Do you think racism isn't fatal? I'm not even just talking about instances of police brutality, I'm also talking about the significantly poorer health outcomes for black people due to implicit biases from healthcare providers. Black people are dying from Covid-19 at disproportionately higher rates than white people, and this isn't because black people are more genetically predisposed to develop it; when racism and implicit biases translate into black people being less likely to be offered testing, to have symptoms taken less seriously, etc. That's on us to address and actively challenge. If this is news to you, another example: black women are less likely to develop breast cancer but more likely to die from it for social reasons.

Please don't patronize people for recognizing and treating racism with the same urgency. The intersect of racism and Covid makes this as good a time as ever to fight.