This moving message from the UK’s immigrant workers is incredibly powerful
If you are unfortunate enough to be hospitalised, it’s a fact that you are far more likely to be treated by someone born overseas than to be in the next bed to one of them.
This short video speaks for those workers, both in the NHS and elsewhere, and it sends a deeply important message.
#YouClapForMeNow pic.twitter.com/1Dm2hZb6kc
— Tez (@tezilyas) April 14, 2020
The brainchild of Creative Director, Sachini Imbuldeniya, it contains the wonderful words of Darren James Smith, who said this:
A powerful message about the people we now recognise as essential #keyworkers – let’s never go back to the #HostileEnvironment #wewillremember #ClapForCarers #COVID19 #coronavirus https://t.co/rZKb7Sckow
— Darren James Smith (@bgcdazzler) April 14, 2020
The post had people in tears and got #YouClapForMeNow trending on Twitter. Here are just a few of the thousands of reactions.
#YouClapForMeNow is such a brilliant message. A stark reminder of how much our country and our lives are enriched by immigration. How we depend on people of all races in our daily lives. Remember this, not the racist anti-immigrant rhetoric heard too often pic.twitter.com/Fj8BpSz4Gz
— Stu Gould (@StuGouldPhoto) April 15, 2020
This is so beautiful. I’m literally in tears. Tory hypocrites need to sort their shit out#YouClapForMeNow
— Daniel York Loh 😷 (@danielfyork) April 15, 2020
What a reminder to UK torn apart by Brexit xenophobia & now united by a deadly virus. Lest we forget the NHS’s heart is kept beating by its diverse staff, & key workers -drivers, cleaners, shop keepers, shelf stackers-are keeping UK alive.#YouClapForMeNowpic.twitter.com/dLKBhhJebP
— Dr Lauren Gavaghan (@DancingTheMind) April 14, 2020
When this outbreak is over, let us never again forget who puts their lives on the line to keep us all safe. #YouClapForMeNow
— Siobhan Benita (@SiobhanBenita) April 14, 2020
Comedian Kae Kurd had a prediction.
lol this is gonna piss off a certain section of people https://t.co/NBOxP9lBPx
— Kae Kurd (@KaeKurd) April 14, 2020
He was absolutely right, but we aren’t going to share those comments. Instead, we’ll finish with this.
This is unbelieveably good. Share this across the length and breadth of this country. #YouClapForMeNowpic.twitter.com/rBG9KAXbuq
— Pran Patel (@MrPranPatel) April 14, 2020
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