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NYC Health Dept: Structural racism increases the risk of heat stress for black New Yorkers

Posted on 8/5/22 at 7:41 am
Posted by SPEEDY
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Posted on 8/5/22 at 7:41 am
NYC Health Dept. memo to healthcare workers:

quote:

2022 Health Alert #17:

Extreme Heat Event August 4 and 5, 2022: Help Prevent Heat-Related Deaths

Please distribute to all clinical staff in primary care, family medicine, geriatrics, internal medicine, psychiatry, pharmacy and emergency medicine.


August 4, 2022

Dear Colleagues,

A heat advisory is in effect for Thursday, August 4 and Friday, August 5, with heat indices forecasted to be over 100 on Thursday and in the upper 90s on Friday.

Extreme heat is the deadliest type of extreme weather. It can cause hyperthermia and worsen existing medical conditions and mental health problems. Structural racism and the resulting social and economic inequities increase the risk of heat stress for Black New Yorkers, who are twice as likely to die from heat as White New Yorkers.






Full memo
This post was edited on 8/5/22 at 7:53 am
Posted by PeteRose
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Posted on 8/5/22 at 7:43 am to
More like NYC Guilt Dept
Posted by Ignignokt
Member since Dec 2005
3382 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 7:43 am to
Where do they come up with this shite?
Posted by WinnPtiger
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2011
23905 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 7:45 am to
quote:

Where do they come up with this shite?


copy/paste from whatever was going to kill everyone last week
Posted by dgnx6
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
68891 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 7:48 am to
Do they have stats on this?

Or is this one of those things where more white people die of heat stroke, but since blacks make up less % it means they are more likely to die so it must be racism.
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
37577 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 7:51 am to
Jesus Christ. One day can we stop judging people by immutable characteristics? Do they really think black Americans are too stupid to not overheat?
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
261481 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 7:55 am to
quote:

Structural racism and the resulting social and economic inequities increase the risk of heat stress for Black New Yorkers,


These people..
Posted by RougeDawg
Member since Jul 2016
5908 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 7:55 am to
At least they capitalized "white".

Even if that was true, why is that information that needs to be conveyed?
Posted by The Pirate King
Pangu
Member since May 2014
57759 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 7:56 am to
NYC health department probably has a person whose sole job is looking for racial inequities
This post was edited on 8/5/22 at 9:15 am
Posted by Jyrdis
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Member since Aug 2015
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Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:01 am to
Are they implying black people are too dumb to understand what an AC or window unit is?
Posted by jnethe1
Pearland
Member since Dec 2012
16143 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:01 am to
Even the damn sun is racist..
Posted by wheelr
Member since Jul 2012
5149 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:01 am to
They are correct. Democrats have been promising to help blacks for decades and nothing has been done. Politicians gain power while minorities die in the streets.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
99110 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:02 am to
Yes...because a whole bunch of non-black don't also live in older buildings with shite ventilation and no A/C.

For frick's sake
Posted by WaWaWeeWa
Member since Oct 2015
15714 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:03 am to
White people are twice as likely to be sunburned
I stand with my brothers in fighting this structural solar racism
Posted by swolverine
Member since Jun 2020
1966 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:05 am to
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This post was edited on 12/21/23 at 1:20 pm
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
112723 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:06 am to
We need heat programs.
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
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Member since Aug 2004
45195 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:07 am to
If it were Republican or Conservative led government / leadership saying these type of things. They would be accused of calling blacks inferior to white.
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
27459 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:07 am to
Sooo, climate change is racist.


I knew it!!!
Posted by Water
Louisiana
Member since Jan 2020
741 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:15 am to
Sun is racist!
Posted by VolsOut4Harambe
Atlanta, GA
Member since Sep 2017
12856 posts
Posted on 8/5/22 at 8:29 am to
Isn't it hotter in Africa?
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