No, the coronavirus isn’t racist

The Spectator ^ | 10 Apr 2020 | Heather MacDonald

[Rummyfan]

It was just a matter of time before the coronavirus was leveraged as a tool of race politics. With the US presidential campaign in suspension, Democratic broadsides against America’s white supremacy have lost a valuable outlet. Now, however, the media, politicians, and race activists have found a new theme: ‘Black Americans Bear The Brunt‘ of COVID-19 deaths, as the New York Times put it.

America’s medical personnel have gone overnight from being heroes to being bigots. Three failed presidential contenders — Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker, joined by Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Robin Kelly — have asked the CDC and the FDA to investigate doctors’ ‘implicit biases’. Joe Biden joined the coronavirus racism fray on April 9 with a denunciation of the ‘structural racism’ — amplified by the pandemic — that is ‘built into so much of our daily lives, our institutions, our laws, and our communities’.

Like most race rhetoric, this latest indictment of America’s purported bigotry leaves out some essential facts.

[Rummyfan]

Camara Phyllis Jones, an epidemiologist and visiting fellow at Harvard University, spent 13 years at the CDC identifying purported racial biases within the medical system, part of a vast STEM grievance project funded by the CDC, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes for Health. ‘This is the time to name racism as the cause’ of all disparities, coronavirus-related or otherwise, Jones told ProPublica. ‘It’s because we’re not valued.’

Our CDC hard at work.

[Travis McGee]

[tomkat]

Anyone who believes that’s true is militantly moronic, and all the logical arguing in the universe will never change their ‘mind’.

It’s a colossal waste of time to even attempt same.

/.02

[jonascord]

It's truly frightening that these people are wandering around, loose. Covid-19 is non-denominational, and shows no racial bias.

If they actually believe this, they should be culled out, and sequestered until they can prove human intellect, or starve...

[Magic Fingers]

“Militantly moronic” - nice!

[Strident]

the article makes the real point, which I will paraphase.

Those pushing for prolonged shutdowns can work from home.
The blue collar working classes, much of whom are non-white, not so much.

If the virtue signalers actually cared about racial disparity, this tragic risk to these people of NEVER getting their jobs back, due to the fact the jobs will be gone in a depression, would be higher of mind.

Or maybe it is high of mind. An expanded permanent underclass dependent on public support is the target.

The money comes from “other people” as long as there are any. Hat tip to M. Thatcher

[bort]

It’s called using too many illegal drugs, not exercising, and eating too much fried chicken, etc. Don’t be fat, don’t smoke, don’t do crack or heroin, don’t eat an unhealthy diet, a don’t lead a sedentary lifestyle. Unfortunately, urban blacks often don’t follow this advice.

[Travis McGee]

[mulligan]

Yes it is. It attacks all races.

[BatGuano]

“we’re not valued.”
I submit that you will never be valued as long as you don’t value yourselves.

Chicago homicides, LA, Detroit, Baltimore etc.
Black Abortion rate
Drug and alcohol addiction
not valuing education
generations on welfare
Baby moms
Single moms
Missing fathers
VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS!

All of the above is wrapped up in one word that the Blacks
use with impunity to describe their plight, “RACISM,”

[polymuser]

The prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP or hypertension) in African-Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world. More than 40 percent of non-Hispanic African-American men and women have high blood pressure.

African American adults are 60 percent more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to have been diagnosed with diabetes by a physician.

Although African Americans usually smoke fewer cigarettes and start smoking cigarettes at an older age, they are more likely to die from smoking-related diseases than Whites.

Although researchers aren’t sure why, evidence shows that African Americans have a 30 percent greater chance of dying from heart disease than Caucasian Americans.

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Anyone got a clue why this is? I do, but such truths, well...tagline.

[spintreebob]

It’s called SDOH - Social Determinants of Health.

But check out the anti-science cherry picking of certain SDOH and avoidance of others. The most avoided SDOH are GAY lifestyle SDOH - - - very unhealthy.

[arthurus]

If ratios are not precisely even across ethnic and racial lines then Racism must necessarily be the cause. Sura 13 in the Wokees’ Koran.

[Ragnar54]

In addition to the socioeconomic factors listed by the author, there is this to consider: people with darker skin have lower vitamin D levels(unless supplemented):

Probability of Vitamin D Deficiency by Body Weight and Race/Ethnicity

"Conclusions:
The effects of skin color and body weight on vitamin D status are large, both statistically and clinically. At typical target concentrations of deficiency (below 20 or below 30 ng/mL), those with darker skin colors or heavier body weights have a higher probability of being vitamin D deficient. Knowledge of these effects may facilitate the diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency."

There is an article on NIH by a Canadian physician (Dr. Gerry Schwalfenberg) who works in nursing homes. He has developed a protocol for reducing flu like illness among his patients. This should be tried against the corona virus in US hospitals:

"A colleague of mine and I have introduced vitamin D at doses that have achieved greater than 100 nmol/L in most of our patients for the past number of years, and we now see very few patients in our clinics with the flu or influenzalike illness. In those patients who do have influenza, we have treated them with the vitamin D hammer, as coined by my colleague. This is a 1-time 50 000 IU dose of vitamin D3 or 10 000 IU 3 times daily for 2 to 3 days. The results are dramatic, with complete resolution of symptoms in 48 to 72 hours. One-time doses of vitamin D at this level have been used safely and have never been shown to be toxic. We urgently need a study of this intervention. The cost of vitamin D is about a penny for 1000 IU, so this treatment costs less than a dollar."

Vitamin D for influenza

There is a presentation by Dr. Robert P Heaney on the healthful effects of adequate vitamin D levels:

Vitamin D Sunshine Optimal Health: Putting it all Together

Coronavirus can be Prevented - Vitamin D Solution

[JCL3]

The vitamin D hammer does work.
Most useful when exposure to sunlight is very limited.

[Ragnar54]

I haven’t tried the hammer, but I have taken about 7,000 IU daily for about 10 years. No flu, no colds. I used to get colds about twice a year.