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I'm not even remotely surprised by this.
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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I'm not even remotely surprised by this.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Why shocking? Seems pretty obvious that your employment = income level = place you can afford to live, and the lowest paid jobs are manual labour that can't be performed from home. A few surgeons won't affect the overall trend line.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
There's some intersting discussion on the economic ramifications of this on re- location of expenditure from City centres to suburbs as well
Five charts that reveal how remote working could change the UK
A new economic model of how remote working is developing reveals some interesting results.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Shocking as in the most deprived areas already suffer from huge health inequality , large numbers having to go to work in those areas face a higher level of risk from covid and present in their neighbourhoods a higher risk of infecting others.
I would say that in the most deprived areas the reason why there are no people working from home is because they're unemployed.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
or used to work in the gig economy / hospitality / transport / construction or similar things that can't be done by WFH
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The reason or a reason?
I would say that in the most deprived areas, it will be the reason and in less deprived areas, it will be a reason.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Most people of working age do work even the most in deprived areas.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Whatever happens next, at least the anti-lockdown rush to reopen everything scum are not going to have the floor to themselves at this stage this time around.
Screenshot and then a link to the first tweet in the thread - this guy is the CEO of NHS Providers and the BBC picked up on these tweets and reported them on their live updates page.
Screenshot and then a link to the first tweet in the thread - this guy is the CEO of NHS Providers and the BBC picked up on these tweets and reported them on their live updates page.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Oh and that 26,000 figure is for England, and the next days number of 25,334 has been published via a document at Statistics » COVID-19 Hospital Activity
elbows
Well-Known Member
Faster than a speeding sloth.
Covid: UK hotel quarantine to start on 15 February
UK residents returning from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to pay to stay in a hotel for 10 nights.
www.bbc.co.uk
philosophical
Well-Known Member
I must be missing the bit where Australia is surrounded by water that is in fact land.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Cyberpunk Captain Tom remake in progress.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
He's a Tory cunt, but it's also possible that there's an element of blaming the dodgy thing on the brown one, just in case.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Which elements exactly are pinning Sunak's supposed enthusiasm for ending lockdown on him because of his race?
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
His opinion is unlikely to be unique amongst Tories. But racism exists and is acted upon. Easy to shift focus of a commonplace Tory ministerial opinion onto the alarmingly popular brown one. None of which says that these opinions are not also his.Which elements exactly are pinning Sunak's supposed enthusiasm for ending lockdown on him because of his race?
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Occam's razor says the focus is on him because he's the Chancellor, the most senior minister to hold these views and the clear favorite for the PM's job, but go off I guess.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Occam's razor might well say that if racism wasn't quite so embedded in the establishment and Tory press. I imagine it's a combination of all of it, (i.e. including that he's the chancellor etc).
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Thatcher was a woman, you need more than that.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Sunak can both be a cunt and be the focus of louder attacks due to his race.
I don't think that's what's particularly happening here because of the way the media sucked him off over the last year (remember superman Rishi?) And the docile nature of the media throughout this pandemic
I don't think that's what's particularly happening here because of the way the media sucked him off over the last year (remember superman Rishi?) And the docile nature of the media throughout this pandemic
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
I'm beginning to suspect that you don't really understand how prejudice can be enacted.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
The media has a long-standing habit of sucking people off and then ditching them. I don't think we can expect pure motives at any stage with any of it.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
In the absence of any suggestion a white Chancellor's views would be treated any differently in this situation, I think it's actually quite weird to bring it up tbh. You're suggesting Sunak's views should be lent less weight in comparison to similar views held by more junior cabinet minsters.
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