04-16-2021, 09:36 PM
(04-16-2021, 08:05 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(04-16-2021, 07:51 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: This one really ticks me off. Leaving aside the fact that it will be (not even could, WILL) be used to further oppress minority groups, all I need to do is say I'm going to go congregate indoor with no masks with hundreds of other parishioners at Trinity Bible Chapel and apparently I'll be fine. Police have already demonstrated they refuse to enforce the restrictions we have against certain groups (they have no problem going and ticketing student parties), so......what exactly is the point here?
I really doubt there will be many police stops, let alone tickets handed out. I believe this is included in order to get people to take the restrictions seriously, which has been a real issue. This threat might have at least some impact.
Because, a week into the stay-at-home order, the new cases are still rising rather than dropping: there is no indication so far that anything has improved with this stay-at-home order.
I dunno what impact it will have, give an ounce more credibility to the privilged whining about tyranny, give an ounce more fear to the minorities used to being persecuted. While WRPS has stated they will not be doing this, other police forces might actually do it, and that would be worse.
I understand where you are coming from, the data I've seen suggests that this order is not being effective. I lay that blame completely on Ford...the history of waffling, the muddied communication of this order. The failure to effectively communicate a vision. The whining and complaining about other governments, it's turned everyone off. Whether they are following the lockdown or not, they are not listening. That's leaving aside the problems with the actual policy which mean that I can go to church and sing in a crowd (10s a crowd right), but I cannot take my toddler to play in the damn park.
I don't know what the right action is NOW, I have no idea how you fix this, all I know that the lead up to this has been incompetent and almost intentionally so...if not for this action, as a general "we are out to prove governement is bad" philosophy of the conservative party.