Agreed. Infant morality is a function of poverty; it's normal for infant mortality to be much higher than average in poor communities. There are lots of poor people in the DC area. Flairing for relevance.
Yeah, DC's rate is not out of line with other large US cities with large pockets of concentrated poverty; it's generally between 11 and 15 in Cleveland, around 10 in Baltimore, and so on, and has actually been declining in DC.
One thing I will never understand about pizzagate is the apparent belief that all of the hundreds of thousands of people who live in DC are wealthy political big shots -- most of them live in the suburbs anyway. Unbelievable that someone in this thread would even suggest that shows like "House of Cards" depict anything but a tiny, tiny slice of the city.
The poverty rate in DC is 17 percent, and it's 27 percent among the black population that makes up about half the city's residents, for heaven's sake. The infant mortality rate is by far the highest in DC'S extremely poor Ward 8.
I think the show 'The Wire' which is about Baltimore, is probably closer to what the majority of life is like in Washington. Here's a song for y'all it will hit the spot. Way down in the Hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR9_wbTrInI
Agreed. Plus, it's white kids that are the main pedo trafficking currency, not minorities. That's not to say that there aren't real problems going on that are being covered up - but it's likely not tied as much to the pedo trafficking we're looking for - as it is to general institutional failure.
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Millennial_Falcon ago
Agreed. Infant morality is a function of poverty; it's normal for infant mortality to be much higher than average in poor communities. There are lots of poor people in the DC area. Flairing for relevance.
whatonearth ago
Yeah, DC's rate is not out of line with other large US cities with large pockets of concentrated poverty; it's generally between 11 and 15 in Cleveland, around 10 in Baltimore, and so on, and has actually been declining in DC.
One thing I will never understand about pizzagate is the apparent belief that all of the hundreds of thousands of people who live in DC are wealthy political big shots -- most of them live in the suburbs anyway. Unbelievable that someone in this thread would even suggest that shows like "House of Cards" depict anything but a tiny, tiny slice of the city.
The poverty rate in DC is 17 percent, and it's 27 percent among the black population that makes up about half the city's residents, for heaven's sake. The infant mortality rate is by far the highest in DC'S extremely poor Ward 8.
unfuckitup ago
I think the show 'The Wire' which is about Baltimore, is probably closer to what the majority of life is like in Washington. Here's a song for y'all it will hit the spot. Way down in the Hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR9_wbTrInI
hedy ago
Agreed. Plus, it's white kids that are the main pedo trafficking currency, not minorities. That's not to say that there aren't real problems going on that are being covered up - but it's likely not tied as much to the pedo trafficking we're looking for - as it is to general institutional failure.