Emergency stockpiles are a luxury that not everyone can afford | Letters

Keira Callaghan says being prepared should be a public health measure, not a privilege, and Chris Rotheram is experiencing prescription anxiety.

Plus five more letters in response to the Be Ready campaign The Be Ready campaign may offer sensible advice in principle ( Every Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advises, 22 October ), but as a midwife working in Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest boroughs in London, I can see first-hand that its practical recommendations risk excluding precisely those families who are already most vulnerable. For families living in a single room in a shared house, storing nine litres of…