Juno News - September 14, 2020


The upside of the coronavirus pandemic


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In this episode, I talk about how the Pandemic has changed my family and how we can get back to some of the old ways of doing things. I also talk about the benefits of getting back to nature and cooking from scratch.

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00:00:00.000 I'd like to tell something of a bit of a personal narrative about how the pandemic has changed my
00:00:09.840 family, and maybe it's a story that you and your family can relate to as well. You may have seen
00:00:14.560 in a couple videos I've done recently, I've been out in the woods, out about nature, surrounded
00:00:18.740 completely by trees. You've been wondering, well, what's going on? Where's Fury? What's he doing?
00:00:22.860 Where is he? Well, I've been up in what I call my undisclosed bunker in rural Ontario, getting out
00:00:28.580 of the city. Back in March, when the lockdown started, schools shut down. Well, we got small
00:00:33.420 kids at home, and we live in our house in the city, not a lot of space for, you know, any property in
00:00:38.160 downtown Toronto. So we said, let's get out of here. We were quite privileged to have access to a big
00:00:42.840 property up north, lots of acreage for the kids to run around, for them to play, for them to learn,
00:00:48.680 for them to explore. And they were doing just that, learning about different trees and distinguishing
00:00:54.160 different types of mushrooms, taking a little field guide with them, learning about different
00:00:57.880 animals and so forth. It was fantastic. You know, there's often an urban-rural divide where kids in
00:01:04.180 Canada, they don't always get those opportunities out there. Urban kids sometimes not learning all 0.99
00:01:09.380 that much about this sort of stuff, and I thought it was a real blessing. Obviously, could I do without
00:01:13.180 the coronavirus, the pandemic? You betcha. But we were able to see an upside to all of that. Now, that's
00:01:19.140 my particular circumstances, but I know other people are sort of in other situations where things have
00:01:24.540 changed for them kind of similarly about getting back to nature, or at least getting back to the old
00:01:31.200 ways of doing things. I saw that Sobeys Foods was saying in some sort of news article or report that
00:01:37.540 they feel that this cooking from home thing, well, it's going to diminish a little bit now that society
00:01:42.680 is largely reopened, but a lot of people are going to stick to it. So folks who are usually used to just
00:01:47.860 popping something in the oven, a sort of pre-made thing, or eating out, they've actually gone and said,
00:01:52.260 you know this bread that I always eat? I know it involves kind of flour and yeast stuff, or
00:01:56.900 you know, wheat or something like that. What's actually in this bread? How do you make it? I see
00:02:00.900 the bakers, you know, bed rises and stuff. Maybe I should try that from home. And of course, we saw
00:02:05.400 the flour just fly off the shelves, and a lot of Canadians learned to do cooking from scratch on a
00:02:10.660 number of products. Now, I'm a big supporter of Canada's restaurants, and they are amazing, but
00:02:14.980 also kudos to all those people who did learn to cook from home and learn to go back to the old ways of
00:02:20.680 doing things. Same for health. I think a lot of people thought, oh man, I don't want to be one of
00:02:25.360 these people who's fallen down by this virus here, and I want to be in as good of a healthy position
00:02:30.120 as I can. I saw that in the U.S., Peloton as a stock, that sort of bicycle thing that, you know,
00:02:37.300 people were doing a lot of memes of. Peloton, that's surging ahead as a stock. A lot of people
00:02:41.240 are buying it. I think a lot of people are buying home fitness equipment. Now, some of that is people who
00:02:45.720 maybe missed the gym, wanted to just get it at home. Other people, I think are maybe people trying
00:02:50.020 it for the first time, trying to get in shape and take care of themselves a bit more. So, yes, we
00:02:55.380 really disconnected from some things, but I think a lot of the kind of manic pace frenzy stuff where
00:03:02.600 you just can't slow down to go for a walk in the woods or to stop and learn to bake some bread,
00:03:07.940 I actually churned butter. Can you believe that? I actually made butter at home a few times. People do
00:03:13.540 in fitness, things that they didn't make the time for previously, we've now been able to make the
00:03:18.580 time for. And I think that's a great thing as a society, an awful experience, obviously, more
00:03:22.920 broadly, that a lot of us have undergone. But there's been a great opportunity to really step back
00:03:28.200 and do something of a societal reset, looking at what matters, looking back on some of the old ways.
00:03:34.040 And I hope you were able to enjoy some of that yourself.