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🧵 So, I delved into the "COVID death rates by race" issue last winter, and like @DLeonhardt, I initially didn't include age adjustment in my post: 1/ acasignups.net/22/01/01/nchs-…
Here's the graph I used at the time. The dotted lines are the % of the total U.S. population of each racial group. The bars show what % of total U.S. COVID deaths were among that racial group for each month, through December 2021. HOWEVER, note that this is *unweighted*. 2/ 
After a similar (if far smaller, since I have a far smaller platform) controversy over the "age adjustment by race" issue, I modified this graph to reflect, as best as I could figure, the *age-adjusted* COVID death rate by racial group, like so: 3/
Payton Gendron is an *American problem*. Stop pretending these White domestic terrorists have to look outside our borders for inspiration/marching orders when all they have to do is watch Fox “news” & follow Republicans on social media. #ThisIsAmerikkka #WhereWereTheyRadicalized
This train is NEVER late. 😒 #Buffalo
“The author calls himself a white supremacist, fascist and antisemite... The author also mentions Dylann Roof, who killed nine worshipers in an attack on a Black church in Charleston in 2015.” | via @washingtonpost (🎁 link) #WhereWereTheyRadicalized wapo.st/3PqwJg2
Except for all intents/purposes, VA *was* TX not too long ago. The 2021 Gubernatorial election set back over a decade of hard-won progress by VA Democrats. It can happen in ANY historically or recently “blue” state at the drop of a dime, if enough White voters DEFECT/vote GOP. 🥴
How White Women, Stockholm Syndrome, and the Southern Strategy Propelled Republicans to Victory In Virginia | via @docrocktex26 #MAGAWomen #SouthernStrategy101 #Gilead 👹 wke.lt/w/s/56gPCe
Attention Virginia Democrats and anti-fascists: Nobody’s free until EVERYBODY’S FREE.
🗣🆘⏰🔔🔥🗣 #StayReady #WeHaveYourBack #ExpectUs🌊 #GetInFormationAndStayThere
🗣🆘⏰🔔🔥🗣 #StayReady #WeHaveYourBack #ExpectUs🌊 #GetInFormationAndStayThere
“…unvaccinated adults remain relatively unmoved by the recent news of the omicron variant with a large majority of unvaccinated adults (87%) saying the news about the omicron variant does not make them more likely to get vaccinated.” 🙃 | via @KFF kff.org/coronavirus-co…
Less Than Half Of White Adults, Republicans, Unvaccinated Are Worried About Getting Sick From COVID-19 | via @KFF #Hubris #PresumedInvincibility #Cult45* kff.org/coronavirus-co…
Omicron’s ripping through America (especially in red/purple states) because refusing masks/vaccines/lockdowns has become a proxy for White Republican identity. They’re peer pressuring themselves into catching/spreading Covid, overdosing on Ivermectin and dying of Whiteness.
For anyone wondering why Trump would even consider holding a WH balcony serenade while he remains infected and infectious...the #DyingOfWhiteness reason would be, yet again, that he drives and is driven by the politics of racial resentment.....
By this logic, signaling his devotion to a hierarchy that keeps white people on top is more important then what might seem from the outside like self interest or communal well-being....
So while many wonder why Trump can hold another WH rally even when he has/embodies Covid-it’s sending a very particular message about whiteness and white America that he assumes a more powerful message for his supporters than what might seem from the outside like self interest...
Core Trump base no more likely to start wearing masks than they are to support healthcare reform, saving the planet, gun safety, etc. Rather, getting #COVID19 now takes on new political meaning--becomes an expression of self-sacrifice and a way of showing devotion to the cause.
To put it another way, getting and transmitting #COVID19 is the 'logical' next phase of not wearing masks. Public health becomes politicized and weaponized for the cause.
Getting and transmitting #COVID19 then becomes a way of being like Trump, showing resistance, devotion, sacrifice.
Trump Tulsa rally is quintessential #DyingOfWhiteness :
*Performativity of whiteness inversely related to working-class white wellbeing
*GOP demands human sacrifice from its supporters as a show of fielty
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*Performativity of whiteness inversely related to working-class white wellbeing
*GOP demands human sacrifice from its supporters as a show of fielty
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*Many in the crowd whose lives on the line suffer bec of other GOP policies - no healthcare, etc
*Risk ripples outward to impact communities
*All to the benefit of a select few (who will almost certainly *not* be *in* the .crowd.)....
*Many in the crowd whose lives on the line suffer bec of other GOP policies - no healthcare, etc
*Risk ripples outward to impact communities
*All to the benefit of a select few (who will almost certainly *not* be *in* the .crowd.)....
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*There are probably many people who realize this -met so many good ppl when researching my book. But they can not say anything because compromise codes as treason.
*Thus risk, ultimately, is from being in the crowd (or the state that did not expand Medicaid, cut educat, etc)
*There are probably many people who realize this -met so many good ppl when researching my book. But they can not say anything because compromise codes as treason.
*Thus risk, ultimately, is from being in the crowd (or the state that did not expand Medicaid, cut educat, etc)
Thousands will go uninsured in the Covid-19 outbreak because Republicans rejected Medicaid expansion. In the 14 states that still refuse to expand, 40% of people who lose their jobs and health insurance will end up with no coverage at all vox.com/2020/5/5/21247… via @voxdotcom
My book #dyingofwhiteness showed that medical bankruptcies soared and lifespans fell in non expansion states pre pandemic
GOP refusal to expand Medicaid nationally undergirds the economic catastrophe that they enabled and now “protest”
