New efforts to combat food insecurity
in NYC amid COVID-19 outbreak
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
by
Katie Corrado
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
5/4/2020 12:15:02 PM
New York City is dealing with a crisis within a crisis as nearly two million people—a quarter of the population—will face food insecurity during the COVID-19 outbreak. Food pantries can't keep up the pace, and the city is scrambling to meet demand. “There's a lot of New Yorkers who now have to ask a question they never thought they'd ask. And that question is, where's my next meal coming from?” Mayor Bill de Blasio asked. Many of those New Yorkers are middle and working class, who just a few weeks ago, never had to question where their next meal would come from.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 5/4/2020 12:22:55 PM (No. 400452)
Ah, the old Soviet style public stores. Plenty of food and goods if you can find them. Venezuelan diet anyone? Comrade Mr. Bill should feel at home. Bernie should be wetting himself - bread lines, food lines, soup kitchens for everyone. A true soviet state. Well done Mr. Bill, Well done Andrew. You sure look out for your citizens.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/4/2020 12:29:34 PM (No. 400456)
I have plenty of food. However, I am experiencing severe income insecurity. Unfortunately, I am not a multi-national corporation and don't qualify for any of those wonderful "loans" they want to make so right now I have to get by on unemployment, which hasn't started yet and Social Security. I will survive. We are one day closer to this thing getting over with.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TLCary 5/4/2020 12:33:31 PM (No. 400462)
They equate the free food giveaway warehouse levels to 'food insecurity'. To avoid paying at a grocery store with your hard earned money, stimulus check, welfare check, food stamps, etc... you can 'attest' to making less than $25,520 a year (in what ever language the country you are a citizen likes to use) and keep that cash for "other things". No documentation required, (especially for the undocumented). Once they truly crash the economy we will all be facing REAL food insecurity without option "B" (pay for it).
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 5/4/2020 12:44:07 PM (No. 400477)
And THIS is the ultimate control. Komrade DeBozo really wants to control the people entirely.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/4/2020 12:50:08 PM (No. 400491)
Mayor Duh Blasio says " Many New Yorkers are wondering where their next meal is coming from. Luckily it's not me, or Mike, or Hillary, or the other people who count." Stay home folks. You can always cook the dog.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 5/4/2020 12:51:46 PM (No. 400494)
Wait, didn’t an ex NYC mayor and Democrat POTUS candidate proclaim farming to be something done by idiots? Didn’t the city slickers know better?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
edgar 5/4/2020 1:00:26 PM (No. 400512)
Food Insecurity = liberal nomenclature that I refuse to use. George Carlin would have fun with this term.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 5/4/2020 1:23:45 PM (No. 400544)
If the media would keep from hyping everything in sight we wouldn't have runs on stuff because people hoard...like toilet paper, I still haven't figured out why the run (no pun intended) on TP ....the virus doesn't give you the hot trots..now it's meat...no shortage in our store, even with Smithfield shut down, whats next? I can understand bread and milk if a blizzard is coming...
But people, you may poo pooh 'survivalists', but they will keep eating when the shelves are empty...I've still got stuff from back in 2000 and it's still good. Good solid freeze dried..not MRE's....and cans go way past their best buy date if they aren't leaking or swollen...
Get educated....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/4/2020 1:26:17 PM (No. 400550)
“Food insecurity” was a Moochism for the areas where the poor and minorities live, where there are fewer stores. And we know why. Those were the stores that some were inclined to use to get free groceries by picking them up and walking straight out the door.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 5/4/2020 2:31:18 PM (No. 400632)
#2 You get unemployment? Must be nice!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/4/2020 3:42:36 PM (No. 400689)
Right on Poster #8. It's tough living in a rural area, with wood to burn, meat and veggies to eat but without the wonderful broadway shows and overpriced restaurants. In another hour or two, when the better half is back from visiting friends, we can go sit out on the patio while a nice piece of meat cooks on the grill, have a couple of drinks (wine in the wifes case) and feel sorry for ourselves.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/4/2020 3:56:07 PM (No. 400700)
I'm with you #8 but I bet you don't have one of tose smart phone app things. Maybe the New York coding IT geniuses can Google up a nice T-Bone.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 5/4/2020 4:37:58 PM (No. 400738)
"Food insecurity".....when there are buckets of food stamps being handed out to LOTS of undeserving folks.
I am skeptical. Totally skeptical.
Perhaps shortages in these times, perhaps. But in normal times? No, I don't believe them.
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Wait. What was the program Wilhem's wife got all that money for ? There is so much free food in this area. Guess where it goes ?
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