Juno News - Public officials aren't considering the harms of the lockdowns

00:00:00.000 that phrase the cure cannot be worse than the illness we're hearing it so much it's become

00:00:10.000 something of a cliche but the question still remains is it what's the answer to that question

00:00:15.840 have governments run the numbers have they done the math you know not a day goes by now when there

00:00:21.360 isn't a headline that discusses all of the different fallout the consequences the harms

00:00:25.840 that are coming from the various restrictions last week i was speaking to the president and ceo of

00:00:29.920 sick kids hospital who told me that they have seen an unprecedented spike in admissions for

00:00:35.280 eating disorders among children and teens wow and he got on the phone he called his american

00:00:40.320 counterparts he said are you guys seeing this as well and they said yeah we are we're now doing a

00:00:44.720 systematic study into all that to conclude what's going on here what are the drivers from it but

00:00:49.680 you better believe that they have a hunch that the pandemic the anxiety the restrictions that they

00:00:54.720 have something to do with it i got a call the other day from one doctor who said man the suicide

00:00:59.600 attempts i'm seeing the mental illness people even asking for medically assisted dying before their

00:01:05.680 time those are going up he's really concerned this doctor's seeing those very things and yet we can have

00:01:11.600 these press conferences where the various public health officials and politicians they got up to the

00:01:15.920 podium they say coronavirus numbers are rising and we got to bring in curfews and we got to shut down

00:01:21.440 this and shut down that we got to further close the walls in on people and they can speak for a

00:01:26.320 whole hour about this stuff without even mentioning those other things i talked about so what is the

00:01:32.400 answer to that question the harms outweighing the benefits the cure being worse than the illness i spoke

00:01:38.800 to dr ari joff he's based in edmonton he did a 40-page research paper where he concluded that the harms of

00:01:45.120 lockdowns are 10 times greater than their benefits well i think that work should at the very least be

00:01:51.200 duplicated by governments they should start asking the same questions they should be running those

00:01:56.080 numbers to well try and check hey is that true because the experts who are running the numbers say

00:02:01.920 yeah it certainly seems like the harms are outweighing the benefits but to date it seems no government has

00:02:08.000 actually done that cost benefit analysis that is a major problem a failure of leadership it is a total

00:02:14.880 scandal that all the harms we're seeing in society are actually not being put together cohesively

00:02:20.400 and that basic question that i know we're tired of it i know it's become a cliche but it has not

00:02:26.080 been answered at least not by government officials the experts say yeah we actually think the harms are

00:02:32.400 uh outweighing all of the benefits so people out there they have to demand demand that government

00:02:38.000 officials actually run these numbers a bit more and think more about the consequences the harms put them

00:02:44.000 more in the balance of these lockdown restrictions is there a better way certainly seems like there

00:02:49.840 could be and certainly seems based on all these reports we're hearing that there needs to be

Juno News - January 12, 2021