Rich not helping

Re: “Covid crisis compounds new school-term woes”, (BP, July 2).

Reading the story of the woman caught stealing school uniforms for her children, who would not be touched by the human kindness of the other shoppers in the store who banded together to help the poor woman from their own meagre pockets? It reminds us that when faced with their immediate distress, the natural impulse of ordinary people in Thailand as everywhere else is to help those in need.

My immediate thought was that it is perhaps time to abolish uniforms when they cause such needless misery. The second series of thoughts were: Why has the Thai government failed to help this family and the many others like them in desperate need due to the Covid emergency? Why are the rich of Thailand not asking, not demanding, to be taxed far more to help their fellow Thais in need?

FELIX QUI