Posted on 04/11/2020 5:30:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Illinois stay-at-home order, mandating that residents shelter in place amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, has virtually shut down the city of Chicago, but according to the city's police department, gun violence is still on the rise -- some 24% compared to the same time last year.
The scourge of the pandemic and violence on top of that is dealing a double blow to the city and in particular its black population, which has been hard-hit by the outbreak of the coronavirus, officials said. And the gun violence appears to be exacerbated in part by people gathering in public despite the stay-at-home order, taxing a police department already stretched thin responding to COVID-19 response calls and dispersing crowds.
Between Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, 14 people were wounded, including a 5-year-old girl, and seven were killed by gunfire.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot denounced the violence in an impassioned address at the top of her coronavirus briefing on Wednesday and said that these actions place additional and non-necessary burdens on our hospitals and intensive care units.
Some 58% of deaths from COVID-19 in Illinois Cook County were black though the population is 23% black, and 72% of Chicago deaths were black patients though the city is 32% black.
Lightfoot noted that those same communities are the ones facing the brunt of the gun violence epidemic.
Just this week we talked about the disproportionate burden that black Chicago is facing with infections and deaths related to COVID-19, she said. These same communities continue to be plagued by gun violence. Im here to say enough, enough, enough. Our whole city focus must be on saving lives from all public health crises, whether its the pandemic or the epidemic of gun violence.
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From https://www.heyjackass.com
“Currently, 93.8% of all COVID-19 related deaths in Cook County have at least one (1) underlying condition. 72.4% have at least two (2) or more.”
Diabetes and heart disease. Both prevalent in the black community.
White folks ought not concern themselves with black issues. Take care of your own communities, black folks.
Apparently guns are now manufactured with artificial intelligence—and they are able to levitate and fire themselves at will.
Is technology amazing or what? ;-)
It’s a double scourge... virus and guns. At least for the second one, we can help by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.
/S
PS It isn’t fair that criminals, who are over represented in crowded prisons should face increase infection risk. So we are releasing them into the community.
/double-S
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So, are Whiteys being held responsible for this, as they are for everything else bad that happens in the world?
Gun violence is a matter of choice.
COVID-19 must be a Chinese supremacist virus. You know Asians hate blacks. (Illustrating they absurd ... as Rush would say.)
Gun violence my ass. Its black thug gang violence they face.
If these criminals don’t start obeying the laws, we may need to pass some more sternly worded laws!
Looks like Miles Davis, circa “Kind of Blue”.
Eraserhead’s mom?
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Thanks!
-—and a similar chart could be produced for any of our urban paradises—
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