what we would need for a safe lifting of the lockdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWe still have none of the things we would need for a safe lockdown. There are no plans for mass testing or mass tracing any time soon. The World Health Organisation says every government should trace, test and isolate.
Hancock and the British government never even mention isolation. Yet the WHO expects the NHS to isolate and care for everyone who tests positive. In fact, the government now tells anyone with Covid to go home, where you will give it to your family, your grandparents and your flatmates. When they lift the lockdown, they do not plan to provide people who have caught the coronavirus with safe isolation and proper care. Instead, they will continue to send us home to infect the people we love. Or leave us in the care home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Already, many people will die because their cancer, heart and other treatments have been postponed. If there is a second wave of Covid, many more of those people will die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chancellor clearly wants to lift the lockdown quickly, without safety in place. So do the big corporations. Keir Starmer seems to want that as well. A media barrage is beginning for lifting the lockdown. This barrage will gather force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We were lied to at the start of the epidemic. There is a telling detail in the Guardian<\/em> story. When the government closed the schools, they said essential workers could still send their children to school. The government expected 20% of children would go to school. Only 1% of children attended school. Almost all the essential workers decided to keep their children at home to protect them. They knew they were being lied to.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWe are being lied to again. Don\u2019t let our unions be part of that. There\u2019s an old union saying: An injury to one is an injury to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Jonathan Neale I have been a union member all my life, and a shop steward in several jobs. But I\u2019m worried now. Some of our union leaders are about to make a very serious mistake. On Monday, April 27, Heather Stewart in the Guardian reported that \u201cministers have held a series of high-level meetings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protectthepeople.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protectthepeople.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protectthepeople.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protectthepeople.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protectthepeople.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.protectthepeople.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protectthepeople.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protectthepeople.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protectthepeople.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protectthepeople.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}