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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
I'm jaded against Farkas but this strikes me as performative bull####. An emergency meeting would be wasteful and counterproductive. What value can the mayor/councillors provide at this stage? At least its not a climate emergency or something. This never would have happened if they dealt with the flag raisings more urgently.
The potential loss of life for the motorists caught in this situation is certainly concerning, but no more concerning than the 35 funerals this year caused by the crisis on our roads (nevermind thousands of injuries). Now that's something that would have been worth an emergency meeting where city council could actually make an immediate and dramatic difference. But I suppose we should just tell the orphans and widows out there to be thankful if they aren't having to boil water right now. Such pain. Such tragedy.
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To clear the confusion and side discussion on this, perhaps people should just read his original post again, above. He's just pointing out the difference in response between a risk of harm for drivers and boiling water vs the lack of action and emergency around actual preventable predictable deaths.