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Curious why you look to be getting downvoted. One thing when I looked at the data. Despite the hype / orthodoxy on the left about blacks and hispanics being th
by tempnow987 5y ago
Curious why you look to be getting downvoted.
One thing when I looked at the data. Despite the hype / orthodoxy on the left about blacks and hispanics being the ones getting / dying from covid (disproportionate effect). The actual differences were not that large.
"Black people make up a similar share of cases relative to their share of the population (13%), but account for a slightly higher share of deaths compared to their population share (14% vs. 13%). This pattern has been consistent since October 2021."
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-19-cases-and-deaths-by-race-ethnicity-current-data-and-changes-over-time/ https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-1...
So yes, disproportionate to a degree, but I feel the messaging ran away with this racial disparity angle. This was a fact changing virus, and spread was not even by community. In other words, asian community may have been hit hard early? But now has a pretty low rate?
- colpabar 5y ago>Curious why you look to be getting downvoted. It doesn't really add anything to the discussion; the comment boils down to "conservatives bad".
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoIt does add something to the discussion. It demonstrates the call stack of how we got to a point of much of white america engaging in covid denialism.
- tempnow987 5y agoRight, I thought it laid that call stack out well, even though my own view is elderly, overweight WHITE americans were actually at some real risk despite the positioning going on.