Posted on 05/27/2020 5:17:30 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...If you are in Belgium and have COVID-19, your odds are not good: About one in six Belgians who have contracted the disease have died. If you are in Rwanda, a former Belgian colony with a per capita GDP about 1/60th of Belgium’s, your odds are superb. Rwanda has reported 339 cases, and none has even required admission to an ICU. Rwandans are younger than Belgians, but zero is a very small number.
In Switzerland, a country with excellent universal health care, a French-speaking Swiss with COVID-19 is 1.6 times more likely to die than a German-speaking Swiss. An Italian-speaking Swiss is 2.4 times more likely to die than a German speaker. The magnitude of these disparities is comparable to the magnitude of the disparities among white, Latino, and black people in the United States—even though there is no modern history of enslavement and genocide of Switzerland’s Italian-speaking population...
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COVID doesn’t attack based on race, it attacks based on sub-optimal behaviors.
Why don’t the “researchers” go THERE?
Poor diet, obesity, diabetes.
Which race suffers from those predispositions the most ?
“...even though there is no modern history of enslavement and genocide of Switzerland’s Italian-speaking population...”
Did they see what happened at Daytona Beach this past weekend? Or are they not into empirical evidence?
In addition, you aint black.
“By now it should be clear: We have no idea what is going on. Something is making the virus spare Rwandans and German-speaking Swiss and white Americans, while terrorizing Belgians and Italian-speaking Swiss and black Americans. If we can get the virus to pass over us all as if we were in the former categories, this long nightmare of a pandemic might end”
The answer is that there is not enough data to draw any meningful conclusions.
I doubt there are too many fat, lethargic Rwandans.
Speaking French and Itian are sub-optimal behaviors?
What’s your point, exactly?
Progressive propaganda and nothing more.
The virus is racist! Call the SPLC!
>> If you are in Rwanda, a former Belgian colony with a per capita GDP about 1/60th of Belgium’s, your odds are superb.
So much for the claim that black people are disproportionately harmed by CV19.
Having said that, I think it is true that we are divided into people who can support themselves without having repeated daily contact with others and those who can’t, the Zoom people and the Walmart people if you like, and given basic epidemiological dynamics the second group will suffer more from an epidemic than the first. That’s just they way epidemics work in modern society.
>>no modern history of enslavement and genocide of Switzerland’s Italian-speaking population..
No Viking incursions?
No Roman hordes?
Or is there an expiration date on claims of being the victim of genocide?
Why, the crackas, of course.
Men are hit worse than women. If it were the reverse, it would be all over the news.
Lots of counties in FLA deaths show no difference.
Vitamin d deficiency.
Why do people believe every outcome should be the same?
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