I think there was a chud in this thread arguing precisely this (that it's the genetics of race and personal stupidity causing higher death rates in American minorities, and that this is a good thing).
Ah, here it is:
The US has a death rate on par or below that of demographically similar countries . . . There is no statistical basis to think that America has done significantly worse than any other country relative to its population base, and it's clear that, for example, it is doing much better than the European average.
So you're saying that because minorities died at a higher rate than white people that proves the response wasn't fucked up?
No, I'm saying that people of European descent died in one place at comparable rates to people of European descent died at another place, and it's important to compare apples to apples because genetic background matters a great deal in medical statistics.
Honestly, what's much more interesting is the huge disconnect in deaths of people of African descent by latitude. The most plausible explanation I've seen is vitamin D.
From a long-term and especially from an evolutionary perspective, the epidemic has been good for the population of the country as a whole.
Epidemics in general are beneficial for the survivors for a variety of reasons, of which the most important is freeing up resources that would otherwise be consumed by relatively low-value individuals.
That's a bit more pessimistic than I would put it — so far, the disease seems frankly amenable to targeting the stupid, as the effect of basic precautions on preventing infection has been extremely strong. Even if people around you are behaving foolishly, you can still take precautions to reduce your own risk to the point that it is unlikely you will catch it from them even as they spread it to each other. Overwhelmingly, the disease has affected people who failed to take basic precautions. There is no such thing as no risk, but as far as plagues go this one is pretty tame.
Still, overall, yes, this is exactly what I'm getting at.
Lol, you dishonestly fail to include the post that I said "was exactly what I'm getting at", which reveals the
horrible truth that, from the third quote down, I was talking about... elderly white Baby Boomers, not minorities.
As for the first two quotes, those are absolutely true and shouldn't be objectionable. Do you somehow assert that people of all races synthesize the same amount of vitamin D, which is proven to be linked directly to skin colour?
ETA: I really just can't
stand people like you who act like their piety for equality means that actual real-life medically important genetic group differences don't matter. Minority members
die every day because insufficient attention is paid to the way differences in symptom prevalence, medicinal effects, and hundreds of other factors require
different treatment paradigms, in situations ranging from cardiovascular incidents to childbirth, largely because doctors assume that studies done on white college kids are representative. These issues are known, yet people still ignore them, and people still die because others ignored them. You are contributing to this.
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