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.
Oct 30, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
So we had a hospital grand round @AlderHey today :
“I’M NOT RACIST BUT...”:
THE OVERT AND COVERT EFFECTS OF #RACISM ON CHILDREN
And here’s the highlights 1/7
Overt and dramatic acts of racism lead to outrage - and also lead to meaningless celebrity and corporate platitudes ... in answer to your question @MarcusRashford , this is what virtue signalling is. Black Lives Matter(ed) for about three weeks 2/7
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