Unequal Societies Have Unequal Disasters

Article by Ben Dzialdowski
During his speech on the 22nd of September 2020, Boris Johnson used the word ‘we’ 57 times. Johnson’s façade of ‘unity’ and getting “through this winter together” attempts to create a sense of collective struggle against a virus that we are supposedly equally equipped to fight. This fictitious narrative masks the disparity between social classes, ignoring the exacerbating effect that crises such as COVID-19 have on pre-existing class-based inequalities.