Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:18 am
#1755418
I find some of the news I've read this morning really depressing.
Some chap, a headteacher, has posted on twitter 'shaming' the free school meal provision for kids at home while schools are closed.
He posts a picture of the food. Looks like the ingredients to make cheese sandwiches for a week, 5x crisps, 5x snack bar of some sort, 5x piece of fruit and (for some reason only) 2 yoghurts. He complains that it's 'shameful' for the £11 it costs the school.
Now it might not be what I'd want to eat every day, but it is enough food to give a school-age child lunch for a week and the nutritional choices aren't going to kill anyone in the short term. It's also relatively non-perishable and easy to manage logistically. If you add up the likely supermarket cost of the things in the photograph, it gets pretty close to £11. He's perhaps forgetting that neither butter nor cheese are particularly cheap, and the contractor is a business after all and not providing it at cost.
Now these are not normal times - this is a serious national crisis - and the complaint is that something being given to people for free is 'shameful'? How it is not good enough? Not nutritious enough? Not plentiful enough? Not nice enough? Well we might all like it to be a bit nicer, but this is a crisis, it's given out for free, and it's sufficient for what it needs to do.
The sense of entitlement some people seem to have leaves me amazed.
Additionally, The Guardian seem to have made a nice little habit of chatting to stressed-out healthcare professionals and getting them to make anonymous comments about how the shortage of PPE means they might consider quitting their jobs. Well, stone me, I think perhaps the DoH is aware of the shortage of PPE and is doing all it can about it, no? What are The Guardian trying to achieve by stirring like this? They certainly aren't helping.
Some chap, a headteacher, has posted on twitter 'shaming' the free school meal provision for kids at home while schools are closed.
He posts a picture of the food. Looks like the ingredients to make cheese sandwiches for a week, 5x crisps, 5x snack bar of some sort, 5x piece of fruit and (for some reason only) 2 yoghurts. He complains that it's 'shameful' for the £11 it costs the school.
Now it might not be what I'd want to eat every day, but it is enough food to give a school-age child lunch for a week and the nutritional choices aren't going to kill anyone in the short term. It's also relatively non-perishable and easy to manage logistically. If you add up the likely supermarket cost of the things in the photograph, it gets pretty close to £11. He's perhaps forgetting that neither butter nor cheese are particularly cheap, and the contractor is a business after all and not providing it at cost.
Now these are not normal times - this is a serious national crisis - and the complaint is that something being given to people for free is 'shameful'? How it is not good enough? Not nutritious enough? Not plentiful enough? Not nice enough? Well we might all like it to be a bit nicer, but this is a crisis, it's given out for free, and it's sufficient for what it needs to do.
The sense of entitlement some people seem to have leaves me amazed.
Additionally, The Guardian seem to have made a nice little habit of chatting to stressed-out healthcare professionals and getting them to make anonymous comments about how the shortage of PPE means they might consider quitting their jobs. Well, stone me, I think perhaps the DoH is aware of the shortage of PPE and is doing all it can about it, no? What are The Guardian trying to achieve by stirring like this? They certainly aren't helping.
Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.