Thread by @xianb8

If you want to replicate the lesson I did today. Grab some color pencils. Go to the Chicago COVID tracker (or the community you want to study).

Graph in different colors the infection rates per population of AAPI, Black, Latin@, and white.

Now do deaths.

At this point, the students worked on different things.
You can also pull vaccination access rates by community.
You can graph ICU and acute care by "COVID" "Non-COVID" and "Available"

You can graph incarceration rate by race/class/disability and infection/death rates.

Now graph the distribution of funds for COVID relief to the city of Chicago. "Police" "Education" "Unknown" "Etc.' that group didn't get done, but the "Unknown" is the highest.

Now graph the family virtual homeschooling rates for this Spring. Break it down by race.

When/if we get online, we are going to graph the demographics of the comments on the CTU Facebook. I'd do newspaper comments, but I can't get through the paywall.

Last year, we tracked vaccination accessibility by zip code and then used Google earth to "explore" the neighborhoods in the data. Spoiler: The highest access was a zip code with a tiny fraction of the deaths and one of the whitest in the city. Downtown condos mostly.

Maybe this week, we'll look at distribution of testing sites and fed ex drop off points.

It doesn't matter what you do. If I can communicate with students, they are going to learn math and they are going to understand the math of how they are being betrayed.