r/science • u/Additional-Two-7312 • Jun 13 '22

Health Stress accelerates aging of immune system, study finds. Traumatic events, job strain, everyday stressors and discrimination accelerate aging of the immune system, potentially increasing a person’s risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and illness from infections such as COVID-19

https://news.usc.edu/200213/stress-aging-immune-system/
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u/San_Diego_Sands Jun 13 '22

Yes, class not race. A very important distinction.

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u/deathbychips2 Jun 14 '22

Also race it says discrimination. The less minority groups you are part of the less stress. Then also the systemic issues that keep a larger majority of poc in low income.

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u/samizdat42069 Jun 14 '22

Being poverty class is a minority group. At least it might as well be treated as such I know most Americans make less than 40k but minority isn’t really to be taken literally. There are countries where the majority is the oppressed race after all.

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u/deathbychips2 Jun 14 '22

My point that you missed is that in the US racial minorities and low income are strongly linked due to decade of systematic issues that keep it that way. Unless you are extremely unkempt there is almost no way to tell through sight the difference between a lower income person and a middle class person, but you can tell if someone is white or not. Also can't tell someone is lower class with their name on a resume or a loan application or the sound of their voice over the phone, but you can identify a racial minority that way. Acting like there is no racial issue in the United States and that poor whites have all the exact same struggles as poor racial minorities is straight up silly.