Time is ticking -- we need to take action NOW
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It s now time to be all hands on deck when it comes to tackling this coronavirus that is besieging a whole bunch of countries around the world, and is increasingly closing in on us here in Canada. I m not going to bother doing an update on the latest, because as soon as you write a column, post a video, issue a tweet, there is new information.
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Okay, Canada, it's now time to be all hands on deck when it comes to tackling this coronavirus
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that is besieging a whole bunch of countries around the world and is increasingly closing
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in on us here in Canada. I'm not going to bother doing an update on the latest because as soon as
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you write a column, post a video, issue a tweet ten minutes later, there is new information.
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Things just seem to get crazier and crazier day by day. In Canada, we know there's some really
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worrisome reports out there of one doctor in the Hamilton area, a cancer doctor, an oncologist.
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She got it while traveling. It's believed to be around Hawaii. She's met with cancer patients,
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people who have compromised immune systems. A child at a daycare facility in Calgary has it.
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What is the spread like in that area? Yes, we're told that this virus does not affect children as
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much as it affects adults and the elderly, but still, who knows? You want to minimize all of this
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as much as possible. Now, a lot of experts out there, epidemiologists, infectious disease experts,
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they're saying, look at the curves of countries that have brought in drastic measures. China, Iran,
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they were not able to do that early enough, but there are other jurisdictions that have,
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and it proves this sort of stuff works. Look, my take is that some sort of clampdown is inevitable
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in Canada. So let's get it over and done with. Let's do it sooner rather than later, because doing
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it now, doing it earlier, does a number of things. It can reduce the caseload, reduce the amount that
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the system is feeling taxed by this. We're already hearing reports of hallway healthcare in Canada
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before this, places in Quebec, places in Brampton and the greater Toronto area. We're really at capacity
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in our healthcare system as it is. How are we going to deal with a surge of these cases? We just don't
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know. So bringing in measures sooner than later is the wiser thing to do, because it means slowing it
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down, saving lives. Now, of course, we could bring in all these measures, and things could not become
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like, say, they are in Italy, here in Canada, and it could pass us all over. People could say,
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well, there, look, you didn't need to do it. No, I think that would be evidence that this worked.
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Now, I know there's been a lot of divided opinion on this. A lot of people have been
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seeing my tweets, my videos, listening to my radio show, and saying, nah, this just really isn't all
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that bad when you compare it to other death rates, other infection rates. Maybe, and I would love for
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that to be true, but right now, we do not know. We are told, listen to the experts, but there's a
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problem. There's no such thing as a coronavirus expert. There are infectious disease experts, flu experts,
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and so forth, but right now, the experts are in disagreement over this, and they are grasping
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to answer basic 101 questions about what is this thing, and exactly what does it do to people, and
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how do we get it under control? And even if they do have all those questions answered, there's still
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that little problem of there being no vaccine, no treatment for it, yet to be viable. Yes, there is
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the regular flu, which really only kills people who are on their way out anyway, people who are
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unfortunately very compromised, or there is the Spanish flu of 1918, which flared up in January of
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that year, and it chugged along, and it only killed the elderly, and it killed the vulnerable. It went
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away during the summer, and then it came back in September, October, November with a vengeance, and
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started killing young people in their prime, in their 30s, in their 40s. Is that what's going to
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happen here? I don't know. Maybe. Can you tell me for certain that is not what's going to happen here?
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I would like to think no, because this is a hundred years later, and we have such an advanced
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system, much more better public health protocols, medical researchers who work a lot faster at these
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things. We're just a cleaner, more hygienic society, but we don't know. And that's why we need to bring
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up all the stops right now. I am no fan of big government. If government says, Fury, stay at your
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home, there's a part of me that instantly wants to go out and dance around in the streets just to say,
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screw you, government, you can't tell me what to do. But it's pretty obvious that we are in a very
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different situation right now. We are in a race, really, for our health and a race to save lives.
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Whatever measures we think are coming to Canada imminently, I say bring them in now already.
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Get it all over and done with. Pull out the stops sooner than later.