Juno News - February 18, 2021


Why won't officials acknowledge the massive decline in COVID cases？


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Coronavirus cases in Canada have dropped dramatically in the past 5 weeks, and all other indicators are coming down. Why isn t this good news being talked about as much as it should be? Is it not good news that all those cases are going down? Or is there something else going on?

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00:00:00.000 Do you want to know what I think is perhaps one of the edgiest things you can do right now in
00:00:09.580 Canadian current affairs discussions? It's posting a picture of the current curve of coronavirus
00:00:16.300 cases in Canada. Yes, that's right. But how can that possibly be? Statistics about coronavirus
00:00:22.620 cases, isn't this just, you know, verified government data that all media have that should
00:00:27.260 be in news stories every day and so forth? Well, yes, you'd think it should be. I mean, back several
00:00:32.800 months ago when coronavirus cases were rising quite a lot and hospitalizations were unfortunately
00:00:37.720 rising, there was a lot of news about it. It was being amplified by pretty much everybody all the
00:00:43.400 time. But yet now there's less discussion of those figures and certainly less amplification of it and
00:00:50.100 less public health officials drawing attention to it and far fewer of the doctors you see on
00:00:55.840 television drawing attention to what the numbers are right now. It's almost like there's some
00:00:59.520 unwritten rule that you're not supposed to talk about it, which is what leads me to conclude it's,
00:01:03.660 I don't know, an edgy thing to do or something. Well, what are the numbers then? Well, the numbers
00:01:08.900 are numbers that are plummeting, precipitously dropping. Back around the first week of January,
00:01:16.480 Canada had almost 10,000 cases per day of coronavirus. But in the five weeks since then,
00:01:22.760 it has dramatically dropped to just over 2,000 cases, a massive decline. And thankfully,
00:01:31.220 hospitalizations have decreased drastically as well. All other indicators are coming down.
00:01:36.800 This is good news. Is it not coronavirus is a bad thing? Growing cases is a bad thing.
00:01:41.900 Hospitalizations, obviously we wish those people well. Is it not good news that all those numbers are
00:01:47.120 going down? Is it not news that should be celebrated? Is it not news that should be sung from the rafters?
00:01:52.300 All those people out there, the doctors who are on television, who are saying, we got a lockdown
00:01:56.240 society, we've got these awful numbers and so forth. Why are we not hearing more from them saying,
00:02:02.040 hey, we're really happy to actually see the situation improve? I mean, we had hospital
00:02:08.180 administrators who were going on television saying, look, the system's about to collapse.
00:02:12.000 It's awful news. We got to lock her down. Where are they now saying, okay, guys, good news. The system
00:02:16.800 is certainly nowhere near about to collapse anymore because the numbers have gone down so much. So
00:02:21.580 fantastic. And we want to get the word out there. What on earth is going on that this is not
00:02:26.540 being discussed anymore? Instead, all of the focus is on, hey, maybe there's these new variants out
00:02:31.820 there. Well, there are these new variants out there, but maybe they're going to explode. They're
00:02:35.680 going to skyrocket in this uncontrollable way. And we're going to be back to the way things were before
00:02:39.540 and so forth. Okay. Well, we haven't seen that happen so far in any other jurisdiction across
00:02:44.580 North America. All jurisdictions are seeing the numbers rapidly decline. Maybe things will again
00:02:49.800 get bad, but perhaps we can hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and also acknowledge this
00:02:56.700 good news while it's currently happening. But instead, unfortunately, that good news is not getting
00:03:03.860 out there. It's not being discussed as much as it should be, and it's not being celebrated. Why is that?
00:03:09.780 good news.
00:03:15.240 Thanks for having me, anyone interested in learnings.
00:03:16.500 Thank you.
00:03:18.860 Thanks you and Christina.
00:03:20.600 I have an incredible family of friends.
00:03:28.340 Thank you so much for joining me today.
00:03:30.680 Good news.
00:03:33.320 Thank you so much for joining us.
00:03:38.080 Bye.