Juno News - If only Trump supported lockdowns

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

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Juno News - January 21, 2021