who's a senior research fellow in global health at the university of southampton and dr emma hodcroft, molecular epidemiologist, university of baselinciding with those protests about the killing of george floyd. lloyd griffiths from wales is saying that he wonders what the point of government guidelines about self—isolation and social distancing is 1000 in the uk and around the world are demonstrating? i think it is important to point out that racism and its consequences have killed many, many more people in history than the coronavirus in the last few months. that is not to minimise the pandemic, which is of course extremely severe and something we need to be extremely cautious about right now, however i certainly sympathise with people who feel very strongly that there has been a much bigger impact on their lives because of racism rather than the coronavirus. .. lives because of racism rather than the coronavirus... i lives because of racism rather than the coronavirus. .. i think some people might be surprised by your response there as a beam to meteorologist. yes, racism historically may have killed more people. —— a certain e