@LenHazell53 My concern is that with the gutting of oil prices that, when and if the pandemic slows or ends, people will be buying even more massive SUV's.

My point exactly, I too have worked with the truly desperate, to see people in gas guzzlers, pleading poverty, while wearing $200 trainers and seeking charity with no inkling of how fortunate they actually are breaks my heart.
It is purely my opinion but the loss of a sense of priorities, in both the UK and USA is what has landed us both in the political mess that lead to the mishandling of this crisis.

I can relate. I have volunteered at a Food Bank and I have been a recipient and benefited from the Food Bank during my time of need, which wasn't that long ago. This is life. ANYBODY can have a situation which leads to a financial setback. Very humbling experience. I'm tearing up just thinking about it.

Skepticism is a good thing, but you yourself must be aware that there is genuine poverty and genuine need in your country, I am and I live on the other side of the world.
When middle class people in huge cars dressed in expensive clothes are queuing up like this burning fuel they had to pay for at massive outdoor charity events and claiming poverty you surely can draw a parallel with inner city getoes, internment camps for immigrants, genuine need, the actual poor your system of welfare and government have studiously ignored for decades and derided as unworthy?
You can see why I was so angry when I wrote my initial post last night?
I grew up in the industrial North of England in the mid 20th century and I saw and experienced poverty, I knew what it was to eat meat once a week, and fish once a week if we were lucky. I knew what it was to be forced to stay at the table and eat every scrap because the family could not afford waste and or fussiness.
In short I know what it was to actually go without and to be so used to hunger you don't notice it anymore.
In those days the only people to help you, where the others round about who were in the same position and who would spare what extra they had in the certain knowledge you would do the same for them when you had extra.
That is why I was angry.

@LenHazell53 While I can sympathize with your plight, IMO, emotion is not a good reason for "fake news".

The really needy do not own vehicles...they can barely afford to use public transport which has got really expensive, at least it has here in the UK. This is exactly the point that @LenHazell53 was trying to make...there is relative poverty and then there is REAL poverty, REALLY poor people do exist, they are just invisible to most people. The public have not been advised to use masks in the UK..in fact we have been told not use them, but to leave stocks for frontline staff in the NHS, because there is an insufficiency for medical staff and care workers. It does concern me that these people in the first photo are quite close to each other and can only assume that it was shot a week or two ago. I don’t think they will be allowed to queue like that now... in fact I know that the Foodbanks are asking for more volunteers to deliver the food parcels using their own vehicles.
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@FearlessFly If you really believe this is fake news, you are as foolish as your president

I can't speak for TX. I volunteer at The Food Group (a warehouse serving food banks all over the state). Their offerings are VERY nutritious.

Ironically, obesity is often a symptom of poverty.
Stores that sell fresh, nutritious foods don’t locate in areas of poverty, leaving people without transportation to shop at nearby convenience or “Dollar” stores that sell inexpensive junk foods.