Practical generosity

Apparently a hoax

Heard on the radio that this is a test of the present generation.
Felt very pessimistic that people would step up to the mark. Reading this thread, I feel more optimistic, but haven’t heard of any particular altruism in my area yet, but I’m sure it must be quietly happening. It’s quite an urban area though. Should that make any difference?

Our village is also doing a community scheme

Have heard from washing machine delivery men that they are very busy as many people are buying extra fridge freezers so they can stockpile whatever they can get their hands on. Selfishness beyond comprehension. ???

Horrified to read today that residents in sheltered housing have been approached with offers to fetch shopping. The 'volunteers' have then disappeared with the cash - or worse - with card and pin!
Agree that handing cash toBranson and his ilk is not high on the list of priorities!

We have a group in our town of volunteers who will shop, clean or even just call you up for a chat. Posted on Nextdoor.

Do feel for the folk who cannot afford to buy even an extra tin of beans in their shopping. All this hoarding is just awful. My young neighbour saw me with a shopping bag yesterday and asked if I was going shopping. Said yes, just for a bread and veg. In the conversation she told me she had been buying in bulk for 3 weeks. There are 2 adults and one school child in the house. Obviously can afford to a great many can't and they are the ones who will miss out on essentials. Selfishness as never seen before. There are the others who will try to help others and they are to be commended. Unfortunately the selfish ones seem to outnumber the generous ones.

Here in Australia we aged pensioners are getting $750 each in the hopes that we will spend it & boost the economy
We are also getting a petrol voucher from the road authorities for $250
Fire recovery payments are filtering thro too

In contrast to Richard Branson who has in hand out.

The villages some of you live in sound lovely and so much kindness shown to people. What a shame the whole country is not acting in this way.

I am not surprised to find the OP is fake news (honestly reported on here of course). I think we must all just do what we can and just ride this out. Of course, people will be helpful where they can.

Tessagee there are recipes online so I presume he checked carefully; that would be the pure alcohol which is what is needed.
This will bring out the best in most people like that man, the worst in others, like those selling tiny bottles of hand gel online for £70!

Some lovely stories here, unfortunately lots rely on people being able to use the Internet.

I have one to add. A friend of mine who has school age children has posted on Facebook that she will feed any child who needs school meals if they are off school. She doesn't need to know them.

I saw the card system on SM and also a suggestion that if you need help you hang a ribbon, tea towel or something else from your front door so that people passing can see you need help. Don't know how to get that message to people not on SM though.

Well that's sad but I know the posts about local initiatives are genuine so let's hope there are lots more like that!

*Ronaldo

Apparently the Cristiano Ronald story is fake news.

www.goal.com/en/news/we-are-not-a-hospital-ronaldos-hotel-refutes-reports-of/1uu86xuomya761cry6d4dzjv8v

The owner of a local app development company is urging his 150 employees to go shopping for a vulnerable neighbour, spend £50 and submit an expenses claim.
He'll foot the bill!

Our local Nextdoor Neighbour site has offers of help for any one needing it at this time.
Christian Reynaldo’s offer seems a lot better than the bill from the private hospitals for the NHS to use their beds.

I can only pass on the lovely story about a small prducer of gin who had a lot of 90% stuff left over which he mixed with a quantity of aloe vera gel and passed to local nurseries and care homes for free to use as sanitizer. I'm assuming that he knew what proportion of each ingredient to use so that it was safe.

My town is already being proactive in helping people. The FoodBank has an excellent contingency plan in place, the local Spar shop has an army of volunteers ready to make deliveries, individuals are offering all kinds of help.

One of the best responses is from our local amateur photographers who give us daily reminders of the beauty that surrounds us.

Our village has put something on its website for help and assistance.

We have a very friendly and helpful village, which is fortunate as there are many older people living here.Most of our neighbours are of a similar age or older.
We are having Ocado deliveries, but family will help out if we need it.

Our village has set up a help scheme on a FB Page. Our postman put cards through all doors with contact details . If you need anything it can all be arranged.

Our baker, butcher, grocer, newsagent and chemist are all delivering free of charge too. We have even arranged a twice weekly phone call chat to any that live alone to check on them and just hear another voice.

I am so proud of the village and the care offered by many, many younger people for older residents.

My lovely neighbours know I have Bronchiectasis and have been self isolating for 2 weeks now.

They phoned yesterday to say they were going shopping did we want anything, what more can you want ?

It is up to me to behave in an appropriate manner to try and protect myself and whilst it cannot be an instruction if others try and do what they can to help those known to be in the 'High Risk' category that is the way to keep things ticking over to the best of our ability.

We have to be pragmatic.

Our town has started a coronavirus group.anyone who needs anything can msg on FB and it will be delivered ,its allsorts of
folk small businesses,nurses ,just jo public with a van and they're organising a card systen for people to put in their windows if their not online.