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In reply to the discussion: "Social Murder" I had never heard the term before. [View all]Hortensis
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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?