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EricHiggin on 17 December 2020
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SvennoJ said:
EricHiggin said:

As I said prior, free to choose, within reason.

Most people will make the more logical choice if it's properly presented to them by trustworthy sources. If you can't convince those people, it's just as much your problem as theirs. Forcing them to comply is not the right answer. It will eventually lead to the opposite of what you're trying to achieve.

How would you convince our fellow Ontarians to do the right thing? It's not working, yet another new record today. How many chances do you give before resorting to lock downs.

By now we have enough examples of what works and what doesn't. Letting it up to the people to self regulate their social distancing has proven not to work. Pls reduce your contacts by 25% so the spread goes down again was the message a couple months ago. Then, if this continues we'll have to add extra measures. Now we're getting into heavier measure again.

I'm not sure there is a way anymore nowadays with social media and people self isolating in self reinforcing 'news' groups. Government has successfully eroded all trust in government over the past decades. A direct result when political campaigns resort to making the other side look bad, which is the new standard. All you hear during election time is what everyone did wrong and is going to eff up. Why would people trust the government or anyone they appoint to speak for them.

I don't have any answers, I'm staying home. Doing my groceries once a week, 8 AM right as the store opens, air still uncontaminated, nice and quiet, mask on, sanitizer handy.

Our news went from talking about the increasing death rate non stop, to never mentioning it, and talking about the increasing spread rate instead. Odd...

Ontario/T.O. news is always pointing out how our premier or the other provincial premiers of the same party are screwing up, even if opposition premiers aren't doing any better if not worse, no matter the subject. They rarely talk about the P.M. and when they do it's super rare to cast a negative light, no matter how legit.

Want to know what would help a lot in terms of covid? Talking about the death rate when it comes to many things, like the common cold and flu. Why it was never brought up before is one thing, but regardless, how about talk about other important life and death related illnesses to show you're at the least willing to try and do your job, even if done poorly.

You can't cry wolf over and over then expect people to come running when there is actually a problem. As some like to say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. If you don't want to conduct yourself in a manner that will remain relevant and trustworthy in the future, you're going to pay for it down the road. The more power you have, the more who will be negatively impacted. Considering the public themselves allow this, it's partially on them as well.