The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

Data error means Ontario reports just 1,009 new COVID-19 cases, almost half in Toronto: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/da...r-BB1bjNy8

Meanwhile in Toronto, rednecks defy indoor dining ban in order to cram themselves into a BBQ joint run by a conspiracy theorist to super spread the virus and listen to country music: https://twitter.com/jpags/status/1331256737442242562

I am not sure what you mean by "Rednecks".... and you make it sound like it is wrong  to listen to country music?  You choose to use your unconscious bias to see it one way.  What about this view point.  A desperate business owner watching his livelihood disappear in front of him with no ability to pay back his debt without claiming bankruptcy. Perhaps he has a family at home to feed and is scared he doesn't know how he will do it now...  I don't know this is the case, I am saying perhaps we shouldn't be so quick to judge.

Maybe read a bit, he is none of those things, he is angry about the "freedom" not about his livelihood.

Not ticketing him is sickening in the face of the protestors arrested in Ottawa, and worse, the threat of legal action against the carpenter making housing for the homeless.

Honestly, the police are really aiming to maximize their bad optics here...

But police bad actors aside, I'm done treating assholes with kid gloves. It's time to treat them the way we've treated marginalized people for centuries.  The way we pretend we treat all bad people.

By far the most disappointing thing to learn as an adult is that it matters less what you do, and more who you are and who you know, when it comes to what consequences you face to committing crimes. And if you think that is an unkind thing to say, you're right, it is, lets make it untrue rather than shooting the messenger.