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Los Angeles Covid Surge Being Driven by White, Affluent Neighborhoods

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There are covid idiots everywhere. Met one today in Switzerland, refuses to wear a mask and of course will not get vaccinated. I don't have a problem if someone doesn't want to vaccinate, it's their choice but if they refuse to wear a mask and are getting fake vaccination certificates I have a problem with them. At least observe the general rules put in place to protect others.

They're impetuous children who need to be held down and injected for the safety of others. They can't smoke indoors either. Too bad for them if they don't get with the program of protecting lives.

Its really not that hard to believe white entitled rich youths, that never had to worry about anything especially healthcare or being sick for weeks.. wouldn't care about corona virus.

The other odd thing is a lot of the mother's in these areas are very anti vax and especially in Los Angeles tried to go with these holistic alternatives.

And when the "white entitled rich youths" had fewer cases, it was also because of their privilege [1]. It seems no matter what the outcome, racism and privilege are to blame.

And when Asians had lower mortality than whites [2], the cause was..?

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/e...

[2] https://covidtracking.com/race

It's interesting, seems like all the places that avoided the virus early on are getting it now. like a fire finding fresh kindling to burn.

White neighborhoods avoided it early on because they had the luxury of working from home and avoiding the "Front lines" but now that they're out and about, the chickens have come home to roost

How about, the experts who said COVID was going to become endemic were right?

It was well understood a year ago that we were never going to eradicate it.

It seemed that in the beginning, the goal was to flatten the exponential growth to not overwhelm hospitals. Then it shifted into eradicating the virus entirely, somehow.

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