"...a Halloween costume crisis."

On some level, I believe our whole society functions on "crisis" mode--but sometimes we really lose sight of what a real crisis is.  Murdered and missing women?  Not when74% of the murdered and missing indigenous are men; Oh, and the west coast opiod OD "crisis."?  Now, wait: I'm not comparing loss of life with the loss of Halloween costume choice, but...well, heck, B.C. (population 4.6 million) just might rack up 1,500 OD deaths by the end of the year. Crisis?  Well, yeah, if numbers mean anything, but not the O.D.s.  The REAL health crisis is cancer deaths: close to 10,000 in 2015 alone.  Heart disease: over 6,000. Stroke deaths: another 6,000. In one year!

A real Vancouver health crisis occurred between June 1918-June 1919. Only 1,174 died from this one disease--the Spanish flu. Back in the day, that represented 1% of the city's population. In today's terms: 46,000.

We've got plenty of real crisis...If we only can figure out what they are.