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Absolutely. Buzzing.
Zoom call with @SFoodbanks, @IanByrneMP, and @Kartik__Raj #righttofood (wow)
These guys are REAL heroes and they dont even know it - their hard work and passion keeps families afloat, and dignity intact, and here's a thread about the importance of this:
Zoom call with @SFoodbanks, @IanByrneMP, and @Kartik__Raj #righttofood (wow)
These guys are REAL heroes and they dont even know it - their hard work and passion keeps families afloat, and dignity intact, and here's a thread about the importance of this:
2 Adversity hits the poorest hardest - and that includes natural disasters, accidents like Titanic, and austerity: cuts per head are highest for places with the sickest people, especially in the North. Infants of families who are in poverty are more likely to die. 
3 We know from @CPAGUK and others that rates of child poverty are unacceptably high - around 1 in 3 kids pre covid, and who knows what now... and that poverty impacts the things we take for granted - birthday presents, school uniform, and even food
@MarcusRashford - legend
Child poverty is THE most pressing issue for the NHS
Mr Rashford has had far more impact than I ever could, but here are 25 of my slides for a recent @AlderHey talk on #covid19, #lockdown and #Childpoverty in the UK
Child poverty is THE most pressing issue for the NHS
Mr Rashford has had far more impact than I ever could, but here are 25 of my slides for a recent @AlderHey talk on #covid19, #lockdown and #Childpoverty in the UK
In adversity the vulnerable lose out most: everyone on Titanic hit the same iceberg, but the poorest people were most likely to drown
The public health message in the Black Plague was to flee towns for country residences - the poor cant do this so they stayed behind and got plague. Same in New Orleans - the poor, largely black population couldn't get out of a difficult situation.
