Juno News - The government's coronavirus rules make no sense

00:00:00.000 are the lockdowns suddenly over because the people have decided they are and they've just

00:00:10.260 started going out and about and back to their regular lives i can't help but ask that right

00:00:15.140 now in this first week of june as i look around in the places in ontario i spend time in i'm

00:00:20.220 dividing my time between rural ontario and downtown toronto i know you're not really

00:00:24.780 supposed to do that or you weren't supposed to do that but they actually never made it a law they

00:00:29.240 just kind of advised against it so whatever a lot of people did as they pleased and now i find more

00:00:35.560 and more people are just doing as they please partially because there's still some confusion

00:00:40.020 about these rules no more than five people in a gathering they say in ontario what do you mean

00:00:45.060 can you have a family of five and then you bring four other people over in your backyard and can

00:00:49.680 you this or that i mean there's just so many litany of rules out there i was in one store the other day

00:00:54.400 and i was talking to the shopkeeper i said well you must be happy to be back to business she said oh

00:00:57.980 yeah and we went back to curbside that was made legal in ontario again a couple weeks ago and i

00:01:02.920 said well yeah but a lot of people were just always doing curbside i mean the government never said

00:01:07.560 you cannot do business they just said you can't have people in your store curbside pickup was not

00:01:13.160 something that was explicitly not allowed so so many places were just always doing that from the

00:01:19.300 get-go a lot of confusion and as that confusion continued and as the weather got warmer and as people

00:01:25.780 saw other people doing more activities they thought well i'm gonna go out and about and do stuff they

00:01:31.560 saw that trinity bellwoods gathering that we were all supposed to be angry about and hashtagging about

00:01:36.100 but they also saw it and well it's been less than two weeks since that happened but so there could still

00:01:42.080 be some major outbreak caused by it but they saw that and they said okay the sky didn't fall they've

00:01:46.240 seen people out and about in the grocery store riding their bikes and passing by and they said okay

00:01:50.180 i want to do more i was in downtown toronto the other day driving around the core and well it didn't

00:01:55.460 look like rush hour but there were people out and about and they weren't all essential workers some

00:01:59.620 office workers returning here and there what is that all about are these people the ones who have

00:02:05.240 been slowly allowed to come back or are they just going back anyway look i am a advocate of a

00:02:12.040 responsible calculated and considered reopening that still keeps in place enhanced hygiene and physical

00:02:19.960 distancing measures but i think a lot of people are just feeling like they can make their own

00:02:24.600 calculated risks right now and they're slowly starting to get back to things and seeing how it

00:02:31.400 fares it'll be interesting to see whether this backfires on us and in two three weeks four weeks

00:02:35.840 time parts of canada have massive flare-ups or if we actually have proven that we can do all of this

00:02:43.220 and that we can responsibly follow these measures keep apart and so forth and manage to get back to society

00:02:49.420 without too much of a flare-up we shall see the next few weeks in the summer in canada which is so short

00:02:55.880 enough as it is even in regular years well that'll tell us what the future i think is going to look like

00:03:01.760 the future for us during this pandemic

00:03:03.560 for us during this pandemic

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Juno News - June 04, 2020