Thread by @ZorikaZr

Lockdowns felt racist to me because I live London. So eg VAST majority work colleagues ethnic minority. I know elsewhere dept stores that wont be case, but then think restaurants salons tourism (multi linguist generally ethnic minority) & self employed London more

likely ethnic minority too. But again, outside London prob not case. BUT, what sure was racism was the altitude of many pro lockdowners, who gaslighted us. The way our livelihoods considered dispensible, and we were told to shut up as we are just stupid retail workers eg. This

assumes that retail workers only do that job because they are not educated. No thought our education may have been interrupted by war or we just didn't get opportunity economic reasons (the case many immigrants) or even that we just prefer to be out of rat race. Then there were

supermarket workers bus drivers & NHS staff large ethnic minority %, who were expected to work through while those that abused us often mollycoddled by furlough, but shrieked how it was far too dangerous for their precious selves to go to work. Then there

was abuse of unvaccinated. How we should be thrown to concentration camps, remain prisoners in our homes, how we were stupid, ignorant & selfish. Even though we often cited data which they couldn't grasp. Why unvaccinated? Because, the highest % were ethnic minorities. Take NHS

& care home staff for eg. Again hugely disproportionate number of ethnic minorities will have lost their jobs because they were refuseniks. And so what, ethnic minorities are more stupid? Well, that is what we were in effect being told. By same people who virtue signal their

woke credentials. Unvaxxed=thick, anti science, uneducated rabble. And largely ethnic minority though the press won't tell you that because you know, they are among virtue signalers. Mind you I guess I am supposed to dock

my cap to superior intellect of a footballer who left school with 4 O levels & calls the rest of us bonkers, has been amply rewarded with privilege by a system that then attacked millions of us ruthlessly, and dared compare nobody enjoying '(t)his nightmare'

with real nightmares of those whose livelihoods were destroyed by lockdowns on top. Especially, ethnic minorities. Well, we can take heart in fact we were correct all way through that nightmare & in fact, we were far from being the stupid ones, alongside the most highly educated

Now I often muse that while I don't actually think lockdowns were racist as such, they certainly disproportionately in places like London eg did far greater harm to minorities. But nationwide, we know for sure they harmed working class women worst. And again, there was often a

misogyny in the abusive gaslighting comments against those of us that spoke out. And again, from those who think themselves full of virtue and supposedly stand against sexism. NO consideration that many women work in retail etc because they spent years bringing up their children.

A cultural thing too, because middle class women less likely to have children and pursue career, or be able to afford child care or even sent their kids to boarding school. We working class mums are less likely to contemplate that al sorts of reasons. And, what was it like for

kids of those working class mums trapped in a high rise, or timidly taking kids to park early morning to play fearful of Police harassment or grassers compared to middle class mums on furlough sunbathing in gardens while kids played, just going on internet now and again to scream

for lockdown extensions because they ENJOYED the experience? Oh you are so woke and considerate aren't you? It is time to admit you were wrong selfish, sexist (even women against w/c women), racist & certainly contemptuous of others you believed lived lowly lives so didn't matter

The longer you coral the wagons and defend what was done to us, the angrier people are going to get. The lockdown damaged, & vaccine harmed, are going to have the knee taken to them eventually, and you will accept your privilege prevented you from seeing it. It isn't

that lockdowns were racist, but they were definitely result of class privilege and those gaslighting us & saying were were 'not qualified' to comment on what WE suffered first hand is the ultimate stupidity & snobbery * often racist because of assumptions made. Globally however,

this was amplified to horrific proportions.
So nobody is ever going to tell me that Fauci eg was not guilty of one of the most outstanding egs of racism of the 21st century so far when advocating extended lockdowns in India

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Nature paper on Vaccine discrimination
nature.com/articles/s4158…
And a reminder as the vaxx neither stopped infection or transmission it had no scientific basis.