EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERSr. Royal S. Copeland, the field marshal in New York City’s battle against the 1918 influenza epidemic, knew his enemy was more than just a virus. As health commissioner, he oversaw a medical crisis that would eventually kill some 30,000 New Yorkers over three waves of the disease. In Copeland’s estimation, the problem was not only influenza but also the city’s crowded tenements and endemic poverty.
Even under normal circumstances, living in New York City requires a certain surrender of personal space: Subways are packed, apartments are small and bodegas get cramped with after-work shoppers. But not all New Yorkers have to live in a stressful crowd all the time, a fact the COVID-19 pandemic has laid all too bare. The city’s wealth inequality has always been apparent: financial safety nets, Whole Foods delivery and routine access to health care.
While there is a lot of uncertainty about the actual numbers of those infected — only a fraction of people who show symptoms are tested, so the rate of infection is almost certainly higher than what’s being reported — life in two New York City ZIP codes, one working class and one wealthy, gives us a glimpse into different ways of city living that might mean life or death in today’s New York.
Time 4 another Pity Party.
Corrected Headline: Corona virus is the result of systemic white racism. Period.
Look at this. the virus originated in the US.
Corporate America is doing fine! Feed the poor Biscuit. “Marie Antoinette”.
COVID IS RACIST!
Has anyone seen Joe Biden? Anyone? Anyone at all?
budget deficits and debts is only good for when everything is going well that can now be left aside, we are all getting poorer but what counts is survival
Pieces of this puzzle are missing. Of course. Politics
It isn't wealth that caused the divide. It is the false narrative that blacks or people of colour are immune to COVID-19. People who believed tgat false narrative, put themselves and others at risk and are paying the costly price. Corona virus does not care about race, wealth,etc
They need to wake up. The wealthy better know that the people that they spit on are the very same people that are providing FOOD for them and their families. Living wages for all.
Also lawyers, and all these wire crimes roles, and mail crimes roles were/are with methods, and with investigations, and with investigators also hiding their 'criminal foreign influences,' and worse by roles stacking predicate acts in databases/preventing mandate same time. USA
It is recorded that/how that was/is being acted, for example, to keep the breaching method against New York, and against American history, and against each location, area, and state through it as is from being realized. WTC predicate acts tied uses med databases/facts styles tied
The NYPD hasn't helped much either.
Race baiting is big gay