Insensitive to poor’s plight at this time

I would like to express my disappointment with Rina Jimenez David’s column, “The ‘icon’ of mass panic” (3/18/20).

I admire and am an avid reader of Ms David. However, she should have known better than to admit to—much less brag about—hoarding toilet paper. We are now living through an intensely emotional environment, where the insensitivity of upper- and middle-class citizens to the plight of the urban poor, whose survival must be fought on a daily basis, is called out every minute in social media.

When she wrote “I felt like I had just won a trophy” as a reaction to her husband bringing home a load of toilet paper, I felt like that was the height of insensitivity, given the constant stream of images of our kababayan battling for PUV rides just to get to work so that their family can have food for that day.

What was she thinking?

GERRY C. LINCO,

gerry_linco@yahoo.com