If you are wondering what is motivating a large part of the anti-mask sentiment and "back to normal" policies, here it is.
Genocide Joe: our "third black president".
Compounding issues like increased comorbidities and lower access to proper medical care can be destructive for those who get Covid multiple times.
After contracting Covid for the third time, in May 2022, S. Monet Wahls noticed that her usual fall and winter cough became a perpetual, year-round hacking. Respiratory issues made sleeping at night challenging.
Lingering, chronic symptoms like Wahls’ illustrate the potential effect of multiple cases of Covid on one person, doctors told NBC News. While there seems to be a range of experiences each time a person gets Covid, Dr. Geoffrey Mount Varner, an emergency room physician in Maryland and Virginia, said Black people should be vigilant about avoiding multiple Covid infections. Left unchecked, the effects of the virus could devastate Black communities.
“Some of the data clearly showed that Covid impacted Blacks disproportionately, so it only makes sense that it’s going to be the same with multiple infections because there are so many people who had it,” Varner said. “And because we have more comorbidities such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity — the main drivers in terms of having a negative impact as it relates to Covid — with multiple infections the data is showing that each infection is like a health insult that will manifest itself more in the hardest-hit community, which is Black people. So, you have a sick person getting this virus more than once and the outcome is going to be different, more harmful, than white counterparts.”
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Have you considered that after hundreds of years of kidnapping, enslaving, persecuting, and discriminating against a people systematically and then flooding them with "COVID is over" propaganda, it's incredibly disgusting to just smugly say "well if those black people didn't want to die of COVID they should have vaxxed and masked".
Not to mention the inherent implication that black people are not vaccinated and not masking.
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"We live in a society, and decisions made on the direction of that society have social effects."
"But what about personal responsibility?"
And there are not ways to prevent getting infected. There are only ways to reduce the likelihood. The only thing that prevents infection is an absence of Coronavirus, which requires massive social intervention and cannot be brought about through personal choice.
If nothing is done about COVID, it will always disproportionately harm black people.
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How can you continue to not understand that the point is that given similar precautions and similar rates of infection, black people will have worse outcomes? It's not complicated at all.
This user has a history of saying ableist shit, defending settlers and landlords, and denying climate change jsyk
Ban hammer inbound.
Star Wars brain. not even once.
star wars fans should pay more attention to what the battle of endor was an allegory for
"The Empire did nothing wrong and the Republic was corrupt anyway. The space trains ran on time!"
"I would actually be a Grey Jedi that is cool, calm, and collected and does a pragmatic number of atrocities and acts of cruelty to maintain balance with the Force."