Looting prevention; The McDonald's at Pender/Abbott is boarded up as are some stores in Gastown on Water St. Sad/scary that retailers are preparing/fearing so such a scenario
I think that the imminent exhaustion of the supply of illegal drugs in Vancouver, coupled with practically nobody on the street to panhandle from and no stores open to steal from, and everyone at home making B&Es difficult, is going to collectively result in some extraordinarily aggressive addicts detoxing in public in real time. It's has the potential to be apocalyptic in the DTES in the coming days and weeks. Boarding up stores isn't terribly surprising, but will be a jarring sign of the times.
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I think that the imminent exhaustion of the supply of illegal drugs in Vancouver, coupled with practically nobody on the street to panhandle from and no stores open to steal from, and everyone at home making B&Es difficult, is going to collectively result in some extraordinarily aggressive addicts detoxing in public in real time. It's has the potential to be apocalyptic in the DTES in the coming days and weeks. Boarding up stores isn't terribly surprising, but will be a jarring sign of the times.
When these guys detox in the streets, it will really show the consequences of shutting down Riverview back in the 80's (without any alternative housing for them).
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I've been watching American news and a lot of the shots they show of abandoned downtowns show storefronts boarded up while everything is closed down. Not too surprised to see it happening here.
Retail Insider posted pics of Toronto`s Bloor Street -
Dior also boarded up their store there as well, and most of the other stores had emptied out their stock.
City full of people with lousy civic mentality, and a judicial system that's too soft on crime. Discounting American cities, Vancouver is probably the only city that is boarding up the shops during the quarantine period. How embarrassing.
When these guys detox in the streets, it will really show the consequences of shutting down Riverview back in the 80's (without any alternative housing for them).
If they all detoxed earlier, there wouldn't be a Downtown Eastside today, so I say, "GOOD!" in regards to their drug supply being cut off.
City full of people with lousy civic mentality, and a judicial system that's too soft on crime. Discounting American cities, Vancouver is probably the only city that is boarding up the shops during the quarantine period. How embarrassing.
Citation?
(...for Vancouver being the "only" city)
Because off the top of my head I can easily think of at least two other cities (out East) where store owners are probably boarding up too.
On account of how they also have large homeless populations and have been harder hit by this coronavirus crisis (at least in Canada).
If they all detoxed earlier, there wouldn't be a Downtown Eastside today, so I say, "GOOD!" in regards to their drug supply being cut off.
If they all detox involuntarily because they can't get drugs, many of them will need urgent hospital care. That's the last thing the health authorities need to happen right now. The numbers in hospitals and ICUs with coronavirus is going up every day. If they get coronavirus, and don't have the drugs they're addicted to, they're going to be spreading it all over the city they live in, looking for drugs, without caring about social distancing. And that isn't just in the DTES, or Vancouver, it's in Surrey and Maple Ridge and Nelson etc. etc.
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