After a night caring for Covid-19 patients, the last thing you need is a half-masked jerk on the Orange Line

What the hell is wrong with people that we (a) need a mandate to do an obviously decent and compassionate thing for our neighbors that costs us pretty much nothing, and (b) need the threat of force to enforce such a mandate.

We claim to be a civilization, not a pack of god damned savages.

But not wearing a mask is an aggressive move too. As is double and triple parking. Yelling at and threatening someone who is just doing their job. Bullies getting what they want is why they're increasing.

Sometimes you need to stand up for yourself or for what is right.

Is an aggressive move.

Pull your head out of your copspace = video is NOT a weapon, honey.

I saw one hockey fan who was "gagging" (like sagging, but with the face butt hanging out) headed onto a train in Montreal and he was immediately stopped by Metro personnel and told to pull it up.

Of course it would help if Charlie would stop trying to drown the T in a bathtub.

for the couple you describe is creditable; less so is your lack of it for someone who spends the night caring for Covid-19 patients, and then has to ride home with people who refuse to inconvenience themselves to avoid providing her with more of them.

I thought about the people are getting upset about maskless people on the T meanwhile people like this couple have things so much worse in life.

No offense, but these false choices drive me nuts. I get that these people were in a bad state, but we're in a GLOBAL PANDEMIC. We don't let people get off of speeding tickets because they had something else happen in their lives. Why should we think this is permissible? I'm not saying riders should have to enforce. We need more transit officers at stations & on trains.

Your couple = on drugs. Classic sign of opiate abuse or methadone + a benzi (i.e. Xanax). (the benzi removes the block from the methadone so you get high from it, as told to me by local PD)

If I had a dollar for every time I've seen that in the last 10 years... I wouldn't need to ride the T anymore cuz I'd own a Mercedes.

Its sad to watch, and yes it's drugs. This isn't tired, I've seen (and been) that tired, but to be sliding all over the seat like you're rubber.. that's not tired. That's drugs. When you can't even grip on your cell phone while you slide all over the place.. that's not tired. That's drugs.

And the thing is, I see this all the time so I know its drugs. Plus when I see them on the 111, a good chunk of the time they are 'en route' to their connection, and are usually in a phone call or texting frenzy in between nodding off. And when you're that messed up, discretion isn't your best attribute right then. (read: they are pretty obvious they are high & going to do a pick up by who they are talking to)

So yeah.. it was drugs. So thats probably why no masks either. I find most of these folks.. even if they do have one on, they are so out of it, they don't realize its been pushed up or down or even that its needed.

Consider another example of a couple wasted on drugs engaging in a different behavior that increases the risk to others. Let's say that instead of sitting unmasked on a train they were stumbling around a parking lot trying to get into their car to drive home. Could one still make the argument that "giving them a hard time" (i.e., stopping them from getting into their car and driving), when, arguably, they had no other way to get home on a cold wet night, shows a lack of compassion?

Yes, the level of risk to the public is grossly different in the two scenarios. The point is that being wasted probably shouldn't give anyone a pass on public safety rules.

The vaccination check and the rapid testing?