Covid lockdowns had a “catastrophic effect” on the UK’s social fabric and the most disadvantaged are no better off now than at the time of the financial crash, a new report claims.
The country is in danger of sliding back into the divisions of the Victorian era, marked by a widening gap between the mainstream and the poorest in society, according to an inquiry by the centre-right thinktank the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).
About 13.4 million people lead lives affected by family fragility, stagnant wages, poor housing, chronic ill health and crime, the centre says.
It’s quite cunning of the capitalists to blame COVID lockdowns for their acceleration of the wealth gap that was clearly growing faster and faster before COVID.
Never mind that the lockdowns kept people from dying, right? Kept the hospitals from being even more overwhelmed. The capitalists would rather have a bunch of dead workers than lose productivity.
Let’s see if we keep falling for it. I know all the MAGA people in America and their ilk internationally have already. Next will be the people who don’t really pay attention to world events.