Europeans (white people) and some other races are the progeny of ancestors that survived the plague. We’re mostly immune. There was an outbreak in San Francisco back around 1900, but it was in Chinatown.
I can't keep track... am I merely supposed to apologize for this aspect of white privilege? Or does this one demand reparations too?
No, white people aren’t immune. They may be more likely to survive, and a genetic variant that gives better plague survival also gives better HIV resistance. But not all white people have the variant, and it doesn’t confer immunity.
We get cases in New Mexico yearly here. The rodent population carries it. It came over from China on trading ships in the late 1800s. Easily treatable with antibiotics if caught early enough.
“We’re mostly immune.”
complete bullshit ... we get small outbreaks of Yersinia pestis nearly every summer near where i live in Colorado where idiots let their dogs run wild in plague-infested prairie dog colonies ... if the idiots are not quickly treated with antibiotics they die a horrible death ...
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/index.html
the African outbreak is because of indescribably filthy living conditions that promote epidemics of host rats and their parasitic fleas, which carry and spread Yersinia pestis ...
“European” isn’t a race. You mean Caucasians who stretch from Ireland to India and include north Africans and Arabs.
“White” is a misnomer. Finns and Estonians and Russkies have a lot of East Asian genes.