As Americans celebrate the huge numbers of black and brown people who showed up to vote, please also take the time to understand and appreciate that COVID has devastated their communities and, knowing that, STILL came out to vote in droves. Besides the CDC stats that showed the inequality in April, tRUMP and his CDC and national health services have neglected to do anything about the unequal numbers of deaths of people of colour.
The Majority Of Children Who Die From COVID-19 Are Children Of Color
Nov 12, 2020: Olivia Troye who worked in the COVID committee said that both Jerome Adams & Ben Carson were present during televised COVID task force meetings where tRUMP said he was “strongly” addressing the impact of COVID, which never actually happened.
APM RESEARCH LAB DATA
KEY FINDINGS (from data through Nov. 10):
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Of the more than 240,000 U.S. deaths catalogued in this Color of Coronavirus update, this is the number of deaths documented by group through Nov. 10, 2020: Asian (8,687), Black (46,211), Indigenous (2,251), Latino (46,912), Pacific Islander (334) and White (123,429). Additionally, 5,373 deaths are recorded only as “other” race (and likely include more Indigenous people and Pacific Islanders), while another 8,510 had an unknown race.
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In the past four weeks, the death rate among Indigenous people has accelerated the fastest (shown by a steeper slope in the graph above).
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These are the documented, nationwide actual mortality impacts from COVID-19 data (aggregated from all U.S. states and the District of Columbia) for all race groups:
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1 in 875 Black Americans has died (or 114.3 deaths per 100,000)
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1 in 925 Indigenous Americans has died (or 108.3 deaths per 100,000)
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1 in 1,275 Latino Americans has died (or 78.5 deaths per 100,000)
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1 in 1,325 Pacific Islander Americans has died (or 75.5 deaths per 100,000)
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1 in 1,625 White Americans has died (or 61.7 deaths per 100,000)
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1 in 2,100 Asian Americans has died (or 47.6 deaths per 100,000)
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Black Americans continue to experience the highest actual COVID-19 mortality rates nationwide—about two or more times as high as the rate for Whites and Asians, who have the lowest actual rates. Indigenous Americans’ death rate is just slightly lower than Blacks.
Please take a note of the APM Research Lab URL to read more.
REMINDER: tRUMP is vindictive, talks a lot about bloodlines and good blood and genes. He is also racist and a bigot. I have a 101 page file of proof from past and present, with thousands of URLs. That is why I never lasted long on Twitter. I am reported en masses and removed for telling the truth. He is using his past to shape his present… and anyone who did not vote for him is “the enemy.”
The following timeline shows tRUMP neglect: (URLs not hidden. Tired of doing the work for people who seem not to care. I am sure the people of colour copying any of this for their files won’t mind...)
From Sept… Small businesses have struggled to get PPP, meant for small businesses to survive COVID. ”Just 12% of black and Latino business owners who applied for PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loans reported receiving what they asked for, according to a survey by Global Strategy Group, and nearly half of these individuals say they anticipate being forced to close permanently in the near future.” MEANWHILE: PPP checks went out by the BILLIONS to Trump friends & family, while the average Joe are losing their businesses! (And Kanye “repaid” his debt of a PPP loan of 2 to 6 million by running as a 3rd party to help tRUMP… is that bribery or Quid Pro Quo?)
$153,850.00 That's the difference in median net worth between black families ($17,150) and white families ($171,000) in America as of 2016, per Federal Reserve data.
Also Sept… tRUMP: “No. You really drank the Kool-Aid, didn’t you? Just listen to you. Wow. No, I don’t feel that at all.” Trump proceeds to complain that, despite having allegedly done more for Black America than any president since Lincoln, they remain ungrateful: “I’ve done a tremendous amount for the Black community. And, honestly, I’m not feeling any love.”
From July … New COVID virus case records are being broken daily… and tRUMP responds by defunding COVID help, dismantling his coronavirus task forces, and shows that he is racist because it is still most people of colour getting sickest and dying and he has not done anything to find out why or give extra help! “As outbreak goes further out of control, Trump asks McConnell to ZERO OUT funds for testing & contact tracing.”
From June… tRUMP’s worst racist act yet. To call white people who support BLM Antifa, all while ignoring the stats in COVID’s very deadly attack on POC and ESPECIALLY black Americans! “Dear #BlackTwitter. You are 323% MORE likely to be killed by this virus than other people (including other POC.) That's according to the data for Illinois in the article.”
From June… The math is staggering given black people are a smaller segment of cities yet the majority of the deaths. What do you have to lose he asked you before his election… and now you know
May… Native American health center asked for COVID-19 supplies. Instead of PPE, they got body bags instead. "Are we going to keep getting body bags or are we going to get what we actually need?" a Seattle Indian Health Board official asked.
April … "You're saying 20 seconds of wash your hands with water," a Navajo doctor in Arizona said. "We do not have plumbing. And that's how I grew up."
April… “We’re seeing tremendous evidence that African Americans are affected at a far greater percentage number than other citizens of our country,” Trump said at his daily coronavirus press conference Tuesday. “But why is it that the African American community is so much, numerous times more than everybody else? We want to find the reason to it.” The COVID team stated that the communities needed better health outcomes… NO SHIT SHERLOCK. The man who wants to deprive more poor and vulnerable Americans with underlying conditions of insurance of SNAP, Social Security and ACA has done nothing to help those conditions.
VIDEO: “COVID-19 unveiled many of the health disparities in communities of color, with Black and Latino people more than four times as likely to be hospitalized than their white counterparts.” Here is but one example why people of colour may have poor health. The disparity between the segregated areas of some cities, like
Los Angeles, means basic HEALTHY food is not available, and fast food companies come in to take up the slack. But Liquor stores are surprisingly abundant.
1993 VIDEO of tRUMP bigotry on full display and the reason he hates being “politically correct” which means being able to say what racist crap comes out of his mouth. Native Americans are dying in huge numbers, just as black people and Hispanics are being targeted as well by the corona virus. “If you're wondering why there is so much Covid death on Indian reservations today, just watch this short clip of Trump from the 1980s.” Besides repeating over and over that the native Americans applying for casino licenses “don’t look Indian” he also says “why is it the Indians don’t pay tax, but ... I do” May 11 should be the beginning of finding out if that is true.
Nov 14 VIDEO: During the MAGA March … Horrible sign shown on Fox said they are coming for Indians and blacks first… When the march ended early in the day, the MSM left, but that is when the baddies came out … and brought their Nazi and confederate flags. Anyone who was no them was Amtifa and some poor person got beaten badly.
PS: I have a 102 page file on tRUMP racism and bigotry past and present… he is a racist… through and through. Most of those pages are URL sources.
tRUMP and Kushner and minions declared the pandemic response a success to end April and began reopening in May. tRUMP ignored his daily briefings that warned him, he ignored HHS warnings, he ignored global reports, he sent 17 tons of PPE to China, he purposefully screwed up the supply chains, he and Kushner seized supplies ordered by states and seems to have sold them to third party vendors who sold them to other countries and red states, and the small business money went to big corps, big chains, billionaires, banks, cruises lines, airlines and not to small business (Will we find sometime in the future that there were kickbacks via hidden LLCs? )
Rather than call it herd immunity, which they know is a lie as there is no vaccine yet or known immunity, tRUMP and Republicans are simply culling the herd. Getting rid of the sick, elderly, poor, drains of society has always been a dream of white supremacists and despots… and now it seems they are succeeding with impunity and made a lot of people more money while doing it. If that is not Hitleresque what is? tRUMP wants to cut Social Security while giving money meant for small businesses to major billionaire donors.
Also, tRUMP and his COVID team was privy to the data that showed that black and Hispanic communities are harder hit. Why would be care as they mostly vote for Democrats. Meanwhile he is calling his “good” and “very fine” people with dog whistles, calling the 2018 flu 2017 as a call to Q daily, and says angry white people with guns should “Free” and “Liberate” themselves from the shackles of their own homes… so they can dutifully go to work. Those going to work and being at the most risk were essential employees. The Healthcare hospital staff, Grocery and food retail staff, cleaning staff, meat packing plants, food delivery … are mostly people of colour.
H/T Meteor Blades 72,000 Food Workers Have Contracted COVID-19. OSHA Is Ignoring Them. “It’s seriously disappointing and dangerous the way the head of the Labor Department has been running OSHA.”
April 2020 … Some states reopened as tRUMP and idiot Governors declare “success” over a virus destined to stay around for many years at this rate… and the federal government ordered 100,000 more body bags… The biggest set was earmarked for purchase the day after President Donald Trump projected that the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus might not exceed 50,000 or 60,000 people.
Being “Vitamin D is important for immune function, modulates the inflammatory response to infection,” and “Demographic groups known to be at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency—Black individuals, the elderly, nursing-home residents, and those with obesity, vascular comorbidities, or chronic kidney disease—are also those at high risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and/or mortality,” I have an important question that has concerned me for some time.
Why was tRUMP touting Hydroxychloroquine and not plain old vitamin D3? He could have had it made by American companies on an emergency request for the stockpile. He could have had FEMA distribute it to at risk communities along with proper tests and PPE equipment. He could have mentioned it in the briefings once they know. In stead he said nothing… and did nothing.
That negligence to the growing statistics is akin to genocide and that will also be tRUMP’s legacy.A good thing to help you rest. Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, an authority on the pandemic’s disproportionate effect on communities of color, has been tapped for Biden’s COVID advisory board.
The full board, which includes 10 other doctors, scientists, and public health experts, will guide the incoming administration’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, including efforts to manage a surge of infections, ensure the approval of safe vaccines, and protect at-risk populations. Cases of the virus are on the rise in at least 40 states, with more than 9.3 million total infections, and more than 236,000 deaths.
According to the Biden-Harris transition team, the advisory board will “consult with state and local officials to determine the public health and economic steps necessary to get the virus under control, to deliver immediate relief to working families, to address ongoing racial and ethnic disparities, and to reopen our schools and businesses safely and effectively.”
Nunez-Smith, Murthy, and Kessler were already advising the Biden campaign on the crisis, and now have a new opportunity.
Saturday, Nov 14, 2020 · 10:05:33 AM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
From Dailuy Kos staff Gabe Ortiz
'Unconscionable': Trump admin moves to freeze wages for essential farmworkers amid pandemic
In the same year that it declared them “essential workers” amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration has published a rule that would freeze wages for hundreds of thousands of seasonal farm workers for two years. Their advocates called the decision, published by the Department of Labor (DOL) last week, “unconscionable and utterly devoid of a valid justification.”
But what should also be noted is that in addition to harming the livelihoods of the farmworkers who feed America, the rule stands to financially benefit the Trump family. Because of course. “One operation that could benefit directly from the new policy is the Trump family’s vineyard in Charlottesville, Virginia, which has employed foreign workers on H-2A visas in the past,” HuffPost reports. “The president’s second-eldest son, Eric Trump, owns Trump Winery.”