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Originally Posted by Bonded
First, I don't think anyone likes the way things are. That is why people should follow the rules so that we can hopefully exit this crap sooner. The more selfish people are the longer this will drag on.
Second, what the hell does Covid have to do with safe injection sites? Should the government completely suspend chemo treatments as well?
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That's how I see it too. It's very disappointing and frustrating that we have reached this stage with the pandemic considering how much information we had six months ago about the chance of a second wave. The current circumstances were avoidable, but there hasn't been a sufficient collective effort to crush it. Wishy washy guidelines and unclear communications have been part of that. Another part has been people who are uninterested in putting the community interests before their own interests or just haven't taken it very seriously. It makes me sad to see many people really struggling to get through this when we could have been in a very different situation already if there had been a stronger collective effort earlier on.
I greatly favor the option of short-term pain and sacrifice to minimize long-term pain and sustained suffering.
I really dislike what appears in some ways to have been a fatalistic approach towards the virus, like thinking that these things come in waves, so we just need to accept that there will be a second wave instead of prioritizing being collectively proactive to avoid it altogether.