IS HERD IMMUNITY THE SHADOW STRATEGY OF THE RIGHT?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 12 April 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
People of color are dying from the corona virus at massively higher rates than the average population. Do conservatives care about the deaths of the most vulnerable- those with hypertension, obesity, blue collar jobs, poor health care, poor diets, or even people who are just old? Is a cold-hearted fantasy of 'herd immunity' behind the constant declarations that this crisis is overblown and behind the lackluster efforts on the part of Republicans to protect people? What does it mean to be historically disadvantaged as a pandemic virus sweeps the nation? If the price of rapidly toughing out this virus is the death of many vulnerable people, is that a price conservatives are willing to pay?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | One of the things that we're learning, first of all, is that this virus is killing people of color, black people specifically, |
| 0:25.0 | African Americans in much higher proportions |
| 0:28.1 | than it is killing white people. |
| 0:30.3 | I don't know that I've seen any statistics on Hispanics and that will be coming out I'm sure as time goes on but right now in Louisiana |
| 0:37.4 | Black Americans make up 70% of coronavirus deaths. In Chicago there's 72% of coronavirus-related |
| 0:46.7 | COVID-19 related deaths are black Americans. That's six times the rate for |
| 0:50.9 | white Chicago residents. In both areas, only 30% of the |
| 0:55.0 | population is black. In Illinois as a whole, black Americans are only 14% of |
| 0:59.0 | the population, but they're statewide 41% of the coronavirus deaths. |
| 1:03.8 | In Michigan, black Americans 15% of the state's population, |
| 1:08.1 | 40% of coronavirus deaths. |
| 1:10.4 | In Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, 81% of the people killed so far are African Americans. |
| 1:17.0 | Number one, African Americans are more likely to be doing blue collar work than white collar work so they're less likely to be |
| 1:24.3 | able to work from home so they're more likely to be out there and being exposed to |
| 1:28.4 | this virus number one number two the African American community has been widely discriminated against throughout |
| 1:34.8 | the entire history of this country, you know, obviously enslavement and everything else, but just |
| 1:40.6 | in the last 60, 70 years, |
| 1:43.6 | the reason why Red States, in particular |
| 1:46.3 | the southern states, have been unwilling to go along. |
| 1:49.4 | The reason why they were unwilling |
| 1:50.5 | to go along with single payer health care when Harry Truman |
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