If the Government cares about saving lives

[Annamaria14]

during this Coronavirus time,

Why didn't they care about child poverty in the UK? Why didnt' they care about many children not having enough to eat?

Why didn't they care about the lives of homeless people on the streets?

I went out to volunteer with a homeless charity last Christmas, and the amount of young people I saw living on the streets, freezing and malnourished. I cried because I found a teenage girl in a sleeping bag, really looking very close to deah.

Why didn't those lives matter?

Because they people don't count as they aren't tory voters, silly.

Because those lives aren't wealthy. We have a Conservative government, and this virus doesn't discriminate. The likes of BoJo and Prince Charles have had the illness, so it actually affects the wealthy. Poor people still don't matter to this government.

I think we can all see that nhs staff/carers and teachers matter much less to this government

Or they'd be flying in PPE at great cost and effort (we're not) for carers and nhs staff

And they'd be saying categorically that teachers and nursery staff won't be expected to work until it's safe ie. ppe/vaccine/massive enforced social distancing and tiny classes

The majority of people who WILL die will be the poorest economically - poorest health/elderly in care homes not taken to hospital/staff on minimum wage jobs/homeless/people in cramped accommodation

Coronavirus DOES discriminate. The very wealthiest can of course afford to isolate until there's a vaccine - that's the bottom line.

Everyone else will be back to work.

Because Covid19 is the big news.

Do cancer treatment patients not matter?
Dialysis patients?
Suicidal patients?

Unfortunately right now Covid deaths matter more. This will change, but not right now.

Child poverty is more of a multi faceted problem, but has been down the list for longer, unfortunately. But hey - they're getting free meal vouchers /s

@LaurieFairyCake if they don’t get the teaching staff and early years staff to work then who would look after the key worker children? 🙄

What a lot of silly whataboutery. A global pandemic is a little different from the perennial problems every government faces.

What a lot of silly whataboutery. A global pandemic is a little different from the perennial problems every government faces.

Hey, don't stop these highly intelligent political posters repeating Facebook comments.

They have a hard enough time understanding globalised economies so can easily mix it into a world wide pandemic if they can just say 'le evil tories'

Because the virus crosses all income brackets? If it only affected the poor they wouldn’t care .

But also , some people can’t help themselves . The government can’t solve all the problems .

I do agree. Austerity cost an estimate 40,000 lives a year but those lives are easily forgotten. To be fair an uncontrolled pandemic would be more catastrophic in terms of loss of life but I do take your point that the government cares about lives which are easily countered and blamed for. Not people who commit suicide because they don't get adaquate mental health care, not people who don't get a decent education and die younger and lead less happy lives etc.

A lot of the comments here are just inane. People have literally calculated the loss of life which occured due to austerity. If funding mental health care, social care, the health service, police force and education didn't improve people's lives we wouldn't bother doing it. If you neglect to fund these things people die - you can just stretch them thinner indefinitely and expect there not to be an impact.

Lanurk

My Dh is a teacher and in every day for key workers children

I'm talking about when they ALL go back and social distancing can't be done in schools

It's fine with the low numbers at the moment 👍🏻

Its a personal responsibility thing. Some people are very big on choice and personal responsibility to a level beyond logic - but this particular pandemic at this stage is noones fault. At some point it will become your own fault for not socially distancing, washing hands, taking a low risk job, having savings so can shield longer. i say this as someone whose child didnt have a school place last year (whole year, no support) and the attitude seemed to be it was my fault for having a child with SEN and therefore my responsibility to solve it and sny issues were how i dealt with the problem. Not the system.

Whilst whataboutery can be silly, the top and bottom of it is the current government don't really care that much.

If they did then one of their ministers wouldn't have been on TV the day after Italy went into lockdown advocating for mass events such as Cheltenham races to go ahead.
If they did then they'd have sorted out PPE for NHS staff and carers in social care.
If they did then they'd have better plans for schools and school staff.

Because a pandemic is big news they have to do something.
People have worked out deaths due to austerity but because that's an ongoing issue and not a sudden spike it's easy to brush it under the carpet.

To be fair, fighting Covid is a walk in the park in comparison to fighting multigenerational deprivation and trauma.

They don’t care about any of it OP

It’s just a great way to do an experiment in social control.

Because you can't catch "poor".

"I cried because I found a teenage girl in a sleeping bag, really looking very close to deah.:"
This girl will more than likely have already been offered accommodation or help and she will have refused it. It happens. All the time.