I can't go fishing in my boat but I can stand in a line up for almost 2 hours at a government place for a driver's license watching all the fighting because it taken so long and across the street bigger lineup for the liqueur store
I'm not mad with what you posted. Not upset in any way. I get it, and to be honest, I think we all do.
I know some people who may read this will probably dislike it, and I have a fairly good idea who those people might be. I also know some others who may read this and not respond, and others yet who might read it and like what I've said.
I want to go fishing just as bad as anyone else on this forum and because I never do the ice fishing thing and hibernate from October to April, (you know hockey season) We all want to get out. NOW (within the next week) is when I usually make my first trip of the season. (May 5th has been my first trip for the past 2 seasons)
Given the lake didn't really freeze this year, I have a theory that things might start a little earlier this year, so I had considered going a week or so earlier than I normally would. Then all this happened and put an end to that in a hurry. Then they closed the beach and the pier and any thoughts of going fishing until they loosen these restrictions and reopen the beach and pier went away with those closings. My first trips are always to the pier in Pt Bruce. In fact until I met certain people through this forum who have taken me out in their boats, which I have greatly appreciated, ALL my fishing was done from that pier. I don't own a boat and I can't bush wack or stand on a river bank, so I can't go fishing either until they loosen the restrictions and start to reopen things including the beach and the pier. Bitching about it isn't going to do me any good, or change that, so what's the point in bitching about something I can't change?
Things are already getting nasty. Earlier this week when I was in line at No Frills close to home, I was told that apparently a little over a week ago someone went to that same No Frills, didn't want to wait in the line, forced their way through and into the store, caused some damage, and then assaulted one of the workers (by spitting on them). There have been news reports of such things happening elsewhere across the country as well.
When this all started and things started being closed, I made a post about the liquor stores being deemed essential and allowed to remain open. In that post I said I thought it was a mistake, that the purchasing of alcohol was not an essential and that they should not have been deemed essential and almost everyone jumped all over me for it, including people in my own family. I was told I was wrong, and being insensitive to those who are alcoholics who "need" that alcohol so as not to overwhelm the health care system with an influx of withdrawal symptoms and cases. (It was pointed out to me later and something I hadn't thought of at that time, that you can still get alcohol at most grocery stores, some convenience stores and walmart, and an alcoholic while yes they may have their preferences, if they have too, some alcoholics will drink anything with alcohol in it, hence why in the NWT things like scope, listerine etc with alcohol in it are NOT put openly on the shelves. They're kept behind the counters under lock and key)
At that time I also made mention of the pot shops and how they should have been closed to recreational pot use as well. I took a lot of heat about that too, some citing the prescription pot usage, which was NOT what I was talking about. I was making reference to ONLY recreational pot use and made that clear in both the original post and subsequent posts in response to what others had said. Nobody wanted to acknowledge that I had been very clear about that. Because they disagreed with me, I was wrong.
A few weeks later, the gov't shut down the pot shops and strangely enough, there was very little to no opposition to those closings when that happened. But I was wrong and belittled for what I had said a couple weeks earlier.
Now a month or so later many people are bitching and complaining about liquor stores being open when so many other things that "should be open," are not. What changed? Nothing really from then to now, other than its a month later and everyone is going stir crazy wanting things to go back to "normal."
Normal is going to be different once this is over and it's not going to end in the foreseeable near future. They told us that when this all started, and they're still telling us that now. The sooner we all accept that life as we knew it IS going to be changed by all of this, whether we like it or not, the better. We're ll going to have to adapt. Some people just don't want to do that though.
We ALL want things to go back to what they were, or as close to it as possible. Many are losing their patience and don't want to wait any longer. Some for financial reasons, others because they're bored stiff and just want to get out of the house to do something, anything to break the monotony, and others yet simply because they don't believe ANY of this should have happened. Well, it did and wishing it away, and bitching about it isn't going to make it go away any sooner. It is what it is, and they are starting to talk about reopening. That's a good thing and it should be seen as being a good thing.
Is it happening as soon as we may want it too? Nope, but we shouldn't expect that either. Consider this. WE know mistakes have been made in the initial response. WE know mistakes have been made since. If we know that don't think for one minute that those making these decisions don't know it too. Don't think for one minute that because we know it and so do they, that they aren't going to be extremely cautious when they do start to reopen things.
They don't want to make the same kind of mistakes, (or new ones) as they loosen the restrictions and start reopening things because the last thing they want to do is loosen or end all these restrictions, only to have to tighten them again, or worse put them fully in place again because they made yet another mistake and things suddenly get perhaps worse than they are now. They also know at all levels, in the next election, they will be held accountable for these decisions, right or wrong and the mistakes that have been made will be held against them.
