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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is blaming racism for minority deaths from the coronavirus,\u00a0 and more.<\/p>\n
On Friday, AOC didn’t just blame racism for an alleged disproportionate number of COVID-19 deaths in minority communities – she also suggested that any coronavirus relief legislation should be used as a means of making \u201creparations\u2019 for America\u2019s racism, tweeting:<\/p>\n
\u201cCOVID deaths are disproportionately spiking in Black + Brown communities.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhy? Because the chronic toll of redlining, environmental racism, wealth gap, etc. ARE underlying health conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cInequality is a comorbidity. COVID relief should be drafted with a lens of reparations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The odd thing is, she just may be on to something.<\/p>\n 11B-Mailclerk sends.<\/p>\n On March 25, 2020, American Thinker published<\/a> a pilot article titled: \u201cPolitical structure of coronavirus victims: Which party is in power by state,\u201d in which, for the first time, a very unusual phenomenon was observed. In particular, this article analyzed how the Chinese coronavirus cases in the United States are split among Democrat-governed and Republican-governed states. The easily trackable party affiliation of a state\u2019s governor was used as a criterion.<\/p>\n To everybody\u2019s surprise, for each coronavirus case in Republican-governed states, there are approximately four (!) coronavirus cases in Democrat-governed states. For example, the ratio for March 24, 2020, was 83% vs. 17%. We are talking here about the relative, not the absolute numbers of coronavirus cases. In other words, we analyze the number of cases in Republican-governed or Democrat-governed states divided by the total number of cases.<\/p>\n To analyze this phenomenon further, we calculated the percentage of COVID-19 cases for Democrat-governed states and Republican-governed states for the entire month of March. The historical data source used was the USA Facts<\/a>. The chart below shows the results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n At the beginning of the month, 93% of all cases in the United States were in Democrat-controlled states, with the remaining 7% of cases being in Republican-controlled states. However, the last three weeks of March demonstrate that the situation has reached some sort of stabilization around 80% and 20% for Democrat-controlled and Republican-controlled states, respectively. In other words, the 4-to-1 ratio has existed for the last three weeks, and this distribution is remarkably stable. Before the second week of March, the data was incomplete\/sporadic.<\/p>\n Most likely, the epidemic in the United States originated in the state of Washington (governed by a Democrat) on January 19, 2020. It was a pure chance; on that date, the chart values were 100% for the D line (in blue), and 0% for the R line. After that date, the coronavirus infection spread to other states. The process of the spread was random and chaotic; the Republican-governed states were eventually affected, and as the D line started to go down, the R line started to go up.<\/p>\n Based on the chart, the initial stages of the coronavirus spread in the United States had ended sometime during the second week of March (this is why the chart only shows data since the beginning of March). Anything one could think of that factors in affecting the speed of the spread of infection \u2013 density of population, international travel, public transportation, weather, the embarrassing deficit of test kits, etc., \u2013 had played their role by the end of the second week of March.<\/p>\n By that time, coronavirus had penetrated every state, and could no longer spread by the quick acquisition of \u201cnew territories.\u201d After that, the initial process of spreading the virus became saturated. In other words, the current 4-to-1 ratio is not just a one-day anomaly; its existence is a manifestation of some unknown underlying virus-related process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe Unusual COVID-19 Political Phenomenon<\/h3>\n
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