Doreen Lawrence Corona Racist

[fender62]

is this a good idea,when people are dying daily round britain of all colours and creeds.
to me it's wrong when so many have lost family friends etc, and it's ongoing, labour trying to score points already, and say it's government inaction, thye don't care about ethnics.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52405243

[TheWholeTruth]

"Your obviously prejudiced (viz. pre-judged) comments about ‘blacks’ put you beyond the pale in civilised discussion."

now thats funny......take your blinkers off and maybe a dose of reality will wake you up

[naomi24]

I think the real danger in Labour appointing a committee made up of groups like The Muslim Council of Britain is that they will be looking specifically to apportion blame to social conditions as Doreen Lawrence, now Labour’s Race Relations Advisor, already appears to have done. That does no one any good. In order to address the problem we need to investigate, without pre-conceived notions, why the problem exists. If it is due to social conditions we need to know that - but if it is due to a propensity for ethnic minorities to be more physiologically vulnerable to the virus, we need to know that too. Labour should abandon this and leave the investigation to those the government has appointed to carry out the task.

[naomi24]

Allen never seems to offer an opinion on anything - except other people.

[pastafreak]

Vitamin D deficiency has been voiced as a possible cause of higher mortality from COVID...particularly in those with darker skin as it is not absorbed as well as by those with lighter skin. There is research linking a deficiency with a weaker immune system.

[Togo]

Good job Trump hadn't said that the virus targets the black people. No one would have believed it and then no lucrative quango or series of "discussions" to prove the already decided verdict. Starmer said...

// it was "extremely concerning" to see the "disproportionate toll" coronavirus was having on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.//

Interpretation. It would have been better the other way round or we will see rioting just like France is. Rioting from (your ahead of me here aren't you?)the hard done by effnick kermoonities. You will not find it reported on the ever alert Beep Beep See, but there has been 4 nights of rioting, looting and arson, on the streets in some Towns and Cities in France this week. Perhaps they are trying to incite the same behaviour here.

[Mamyalynne]

Interesting figures mushroom @ 14.44.

[gness]

A very interesting read, Mushroom....thank you.

[retrocop]

Gawd. Just hope Dora doesn't learn about Sickle Cell anaemia. All those nasty red neck blood cells which also attack,predominately , ethnic minorities !

[Mamyalynne]

Who is Dora?

[fender62]

maybe they have to be seen, to be doing something..otherwise there jobs would become or seem irrelevant, plus it's always good to stir the nest.. they picked the wrong person to investigate, as she has an agenda and it's about race, she's not neutral.

[tomus42]

// The government has also commissioned an investigation into the issue //

[sp1814]

//The review will examine why the virus appears to disproportionately impact those from ethnic minority backgrounds.//

Seems like a reasonable action.

If the group can establish why Covid-19 disproportionally affects those in ethnic communities, it may lead to better, more targeted treatment. At the beginning of lockdown it was established that older people were more at risk, so the government acted on that.

If the stats show that ethnic minorities are more at risk, clinicians need to establish whether this is purely due to social factors or medical ones our a bit from both.

[sp1814]

fender62

Re: your hypothetical at 14:28 - could it also be that because one in five people working in the NHS are from ethnic minorities, that they are more likely to be exposed to Covid-19?

And six or more kids?

Don't worry about the typo. Your message was loud and clear.

[royfromaus]

At the beginning of lockdown it was established that older people were more at risk, so the government acted on that.



By doing...?

[sp1814]

royfromaus

The Government advised those over 70 to self-isolate a few days before that was expanded to everyone.

It recognised at that stage that people over 70 were in a high risk category.

[royfromaus]

You made it some rather more than handing out a bit of advice.

BAME should self isolate ...there I've acted on the problem.

[mushroom25]

// The Government advised those over 70 to self-isolate a few days before that was expanded to everyone. //

but only after amending their original policy - "Herd Immunity, let the virus rip and if a few old people die, too bad".

[woofgang]

mushroom that was never the policy and you know it

[mushroom25]

//that was never the policy //
really?
https://www.ft.com/content/38a81588-6508-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea68b5

[sp1814]

woofgang

mushroom25's right.

From The New Scientist (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237385-why-is-the-uk-approach-to-coronavirus-so-different-to-other-countries/):

//Vallance said the first goal was: “To reduce the peak of the epidemic, flatten it and broaden it, so you don’t end up with so much intense pressure on healthcare systems at one time.//

//The second is to protect the most vulnerable people while the virus spreads through the population. He said the approach would help build up herd immunity as people recover from the disease and become immune, reducing transmission.//