Manage Deaths Instead of Managing Life: The UK Government’s Failure to Protect Communities and Care Homes during the Covid-19 Pandemic

The older you are, the poorer you are and the more long term medical conditions you have, the more likely you are to be admitted to hospital or to die, if those conditions progress or if you get any new acute illness, including COVID-19. This is a covert manifesto for age discrimination and discrimination against the old, sick and disabled.......... Nearly 12 million people in the UK are over 65 and 3 million are over 80. That’s a lot of people to dismiss casually. These include our parents, uncles, aunts, and grandparents, our current or future selves. These are citizens who have contributed to society, families, workplaces and the economy. They are as entitled to protection and care as the rest of us. Unless the Covid-denialists and lockdown sceptics can serve up some useful solutions with their rhetoric, they need to stop the discriminatory dog whistles. I can guarantee if it were a member of their own family who got sick, they wouldn’t be saying “they have a pre-existing condition so let them die”. David Oliver, an experienced NHS acute hospital consultant.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Chapter 1 Manage Deaths Instead of Managing Life: The UK Government’s Failure to Protect Communities and Care Homes during the Covid-19 Pandemic Chapter 2 Police, Blacks, Muslims and the Attitude of NHS Chapter 3 Social Care Sector, Discharge of Patients from Hospitals into Care Homes, Denial of Access to Hospitals and other Medical Services Chapter 4 Covid-19 Fatalities, Disgracement, Humiliation, Racism and Discrimination Chapter 5 Misuse of ‘do not Attempt Resuscitation’ Forms, Insufficient PPE and Poor PPF Guidance, and the Suspension of Visits and Failure of Government Chapter 6 Islamophobia, Muslims and Black Communities, the Devastating Impact of Prolonged Isolation, and Withholding of Information and Lack of Transparency Chapter 7 The Covid-19, Mass Intelligence Surveillance, and National Security Challenges Chapter 8 Police, Facial Recognition Technology, Mass surveillance and the Covid-19 Chapter 9 As If Expendable: The UK Government’s Failure to Protect Older People in Care Homes during the Covid-19 Pandemic Amnesty International Report 2020 Notes to Chapters Index

About the Author :
Musa Khan Jalalzai is a journalist and research scholar. He has written extensively on Afghanistan, terrorism, nuclear and biological terrorism, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and intelligence research and analysis. He was an Executive Editor of the Daily Outlook Afghanistan from 2005-2011, and a permanent contributor in Pakistan's daily The Post, Daily Times, and The Nation, Weekly the Nation, (London). However, in 2004, US Library of Congress in its report for South Asia mentioned him as the biggest and prolific writer. He received Masters in English literature, Diploma in Geospatial Intelligence, University of Maryland, Washington DC, certificate in Surveillance Law from the University of Stanford, USA, and diploma in Counter terrorism from Pennsylvania State University, California, the United States.