Fancy Feast and Felix le Chat cat food

This is not an anecdote... When the war broke, people ransacked the Spinney's supermarket. Within the loot there was cat food, the people refused to believe it was so and ate it. So here we are, right now there is - not one but two cat food ads in town. The second of Felix - same idea, and same amount of display. One is about "show your love in different ways" the other "it's great to be a cat". My best is that the same company distributes both products.

Not even sure how to react to this. At a time when Lebanese can barely feed themselves, when 60% of the population is below the poverty line, have 2 ads for cat food is - not sure what the word is here. Again, I might be judging this very uppity or whatever, but it does make one think.

On prayer and Coronavirus (and owning cats)

Before I begin: There is nothing wrong with people praying for the Coronavirus to go away.
But here's a story I've been told:
In a small village parish in Mount Lebanon, a woman goes to the priest and asks for him to pray for her because she's got mice in her house. "Well, lady, I will pray for you, but there's nothing wrong with owning a cat!".
Which brings us to the many people imploring the Christian Maronite Saint Charbel, or the Shiite holy figure Imam Ali (I am not sure what other sects or denominations are imploring) to help them rid of the problem. Once more, I have no issue with that, but there's "nothing wrong with owning a cat" - meaning staying indoors amid the curfew to "flatten the curve" of the disease and stop it from spreading further etc... Naturally, it looks as if I am negating the power of prayer, to me "if it works for you, great, but please wash your hands and stay at a considerable distance from me". As someone who is diabetic, I don't need further complications, so prayer or no prayer, you can catch me at home. Better yet, don't catch me there, we will meet once all this is over or at least more calm.