It is an old habit to view things that bring joy as inessential even though boredom is as serious as grief As the extraordinary lockdown of the nation continues, these are, according to India, Essential Things—maida , rice, sugar, milk, refined sunflower oils, bread, brown bread which is maida with a brown dye, and fruit juices which are sugar, chemicals and pulp.
Not only can you live for decades without these “essentials", you will be healthier, more beautiful and less likely to die in a pandemic if you avoid them.
One way or another, most essentials are a result of a planet-wide addiction to a drug called sugar. They are harmful, they are cheap as they are produced in large quantities because they are “essential" even when there is no