This legacy media article highlights an outcome of the Corona Virus where certain foods have become expensive as people use them to boost immunity. The story is one illustration of the multiple, occasionally politicised narratives around COVID-19. One narrative emanates from official sources (e.g, government) which prescribe handling the disease as per particular protocols (e.g. wearing masks). Another narrative emanates from people's lived experience (e.g. a resident of a densely populated low-income urban area telling me his personal experience of buying raw ginger to eat even as he downplayed the virus) where people do what they need to do to survive (e.g. wearing masks when police are in the vicinity to avoid arrest) and doing what is within their ability to help them fight the disease (e.g. eat foods that are associated with better health, etc). The media article - which is one among many that speak about different aspects of the pandemic - serves to highlight one of these aspects.
