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I'm Myah, and I'm still at home.
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With all that's going on with COVID-19,
we're gonna change things up just a little.
Instead of me sharing this week's buzzed about news,
let's get personal and RECAP how the Coronavirus
has changed our worlds.
Rewind!
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The first time I heard the word was in late January,
when we did this story.
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OK guys, let's take a minute to talk about something serious.
You'll be hearing "Corona-virus" in the news
this week.
That's because this new pneumonia-like illness
is spreading
and for people with a weak immune system,
it can be deadly.
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Truth?
When my producer, Amrita put this story in the show,
I was like 'why?'
Who cares?
But dude, I was wrong,
but honestly, I didn't realize how much COVID-19
would change things, until I was in Saskatoon
for the
That was the week of March 9th.
At the last minute, everything was getting canceled.
I mean EVER-Y-THING!
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There is breaking news for you.
The 2020 Juno Awards, they've been canceled
due to fears over Coronavirus.
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It was shocking and the shock continued
when I got back home and my other job reached out
saying they were closing the movie theatre!
The theatre where I work has never been closed,
not even on Christmas.
So, that's really when it hit me, things would be changing.
I asked the
they first realized the same.
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The premier of Ontario, Mr. Doug Ford
released a statement saying that all publicly funded schools
will be closed an additional two weeks after March break.
I was freaking out. I just-- like major panic at that moment
and then my mom and I decided to go to the grocery store.
It was so chaotic. Everything was running out.
My mom and I was there for two hours.
It was the worst experience of my entire life,
grocery shopping.
[chiming] Veena:
to the toilet paper aisle and there was absolutely nothing.
It was just like a gold rush. Everyone was going crazy
for like, the last roll of paper.
I mean, my mom were just like, I guess we're gonna use leaves
outside our window.
I don't know about toilet paper, but if anyone needs any pasta,
don't worry, I got you covered because it's all in my house.
It's all in my house.
I took this picture at a Canadian
right before I left.
That was supposed to be the toilet paper aisle,
Myah:
Ariel:
Dude, the juices. People took apple juice.
I'm like where's my apple juice?
No.
For me, it was early in March when the first patient
in Mississauga was reported and it was also reported that
he rode my way, which is the bus that I ride
in Mississauga and the same bus that Sean rides.
Sean:
the article came out and I was freaking out.
I genuinely thought that I have Coronavirus,
was not a fun time.
Up until that point,
I thought that COVID-19 wasn't really like, a big deal.
I thought, as long as it's come to Canada,
everything should be fine,
and then the case was reported and that's when I really started
worrying that everything might go wrong.
[chiming] Ethan:
I'm a little bit ignorant
when it comes to the Coronavirus.
At least I was at first.
It wasn't until Monday March 23rd when John Tory declared
a state of emergency in Toronto that I actually started
taking things a little bit more seriously.
This afternoon I signed a document declaring
a state of emergency in the city of Toronto.
I personally thought, like, if it's not near me
then it doesn't really affect me,
but then you see all the things that are happening,
especially in like Italy
and other countries like China, as well.
So, when he finally declared that state of emergency,
I think I started to get a little bit more panicked.
So I definitely was late to the game,
but better late than never, right.
So you're telling me that you did not take this seriously,
even after Tom Hanks was diagnosed with COVID-19?
I know, I know Don't come for me!
Are you saying that you stocked up on like, a lifetime supply
of pasta and yet, you still didn't realize
this was an emergency?
In my defense, I did not personally stock up,
it was my parents who were stocking up so they were
panicked and I was just chilling, eating that pasta.
So, the
the
living your best life?
I don't watch sports and I guess, the
I should have, I should have known from the
I love me some music, but
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OK, Ethan, we'll give you a pass this time,
but at the time of taping this, there are more than
a million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide.
Every single country has been affected.
Here's what the squad thinks will change
because of this global pandemic.
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I think a year from now, there're going to be way more
people choosing to take online courses
in universities and colleges because there's a small number
of people already taking online courses,
but now there's a bunch more people trying it
for the first time and once everything blows over,
there's going to be a group of people that choose
not to go back to in-person classes
and rather have online classes.
Veena:
in public places, like railings and handles
in these places will be cleaned a lot more often.
Adding on to Veena's point.
I think that in public spaces, there'll be a lot more,
like, hand sanitizers, a lot more handwashing stations,
just overall, sanitary stations for us to use.
I think COVID-19 is going to-- hopefully, a year from now
there's going to be a mandatory vaccine you have to take
[chiming]
It's interesting to think about, isn't it?
I mean, in my small world,
I can see assigned movie theatre seating going away.
People will want control over their physical distance.
So, to wrap things up, we talked about the stories
we'll be telling our kids
when we look back on March 2020.
[chiming] Sean:
that the amount of [indiscernible] was insane
people were drawing bananas on their stories
and people were screenshotting the banana,
draw in another banana, and just kept going and going.
I'm going to tell them that in the span of two days
everything was canceled, classes were taken online,
and I had to leave Canada to go back home to Nicaragua.
In this pandemic, instead of buying essential things,
like hand sanitizer and medicine,
we bought toilet paper.
[chiming]
I will never let my kids waste a roll of toilet paper.
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Anyways, there you have it.
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Stay safe, stay healthy and see you back here soon!
Myah, out! But still at home.
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