Juno News - Ontario is ideologically committed to lockdowns

00:00:00.000 Ontario entering its third lockdown, and if you can believe it, the strictest one to date.

00:00:12.560 Ontario Premier Doug Ford actually bragging about this fact, that Ontario is the most

00:00:17.400 locked-down jurisdiction in North America, talking about it at a press conference the other day.

00:00:23.480 You know, there are so many officials all across North America who are now looking more towards

00:00:27.540 a more evolved approach, a targeted response to dealing with the virus where it is flaring up,

00:00:33.760 a more balanced approach. We're seeing that happen in the U.S., whatever part of the country,

00:00:38.600 Republican, Democrat, they're all embracing this more evolved approach. But in Ontario,

00:00:43.120 they are ideologically committed to lockdowns, and they are very reluctant even to acknowledge

00:00:49.300 there are harms to those lockdowns, even as the evidence mounts and mounts as to the harms of

00:00:54.660 these. Dr. Kareem Kurji, one of the few York Region's chief medical officer who said,

00:00:59.540 no, these broad-based lockdowns, these blunt lockdowns, they don't work. We have to do a more

00:01:04.300 evolved approach, and we got the information and the data a year into this. How to deal with this?

00:01:10.160 Let's respond to it in a targeted way. It is so troubling, and I could go over many of the specifics,

00:01:17.940 the details, a real granular view of this and that, as I have over the months, various different

00:01:23.740 aspects. But I also think there's a great utility and an exercise of just stepping back and taking

00:01:29.280 a look at this odd approach, this ideological approach to lockdowns in the first place. Because

00:01:35.180 in their essence, what lockdowns are, is you were saying, there is a virus that spreads between people.

00:01:42.120 So we are going to make it illegal for people to come together, for human beings to be in close

00:01:48.600 proximity to each other. Virus spreads between people, well, let's make it illegal for people

00:01:54.400 to see each other. Really? I mean, in this, in the 21st century, all of the bright minds we have,

00:02:01.940 the well-educated folks, the age of analytics, big data, it's that, that phrase that when you really

00:02:06.580 break it down, it seems like really not too bright, the basic, you know, essence of what is a lockdown.

00:02:12.920 And in fact, there's a reason why it was never really discussed before. A lot of these people,

00:02:18.840 these doctors who are on television advocating for lockdowns, a lot of them are also professors,

00:02:22.820 they teach various classes. I guarantee you, hands down, that three years ago, say, two years ago,

00:02:28.780 if they were teaching a class and there was some question in a tutorial, or it was in an exam,

00:02:33.400 the question saying, okay, you got this virus going around, there's a pandemic, give me your game

00:02:37.320 plan. And it's the, you know, the big question that they put there in the exam, the big, you know,

00:02:42.440 final question and so forth. You got to spend a whole bunch of time writing all these intricate

00:02:45.640 details. And someone just writes, it's easy, lockdown, make it illegal for human beings to interact

00:02:52.000 with each other. Well, I imagine those professors who are now advocating to do just that, they might

00:02:58.820 have even failed that student for coming up with an idea that we know was not in any of the pandemic

00:03:04.180 preparedness plans leading up to all of this. And that a lot of people have said, hold on a second,

00:03:09.740 this is not in the plan. Why are we proceeding this way? And yet Ontario is for the third time

00:03:15.500 stricter than ever.

Juno News - April 07, 2021