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

Why can't we acknowledge good coronavirus developments? Why are we so reluctant to acknowledge the good news that's happening in the field? Why aren't we celebrating the decline in cases across North America and other countries?

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

The public health experts continue to fear-monger

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