Juno News - Ontario's arbitrary COVID-19 restrictions

00:00:00.000 Yet another example of why the restrictions that many Canadians are living under is not at all

00:00:10.980 based on science, but, well, a lot of it is quite arbitrary. So this latest one comes from Toronto

00:00:17.320 and Peel region, the most locked down jurisdictions, not just in Canada, but across North America,

00:00:22.620 and by some metrics, the entire world. Seems hard to believe, but it's true. So what is this latest

00:00:28.160 change? Well, patios are now allowed to be open. Outdoor dining can go on. I think it was absurd,

00:00:36.320 irrational, nonsensical that patios were ordered to be closed, period. However, the closure was from

00:00:41.760 about November until, okay, March. So who really wanted to go out in the outdoor dining anyway?

00:00:46.220 Well, hold on a second though. The city did tell these businesses, you know, invest in heaters and

00:00:51.420 various other things you can do to keep outdoor dining going, even when it's quite cold outside.

00:00:56.240 And a lot of businesses did invest many thousands of dollars in just that, but they said, no,

00:01:01.180 we got to shut down outdoor dining. It's just not safe. It's a pretty ludicrous notion given

00:01:07.160 that we know outdoor transmission is a very rare phenomenon, but regardless, we're coming to the

00:01:12.940 end of March right now. Some beautiful days are ahead of us and Toronto has reopened for outdoor

00:01:18.760 dining. Toronto and Peel region, after those cities told the provincial government, well, we can't move

00:01:24.120 from the gray lockdown we're into right now into the red zone, which makes things more liberal,

00:01:29.020 but we would like to see the gray lockdown category revised a little to allow for outdoor dining. It's

00:01:34.600 incredibly tedious, all this, all this stuff, the different phases and stages they have of

00:01:39.640 reopenings. But hold on a second. What, why did they even do this? Because of course, everything is

00:01:44.980 supposed to be about the science, detailed science. You know, these public health officials,

00:01:49.320 they put on the white lab coats and they, they get their beakers or they, their supercomputers,

00:01:54.220 they're doing their calculations and they come up with the perfect science to tell you how many

00:01:58.040 people can be in exactly which location and whether there can or can't be patios allowed open and so

00:02:03.600 forth. Yeah, right. We know that's not what's really going on here. We know they've just decided,

00:02:08.720 let's just reopen the patios. Why did they decide that? Well, we'll never know for sure. They're,

00:02:14.340 they will never fully fess up. But my guess is that they're offering these table scraps,

00:02:19.560 which is what they are saying. Oh, look, we're doing something. We're reopening to some degree,

00:02:24.120 basically to keep people at bay, to stop more people from getting angry at what's going on and

00:02:29.480 just how restrictive things are to give the optics of making progress and to say, oh, don't be so angry.

00:02:35.100 Look, we are reopening things. And because obviously they knew it would get warm, people would look

00:02:40.140 around them and go, it is absolutely absurd, irrational, ridiculous that you would say patios

00:02:45.260 can't be open. Folks would demand it. And that's why they reopened it. It has nothing to do with

00:02:51.080 granular science and whatever sort of calculations they're trying to tell you justify these different

00:02:58.520 closures. Another example that I think they were concerned that they were feeling pressure

00:03:03.260 from individuals. They certainly were feeling pressure. There were some mayors in the GTA,

00:03:07.480 Mississauga mayor, Brampton mayor, who were saying, come on, we got to get things going here.

00:03:12.140 And this is them basically bowing to that pressure ever so slightly. So the folks in Toronto and Peel

00:03:17.660 region, they should not say, oh, thank you so much for giving us these table scraps, because of course

00:03:22.240 it was bizarre that patios were ever closed in the first place. But they should take this as a lesson

00:03:27.680 that, well, if you do get frustrated with the restrictions and you start to demand more, well,

00:03:32.760 the officials, they will just feel that pressure and well, then they will change things.

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Juno News - March 22, 2021

Ontario's arbitrary COVID-19 restrictions

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