Thread by @PaulDoroshenko

17 years ago I spent a lot of time at 222 Main Street Vancouver criminal court. I got sick. Pneumonia. It had long-lasting effects.
I just spent 2 days in court and all I could think was the risk to which we are all exposed. I am particularly concerned about the elderly.

Including my elderly colleagues and judges and my family.
In these circumstances it would be reasonable to refuse to go to work. As lawyers if we refuse to go, we face career changing discipline.
What’s more important? Your life, the lives of others or your career as a lawyer?

You can guess where I stand on that.
It’s time for the @BCProvCourt and @Dave_Eby to take action here. If this gets from a lawyer to a prisoner or a witness to a sheriff to a judge...
I don’t want to think about it. I sure as heck don’t want to give my life for a minor trial.

The job to think about this is not mine but surely it is the job of those who run our courts.
Look at Italy.
We should be cancelling all trials right now for at least 6 weeks I would think.
These are extraordinary circumstances.

My pneumonia, quite likely contracted at court, I then gave to my brother.
Sorry bro.
17 years on and we both still have regular night sweats. It’s a bit miserable. Might make me vulnerable.
I’ll die for some causes but I don’t want to die just to do my job.