[dijit]

Race, in terms of physiology has never been regarded by science to be a social construct.

In fact it can be medically harmful to think this way.

[wutbrodo]

Unfortunately, that's not quite true. Here's the AMA[1] with a press release entitled "New AMA policies recognize race as a social, not biological, construct".

They discourage using race as a source of any physiological signal. They do allow using genetics, but the relevant situations are the many many ones where genetic testing isn't possible or doesn't yet provide useful signal.

Unaccountable institutions get captured very easily, and the race cult that's swept through our educated class has been a very powerful one.

[1] https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/new-ama...

[PartiallyTyped]

One of the reasons certain communities were hit harder with Covid was vit D deficiency as a consequence of skin color.

[dijit]

That is one hypothesised cause for the disparity, social factors in those cases need to be controlled for.

A better discussion is around sickle cell anaemia[0] which is exclusively carried by people of African or Afro-Caribbean descent.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease

[PartiallyTyped]

That's a better example, thank you. Reminded me that I know quite a few people with Thalassemia/Mediterranean anemia.

[pessimizer]

Sickle cell disease is exclusively caused by genetics, not race. The vast majority of people of African or Afro-Caribbean descent aren't carriers, so have the same likelihood as everyone else who is not a carrier to develop it.

[pessimizer]

Skin color isn't race.