{"id":165076,"date":"2020-10-18T15:51:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/18\/the-pitched-battle-over-lockdowns-is-missing-the-point-covid-19-is-a-class-issue-john-harris\/"},"modified":"2020-10-18T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T13:51:28","slug":"the-pitched-battle-over-lockdowns-is-missing-the-point-covid-19-is-a-class-issue-john-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=165076","title":{"rendered":"The pitched battle over lockdowns is missing the point: Covid-19 is a class issue | John Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK coronavirus crisis \u2013 even more so in its second phase \u2013 is all about basic inequalities \u2013 and lockdown makes these worseCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJust as our final exit from the EU comes into view, noise from the media and politics about Covid-19 is sounding discomfortingly similar to the furies that erupted around the 2016 referendum.On one side stands the political right, opposed to lockdown, apparently spurning the advice of experts, and seemingly convinced that a mixture of true-Brit common sense and derring-do will somehow see us through. The left, meanwhile, emphasises the importance of \u201cthe science\u201d, and the prospect of disaster. As in the US, it is beginning to feel like any contentious political question will now trigger these polarised responses \u2013 not necessarily in the population at large, but certainly among the people whose opinions define what passes for the national conversation. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/oct\/18\/pitched-battle-lockdowns-covid-19-uk-coronavirus-crisis-inequalities\" target=\"_blank\">The pitched battle over lockdowns is missing the point: Covid-19 is a class issue | John Harris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK coronavirus crisis \u2013 even more so in its second phase \u2013 is all about basic inequalities \u2013 and lockdown makes these worseCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJust as our final exit from the EU comes into view, noise from the media and politics about Covid-19 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}