Juno News - The long-term harms of lockdowns

00:00:00.000 governments seem loath to admit that there are harms to lockdowns that we are facing things

00:00:11.380 like addiction challenges suicides other societal harms that are being caused in the here and now

00:00:17.280 very real vibrant and visceral harms that a lot of canadians are experiencing but when pressed and

00:00:22.980 i've pressed some of them at press conferences and so forth they they do acknowledge that this

00:00:27.640 is going on but one thing that they have not really acknowledged at all is the very long-term

00:00:33.700 consequences of the lockdowns the ripple effects the spin-off effects things that i don't think

00:00:39.220 we're even really beginning to think about let alone talk about let alone have officials acknowledge

00:00:44.220 i had this thought once again reading about a study out of the united kingdom an opinion poll

00:00:49.000 that found that about 40 percent of university students in the uk were considering dropping out

00:00:54.940 i think that was the number that was considering and the number who are actually doing it is

00:00:58.440 probably a little lower than that but regardless you've got a crisis among university students

00:01:03.100 where they figure yeah i'm out now how many of those are just going to take another gap year and

00:01:07.980 take a year or two to to figure things out and let the system sort itself out work itself out until

00:01:13.040 in-class learning is back how many are just done period i mean maybe that first year they accumulated

00:01:17.940 some debt and they just can't afford to take on even more debt towards a year that is not going to

00:01:22.680 be a valuable one for them i don't know but what i do know is that surely surely we can't deny that

00:01:28.860 there are some consequences to all of that a certain percentage of students who are perhaps going into

00:01:34.600 fields that we really need to support society who are not going into those fields anymore or they

00:01:40.280 delaying it by a few years and you have not just gap years for them as individuals but gap years for

00:01:46.000 entire professions where you have a cohort of people who will not be entering the workforce so what does it

00:01:51.480 mean for those different industries are you going to hear two years from now a report about well there's

00:01:56.380 a crisis in this field or that field or so forth because they don't have new entry-level people they

00:02:01.540 don't have enough staffing and so forth i mean we're told right now that one of the big challenges

00:02:06.280 with icu capacity capacity and hospitalizations is that they don't actually have enough icu nurses

00:02:12.920 to uh to take care of everything and so forth to properly staff it okay fine fair enough let's deal with

00:02:19.300 that challenge but i think we're going to see similar challenges in the months ahead in the years

00:02:24.240 ahead so yes we have to talk about the very immediate harms and consequences of lockdowns but

00:02:29.520 oh boy i think the long-term ones those ripple effects are going to be even broader and they are

00:02:35.240 going to be far-reaching in ways that policymakers are not even beginning to think about right now

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Juno News - April 14, 2021