Why is Corona impacting African-Americans so harshly?

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

Those officers have no protective equipment, awful!

they also insult by asking if they are gay, wtf are these people

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

Pretty much. All I got out of this is that black people are all poor, ignorant, and fat.

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

This! It has nothing to do with your race and everything to do with your health. And I might add nothing to do with poverty. At least not in this country. You can easily consume the same amount dollar wise eating healthy. I don’t have money and I eat fruits and vegetables and chix breast that I buy at Walmart that cost probably $3 a meal vs McDonald’s which is probably $7. I bet if I spent a week with a low income family and went shopping with them, taught them easy healthy cheap meals, they’d end up spending less than they normally do!

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In my city the AA neighborhoods are having block parties every night. My police officer friend said they won’t even bother trying so do anything about it because there are shootings too and they don’t want to put themselves in danger of this virus and getting shot. Social distancing is going on deaf ears with some people. I don’t know what we are expected to do ?

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It has to be the relative lack of white collar employment. If you're in a service industry/blue collar job, you haven't had the luxury of avoiding coworkers and commutes and working from home for the last 2-4 weeks. In fact you may even be laid off now and thinking -- hmm instacart is paying $21/hr or Walmart is hiring 150k workers and I need to put food on the table so you're out there interacting with the public.

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

This! It has nothing to do with your race and everything to do with your health. And I might add nothing to do with poverty. At least not in this country. You can easily consume the same amount dollar wise eating healthy. I don’t have money and I eat fruits and vegetables and chix breast that I buy at Walmart that cost probably $3 a meal vs McDonald’s which is probably $7. I bet if I spent a week with a low income family and went shopping with them, taught them easy healthy cheap meals, they’d end up spending less than they normally do!

You are assuming many things. One, that they have access to a kitchen. Two, they have access to cooking utensils. Three, they have access to a grocery store, a place to store what they buy and a way to get the food home from the grocery store. Four, that they have the time to cook a nutritious dinner.

Eating at McDonald’s may be more expensive than what you cook at home, but it may be all that is available to them.

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Blanket generalizations but I think in wealthier communities this started because there are more jet setters; more people who were off vacationing wherever or having relatives visit from around the world or jetting off to business meetings required by the management roles. Then those people return and go shake hands at fancy bar mitzvahs and parties in Greenwich. And then the law of exponential growth takes over -- people get it who weren't jetsetting or at the fancy party, but oh they happened to go to the dr to get a physical and said jetsetter was in the same room before them and coughed on things, then they bring it home to their kids, who take it to their friends, who take it to their parents etc.

In poor communities -- I think it's about being in public facing jobs; for all you know some of the African American community being hit hard in Detroit works at DTW as gate agents or bag handlers. Plus the poorer one is, the more likely that person is STILL in that public facing job even now because they don't have the luxury of quitting or WFH and also more likely they don't commute to said job by private car but by public transportation that's being used by tens of thousands of others.

The social determinants of health on something like this aren't rocket science. It's not about race so much as about poverty.

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

Must watch this video below. This man is now dead -- he was a bus driver having essentially a nervous breakdown on Facebook Live because an elderly woman in her 60s refused to cover her mouth as she coughed and coughed on his bus. This makes me so freaking sad.

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Governors should mandate people to have SOMETHING over their mouths - out in public.

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The poorer you are the more likely you are to have a job like bus driving or grocery store etc (ie still working), be in less good health to start with, maybe not have health insurance / seek medical care, rely on community things like laundromats, need to go grocery shopping more because you can’t buy a month’s worth of groceries all at once etc. This is regardless of race.

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I live in an area with poor whites and put blacks. In both groups, they are feeling like the stay at home order is too restrictive. They are congregations in protest.

I think poorer people get less info and do not have the free time to absorb news. Their social groups reinforce misinformation.

Also, many live in smaller homes with many more family members. They tend to take turns caring for children in their extended family and neighbors because no one can afford childcare. It’s privilege to be able to do social distancing correctly.

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Judging by the number of black people behaving like a trip to Costco was a family reunion requiring hugs and kisses, I’d say it’s that.

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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?

Come on. In the places where there are black people, they are being affected disproportionally. No one said only black people are infected.

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This is a good article.

https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate

[Anonymous]

Personal responsibility is critical for people of every race. I've mentioned before how astounding it is that Americans in general seem to have very poor hygiene habits, mostly notoriously men who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom.