[hpliferaft]

Yesterday I read an article that claims an opposite of elite panic -- working class denial? -- of the virus is happening in my city [0].

The thesis is that a community (euphemistically termed a "subculture") of older African Americans in Philadelphia refuse to participate in the quarantine due to their skepticism of the federal government's public health directives due to previous medical conspiracies, namely the Tuskegee Experiments.

0: https://6abc.com/health/expert-says-subculture-still-thinks-...

[lonelappde]

You're missing an adjective in there. It takes a special kind of mind to cite a case of government disregarding the health of African-Americans, as rationale for the thesis there is no health risk.