Juno News - May 18, 2020


It's time for your voice to be heard – reopen the economy!


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It s been great to see different aspects of society slowly reopened, but what s the holdup? What is the reason behind the lockdowns and why they re still being kept in place? Why is it so important to keep things locked down and why should we continue to keep them locked down?

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00:00:00.000 it's been great to see different aspects of society slowly reopened drips and drabs one 1.00
00:00:11.040 workplace here one sector there one different sporting activity here and there every day there
00:00:16.760 seems to be a new announcement and that's great because previously a lot of premiers had led us
00:00:20.820 to believe that they would not be moving this quickly in Ontario Doug Ford had said oh we're
00:00:25.600 gonna wait two weeks until we have two weeks of consistently declining cases until we get to
00:00:30.540 phase one and so forth well that seems to be all thrown out the window and I can't fault him for
00:00:34.180 that because when the facts and the evidence change well you should change your approach as well and
00:00:39.160 right now we are at the point where you can only keep something closed you should only keep something
00:00:44.260 closed unless you have a very very good reason an abundance of caution is not enough because every
00:00:50.980 day that goes by every hour that goes by a new business closes a new job is permanently lost one
00:00:56.100 that can't be supported by the government programs of their mental health side effects increasing
00:01:01.180 secondary health care harms people getting heart attacks rising blood pressure all of that it's
00:01:06.280 increasing there's a lot of people in the medical community speaking out about that so every opportunity
00:01:11.920 you have to reopen something you should take it right now the onus should not be on regular Canadians
00:01:17.980 to humbly raise their hand and say oh excuse me sir can I please return to this activity or that
00:01:22.360 activity can my workplace come back no no the onus must be on the officials every day to justify
00:01:28.460 why they are still keeping the lockdowns in place and I say lockdowns I'm not saying enhanced hygiene
00:01:35.080 enhanced restrictions yes we're going to keep physical distancing in place yes we're going to do
00:01:39.040 further health hygiene protocols and so on but to just say no economic activity that's the thing
00:01:45.220 we've got to get away from and a lot of these decisions I don't even know if they're based on
00:01:49.920 the facts and the evidence and the science take the city of Toronto announcing just the other day
00:01:53.720 that summer camps for children they're not going to happen this summer they're going to try and come
00:01:57.800 up with some sort of alternate camp they'll see but they're basically canceling the camps for now
00:02:02.700 well why authoritative studies tell us first of all that children just are hardly getting this and
00:02:08.300 second of all that there's not a single case anywhere in the world of a child transmitting it to an adult
00:02:13.960 we also know that camp counselors are predominantly teenagers and students who don't really get this
00:02:18.320 thing uh much and don't get it severely so looks like we actually have a pretty good little ecosystem
00:02:23.680 there where these people should be able to continue with their summer camp activities what's the
00:02:27.740 justification is it just an abundance of caution well I'm sorry but that's not enough right now
00:02:33.040 because we've seen that the negatives from keeping things locked down might actually outweigh the
00:02:37.900 negatives that we're trying to prevent you will remember that the whole argument behind the
00:02:42.220 lockdowns was so that the cases do not get so severe that they overwhelm our hospitals or icus
00:02:47.040 that we don't have enough beds and ventilators and that we basically have to have people lying
00:02:50.780 out in the parking lot as has tragically happened in other countries well we're not there that's great
00:02:55.620 news but that's also a sign that what's the holdup we should be reopening right now cautiously yes
00:03:02.200 wisely yes but that's what the facts and the evidence and the science tell us I think one of the
00:03:07.120 reasons that we have actually seen the reopening happening sooner than public health officials
00:03:11.500 originally led us to believe was because people have been making their voices heard they've been
00:03:17.320 putting forward their logical arguments their hey I run this business I can do this responsibly give me
00:03:22.200 a shot well I think those people still need to be making their voices heard and if your sector your
00:03:26.900 business has not been reopened but you're confident that you can do it and follow all the guidelines
00:03:32.000 then keep making your voice heard because in a matter of weeks hopefully things will not be returning
00:03:37.960 to normal because we're going to have these measures in place but we're going to get to a point where
00:03:41.960 hopefully we are not losing many many more jobs every day and every week and many more businesses
00:03:47.180 closing because that has to be one of the top goals right now
00:03:50.560 folks so we'll be visiting with the further focus of the fact he's going to be recovering and
00:03:54.720 You