Thursday 22 October 2020

The Great Covid Divide

I've written for the Sun about people who have no skin in the game itching for a second lockdown.
 

Being furloughed during the sunniest spring on record was more agreeable to those who had a large garden than to those who were stuck in a tower block with an abusive partner.

The lockdown greatly exacerbated equalities in housing, employment and personal circumstances.

White collar managers on Zoom meetings were waited on by delivery drivers, shop assistants and other blue collar workers for whom lockdown never happened.

People working in precarious, low-paid jobs bore the brunt, socially and economically, particularly when the schools were closed.

 
 

 


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