Posted on 12/23/2020 5:42:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The unrelenting COVID-19 crisis has pushed Americans already on the financial brink to face impossible choices, and already vulnerable groups with the slimmest safety nets are suffering much of the fallout.
And though no amount of data will ever fully grasp the full human toll from this past year, a new report underscores how the underlying difficulties experienced by the LGBTQ community are exacerbated by the virus.
“COVID has revealed and exacerbated disparities that existed way before the pandemic started,” Logan Casey, co-author of the report and policy researcher at MAP, said.
Now, a community already targeted by hate speech, violence and discrimination find themselves fending off further threat amid the pandemic.
With slimmer financial margins, the pandemic’s stressors multiplied. Lower-income LGBTQ households reported higher rates of serious financial problems, job loss or disruption and serious problems with internet connection, compared to higher-income LGBTQ households.
And with pervasive social isolation a main byproduct of the pandemic, those within the LGBTQ community suffered greater in the loss of social networks, the report found. Approximately 44% of LGBTQ households reported serious problems coping with social and physical isolation during the pandemic, compared to 23% of non-LGBTQ households.
“The pandemic is really holding up the mirror to our society, and whatever was wrong with it before has just been amplified,” Bri Barnett at Trans Lifeline, a crisis phone line providing peer support, told ABC News.
“This report clearly spells out how the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the devastating consequences of discrimination, particularly for LGBTQ people and queer people of color,” Barbara Simon, the head of news and campaigns at GLAAD, said in a statement to ABC News. “The suffering our community has endured is heartbreaking, and this new research shows it is directly related to the inequality and challenges LGBTQ people already face.”
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Disney is heavily invested in the downfall of the family.
Their simple metric? AIDS infections stalled.
Men who think they are women hardest hit...
Uhhhhhh....so-o-o-o-o-o.......covid issssssss......a hate virus?
Agreed
Foad to the lot of the them.
“... particularly for LGBTQ people and queer people of color,”
And her point is?
I will take “Compromised Immune Systems” for $500 Alex.
They need to stop crying.
The government is sending them $600 big ones (possibly $2,000).
Feel better now?
Now, a community already targeted by hate speech, violence and discrimination find themselves fending off further threat amid the pandemic.
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Seriously? They’re the most pampered, pandered-to, and feared group in the US. How much ass-kissing do they want?
perhaps the DRUGS they are taking for their
bizarre psychological DISEASE impacts their
ability to fight infectious disease(s)
and resist depression and sociopathy?
What a bunch of crap.
1. This is based on self reported issues
2. The LGBTQXYZ community is known to be dramatic
3. There is a higher percentage of this community in cities that have locked down
4. This community’s social life revolves around bars and large gatherings not family type connections. In a time like this, those events and places are shutdown and they don’t have the solid relationships that last through lockdowns.
What a curious factoid? One could argue is that their self-imposed lifestyle is to blame. But, most LGBTQ I have encountered are quite outgoing and extremely tech saavy. One would think they might have better coping skills, support networks, etc. than average. But instead they are having a harder time of it? Interesting.
This is pure propaganda in its presuppositions and conclusions. If we presuppose that there’s no dysfunction in a demographic then we can ignore the downstream social impacts that dysfunction produces. That sets the stage for blaming the impacts (that all of us face regardless of sexual preference or so-called gender identity aka confusion) of a situation, like COVID, on society. It’s the same old mantra... blame the usual suspects while asking no one to be honest about their choices in life.
How do we resist? We do three things:
Pray - draw closer to God for He is Sovereign over all.
Pastor - do not be silent in our areas of influence - especially family and friends. Speak truthfully and lovingly to the issues and do so consistently and with good timing.
Participate - gone are the days where we can trust that we’ll be left to our freedoms AND liberty. While they cannot take our freedom from us (an internal state of mind), they CAN take our liberty and have demonstrated the will and ability to do it. So we must become activists for conservatism in our local communities.
BONUS: Prepare - the enemy, if you listen closely, will tell you what they intend to do and that has been spoken very clearly. That means we have to establish a resolve to fight and develop the means to do so. Individually and collectively. That also includes living to fight another day.
And how is that different from everyone else?
With slimmer financial margins, the pandemic’s stressors multiplied. Lower-income households reported higher rates of serious financial problems, job loss or disruption and serious problems with internet connection, compared to higher-income households.
Yep, still true.
Duh!
I guess if you can’t be bothered with condoms, you surely can’t be bothered with masks - and a life style that integrates a good deal of comorbidities also says you’ll be impacted more.
The pandemic is really holding up the mirror to our society, and whatever was wrong with it before has just been amplified How true this is we always knew there was fraud in elections and the pandemic amplified it.
Maybe stop cornholin. Just sayin.
Apparently so! This is such a sneaky little virus. And smart, too!
The obvious solution is to toss more money at the anti-DNA freaks and give them EVERYTHING they demand.
Oh boo hoo! We’re all in the same boat! Stop trying to get special sympathy and favors as a substitute for the self-esteem that you lack!
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