It’s not the shortages we should be worried about…

Nearly 3 years ago, Qatar was placed under embargo by it’s neighbours and panic-buying customers managed to clear the supermarket shelves within three days. Fortunately 40,000 imported dairy cows saved us from a milk shortage. This week British supermarkets have struggled to cope with panic-buying and yesterday my daughter’s asthmatic friend was excluded from her maths class for coughing. Are prejudice and panic really the lessons we want our children to learn?