Corona conundrum

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    Political scientist Evan Lieberman, an MIT professor who has studied the public response to AIDS and HIV based on ethnic and racial factors. He suspected that collecting disaggregated racial data on covid-19 could have unintended consequences. Yes, it would help identify areas of vulnerability or need. But when that vulnerability was then attached to a specific racial or ethnic category, he feared, it could harm the very group the data collection was supposed to help.

    “It is not difficult to imagine that if covid-19 comes to be understood as a ‘Black’ epidemic,” he wrote, “this will create false impressions for many white Americans — in the United States’ racially polarized and effectively segregated society — that the virus is ‘not our problem’

    “Not our problem” is the undercurrent when people refuse to wear masks in public. And “not our problem” is the conclusion one cannot help but draw when one studies the calendar and sees that the protests commenced around the same time that the data on racial disparities became a central story line in covid-19 news coverage."

    A rough justice will arise from that.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...shows-america-is-still-impervious-black-pain/
     
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    Interesting!

    To what degree could this be related significantly to diet....... and less wealthy Americans will tend to have a somewhat different diet than the middle class or wealthy?

    Processed foods tend to be cheap..... sugar is cheap.... but sugar is a leading cause in INFLAMMATION!


    "The difference between Ebola and influenza is that inflammatory response" (Dr. Joseph Ahrens after the 5:50 mark in this video:...
    So a possible connection seems obvious regarding diet and the response to many types of viruses????
     
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