Yeah, there's a lot of stuff I guess.
Dunno, reading some old books about demographics for the Spanish Flu right now:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/te...luenza-a-survey?page=root;size=100;view=image
(This one is really good but nearly impossible to read.)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4575511.pdf
(This one is a source for the other one, just looking through it the first time.)
They're saying that white women had higher infection rates than white men when adjusting per capita. Black people, overall, had lower infection rates given similar housing. I would say maybe low testosterone is a contributing factor to infection rate and/or morbidity, but the Indians (dot) were better off than the Britain populations. Not sure how those would compare..
But, then you look across the country and all the black people are dying right now:
https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-ju...n-why-are-black-people-dying-at-higher-rates/
If you can stomach the ACLU, seems like they're saying all the black people are dying because they're stuck doing the service jobs where they can't go home and they have poor health insurance, etc.
Oh yeah, something interesting I found in those old books about the Spanish Flu. Italians were hit HARD by the Spanish Flu. Probably the high % of elderly back then just as reports have been guessing is the cause for the higher morbidity in Italy right now? But, guess where all the Italians live in the U.S.???
Yup. NY.
But, check this out. Maybe Italians don't have a lot of the auto-immune system diseases the other races have like Crohn's which is endemic to a genetic profile with an over-active immune system. This would mean other races average lifespan would be lower (I checked, it is, by a year or two), but they can then resist pandemics easier. So, it's possible the younger Italians more susceptible to this and other flu-like diseases right now. We could also tie this back to diet, since Italians eat less animal fats, they of course would be less resistant to flu-like viruses coming from animals!