Ontarians are no longer listening to the government
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Summary
The stay-at-home order has been on the books for a few days now, and a lot of people are not even aware of it. Is it because they are unaware of how extreme the order is, or because they just don't care?
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hey folks i'm down here by the boardwalk of the beaches area of downtown toronto
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it's not very busy right now because it's early in the morning but i gotta tell you the past
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couple days it has been packed people getting in walks getting in exercise playing some sports
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erecting volleyball nets on the beaches yesterday i was traveling from one end of toronto to the
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other driving across the highway you look out on the streets you see places are pretty much packed
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outdoors you pass soccer fields and people are playing soccer there are people who are going
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downtown for a protest in queens park to protest the lockdowns the stay-at-home order there's also
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a whole lot of people coming into downtown to participate in protests related to what's going
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on in the middle east right now lots of people doing all that sort of stuff and you say fury
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what's the big deal why are you telling me this i mean this is a pretty common thing for a a nice
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warm day spring day summer day in downtown toronto people making their views heard on political
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issues and people just live in their lives well the reason i'm telling you is because all of those
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things that i mentioned they are illegal you can't do it you'll get at least a 750 fine if you do it
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supposedly according to the letter of the law guess what people are not following that anymore people
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have made the decision forget about it i don't care or maybe they just don't even know about it so a few
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days ago doug ford reinstated the stay-at-home order until at least june 2nd apparently some of
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his advisors said you got to do it longer than that you got to do it well into june not just a
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two-week extension you got to do a four-week extension now i've previously said that i think
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a lot of people just don't realize how extreme this stay-at-home order actually is how it is illegal
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to meet a friend grab a starbucks coffee outside from the pickup window or what have you and then go
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sit at a picnic table together and and uh share that coffee well you know chatting about what's
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going on that is illegal actually on multiple fronts you can't access picnic tables so there's
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one fine against you and you can't meet someone uh who is not within your own household outdoors
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you're saying fury is is that true can that really be yes that's that's in fact the case that's the
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letter of the law even though out of ontario's approximately 15 million people there were probably
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millions of instances of breaking the stay-at-home order that have gone on just this weekend alone
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and i gotta wonder what is the point of having this law in the books not only having on the books
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in the first place but extending it well into the summer when it's kind of obvious that hundreds of
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thousands of people millions of people are going to say i don't actually want to follow this either
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because they're unaware of how extreme the law is so they don't know they're breaking the law
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or because they just say forget about it screw it now i had originally anticipated that
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we would see crowds really increasing at the protests against the lockdowns because of these
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new measures and we did see that the queen's park protest uh uh just on saturday was much larger than
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they have been in the past but at the same time i don't think that's the big protest movement we're
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seeing what the big protest movement is is just all of these people saying yeah thanks but no thanks
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we just don't care that ontarians are saying we're aware of the stay-at-home order or we're not
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but whatever it is we're gonna make our own informed choices