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Girard442

(6,087 posts) Mon May 18, 2020, 08:31 AM May 2020

Azar blames U.S. death toll on unhealthy minorities.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/18/politics/trump-us-death-toll-blame-reopen/index.html

Azar appeared to indicate that the inequities in the US health system, especially involving minorities, were to blame for the level of fatalities in the United States and said the administration had forged a "historic result" in preventing the pandemic from overwhelming the capacity of hospitals.
"Unfortunately the American population is ... very diverse," Azar told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
"It is a population with significant unhealthy comorbidities that do make many individuals in our communities, in particular African American, minority communities particularly at risk here because of significant underlying disease health disparities and disease comorbidities -- and that is an unfortunate legacy in our health care system that we certainly do need to address."

Gee Alex, why not just say it's those damn non-Aryans and be done with it?

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Azar blames U.S. death toll on unhealthy minorities. (Original Post) Girard442 May 2020 OP

Our fucking racist government. spanone May 2020 #1

+++ still_one May 2020 #12

"You people are sick anyway" dalton99a May 2020 #2

i hear him saying "the hhs secretary is not doing his job." rampartc May 2020 #3

In the meantime, they're trying to abolish the ACA, creating millions more uninsured Americans. sop May 2020 #4

Please journalists, one of you bring up that the US also has the highest Maraya1969 May 2020 #5

That's because we have much more accurate ways of determining that people are dead. Girard442 May 2020 #7

Crack me up in the frigging middle of the night!!!!! Maraya1969 May 2020 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author Girard442 May 2020 #6

hoares hockey AllaN01Bear May 2020 #8

I'm sure many other republicants also think diversity is Harker May 2020 #9

"Unfortunately the American population is ... very diverse," Azar Botany May 2020 #11

In my state of Minnesota, about 80% of all CV-19 deaths MineralMan May 2020 #13

spanone

(135,907 posts)

1. Our fucking racist government.

Reply to Girard442 (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 08:38 AM

May 2020

still_one

(92,479 posts)

12. +++

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Mon May 18, 2020, 09:24 AM

May 2020

dalton99a

(81,649 posts)

2. "You people are sick anyway"

Reply to Girard442 (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 08:39 AM

May 2020

rampartc

(5,441 posts)

3. i hear him saying "the hhs secretary is not doing his job."

Reply to Girard442 (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 08:47 AM

May 2020

sop

(10,274 posts)

4. In the meantime, they're trying to abolish the ACA, creating millions more uninsured Americans.

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Mon May 18, 2020, 08:52 AM

May 2020

Maraya1969

(22,508 posts)

5. Please journalists, one of you bring up that the US also has the highest

Reply to Girard442 (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 08:53 AM

May 2020

number of deaths! Azar hid under Tapper's bringing up that we have the highest number of cases by saying that we did the most testing....bullshit.

How do you explain that we have the most number of deaths! (I think 30% also)

Girard442

(6,087 posts)

7. That's because we have much more accurate ways of determining that people are dead.

Reply to Maraya1969 (Reply #5)

Mon May 18, 2020, 08:57 AM

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Maraya1969

(22,508 posts)

10. Crack me up in the frigging middle of the night!!!!!

Reply to Girard442 (Reply #7)

Mon May 18, 2020, 09:00 AM

May 2020

Good thing I had already swallowed my latest gulp of coffee!

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Girard442 This message was self-deleted by its author.

AllaN01Bear

(18,578 posts)

8. hoares hockey

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Mon May 18, 2020, 08:59 AM

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Harker

(14,064 posts)

9. I'm sure many other republicants also think diversity is

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Mon May 18, 2020, 08:59 AM

May 2020

"unfortunate. "

Botany

(70,618 posts)

11. "Unfortunately the American population is ... very diverse," Azar

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Mon May 18, 2020, 09:04 AM

May 2020

As if you couldn’t hate those election stealing mother fuckers anymore. Azar should be dropped off in
Detroit someplace on 5 mile road on a nice warm summer evening to have a chat with the locals.

MineralMan

(146,339 posts)

13. In my state of Minnesota, about 80% of all CV-19 deaths

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Mon May 18, 2020, 10:12 AM

May 2020

are people who were in nursing homes and other congregate living facilities. Most are over 80 years old.

Azar apparently considers old people to be an unhealthy minority. He's right, but I don't think that's what he meant. I think he was talking about the "others" in our society. The ones who look different from white people, you know.

As he said, "Unfortunately, the American population is...very diverse." Sounds like he'd like a more homogeneous population of white people under the age of 70.

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