Juno News - Is Canada doing enough about the coronavirus？

00:00:00.000 it's really been something to see the coronavirus story change in just the past few days really in

00:00:10.080 the past week to see how the virus is changing in terms of the severity of it the cases the

00:00:15.600 countries that are affected by it and just what those countries are doing the lengths that they

00:00:20.320 are going to to prevent this spread and well really just to minimize the damage from what

00:00:25.120 certainly seems to be a global pandemic one of the most interesting facets of all of this is that

00:00:31.280 canada seemed to get it almost first before so many of these other countries january 25th that was

00:00:37.120 the day when it was confirmed that the first case was identified in canada and there's a lot of

00:00:41.200 concern and alarm and panic and canada has a more sizable uh population from the chinese community

00:00:47.280 chinese canadians people who are getting off planes from china from wuhan even so there was worry that

00:00:52.320 we would get it perhaps more than some other countries and we certainly got it sooner but

00:00:56.800 here we are with really not that many cases people who seem to only have it mildly for the most part

00:01:02.800 are resting at home they're doing okay after a month of us actually grappling with our first case

00:01:08.800 but then we look to countries like italy iran south korea they don't seem to have had their first cases

00:01:15.440 all that long iran certainly not italy certainly not and yet they have hundreds of cases now and they

00:01:21.120 have reported deaths a number of reported deaths particularly in iran incredibly troubling to see

00:01:28.000 it move in this direction to see concerns increase and of course the stock market dropping quite a

00:01:33.280 number of percent just on the past couple market days thursday and friday as people see the ripple

00:01:38.480 effects of this the cascading effects and wonder what is it all going to mean what will it mean for

00:01:43.520 the economy what will it mean for our communities and that community part is where it gets interesting

00:01:48.880 where a lot of us here in canada are wondering what's going to happen here what should happen

00:01:52.800 here what should we encourage to have happen what should we permit because they're certainly doing

00:01:57.600 interesting measures in other countries in italy they're saying no more church masses they're

00:02:03.280 also saying no more premier league soccer in the northeast of italy that's really something i mean

00:02:08.240 soccer and church that's like you know all of italian pastime right there in one they're saying

00:02:13.840 no to that stuff in japan no school school has been canceled for a while switzerland does not

00:02:19.040 really have it all that bad they just have more or less around the same number of cases as canada

00:02:24.000 they don't flare up like italy and iran they have banned gatherings of a thousand people or more the

00:02:29.360 center for disease control in the united states says yes social distancing might soon be coming to

00:02:34.480 the united states or at least to some of the affected regions california currently dealing

00:02:38.880 with some cases there what's going to happen in canada what should happen in canada air canada

00:02:43.840 recently expanded that flight ban to china well into april should we be doing the same for iran and

00:02:49.200 italy particularly iran since canada's latest cases do come from people who had been to iran

00:02:55.920 that's a good question there well the air canada decision that was made by them it was not forced

00:03:00.400 upon them by the government it would be great to see the government show more leadership in this

00:03:04.880 because is it going to come to canada well it certainly seems like it is but the question is

00:03:10.080 how much more distance can we give ourselves how much more can we spread it out how much more leap

00:03:14.320 time can we give ourselves medical researchers in various different labs companies and so forth

00:03:19.760 are working to put together vaccines and the longer we go without being heavily hit by it the more

00:03:25.360 time we have the more time we're buying to get us closer to when those vaccines are ready many good

00:03:32.080 reasons for us to take precautions and never in our lives really in the lifetimes of even our parents

00:03:37.360 and for those who have grandparents still alive probably in their lifetimes they've not really

00:03:42.240 experienced anything like this unless they lived through the second world war it's quite incredible

00:03:47.440 to see something like this unfold where we would basically face broader community lockdowns where

00:03:52.320 schools would shut you'd be working from home all of these issues that seem like they're straight out of

00:03:58.160 one of those outbreak movies or some sort of wild novel about a dystopian future but that's the

00:04:03.520 conversation we're having right now that's the reality we are presented with so be prepared and

00:04:09.440 nobody wants the government to tell them what to do in this aspect i'm as libertarian as it gets

00:04:14.080 when hey government stay out of my life but at a certain point on these public health issues

00:04:18.720 we're probably gonna have to rally together and agree to have some sort of disruption in our lives

00:04:28.160 we love you

00:04:31.840 we don't need this tradition

00:04:38.640 we don't need that jersey

00:04:39.440 in learning

00:04:41.680 we don't need that

00:04:44.160 we don't need it

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Juno News - January 29, 2020

Is Canada doing enough about the coronavirus？

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