Government helps supermarkets target deliveries to vulnerable shoppers

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around here help is clearly not happening and people are becoming freaky and upset. it took me 2 weeks just to get a online delivery and still have another week and bit to wait. what is said and what is happening seem to be 2 different things.
 
mikeyB said:
Nope - no mutual aid in the Ribble Valley. No surprise at all. I attempted the government database register thing, but like the notorious PIP form, doesn’t ask the right questions. Needless to say, for sure I’m so disabled I can’t access a supermarket, but I’m at no greater risk of suffering complications from coronavirus as the next person.

There are several letters in today’s Guardian on this same subject, with the same complaint. The government does have another database - those on higher rate mobility PIP. Of course it is a larger, different group, but who find it just as difficult to access supermarkets. That includes folk with disabling mental conditions.

So those of you using online grocery shopping just because you can’t be bothered queuing, or because you have the erroneous belief that you are at greater risk because of diabetes, or are just lazy, then get off your arses and go shopping. I use online shopping because I don’t have a choice, and haven’t had for three years. Now I find delivery slots are an endangered species. My life is getting squeezed out by healthy people.

Don’t worry, it’s an orphan disease that puts me in a wheelchair, I don’t mind being a pariah, it has a certain cachet.
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I am going to email my MP to raise my concerns about those in your situation. I've no doubt she is overwhelmed at the moment but I did get a response last week within a couple of days on a similar matter. Every little helps!
Beside, I will miss your witty and sometimes sharp comments if you were to perish by starvation:D
 
Don’t worry about me, I could do with losing a bit of weight:D
 
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