Juno News - The public health experts continue to fear-monger

00:00:00.000 let's call this one why can't we acknowledge good coronavirus developments part two it was a few

00:00:10.880 months ago that i put forward the idea that there were a whole bunch of positive developments when

00:00:14.980 it came to the battle against covid19 that just weren't really being discussed all that much

00:00:19.140 reported on talked about celebrated as good news i've been talking to a number of icu doctors in

00:00:25.540 canada who are actually treating coronavirus patients on the ground floor dealing with a lot

00:00:30.160 of people in hospitals and they were saying hey there's actually a lot of positive developments

00:00:34.560 they'd learned different therapeutics to minimize the serious outcomes people were having they were

00:00:39.620 greatly reducing the amount of time people were spending in hospitals the first wave was very

00:00:44.160 challenging for them and they didn't really know what they were dealing with and then they learned

00:00:47.880 a lot and well hats off to them and full applause to all the doctors and scientists who have learned

00:00:52.660 so much about coronavirus and how to better treat it and i always felt like that part of the

00:00:57.460 conversation was just never really acknowledged that much why not why don't we celebrate their

00:01:03.080 efforts their achievements and also the good news that came out of that what it all means for all

00:01:08.660 those people who are at potential high risk of the virus well now we're at a different part of the

00:01:13.680 conversation where there is other good news happening and people are so reluctant to acknowledge it

00:01:18.440 and what is that that is the precipitous massive decline in cases that we are seeing all across

00:01:24.680 north america and in other countries so coronavirus cases spiking in certain places like in canada

00:01:30.640 throughout the end of november and december first week of january now we are at a point at the

00:01:35.900 beginning of february where there has been a month of massive declines you look at those charts it is

00:01:41.480 just a major drop there in daily cases and what's interesting is this goes fully against what all the

00:01:47.720 modelers projected you know in ontario back on what was it just on january 12th so after lockdowns were

00:01:53.900 already in place a province-wide lockdown in ontario they said by mid-february you're going to be looking

00:02:00.140 at 20 000 cases per day there were headlines mainstream news reuters headlines and so forth talking

00:02:06.480 about how yeah this could actually come to pass and now ontario is at just five percent of that

00:02:11.960 prediction 1 000 cases and some people would like to say to me well hold on a second fury they said if we

00:02:17.100 don't lock down it could be 20 000. no they said stuff like that but i want to be clear january 12th

00:02:21.700 they said 20 000 and there were already lockdowns in place so that was with lockdowns so we are just

00:02:27.980 not at that situation why are the people who were projecting this and quite frankly fear-mongering 20 000

00:02:35.140 cases per day why are they not celebrating the fact that we are seeing massive declines right now

00:02:41.500 instead what you hear is these concerns about new variants they could be spreading like wildfires soon

00:02:46.980 okay well i guess that's something to pay attention to and watch out for maybe it will come to pass

00:02:51.900 i certainly hope it doesn't but instead of just focusing on all of those negatives and potential

00:02:57.140 doom and gloom they haven't even really paused to acknowledge that these 20 000 per day predictions

00:03:02.860 for ontario have not at all come to pass and isn't that a good thing wouldn't they want to stop

00:03:09.520 and acknowledge all of that and the fact that they are not well we should ask why are they not doing that

00:03:15.580 i think we need a bit of an attitude adjustment in terms of how we look at all of this stuff

00:03:20.080 and how we just are not really wanting to acknowledge some of this good news and to give it

00:03:25.600 the attention that it really deserves

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Juno News - February 10, 2021