Juno News - May 25, 2020


Don't join the outrage mob


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4 minutes

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174.70534

Word count

751

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3

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Hate speech

1

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In this episode, I talk about why I'm not joining the anti-lockdown movement and why I don't want to wear a mask in the sun. I also talk about the facts and stats that support the lockdowns and why they need to go away.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 folks don't count me as one of those voices who's getting angry irate indignant attacking
00:00:10.240 individuals who are not perfectly following the social distancing rules out there i'm following
00:00:15.120 them pretty much for the most part but if somebody decides you know at this store a mask i don't know
00:00:20.240 i just don't want to wear it sorry i'm not joining the mob piling on against them or young people
00:00:25.520 decide we have been cooped up inside since march well since november since december when it first
00:00:30.720 got cold we want to go to the park we want to go out where it's warm we want to hang out
00:00:36.400 and do some form of socializing i'm not joining the pylon against them either are these people
00:00:42.080 doing things perfectly could they be doing things a little better yes i think they could but here's
00:00:46.640 the two main reasons why i'm not joining the pylon number one this is just human nature to go outside
00:00:54.960 to enjoy the sun to connect with other human beings it makes sense that people have a deep
00:01:00.800 yearning to do this and that they're incredibly frustrated that this has been going on for months
00:01:05.360 and they have not been able to do these things so what public office holders should be doing what
00:01:10.000 politicians and others should be doing is acknowledging these very natural genuine human
00:01:15.280 concerns and say how can we work with them not to attack these people not to chastise people but okay
00:01:21.040 here's ways we can improve it to make it safer for you politicians should be public servants they're
00:01:27.440 hearing this is what a segment of the public wants so go out and serve their interests find a way to
00:01:32.480 facilitate it but number two another reason i'm not joining the pylon is i'm not sure the facts the
00:01:38.960 evidence and the statistics support where we are right now there is a widely read piece in the post
00:01:45.120 media papers for infectious disease experts saying we need to end these lockdowns it just doesn't make
00:01:52.240 sense and when you look at the various statistics well it doesn't one fact i was looking at the
00:01:57.840 ontario epidemiological daily summary it's this document they send out that is not the main page
00:02:03.840 that people look at when they go to see the daily updates it's not one that necessarily the public
00:02:08.800 health officials they bring up a lot at their daily briefings it's kind of below the fold and i
00:02:13.360 found an interesting statistic that said only 12.7 of cases in ontario can be confirmed to be
00:02:21.440 community transmission the rest were for very close contact so family members and so forth from
00:02:26.880 outbreaks so long-term care facilities and then there was another section for travel and then there was an
00:02:31.920 unknowns which was actually 20 so you know maybe the community transmission is higher than that 12.7 but
00:02:38.240 still they're not seeing a sign of massive community transmission so why do we continue to have these
00:02:45.440 lockdowns that are putting people out of work having businesses close and stopping letting people do
00:02:50.800 things that are so very human we see these emotional ads on television of grandparents and grandchildren
00:02:56.960 and they can't see each other so they go up to the glass and the door and they put their hands up like in
00:03:00.960 that search for spock movie that wasn't search for spock that was wrath of khan when spock dies at the end of
00:03:06.160 it and puts his hands up against the glass and so forth is this actually needed is this necessary
00:03:12.160 increasingly the facts they say no now we were told back in march you've got to stand by the science
00:03:18.240 the evidence and so forth we actually don't hear that anymore from justin trudeau and doug ford and
00:03:23.200 others they're no longer saying those words instead they're saying well we have to be extra
00:03:27.760 cautious i don't know if we're out of the woods yet and so forth okay the whole point of the lockdowns
00:03:33.360 was to not overwhelm the icus and we have not done that so we can just ease them more and more which 0.92
00:03:39.200 we are doing of course but we need these facts and stats in our arsenal right now as we talk about
00:03:44.880 why it is so important to ease away from this because if the numbers don't justify the lockdowns
00:03:50.560 can not afford it yes stop doing them
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