A group of researchers at Harvard Medical School are claiming that one solution for COVID-19 may have nothing to do with science, but on social justice.

In a study looking at the benefits of slavery reparations, researchers claim that if a slavery reparations program was put in place before the pandemic broke out, COVID-19 transmissions among black Americans could have been reduced by as much as 31% to 68%.

The Harvard researchers compared COVID-19 infection rates in the state of Louisiana with the infection rates in South Korea, where a major outbreak was avoided. Despite huge differences between the two policies, the researchers only looked at one: social equity.

They compared the infection rate data against several social equity indicators, such as income inequality and urban density. Then, they compared those results to South Korea’s society. As the published study states,

Methods: We compared the COVID-19 time-varying R t curves of relatively disparate polities in terms of social equity (South Korea vs. Louisiana). Next, we considered a range of reproductive ratios to back-calculate the transmission rates b i ®j for 4 cells of the simplified next-generation matrix (from which R 0 is calculated for structured models) for the outbreak in Louisiana. Lastly, we considered the potential structural effects monetary payments as reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. would have had on pre-intervention b i ®j and consequently R 0.

Results: Once their respective epidemics begin to propagate, Louisiana displays R t values with an absolute difference of 1.3 to 2.5 compared to South Korea. It also takes Louisiana more than twice as long to bring R t below 1. Reasoning through the consequences of increased equity via matrix transmission models, we demonstrate how the benefits of a successful reparations program (reflected in the ratio b b ®b / b w ®w ) could reduce R 0 by 31 to 68%.

According to the researchers, reparations would have reduced transmission because the payouts would have resulted in black Americans being able to escape overcrowded housing situations, avoid participation in front-line work, and obtain PPE like masks and hand sanitizer.

According to the Harvard Crimson, the study is part of a larger report by the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice. The study’s corresponding author, HMS professor Eugene T. Richardson, chairs the commission.

“Almost all of the COVID models you’ll look at have to do with wearing masks, social distancing, closing down businesses — that kind of thing. Yet, there are these huge health disparities — notably between people of color and white people, especially in the U.S. — and you rarely see racial justice interventions being incorporated into these models,” Richardson said.

Another one of the study’s authors, HMS assistant professor Michelle E. Morse, said, “I think the fact that the U.S. has skirted its responsibility and avoided reach for reconciliation in a meaningful way for hundreds of years is why we keep seeing the same pattern of racial injustice play out over and over and over again in this country.”

She even said that reparations “could have been as effective as a vaccine.”

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  1. How much do they pay to go to Harvard I can save them a lot of money I can come up with stupid BS like that for nothing I can also teach them the KKK and Black Panthers are gentlemen clubs get real

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  3. Obviously these old bastions of “higher learning” are now just a breeding ground of ridiculous thought patterns that are indoctrinating our smartest young people in the country with these radical and moronic viewpoints. They need to be purged of this disease. I used to believe that “liberalism” was a disease. I was wrong. Liberalism is just stupid. Leftism, which is the prevailing form of liberalism that has overtaken the media and the liberal movement in our education system, is truly a disease. Anyone that is a “leftist” needs serious psychiatric care. And they need this care immediately. Leftism only gets worse. It progresses way quicker than any virus or bacteria ever could. I seriously pray for anyone that is under the leftism influence. Please get better. The world needs you to get better so that we can become a sane place again.

  4. I grew up on a farm, learned how to work for everything I have. Wasn’t able to afford college, went into The United States Marine Corps got out after 4 years as a Sergeant and was recommended for Staff Sergeant before I got out. Spent 32 years as a Union Ironworker, retired now.
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