The forgotten & abandoned people in this pandemic.
We think that because every country is going through covid 19 that world news is being covered sufficiently.
But what of people with no country?
What of the millions and millions of displaced people?
You think pandemic measures have failed in the uk (they have) but there are next to no protective measures in refugee camps. There is not enough clean running water for everyone to wash their hands as a preventative measure. They are cramped together in unsanitary conditions.
My fear was always that those conditions would give rise to cholera or dysentery (One day this will happen) and the world would leave them to die.
Well I was right, except it’s Covid we are abandoning them all to.
This is passive genocide.
Killing by doing nothing.
We could take some, our fair share, in. requiring a period of quarantine just like people flying in to the UK.
If not now in the face of this danger, when?
This only shows me my fear of passive genocide has been well founded and may yet still come to pass.
If we won’t atleast try to save them now it seems we won’t when the unsanitary conditions in the camps inevitably start to kill.
I am ashamed of the UK
Particular shame belongs to ex colonial countries
We are responsible for the underdevelopment of the global south, for the poverty that drives movement and the political instability that creates refugees. Just like climate change others suffer for our actions.