Juno News - October 10, 2021


Is anybody still listening to the government's rules？


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4 minutes

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195.5836

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868

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00:00:00.000 about every month a new covid rule or guideline recommendation program comes along and i see it
00:00:10.920 and i think man this thing is clearly overreach it's clearly unnecessary this is the thing that's
00:00:18.740 going to make people say i'm done i followed all the other rules this one not following very
00:00:24.880 frustrating can't go ahead with it and you know what every time i've been wrong because we've
00:00:32.520 consistently seen through polls that while there are a sizable number of people out there who have
00:00:37.160 concerns issues problems with various different restrictions and measures that have been
00:00:41.900 introduced over the past year and a half by and large a majority of folks are kind of okay with
00:00:47.460 everything that's been going on i'm always gobsmacked by that and the latest iteration of it is the
00:00:52.520 thanksgiving rules that we are seeing here in canada and for the record i'm not talking about
00:00:57.340 thanksgiving 2020 i'm talking about thanksgiving 2021 the second year in a row of rules governing
00:01:05.540 thanksgiving now last year it was mostly you just can't have thanksgiving gatherings this year well
00:01:10.420 things have changed most canadians are vaccinated we're supposed to be in a different situation a
00:01:15.220 better situation but still a lot of people were apparently really eager to hear what government
00:01:21.080 would say about can you or can you not do thanksgiving can you or can you not send the
00:01:25.620 kids out for trick-or-treating new brunswick has actually said you cannot do thanksgiving at all
00:01:30.340 they are banning it in alberta they say do not invite the unvaccinated over i don't know how you
00:01:35.780 enforce that but that is the rule that premier jason kenney has put in place now where i am in ontario
00:01:41.280 things are milder but i i think it was even kind of odder some of the restrictions they brought in
00:01:47.960 these are recommendations guidelines they're not actual restrictions like i don't think they're
00:01:52.420 going to be enforcing them like oh they're not going to be enforcing them but they tell you things
00:01:55.440 like well make sure as you're preparing the meal that you'll wash your hands before and after
00:02:01.920 and you're like okay thanks like you know i was raised in like civilized society in the 20th century
00:02:09.900 like you know my my mother my teachers they did tell me that when i was three years old like i kind of
00:02:15.340 know that particularly you know stuff in the turkey like dealing with raw meat that is kind
00:02:20.280 of a thing that happens but okay thanks it's kind of remarkable that government feels that they need
00:02:25.260 to have a televised press conference to tell us those sorts of things one of the interesting
00:02:31.180 recommendations from ontario though is make sure to keep a list of the people who come to your event
00:02:36.820 so you can do contact tracing afterwards and you're kind of like you know it's a thanksgiving dinner it's
00:02:41.680 kind of a very personal thing like you you kind of know who's coming over you're not like you know
00:02:46.520 there's grandma and grandpa and the aunt and uncle and then that guy that who was that guy he just came
00:02:50.980 he just sat down who was that guy i should have asked for his id it's kind of odd that that thing
00:02:56.520 even has to be a rule and then there's the questions about vaccination they've offered some
00:03:00.440 guidelines and if someone's vaccination status is unknown you should wear a mask indoors at your
00:03:06.880 thanksgiving dinner but to get back to my original point about i'm always surprised at the number of
00:03:11.160 people going along with it ctv news put up an online poll poll question new poll question they said
00:03:16.680 and they said will you be checking people's vaccine status when they come to your thanksgiving dinner
00:03:24.200 and this was again one of those classic examples where i was like oh man come on nobody's doing that
00:03:29.620 it's going to be like six percent of people say yes like really like first of all you know
00:03:34.360 everybody who's coming to your thanksgiving dinner so if you don't have that level of social trust
00:03:39.840 or whatever if you feel you need to grill them for their vaccines just don't invite them over
00:03:43.920 like i mean come on it's it gets to a point where it's just rude to be asking for this stuff
00:03:48.580 so i figured it would be kind of a low yes answer the last time i checked at that poll totally
00:03:53.040 non-scientific of course just an online poll but i was kind of surprised to see 40 percent of people
00:03:58.500 said yes i will be checking people's vaccine status at my thanksgiving dinner so 40 percent
00:04:06.020 is not a majority it's not 51 percent it's not two-thirds of people still kind of a lot though
00:04:10.380 like you know just invite a person over or don't invite them but uh i don't know in your own home
00:04:16.820 to bring in the vaccine passport system i think it's a bit much but clearly there's still a lot of
00:04:22.180 people out there who do not that they're more than happy to do these things