Juno News - October 19, 2020


The lockdowns will be over by Christmas

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Jason Kenney Doug Ford Peel
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By Christmas, the lockdowns in Canada will be over, I predict. Lockdowns are no longer the answer to public opinion, and there will be no more of them, at least not in the near future.

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00:00:00.000 All right, folks, I got a prediction to make. I think by Christmas time, the lockdowns are
00:00:10.140 going to be over in Canada. And you might be wondering, how can that possibly be given
00:00:15.340 the direction we're heading right now? The momentum that's going on in favor of more
00:00:20.700 added restrictions. That's definitely the case in Quebec and Ontario. In Quebec, they
00:00:26.000 have these red alert zones. They even have police stopping you from going from one area
00:00:30.040 to another. Police checkpoints in the streets. In Ontario, Doug Ford just on Friday announced
00:00:35.400 the stage two restrictions that were brought in for Toronto, Peel region, and Ottawa. They're
00:00:40.760 moving to York region, and he's threatening he's going to bring them in for Halton region.
00:00:45.220 So he's saying, yeah, I'm a lockdown loving leader, and I'm thinking of bringing in more
00:00:49.140 of them. Well, how can it be then? How can I be right that in only a couple of months from
00:00:52.700 now? It's going to be over by Christmas time. Because I think public opinion inertia and
00:00:59.260 general government action inertia, it's this really slow moving thing that it takes a long
00:01:05.660 time. It's lagging. It's a few weeks behind. And I think public opinion is going to start
00:01:11.520 shifting in a few weeks. And a few weeks after that, that will shift government opinion. What
00:01:16.560 do I mean by that? You may have seen all the disparate stories out there of different medical
00:01:21.860 experts, different doctors stepping forward and saying lockdowns are no longer the answer.
00:01:26.720 Yes, we're concerned about coronavirus. We want to protect the vulnerable, the elderly.
00:01:31.220 We're good with the hand washing, the masks, and so forth. But no more lockdowns. First,
00:01:36.380 it was a few doctors, and people say, oh, well, they're just fringe doctors. They're conspiracy
00:01:39.980 theorists. And you go, I don't know. The credentials are looking pretty good. And then you'll suddenly
00:01:44.120 get 20 doctors, 10, 5. I mean, I'm talking about pieces that have been out in the post-media
00:01:47.980 papers, other publications. You look at the credentials. You go, these are top-notch people.
00:01:52.980 This is no partisanship. This is no conspiracy theory. This is real. And they're all stepping
00:01:57.640 forward and saying there has to be a smarter way. There has to be a better way. You've got
00:02:02.160 the Great Barrington Declaration that's been signed. You've got the WHO saying no more blunt
00:02:08.520 lockdowns. They said all we meant was you do it for a bit to just kind of reallocate your
00:02:13.220 resources, grab your bearings. But you don't keep them in forever. You don't keep them in
00:02:17.260 for as long as you've been doing them. So momentum is really shifting. I think there's
00:02:21.340 going to be a tipping point in medical opinion when more and more public health experts and
00:02:26.060 epidemiologists say, we got to look at the big picture and whole of society. We just can't do
00:02:30.920 lockdowns anymore. That's then going to push public opinion. The story's going to get out.
00:02:35.600 The word's going to get out more. More and more people are going to be telling their MPs,
00:02:39.220 their MPs, their mayors, and so forth. This doesn't cut it anymore. We just can't do this.
00:02:44.620 And then eventually government is finally going to clue in because government is always the last
00:02:49.560 to do the sensible thing. And the reopenings will occur. There will of course be advice about how we
00:02:55.460 still have to follow the protocols. And while Christmas will be a little bit subdued, but people
00:02:59.980 just had Thanksgiving and they weren't crazy about it. And they're going, can you give us the data
00:03:04.200 and the information to go out and make informed choices about our daily lives so we can do what
00:03:11.180 makes sense? Most people are not going to go out and just do whatever they please carefree. They're
00:03:16.080 still going to follow protocols. They're still going to follow the rules that they feel are sensible for
00:03:20.540 their personal situation, but they're not going to allow government to micromanage their lives. 0.97
00:03:26.240 That's a phrase Jason Kenney was using at a press conference. It was really great to hear a leader
00:03:30.400 actually say that, that government should not be micromanaging people's lives. Do we have to
00:03:34.380 take this seriously? Yes. Do we have to protect the elderly, the vulnerable? Absolutely. But no more
00:03:39.800 lockdowns. And I hope my prediction is right. Done by Christmas.