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Posted: 2/22/2021 10:07:24 PM EDT

Harvard prof: Study shows slavery reparations 'could have been as effective' as COVID-19 vaccine

Harvard Medical School assistant professor Michelle E. Morse says a new study she participated in demonstrates how slavery reparations “could have been as effective as a vaccine” for COVID-19.

Researches claim that infection rates for the contagion would have been reduced by up to 68% if Black Americans possessed $250,000 per individual or $800,000 per household for the historical injustice of slavery.

“[Slavery reparations] could have been as effective as a vaccine,” she said for a Harvard Crimson piece published Feb. 16.
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Researchers said they compared overcrowded housing situations in South Korea and Louisiana to test “COVID-19 time-varying R t curves of relatively disparate polities in terms of social equity.”

In short, they concluded that “wealth redistribution would decrease the ability of affluent whites to cloister themselves in a setting of relative exclusivity.”

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Once Harvard was prestigious, today it seems more like a carnival act.

Posted: 2/22/2021 10:10:14 PM EDT

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87% of all studies are made up.

Posted: 2/22/2021 10:14:29 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/22/2021 10:29:13 PM EDT

[#3]

Well, a study shows it.

Trust the science.

Posted: 2/22/2021 10:30:23 PM EDT

[#4]

Here's an idea. Let Harvard use their 41 billion endowment.

Posted: 2/22/2021 10:31:05 PM EDT

[#5]

LOL

Posted: 2/22/2021 10:32:39 PM EDT

[#6]

What percentage of American blacks actually have any roots on slavery? The number is dropping every year.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/04/09/a-rising-share-of-the-u-s-black-population-is-foreign-born/

Posted: 2/22/2021 10:40:10 PM EDT

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Not her first rodeo with playing the race card:

https://www.racialhealthequity.org/events/2018/2/2/michelle-morse-md-mph-save-the-date

https://hls.harvard.edu/event/medical-stereotypes-confronting-racism-and-disparities-in-us-health-care-a-health-policy-and-bioethics-consortium/

Posted: 2/22/2021 11:07:43 PM EDT

[#8]

Let me guess...

Yep.

Posted: 2/22/2021 11:08:17 PM EDT

[#9]

So completely ineffective, then?

Posted: 2/22/2021 11:13:05 PM EDT

[#10]

The left is cancer.

Posted: 2/22/2021 11:14:55 PM EDT

[#11]

Take it from the endowment.

Posted: 2/22/2021 11:14:57 PM EDT

[#12]

I haven't caught C19, but I bet I'd get even less if you gave me $250k.

Posted: 2/22/2021 11:15:36 PM EDT

[#13]

Wait, I wouldn't have had to wear a mask if we just gave black people 40 acres and a mule?

Science is weird!

Posted: 2/22/2021 11:18:45 PM EDT

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This might replace my sigline. Entirely accurate. Cancerous and growing.

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:10:58 AM EDT

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It is amazing the time they put in and great lengths they go to contort reality to try and prove their stances.

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:15:04 AM EDT

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Posted: 2/23/2021 8:19:19 AM EDT

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Lots of "mights", "maybes" and "coulds" in that study.

family guy - plane crash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Rsov4B_VI

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:21:08 AM EDT

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We've peer reviewed ourselves and found nothing wrong with our findings.

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:21:23 AM EDT

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Attached File

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:22:58 AM EDT

[#20]

I trust my plumber over any idiot from harvard

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:24:46 AM EDT

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It's not even 5:30 in the morning yet but I'm pretty sure that's the stupidest thing I will hear all day.

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:25:35 AM EDT

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A small part of me wonders what giving 250k would do to hood rats and their cities. I imagine it would be way worse than anyone in the “reparations will solve x” camp could believe. War lords, mass murder and in the end, they will lose the money in 6 months and be in the exact same social position.

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:49:30 AM EDT

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A small part of me wonders what giving 250k would do to hood rats and their cities. I imagine it would be way worse than anyone in the “reparations will solve x” camp could believe. War lords, mass murder and in the end, they will lose the money in 6 months and be in the exact same social position.

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Shoquacious and Loquanta will pool their quarter mil and buy a house in the burbs in Rockland County, where the wipipo don’t get the Rona.

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:53:58 AM EDT

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All this coming from the university that openly values Black people over Asians for eligibility and was taken to court over it.

Can’t say I’m overly surprised by their ‘study’

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:56:25 AM EDT

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If you buy me an island and stock it with everything I could ever need, I'd bet that is more effective then the best vaccine for covid that exists now or will ever exist.

Posted: 2/23/2021 9:12:20 AM EDT

[#26]

So my business idea (chain of stores specializing in high-end weaves and boutique malt liquor) may have wings after all!

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:32:56 PM EDT

[#27]

Its like there's a competition to see who can say the most retarded thing??

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:34:14 PM EDT

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Don't forget about rimz and tacky jewelry

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:36:15 PM EDT

[#29]

Lol everyone in the hood gunna buy a Range Rover

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:37:00 PM EDT

[#30]

Since we are so far down the rabbit hole...

We should fund a study of the economic impact of giving every white male an LLC and 100k in grants.

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:39:43 PM EDT

[#31]

Is there money in writing up these studies? I can see a new work from home industry.

Posted: 2/23/2021 4:13:23 PM EDT

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There's some good data and analysis at the core of the work around frontline workers and overcrowded living conditions. I suspect the much weaker claims survived peer review because the reviewers weren't comfortable objecting to the comparability of resolved structural challenges in Louisiana with modern-day South Korea. The whole vaccine comment is not from the research article at all, so I think it's irresponsible for one of the authors to let that be in the public discussion. They never claim that or even cover a relevant time period in their data or findings.

It's important to have solid research findings on why black Americans have had greater adverse impacts in the pandemic. This article provides a glimpse into what kind of structural differences might contribute, but those insights got buried in less insightful but flashier conclusions.

Posted: 2/23/2021 4:15:45 PM EDT

[#33]

"Trust science"

"Trust the experts"

Posted: 2/23/2021 4:19:00 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/23/2021 4:21:28 PM EDT

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I have an idea of selling mylar balloons and memorial t-shirts. You wanna partner up?

Posted: 2/23/2021 4:27:03 PM EDT

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There's some good data and analysis at the core of the work around frontline workers and overcrowded living conditions. I suspect the much weaker claims survived peer review because the reviewers weren't comfortable objecting to the comparability of resolved structural challenges in Louisiana with modern-day South Korea. The whole vaccine comment is not from the research article at all, so I think it's irresponsible for one of the authors to let that be in the public discussion. They never claim that or even cover a relevant time period in their data or findings.

It's important to have solid research findings on why black Americans have had greater adverse impacts in the pandemic. This article provides a glimpse into what kind of structural differences might contribute, but those insights got buried in less insightful but flashier conclusions.

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Harvard prof: Study shows slavery reparations 'could have been as effective' as COVID-19 vaccine
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Once Harvard was prestigious, today it seems more like a carnival act.

There's some good data and analysis at the core of the work around frontline workers and overcrowded living conditions. I suspect the much weaker claims survived peer review because the reviewers weren't comfortable objecting to the comparability of resolved structural challenges in Louisiana with modern-day South Korea. The whole vaccine comment is not from the research article at all, so I think it's irresponsible for one of the authors to let that be in the public discussion. They never claim that or even cover a relevant time period in their data or findings.

It's important to have solid research findings on why black Americans have had greater adverse impacts in the pandemic. This article provides a glimpse into what kind of structural differences might contribute, but those insights got buried in less insightful but flashier conclusions.

Do you think that may have to do with blacks choosing to live in densely populated cities?

Posted: 2/23/2021 4:28:12 PM EDT

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This is simply evidence that you can craft a study to support any hypothesis you'd like if you're creative enough.

Posted: 2/23/2021 4:33:34 PM EDT

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Do you think that may have to do with blacks choosing to live in densely populated cities?

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Harvard prof: Study shows slavery reparations 'could have been as effective' as COVID-19 vaccine
[...]
Once Harvard was prestigious, today it seems more like a carnival act.

There's some good data and analysis at the core of the work around frontline workers and overcrowded living conditions. I suspect the much weaker claims survived peer review because the reviewers weren't comfortable objecting to the comparability of resolved structural challenges in Louisiana with modern-day South Korea. The whole vaccine comment is not from the research article at all, so I think it's irresponsible for one of the authors to let that be in the public discussion. They never claim that or even cover a relevant time period in their data or findings.

It's important to have solid research findings on why black Americans have had greater adverse impacts in the pandemic. This article provides a glimpse into what kind of structural differences might contribute, but those insights got buried in less insightful but flashier conclusions.

Do you think that may have to do with blacks choosing to live in densely populated cities?

You know, like, culture, or something?

Posted: 2/23/2021 4:34:24 PM EDT

[#39]

Maybe Biden was right.

Posted: 2/23/2021 4:35:10 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/23/2021 4:40:18 PM EDT

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New Study: Giving Happycynic 87 Billion Dollars Would Solve All World's Problems.

- Harvard Professor (probably)

Posted: 2/23/2021 4:43:44 PM EDT

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FIFY

Posted: 2/23/2021 4:44:36 PM EDT

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“wealth redistribution would decrease the ability of affluent whites to cloister themselves in a setting of relative exclusivity.”

Brilliant deduction, geniuses; stealing peoples' money lands them in the fucking ghetto. Amazing.

Posted: 2/23/2021 5:21:52 PM EDT

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So lets see I buy a 24 foot box truck and go clean out every walmart, best buy and target of every surround system and 65 inch tv I can buy. Then drive to the city and sell it all at a 50% mark up with a small $500 installation fee.

Then in 2 weeks I go back with 75 and 80 inch tvs, and take the old one in on trade at my cost but with another 50% mark up on the new tv. Because you know they would want bigger than the next door neighbor in a matter of two weeks.

I have about 75 k available to do this. Think I could keep rolling it over and make a mil?

Then donate all the 65 inch tvs to schools and hospitals for the tax right off.

Posted: 2/23/2021 5:24:49 PM EDT

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The whole reason they use doctors for these studies is because these midwit ideas could stand the more rigorous statistical methods employed by economists and political scientists.

Posted: 2/23/2021 5:26:31 PM EDT

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"Give me da money!"

Posted: 2/23/2021 6:18:27 PM EDT

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The broad data and also this research project here doesn't really have any evidence that leads to population density being related to COVID outcomes. Some of the worst hit counties are rural midwest mostly white, but that is really more about smaller populations having higher variation (perhaps, bigger role of good and bad luck) than any real trend.

If we could capture what blend of magnitude the factors are... epidemiological (ability for COVID to spread), whether it's more more deadly for different groups, being more or less likely to seek treatment for severe cases... I'm sure it's more than one good explanation working at the same time. That's also why it's hard to believe any one single fix is the answer... although I guess $800k is a pretty big single answer so what the hey.