JWeinCom said:
SvennoJ said:
Logic is not humanities strong point.
Last year 235 black people were killed by the police in the USA.
21,878 black people were killed by covid19 up to may 26, about 21.7% of the total deaths at that point.
Last week had 5306 reported deaths in the USA, thus about 1150 black people lose there lives, every week while this keeps going.
(Black people have a higher death rate, however in absolute numbers, still more white people die of covid19)
The USA has already lost its decline and is hovering around break even week over week.
So yes, logic says, these protests will end up killing far more people than the police managed in many years.
However you can't protest a virus nor hold a virus responsible. Racism kills in far more ways than police brutality and its about time some real changes happen. Tanking the economy is a way to force reform and people have died for less worthy causes. It sucks though that its mostly the 60+ that will take the hit of these protests. (80% of deaths are people over 60) Old people are racists anyway....
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Ageism is no more acceptable than racism. Let's not make those kinds of broad accusations against any group.
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I don't know the proper emoji to use for sarcasm, hence the .... I thought it was clear by the 'it sucks' on the previous line. If I really thought old people are all racists it would be great to keep protesting and kill more old people in the process ;)
Yet true ageism is also at play in this pandemic. The age group mostly responsible for spreading it gets the mildest symptoms and just wants to go back to normal life asap.
