Juno News - January 26, 2022Will Canadians be able to handle a return to normal？
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When COID restrictions ease in Ontario, there will be a whole lot of people who are just psychologically not ready for it. And that's concerning, for those individuals, and for our communities. I saw an interesting and somewhat concerning post at a Toronto neighborhood Facebook group that I think is emblematic of how there are people out there who when restrictions ease, we have some pretty tight restrictions but inevitably they will ease, hopefully sooner than later.
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I saw an interesting and somewhat concerning Facebook post at a Toronto neighborhood Facebook
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group that I think is emblematic of how there are people out there who when COVID restrictions ease
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in Ontario, we have some pretty tight restrictions, but inevitably they will ease hopefully sooner
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than later. When those restrictions ease, there's going to be a whole lot of people who are just
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psychologically not ready for it. And that's concerning, I think, for those individuals,
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for our communities. So this post I'm talking about, well, first of all, the group, what this
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group is for, you know, community groups where you post, hey, I got a yard sale coming up, hope to see
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you there, or we're going to have a community barbecue, that type of thing. I'm getting rid of
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a bicycle for my seven-year-old. He's too tall for it now. Would anybody like a free bike? Those sorts
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of things you post there. This was a different post. An individual had posted that they had been
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to the local grocery store. And while they were in that grocery store, they saw three people not
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wearing masks. Count them, three people not wearing masks. So just thought you would like to know. And
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the tone of the post was clearly, did you know that our grocery store is not safe? You may want to
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avoid it. It is not a good location to be at. I thought, wow, this is really interesting because
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there's currently discussion about when are we going to lift the mask mandates. Ontario had planned to
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lift it on March 28th. We'll see if that happens. A lot of people want to push them to actually go ahead
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with that. They said they were going to lift the vaccine passport on January 17th. They didn't go ahead
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with that. We'll see about the mask mandate. But regardless, it's going to lift sooner than later. You've got
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U.S. jurisdictions. Most of them have lifted these mandates. The U.K. has said, okay, we're just done
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with all of our COVID rules. So lifting a mask mandate is a thing that, you know, it's probably going to
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happen sooner than later in Ontario. And yet so far into this, January 2022, we've got people who are
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sounding the alarm, not just quietly voicing their own disapproval or going, oh, okay, that guy's going
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without a mask, but you know, I'm not, I'm going to keep my mask on. That's fine. You know, everyone to
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themselves and you can quietly tut tut what other people are doing. But to sound the alarm, to say,
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I'm doing a public service announcement to let you know three people without masks, we got a problem
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on our hands. Do not go to this store. I don't know. I don't think that's particularly healthy,
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particularly now when, look, we've got adults who have booster shots if they want them. Omicron
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variant, as public health officials are saying, has thankfully proven significantly milder for the
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individual. And yet we still have these hangups. It's concerning. It's problematic. I mentioned the
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UK. I saw that they had actually put out a list of tips, 11 tips to help you deal with COVID
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anxiety and get back to normal. And they acknowledge it is understandable that people are going to have
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anxiety, but they also say one thing that's important is don't just do nothing. You still
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have to do something. You still have to make progress. And I guess my concern when I see kind
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of the mindset in Ontario and other parts of Canada is that are we making progress? Are we moving
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forward? And I see situations like, like the anecdote I just described and well, it really makes me worried.
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