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Originally Posted by Vin
One boarding in Toronto? (I said a couple doesn't count)Lol for a city almost 3 times the population more than ours, that is nothing. We are still right on top there. There are many restaurants and shops that are boarded up here. The fear among the business community is very real.
Aritzia, Hublot, SalaThai and quite a few other ones are boarded up too. I'm sure more will follow.
I'm sure those businesses in the shopping malls must be glad they made the best decision to open in them.
For those who constantly try to sugarcoat Vancouver:
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/downtown-vancouver-shops-boarded-up-break-ins-coronavirus
Don't you guys like how Club Monaco already has graffiti on its plywood? |
There's something seriously wrong with you.
You made a spurious claim that Vancouver was "probably the only city" doing this (which was a laughable claim on its face,....but....whatever), and then when challenged to prove this claim, you linked to a news source basically only confirming what we've already established (That certain brands are doing it in Vancouver) but not proving the claim that this is the only city where it's "probably" happening.
And the, under no obligation themselves to disprove your silly assertion, someone nonetheless does anyone pointing out that boarding up of certain stores is also happening in Toronto (which, logic would have told anyone was likely happening there as well as they have a higher infection rate and a more tighter social distancing restrictions, all on top of having a larger homeless population).
You then shift goalposts now demanding to be provided MULTIPLE examples (when you claim was originally intimating that we were the "only one" or "probably the only one").
So what if they're only "a couple" or one or two (brand boarding up)?
How does that mean they don't count when your assertion was that it wasn't happening at all anywhere else?
And who said that it has to be proportional to the respective population sizes?
Yes Vancouver has a more recent history with riots and destruction of public and retail property (following the Stanley Cup final), and that might play a large part into the thinking (and in some cases, irrational fear) of some of these retailers - especially given the fact that the majority of people who were rioting and destroying property and looting weren't in fact, homeless people, but the kind of "fine" "upstanding", wholesome-types who lived in and were brought up in homes.
That might factor into why the per capita number might be higher for retailers boarding up in Vancouver versus other big cities in Canada.
Nobody's trying to sugarcoat Vancouver.
We understand the situation as it currently is.
If you hate it so much here, why do you live here?
I'm not even native to this city and it boggles my mind that I would have to be the one to "defend" it or people from it or who live in it, when I don't really have a dog in the fights.
**gasp**
Oh no!!!
GRAFFITI?!?!?!?!
OH THE HORROR!!
OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
What Next!?!?!?!? Kids in goth gear and spiked hairstyles!?!?!?
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