Posted on 04/09/2021 7:14:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Thursday declared racism "a serious public health threat."
Driving the news: Walensky highlighted the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on communities of color, pointing to case and death counts, as well as economic and social effects.
What she's saying: "[T]he disparities seen over the past year were not a result of COVID-19. Instead, the pandemic illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism," Walensky said in a statement.
* "What we know is this: racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans. As a result, it affects the health of our entire nation," she added.
* "Racism is not just the discrimination against one group based on the color of their skin or their race or ethnicity, but the structural barriers that impact racial and ethnic groups differently to influence where a person lives, where they work, where their children play, and where they worship and gather in community."
* "These social determinants of health have life-long negative effects on the mental and physical health of individuals in communities of color."
What to watch: Walensky said the CDC will continue to study the impact of social determinants on health outcomes and make investments in racial and ethnic minority communities to address disparities related to COVID-19 and other health conditions.
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And oh yeah, The agency also launched a new web portal, “Racism and Health” that “will serve as a hub for the agency’s efforts and a catalyst for greater education and dialogue around these critical issues.”
See here:
https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/racism-disparities/index.html
This is why you cannot believe a word the CDC says. The are all political all the time.
I think that's more accurate.
I agree.
It’s humiliating how White people are treated and openly characterized today.
They are “racismed” in the workplace, online, by elected officials and the law.
I’m sure the CDC will be right on that epidemic.
KarlInOhio declares the designated hitter “a serious public health threat”.
What the State defines as “racism” will be the modern equivalent of the Soviet “sluggish schizophrenia”.
I do know that black folks are scared of the China Virus due to the racist propaganda put out by the msm.
Yep!
The CDC should be on-board with being against fake ‘hate crimes’ against blacks and fighting real hate crimes against whites.
The narrative is dead to me. Actually, it’s been dead since Obama the Terrible took office in 2009.
Well, if racism is so bad, which comes as a shock to most of us Neanderthals, then maybe the CDC should stop doing it.
If you replace racism with cdc, it makes more sense.
He is absolutely correct.
The systemic/institutional racism/sexism known as “affirmative action” is a high-tech lynching of straight, white males.
I declare that the members of and voters for the democrat party are a serious public health threat.
You know who never saves anything?
People who think they are going to save everything.
I ain’t taking advice from the unscientific racist morons at the CDC.
If this fool thinks that racism is a public health problem she should take an evening stroll in a majority black neighborhood. Then maybe she’ll get a taste of some unhealthy racism.
“When you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail.”
Bottom line: People are a “public health threat”.
white people are the least racist people in America 2021.
Its a shame, the Left has now brought us to where we were as a nation in 1950. Soon we will have institutionalized Segregation and All Black schools and all Black stores, etc. We will become more divided than during the civil war.
Cute to see the descendant of the Bolsheviks setting up for Pogroms against the native population.
Her family did it in Russia and Ukraine too.
the cdc is a serious public health threat
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