Juno News - August 24, 2021


Some Canadians are refusing to learn to live with COVID


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3 minutes

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190.09149

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651

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1

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00:00:00.000 here in canada we've got public health officials from various different provinces saying it's time
00:00:09.440 to learn to live with covid british columbia alberta even the chief medical officer of health
00:00:14.860 for ontario which is one of the more lockdown restrictive provinces or at least has been
00:00:19.820 for the past year and a half even their new chief medical officer dr kieran moore saying
00:00:24.200 we gotta learn to live with covid this isn't going away it's an endemic illness and part of that part
00:00:30.860 of that advice from these medical officers has been we've got to stop obsessing over the raw case
00:00:36.760 counts because as vaccination rates increase as natural immunity from prior infection increases
00:00:42.240 what it means to test positive for covid19 means something very different it means less substantively
00:00:49.800 than it did in the past in terms of what that denotes for serious outcomes and hospitalizations
00:00:55.160 icu beds and deaths and so on and so forth which is why we see a different discussion and even a
00:01:01.240 different way of reporting the numbers from different officials in all of these provinces
00:01:05.480 for example i'll give you one little example christine elliott she's the health minister of
00:01:09.340 ontario and every day at a certain time she tweets out well she used to tweet out the new daily cases
00:01:15.500 for ontario now she does it a little differently she isn't so focused on cases that's not the first
00:01:21.380 thing her little twitter thread of latest developments in ontario about covid is about
00:01:25.840 talking more about vaccination rates and then statistics around hospitalizations and then gets
00:01:30.720 to the case count but is acknowledging that okay the case counts just aren't that big of a deal
00:01:35.140 but i noticed that there are a lot of people across canada who just still can't internalize that
00:01:40.320 message from our public health officials that cases they just ain't what they used to be they
00:01:45.700 don't matter as much as they used to matter so when you hear people say oh we've got these projections
00:01:51.220 about covid cases let's talk about modeling with cases and so forth okay do what you want with your
00:01:57.060 modeling but but why why should we pay such great attention well why should it matter so much please
00:02:02.740 don't tell me oh we gotta shut this down we gotta shut that down because of rising cases no it doesn't
00:02:10.060 work that way anymore and it's kind of frustrating to see that there are so many people including
00:02:14.620 some people in the medical community who are just so resistant to evolving the way we look at covid 19
00:02:21.080 they are resistant to acknowledging that this is evolving into being an endemic illness one that
00:02:26.140 can be quite serious for a number of people so needs to be taken seriously in some respects absolutely
00:02:31.620 but this basic argument and i always had problems with this basic argument whenever it would occur but
00:02:36.560 the one from from previous incarnations where you said cases are up society must lock down i had a
00:02:42.500 lot of problems with the way we had that conversation in the past but now like moving forward that it's
00:02:48.680 not even a serious conversation whatever you thought about things in the past that moving forward well
00:02:53.200 that's that's not what the medical officers of health they're saying that's just junk science and yet
00:02:57.820 there are some people who are so seized upon it they just still don't want to evolve into a new
00:03:03.320 response to dealing with those numbers and it's really integral i think moving into the fall
00:03:07.380 that all of those officials bc alberta ontario elsewhere who are saying it's about learning to
00:03:13.020 live with covid it's about learning that the raw case numbers let's please stop obsessing over that
00:03:18.800 well that's what they're saying and that's that's the program everybody's got to get with now
00:03:22.560 moving forward
00:03:23.480 you