The government's coronavirus rules make no sense
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Summary
Are the lockdowns over because the people have decided they are, and they ve just started going out and about and back to their regular lives? I can t help but ask that right now, in this first week of June, as I look around in the places I spend time in, I m dividing my time between rural ontario and downtown toronto, I know you're not supposed to do that, or you weren't supposed to be doing that, but they actually never made it a law, they just advised against it.
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are the lockdowns suddenly over because the people have decided they are and they've just
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started going out and about and back to their regular lives i can't help but ask that right
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now in this first week of june as i look around in the places in ontario i spend time in i'm
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dividing my time between rural ontario and downtown toronto i know you're not really
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supposed to do that or you weren't supposed to do that but they actually never made it a law they
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just kind of advised against it so whatever a lot of people did as they pleased and now i find more
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and more people are just doing as they please partially because there's still some confusion
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about these rules no more than five people in a gathering they say in ontario what do you mean
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can you have a family of five and then you bring four other people over in your backyard and can
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you this or that i mean there's just so many litany of rules out there i was in one store the other day
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and i was talking to the shopkeeper i said well you must be happy to be back to business she said oh
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yeah and we went back to curbside that was made legal in ontario again a couple weeks ago and i
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said well yeah but a lot of people were just always doing curbside i mean the government never said
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you cannot do business they just said you can't have people in your store curbside pickup was not
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something that was explicitly not allowed so so many places were just always doing that from the
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get-go a lot of confusion and as that confusion continued and as the weather got warmer and as people
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saw other people doing more activities they thought well i'm gonna go out and about and do stuff they
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saw that trinity bellwoods gathering that we were all supposed to be angry about and hashtagging about
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but they also saw it and well it's been less than two weeks since that happened but so there could still
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be some major outbreak caused by it but they saw that and they said okay the sky didn't fall they've
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seen people out and about in the grocery store riding their bikes and passing by and they said okay
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i want to do more i was in downtown toronto the other day driving around the core and well it didn't
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look like rush hour but there were people out and about and they weren't all essential workers some
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office workers returning here and there what is that all about are these people the ones who have
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been slowly allowed to come back or are they just going back anyway look i am a advocate of a
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responsible calculated and considered reopening that still keeps in place enhanced hygiene and physical
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distancing measures but i think a lot of people are just feeling like they can make their own
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calculated risks right now and they're slowly starting to get back to things and seeing how it
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fares it'll be interesting to see whether this backfires on us and in two three weeks four weeks
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time parts of canada have massive flare-ups or if we actually have proven that we can do all of this
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and that we can responsibly follow these measures keep apart and so forth and manage to get back to society
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without too much of a flare-up we shall see the next few weeks in the summer in canada which is so short
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enough as it is even in regular years well that'll tell us what the future i think is going to look like