Global Pandemic Event 201

[Ninurta]

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On a similar note, USA Today continue the MSM goal of dividing the public...

Health issues for blacks, Latinos and Native Americans may cause coronavirus to ravage communities.

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“Like most things in society, it's going to be regressive. It's going to be felt disproportionately by the poor, the vulnerable,
the marginalized and obviously that falls down in this country on communities of color.’’

As the coronavirus continues to spread across the country, advocates and civil rights groups are pushing to get local
and federal lawmakers to focus attention on communities of color and steer resources to places like reservations and
community health centers that serve them.

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While the Affordable Care Act helped many people of color get health coverage, many still don’t have insurance, or access to
providers and quality care, experts said. According to the Census, 8.5 percent of whites were uninsured in 2017, compared
to 10.6 percent of blacks, 7.3 percent for Asians and 16.1 percent for Hispanics.

Dr. Melissa Clarke, former assistant dean in the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., said the nation’s
history of health disparities and the stressors faced by people of color, including racism and poverty, are factors in those
communities disproportionately having the “very diseases that COVID19 presents a problem for.”

Those include high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, lung diseases, including asthma and chronic bronchitis, and
autoimmune diseases like lupus – all disproportionately found in blacks, Latinos and Native Americans...'

USA Today: (More in the link)

I'm torn by these pronouncements. According to the criteria listed, I live in a "community of color", despite the fact that this area is more than 97.5% "white". I feel a little like I did when Jesse Jackson tried to get me to join his "Rainbow Coalition" back in the early 90's, because I was a "person of color". I considered his offer rude and racist then, and I still do now.

On the other hand, perhaps Outsiders will now notice Appalachia, and finally send us some resources after more than a century of only TAKING from us, and making condescending sport of us, giving nothing at all back, and making lots of flowery promises that never come to fruition. I'll not hold my breath until that happens, though...



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