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None of these factors (and I don't quarrel with any of them) reflect governmental policy or the proverbial barriers. All of them reflect the cultural overhang I mentioned.


More than that, very few of them apply to that sizable fraction of the demographic that stands on the other side of the wealth divide. I'm not going to grant a preference to a wealthy minority resident of Atherton or Los Altos Hills simply on the basis of ethnicity. That is actual racism,

I wasn't saying they did.  I was just saying that they are factors that might result in Black and Hispanic victims of COVID-19 dying at a greater rate than whites.  If you talk about vaccinating the most vulnerable first, and your research finds that Black and Hispanic patients are disproportionately dying, and you can't find (or measure) the underlying factors that explain that difference, then you will either have to accept using race as a blunt proxy and realize that some otherwise lower risk people might inadvertently be given priority or accept that you will not give a bunch of higher risk people priority.

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None of these factors (and I don't quarrel with any of them) reflect governmental policy or the proverbial barriers. All of them reflect the cultural overhang I mentioned.


More than that, very few of them apply to that sizable fraction of the demographic that stands on the other side of the wealth divide. I'm not going to grant a preference to a wealthy minority resident of Atherton or Los Altos Hills simply on the basis of ethnicity. That is actual racism,

I wasn't saying they did.  I was just saying that they are factors that might result in Black and Hispanic victims of COVID-19 dying at a greater rate than whites.  If you talk about vaccinating the most vulnerable first, and your research finds that Black and Hispanic patients are disproportionately dying, and you can't find (or measure) the underlying factors that explain that difference, then you will either have to accept using race as a blunt proxy and realize that some otherwise lower risk people might inadvertently be given priority or accept that you will not give a bunch of higher risk people priority.

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