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> There was an open letter in 2020 summer from a lot of "prominent scientists" that claimed that suddenly social distancing didn't matter because BLM.

If you're referring to this letter, that characterization is pretty much the opposite of what it says: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/health/health-care-open-lette...




>While everyone is concerned about the risk of Covid, there are risks with just being black in this country that almost outweigh that sometimes.

Does it?

>White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19.

>However, as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of Black people in the United States.

Do you think that anyone that has put his name under such idiotic sentence deserves state money in any form - except payments under ADA?


> Does it?

Sure .. All the risks of being black in the USofA and the additional risk of being even more likely to contract COVID while black.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/11/22-0072_article#:~:t...




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