[lightman]

Those of Chinese ancestry may have a gene making them more vulnerable to this virus than other population groups are.

I hope COVID-19 proves the death of "political correctness" and the heretofore vorbotten open acknowledgement that there ARE differences between the races that are more than skin deep.

[vikingd00d]

>>I hope COVID-19 proves the death of “political correctness” and the heretofore vorbotten open acknowledgement that there ARE differences between the races that are more than skin deep.

If sickle-cell didn’t convince them, i doubt this will either.

[Pelham]

It probably will be true only for the Reality Based cohort. And they already do think like that anyway.

It’s a gene that affects the lining of the lung. It’s already known to make Asians way more vulnerable to SARS, itself another coronavirus.