Huge Crowds Ignore Social Distancing (Pt.2)

[sp1814]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8228769/Bleak-figures-China-US-economic-hit-virus.html

Someone on a previous thread concluded that 'ethnics are more likely to die' not because of poverty, but because of religious observance.

Two questions:

1. What will Trump supporters die of?

2. Is it possible that the large number workers from ethnic minority backgrounds working in the NHS mean that proportionally, they face a greater risk of infections...maybe from tending to...sunbathers?

[aelmpvw]

my suspicion is that, due to human nature, most people will think that they'll have a few days of flu like symptoms and then they will be immune, and they may be right

[mushroom25]

does the NHS treat patients in the US, SP?

[sp1814]

aelmpvw

I think you're right. It's the 'it can't possibly happy to me' mentality.

Others will use stories of non-compliance to support previously held convictions.

A pity.

[sp1814]

mushroom25

Nope.

Two different questions based on two different stories.

The first is based on the link I posted.

The second is based a comment from a previous thread.

[Zacs-Master]

Beaches reopen in Florida:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-florida-beaches-open-trump-covid-19-a9471491.html

1. The same as anyone else
2. It is possible, in the same way that a group of monkeys could, given enough time, write the complete works of Shakespeare.

[tomus42]

This is Donald Trump's revenge for state governors having the audacity to point out he was incorrect to say he had the authority to lift the lockdowns. Stir up the masses to do the job for him.

We'll see what the effects are in a few weeks I guess.

Your reference to sunbathers sounds a bit racist by the way.

[naomi24]

//Your reference to sunbathers sounds a bit racist by the way. //

Only if you're looking to find something that isn't there.

[mushroom25]

// Two different questions based on two different stories. //

you didn't make that clear, the reader may infer a connection, in which case question 2 is a bit of a non sequitur.....

[sp1814]

tomus42

Over the past few weeks, I've noticed some people on the site putting forward ignorant claims about people from ethnic minority backgrounds and the reasons why we have more people contracting Covid-19.

These same people will never refer to race when they see pictures of sunbathers.

naomi24 - race was brought into this last week.

By you.

[sp1814]

mushroom25

I see.

But now you're up to speed, what do you think?

[naomi24]

sp, what are you talking about? I remember talking about the high incidence of cases among ethnic minorities and the reasons for that. If it's racist to talk about that I suggest you tell the media.

[tomus42]

//Only if you're looking to find something that isn't there. //

The insinuation is that it's stupid white people (sunbathers you see) who are ending up in hospital because they're out and about pic-nicking on the park, and ignoring social distancing.

[tomus42]

Ok sp1814 - I have the context now. My previous post was written before I saw your explanation.

[jno]

I read somewhere that 44% of NHS staff are BAME, which would certainly skew the toll.

[Zacs-Master]

You read wrong:
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/workforce-and-business/workforce-diversity/nhs-workforce/latest#by-ethnicity

[TheWholeTruth]

"BAME"

Why isnt it just ME, why do they need their own "special" mention ?

[royfromaus]

Clearly this question is meant to be a retort to Fender62's question.
I'm not quite sure (but have my suspicions) why you never took part in Fender's thread but started this one.

Personally, when pondering this virus I don't see myself as white or having any even tenuous connection to any religion, I see myself as British. Which is why the idiots on Westminster bridge the idiots outside the Blackburn and Barnsley infirmaries bother me more than idiots in Indonesia or America.

[sp1814]

Z-M/jno

I always thought it was one in five and the figures Z-M attached support this.

rofromus - some interesting thoughts.

[sp1814]

royfromaus

And the sunbathers - let's not forget those.

[royfromaus]

Weren't sunbathers covered in 'idiots in America'?