down. Okay show us the work and they don't
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have that. Some public health officials they've actually stepped forward and kind
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have admitted that the that the spreadsheets the software they're
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working with isn't even allowing them to capture that level of information.
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That's that's really troubling out there. That's really problematic. So when some
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public health officials are calling for more restrictions it's because well they
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sort of kind of think maybe this is gonna help or they have a hunch or yeah they
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feel this is probably causing stuff. That's not enough and Doug Ford he seemed
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like he was going along with this inertia for a while. He seemed like he was a
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lockdown loving politician but on Monday good on him he actually put his foot
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down and said no he wants to see the evidence from places like Toronto Public
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Health before he acts on these restrictions. In fact he went so far as to
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say he wants to exhaust every single avenue first prior to ruining a person's
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life. It was really great to hear him talk that way because he was
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acknowledging lockdown should be the last recourse. There's a very high burden of
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proof to do further restrictions and that further restrictions are harming
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people as well just as much or well to what or whatever degree is the corona
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viruses. If we had some super calculation where we could determine the cost of the
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lockdowns versus the negative health effects of corona virus well who knows
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what it would say but it's certainly looking like the lockdowns are really really
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having their toll on people's health on the economy and more. We got to take a
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holistic look at this and more and more medical experts are actually stepping
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forward to argue that very point and it's great to see that Doug Ford is