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I 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?
by jacobush 7y ago
I 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.