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Covid-19 is killing my people – And no one seems to care (theatlantic.com)
57 points by lawrenceyan on Nov 3, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


San Antonio is the second fattest major city.* Add in tons of other health preexisting conditions and it's going to have tons of poor outcomes.

* https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Report-San-A...


> an exhaust fan blowing out of an open window to prevent outside air from entering—one of the “negative pressure” rooms that I’d heard about

Negative pressure will pull in outside air, which is what you want, instead of letting your contaminated air leak into adjacent rooms.

In “clean” rooms you want positive pressure, with a filtered intake, to keep contaminated air out.


More than 70 million people do care as-of yesterday.

More people have voted for one of the candidates in this election than any other presidential candidate in the country's history, and a big part of that is a referendum on handling of COVID.


This article made me sad


Perhaps one group of people should not have been proactively striving to strain and break all social bonds that would encourage or require people to care one for another.


Trump knew it was killing blacks and latinos at greatly increased rates back in March when he was privately calling it very deadly. He committed genocide by responding the way he did. Who disagrees? Why?




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