Juno News - January 21, 2021


If only Trump supported lockdowns

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Donald Trump Andrew Cuomo Joe Biden
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In this episode, we talk about how the left needs to pivot in order to deal with the new pandemic, and what that might look like in the wake of the Donald Trump administration's anti-vaccination policies.

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00:00:00.000 you know part of me was hoping that in the last days of the donald trump presidency he would come
00:00:09.580 out in favor of very tight aggressive lockdowns all across the board nationwide lockdowns and
00:00:16.580 you're saying fury but we thought you were rather critical of some of the more silly restrictions
00:00:20.400 out there why are you saying this well because unfortunately it's clear that there are a lot of
00:00:24.220 people who i think devised their initial opinions on covid19 on the pandemic different
00:00:29.820 restrictions and so forth by simply knee-jerk doing the opposite of donald trump so i thought hey if he
00:00:35.540 comes out and says he loves lockdowns at the end maybe people would go oh no they're terrible let's
00:00:39.820 not do them anymore and that would be actually a great gift to help america and north america the
00:00:44.440 whole world move forward from some of these restrictions that are just not working and the
00:00:49.240 harms are getting worse by the day i gotta tell you my inbox is flooded with with experts writing in
00:00:55.560 from different fields who've said their industries are really being hard hit they've crunched the
00:00:59.700 numbers they've done the cost benefit analysis it just isn't working what we're doing right now
00:01:04.060 doesn't make sense then i'm also getting the emails from people who are really writing in in despair about
00:01:09.140 all of the challenges we see economic hardships mental illness addiction rates so much is going on
00:01:15.240 right now there's a lot of suffering that our fellow canadians people across north america around
00:01:20.220 the world are going through right now how's joe biden going to approach this differently well he's
00:01:25.400 talked about this hundred day national mask mandate and so forth but he can't even bring it in for the
00:01:30.160 whole country it's just to federal buildings and so on so it almost seems initially like he's going to
00:01:34.440 get tougher on it but i wonder now that trump's done uh and he's gone is there going to be an opening
00:01:40.680 for people on the left to kind of pivot and how they respond to the pandemic we've already seen it
00:01:45.320 from new york governor andrew cuomo who's a democrat he said look if we don't start opening things soon
00:01:50.380 there's not going to be anything left to reopen once we actually get to a further reopening once
00:01:55.940 we get to full vaccination rates and so forth chicago mayor laurie light but also a democrat
00:02:00.640 saying similar things and i've started hearing from more and more academics who would consider
00:02:05.200 themselves uh interest in social justice progressive academics and so forth who say well hold on a second
00:02:10.900 when i when i put the lockdowns through uh through a prism of feminism through a prism of intersectionality 1.00
00:02:16.880 those sorts of things that uh more left-wing voices are prone to discuss they say the lockdowns don't make
00:02:22.040 sense uh through that logic either we assess it uh through those uh different perspectives so i think
00:02:28.860 we're going to see for a whole number of reasons people on the left progressives just realizing
00:02:34.320 hold on a second this isn't a left-wing right-wing thing for whatever reason conservatives uh where at first
00:02:39.960 the initial ones to say i don't know these lockdowns aren't working but there's a whole bunch of voices
00:02:44.160 out there across the spectrum who have problems with the way things are going on and i think we should
00:02:50.140 welcome any voice from from any part of the spectrum who comes forward and says i don't know i think
00:02:55.320 there's a better way to all of this because the question of should we to deal with this virus shut down
00:03:01.000 all of human society and interactions and and bring elements of harm and suffering to pretty much
00:03:06.540 all of our fellow man i i don't think that's a left-wing or a right-wing issue or anywhere it
00:03:11.580 certainly shouldn't be so if we do see a pivot coming forward and and i i do hope and i expect
00:03:17.360 and i predict there'll be some version of it well i think we should welcome it from from whoever wants
00:03:22.480 to put their voice forward and say yeah i i have some criticisms with the status quo i do think there is
00:03:27.960 a better way
00:03:28.860 you