Chronicles of the pandemic - Great Britain

Other than the hymns to the cool Britain of the 90s, to the luxuries of golden London, to the data on GDP and the galloping occupation drugged by the zero-hour contracts of the post-crisis 2008 (in a country - of dreams - than ever he could never have voted for Brexit). Social inequality in the heart of the United Kingdom does exist, it is not the birth of the fixation of some nostalgic elder or just the poetry of Ken Loach's films. It exists and dominates the scene even in this tragic season of the coronavirus emergency, which on the island as elsewhere is not at all the same for everyone.
    To confirm this, if needed, are the figures of the Office for National Statistics, the British equivalent of Istat, certified by none other than the BBC's Reality Check editorial staff. Figures according to which the suburbs and the most marginal areas of England and Wales are called again to pay duty - more than the others - after the blows of the deindustrialisation of the past, decades of deregulation and cuts in welfare, and after a couple of luster of austerity. With an impact of the epidemic up to two times heavier and more lethal than that of the more affluent counties or neighborhoods.
    The differential leaves no room for doubt: with an average calculated between March 1 and April 17 in 55.1 deaths for Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants in the poorest territories of the reign of Elizabeth II; against 25.3 deaths per 100,000 people in those in the highest economic and social bracket. As if to say more contagions and victims (many more) between what remains of the working class of the West Midlands, of greater Liverpool, of great Manchester and of the English north depressed compared to London.
    Not without sensational differences within the cyclopean perimeter of the same capital, where hospitalizations and deaths are concentrated mainly among the offshoots of the large boroughs of Newham, Brent, Hackney: south of the Thames or in that East End which, at the beyond the pockets of new fashions - 'gentrified' by the influx of creatives, hipsters and capitals - they remain a monopoly of minorities and less protected classes. Heirs, mutatis mutandis, of the "people of the abyss" told by the American Jack London over a century ago.