Black is Gold

The government has been urged to recognise that race and racial inequalities are a risk factor for Covid-19 after Guardian research which has revealed that ethnic minorities in England are dying in disproportionately high numbers compared with white people. The revelation that people from minority groups appear to be over-represented among the coronavirus deaths, by as much as 27%, “confirmed the worst fears” of campaigners who said there was now no question of an excessive toll. The Guardian analysis found that of 12,593 patients who died in hospital up to 19 April, 19% were Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) even though these groups make up only 15% of the general population in England. And the analysis revealed that three London boroughs with high BAME populations - Harrow, Brent and Barnet – were also among the five local authorities with the highest death rates in hospitals and the community. The findings confirm suspicions raised by local reports, hospitalisation rates and e...

Black South African Nurse Battling COVID-19 virus Today a Black South African nurse lies in ITU bed, on a ventilator, with no family around her. Nurses and doctors attending to her care are doing their best to keep her alive and inform her family of any development updates. It’s less than a week since she has been lying on that ITU bed and the truth is, the doctors are immensely under an unimaginable pressure to turn off her ventilator so that they can get someone else to take her bed. She hasn’t even been given a chance for her body to fight off the virus yet they want to take her life away from her loved ones. There is not even an opportunity for her family to negotiate whether to turn the ventilator off or not. Research suggests that critically ill patients can be on a ventilator for variable times ranging just from days to weeks. We also acknowledge that professionals, not machine must make a decision to take patient off  a ventilator. Patients must show sig...

The Road to Recovery...or is it? Some people don't recover. Some people do. But it takes time. Weeks. One person almost having their ventilator cut off within less than a week of being put on the system. If it had not been for one careful thought, one deep consideration, she may not have been here to today, recovering. She would miss her days with her loved ones. The lives of each and every individual person is important to at least one person in this world. Whether they are European, Asian, American, African or mixed. No matter the colour or race, every life counts. How would you feel if you heard that after two days of your close one being in a ventilator, their supplies were to be cut off? How would you feel if your friend, who is the rock of your community, was no longer going to continue adventures with you? Unfortunately, this is the everyday life that many black people have to uphold. Written April 21, 2020

COVID-19 positive - Told to go to work A Black Female Nurse tested positive with Covid-19 virus A Black female nurse having been deployed to work in a care home was told to undertake a Covid-19 test since most of her colleagues had fallen ill except her. She did not present with any symptoms and she is diabetic herself. While self-isolating waiting for test results, her husband developed a temperature. She and her husband Covid-19 test results came back both positive. The NHS guidelines stipulates that you have to self-isolate for at least 14 days as a household of a covid-19 positive candidate. Right? But guess what! The nurse was told to get to work because “she does not show any symptoms”. And you know what! Blacks are afraid to talk. They are afraid to challenge their managers because of the fear of discrimination and losing their jobs. This is not right and this needs to stop. If this nurse escalated the matter to the Nursing Council, what would be th...

Black People Not Allowed in McDonalds Restaurant – China What is the matter with this colour? Surely these are human beings. Why are they being segregated? Why is it so wrong to be Black in the society? Who created Blacks? It’s been repeatedly reported that COVID-19 has no discrimination so why are Blacks suffering discrimination of a virus born by the very same   Chinese discriminating   them? It was a disgrace   to learn  that  certain people of one race were denied access to one McDonald's restaurant in China. An apol ogy was been issued but the mental damage has been done. W hy are these people still locked in  COVID-19 Quarantine Prison  when the proof says they are negative? Everyone seems to turn a blind eye on the real problem. Apologies seem fair, but will it make the racial profiling end? What steps are being taken to remedy the real issue of racism and discrimination against certain individua...

by way of Layal Liverpool People in the US have access to drive through covid-19 testing During the coronavirus epidemic, people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are being hit particularly hard, according to emerging data. The most recent figures compiled by the UK’s Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre suggests that of nearly 5000 people critically ill with covid-19 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland whose ethnicity was known, 34 per cent were from BAME backgrounds. But people from such groups make up only 14 per cent of the population of England and Wales, for instance. In … click to read more .