Originally Posted by JDMDreams (Post 9022305)

^ desperate times calls for desperate measures.

Originally Posted by Hondaracer (Post 9022304)

If they started setting up fucking road blocks that’s when I start having house parties. Fuck that noise.

Originally Posted by Ch28 (Post 9022309)

This is the type of mentality that has allowed this shit to persist for over a year.

"The government isn't doing enough!"

"The government is doing too much!!"

Everyone needs to think about that for a second and decide where they lie in all of this.

Originally Posted by Hondaracer (Post 9022313)

When the govt. is setting up road blocks to prevent you from going to properties you own. That’s when you can start making the Nazi comparison.

But hey, my Rec got broken into and destroyed but ya know, better not drive that 3 hours because I may come in contact with those 0.0025 people with covid.

Just willingly giving up rights and freedoms to a government who’s basically just throwing shit on the wall to see what sticks? No thanks.

Originally Posted by MarkyMark (Post 9022310)

Let's just shut everything down, and the people who WFH can have their wages garnished and spread out evenly among everyone who can't so we're actually all in this together.

Originally Posted by Great68 (Post 9022325)

So, like Taxes?

Originally Posted by The Producer (Post 9022333)

bro, i don't hate anybody. I don't pity or laugh any anybody either.

there are people putting their health on the line to keep their careers and communities going.

there are people who got sent home last year, who simply aren't facing health, or financial hardships.

both those groups of people want to talk about how tough the last year has been. the second group, for better or for worse have not had it as tough as the first group.

i guess i'm just tired of hearing about how challenging it is to be stuck at home, or how brutal it is that the gym is closed or some shit.

i apologize if I have come across as condescending towards office workers. I have several folks that fit that description in my life. I guess I am a little jealous too. I can promise you though if I was the one at home I would be keeping my head down and my opinions to myself, especially around people that i know are getting kicked in the gut already.

These business closures are a raw subject, and it's possible that it's unrelatable for folks that simply aren't affected by it.

Originally Posted by underscore (Post 9022334)

I must've missed where everyone who is WFH hasn't taken any financial hit. Our household income has been dropping for 10 months now and is currently about 35% of what it was a year ago. Currently on track for me to be unemployed and down to 15% within the next 4. Just because someone's not getting fucked in the exact same way as you don't mean they're they cause of your problems or that they aren't getting fucked as well.

Originally Posted by The Producer (Post 9022266)

this isn't about grocery stores vs restaurants. obviously one is essential and one is not. the point is that one industry is getting used and manipulated by the government as a means of communication and control of the masses. I don't think any restaurant owners, or the 10's of 1000s of restaurant workers signed up to be the carrot on the stick. all along we've had a little line let out, then some taken back, then a little more out, and now within sight of the finish line we're being reigned in hard one more time.

we're not doing what we're told by mom and dad, so once again they are taking away our favourite toys. the easiest and most direct way to do that, that has the greatest impact on the segment of the population they want to correct the behaviour of, is to shut down the restaurant industry. Everyone either is in it, directly knows people that are in it, or frequent it. Horgan literally told us there would be consequences for bad behaviour on friday and here we are on monday, getting lectured and ultimately grounded.

my issue is, and always has been, that they are disingenuous about it. Show me the data, show me what specifically you hope to accomplish here. Stop talking with your hands and discussing "finding a balance". True balance and fairness would be to take the legs out from under a different industry this time to get the message across, instead of continually wiping out hospitality. Trouble is I can't think of any others that would work almost universally.

My final plea. I feel like I've done this every few months. Pleas stop only thinking about "the numbers" and start having some fucking compassion for people who's lives get thrown upside down every time this happens. Anybody anywhere that's glad they've closed the restaurants and the mountains and any other employer, are the selfish ones in the province. Your fellow citizens are getting screwed, and it's not right.

Originally Posted by Hondaracer (Post 9022345)

You know what beats variants? Vaccines.