Taken one at a time, these could be seen as incompetence. Let's face it, that's what we've come to expect from this president. But when you step back and look at the actions and inactions as a whole, a pattern - a very ugly pattern emerges.
1) Dr. John Campbell., a professor of nursing in the UK, in his Thursday, May 7th Global Pandemic Update on Youtube outlined findings by the UK gov of epidemiology which found that even with mitigating for socioeconomic disparities, locales, etc. that people with darker skin are up to twice as likely to die from covid-19 than whites. Dr. Campbell believes it's a function of Vitamin D deficiencies, and he is vocal about the need to start testing for it.
2) Yale professor has come out and made the case that Trump's pandemic response is "genocide by default."
3) Prisons are getting hard with no mitigation efforts in place. The US criminal unjustice system has incarcerated minorities at far higher rates than whites.
4) Food production, especially meat packing plants are also getting hit hard, which means that the minority communities they draw their workforces from are also getting hit hard. No requirements for meat packing plants to shut down while the places are cleaned and alter the way they operate. Instead, workers are being threatened with losing any unemployment benefits if they don't return to their jobs.
5) We still have internment camps along the border that have COVID-19 spreading throughout them. But instead of doing anything other than purchasing N95 masks for ICE, immigrants are rapidly being deported. Mexico, Central American and Caribbean countries have all accused the US of deliberately deporting those who are already sick.
When the Tutsi fled Rwanda into the DRC, tens of thousands died from Cholera. Just because it was a virus killing them instead of bullets doesn't mean it was any less genocide. It doesn't have to be a gun or a gas chamber. It can be done by selectively refusing to provide supplies to cities that have a lot of immigrants and minorities like New York, LA and Chicago or states like Michigan and Washington.
Then there's the stolen medical supplies. The National Guard is protecting Maryland's testing supplies from being confiscated by the feds. FEMA took 500 ventilators from the state of Colorado then Trump returned 100 as a personal favor to the GOP senator up for re-election this year.
The Trump administration with Stephen Miller, Pence, Trump is letting the virus do the dirty work, but the pattern is there.
We are witnessing genocide.
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