Ohio State Senator Steve huffman is guilty of a racial thought crime in interrogating the reasons why black populations are more vulnerable to Corina Virus-You know that thing that could have killed George Floyd that started the protests and near race wars that is fueling the second wave that spooked the stock markets today. Ok, I won't sugar coat it, the officer likely choked him to death. Also, it doesn't apear to be much of a second wave-save for maybe California, texas, Arizona, and possibly some others. Months ago, I said to watch out for a later wave in California since they went into lockdown early.
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About 1 in 20 will die, maybe more. And so as people come together and protest the police, and with the CDC saying mask provide no protection (or very little)...well lemme say that from a tactical point of view this isn't very smart. At least the fictional Zapp brannigan had a functional, albeit ridiculous, plan in stopping the killbots.
"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down."
Anyways, I got distracted long enough. Huffman, a former doctor, dared ask if it was because black people and people of color don't wash their hands. And naturally the left started playing the racism card.
Personally, I think keeping infected people locked up in their homes is what is incubating the disease to catastrophic levels-Try to get some fresh air in NYC- and it likely goes through the air vents of all those NYC apartments and office buildings. But there is concern that the spread itself is through hand to oral contact.
There are at least three things I want to say to his defense. One is the common saying, and the title of John F kennedy's final book, "we are a nation of immigrants". Migration policy estimates there are 44.7 million immigrants in the United states, and not all immigrants come from the best countries in the world. "Immigration" from Africa to the United states didn't end in 1809, it continues today.
-https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/sub-saharan-african-immigrants-united-states
2 million, when blacks make up 13% of the US population or about 43 million. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219 . Pew put the number at (4.2 m) 10% of recently immigrated in 2016. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/01/24/key-facts-about-black-immigrants-in-the-u-s/ . Certainly adds a curve ball into the reparations debate when 10+% of blacks may not have ancestral roots to American slavery, and others might be descendants of the Yoruba people who were fighting unjust wars to sell blacks into slavery in European colonies and the Ottoman empire. What is the "proper" redistribution of wealth, surrender genealogical info and DNA or does anyone whose black in America get to collect? But I digress.
Going back to IQ and African immigration we see:
source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/average-iq-by-country/
But we could also assume that those affording there way to the United states are likely to be more educated, or at least wealthier. And that assumption would appear to be correct.
-https://www.prb.org/blackimmigration/
But, we also see an association between National IQ and access to hand washing facilities.
There might be a lot of reasons for this, such as lack of opportunity, and lack of resources. Something they can maximize when they integrate into a western society. Given how many statues are presently being destroyed as they continue an attack on western culture (the culture that ended slavery), it seems many are still stuck in the eastern ideologies of iconoclasm.There was a split eastern and western Roman empire for a reason!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Iconoclasm#Reaction_in_the_West .
It's not to say the west is perfect, only 50% of the dutch, for example, wash their hands.
Noticably Itally(57%), Spain (61%) and France(62%) all have low hand washing rates and high Corona rates. Certain religions also forbid the use of alcohol, even in the cleaning of hands. And I am sure most of Hive's first introduction to Justin Sun, was him picking his nose on Camera at the start of the so-called AMA.
-independant.uk
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-european-countries-that-wash-their-hands-least-after-going-to-the-toilet-a6757711.html
-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143998/
What may be truly alarming is the rate of adequate hand washing (hha) by health care workers (HCW) seen in this study:
-https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=4407&context=dissertations;Demographic
the same researcher points to two other hand washing studied, one where whites had a 76% rate and others with an 87% rate.
see and note the bias the author has going into the below study. A bias doesn't of course mean it is wrong, I am coming into this with a bias too you know. But the study would confirm a benefit of integration into a western society above expectations. It would also suggest the college educated people practice better hygiene than the general public. It could also explain why males have it[corona] worse than women. Of course, people are free to question the data methods and results too-like how/why are college students better at washing their hands than nurses? Did they count people who showered, or did they plan to shower...when there wasn't a pencil pusher stalking them in the bath rooms.
see https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-270885791/predictors-of-hand-washing-behavior
and their reference to a previous study:
see id.
Notice the low handwashing rate in new york where Corona was sky high.
Also notice
-https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52137160
But also see, in contrast to the 2000 study,
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ792781.pdf
see id.
The argument may on it's face sounds racist, but the racial argument on this first topic may ultimately be rooted ultimately in immigration policy and in integration. Am I going to say Huffman was right? Well he was right to pose a hypothesis, it is up to him or scientists to try to prove him right.
There are other reasons too why he may be right. It is arguments posed by those arguing there exists systemic racism. I will this into the final two components, Homelessness and access to water.
On Homelessness,
https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/what-causes-homelessness/inequality/
The lack of housing and lack of access to shelters can affect peoples ability to have clean hands. Although I am not a proponent of welfare, the left could have built upon Huffman's argument to address black homelessness in the country-but they screamed racism.
On Access to water:
-https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/Water_Report_FULL_5_31_19_FINAL_OPT.pdf
-see id
A core initial step to solving a problem, or a chain of problems as the case may be, begins with identifying what the problem is and trying to understand it. To take what you know and try to develop a plan, and to carry that plan out, and verify.
https://math.berkeley.edu/~gmelvin/polya.pdf
The Coronavirus is a virus that appears to be killing blacks more than others. We should be free to interrogate ideas to gain an understanding of what is or isn't true concerning this problem. It is ok to argue things, like not washing hands, may be improbable-or other things like [genetic or not genetic] predisposed comorbid health conditions may be [or may not be] the cause. But to scream racism gets us no where, except bill gates shoving an aborted baby up their butts through his needle while these same democrats scream my body my choice. Because certain SJWs were quick to scream racism, look at how many potential debates and opportunities on how to improve the lives of poor black people were lost in the process.