Northern Light
Superstar
Then there are other crises that have been all but ignored, such as the very real and very dangerous opioid crisis. In British Columbia, more people have died from opioid-related incidents since the start of the plague than have died from the plague.
Where is your outcry in that regard? Your righteous indignation?
Nowhere, because you feel it doesn't affect you directly. Or doesn't have the potential for affecting you.
In point of fact, I have raised this issue, just not in that particular post.
But I get where your coming from, many others have not.
Indeed, there is incredible harm; in our society not only from secondary effects of our actions (or inactions) in fighting the pandemic; but also in seeing those many areas where society was already in crisis pre-pandemic getting shoved to the proverbial back burner.
It not only speaks to the risks of myopia/tunnel vision; but also to the inability of some in government and society to 'walk and chew gum at the same time'
ie. Taking proper action to combat the pandemic does not preclude actions on other fronts at the same time.
Take a look this story from November; in which lines of thousands of cars formed to get free food before U.S. Thanksgiving.
Very few people would bother with that if not desperately in need of food.
![www.cnn.com](https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201115184110-01-dallas-food-bank-1114-super-tease.jpg)
Thousands of cars form lines to collect food in Texas
Thousands of people lined up for groceries at a food bank distribution event in Dallas, Texas, this weekend, with organizers saying the Covid-19 pandemic has increased need in the city.
![www.cnn.com](https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/misc/apple-touch-icon.png)