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andrewducker) wrote2020-03-25 05:03 pm
andrewducker) wrote2020-03-25 05:03 pm
The bureaucracy is...not great
At the moment you basically can't get home deliveries from shops unless you're "vulnerable".
If you phone Sainsbury to register yourself as vulnerable (Jane counts, as she's pregnant) they say to register with Gov.UK.
So I go there, where there's nothing obvious, but some wandering about leads me to this page where you can register. Yay!
Except...only in England. The link for Scotland leads to this page. Which doesn't allow you to register for anything!
The risk for pregnancy isn't actually any higher, but I have friends who are actively immunocompromised, and they're in the same situation of not being able to register.
This is not ok.
If you phone Sainsbury to register yourself as vulnerable (Jane counts, as she's pregnant) they say to register with Gov.UK.
So I go there, where there's nothing obvious, but some wandering about leads me to this page where you can register. Yay!
Except...only in England. The link for Scotland leads to this page. Which doesn't allow you to register for anything!
The risk for pregnancy isn't actually any higher, but I have friends who are actively immunocompromised, and they're in the same situation of not being able to register.
This is not ok.
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https://www.morrisons.com/food-boxes/how-it-works might also be useful - again, they can't cater specifically for allergies but there should be more there that Jane can eat. We have some GF and sugar-free things, let us know if there's stuff you're short of and we could put it outside for you to pick up if you can drive/walk over?
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(But I'm concerned about the people being failed by the system, so hopefully they'll get their act together soon)