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[quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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