Auntie Dee

There have been lots of media stories about the racial profiles of virus victims & lots of "racist" comments! All of the usual rants about racism have been blamed, especially from the left!

A fact that has had VERY LITTLE mention is Sickle Cell Disease which does strike many more blacks than other races, this disease is highly hereditary, not caused by poverty, living conditions, income or other factors which are often given as causes of "racism".

Sickle Cell is a blood disease which kills off the red-blood cells in a body at a more rapid rate than normal because the blood cells cannot get enough oxygen to other parts of the body as fast as they should, not the full story, but how it relates to Covid-19. Covid kills when oxygen fails to reach vital organs. Covid-19 causes prolonged & progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells.

Victims of Sickle Cell already have a compromised blood problem, therefore the higher rate of infection & death is probable! You will probably not hear this explanation from the MSM!

Sew_What

Yea, and old people dying in nursing homes isn't age-ist.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

That, and the fact that when two brothers meet it takes five minutes for them to shake hands by playing Hambone. The sickle cell gene is very much a factor! Good explanation!

So is the Democratic inner-city ghetto plantation that keeps blacks poor and dependent on government services and their children attending substandard schools. Most Planned Parenthood clinics are located in these areas and the barrios. Fortunately, many Latinos are very family-oriented and Catholic so they don't buy into abortion as white liberals do.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Thank you for the information. Did you know that the same kind of sickle Cell Anemia that affects black people also attacks Basenji dogs, which are from the same parts of Africa as the Watusi

JW

https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2875-12-317

Sickle cells are an evolutionary survival mechanism in areas of high malaria occurrences. It has its benefits and its problems.

77Reaganite Loc: Athens, GA, United States

you also left out the high percentages of hypertension and diabetes within the African American Community as well as heart disease

grandaddyw Loc: FLORIDA

Thank you for this information.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

The lying media has everyone scared to death and that increases adrenaline and other response chemicals in the brain that weakens the immune system. Add this to the Hyper-tension, sickle-cell, and other pre-existing conditions many Blacks have, as well as less access to good quality health care and you can understand why they are harder hit.