COVID food boxes in Brooklyn

In my places, people tell me that unfortunately people got used to that, and there are numerous messages on local mail lists – I have extra milk, who would like to take? Is this happening in other places or a local phenomenon? I don’t know who to blame – governments who just waste our money away or people who who have no problem taking.

A story: when I was dirt poor, a couple of housemates in similar circumstance invited me to go with them, to a place, they said, where you can get cheap fish. It was a long ride, and it turned out it was less than cheap – they were picking up leftovers from the floor at the wholesaler market … I did not know how to react without offending them. So, I bought myself a big box of (still cheap) fish and said that I am all set and will wait for them. They asked me to hold some of their stuff … Later on, when things became better, one of them recalled – remember when we took you to the wholesale market… somehow, we never ended up going there again …