Juno News - January 06, 2022


Who's to blame for the latest lockdown？

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COVID-19
2022 is already another year of lockdown Will Canadians push back against mandatory vaccines？

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Length

2 minutes

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181.94

Word count

544

Sentence count

54


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Why are the same people with the same old ideas still in charge of our COVID-19 response? I think that s a question more and more Canadians need to be asking. Why are the old, stale ideas still being used to solve our problems?

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00:00:00.000 Why are most of the same people with the same old ideas still in charge of our COVID-19
00:00:10.360 response? I think that's a question more and more Canadians need to be asking. It was incredibly
00:00:15.780 frustrating for many Ontarians to see the province plunged into a lockdown once again. So much was
00:00:22.700 done. Previous lockdowns, vaccination campaigns, people triple vaccinated, bringing in the vaccine
00:00:28.020 passport system. Apparently some scaling up of ICU bed capacity. So much has happened and oh look back
00:00:34.920 to square one. And the entire motivation for this is not because they're concerned about people in
00:00:40.540 their 20s and 30s, healthy people getting COVID-19. They're not actually concerned about the raw case
00:00:46.000 counts. They've been pretty clear about this. They're concerned about ICU capacity. It's going
00:00:50.520 to cripple the hospital system. Therefore we have to shut down all of society. Because there's 250
00:00:57.280 people in ICU beds, which was the number they were looking at when Ontario announced its latest
00:01:01.220 lockdown. We have to close the schools. Does that make sense to you? Is that acceptable to you
00:01:07.740 after two years where we have plunged collectively as Canadian taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars
00:01:14.600 into COVID-19? And where all of these officials, senior bureaucrats, healthcare administrators and
00:01:20.520 executives, well they've known about this for coming on two years now. What gives? Same old
00:01:26.980 stale ideas, same old solutions. Why aren't they able to solve these problems? Oh well they have
00:01:32.740 answers for this. It's just not that easy. Build more beds. Well it's not that easy. And then they
00:01:36.940 build beds. You say okay there you go. Well we need nursing staff. You can't just snap your fingers,
00:01:40.680 make nurses come out of thin air. It takes this and takes that. Okay. Okay that's fine. That's not
00:01:44.800 actually my problem here. It's your problem. Because there are hundreds of people in Ontario alone,
00:01:51.760 hundreds of people who are paid $200, $300, $400, $600,000 a year to effectively manage the hospital
00:01:59.780 system. I'm not talking about the frontline heroes, the doctors who are there treating the COVID-19
00:02:04.540 patients. I'm talking about the people in the back office, the senior bureaucrats. They are the ones
00:02:10.240 who have been saying, look there's nothing we can do. You want to stop COVID-19? You got to shut down
00:02:14.660 the schools. That's the only way you can do it. Hold on a second. What about all these other
00:02:18.500 potential options that are at your disposal? Why haven't you done this yet? Oh well it's not that
00:02:22.580 easy. But it is easy apparently to shut down all of society and all of the harms that come with it.
00:02:29.180 That is a very easy choice for them. In fact Ontario Premier Doug Ford said when the lockdown was
00:02:33.960 proposed to him it took him 30 seconds to make up his mind to decide to go along with it. We are not
00:02:41.600 getting peak performance. We are not getting excellence out of these people here. There must
00:02:47.400 be other creative options other than saying the way to deal with COVID-19 is to shut down the schools.
00:02:53.380 And people, they need to get more frustrated with all of this. They need to say what gives? We demand
00:02:58.660 a better way.