It can be helpful to be able to track medical trends within an ethnic group, or to focus on certain diseases that only affect a specific group (e.g. sickle cell in the Black community). Unfortunately, that same data in the wrong hands becomes a problem.
Exactly. You can’t just go off of vibes or self-reporting.
It sucks that the data needed to be collected at all, but it’s not the fault of people who actually cared that fascists are now taking their work and using it to further fascism.
And how did all that data collection do with mitigating racial bias? Most of my poc friends won’t even go to a hospital consensually, before this shit went down.
As not yankee, why is ethnicity even stored in that database??
Race is somewhat relevant to medical care. I forget why?
It can be helpful to be able to track medical trends within an ethnic group, or to focus on certain diseases that only affect a specific group (e.g. sickle cell in the Black community). Unfortunately, that same data in the wrong hands becomes a problem.
Fwiw, Asians are lactose intolerant. Scandinavians are more prone to diabetes and cystic fibrosis.
Straight answer:
Shitlibs had to add means testing to all social programs and had to collect data saying xyz group was underserved and also had a data fetish.
According to the blood donor ppl, it helps to give ppl similar blood. I dk how much bs that is. That’s just what they told me.
It is BS. Blood typing exists.
Are the same people saying they have nothing to hide?
Missing the real question that we all know the answer to: why are they asking?
Straight answer:
Shitlibs had to add means testing to all social programs and had to collect data saying xyz group was underserved and also had a data fetish.
No of course this coukd never be abused; we made a law saying not to!
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Exactly. You can’t just go off of vibes or self-reporting.
It sucks that the data needed to be collected at all, but it’s not the fault of people who actually cared that fascists are now taking their work and using it to further fascism.
You dont need to collect fuvking data umless you’re means testing everything.
If you just stop the class based rationing, you do not need to do that.
And how did all that data collection do with mitigating racial bias? Most of my poc friends won’t even go to a hospital consensually, before this shit went down.