Juno News - December 04, 2020


The facts about COVID-19 are rarely discussed


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Length

3 minutes

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194.58632

Word Count

762

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4


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 it's not where you go that puts you at greater risk of coronavirus transmission it's what you
00:00:10.400 do while you're there that is a saying that I have heard different public health officials
00:00:15.040 make provincially municipally over the months different variations on that idea different
00:00:19.840 articulations of it when they've been up at the podium when they've been giving press conferences
00:00:24.000 talking about well the different things we need to do the precautions we need to take and the
00:00:28.480 restrictions that they're placing on our lives and it's an interesting idea one that I think we
00:00:33.680 should unpack a little bit more and that can maybe help us figure out well why do we have
00:00:38.640 these different restrictions and do they actually all make sense so that idea basically that look
00:00:45.200 it's not just going into a store for 90 seconds and quickly browsing for something and then moving
00:00:51.920 over to the till soon after paying up the till only being there for another 90 seconds and then
00:00:56.240 booting it out of there that is not really believed to be a risk factor by anybody nobody's actually
00:01:01.120 saying it is all of these people dr tam dr fauci they're not actually saying that in fact the apps
00:01:07.360 out there like the federal covet alert app that justin trudeau is always urging people to download
00:01:11.760 that is only triggered after you have been within six feet of someone for 15 minutes or more 15 minutes
00:01:19.520 or more wow i'm sure at the grocery store you're at that store for longer than 50 minutes 15 minutes but
00:01:25.680 if you go to the bookstore or you know other independent places where you're just picking up
00:01:29.440 one thing or what have you are you even there for 15 minutes let alone in close contact with an
00:01:35.680 other individual for 15 minutes why are we not hearing this more why are we not talking about it
00:01:42.320 more i mean every day there are media stories out there saying this many new cases in alberta this many
00:01:47.360 new cases in ontario and that is kind of the driving thing that we have to discuss i think a lot of
00:01:52.880 people would actually be surprised to to learn that those are the parameters of the app and those are
00:01:57.280 generally the parameters of things that are actually uh being discussed by public health officials of
00:02:02.480 what leads to transmission of the virus and i wish we focused on that more because that would really
00:02:08.640 help us be able to talk about these restrictions much more i reported the news that in ontario the
00:02:14.880 number of cases that have been related back to retail confirmed to be related to retail are 0.1
00:02:20.880 percent of cases now there are a whole lot of unknowns out there so some of those unknowns may
00:02:25.280 indeed be in retail the number may actually be higher but that's actually the statistic on the
00:02:30.080 ontario government website 0.1 percent of cases and yet we have shut retail down why is this and i
00:02:37.360 feel like if we megaphoned much more the sort of 15 minutes six feet thing and so forth to really
00:02:43.360 encourage people to understand the things that are the higher transmission points the higher risk factors
00:02:48.720 maybe we'd actually be able to be a bit more responsible about these rules and restrictions
00:02:53.200 i mean we do have at these press conferences it's really interesting you'll hear say in ontario
00:02:57.440 dr david williams will step forward and if you watch these things and i know most people are just
00:03:01.040 living their lives so they're not watching them they happen at like 1 p.m eastern time and so forth
00:03:04.800 david williams will talk and he'll say kind of interesting stuff and then doug ford will just get
00:03:09.600 up to the podium and he'll say it's just not safe or this other line he likes to say what we're
00:03:13.840 staring down the barrel of a gun and so forth so these phrases that are very theatrical and they
00:03:18.640 make for headlines and then people just get worried and they think that there's just panic to be had
00:03:24.640 and they never hear the nuance that someone like dr williams or dr hitam or whoever we're actually
00:03:29.760 saying at that press conference it's really frustrating right now how we're how we're kind of
00:03:35.200 almost failing to discuss and the media is failing to cover some of these basics that i've actually
00:03:40.560 always been said but they're kind of slipping away they're not getting the attention they deserve