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In reply to the discussion: Total insanity/stupidity in Wisconsin [View all]Moostache
(11,009 posts)A month ago, we had no demographics on the race, ethnicity or financial station of the majority of victims from the virus.
We had an exponential curve of infections and deaths in New York City, and as long as the dead were just that - dead Americans - it scared a lot of people into compliance with the necessary steps to mitigate this disaster, albeit too late to save thousands from unnecessary deaths or life changing illness.
Then it came out...COVID-19 kills more minorities than whites, it kills far more economically disadvantaged than wealthy, and it seems to be 'someone else's problem' because people want to believe that.
There is no cure for stupid indeed, but stupidity fueled by racism is what we really have before us, not that it helps solve the problem.