Dark skin protects from too much sun exposure but the downside is that in less sunny regions dark skin becomes a health liability unless offset through other means. I live in NYC, I was riding the train and working daily in close proximity to others while not wearing a mask during the rise of COVID.
The other significant (major) factor in the African American community is chronic obesity due to poor diet consisting of fried foods. Interestingly Jamaicans & Haitians (which obviously also have dark skin) don't generally suffer from obesity as their cultural diet is far better for their general health. I happen to work with a number of Jamaicans and Haitians.
I worked covid ICU for months and this is all well and true, but the biggest thing that literally everyone is overlooking is that this thing was only really ever dangerous to people who's health was already failing. Regardless of age, sex, gender, race, location, whatever the people the hardest hit were of poor health. The major population that was coming to the ICU and dying was the massively overweight and chronic disease riddled patients.
This can be caused by a slew of reasons whether that be cultural, socioeconomic status, education levels, etc.
In the months of covid ICU, we had only a handful of "regular" people with an appropriate BMI and no comorbidities. They generally all ended up being fine. The residents up here used to play over under on how many comorbidities or medications for chronic illnesses the overhead calls for intubation (those people would come to us) to see who would have to gown up to do all the admission stuff in room.
If you take that piece one step further, places like India and Africa also have extremely low rates of obesity and associated chronic conditions for obvious reason.
I'm not saying that there isn't some big conspiracy or whatever going on, just that there are also regular, well known issues that caused this to be bad in certain regions and populations
If you take a quick tally of all the places that were SUPER hard hit they are all at or near the top percentile of most obese populations with the most number of chronic health conditions. Almost all of them are developed nations that have the ability to keep people with chronic illness alive for an absolute eternity.
It's realistically probably less about something as simple as chronic vitamin D deficiency (you'd see a statistically disproportionately high number of cases/deaths above the 45th parallel than below it), and more about overall health status.
It's realistically probably less about something as simple as chronic vitamin D deficiency (you'd see a statistically disproportionately high number of cases/deaths above the 45th parallel than below it), and more about overall health status.
I can agree with that. If the metropolitan egalitarian Democratic Party media complex really cared about POC they would have spent the last two decades doing PSA's on why chronic obesity is to be avoided. People need to look up such things as Visceral Fat and Insulin Resistance which I have never heard the media even make a peep about.
Dark skin protects from too much sun exposure but the downside is that in less sunny regions dark skin becomes a health liability unless offset through other means. I live in NYC, I was riding the train and working daily in close proximity to others while not wearing a mask during the rise of COVID.
The other significant (major) factor in the African American community is chronic obesity due to poor diet consisting of fried foods. Interestingly Jamaicans & Haitians (which obviously also have dark skin) don't generally suffer from obesity as their cultural diet is far better for their general health. I happen to work with a number of Jamaicans and Haitians.
I worked covid ICU for months and this is all well and true, but the biggest thing that literally everyone is overlooking is that this thing was only really ever dangerous to people who's health was already failing. Regardless of age, sex, gender, race, location, whatever the people the hardest hit were of poor health. The major population that was coming to the ICU and dying was the massively overweight and chronic disease riddled patients.
This can be caused by a slew of reasons whether that be cultural, socioeconomic status, education levels, etc.
In the months of covid ICU, we had only a handful of "regular" people with an appropriate BMI and no comorbidities. They generally all ended up being fine. The residents up here used to play over under on how many comorbidities or medications for chronic illnesses the overhead calls for intubation (those people would come to us) to see who would have to gown up to do all the admission stuff in room.
If you take that piece one step further, places like India and Africa also have extremely low rates of obesity and associated chronic conditions for obvious reason.
I'm not saying that there isn't some big conspiracy or whatever going on, just that there are also regular, well known issues that caused this to be bad in certain regions and populations
If you take a quick tally of all the places that were SUPER hard hit they are all at or near the top percentile of most obese populations with the most number of chronic health conditions. Almost all of them are developed nations that have the ability to keep people with chronic illness alive for an absolute eternity.
It's realistically probably less about something as simple as chronic vitamin D deficiency (you'd see a statistically disproportionately high number of cases/deaths above the 45th parallel than below it), and more about overall health status.
I can agree with that. If the metropolitan egalitarian Democratic Party media complex really cared about POC they would have spent the last two decades doing PSA's on why chronic obesity is to be avoided. People need to look up such things as Visceral Fat and Insulin Resistance which I have never heard the media even make a peep about.
If only if only lmao. I literally do personalized education with exactly that info on a regular basis and they still don't listen.