Submitted on Sunday 15th March 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 25th March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce financial penalties for those found hoarding food/necessities
Introduce financial penalties issued by the court’s for those found guilty of hoarding, impulse buying or excessively collecting staple foods and other health necessities (toilet roll, medicine, hand sanitiser etc.) in time of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The excessive buying of necessities such as food and sanitary products in the wake of the Cobos-19 pandemic has left supermarket shelves barren across the nation.
We have a duty to care for the vulnerable in society, those financially less fortunate and the elderly to name, who rely on access to cheap products to survive.
The hoarding of these items in a time of pandemic is unjust. A legal penalty whilst WHO recognise the outbreak as a pandemic is to act as a deterrent for hoarding supplies.
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