Juno News - Where's the evidence for the latest restrictions？

In one of my most recent videos, I talk about the sudden switcheroo by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who shut down indoor dining, recreational sports for the kids, and public health officials in the GTA, Peel Region, and Ottawa Region across the province. What happened?

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 0.98

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

Juno News - October 11, 2020

Where's the evidence for the latest restrictions？

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