Headline: "COVID-19 pandemic impacts rich people less" Epidemiologists everywhere: yes, this is true of ALL HUMAN DISEASE. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU FOR YEARS
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If you want a quick introduction to the topic at a global scale, the
@WHO produced this report in 2008 that is still very applicable todayhttps://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-IER-CSDH-08.1 …Show this thread -
For a simple visual representation, here is a famous map of the London Jubilee line showing how each stop further from the city resulted in a decrease of 1 year of life expectancy in the early 2000spic.twitter.com/DEjsh3YePI
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I wrote up a more detailed explanation of all of this in a blog:https://gidmk.medium.com/wealth-protects-against-covid-19-harms-731e09cd97d0 …
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Until the next pandemic.
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It might even get worse: „We spend so much on health care now… let’s focus on other areas“
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Excuse me? Lots of us knew this perfectly well, which is why we remain mystified at the imposition of lockdowns, recommended by epidemiologists, which basically created a feudal system of deliberately focusing all risk on the poor.
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If we let them.
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"it" being poverty.
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Like mental health!
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I, for one, pledge wholeheartedly to not forget about this. And I’ll do whatever I can in my capacity as just a regular human being to make it better. Life isn’t fair. But we - humankind - have the power to make it better.
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