Why is Corona impacting African-Americans so harshly?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My handyman/friend is African-American, 53-years-old, 9 kids, 4 grandkids, and lives in the projects in Columbia Heights. He calls me for, "real news." He told me the word on the street is that the government is inventing the coronavirus to make a vaccine that's injected into black people to kill them. They're all sticking together in the projects where social capital is high and sense of community is strong. I think this is helping to spread it. They're more afraid of the government than they are the virus. Anyone on else hearing this from their friends in the projects?

That's a crazy, awful rumor.

It does sound crazy and awful but it's hard to trust after you learn things like the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment and other times where the government has used black people for testing, among other wrongs perpetrated by the government.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My handyman/friend is African-American, 53-years-old, 9 kids, 4 grandkids, and lives in the projects in Columbia Heights. He calls me for, "real news." He told me the word on the street is that the government is inventing the coronavirus to make a vaccine that's injected into black people to kill them. They're all sticking together in the projects where social capital is high and sense of community is strong. I think this is helping to spread it. They're more afraid of the government than they are the virus. Anyone on else hearing this from their friends in the projects?

That's a crazy, awful rumor.

I saw a something to that pop up on FB (from a low income white antivaxxer in the Central Valley in CA). And there's the train engineer yesterday who was going to try to ram his train into a hospital ship apparently. There's gonna be that aspect, why do you think people are buying guns?

[Anonymous]

Look at this giant party and they are mad , luckily they weren't arrested

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not affecting AAs disproportionately. It's affecting unhealthy people in general.

33% of Illinois Covid cases are AA. 13% of the Illinois population is black.
40% of the Michigan cases are AA. 13% of the Michigan population is black.

I do take your point that "unhealthy" people are more likely to get it, and due to a variety of factors there is a higher rate of obesity, hypertension, asthma, etc among the black population. But race is a factor here too.

AA's are more likely to go to church. Stay away from church. Even in South Korea, their largest outbreak was caused by the megachurch "cult".

Both Michigan and Illinois have been locked down for around 2 weeks (IL a little longer, MI a little less long), and most churches have been closed for longer.

Yeah, it's true that mega gatherings are the perfect storm for spreading a virus; however, here are some figures as of 4/3/20 for Korea.

Coronavirus Cases:
10,062
Deaths:
174
Recovered:
6,021

The median age of Korea is 47.2 or something like that. Italy has way more elderly, tend to hug and kiss more as a society before corona virus was identified, and 99% of those who died had underlying health problems. The northern Italian spread was tied to the soccer tournament during February where 40K plus fans packed into stadiums, and then the game moved to Spain where fans were outside (even though the game was closed off to spectators) so the germs spread to Spain.

It's not church gatherings per se. It's correlated to people who would have most likelihood of fatality and that's age and underlying poor health. If a higher number of African Americans are working in jobs that force more interactions (e.g., bus driver) and tend to live in higher levels of poverty (poor diet, stress from job, etc) than they would tend to have more health issues and so more likely to fall victim to complications from infections of the virus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Disparities in racial healthcare likely has a role as well. It has also been noted that black patients symptoms are not always treated as accurately or taken as seriously as other races. Serena Williams even with her celebrity had issues post partum with her health issues not being seriously treated.

Any specific details about Serena?

Here you go...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/identities/2018/1/11/16879984/serena-williams-childbirth-scare-black-women

[Anonymous]

I think the illness caused by this virus may be more severe in people who have depleted levels of Vit D3

I think darker skinned people in winter/early spring in the northern climates in particular probably have less Vit D3 than lighter skinned people.

I think in the summer months more of us are out in the sunlight and this may be a reason cold and flu season is less severe in the summer months. Maybe viruses spread less in the summer, but also if you do get it, your body might fight it off better because you have more D3 in your body.

[Anonymous]

Because quarantining is a rich person activity. Nytimes article on this out now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at this giant party and they are mad , luckily they weren't arrested

Those officers have no protective equipment, awful!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My handyman/friend is African-American, 53-years-old, 9 kids, 4 grandkids, and lives in the projects in Columbia Heights. He calls me for, "real news." He told me the word on the street is that the government is inventing the coronavirus to make a vaccine that's injected into black people to kill them. They're all sticking together in the projects where social capital is high and sense of community is strong. I think this is helping to spread it. They're more afraid of the government than they are the virus. Anyone on else hearing this from their friends in the projects?

Yes or similar. More afraid of the government - police than virus

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I assumed it was because the virus is spreading quickly in urban areas?

Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!

This. Urban areas, lack of social isolation (due to ignorance or lack of options), and more health problems. Obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and breathing problems are higher in AA population, even in those that are young.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not affecting AAs disproportionately. It's affecting unhealthy people in general.

False.

Michigan. Hooray.

So can you also explain why Italy, China, and Spain also have high death rates and....those countries lack black people?

[Anonymous]

Also, people in poverty are more likely to live in tight quarters with people sharing rooms and beds, more multi-general households. If grandma lives alone, she can be healthy, but if she lives with the grandkids, then all bets are off!
Italy also had many multigenerational households which they think played a part.

[Anonymous]

Duh, racism. 4 pages of this nonsense, trying to find some THING that doesn’t eventually lead you back to....racism.

[Anonymous]

Poor and dumb, of any color, will suffer the most

[Anonymous]

poor general health, inability to take time off work due to financial constraints, lack of willingness to follow rules.