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"Social inequality in the city meant the Spanish flu hit all the harder." That is another statement without any support, like the entire article. It is not clic
by AdrianB1 7y ago
"Social inequality in the city meant the Spanish flu hit all the harder."
That is another statement without any support, like the entire article. It is not clickbait, it's propaganda.
- collyw 7y agoIt's the Guardian, it's to be expected.
- collyw 7y agoDo the downvoters honestly find the Guardian objective in its reporting?
- jacobush 7y agoI don't understand what you find offensive with that statement. Do you mean to suggest rich people are always hit as hard as poor people?
- AdrianB1 7y agoI don't find it offensive (it is not), I find it untrue and unsupported. Social inequality does not make a pandemic to hit harder, for example the lack of rich people (reduced inequality) would not decrease the rate of infection of the rest of the population. A city with all poor people (low inequality) would probably be hit even harder, so the living conditions are a factor at amplifying the effect of a pandemic, inequality is not. Inequality in theory slightly reduces the hit if you assume the rich will better take care of themselves.