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2020-05-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Doctors Without Borders Deploys In the U.S. to Help Navajo Nation

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-13 03:19|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 "The Navajo Nation, which is home to around 170,000 people, "has a higher coronavirus death rate than that of 46 states." According to Fox News, the reservation has had more than 3,120 coronavirus infections and more than 100 deaths. That puts their infection rate at 18 percent."
Is this the New Math?

Posted by b 2020-05-13 09:59|| 2020-05-13 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Terrible explanation. Author must have been a Common Core student. 3120/170K = 1.8%.

Posted by Phusotle Dingle5823 2020-05-13 10:06|| 2020-05-13 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 What about Apache?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-13 10:23|| 2020-05-13 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Common Core Math-educated

Posted by Lex 2020-05-13 10:52|| 2020-05-13 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5 #2 the Apache are in the south east sector where the Lincoln National Parks shows.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-13 12:12|| 2020-05-13 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 ooops should have been #3

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-13 12:12|| 2020-05-13 12:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Farmington is a scary, depressing place. I have an old buddy from my bike messenger days that lives there. He was lured back by the tribe with promises of land, work, and a house... none of which materialized. But he met a girl and there you go.

I remember riding a motorcyle through there in '98. I stopped for some gas and the teenage girl behind the counter mouthed out silently "Take me with you!"

I nearly did.

Posted by Secret Master 2020-05-13 12:18|| 2020-05-13 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 #5 I meant why the Apache is not hard hit?

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-05-13 13:23|| 2020-05-13 13:23|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ better lungs?

Posted by Lex 2020-05-13 13:40|| 2020-05-13 13:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Apache had not lived in the southwest as long. There were nomadic and are recent arrivals (historically) to the SW. Supposedly their orgins were Canadian and from the plains.

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2020-05-13 14:58|| 2020-05-13 14:58|| Front Page Top

#11 ^Archaeological and historical evidence suggests the Athabaskan ancestors of the Navajo and Apache entered the Southwest around 1400 CE.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-13 15:10|| 2020-05-13 15:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Good question. Insufficient information to provide an answer of any high confidence. What I do know is that the tribes that are more self sufficient seem to be doing better than those who are not. The Navajo are sort of like a Detroit of the tribes. Highly dependent upon Bureau of Indian Affairs and government largess.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-13 15:53|| 2020-05-13 15:53|| Front Page Top

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