Food Bank Queues

[allenlondon]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/01/growing-numbers-newly-hungry-forced-use-uk-food-banks-covid

Perhaps Answerbankers think people would swallow their pride and queue up outside Food banks just to get a free loaf.

[ladybirder]

Yes as I thought there are still plenty in a position to give.

[naomi24]

Mozz, //Whhere did you get that from Naomi?//

I got it from Nailit, Mozz - a worker at a Food Bank. He was told it’s an ‘occasional perk’ - although, to his credit, he felt guilty about taking it.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1621642.html

Allen, if there is any cheap point scoring here it’s coming from you - as usual. The reader could be forgiven for gaining the impression that altruism is solely your preserve. It never seems to occur to you that others do what they do - which is often rather more than you do - without feeling compelled to arrogantly blow their own trumpets and denigrate others in the process. Get over yourself.

[teacake44]

A lot of the giving to food banks comes from older/retired people who still have an income, the very ones that some on here think should be sacrificed to allow the young to do as they wish during the present situation. And the very ones that get accused of wanting lock down because they don't have to worry. Just go's to show that everyone needs everyone at times like this.

[windywillow]

"Yes we have met nasty folk, selfish folk, bullies, cheats and criminals". And that's just on AB!

(Sorry, my bad. I know it's a serious thread but I couldn't resist it. Will ask for its removal if it offends).

[Deskdiary]

Can we have an alternative to Godwin's Law?

Something along the lines of 'In any internet discussion on AB, how long will it be before Thatcher is blamed'

[naomi24]

Haha! Very good, Deskdiary. Thatcher's Law would be just as ridiculous.

[lankeela]

Well it took a while but gulliver also managed to mention Boris.

[Jackdaw33]

I agree. We'll call it Maggie's law.

[Peter Pedant]

// No business - no jobs. It’s not rocket science.//
we cd call it - - food science
anyway if Naomi can spell it out I despair of Dishy Rishy doing nowt

[gulliver1]

D/D 11.07 , How can a post about Poverty or even Greed go unoticed without mentioning Thatcher or the Nasty Tories.

[naomi24]

Gulliver dear, don't tell anyone but the first food banks in this country were set up on Labour's watch. Shhhhh....

[New Judge]

//A lot of the giving to food banks comes from older/retired people who still have an income, the very ones that some on here think should be sacrificed to allow the young to do as they wish during the present situation.//

Who on here has ever propounded that then?

//How can a post about Poverty or even Greed go unoticed without mentioning Thatcher or the Nasty Tories.//

I understand Atilla the Hun didn't major greatly on welfare either.

[Peter Pedant]

1967
The world's first food bank was St. Mary's Food Bank in Phoenix, Arizona, founded by John van Hengel in 1967. According to sociology professor Janet Poppendieck, hunger within the US was widely considered to be a solved problem until the mid-1960s.

history of food banks
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/short-history-food-banks-modern-phenomenon-1445071

a bit like History of tractor production in the Ukraine
still this is AB and someone asked

[Peter Pedant]

// Who on here has ever propounded that then?//

who indeed - release the list of shame !

[naomi24]

PP, //still this is AB and someone asked//

No one asked. Still, this is AB.

[gulliver1]

11.10 Lankee,if it upsets you , Report it .

[Mozz71]

//I got it from Nailit, Mozz - a worker at a Food Bank. He was told it’s an ‘occasional perk’ - although, to his credit, he felt guilty about taking it.//

Thanks Naomi. I never experienced it, but in fairness, I was only there a month.

[allenlondon]

Naomi. You were right and I was wrong. I should apologise. You are the greatest political thinker on Answerbank.

(Apologies to the Trotsky Telegram Joke).

A

[teacake44]

NJ@ 11.25 If you have little else to do, or at a loose end, feel free to scroll through all the posts over the last 8/9 months and I'm sure you will, well I know you will, come across many posts relating to the total disregard / value of older people, more than likely the same posters that accused others as getting Hysterical and hiding behind the sofa, then you had the ones that were sure that covid would all blow over in a couple of weeks. They say very little now.

[New Judge]

//NJ@ 11.25 If you have little else to do, or at a loose end, feel free to scroll through all the posts over the last 8/9 months..//

I have neither the time nor the inclination to do that. I've followed most of the Covid threads and I cannot recall any posts which suggested the elderly should be "sacrificed." You suggested there were such posts and unless you can find any I'll continue my belief that there were few, if any.

What you may find are some that suggest the vulnerable (who are not exclusively elderly) are the ones who should receive targeted protection to keep them safe (if indeed that's what they want). Then those not at risk of serious symptoms can get on with their lives (which for some of them will involve helping to provide the targeted protection needed by the vulnerable).

To expect those not vulnerable to developing serious symptoms to effectively put their lives on hold to protect the minority who are (and to pay for the mess thus created for the rest of their lives) is a step too far. But that view does not suggest the elderly should be "sacrificed" and I can't recall anybody suggesting such a thing.

I read quite a witty remark today. Mr Johnson is now, once again, forcing the population into hibernation (and businesses into bankruptcy) to "protect the NHS." The writer suggested that, had this been 1940, the Prime Minister would have grounded Fighter Command in order to "protect the Royal Air Force."