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The Covid map is the zoning map is the redlining map.

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Nov 2, 2020

Pollution has disproportionately affected Seattle’s communities of color for decades. Now, the health of these communities is compounded with COVID. In areas with 10%+ COVID rates 89% had more POC and 92% had higher poverty rates than the county average. crosscut.com/video/new-norm

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Ray Dubicki

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Pardon the clumsy comparison screen cap, but here's the

@ecogenetix

map of COVID concentrations compared with

@_KateMacfarlane

's digitized 1936 redlining map. Generational wealth, racial health, and privilege, mapped.

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sees an opportunity to "examine intersectionality in health, race, and lack of investments in our community." But it's actually a patchwork, with race and COVID spread across impenetrable municipal borders.

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