Subways and buses.
And I didn’t have to spend millions on a study to figure that out.
While they are dong that, maybe they could also look into the crime rates for blacks.
Has anybody suggested it might be the result of lack of “Social Distancing”? Because of economic issues, minority groups may be living and/or working in more confined spaces. Just a thought!
Obviously the disease is racist.
Hmmm, let’s see, could illegal, substandard housing have anything to do with this? People crammed into living conditions that make steerage on the Titanic look spacious...
Advice for economic success has always been:
1) Finish school
2) Get a job. Any job.
3) Have children after you get married
Advice for health success:
1) Manage your weight
2) Manage your hypertension
3) Manage your diabetes
If there is one or more demographic groups which won’t take good advice, it doesn’t mean our society is racist.
Cause the virus is RACIST!!!!
Sheesh, people need to get over the victim mentality.
Men are getting hit worse than women and I don’t seen anyone whining about that or demanding investigations into why.
Is it ethnicity, or is it culture, which generally works in parallel with ethnicity?
If the virus is found guilty of discrimination, can it be charged with a hate crime?
It is not “ethnic minorities” in any direct way. It is only those “ethnic minority” categories whereever those categories have a larger proportion of folks with (1) incomes that provide for less than best nutrition and healthcare (less well off immune system), (2) have higher rates of some bad health conditions (like heart disease, obesity and diabetes). Those are conditions that persons who are not of an “ethnic minority” fall into as well, but it is true that some “ethnic minorities” have a disproportionate representation in some of them, for all kinds of reasons in their personal and family history.
chicom virus be raysis. To it black lives don’t matter
- Poorer overall health
- Poorer nutrition
- Tend to live in more crowded and unsanitary areas
Lots of rational reasons lying out there.
3 significant Underlying factors:
Obesity
Hypertension
Diabetes
Whitey’s Fault.
I watched a video last night and heard that adequate vitamin d is key to fending this off. His premise was that it is harder for those with darker skin to absorb vitamin d from the sun and should take additional supplements. Makes sense.
Why does it have to come to race. Why can’t we just put it to people?
Older people are hit harder than anyone, no matter what race. Why isn’t that studied and a better use of facilities designed?
Facts we know. I’ll use the 75-and-older numbers from the CDC: For ages 75 to 84, hospitalizations (30.5 percent), ICU stays (10.5 percent), and deaths (4.3 percent) are already high, and the key metrics go up even higher for people 85 and older; 31.3 percent hospitalized, 6.3 percent in the ICU, 10.4 percent fatality rate.
One note: The ICU stays could be lower for the oldest people as the disease can progress so quickly that they don’t even have an opportunity for intensive care.
We got a lot more numbers for everybody rather than a targeted race which has old people too. Get realistic.
rwood
They live in squalor, herds, big Dem run cities. Hubby worked with 1 who was terrified of small cities with less crime, wanted a big city where here was booze at motel.
Until they develop a disease like heart or diabetes they avoid doctors. Then they don’t follow many instructions.
“Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.”
While there may be a genetic predisposition, other, universal (and possibly not so universal), factors would seem more likely to be at play. Not a time to be driving our society farther apart, but some just don’t seem to be able to keep themselves from doing so.
I see groups of black people hanging out together without masks. My black neighbor had a bunch of people over for Easter. That neighbor and my hispanic neighbor were standing next to each other chatting the other day. Draw your own conclusions.
Carbohydrate ingestion causes insulin resistance. Insulin resistance keeps glutamine and glutamate stored in the extracellular matrix (ECM), because it can’t be imported into cells. Glutamine and glutamate acidify the ECM.
COVID-19 requires an acidic ECM for un-impeded entry into cells. American Black people, especially black women, have a much higher rate of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. This makes them more vulnerable to complications of COVID-19.
COVID-19 is prejudiced against blacks on the basis of dietary habits.