{"id":16880,"date":"2020-04-05T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T08:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/apr\/05\/whether-in-the-uk-or-the-developing-world-were-not-all-in-coronavirus-together"},"modified":"2020-04-05T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T08:30:23","slug":"whether-in-the-uk-or-the-developing-world-were-not-all-in-coronavirus-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16880","title":{"rendered":"Whether in the UK or the developing world, we&#8217;re not all in coronavirus together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the slums of Delhi or Lagos, social distancing is a dream while social exclusion is all too real and pernicious<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all of our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2018The virus does not discriminate,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-52069921\/coronavirus-gove-addresses-pm-and-health-secretary-s-positive-tests\">suggested Michael Gove<\/a> after both Boris Johnson and the health secretary, Matt Hancock, were struck down by Covid-19. But societies do. And in so doing, they ensure that the devastation wreaked by the virus is not equally shared.<\/p>\n<p>We can see this in the way that the low paid both disproportionately have to continue to work and are more likely to be laid off; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/mar\/31\/amazon-strike-worker-fired-organizing-walkout-chris-smallls\">sacking of an Amazon worker<\/a> for leading a protest against unsafe conditions; in the rich having access to coronavirus tests denied to even most NHS workers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/apr\/05\/whether-in-the-uk-or-the-developing-world-were-not-all-in-coronavirus-together\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the slums of Delhi or Lagos, social distancing is a dream while social exclusion is all too real and perniciousSee all of our coronavirus coverage\u2018The virus does not discriminate,\u201d suggested Michael Gove after both Boris Johnson and the health secre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,1069,62,400,552,79,532,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-nigeria","category-social-exclusion","category-society","category-south-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16881,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880\/revisions\/16881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}