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African Americans are about to learn this awful truth -- in devastating ways.
Two data points converged at the start of this crisis to make a lot of black folk shrug and think, "Coronavirus is not our problem."
Myth #1: Covid-19 is a white disease.
The Americans who were initially diagnosed with the virus were mostly white. At the beginning of the epidemic, the media understandably focused on affluent white people who had traveled overseas, especially to Asia. The impact of this news coverage had African Americans joking among ourselves that perhaps we were somehow immune to the virus. As crazy as it sounds, a rumor took off that this was a disease that kills only white people.
It got so bad that Idris Elba, one of the first famous black victims of coronavirus, had to post a video begging black people to believe that people of African descent could get it, too.
And yet, when I warned my family of the coming pandemic, my highly educated cousin told me, with great confidence: "No, we got the antibodies for that!"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/opinions/african-americans-covid-19-risk-jones/
Two data points converged at the start of this crisis to make a lot of black folk shrug and think, "Coronavirus is not our problem."
Myth #1: Covid-19 is a white disease.
The Americans who were initially diagnosed with the virus were mostly white. At the beginning of the epidemic, the media understandably focused on affluent white people who had traveled overseas, especially to Asia. The impact of this news coverage had African Americans joking among ourselves that perhaps we were somehow immune to the virus. As crazy as it sounds, a rumor took off that this was a disease that kills only white people.
It got so bad that Idris Elba, one of the first famous black victims of coronavirus, had to post a video begging black people to believe that people of African descent could get it, too.
And yet, when I warned my family of the coming pandemic, my highly educated cousin told me, with great confidence: "No, we got the antibodies for that!"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/opinions/african-americans-covid-19-risk-jones/
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Don’t trust whitey
See a doctor and get rid of it.