Liberals never learn. Nor should you expect them to understand science or cause and effect. The City of Chicago is going to institute a new program to improve the health and life-span of people of color because apparently they are dying of institutional racism. That’s right; if you don’t live as long as you more pale neighbor it’s because “RACISM”.
Of course, the real reasons for the variability of life spans come from a number of different factors. Some are genetic, but many of these are behavioral. Don’t smoke, don’t take drugs, eat a healthy diet, get regular exercise, keep your weight down, and don’t overindulge in alcohol. Follow this advice and you significantly increase your odds of living to a ripe old age. But Democrats are too stupid to understand this.
On average, Asian Chicagoans live 82.9 years, white residents live 80.2 years and Latino residents live 80 years, as of 2017, according to the Healthy Chicago 2025 report. But Black Chicagoans are living just 71.4 years — and the gap widens to 17 years in some communities, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
The biggest factors in this gap are chronic disease, fatal shootings, infant mortality, HIV and infectious disease and opioid overdoses, according to the report.
All those issues, and others that drive the gap, are rooted in systemic racism, officials said when announcing the plan Thursday.
“… It’s critically important that we name the root cause of illness and death … . And when we looked at this life expectancy gap, many people said it was violence. But it was not just violence: heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and cancer,” said Dr. David Ansell, chief health equity officer at Rush University Medical Center. “… But dig a little deeper and you see shocking inequities between the West … and the South sides and the Gold Coast in social, structural and power differentials.
