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From the New York Times news section:
Black and Latino New Yorkers Trail White Residents in Vaccine Rollout
Data showed that while 24% of city residents are Black, only 11% of vaccine recipients were. White New Yorkers received a disproportionate share of the shots.
By Emma G. Fitzsimmons
Jan. 31, 2021The rollout of vaccines in New York City — once the epicenter of the pandemic — has been plagued by stark racial disparities, with Black and Latino residents receiving far fewer doses than white residents, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Sunday.
The city’s demographic data was incomplete, but the information available revealed for the first time that white New Yorkers are navigating the city’s complicated vaccination system more easily.
The more than one million Asians who live in New York City are, as usual, of negligible interest to the New York Times. Including in racial comparisons another more competent group besides whites would shed useful perspective, but of course that’s the last thing the NYT wants to do because it would undermine it’s Whites Bad narrative.
Of nearly 300,000 city residents who received one dose and whose race was recorded, about 48 percent were white, 15 percent were Latino, 15 percent were Asian and 11 percent were Black. Latino and Black residents were underrepresented: The city’s population is roughly 29 percent Latino and 24 percent Black.
One reason presumably is because more blacks and Latinos came down with Covid during New York City’s turn in the barrel last spring and thus already have the defensive antibodies. It’s perfectly sensible for the already recovered to forego a new vaccine in short supply in favor of those who need it far more than they do.
The disparities were even more striking among city residents aged 65 and up: Only 9 percent of the roughly 125,000 older New Yorkers vaccinated were Black.
Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat in his second term, said he was frustrated that New Yorkers in communities of color that were hardest-hit by the pandemic were not getting vaccinated.
From the New York Times in late September:
New York City on Tuesday released more than 1.46 million coronavirus antibody test results, the largest number to date, providing more evidence of how the virus penetrated deeply into some lower-income communities while passing more lightly across affluent parts of the city.
In one ZIP code in Queens
That zip code was the ironically named Latino neighborhood of Corona near La Guardia Airport. (My guess is that airport workers were big conduits early last year connecting wealthy world travelers who came down with the disease apres ski in the Dolomites and the like in February 2020 with crowded working class neighborhoods.)
, more than 50 percent of people who had gotten tested were found to have antibodies, a strikingly high rate. But no ZIP code south of 96th Street in Manhattan had a positive rate of more than 20 percent. …
But the neighborhoods with more residents who were infected at the height of New York’s outbreak in March and April may be less likely to be among the hardest hit during a second wave.
On the other hand, neighborhoods in which few residents have been infected may find themselves more vulnerable in the event of a resurgence.
So it makes epidemiological sense for more Upper East Siders to rush to get vaccinated than for many residents of Corona.
But who can remember all the way back to 2020 when alerted to the existence of racial disparities?
Back to the new NYT article:
Other cities and states across the country have seen similar racial disparities in the vaccine rollout. In New Jersey, about 48 percent of vaccine recipients were white, and only 3 percent were Black, even though about 15 percent of the state’s population is Black, according to state data. In Chicago, about 15 percent of vaccine recipients were Black and 53 percent were white.
It’s almost as if there’s a correlation between intelligence and attitudes toward the vaccine.
Also, maybe the enormous amount of emphasis by the news media in recent decades, accelerating since 2013, and reaching a crescendo in 2020-21, about how whites are out to kill black baby bodies like Emmett Till, covid victims, George Floyd, and the Tuskegee syphilis patients may have made blacks suspicious of white people declaring that blacks should go first with this new type of vaccine. “No, no,” scream the whites telling blacks to get to the front of the line for this emergency-authorized biotechnological breakthrough, “We are the Good Whites who love black bodies, not those Bad Whites we hate. Can’t you tell????”
“…It’s almost as if there’s a correlation between intelligence and attitudes toward the vaccine…”
You left out the last part of the equation: “…It’s almost as if there’s a correlation between intelligence and attitudes toward the vaccine in the Tri-State Area…”
To get a solid model, you need to normalize for political affiliation. Democrats tend to believe the legacy media. If you see someone riding alone in his car and he is wearing a mask, you’ve got a Biden voter.
What inquiring minds really want to know is whether Sailer is triple-masking yet.Replies: @3g4me
Given the sordid history of Tuskegee and the like, do you really blame them for avoiding the jab? I sure as hell don’t.
Who cares if any given person or group eschews the vaccine? There are plenty of others waiting for it in the US where we want what we want RIGHT NOW!
This is a pattern the world over, poor marginalised people have less trust in authorities and so are wary of things like mass vaccination campaigns. This will show a strong racial bias in the US. And then there is the racial paranoia.
In Israel Palestinians are staying away from the vaccines as I would imagine are poorer whites in the rust belt in the US.
You left out the last part of the equation: "...It’s almost as if there’s a correlation between intelligence and attitudes toward the vaccine in the Tri-State Area..."
To get a solid model, you need to normalize for political affiliation. Democrats tend to believe the legacy media. If you see someone riding alone in his car and he is wearing a mask, you've got a Biden voter.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @HA, @Stan d Mute, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey
Dude, bro, there is one valid reason to wear a mask in your car.
I have gone to Store A, and then there is something (an essential item!) for which I need to go to Store B. Forget about Crazy Andy along with Crazy Tony for a moment — suppose Store A and Store B are both posted that you have to wear a mask? So after going to Store A, I keep the mask on my face in the car that I don’t have to fiddle with it, and then park the car and walk into Store B with my mask already in place?
Me, even if the scenario you posit were true for me when I am out and about engaging with the world, I still rip the fucking thing off of my face almost immediately when leaving Store A, because I can't stand it. I will reinstall the Mask Of Shame when I am at the very door of Store B, and part of the reason I do it like this, to be frank, is not to be thought such a retard that I unthinkingly wear a mask driving alone in a car with the windows rolled up.
I will bend on masking up when entering some place where it is expected, but not on this. I, too, suit myself, but with a different outcome. Diversity! is our strength, after all. Carry on...Replies: @Diversity Heretic
Especially if the "essential item" is the cash in the register.
Your scenario does make sense in super cold weather. In cold weather, the mask is more like a scarf.Replies: @Truth
Less educated whites contract COVID-19 at higher rates than well educated whites because of bad personal behaviors and a lack of discipline. They don’t their hand wash, wear face masks, or respect 6ft. distance when appropriate.
Blacks and Hispanics contract COVID-19 at higher rates than well educated whites because of systemic racism.
That's me all over.
shoppingshoplifting in stores. This is a de facto rule, not a de jure one, as far as I can tell, but tomorrow's another day.You left out the last part of the equation: "...It’s almost as if there’s a correlation between intelligence and attitudes toward the vaccine in the Tri-State Area..."
To get a solid model, you need to normalize for political affiliation. Democrats tend to believe the legacy media. If you see someone riding alone in his car and he is wearing a mask, you've got a Biden voter.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @HA, @Stan d Mute, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey
“To get a solid model, you need to normalize for political affiliation.”
I suspect it’s a moving correlation. As of 6 years ago (i.e. before Trump and COVID) anti-vaxxers tended to lean liberal according to a Pew Research Center poll. Those who earn less than $25K, those who live in rural areas, and those without a college degree were all more likely to be anti-vaxxers.
Put all that together, and the claim that “…there’s a correlation between intelligence and attitudes toward the vaccine…” seems plausible.
Had they broken the poll responders out by race, we’d see how much of that is skewed by African American attitudes towards vaccines (given that they’re more likely than whites to be Democratic, salaried at < $25K, and without college degrees) but I'm not surprised the poll takers decided to step around that land mine.
Does the NYT actually care, or are they just pretending?
Define 'care.'
I think black people just intuitively understand the free rider problem and how to be that free rider in every situation.
Blacks in the US aren't victims of institutional racism, they are the inevitable free riders.
And, the fact that white people are stepping up to the plate and vaccinating ... that's just awfully white of them.
There should be a headline to that effect. Whites are picking up the slack for blacks who are uninterested in vaccinating.
In Israel Palestinians are staying away from the vaccines as I would imagine are poorer whites in the rust belt in the US.Replies: @Inquiring Mind
I thought West Virginia was leading all other states in dispensing the vaccine?
It’s cau’ i awa bunch o’ bu’shi. You wanna know wha’ you kin do wid yo’ shaw?’
And has anybody ever noticed how written English privileges white accents?
Blacks and Hispanics contract COVID-19 at higher rates than well educated whites because of systemic racism.Replies: @Colin Wright, @Polistra, @Reg Cæsar
‘…They don’t their hand wash, wear face masks, or respect 6ft. distance when appropriate…’
That’s me all over.
‘Does the NYT actually care, or are they just pretending?
Define ‘care.’
Could the question be asked, is the purpose of masks to simply extinguish the lamp of black voices, and the cover the beauty of black bodies?
When are blacks going to decide that masks are an extension of the plantation model and break free of the straps and cloth that whip their expressionism and pain, so articulated in the words black mouths exhale?
So tired. So so tired.
I am surprised that the article doesn’t mention the Tuskegee syphilis study to justify the reticence to vaccination by blacks.
Incidentally, I learned recently that this study was perfectly legitimate and had been completely misrepresented in the official History to portray blacks as victims and white scientists as villains. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Misrepresentation or outright fabrication is the norm.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2004/01/08/tuskegee-re-examined/
Tuskegee lobbied to be included and get the money. Tuskegee’s rational was blacks should be included because blacks had a gazillion times higher than White rate of sphillis and other STDs than Whites due to promiscuity.
The study went on all over the country. There were far, far more White trial subjects than blacks involved.
Don’t tell your liberal friends and relatives. They’ll never speak to you again.
And they were not infected with sphyills . They already had it.Replies: @Polistra, @Truth
I doubt that world travelers spreading the virus to airport workers was a significant factor in the Corona neighborhood’s high infection rate. Except for a few Canadian flights LaGuardia Airport is limited to relatively short-distance domestic traffic. Kennedy and Newark airports serve the international market.
In any event, to the best of my knowledge airport workers don’t seem to cluster in particular adjacent neighborhoods, at least in New York. Airport jobs pay well enough that people are willing to commute fairly long distances, and because work hours are often nonstandard there’s not a big concern with living as close as possible to avoid rush hour traffic.
Corona and other central Queens neighborhoods got hit hard last spring for the same reason that some parts of Los Angeles had so many cases a month or two ago: overcrowded housing, often multigenerational.
Hilarious or tragic? Negroes are much smarter than white boy Sailer when it comes to the fabulist flu.
You left out the last part of the equation: "...It’s almost as if there’s a correlation between intelligence and attitudes toward the vaccine in the Tri-State Area..."
To get a solid model, you need to normalize for political affiliation. Democrats tend to believe the legacy media. If you see someone riding alone in his car and he is wearing a mask, you've got a Biden voter.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @HA, @Stan d Mute, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey
Well, it’s either that or a certain blogger at Unz Review..
What inquiring minds really want to know is whether Sailer is triple-masking yet.
LOL. Can you explain to us what sordid history of Tuskegee that you’re talking about, O Castrated One? I’ve seen cucks on here but never an eunuch.
The very first vaccine recepiants in the USA. The vaccine marketing is strongly targeted to blacks but seemly the old adage applies “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink” You absolutely know, 100% this imagery was deliberate.
The suspicious timing of Hank Aaron’s death can’t be helping things either.
Well, friend, suit yourself. You have a rationale with which you are satisfied.
Me, even if the scenario you posit were true for me when I am out and about engaging with the world, I still rip the fucking thing off of my face almost immediately when leaving Store A, because I can’t stand it. I will reinstall the Mask Of Shame when I am at the very door of Store B, and part of the reason I do it like this, to be frank, is not to be thought such a retard that I unthinkingly wear a mask driving alone in a car with the windows rolled up.
I will bend on masking up when entering some place where it is expected, but not on this. I, too, suit myself, but with a different outcome. Diversity! is our strength, after all. Carry on…
NPR talking about how, given that this illness has a 99% survival rate and kills the elderly, we must vaccinate every child before any return to normal. And then on to the Spirited Cries of Enthusiasm From Every Russian Breast for Akexei Navalny. Kremlin seismologists estimate that the Kremlin was very shaken but not very very shaken.
What inquiring minds really want to know is whether Sailer is triple-masking yet.Replies: @3g4me
@17 Stan d Mute: Everyone should wear triple condoms and triple masks per Everyone-will-get-AIDS-and-die-of-Corona Dr. Fauci. Wish the good doctor would have taken his own advice and asphyxiated while childless.
You left out the last part of the equation: "...It’s almost as if there’s a correlation between intelligence and attitudes toward the vaccine in the Tri-State Area..."
To get a solid model, you need to normalize for political affiliation. Democrats tend to believe the legacy media. If you see someone riding alone in his car and he is wearing a mask, you've got a Biden voter.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @HA, @Stan d Mute, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey
The New York Times doesn’t disagree.
Blacks aren’t good at navigating complex systems. That’s just science.
Blacks, sensibly, don’t give two shits about the vaccine. Hispanics are too busy working. And white Kens and Karens are trampling people to get vaccinated while they drag their double-masked four year old along for the ride.
Kens and Karens are the vaccine’s true audience.
It varies. I've noticed it's the most ignorant people who are the most frightened of the virus.
Blacks and Hispanics contract COVID-19 at higher rates than well educated whites because of systemic racism.Replies: @Colin Wright, @Polistra, @Reg Cæsar
In my city, black people aren’t required to wear face coverings when they’re
shoppingshoplifting in stores. This is a de facto rule, not a de jure one, as far as I can tell, but tomorrow’s another day.When are blacks going to decide that masks are an extension of the plantation model and break free of the straps and cloth that whip their expressionism and pain, so articulated in the words black mouths exhale?
So tired. So so tired.Replies: @Polistra
You left out the last part of the equation: "...It’s almost as if there’s a correlation between intelligence and attitudes toward the vaccine in the Tri-State Area..."
To get a solid model, you need to normalize for political affiliation. Democrats tend to believe the legacy media. If you see someone riding alone in his car and he is wearing a mask, you've got a Biden voter.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @HA, @Stan d Mute, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey
Or someone who wisely consolidates his or her errands and doesn’t want to bother taking it off and putting it on between stops.
? I find taking my mask off effortless. Putting it on, I make it a point to make you tell me to do it.
From blaxploitation to blaccination, we have come far in 50 years.
Why would they enter at LaGuardia?
“It’s almost as if there’s a correlation between intelligence and attitudes toward the vaccine.”
There sure is:
IQ sub-85: Crazy ass crackas tryna kill my black azz!
IQ 86 to 119: CNN tells me there’s a fatal disease going round and vaccines are magic and I have a strong faith in Science. Trust the Science!
IQ 120 and above: Jabbing a foreign strand of RNA into my bloodstream risks autoimmune disorders and/or a runaway inflammation response to any future coronavirus infection. Thus, the risk greatly exceeds the putative benefit and I won’t be taking this experimental gene therapy.
Blacks and Hispanics contract COVID-19 at higher rates than well educated whites because of systemic racism.Replies: @Colin Wright, @Polistra, @Reg Cæsar
‘Or someone who wisely consolidates his or her errands and doesn’t want to bother taking it off and putting it on between stops.’
? I find taking my mask off effortless. Putting it on, I make it a point to make you tell me to do it.
James Thompson’s current post has a link to an article that debunks the Tuskegee black syphilis genocide story, the story that white researchers didn’t treat black syphilis, so they could learn how the disease progressed. It turns out that it didn’t go down like that.
This mysth is blamed for blacks not getting vaccinated.
Kens and Karens are the vaccine’s true audience.Replies: @Colin Wright
‘Blacks, sensibly, don’t give two shits about the vaccine. Hispanics are too busy working. And white Kens and Karens are trampling people to get vaccinated while they drag their double-masked four year old along for the ride.’
It varies. I’ve noticed it’s the most ignorant people who are the most frightened of the virus.
I, for one, will do my part for diversity, inclusion, and equity by not accepting a vaccination until every BIPOC person in the world has been vaccinated.
Yes. Who can spare the 2.5 seconds?
Hey guys this is the funniest one yet. The vaccines are still officially under trial status until TWENTY-TWENTY THREE!
If you go to Wal Mart to get a shot you are officially a human Guinea Pig. Hey, after the 6th or 7th time they jab you they should have it right.
Incidentally, I learned recently that this study was perfectly legitimate and had been completely misrepresented in the official History to portray blacks as victims and white scientists as villains. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Misrepresentation or outright fabrication is the norm.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2004/01/08/tuskegee-re-examined/Replies: @Alden
It happened at black run, black staffed, all black , HBU Tuskegee Institute because Tuskegee , negro lover Eleanor Roosevelt and idiot liberals vigorously lobbied the federal health service to include Tuskegee in the study after Tuskegee’s first application to join the study was turned down.
Tuskegee lobbied to be included and get the money. Tuskegee’s rational was blacks should be included because blacks had a gazillion times higher than White rate of sphillis and other STDs than Whites due to promiscuity.
The study went on all over the country. There were far, far more White trial subjects than blacks involved.
Don’t tell your liberal friends and relatives. They’ll never speak to you again.
And they were not infected with sphyills . They already had it.
You are improving.
There’s no way those two replies about not taking off their masks between stores are real. Right?
No way.
You walk around with your fly open? I mean why bother if you just gotta pull it out again later?
They’re trolls right?
Dude, bro, there is one valid reason to wear a mask in your car. I have gone to Store A, and then there is something (an essential item!) for which I need to go to Store B.
Especially if the “essential item” is the cash in the register.
I’m like Jefferson. I rip the mask off my face at the doorway of the store in a small act of protest.
Your scenario does make sense in super cold weather. In cold weather, the mask is more like a scarf.
Tuskegee lobbied to be included and get the money. Tuskegee’s rational was blacks should be included because blacks had a gazillion times higher than White rate of sphillis and other STDs than Whites due to promiscuity.
The study went on all over the country. There were far, far more White trial subjects than blacks involved.
Don’t tell your liberal friends and relatives. They’ll never speak to you again.
And they were not infected with sphyills . They already had it.Replies: @Polistra, @Truth
Reminds me, once again, of that great philosopher-poet, Frank Zappa:
Maybe they need a catchy slogan … something like
Vaxx for Blacks
Especially the one about the Tuskegee pilots where they suddenly had to fight Nazis and that on a continent that was already historically diverse.
Me, even if the scenario you posit were true for me when I am out and about engaging with the world, I still rip the fucking thing off of my face almost immediately when leaving Store A, because I can't stand it. I will reinstall the Mask Of Shame when I am at the very door of Store B, and part of the reason I do it like this, to be frank, is not to be thought such a retard that I unthinkingly wear a mask driving alone in a car with the windows rolled up.
I will bend on masking up when entering some place where it is expected, but not on this. I, too, suit myself, but with a different outcome. Diversity! is our strength, after all. Carry on...Replies: @Diversity Heretic
Well and truly said, sir! I wait until I enter a store to put on the mask of shame (and keep it below my nose if I can get away with it) and take it off just before I exit the store. Even little acts of resistance make me feel a little better in combatting a mass psychosis.
Is there any poll showing attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among people who remember the 1976 swine flu vaccination fiasco?
Another example of why the blacks are better than most you white losers. Not to mention, the blacks are far more athletic than you. Your calculus scores won’t save you, nerds.
OT:
In DC, they prioritize by job, age and Zip code (the last correlated with fatalities and race). But to get an appointment, you have to log on at just the right day and minute, and then be very fast with the mouse and keyboard to whip through the application form before all appointments are taken (about 15 minutes.) I imagine there is a strong correlation between office-worker, constant PC-user and success at getting an appointment.
Nails on the black… ah… greenboard. Please Steve.
If you go to Wal Mart to get a shot you are officially a human Guinea Pig. Hey, after the 6th or 7th time they jab you they should have it right.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
The person making that Tweet is confusing how long a FDA strength Phase III vaccine trial lasts, which is indeed two years of following up the people who got the vaccine, with FDA licensure. Normally we might assume the two would have a correlation, but thanks to the millions, soon to be tens of millions of human guinea pigs due to this being an emergency and all, the FDA will have an unusual massive source of data from this early Phase IV of “post-marketing.” So I don’t think any of us can predict when or if the FDA will go all the way to licensure of these vaccines, if they’ll black box any of them, etc.
Yeah, and then waiting 3-5 years to see how many keel over.
Those of us old enough to remember it also might just be old and wise enough to recognize the state of the art has improved a bit since then. Plus that the only real thing that made it a fiasco was the expected epidemic/pandemic didn’t materialize, so the benefit side of the risk/reward tradeoff skewed towards not taking it. But we also might remember that it was intensely politicized to get rid of Gerald Ford in the election of that year, something we saw turned up to 11 for Trump last year. We might even notice that the country didn’t stop vaccinating people against the flu….
These things are, experience teaches us, more complex than just IQ score.
For instance:
1. it’s IQ or mental capacity, a person simply cannot do it. Someone who cannot learn basic rules of arithmetic shouldn’t even try calculus
2. some crazy ideas which are unacceptable to a modern man, but cannot be (dis)proven because of the nature of these ideas. An acquaintance of mine is a fundamentalist Baptist, and his kooky thoughts about who, ultimately, goes to Heaven or Hell are simply not susceptible to anything remotely resembling an empirical approach. So – crazy, but one cannot disprove them.
3. someone like Jean Paul Sartre. An educated philosophe, got the Nobel for literature, moved in intellectual circles …. and for 20+ last years of his life was close or even supportive of- Maoism. Now, one can juggle with concepts & ideas, but here you have the empirical test that Maoism is a lunatic ideology that turns everything into blood & shit.
In such cases, it is not about IQ; evidently, there is something fundamentally wrong or depraved or imbecilic in the very personality of that human being.
Common sense is orthogonal to IQ.
It is also far from common. In fact, "common sense" is becoming so rare it's like a superpower.
My thoughts exactly.
Blacks in the US aren’t victims of institutional racism, they are the inevitable free riders.
And, the fact that white people are stepping up to the plate and vaccinating … that’s just awfully white of them.
There should be a headline to that effect. Whites are picking up the slack for blacks who are uninterested in vaccinating.
Best news I’ve heard today!
Tuskegee, Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Blackety-Black-Black-Black…
Who cares if any given person or group eschews the vaccine? There are plenty of others waiting for it in the US where we want what we want RIGHT NOW!
For instance:
1. it's IQ or mental capacity, a person simply cannot do it. Someone who cannot learn basic rules of arithmetic shouldn't even try calculus
2. some crazy ideas which are unacceptable to a modern man, but cannot be (dis)proven because of the nature of these ideas. An acquaintance of mine is a fundamentalist Baptist, and his kooky thoughts about who, ultimately, goes to Heaven or Hell are simply not susceptible to anything remotely resembling an empirical approach. So - crazy, but one cannot disprove them.
3. someone like Jean Paul Sartre. An educated philosophe, got the Nobel for literature, moved in intellectual circles .... and for 20+ last years of his life was close or even supportive of- Maoism. Now, one can juggle with concepts & ideas, but here you have the empirical test that Maoism is a lunatic ideology that turns everything into blood & shit.
In such cases, it is not about IQ; evidently, there is something fundamentally wrong or depraved or imbecilic in the very personality of that human being. Replies: @anon
In such cases, it is not about IQ; evidently, there is something fundamentally wrong or depraved or imbecilic in the very personality of that human being.
Common sense is orthogonal to IQ.
It is also far from common. In fact, “common sense” is becoming so rare it’s like a superpower.
And getting carbon dioxide poisoning which can easily be avoided by pulling the mask off the nose when not actually inside a store. No need to take it off. Just pull it off the nose.
And has anybody ever noticed how written English privileges white accents?Replies: @Truth
Is that Navajo?
Tuskegee lobbied to be included and get the money. Tuskegee’s rational was blacks should be included because blacks had a gazillion times higher than White rate of sphillis and other STDs than Whites due to promiscuity.
The study went on all over the country. There were far, far more White trial subjects than blacks involved.
Don’t tell your liberal friends and relatives. They’ll never speak to you again.
And they were not infected with sphyills . They already had it.Replies: @Polistra, @Truth
Aldey, this is about 9% true!
You are improving.
Your scenario does make sense in super cold weather. In cold weather, the mask is more like a scarf.Replies: @Truth
I’m like Jefferson. I rip the mask off my face at the doorway of the store in a small act of protest.
In the doorway? I step before you foot hits the pavement outside, I am assuming?
Thank you for your selfless sacrifice, Thích Quảng Đức, your overseers will never be able to ignore a strong, in-your-face protest like that.
They care about The Narrative: Whites are the bad guys and blacks are the good guys. The NYT publishes stories that reinforce The Narrative.
In any event, to the best of my knowledge airport workers don't seem to cluster in particular adjacent neighborhoods, at least in New York. Airport jobs pay well enough that people are willing to commute fairly long distances, and because work hours are often nonstandard there's not a big concern with living as close as possible to avoid rush hour traffic.
Corona and other central Queens neighborhoods got hit hard last spring for the same reason that some parts of Los Angeles had so many cases a month or two ago: overcrowded housing, often multigenerational.Replies: @Forbes
Point of reference: Corona’s population density is 125 per acre. Another Queens neighborhood, closer to Manhattan, Sunnyside, has a population density of 27 per acre. (Wiki)