04-30-2020, 10:44 AM
(04-29-2020, 10:12 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(04-29-2020, 09:53 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I going to agree with you. I now believe that COVID19 is a racist disease that mainly targets minority populations. We were told that the disease didn't care about race but that was wrong based on the results that we've seen so far.
Would you care to link to a source that verifies this? I assumed this was a disease that didn't target one race over another, and hadn't made race an issue to speak of on that. I could believe the US health care system gives an advantage to those over the poverty line, but had again not made race much of an issue. Yes, the US has a problem with health care, but this doesn't seem the time to push that issue. The system is just swamped.
With Trump advising internal poisons, I'm just not trusting sourceless stuff right now.
My understanding of the racial and, in the case of Latinx sufferers, ethnic impacts on health: once you factor for things like health insurance and housing/work density, the impacts more or less disappear. If there is actually a genetic component, I'm unaware of it. Women do better do to their XX chromosome benefit but suffer more autoimmune disease that puts them at greater risk. That's it for genetics, as far as I know.
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