Juno News - December 11, 2020


When will the lockdowns end？


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Length

3 minutes

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184.8327

Word Count

615

Sentence Count

1

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

Vaccinations are being rolled out, but are they being given to the elderly, the sick, and the elderly with multiple underlying conditions who live in congregate care settings who fall into a catchment catchment that falls into the catchment of coronavirus C.V.19. Why aren't the restrictions lifted?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 all right we are getting specific numbers we are getting timelines on vaccines on doses on the
00:00:11.760 rollouts of them in canada in all the respective provinces 249 000 that is the number announced
00:00:18.540 by justin trudeau the first tranche that is coming two doses per person so we're talking 125 000
00:00:25.140 people in that first rollout now it may not seem like a lot but at the same time we are prioritizing
00:00:31.200 the most vulnerable and the health care workers in that mix there and we also know a lot about who
00:00:36.580 is hardest hit by covet 19 who is most at risk of having a serious outcome from it and who has
00:00:42.440 tragically died from it and all the reports out there the public health data statistics canada
00:00:47.880 what doctors and hospitals are saying is that the people who are dying of coronavirus the overwhelming
00:00:53.140 majority of them are rather tragically the elderly with multiple underlying conditions who live in
00:00:59.520 congregate care settings now there are more than 125 000 people who fall into that catchment but
00:01:05.380 the more numbers we get the more of those individuals that we will hopefully be able to
00:01:09.760 vaccinate and hopefully prevent them from having a serious or tragic outcome from this virus so we're
00:01:15.780 getting those numbers and we're getting those timelines and all of this leads me to ask okay
00:01:21.000 when are we going to get the timeline on rolling back the restrictions because i think one of the
00:01:27.680 great scandals this year and particularly in the second wave that hasn't been discussed enough by my
00:01:33.720 colleagues in the media by the politicians even by the public health officials are all of the societal
00:01:38.800 harms that are being caused by the lockdowns the suicides the overdoses all of the other mental health
00:01:45.700 challenges you know people say oh you're just concerned about businesses shutting down yes there are many
00:01:49.980 businesses permanently shutting down those are people's lives their savings that is tragic businesses
00:01:54.680 are only one part of it a very important part of it but they're only one there's so much so much else
00:01:59.820 going on out there that all tells us that these lockdowns they need to be lifted as soon as possible
00:02:08.120 and every single day the politician should be asking do we really really really really need these
00:02:13.020 restrictions still to be in place and if not if there's no ironclad excuse for them then you've
00:02:18.960 got to lift them so why as we're talking about vaccinations among the most vulnerable starting
00:02:24.900 very soon well why are we not also talking about timelines for lifting those restrictions that is an
00:02:31.360 incredibly important thing that also has to be a part of the puzzle we can't just sit back and
00:02:36.040 wait and go well most canadians won't be vaccinated until next september so okay we're going to keep
00:02:41.180 these heavy restrictions on your lives until next september no no we vaccinate the people who are
00:02:46.340 most at risk of having a serious outcome from all of this and then well definitely then you liberate
00:02:52.500 the low-risk individuals there's a lot of people who say that the low-risk individuals should be
00:02:56.020 liberated now for many restrictions that they face but even if you do not agree with that argument one
00:03:00.600 would hope that you then agree with the argument that when the high-risk individuals are vaccinated
00:03:05.160 then the restrictions ease for the low-risk persons and yet we are not hearing that
00:03:10.000 yet from the public health officials from the politicians media not really asking those
00:03:14.540 questions all that much and i really hope that part of the conversation soon starts to shift