From this morning’s email, “The Covid death rate for white Americans has recently exceeded the rates for Black, Latino and Asian Americans.” by David Leonhardt, one of the New York Times journalists who enjoys covering numbers and economics.
One of the defining characteristics of the pandemic’s early stages was its disproportionate toll on Black and Latino Americans.
During Covid’s early months in the U.S., the per capita death rate for Black Americans was almost twice as high as the white rate and more than twice as high as the Asian rate. The Latino death rate was in between, substantially lower than the Black rate but still above average.
Covid’s racial gaps have narrowed and, more recently, even flipped. Over the past year, the Covid death rate for white Americans has been 14 percent higher than the rate for Black Americans and 72 percent higher than the Latino rate, according to the latest C.D.C. data.
In other words, the best minds of New York City have figured out that a person cannot be killed twice by COVID-19.
[A friend’s comment on the above: “Democrats previously advocated giving preferential access to COVID medical treatment to People of Color. Now that whites are dying at a higher rate, should whites get preferential access to medicine?”]
Let’s check in on Sweden. Given their horrific heresy, maybe COVID-19 is killing them twice?
The country that gave the finger to SARS-CoV-2 and kept its schools open has a much lower case rate than still-masked Portugal (“In Portugal, There Is Virtually No One Left to Vaccinate” (NYT), 2021) or the U.S. (cases trending up, despite Science-following leadership (TM) since January 20, 2021). Those are just “cases”, though, right? How about deaths? Same pattern…
Reminder: When COVID-19 hit, friends who are medical school professors said that humans would have to co-evolve with SARS-CoV-2 and all of the measures being taken and proposed were going to be counterproductive because they would slow down this co-evolution. (Also, that if they pointed this out publicly they would never get another research grant!)
Good to see that vaccinated Portugal is doing great. Just six months ago the sky was falling and we had to do forced vaccinations, now hardly anyone talks about the Wuhan Virus.
> Also, that if they pointed this out publicly they would never get another research grant!
Hopefully academia understands now that 50% of the population do not believe a totalitarian organization controlled and subjugated by mediocre bureaucrats. I certainly have lost all trust in “experts” by now.
> (Also, that if they pointed this out publicly they would never get another research grant!)
A long time ago, way back at the beginning of this thing, I asked one of my childhood friends (since age three) who is now an ER physician at a big healthcare provider in NJ a simple question. I asked him if he would like to talk with me about his thoughts regarding SARS-CoV-2. He never answered me, although I am 100% positive he got the question.
It’s just a good thing I never went to medical school and don’t have to apply for research grants, because even my basic undergraduate immunology courses at a pretty good school told me just about the same thing, once I understood the structure of the virus and how it basically worked. I know I’ll never get a research grant! I’m screwed!
The good news is that an ER physician doesn’t have to do grants to make a good living.
The bad news is that ABMS sent us letters threatening revocation of our board certification if we were caught spreading ‘disinformation.’
> The bad news is that ABMS sent us letters threatening revocation of our board certification if we were caught spreading ‘disinformation.’
Yeah, that’s how I interpreted his Omerta, even with someone he’s known throughout his entire life. He’s a good man and I didn’t press the question – and didn’t count his option to stay silent as a “ding” to our friendship. We’ve been through a lot together and he’s earned plenty of Life points with me over the years, including the right to remain silent on matters that might potentially ruin his career, which neither of us want. However, his silence spoke volumes because there’s basically no other question I can’t ask him.