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THREAD: Today, @courierjournal published Beyond Breonna, a series on systemic racism and how Louisville can end it.
It was spurred by the death of Breonna Taylor. But these issues have existed for generations. People are tired of the same
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We start with health because Black people are dying younger in Louisville - from homicides, chronic illnesses and now the coronavirus.
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And disparities in treatment have made Black patients mistrust the system.
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"I was always told, 'It's an act of God, these things happen.'"
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In Louisville, it still isn't, @HayesGardner reported.
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In Louisville, just 36% of Black households own their home, while 70% of white households do.
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Black home-ownership rates fell between 2000 and 2017. And Black people are still evicted at higher rates than white people - including Kwmisha Adams, a mother of four.
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"What hurts me the most, it's not me that I have to think about, it's four kids. ... I'm already living in government assistance. How much lower can a person feel?"
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This one is hard.
Kris Smith, who @HayesGardner featured, was shot and killed Friday as this series was awaiting publication.
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But he sat in jail for multiple years awaiting two trials on felony gun possession, eventually taking a plea.
“You get so tired of being in there, locked up, you’ll take damn near anything."
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But as @HayesGardner shows with the story of William Isaac, the lack of opportunities sometimes leads people to commit crimes.
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“If you don’t have any hope, and you’re discouraged, then, I don’t know. You’re just gonna do things that you shouldn’t do," Isaac said.
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In 2020, 2.4% of Louisville businesses are Black-owned.
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The coronavirus is deepening disparities, giving these issues even more urgency.
But Louisville isn't naive about how to solve them. People know what needs to be done.
The question is: Do we have the will?
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People wanted to know how Louisville could prevent something similar from happening here.
5 years later, little has changed.
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But community members say, in many cases, the obstacle isn't funding — it's a matter of priority and personal will.
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Here are 50 potential solutions.
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2/ Before this very publication, virologists were neither treated like superstars, nor were they considered icons or half-gods. In 2009, Drosten almost succeeded in installing the false premise virology could supersede holistic medical sciences as discussed in this thread.
3/ Drosten is a virologist. He neither has any background in epidemiology, nor has he ever worked in the civil service. He also doesn’t have a background in public health. Yet he and his colleagues affect our daily lives to the level of whom to meet up or how to flush the toilet.
4/ Before January 2020, Drosten and Corman were common virologists at Charité Berlin, whenever they were not involved in economic implications (https://t.co/UTDwG8U7Du). Other than that, they looked at coronaviruses in dromedary calves in the Middle East or Africa. 😍 #cute
5/ Finally in Jan 2020, the published paper laid the theoretical grounds for the current pandemic, the RT-qPCR mass testing-religion, for which he was awarded his second German Federal Cross of Merit (he received the first one in 2005 for developing the SARS-CoV PCR test).
2/ Before this very publication, virologists were neither treated like superstars, nor were they considered icons or half-gods. In 2009, Drosten almost succeeded in installing the false premise virology could supersede holistic medical sciences as discussed in this thread.
3/ Drosten is a virologist. He neither has any background in epidemiology, nor has he ever worked in the civil service. He also doesn’t have a background in public health. Yet he and his colleagues affect our daily lives to the level of whom to meet up or how to flush the toilet.
4/ Before January 2020, Drosten and Corman were common virologists at Charité Berlin, whenever they were not involved in economic implications (https://t.co/UTDwG8U7Du). Other than that, they looked at coronaviruses in dromedary calves in the Middle East or Africa. 😍 #cute
5/ Finally in Jan 2020, the published paper laid the theoretical grounds for the current pandemic, the RT-qPCR mass testing-religion, for which he was awarded his second German Federal Cross of Merit (he received the first one in 2005 for developing the SARS-CoV PCR test).
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