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Originally Posted by jayswin
It's not horrifying, it's human nature. There's very few non-NIMBY's in the entire world, but everyone points to NIMBY's and goes "You NIMBY!".
Is the overall negative reaction in this thread coming from people that live close and affected by it? It certainly feels that way a little and it's important to take that into consideration when evaluating their feelings on the issue.
I'm not judging or calling them out however, because I know exactly how quickly my feelings would change if they suddenly announced the daycare on the corner of our street was being converted to a safe injection site.
I'd be exactly like the posters in this thread that live close to the current one - Posting every article I could find, angrily stating how horrible it's been and calling for change.
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Maybe. I lived close to the DTES in Vancouver for a couple of years, and yes, it is stressful, but people need to look at the opioids crisis for what it is - a huge public health disaster.
The supervised injection sites actually take needles off the street and reduce infections and overdoses. It's a drop in the ocean to what needs to be done, but this is all representative of much larger socio-economic issues which a lot of the posters in this thread could spend a bit more time learning about.