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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting that not everyone is panicking.  Noticed this quote and realised I’ve heard very little from other black folks I know as well.  I’m black and I’ve been following given some upcoming work and personal (domestic) travel, but we haven’t cancelled anything.

“But the degree of fear is not universal. In Harlem, if there was hysteria, it was hard to find last week.

“People up here aren’t really paranoid, not yet,” said Sharon John, a street vendor selling T-shirts in front of the Apollo Theater, who had been a nursing assistant for more than four decades.

“It’s going to take a little more than that to get Harlem going.”

New York in the Age of Coronavirus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc.html?referringSource=articleShare[/quote]

Also my spouse (also black) is a healthcare provider, so is staying on top of their hospital’s current guidelines and other developments.  But we don’t know anyone AA who really really seems to be panicking.[/quote]

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