COVID-19 evidently setback healthcare services and hospitals. With the rapid growth in patients and risk, more key workers are needed to preserve quality care for lower rates of pay, compared to the average non-key worker. Most key workers are also racially diverse, and statistics have exposed that ethnic minorities have disproportionately higher fatality rates than their white colleagues, simply from greater exposure of these settings.

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Justifiably, frontline staff are greatly susceptible, but the community fails to contemplate on the staff working tirelessly in supermarkets, general stores, fast food chains etc., who are also key workers, to stabilise the economy. COVID-19 has produced a new form of inequality between companies and their workforces when it comes to safety.

These key workers have the same responsibilities to uphold care and safety to their customers as frontline staff, but with less emphasis on advocating their own safety from the public.

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The education experience for young people has been compromised since guidelines replaced face-to-face teaching with virtual learning, and for most ethnic subgroups, quality higher education and good grades are the most important tools they’ll need to take into the adult world, to combat preceding racial and class inequalities.