Throughout the COVID pandemic, public health officials have focused on “equity” and getting their message out to minority communities, yet were seemingly baffled that people in those communities didn’t seem to trust their recommendations and advice. Sometimes that distrust was framed by academics and government officials as a failure or inability to understand science (because that’s not racist at all). There were performative acknowledgements that especially in the black community there were a lot of valid reasons to distrust both the government and public health officials specifically, including what the government did to black men in Tuskegee, Alabama.Read More
CDC Director Walensky’s Tweet About the Tuskegee Experiment is Clueless Propaganda
