Today it was revealed that plans are underway to take NHS staff from BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) backgrounds off the NHS frontline, in order to counter their disproportionately high death rate from COVID-19. Figures revealed last week suggested that people from BAME backgrounds are over-represented in coronavirus deaths by as much as 27%.

The Guardian reported that BAME members of staff should be “risk-assessed” and, rather than working on the frontline and dealing with patients with confirmed and supposed cases of coronavirus, they will be reassigned to duties which put them less at risk of catching the virus.

The move was revealed yesterday in a letter from Amanda Pritchard, the NHS Improvement's Chief Operating Officer, who suggested:

“Emerging UK and international data suggest that people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are also being disproportionately affected by Covid-19.

In advance of their report and guidance, on a precautionary basis we recommend employers should risk-assess staff at potentially greater risk and make appropriate arrangements accordingly.”

Reasons suggesting exactly why people from BAME backgrounds appear to be over-represented when it comes to coronavirus deaths vary from “social deprivation” (although there is little difference between the percentage of White people and non-White people living in poverty in the United Kingdom) to genetic differences.

For those of us who have been paying attention to what the mainstream narrative has been teaching us over the last few years, this saga certainly highlights a number of contradictions, including: how can genetic differences be a factor in relation to coronavirus death figures when race is allegedly just a social construct?, how will we ever cope taking BAME people off the frontline when we allegedly need them to run our NHS, and last but certainly not least; should we keep clapping for them, or is it ok to stop now?

The burden of frontline work will now no doubt fall at the feet of British workers; British workers who are usually overlooked and told they’re too lazy or too stupid to do such jobs while their foreign co-workers receive constant nationwide celebration.

Isn’t it time that we stopped relying on foreign labour, and all the problems it brings, and trained up and incentivised our own people to be able to do such jobs?