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2020-05-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

New figures show stark disparities in coronavirus deaths across NYC neighborhoods

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[The Hill] The highest death rate was documented in Canarsie-Flatlands in Brooklyn, an area with a subsidized housing development, where 612 in 100,000 people died from the virus.

The primarily white and wealthy neighborhood Gramercy Park in Manhattan 31 deaths per 100,000 people were recorded. In Far Rockaway in Queens, which has a 40 percent black and a 25 percent Latino population, there were 445 deaths per 100,000 people.

New York City had previously released daily updates in cases broken down by ZIP code but the death count was released by borough.

City advocates have been calling for more data collection, saying it would show racial and economic inequalities in the U.S. city that has been hardest hit by the pandemic.

Mark Levine, the chairman of the City Council’s health committee, told Reuters in an interview that black and Latino residents are more likely to have low-paid, essential jobs putting them at risk of contracting the virus.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-19 03:26|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 In other news: Potato famine strikes Ireland, causes disease, starvation, and migration.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-19 03:37|| 2020-05-19 03:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Those Chinese Viruses are apparently racist. Someone should complain to the CCP

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-19 04:52|| 2020-05-19 04:52|| Front Page Top

#3 City advocates have been calling for more data collection, saying it would show racial and economic inequalities in the U.S. city that has been hardest hit by the pandemic.

Maybe the inequities arise because that's where the money is for race hustlers and politicians instead of the integration of society that Martin Luther King envisioned. Instead of pushing 'uniqueness', how about buying into the notion that if you become an unhyphenated American you stand a better chance of advancing in life for the many, not the few.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-19 06:57|| 2020-05-19 06:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, Cuomo tried integration--integrating CV-infected elderly people into assisted living facilities.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-19 07:21|| 2020-05-19 07:21|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Early Snark O' The Day award goes to Clem

Posted by Lex 2020-05-19 07:26|| 2020-05-19 07:26|| Front Page Top

#6 The exciting new form of virtue-signalling among the baizuo will be to deliberately expose yourself and your loved ones to Cuomovirus by slumming in the hot zones.

Kind of like the "bug chasers" in the gay "community".

Posted by charger 2020-05-19 13:00|| 2020-05-19 13:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Recall the correlations to severe coronavirus illness with low vitamin D levels and to heart disease and diabetes? Combined with closer living quarters that ought to be enough to explain differences without any nefarious motivations.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-19 14:13|| 2020-05-19 14:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Stark disparities or simply well-defined geographic boundaries?

One of the cool things about GIS (Geographic Information System) software is that it's basically a database that outputs maps rather than printed reports. You can ask it to do things like "Select neighborhoods where the average income is less than X dollars and draw a nice fat line around them"

Back in the day, bankers in Detroit were accused of "red-lining" - marking off neighborhoods by race and refusing to make loans in black neighborhoods. Funny thing, if you query for black neighborhoods or query for household income less than some cutoff, you get essentially the same areas. Were the bankers racist for not loaning money to black people or were the bankers sensible businessmen for not loaning money to poor people who are unlikely to pay it back?

Looking at two of the examples we see:
Canarsie-Flatlands in Brooklyn, 612 deaths per 100,000
an area with a subsidized housing development

Gramercy Park in Manhattan, 31 deaths per 100,000
primarily white and wealthy neighborhood

Dramatically different death rates. I'm too lazy to chase down the population size and demographics, but I'd be that a subsided housing development has a *much* greater population density than wealthy single family homes. Could be racism (maybe the virus hates POOCs - People Of Obvious Color). Could be some other factor like population density, behavior, or overall health has greater explanatory power, even if it doesn't fit The Narrative. Whatever it is, you can be sure that journalists, the least curious of all God's creatures, are not going to be looking into it.

Posted by SteveS 2020-05-19 14:48|| 2020-05-19 14:48|| Front Page Top

#9 San Diego's Central Planners of Control™ wanted to subsidize trolley expansion over freeway capacity improvements with a Bond Bill this fall. Cancelled. As should be the Dense urban packing around transit hubs. No thank you

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-19 16:26|| 2020-05-19 16:26|| Front Page Top

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