Protesting Police Brutality and racial oppression is an essential work

Protesting Police Brutality and racial oppression is an essential work

To the thousands of people marching in the streets to protest police brutality, worried about the risk of COVID-19 transmission. The protesters do not always social distance or wear masks. It ‘hard to get six feet of vertical separation, when the streets fill up quickly; it can be difficult to call behind a mask for the change; and silent protests have to feel inadequate when the goal is finally heard a voice. Because of the mass events, COVID-19 cases are intended to increase. This is especially scary for people who live in places like Minneapolis, where daily hospital admissions and deaths from COVID-19 rising or flatlining. Unfortunately, the struggle for racial justice people always obliged to put their bodies on the line. The protesters are key workers in a police brutality pandemic and global racism. Standards-racist society, social policy and institutions systematically discrimination black people in terms of white people are difficult to define. The World Health Organization defines violence as “the intentional use of physical force or power [emphasis added], threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community that either results in or I have a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation. “police in the US have always keep the violence (or the ever-present threat of violence), it uses the races. Many police follow-up country their roots to the patrols of slaves, runaway slaves for the return of the black freedom limited to involuntary servitude. In addition, interlocking social work in concert systems (re) breeds produce injustice, thwarted the potential frustration and self-realization (checks, for example, the effects of residential segregation on the accumulation of wealth and consequently the quality of schools). Finally, the black people are paradoxically hyper visible and invisible for some white people try to regulate their behavior and exchange as stereotypes oppressed people who resist “knee on his neck,” are fighting to breathe; and they will find allies. protesters today on historical divisions are working to create a just, inclusive democratic society in which all are valued, where not disproportionately distributed the risks and benefits of the race in which the police do not kill black people with impunity. The protest is critical, urgent, and unfortunately risky. ? Because protesters risks increase for our collective well-being, the question is not “People should be protesting in a pandemic,” Rather, it is: “How can we protect our essential workers best” to protect key workers, alone requires information and material resources available to minimize the risks. In addition to extensive education campaigns underway about the symptoms of COVID-19 and limit exposure modes (eg, masks, washing hands, disinfecting surfaces), public health authorities may require additional protesters on strategies to educate routinely other essential workers busy. These strategies are: the protection of the ideal dressing eyes before entering the house items such isolate such as handbags and shoes that can be washed not wash their hands, or better yet showers before interacting with others, when symptoms occur, get tested and found themselves in quarantine protesters should be informed in close contact (family members) of their possible exposure to need from COVID-19 protest job, especially if these contacts are older adults, immunocompromised or lung disease (eg asthma) or other chronic diseases. What is not insured for many employers rely on essential workers to keep their health insurance coverage for testing to be used, certainly there are protesters and other essential workers or underinsured. As the protesters on behalf of the working public, local health authorities COVID-19 test should provide asymptomatic protesters (and other essential workers), without additional medical care that would by definition need. Those that test would simply advise for 10 days and monitor for symptoms of positive self-quarantine. This could logistically and public clinics do not challenge “negative pressure rooms” have spread to control the virus. local health departments could partner with hospitals and clinics that have these facilities or external test demonstrators. This could be tested because it would encourage protesters were not associated with additional costs visited a doctor’s office. Health authorities should allay legitimate concerns that the identifiable information collected by experimentation and research to contact the police could go in the name of public safety. In addition, the police need to stop behaviors that lead to a greater spread of the virus, such as lead, the use of tear gas that causes coughing, which in turn distributed droplets in most virus-laden. The police should also limit stops. When the arrested protesters, the police often de-masked and in crowded conditions, such as police cars and prison cells. And basically you need a police leadership to face the reality that their protesters personnel was injured a day and enforce policies immediately using excessive force to stop. The protests can go on forever. After the police in 2014, Michael Brown killed, there have been daily protests in Ferguson, MO, for over a year. Some places in Minneapolis as the angle where George Floyd died, the state capital, and semi-permanent police area may protest sites. There is no reason why a protest site may also be a mobile health website. Such sites can and should have-COVID-19 test, first aid and masks, as well as 19 COVID-related information; To be killed with a focus on men blacks repeatedly experience with the trauma done by the police mental health services; and ways to access food, medical care and housing are necessary for optimal health, and all can be more difficult to achieve in communities that need to build due to back injury. Some protesters will become the patient. Your health care team will learn that they were there during the protests, as part of routine screening COVID-19, they are asked about participation in protest. Some health care workers have less empathy for the people who hold them irresponsible. Instead of demonstrators while to see how the essential task of democracy, some health professionals are judging certain negative ruthless protesters as troublemakers. Health care organizations must take steps to address these stories and monitor supply differences in case of exposure. We never COVID-19 any other essential workers because of bargaining. we do not start accusing the protesters.
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