The current COVID hotspot map. Stop racially pointing the fingers. #Conservatives blame minorities. #Progressives blame “white #Republicans.” You’re both wrong & silly. It’s more class than race. Lots of black, Hispanic, *and* white people don’t believe COVID/are anti-vacciners. 
What do many anti-vacciners have in common? They tend to be of the same socioeconomic class. Elites progressives are also stupidly blaming “systemic racism” for minorities not being vaccinated. What? They are so out of touch. They obviously don’t know any lower-income minorities.
A black teenager in Brooklyn, NY recently told her white high school teacher that she doesn’t “believe in COVID.” That is, she doesn’t believe COVID is real. She’s in all black community & her views have nothing to do with “systemic racism.” Stop infantalizing black people.
Lots of white super conservative Republican evangelicals are also vaccinated. They know people who’ve died. Many white working class “rednecks” in the South, for ex, are just as resistant as the black teen from Brooklyn. But blacks who don’t believe #COVID don’t make the news!
Look at the new #Covid_19 COVID cases by race. It basically tracks overall US race demographics. kff.org/coronavirus-co…
If you track vaccinations by race, what do you find? Surprise!! So, why are we racializing and/or politicizing *why* people are getting sick or resisting getting vaccinated? It’s more complex/layered than race & political views.
We’ve turned a public health crisis into a proxy for political tribalism (left & right) & instead of helping people we’re busy playing the blame game and people are dying. Elitist conservatives & elitist progressives are both keeping people from getting help. 🤮
Physically fit, elitist conservatives telling over-weight people not get vaccinated is irresponsible/almost immoral given the fact 78% of COVID hospitalizations: deaths are correlated with being overweight. Metabolically heathy folks can take the risk. beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/…
And then you have these progressive elites, so blinded by their anti-conservatism, that it hasn’t even occurred to them, because they live in a bubble, that lots of minorities don’t want the vaccine (and it’s not because of Jim Crow), don’t believe COVID is real, etc.
Politics, America’s actual civil religion, is blinding us and introducing silly “solutions.” We need to reframe #COVID19 & stop blaming the political/social tribe we hate. COVID is killing people largely because of metabolic health not because of racism or government coercion.
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