It’s a nice idea, but where can you get the products to distribute? It’s all been scarfed up by fearful hoarders.
In a way, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. People are told (and they believe without proof) that there is a shortage of toilet paper so when they go to the market and see it, it’s “OMIGOD, there are only 10 packages left, I better buy them all.”
The silliest shortage is on bottled water. This is normally an emergency supply – if there is a flood or earthquake or hurricane or other disaster where the water supply could be compromised. This is not the case now.
You can buy bottled water with food stamps. However, my wife is cautioning her “constituents” who depend on them to save their money for food.
My “big church” will not open (tentatively) for about another month. This means that one of our missions: having lunch with the homeless at the local park on Sunday isn’t happening.
My “little church” (I am associated with two churches – long story) used to have Tuesday night dinners. These were suspended. For a while they did “take out” for our food pantry but could not manage that safely. Now it is by delivery only. I am not sure we are getting to everyone.
My wife and I dropped off a bunch of diapers and baby wipes at the church on Saturday. The food pantry, which normally fills a large closet and has a variety of food, was down to a single table of canned vegetables.
It’s a nice idea, but where can you get the products to distribute? It’s all been scarfed up by fearful hoarders.
In a way, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. People are told (and they believe without proof) that there is a shortage of toilet paper so when they go to the market and see it, it’s “OMIGOD, there are only 10 packages left, I better buy them all.”
The silliest shortage is on bottled water. This is normally an emergency supply – if there is a flood or earthquake or hurricane or other disaster where the water supply could be compromised. This is not the case now.
You can buy bottled water with food stamps. However, my wife is cautioning her “constituents” who depend on them to save their money for food.
My “big church” will not open (tentatively) for about another month. This means that one of our missions: having lunch with the homeless at the local park on Sunday isn’t happening.
My “little church” (I am associated with two churches – long story) used to have Tuesday night dinners. These were suspended. For a while they did “take out” for our food pantry but could not manage that safely. Now it is by delivery only. I am not sure we are getting to everyone.
My wife and I dropped off a bunch of diapers and baby wipes at the church on Saturday. The food pantry, which normally fills a large closet and has a variety of food, was down to a single table of canned vegetables.