Juno News - The troubling ideology of ＂COVID-zero＂ activists

00:00:00.000 wouldn't it be great if there was no coronavirus in canada either because it never materialized

00:00:11.100 in the first place or because we eliminated it we got rid of all the cases zero coronavirus

00:00:16.500 yeah of course that would be fantastic i'm sure pretty much everybody agrees but it's not

00:00:21.400 pragmatic right there's nobody out there actually saying our main goal should be

00:00:25.740 zero coronavirus cases no more do strategies to just completely destroy the thing right

00:00:32.300 yeah wrong there's this group of folks out there you may have heard of called

00:00:36.660 covid zero the covid zero advocacy campaign what is this all about well these are folks who pretty

00:00:43.680 much say we should have measures in place restrictions in place until we get to almost

00:00:49.320 zero coronavirus cases really how is that even possible well some of the folks associated with

00:00:55.560 covid zero they did put out a document a number of months ago where they actually said

00:00:59.240 40 cases per day that's the number you need to get to all across canada 40 cases per day and they

00:01:05.560 support some form of restrictions until you get to that 40 cases per day one per million for people

00:01:11.940 in canada give or take wow that's quite something seeing as most medical experts also agree that this

00:01:18.060 is becoming an endemic illness meaning it'll be seasonal it'll be around for well quite a long time

00:01:23.740 many years many decades to come well hold on a second then they can't really honestly mean

00:01:29.040 covid zero they must mean it in an aspirational goal like how people say okay we're doing a campaign

00:01:34.980 to end homelessness in five years from now or ten years from now and obviously we we all agree that

00:01:40.400 that's a great aspirational goal to end homelessness but we kind of know yeah homelessness it's not going to

00:01:45.280 go away in five years but let's still just say that to you know have a good goal to aspire to no i i think the

00:01:51.040 covid zero people actually do mean that you have to bring in policies to aggressively get to zero

00:01:59.120 cases what sort of harms would have to happen to society to the economy to to civil society to social

00:02:06.780 life to our children and so forth to get to these zero cases which we would probably never even get to

00:02:12.560 in the first place it's very bizarre to see this covid zero that it's been around for a number of months

00:02:17.920 now and here in april 2021 still people are adherents of it and they're they're always trying

00:02:22.940 to gain new steam behind this very bizarre ideology and i think ideology is the right word for it i mean

00:02:29.040 covid zero it has a logo it has branding it's got this mission statement uh some of those previous

00:02:34.400 releases i mentioned associated with covid zero people it's got funding attached to it and so forth

00:02:38.860 they're sort of actively seeking out new recruits i mean this is a an ideological movement it is not a

00:02:44.460 earnestly and organically held professional medical opinion yet we got a lot of people espousing it

00:02:50.400 very odd go out there and read the documentation behind covid zero and and realize just how troubling

00:02:56.820 advocacy of this idea is if you want to just say hey it would be great if there's no coronavirus you

00:03:02.060 know let's work towards eliminate okay so be it fair enough reasonable approach but for a lot of them

00:03:07.380 that's not actually what they're saying they actually mean perpetual measures for perpetual

00:03:13.160 suppression of the virus wow really quite something and kind of unbelievable that serious people

00:03:19.960 are seriously advocating that

Juno News - April 12, 2021