(The Center Square) – An “insight report” published and partially funded by the Washington State Department of Health argues that the response to COVID-19 “illustrates pre-existing inequities” and led to a disproportionate impact on nonwhite and non-Asian people.
Titled “Voices From The Frontlines: A Chorus of COVID,” the report was created by “thought partners” with DOH’s Community Collaborative and argues that “it’s urgent that politicians, institutions, employers, and sometimes everyday people not forget what COVID ruthlessly taught us all over three heartbreaking years.”
“Don’t forget sometimes white people disengaged on safety when they learned people of color needed help,” the report also states.
The groups represented in the report include:
Women of Wisdom – TriCities;
LatinX Unidos of the South Sound;
Asian Pacific Islanders Coalition SPS and Multicultural Center of the South Sound;
Building Changes;
Refugee & Immigrant Services NW; and
Equity Institute
The report’s central thesis is based on differences in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among various ethnicities. For example, it states that American Indiana and Alaskan Natives had 2.5 times higher age-adjusted death rates than Asian and white Populations, and that Black and African-American populations have COVID-19 death rates twice as high as Asian, white and “multiracial populations.”
The first reported cases of COVID-19 in Washington state was in January 2020. According to a DOH report, there were 262,516 reported cases of COVID-19 in the state that year that resulted in 15,667 hospitalizations (6%) and 4,461 deaths (1.7%).
Although the “insight report” notes that it does not “necessarily” reflect the views of DOH, the state agency has already released its own report earlier this year making similar conclusions.
“The pandemic has exacerbated the underlying and persistent inequities among historically marginalized communities and those disproportionately impacted due to structural racism and other forms of systemic oppression,” the February report states. DOH also already receives $29 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to “strengthen public health infrastructure, preparedness, and response capabilities and services to address health disparities caused by the COVID-19 virus.”
Among its strategies through that initiative are drug user health programs “to improve the health and quality of life for people who use drugs” and a Refugee and Immigrant Health program “to build, leverage, and expand infrastructure support for COVID-19 prevention and control among populations that are at higher risk and underserved.”
Among the insight report’s recommendations is to “keep lowering the barriers to accessing funds. Make public dollars available for community-led data collection and continue vital partnerships with most affected communities” and “use COVID as an opportunity to invest in youth and particularly youth of color, incarcerated youth, unhoused youth, food insecure youth, but do so by celebrating their gifts. Don’t stigmatize or typify them when society fails them.”
The report also recommends that people “talk to loved ones and coworkers when they spread misinformation by word of mouth and on community channels.”
Keep in mind this BS report was published and funded by the traitorous, lying, destructive Democrat Party ruled Washington State.
Have you forgotten that the Democrats forced those with COVID-19 to be put in nursing homes full of the elderly who were more deadly effected by COVID-19 and 90% of those elderly died!
The lies, cons, deceptions, hypocrisy, and treachery of this Lying, destructive, corrupt, treasonous, dishonest, unethical Democrat Party cabal and their useful idiot supporters know no bounds.
Whites weren’t the only ones, forced by Democrat Party run city/states who demanded divorces from reality in separation and disengagement, by race or reality during their Fauci manufactured crisis they could not let go to waste for an opportunity to steal and election in fear. Ask ANY white, black, brown or red skinned citizen who was denied access to dying parents in retirement homes, left by dems to die alone. Ask If Democrats were not the very ones forcing to separate and disengage themselves from the REAL world and enter into the wacky woke world of an infected heavy-handed socialist fist. If blacks or minorities were disproportionately COVID harmed or endangered, it was because they disproportionately chose to live in segregated squallers of Democrat run cities disproportionately represented by people whose main object was to CONTROL their people, than to keep them safe and informed. Race baiting Emotional controlling people make poor protectors when all they have for a solution is to isolate and divide THE PEOPLE from each other, and control the discussion to force their unthought-out solutions upon a naïve misinformed public. In matters of life and death, the first person you should trust is your own instinct to survive in a capacity to SELF-GOVERN, not some misguided secular socialist apparatchik who only thought is to protect his/her power and influence, by purposely failing to train you to be SELF-reliant, but self-subservient.
AND looking at the leftist LIST OF Groups who ‘contributed’ to it, you’d find a better chance of getting unbiasedness from a herd of hungry lions…..
“Don’t forget sometimes white people disengaged on safety when they learned people of color needed help,” the report also states.
In other words, Cackles is down in the polls and they need to pull out the RACE CARD.
WHEN do they not pull the race card out?
These people are full of shoot. What a bunch of worthless idiots.
“Don’t forget sometimes white people disengaged on safety when they learned people of color needed help,” the report also states. …”
I didn’t know thy were so incapable. But then they can’t manage photo ID, either. It looks like they have an organized group of advocates.
IF they’re so -incapable’ of doing anything for themselves, WHY THEN ARE They eligible to vote?