Juno News - November 27, 2021Stop the alarmist approach to COVID-19
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There is great excitement in Canada over a new variant of CoD19, a South African variant, and some are calling for a complete shutdown of the border at least to people from those countries affected by this new variant. In this episode, I talk about the lessons we can learn from the past, and why we should be wary of over-exaggerating things.
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There is currently great excitement in Canada over this new variant, a South African variant
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of COVID-19, leading for politicians to say we must close the borders, at least to people
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from those countries and to stop people from going to those countries affected by this
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Erin O'Toole, in a statement, calling for some of those tightening of the border measures,
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saying we must learn from the past lessons of all of this.
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I think what he means by that is Justin Trudeau did not act quick enough to close the border
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back in March 2020, and that was folly, and now we must close the border as soon as possible
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When it comes to learning about lessons from past months of COVID-19, I think some of the
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lessons we should also learn is that there was a lot of overblown fear-mongering in the
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past, and that that should inform our reactions now to make sure we don't overhype things,
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Delta variant, for instance, we were told much more serious, deadlier, more severe outcomes
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That has since been proven to be completely incorrect.
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A lot of people may not know that because all the headlines were the initial fear-mongering
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about this Delta variant, but it was not proven to be deadlier.
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Likewise, a lot of fear-mongering about a fourth wave throughout parts of Canada.
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Here in Ontario, the fourth wave, the modelling showed was going to peak in October.
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That never came to pass, at least not in the way that they predicted it.
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We're going to have to close the schools by Thanksgiving.
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So right now, when it comes to talking about this new variant, well, if you actually read
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the various news stories out there, there's no clear indication that this is a deadlier
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variant, that this is a variant that evades vaccines.
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Yes, you'll have people say, well, we're not sure right now it's possible, so it requires
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Okay, well, let's cross that bridge when we come to it.
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It's rather alarming to see politicians right away calling for immediate restrictions on our
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Now, Aaron O'Toole calling for lighter restrictions in terms of just targeting these few countries
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and then saying people who come in from those countries, we want quarantine, regardless of
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He's not calling for a full shutdown of the border.
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He's not calling to close the stores and so forth.
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You bring in one restriction and that encourages people to start calling for other ones.
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And I think what we need to do, instead of getting stuck in that rut again, stuck in that
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mindset, is we kind of need to pause and actually take a look at the real facts out there.
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I think we should be beyond 20 months into this, basically having an alarmist approach to things.
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That's really the direction that we've got to head in now in Canada.