26 March 2020
The pandemic affects everybody, but it does not affect everybody equally.
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"A review of differential policies towards different populations draws attention to the ways in which civil society is mobilising to demand protection and an end to the stigmatisation of those with no escape from infection.
The growing coronavirus crisis has exposed many faultlines in the UK and in Europe, and in particular, governments’ treatment of refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable and marginalised populations including prisoners and homeless people, carries disquieting echoes."
From Windrush to Covid 19: another scandal in the making (IRR News, link) by Frances Webber
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