Come on man.

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I wonder how many 18-29 year-olds even know what that was.

There’s a difference now as well.

SF…hate is being preached on every site and all it’s doing is sowing discord amongst the brethren. Now…guess what I hate and I’m in good company?

It gets old.

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Until it no longer applies, I’ll continue to speak the truth.

I will get more interested in the vaccine when my state actually allows me to have an opportunity to take it.

I used to think our Gov was pretty sharp but here in Tn you have to be 75 and older to be eligible. :roll_eyes:

Being almost 68 and type 2 diabetic doesn’t qualify me here. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Am hearing it may be a couple of more months before 65 and older are qualified to get it here.

It’s passed down. My great grandfather, my grandfather and my dad ALL had close to zero trust for hospitals and government telling them to get vaccines or anything really.

I remember conversations with them as a young kid… they all were very skeptical of both. As well as banks. None of them had bank accounts for two reasons… either they couldn’t because of Jim Crow OR they chose not to because they didn’t believe their money would be available when needed because they were black.

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That’s so sad. And these are the things that people just either ignore or genuinely don’t know about when they say ā€˜salvery is a thing of the past…black americans have the same opportunities as white americans…’

The damage of slavery and Jim Crow lasts several generatations…

I don’t blame them. I could write a book on the number of medical errors I see and experience.

Seems to me medicine has become a paradox—various diagnostics and preventives are being pushed on the entire population to prevent problems that take place among few individuals. Yet those populations that are more at risk of certain problems aren’t being advised to start getting screened, possibly earlier than the general population.

For example, HPV vaccine is being pushed on families of pre teen girls when 1) HPV+ isn’t the majority of Pap results, and 2) The majority of women who test positive ultimately clear the infection, with few going on to develop cervical cancer:

However, among Asian descended populations, the incidence of virally caused cancers is higher:

https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.21501

As part of genetics testing for newborns in MA, numerous tests are performed, including for sickle cell trait:

https://www.brighamandwomens.org/pediatric-newborn-medicine/nicu/newborn-screening

There isn’t a large black American or emigre population here, meaning relatively few babies will test positive for sickle cell. Yet it seems Black Americans, who tend to develop colonic cancers at earlier ages and more tumors on the right side of the colon, leading to poorer outcomes, aren’t encouraged to get screened with colonoscopies at earlier ages:

It’s a paradox. Black Americans are more likely to experience discrimination.

Yet, perhaps to avoid charges of racism, the entire population is encouraged to screen for tests for problems that concentrate in certain populations, while those in those populations aren’t encouraged to be monitored for the problems at earlier ages.

Can’t say I blame anyone who doesn’t trust government or medically encouraged testing or preventives.

Would love to link Young Rappa 59, ne Eric D. July, on YouTube. He has a tendency to drop a lot of f bombs, though.

He’s a black man from Dallas whose wise beyond his years, though. Look for his perspective on COVID 19 vaccination (he does not want the vaccine) as well as on other issues.

This is not an opportunity issue.

I could too, but not race-based.

I personally haven’t experienced race based medical or banking issues. However my great grandparents, greats uncles, grandparents and parents have.

Talking to them you realize how mind altering that kind of oppression was. Those thoughts, no matter how untrue they are today, pass down through black families.

Yes, I’m sure they have at least grandparents on back. And I understand the resentment is passed down; I’m not criticizing it.

There also comes a time when you have to save your own life and the lives of your loved ones.

Now’s the time.

And that is from the CDC. One of their advisors noted that old people were disproportionally white and I suppose killing them off was the way to go.
The fact is, the media was accusing Trump of killing hundreds of thousands of people and then totally ignored that the CDC recommendation of going for young workers first would cause many more deaths than would be necessary.
Apparently they went for the ā€œthey are going to die anywayā€ viewpoint.
Fortunately for us, Texas went for the ā€œsave livesā€ approach.

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None of this matters. The goal is 70% vaccinated. I think they’ll get that.

Eventually.

I’m dealing with a white majority population:

Most patients here affected by medical errors are white. And yet, paradoxically, white New Englanders are more likely to place blind faith in doctors & hospitals than minority populations.

Are you acquainted with any black Texans who want universal health care like in Canada and Western Europe? I’m not acquainted with even one non white New Englander who wants that.

In my experience, it’s usually these young white men who very rarely go to a doctor who are wanting it.

It’s culture, not race.

ā€œIt’s culture, not race.ā€

Off topic, I know, but that’s why I’m surprised an overwhelming majority of black Americans vote Democrat.

It just doesn’t seem to me they think anything like white liberals.

https://freedomwire.com/liberals-and-black-americans/