It’s amazing how many people on here are comfortable saying that black people are fat and so it’s their fault that Covid-19 is disproportionately killing them. It’s so on brand that no one was blaming Covid-19 victims for getting sick & dying until they found out they were black.

Yes, black people have co-morbidities that make coronavirus so lethal. It’s called structural racism and the lack of empathy for black victims is 400 years old. https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247176506452905986?s=21 https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247176506452905986

Mind you, we have ZERO data on obesity rates of Covid-19 victims and black people disproportionately suffer hypertension, asthma and diabetes even when they are not overweight/obese. Further, black Americans are about 7% more obese than the average American, & most are not obese.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247863051459727360?s=21 https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247863051459727360