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2021-02-20 Home Front: Politix
Harvard Docs Say Trillions in Reparations Needed to Address COVID
[Free Beacon] Researchers at Harvard Medical School say they've found the key to reducing coronavirus infections in the black community: trillions of dollars' worth of reparations.

A study published last week in the Social Science & Medicine journal found that paying $250,000 in reparations to individual descendants of slaves, or $800,000 per family, could have mitigated coronavirus transmission rates among black Americans. The Harvard study analyzes the effects of "pre-intervention" reparations—or payments if they had existed before the coronavirus pandemic—on COVID-19 contact rates and transmission of the virus.

Dr. Michelle Morse—one of the Harvard Medical School assistant professors who led the study—told the Harvard Crimson that reparations "could have been as effective" at combating the coronavirus in African-American communities as a vaccine. Duke University professor William Darity, an economist and reparations advocate who co-authored the Harvard study, recently estimated that such payments would cost up to $12 trillion.




"Show me da money!"
The Harvard team's research was conducted as part of the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, which is expected to release a full report on worldwide reparations this summer.

The study was published days before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing on H.R. 40, a bill that would establish a reparations task force to study the lasting effects of slavery and segregation and "recommend appropriate remedies." More than 170 Democrats have cosponsored the bill, which has gained traction since Democrats took control of Congress in January.
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#1 MDs proselytizing on economics are worse than MBAs mouthing up on medicine?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-20 05:35||   2021-02-20 05:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Bill Gates to comment in 3-2-1....
Posted by Clem 2021-02-20 05:52||   2021-02-20 05:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

Lottery winners rarely have better lives after their windfalls. They blow through the money and go right back where they were before.
Posted by Sheger Thromotch7944 2021-02-20 11:39||   2021-02-20 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Reparations? Cool! Let's first have the esteemed doctor work on Socialism Wages™ (Look up China's Barefoot Doctors)
Posted by magpie 2021-02-20 13:05||   2021-02-20 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 We need to deduct for all the War on Poverty and Judicial/Penal system payments previously made. Blacks have a balance due
Posted by Frank G 2021-02-20 13:31||   2021-02-20 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Certain postal workers/gov't employees can pitch in.
Posted by Clem 2021-02-20 14:27||   2021-02-20 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Rachel Dolezal is a long lost relative of mine, where do I get my monies?
Posted by Slappy 2021-02-20 14:41||   2021-02-20 14:41|| Front Page Top

#8 From Haiti to Harvard Med School, New York City’s New Chief Medical officer Dr. Michelle Morse brings eclectic resume (New York Daily News)

The good doctor has moved on from Harvard
and Massachusetts to NYC because:

“I am honored to join the Department and serve New Yorkers during this once-in-a-century pandemic because operationalizing health equity is more urgent than ever.”

More@NYDN link above
Posted by Uninvited Lensing2021 2021-02-20 16:41||   2021-02-20 16:41|| Front Page Top

#9 I think she is a politician first, medical doctor second. Very similar to the losers I encountered from my HMO, frankly incompetent. Remember, they practice medicine, no inducement to get it right, and we're the poor homo sapiens they are practising upon, right.
Posted by Thasing Unaigum3053 2021-02-20 16:53||   2021-02-20 16:53|| Front Page Top

#10 operationalizing

Should be a capital offence.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-20 17:12||   2021-02-20 17:12|| Front Page Top

#11 We need to deduct for all the War on Poverty and Judicial/Penal system payments previously made. Blacks have a balance due

This. In today's $, since 1965 we've spent at least $5 trillion on war on poverty and another $2 trillion on judicial/penal costs attributable to black criminal behavior.

That's almost $300,000 per black household. Pay up, folks.
Posted by Omerert Noodleman5464 2021-02-20 17:30||   2021-02-20 17:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Junk science.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-02-20 17:52||   2021-02-20 17:52|| Front Page Top

#13 I guess grafting is better than hooking and pimping. These two are Moving On Up.
Posted by Gralet Jomort6809 2021-02-20 18:24||   2021-02-20 18:24|| Front Page Top

#14 grafting = grifting.
Auto correct doesn't recognize grifting.
Posted by Gralet Jomort6809 2021-02-20 18:26||   2021-02-20 18:26|| Front Page Top

#15 So will Obama (who's ancestors might have sold slaves to) and Kamala (who's father's ancestors might have traded slaves) have to give - or get reparations?
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-02-20 19:34||   2021-02-20 19:34|| Front Page Top

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