, what followed across Iowa over the next nine months was a sharp rise in the rate of Latina mothers delivering low-birthweight babies. “You didn’t even need to be in the raid,” Geronimus says, to experience the stress and weathering effects. Just being a part of that vulnerable group was enough to make the raid impact on you almost as if you had been there.
It was also racial. It was, she says, mostly “white people who were so awful”. She recalls an article that said: “The slave masters must be dancing in their graves because they have Arline Gerominus keeping black teenagers barefoot and pregnant.” To this day, only “part of the idea” of weathering has been incorporated into mainstream public-health consciousness. “There’s language to talk about it that we didn’t have 30 years ago, of structural racism or systemic racism, social determinants of health – everybody’s now conversant in these concepts.” This covers the part “where your body is eroded by the corrosive effects of being a part of an exploited, oppressed group”.
If individual efforts are limited, does she see any improvements that give her hope that weathering is being taken seriously at that most impactful, system level? “I don’t know if there are any specific initiatives explicitly dealing with weathering,” she says. But she does see some cause for hope, for instance in the field of reproductive health.
This is why conservatives are always in better physical and mental health than woke leftists.
Also it undermines cognitive performance Varun8Vijay Varun10Vijay Varun9Vijay
Snore, somehow in the 21 century racism is at its worst under every rock and around every corner. Give it a rest
It goes so bad that people start imagining it, these people do need help.