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rallying my east asian diaspora out here to support our south asian communities. they are the hardest by COVID-19 across canada, working precarious jobs in silence while many are also watching a crisis unfold back home with family in india. follow @SAHealthNetwork for resources
an important read by @SabiVM on the COVID-19 crisis parallels in India and places in Ontario with a large South Asian population, like Brampton:
“It really feels like because our skin is brown, our lives mean less.” https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/04/24/india-is-in-a-covid-19-crisis-south-asian-canadians-are-weeping-from-afar-but-also-seeing-devastating-parallels-for-our-people-in-ontario.html https://twitter.com/sabivm/status/1386053684535123969
“It really feels like because our skin is brown, our lives mean less.” https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/04/24/india-is-in-a-covid-19-crisis-south-asian-canadians-are-weeping-from-afar-but-also-seeing-devastating-parallels-for-our-people-in-ontario.html https://twitter.com/sabivm/status/1386053684535123969
throughout this whole pandemic, @iPreetBrar has been writing to share perspectives we haven’t heard about. as a former temp worker, she’s platformed taxi drivers, truck drivers, factory workers facing COVID.
her latest: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/04/25/peel-is-facing-a-covid-19-crisis-ontario-needs-to-prioritize-health-over-economy-now-to-save-lives.html https://twitter.com/evystadium/status/1386409392573091843
her latest: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/04/25/peel-is-facing-a-covid-19-crisis-ontario-needs-to-prioritize-health-over-economy-now-to-save-lives.html https://twitter.com/evystadium/status/1386409392573091843
. @NaheedD, @SGaibrie and @AmitAryaMD have been doing the same — fighting for what they’d like to see which is paid sick leave for all, but also liveable wages and safe workplace conditions https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/04/20/vaccines-should-prioritized-to-ontarios-essential-workers-but-we-need-to-fix-the-poor-workplace-conditions-they-faced-even-before-covid-19-here-are-our-solutions.html
latest shows that Brampton has a 22% COVID positivity rate, the highest in Ontario. a huge south asian population — some working in minimum wage jobs while living in multi-generational homes. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/04/24/brampton-the-engine-of-ontarios-economy-now-has-the-highest-covid-positivity-rates-in-the-province.html
this is systemic (and honestly overt) racism killing our south asian population here and abroad. india makes 60% of the world’s vaccine supply bought by US, Canada while less than 10% of their pop have been vaccinated. brampton only has has 8 vaccine pharmacies per 100K residents
as @fatimabsyed wrote in this comprehensive piece: Not enough support, not enough testing, not enough vaccines—Peel has been neglected at every step of the pandemic, and the results have been devastating. https://thelocal.to/you-cant-stop-the-spread-of-the-virus-if-you-dont-stop-it-in-peel/
SOME RESOURCES:
how to help india: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ca5YH5YUtp7Qe63sVNX1SlepQcvzc4RCwLhMBvTJyE/mobilebasic#
@peoplesvaccine working to make the vaccine more available around the world https://peoplesvaccine.org/
how to help india: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ca5YH5YUtp7Qe63sVNX1SlepQcvzc4RCwLhMBvTJyE/mobilebasic#
@peoplesvaccine working to make the vaccine more available around the world https://peoplesvaccine.org/
