Juno News - November 20, 2022


Stop trying to appease the “fringe minority” of Covid zealots


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493

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33

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Dr. Kieran Morton got in hot water for not wearing a mask at a Toronto Life Gala party. Why isn t everyone else wearing one? And why is it so hard to find people in public wearing masks in Toronto?

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00:00:00.000 Dr. Kieran Morton, big trouble in hot water for being filmed at a Toronto Life gala party of
00:00:06.120 the most influential people in Toronto. He was listed as one of them not wearing a mask. Why
00:00:11.720 is this a problem? Pretty much no one's wearing a mask this day and age in downtown Toronto because
00:00:15.580 he had a press conference just a few days before saying it is strongly recommended that all
00:00:21.260 Ontarians wear a mask. We're not bringing the mask mandate just yet, but it's strongly recommended 0.98
00:00:26.480 that everybody wear them, particularly children two to five. Parents should even consider masking
00:00:32.040 around their own kids if they're dealing with the cold, flu, RSV, COVID flaring up. And a lot of
00:00:38.020 people thought what on earth is going on here? And clearly if you look around the streets of Toronto,
00:00:42.780 Ontario, people aren't taking him up on the offer. Not that many people are masking. Clearly the people
00:00:48.480 at that party weren't. And you know what? All power to him. Now a lot of people upset with the hypocrisy
00:00:54.100 of it. That he's saying you got to wear a mask, but I'm not wearing one when I'm partying. I see
00:00:59.740 it slightly differently. I'm always happy when politicians don't follow the COVID rules because
00:01:04.440 that's them actually acknowledging that we don't really need the rules in place in the first place.
00:01:10.060 But I think what's really going on here is Dr. Kieran Moore, he's not saying you all need to wear
00:01:15.140 the mask, but I'm not going to do it. He never believed in that strong recommendation in the first
00:01:19.760 place. I think what he was probably doing was bringing in this strong recommendation
00:01:24.800 to kind of appease all those very loud, but small fringe minority voices who were demanding a mask
00:01:33.360 mandate be brought back in Ontario and to the schools. Now these are people who are not very
00:01:38.320 numerous, but they've gotten traction on social media, lots of followers. They get quoted in news
00:01:43.360 media. I'm thinking of people like Dr. Nilly Kaplan-Mirth. She ran for trustee in Ottawa. She actually won
00:01:49.280 and she was basically a single issue candidate wanting to bring back mask mandates in the schools. 1.00
00:01:54.000 Now that she is a trustee, she's just pushing as hard as she can to bring back mask mandates
00:01:58.520 from day one. And I think Kieran Moore just going, oh, what are we going to do with these voices out
00:02:03.520 there? They're taking up so much space. Okay, I'll have this announcement where I strongly recommend
00:02:08.940 everybody wear masks and that's our policy. Even though he's not following it, Doug Ford,
00:02:13.280 UCM out and about, he's not following it. And that's okay that they're not wearing masks,
00:02:18.700 masks. But the problem is that they're, they're appeasing people like Dr. Kaplan-Mirth in the first
00:02:24.460 place, rather than just ignoring them. Personal choice, leave it at that. Stop appeasing the fringe
00:02:33.020 minority, please.