Rubio calls it "crazy nonsense." To Black and brown people, health inequity is dead serious

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In one short tweet Tuesday, Florida’s senior senator, Marco Rubio, managed to dismiss the idea that racial and social inequities exist in healthcare in this country.

And he did it during a pandemic that has disproportionately harmed minorities. Talk about tone deaf — and hurtful.

“The American Medical Association has fallen victim to the pandemic of crazy nonsense,” he wrote, as he retweeted an article by the AMA about how the organization plans to address racism and social justice in medicine.

Of course, it’s all part of the culture wars and his attempt to recast himself from unsuccessful presidential candidate to warrior against the “woke” as he faces a potentially competitive reelection contest next year. Apparently, he’s even trying to create a 2.0 version of Republicans’ attacks on Democrats as socialists — which succeeded among many voters in Miami-Dade County — except for 2024 he’s going after Communist China, with his campaign sending targeted emails to specific anti-China voters, according to Axios.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rubio-calls-crazy-nonsense-black-211446279.html

[PortTack]

1. FL...you have a chance to oust this jerk and have a senator that will work for you

Go Val Demings!!

[Skittles]

3. HEH

that is exactly what I was going to post: GO VAL DEMINGS! I would love to see her unseat that little worm Marco. And yes I have donated!

[slightlv]

4. Even I have a dog in this fight.

It's been a real hot button issue for me for a long time. As a female, there was NO testing of drugs on our gender to see what harms could come... only on white men, of "normal" size and weight. I don't think they even took in consideration white men of 250 pounds!

I lost a good friend to lupus to early in her life. It took the medical people over 6 months to diagnose her, and THEN there wasn't really any help for her. This was back in the 80's. The most frequent diagnosis for her was hysteria or encroaching old age (she was 50!).

I now have lupus, and it's amazing how little has been done to alleviate the sufferings of those of us with lupus SLE. Until they can focus on which part of our anatomy it's actually killing, it's hydroxychloroquine or nothing. I'm living on pain meds, and having to fight for continued access to those; hydroxychloroquine is way too dangerous afaic.

The -only- good thing that has come from this is I've dropped from 210 to 101 pounds. I don't suggest doing it this way, tho.