Juno News - Will masks and lockdowns return？

00:00:00.240 do you do you think that uh do you envision um at some point some of these measures coming back

00:00:06.480 um maybe sometime in the fall do you think that's going to happen or we are or do you think that

00:00:11.360 we're basically done with lockdowns and mandates i don't i don't know i mean covid is you know it's

00:00:18.400 not a nice virus it can be quite um devastating for people and it's we're getting it we're going

00:00:25.200 to be getting it you know going forward into the future and so i am i i'm not an expert in the long

00:00:31.040 covid literature i'm i mean i am concerned about it um um and it's yeah it's going to be a difficult

00:00:38.240 balance um of what we do going forward and i don't have any yeah i haven't spent uh the time to sort

00:00:44.240 of put my head together and really think about what policies should be going we should implement

00:00:49.520 going forward but it does seem like most um school districts are um you know they're advocating

00:00:55.600 against mass mandates against closures even in massachusetts recently which was you know had very

00:01:00.800 um maximalist approaches for a while the cdc's new guidelines are certainly um a step in the

00:01:07.360 right direction um but then we're going to face a situation where if we just have nothing we have no

00:01:12.400 control right then we need to sort of flip the narrative and say okay how can we support reductions

00:01:18.400 of covid mortality and morbidity yeah right we don't want to just allow people to sort of suffer

00:01:25.120 and and die from from a virus if we can prevent it um so i think we're going to have to have a rethink

00:01:31.600 and obviously ventilation plays a good role there um okay paid sick leave a great idea um early

00:01:39.760 treatment with you know anti-inflammatories etc um and and hope right that's one of the most

00:01:46.000 reflexing things about this whole pandemic is we were told shut yourself in your house um don't go

00:01:51.760 and gather with people and if you get sick stay home don't do anything until you can't breathe and

00:01:56.320 then go to the emergency room i mean what kind of health policy is that i mean even so i i say i say

00:02:03.200 that sometimes i think like with the whole ivermectin debate even if ivermectin is completely not

00:02:08.720 effective there's still a placebo effect involved and right of doctors saying no we've got something

00:02:16.160 that can help you so i mean yeah

Juno News - August 25, 2022