USA Africa Dialogue Series - Get Up! Stand Up. Prophet Bob Marley in Munich (corrected)

Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com>	8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
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Well let me kill three birds with one stone, so to speak. First of all, to OA who has assumed rather  too confidently that marijuana causes schizophrenia.

But what if it is the other way around, namely, that some folks with schizophrenia use marijuana as a coping mechanism and a therapeutic device? 

Distinguishing the evangelical and secularist use of the term prophet is helpful. 

As for the disproportionate percentage of African American  deaths to Covid 19, mentioned by the poetic OKELLO OCULI, the following comes to mind, granted that it relates to a segment of the AA population, and not the whole:

1.  Lack of access to sound affordable medical care in normal times, and the dismantling of Obama's health care initiative.

2. Inherited dietary deficiencies  and practices - perpetuated by the fast food chains, low income, and decades of inattention to obesity generating foods.

3.  Excessive exposure to Covid-19 in nursing homes - and jobs as CNA  workers, hospital aides, 

delivery etc. - that are detrimental in the era  of Covid 19. High -paid medics and nurses are also at risk.

4. Crowded residential areas,  in densely populated  cities that preclude social distancing procedures.

5. A narcissistic President, slow to act in securing protective gear

for exposed individuals - believed to be outside loyalist voter -catchment zones.

6.  Blind faith, crowded churches -that initially defied social distancing measures. 

We  all  have to guard against the covert  eugenical use of Covid 19 by politicians - worldwide.

GE

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