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Just a reminder that donating cash and raising cash for food banks and places like that can be really helpful too so that they can purchase things they otherwise might not be able to accept. I know this is case-by-case but they might also get better deals on food as well.
These are incredible resources, thank you.
This, from what I remember reading cash goes a lot further for them anyway, as you said they tend to get much better deals from local wholesalers compared to what you will buying from a supermarket, although obviously whatever you can do is good and if that's giving food from what you have or have brought then that's cool, but don't buy extra to give if you can give the cash instead as you are basically just paying the supermarket a cut of your donation.
I was very tangentially involved in a big stride with housing towards the beginning of the pandemic in my city, and now we have semi-permanent structures built on a lot with 50 people staying there and volunteers making a big dinner every night. One of the key components was a nice dude with an empty industrial lot though, that's not always easy to find.
Getting involved with outreach to the elderly, even for a couple of hours, would be really appreciated, wherever you are.
We have a system locally where isolated elderly folks are assigned a younger volunteer to collect their groceries and maybe a couple of other errands. It's real easy , I just get my assignee's order when I'm doing my own shopping. Delivery only takes about 15 minutes of socially distant shouting about how it's no trouble :) Some interesting conversations about how unions were back in the day too.
even then material impact means more than superstructure just look at coal miner and gay/queer solidarity in UK. who knows if enough out group people violate their heuristic they may have to reshape their heuristic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbians_and_Gays_Support_the_Miners
link to wikipedia about the affair.
Yep. Intergenerational contact has been pretty much removed from a lot of peoples lives. It's a big component of the current polarisation. The brainworms wouldn't be so advanced in so many seniors if we made a deliberate effort to mantain a more regular contact tbh.
