Dr. Elizabeth SawinDec 7, 2022
Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.
Show threadTofu Golem

@bethsawin
As Rebecca Watson pointed out:

Malaria kills and infects lots of people all over the world, but is not classified as a pandemic. When governments say a pandemic isn't a pandemic, they are telling you which lives they don't care about. In the case of malaria, that would be poor people in warm countries.

In the case of COVID-19, over 90% of the dying are unvaccinated people. I think the lives the gov't doesn't care about are Republicans (good) and African-Americans (bad).

Dec 7, 2022 at 4:30pmWeb
Show threadTimoDec 7, 2022
@tofugolem your info on black Americans is a little dated. " October 21, 2022 ­– The COVID death rate among Black Americans—which was the highest in the U.S. for many months during the pandemic, due to health disparities—is now lower than that of white Americans."
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/covid-death-rate-now-higher-in-whites-than-in-blacks/
COVID death rate now higher in whites than in Blacks

The COVID death rate among Black Americans—which was the highest in the U.S. for many months during the pandemic, due to health disparities—is now lower than that of white Americans.

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Show threadTofu GolemDec 8, 2022

@timo21
That's awesome news! Thanks for the correction.

While I would prefer if the death count were lower, I am a lot less worried about it.

My brother coined a beautiful word for people who cause their own death by refusing the science: stupicide.

Now I can use that word much more freely.