Juno News - October 11, 2020


Where's the evidence for the latest restrictions？


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00:00:00.000 Doug Ford what happened what changed why the sudden switcheroo folks in one of my
00:00:10.320 most previous videos I talked about the fact that Ontario Premier Doug Ford
00:00:14.040 putting two feet firmly down on the ground in front of the press conferences
00:00:17.340 there and saying I will not bring in any more restrictions in Ontario until I see
00:00:22.620 the hard and fast evidence highest threshold of evidence that those
00:00:26.760 particular activities that some public health officials are calling to be
00:00:30.660 restricted are restricted I need the data he said I need to exhaust every
00:00:37.020 single other Avenue before I ruin a single person's livelihood sounds good
00:00:42.060 right and he got a lot of applause for that that was on Monday on Friday whoa
00:00:47.160 he shut a bunch of things down indoor dining in restaurants gyms recreational
00:00:53.160 sports for the kids and for adults whole bunch of things in a few regions GTA
00:00:57.660 Peel region and Ottawa region across Ontario making people ask well what's
00:01:01.980 next is this going to be expanded to other parts of the province well what
00:01:05.220 happened what was that deep dive of information of data that we received look
00:01:10.080 we're always told we live in an age of analytics of big data it's like a
00:01:13.980 multi-billion dollar industry employing so many people around the world to do all
00:01:17.580 of that stuff right now smart data evidence-based decision-making so surely
00:01:21.600 there's micro data on exactly what's going on in these locations right right
00:01:27.420 seemingly wrong I got my hands on the previously confidential document that
00:01:33.120 was circulated around cabinet it was sent to a few people in the media to take a
00:01:36.600 look at exactly what the evidence was that was shown to cabinet to make them
00:01:40.860 all agree and to make Doug Ford agree yep we got to shut all this down put
00:01:44.820 together by some scientists that the government had gotten in touch with put
00:01:47.880 them on their science table to advise them about all this and I got to tell
00:01:51.960 you it's pretty weak sauce this PDF I mean it talks about rising cases of
00:01:57.100 coronavirus in Ontario which we know it talks about these slight upticks and
00:02:01.020 hospitalizations and ICU numbers not good to be heading in this direction I don't
00:02:05.520 think anybody thinks that's a good thing so let's do what we can to reduce
00:02:09.300 those numbers where the masks wash the hands shore up the medical system and so
00:02:13.020 forth protect our most vulnerable but I'm flipping through it I'm
00:02:16.300 going okay where's the page on Toronto Public Health Ottawa Public Health reports
00:02:20.380 this percentage of gyms was responsible for this percentage of cases we've
00:02:24.980 traced it back we found this that and the other and I was really interested in
00:02:28.300 those numbers and I'm happy to go wow okay fine if that's the case if gyms if
00:02:33.040 indoor dining is a huge problem we know that for a fact I guess we got to put a
00:02:37.480 timeout on these things and I flip through the pages and I get to the end and
00:02:42.520 there was never a page on that and there was no data on that in fact
00:02:46.600 public health officials top officials in different cities have acknowledged
00:02:50.200 that the spreadsheets they're working with that the data systems they don't
00:02:53.980 even have fields for that they don't have a little row they don't have a
00:02:56.500 little a little column in their spreadsheet to actually mark all that
00:02:59.680 down they're not recording that data so they're working on hunches in fact the
00:03:04.180 last page of this PDF it has these charts but what's going on in the
00:03:08.260 Netherlands oh watch out what's going on in France so watch out okay well like I
00:03:12.640 wish all countries well I see some are harder hit than Canada others are dealing
00:03:16.540 with their respective problems okay well best of luck to them what does that
00:03:19.840 specifically have to do with for instance shutting down gyms in Ontario we
00:03:25.480 don't know the numbers were never given the evidence was not provided the
00:03:29.680 evidence that Doug Ford said he would need before he acted he did not receive
00:03:36.400 that evidence yet he still chose to shut them down
00:03:40.240 Wow