Without an effective system to test, trace and isolate, it doesn't matter how many lockdowns we have - we will keep returning to where we were before.
We have an incompetent, corrupted system.
We are stuck in the cycle.
Current #coronavirus support for the self-employed:
🇳🇴 80% of average wage over last 3 years
🇧🇪 Up to €1,582 per month
🇫🇷 €1,500 for those who lose over 70% of income
🇮🇪 €203 per week for six weeks
🇮🇹 €600 a month
🇬🇧 £94 a week
If employed people get 80% of their income guaranteed up to £2,500 a month during #COVID19, so should gig economy workers and the self-employed. This is a simple matter of fairness.
Dear @BorisJohnson, the self-employed freelance community contributed £271bn to the UK economy in 2017 - enough to fund the NHS twice over (via @teamIPSE). And that stat has grown since. Don't forget about us (4.8 million self-employed in the UK). Please RT.
Our future needs creatives, London needs affordable creative arts for children. They’re being cut from school curriculums so please keep them here #SAVEBFIFILMCLUB@BFI
I hope anyone who thinks it's "bloody foreigners" putting strain on the NHS is watching #Hospital on BBC2 now. Obviously it's lack of investment in social care for the elderly that's causing the crisis. It's the "bloody foreigners" in medical uniforms keeping the
#NHS going.