A couple months ago, the California Department of Public Health released a new “equity metric,” making it more difficult for counties to reopen from lockdowns to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. The state is raising the bar for reopening the economy even higher, this time effectively basing pandemic responses on Marxist critical race theory.

“Our entire state has come together to redouble our efforts to reduce the devastating toll COVID-19 has had on our Latino, Black and Pacific Islander communities,” Acting State Public Health Officer Dr. Erica Pan said in a statement. “This isn’t just a matter of higher cases in these communities – it is an issue of life and death that is hurting all Californians.”

What does “equity” in terms of race have to do with slowing the spread of a pandemic? Shouldn’t the government and public health agencies focus on the virus, rather than whether patients are black, white, or Asian? Shouldn’t counties be able to lift lockdown restrictions as quickly as it is safely possible in order to facilitate economic recovery? Not according to California’s governor.

Rather than moving California closer to reopening, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) has added even more red tape to the process.

According to the health department website, counties with a population greater than 106,000 must

“Ensure that the test positivity rates in its most disadvantaged neighborhoods, as defined as being in the lowest quartile of the Healthy Places Index census tracts, do not significantly lag behind its overall county test positivity rate.”

The new policy also announces that California “is committed to partnering with counties to improve the collection of race and ethnicity data associated with testing and cases. To date, approximately a third of cases and up to half of test results reported to the state so do not have required race/ethnicity data. The state will partner with counties to determine milestones in improving the collection of this data.”

“The state will provide county-level data on the completeness of race/ethnicity for COVID-19 tests and cases, and will continue to track and publicly post county level data on testing, case rates and deaths by race and ethnicity,” the health department promises.

In other words, California is willing to embark on a massive bureaucratic project to trace racial disparities amid coronavirus cases and to force counties to target resources based on COVID disparities, redirecting its focus from the general mission of limiting the spread of the disease in general.

The racial emphasis echoes the current cultural rise of Marxist critical race theory with The New York Times‘ “1619 Project,” the riots, and the widespread embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement (the official organization is run by self-described Marxists).

Americans voluntarily adopted social distancing restrictions on the premise of “14 days to slow the spread.” Health officials feared that a spike in cases would overwhelm hospitals, but that did not happen. Instead, health clinics have found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy because people stopped coming in for non-coronavirus-related health care. Since the initial lockdowns in March and April, governments have slow-walked the reopening.

Meanwhile, many Americans are struggling with depression. Fentanyl-related overdose rates increased by more than 60 percent since March. Coronavirus anxiety may cost more in terms of years of life than the lockdowns can possibly save, according to a study from Just Facts.

Many governments have also applied the lockdowns selectively. As New York City cops let protesters and rioters run rampant in June, they booted Jewish families from a playground for violating lockdown rules. While Los Angeles County has turned a blind eye to Black Lives Matter protests, it has cracked down on churches like John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church.

Critical Race Theory

You may be wondering what Critical Race Theory is. Stay tuned. Throughout 2021, Fulcrum7 will expose and oppose critical theory (CRT). Why? It’s bad stuff—actually the basis for false Religion of Wokeness.

One of the things about this new ‘religion’ is that it is immensely legalistic. You have to do the work of anti-racism until you die. There is no forgiveness.

The current US presidential administration (admirably) banned it from being taught in federal agencies.
The UK Equalities Minister of the (herself a black person) condemned CRT in UK schools. She could not have been clearer: Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory are political and do not belong in schools.
Meanwhile, Biden's choice For Education Secretary mandated Critical Race Theory for high schools. Be advised, we are probably going to see more CRT in our country and churches. A lot more.

Look for more articles on CRT in the near future. It will all make sense eventually.

In the meantime, California is blending CRT with CV19 in order to score political points. Sadly.

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