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In reply to the discussion: 'Genocide by default': Yale epidemiologist calls Trump's coronavirus response a potential war crime [View all]citizen blues
(605 posts)48. Dr. John Campbell, a professor of nursing from the UK
has reported on findings in the UK that there is a biological basis for people with darker skin experiencing more complications. It has to do with Vitamin D. He's even been accused of being a racist by stating this, but the UK government now has data to back that up.
This finding would strengthen the case for genocide.
Thursday 7th May, Late Global Update
Not only that, but Trump administration has been accused of deliberately deporting people out the immigration detention camps back to vulnerable countries like Mexico, those in Central America and the Caribbean.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-deporting-infected-migrants-back-to-vulnerable-countries/2020/04/21/5ec3dcfe-8351-11ea-81a3-9690c9881111_story.html
Not to mention that the U.S. prison population is predominantly minority. Meat packing and other food production are often served by immigrant and minority labor.
In the state I currently live in, the Latino population has been getting hit hard because of the conditions in the meat packing plants. The state my younger offspring lives in, the same population is getting hit exceptionally hard for the same reason plus large scale agriculture and other food production plants.
I find it entirely plausible that we are witnessing genocide.
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'Genocide by default': Yale epidemiologist calls Trump's coronavirus response a potential war crime [View all]
CousinIT
May 2020
OP
As shown at Nuremberg, it is not correct that international law is unenforceable.
TomSlick
May 2020
#38
yep. If it were whites who were disproportionately affected, I have no doubt whatsoever
renate
May 2020
#18
This is what prominent Democrats should be shouting...WHO CARES IF ITS EVEN PLAUSABLE?
LiberalLovinLug
May 2020
#24
Not omission; deliberate acts of murder. Stealing PPE instead of firing up the DPA.
lagomorph777
May 2020
#31
If you do not test until people are showing symptoms of the disease then you have a up to a 2 ...
Botany
May 2020
#44
It really is genocide by default, or at least willfull, gross negligence resulting in manslaughter?
Evolve Dammit
May 2020
#47