Juno News - Why are so many Canadians still in favour of lockdowns？

00:00:00.000 i've come to find that one of the most alarming aspects of the canadian public discussion about

00:00:11.680 coronavirus is just how many people there are who are desperately looking for arguments data points

00:00:19.260 angles to push the idea that we need to be in lockdown for many more months to come it is very

00:00:26.240 bizarre to see this happening in canada because it's not like that in other countries in the united

00:00:31.740 states for instance in france you follow other jurisdictions the general attitude is that they're

00:00:37.340 looking for reasons to reopen sure they're going to debate the finer points and so on and so forth but

00:00:42.340 but broadly speaking the attitude whether it's right wing left wing uh this state that state is

00:00:48.680 yes we do want to move forward with reopenings and any sort of data and information that that

00:00:53.720 encourages that well they don't attack that data whereas here in canada i find there's just such a

00:01:00.240 greater volume of people who are who are basically inherently hostile to the idea of reopening is this

00:01:06.440 so bizarre i'll give you examples writing that i've done comparing canada to michigan for instance

00:01:13.180 comparing ontario to michigan and you're looking at this comparison that comparison basically a lot

00:01:18.160 of big similarities between michigan and ontario but michigan did not go into lockdown they kept

00:01:24.840 their schools open many other things open and yet their third wave very similar in terms of when it

00:01:30.360 went up when it peaked when it went down suggesting i don't know if the ontario lockdown is actually all

00:01:35.280 that advantageous and a lot of people just really desperate to find whatever reason they can't argue

00:01:42.200 that isn't true trying to find this one a little data point or talking about how you know it's not a

00:01:47.260 perfect apples to apples comparison because of course there's no such thing as a perfect apples

00:01:52.320 to apples comparison jurisdictions are you know different obviously but it's interesting that that

00:01:58.540 they do not want to take this information that empowers us to evolve our response instead there is a

00:02:05.080 commitment towards no let's instead try and find that that one point that is of course not apples to

00:02:11.220 apples and we can maybe use that to hang our argument as to why we need to stay locked down and i

00:02:15.580 i just don't get it why do we not want to be reopened i mean why do we not take this information

00:02:23.680 oh hey good point and even if you don't entirely like what's been put forward or you think well i'm

00:02:28.440 not sure if that's you know a perfect ironclad example and so forth okay fine you know that's

00:02:33.180 none of this data none of these comparison points are perfect but the fact that right away you've got

00:02:38.560 to look at that information go i don't like this this doesn't work for me let's try and undermine

00:02:43.960 and so forth i find that that very well telling but telling of what telling of a problem that we

00:02:51.020 have here in canada that like i said is very different than what's going on the u.s regardless

00:02:55.460 of their politics regardless of the place they are in that country a lot more interest in in being

00:03:01.460 empowered towards reopening here in canada it's an ideological or a psychological hang-up i don't know

00:03:07.840 what it is to remain deeply committed more to arguments that do support lockdowns even now

00:03:13.460 even getting into a year and a half into this vaccination rates first doses getting over the

00:03:18.400 50 percent mark we've learned so much cases of course dropping uh quite a great deal just like

00:03:23.520 they did last summer but still people really clinging to the facts that present the doom and gloom

00:03:30.020 scenario or the facts that don't represent things moving in the positive direction hmm very odd

Juno News - May 22, 2021