'Perfect storm for when COVID hits': Neglected Black communities in Alabama see coronavirus surge

NBC "News" / Comcast ^ | June 17, 2020 | By Ellison Barber and Tim Stelloh

[Pollster1]

Irony can be beautiful. Imagine the far-left empty heads exploding if a few more states swing for Trump on Election Day . . . and the margins are smaller than the Chinese Coronavirus death tolls among arsonists, rioters, and looters.

[Parmy]

Here in WA State we have the same problem in the Mexican community as well as on the Reservations. It isn't racist to state facts. They live communally, that is a lot of people in one living space. And, they don't clean their living spaces.

I know there are some who will accuse me of being racist, but I worked with these people for years.

I remember one house on the Reservation that had the bathroom window removed so the horses could use the bathtub as a watering trough. In another house, the clothes were piled high on the dining room table and were rummaged through to get enough to wear for the day.

Now, you all can flame away.

[Gumdrop]

I am puzzled by the attitude of some of these people. Are they suggesting that the government owes them a living, and everything else so they do not get Covid-19? Isn’t that a racist idea, sort of like a new type of plantation? Do they need a new handout to get them over this hump? And, when will this end?

If they need help, then give them help, but in the end they need to take control of the situation and quarantine themselves like all the other groups did.

As for their unemployment, we need to get our economy back so the jobs open up again.

[bgill]

No. The next county over.

[Joe Boucher]

Even poor Alabama blacks wont work for the pittance Nike pays them asians

[petitfour]

But they pay athletes so much. Can’t they share the wealth?

[Joe Boucher]

Smart athletes regardless of color buy or start businesses instead of buying expensive vehicles or houses. They then hire and pay employees.
That is the way to share the wealth.
Course ignorants go for the bling.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Some hard-hit areas, like Lowndes County, outside Montgomery, the state capital, don't have a single intensive care bed

SHOCKING that a county with less than 10k people has zero intensive care beds says big media

[Rebelbase]

The Chinese are highly racist. Why should their viruses be any different?

[Monitor]

I suspect the reason we are seeing higher rates of infection among certain groups comes down to how many people are sharing living quarters, and when one of them gets sick there is nowhere for them to quarantine to away from the rest of their house mates.