#AbleistLanguage “Stay-at-home orders and other aggressive measures imposed early in the pandemic had a “huge blind spot,” Hayes-Bautista said.” (Perhaps, it’s not something that was overlooked. And that’s a problem w how academics read/interpret things.) https://twitter.com/palmtreesngz/status/1293457340809613318

Our communities have been made vulnerable and been systematically neglected and/or targeted. Resources that we get have come in forms of policing and not essential social services.

“Across the county, areas with the highest poverty rates are experiencing infection rates that are nearly five times higher than areas with the lowest poverty figures. That gap has widened in recent weeks as wealthier areas have seen much slower growth in case numbers.”

The above quote from piece vividly illustrates that this is no surprise. This isn’t something that couldn’t have been predicted. This is fundamentally how this city has been developed and arranged, especially after racially restrictive covenants were lifted.

“Some of the worst-hit communities, such as Huntington Park, El Monte and Pomona have ZIP Codes that rank in the top 1% nationwide that are considered “crowded” — having more than one person per room, excluding bathrooms, an analysis of Census Bureau data shows.”

That “overcrowding” didn’t happen overnight. I’m going to make an educated guess that very few of these areas have rent control. Im going to assume that bc of this, many immigrant and first-gen Latinx families have gotten creative in living situations to be able to survive.

“While this is great news, more resources r needed 2 address the root of these disparities...” Solis said. “Our low-income communities also need protections @ their workplaces, access 2 quarantine sites, culturally-competent contact tracing, food security, and rental assistance.”

And politicians knew this. They’ve been known this. The thing is that so many are in bed with developers and capitalists. Again, none of this is unanticipated. This was all predictable. And it’s not even conspiratorial. The writing been on the wall.

“The people of southeast L.A. County have for decades confronted one environmental affront after another, including high levels of pollution from freeways, rail yards and toxic sites, the Exide battery recycling plant that contaminated half a dozen communities with poisonous lead

“and a Delta jet that dumped fuel over homes and schools earlier this year.” Again, nothing is new here. I’m sure children and adults suffer from things like respiratory illnesses and other chronic situations animated but toxicity that has been allowed in #SELA for decades.

“Our communities are in severely contaminated areas where the air quality is no good,” said #Lynwood Mayor Aide Castro. “Just here in Lynwood we have the 710, the 105 [freeways] and the Alameda Corridor, so our community tends to suffer a lot of respiratory problems.”