Analyse af John Harris' artikel om Covid-19 og klasseforskelle

“The pitched battle over lockdowns is missing the point: Covid-19 is a class issue” by John Harris - Analyze

In this essay I will analyze the text “The pitched battle over lockdowns is missing the point: Covid-19 is a class issue” the text was published Sunday 18 Oct 2020 14.51 BST, and the writer behind the text is John Harris. In my essay I will focus on sender, receiver, medium, language and circumstances.

The topic of the text is about Convid-19 situation in the UK. The text is an article who got published at the guardian by John Harris. He thinks that lockdown does not stop the spreading of the virus, he actually thinks it makes it worse and more people is going to get infected, if the government send the population home in 2 weeks. For example, in the beginning of the text John Harris mentioned “Covid-19 is a class issue. That may sound simplistic, but what it actually denotes is an intricate set of considerations that the argument over lockdown is not acknowledging” he means that lockdown was actually just making the spreading worse and more people got infected in the phase 1. The reason for the recent increases in infection is that the initial lockdown affected many of their areas differently than more affluent places, instead of sending all of the population home people such as traders, construction workers, warehous workers and other working places was mixing with other from the first wave, which just made it imperfect. The Financial Times writer Anjana Ahuja also said in the text “This crisis has broadly separated us into the exposed poor and the shielded rich” and she means that not everyone have the income and resources to take care of themselves, mostly the people who are get infected with Convid-19 is from the poorer areas of the UK, and not people in the richer areas. The thing that has not been discussed in the media is the fact that coronavirus crisis in second phase, writes for example “What has not been discussed nearly as much is the plain fact that the coronavirus crisis – even more so in its second phase – is all about basic inequalities, and the kind of questions of work, housing and poverty that deep crises always bring to the surface”