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Hortensis

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21. Surely it was deliberate because it was DELIBERATE?
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 10:19 AM
Oct 2022

Last edited Fri Oct 7, 2022, 11:43 AM - Edit history (3)

All the victims of course were people. Actually, in the beginning some thought black people, including many black people themselves, were significantly less vulnerable because the early pandemic death rate in Africa was believed to be significantly lower than among whites.

So far, blacks at 13% of the population have suffered @15% of Covid deaths.

Over 75% of deaths have been in the 65+ group, who are 16% of the population. (!!!)

Over 75% of the well over 1 million deaths are from a little 16% demographic, grandma's and grandpa's.

This overwhelming death toll of retired people of all races WAS expected from the very beginning. Notably, with death these people didn't just stop enjoying life with the leisure they'd earned,

* virtually all stopped drawing entitlement payments from the government funds they'd paid into for decades. And younger generations inherited their wealth.

* Chronically ill people, most of whom required government subsidizing, died as expected at high rates.

* Using pandemic disease is SOP for creating conditions amenable to government takeovers.

* The pandemic has enabled an enormous shift of national wealth to the ultrawealthy.

We've had all four.

Deliberate?

Btw, if the Republicans who turned an epidemic into a holocaust thought "the people" would blow off over a million dead because most were "old" people, weren't they right?


In America we call it the "Republican party." sop Oct 2022 #1
And the oppressed, not only allow it but are a part of it. efhmc Oct 2022 #12
Capitalism is hell AntivaxHunters Oct 2022 #2
No! We must worship capitalism like a holy cow, next only to the sacred military! Alexander Of Assyria Oct 2022 #3
Holy cows make delicious steaks IronLionZion Oct 2022 #7
LOL ask anyone in North Korea. That's hell. betsuni Oct 2022 #4
Privatized health care. "Health" insurance which doesn't actually provide so much as a band-aid. 3Hotdogs Oct 2022 #5
Democrats didn't have the votes for public option. But of course you know that. betsuni Oct 2022 #8
Not sure he/she does. Social murder's a very interesting Hortensis Oct 2022 #20
Sounds like the intentional famines to put people in their graves IronLionZion Oct 2022 #6
Trump and his incompetent administration committed social murder via Covid. Lonestarblue Oct 2022 #9
Yup, if ever there was an example of social murder Farmer-Rick Oct 2022 #10
Surely it was deliberate because it was DELIBERATE? Hortensis Oct 2022 #21
And elderly. BComplex Oct 2022 #24
this is what happens to small towns when Walmart moves in samnsara Oct 2022 #11
Thank you for this. I had a vague recollection of this "theory" but had forgotten it. efhmc Oct 2022 #13
Don't listen to that Engels. Marty was the only good one. /nt bucolic_frolic Oct 2022 #14
Thank you for the reminder. niyad Oct 2022 #15
National gun policy is social murder Ponietz Oct 2022 #16
Good point. Nt raccoon Oct 2022 #19
Maldistribution of wealth is a form of violence. hay rick Oct 2022 #17
The Condition of the Working Class in England is a good read Jenny von Westphalen Oct 2022 #18
Marx and Engels are of no relevance today gulliver Oct 2022 #22
"essentially QAnon for the 19th century" are you trying to make me laugh Jenny von Westphalen Oct 2022 #23
Republicans are Capitalism's worst enemy gulliver Oct 2022 #25
I feel like I have been murdered I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2022 #26
I Faux pas Oct 2022 #27
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