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Thanks for the video and the message at the beginning. As you were responding to Yoav; it is a scientific issue and not only a political one. Great work, I hope you're doing alright in this pandemic, and I'm looking forward to your next video!

Thanks for the video.

I guess all the rest of us are staying.

Now, if you don't mind, I have bills to pay, so I am done here. Take it for what it is and decide as you wish - it is a free country you have the freedom to post whatever you want. As for your channel, your viewers equally have the freedom to fund or defund you based on your scientific integrity. Which up to now I did not find lacking. But here we are. You carve your own life, make your own decisions - don't blame anyone else for your failing, well no one but yourself.

Just two generations ago, my family mostly murdered enslaved and had all their possessions robbed from them. My family ran from prosecution, established itself, and got back on its feet. The system is not racist, claiming so is an intellectually lazy argument - clickbait. Allowing for your scientific conclusions to be driven by a political narrative or ideology - poisons the well! It is akin to truncating your experimental results to fit the narrative you want to push without reporting why! It does not line-up with the rigor of the scientific method and is one of the core reasons the "non-scientific" are losing faith in the honesty of scientists. Don't patronize your listeners, If your opinions are wanted we will ask for it. But here, in this form, just present the science. Which, by the way, you do very well, and all applause are due.

It does seem likely that "systemic racial inequalities in the US" have *something* to do with the bias in COVID-19 deaths, but as a representative of science to the general public, I really wish you would be more careful. As we all know, correlation is not causation. Other factors completely unrelated to prejudice are also quite plausibly factors in the disparity in outcomes. For example, there are data that strongly suggest that vitamin D status plays a significant role in how severe the course of the disease can be, and of course if you have dark skin and are living in, say, New York, you are very likely to be deficient in vitamin D unless you are supplementing. The elderly do not absorb vitamin D well and tend not to spend as much time outdoors, so vitamin D status may be a factor in the age disparity as well. Kids tend to spend more time outdoors, and they have a greater ratio of surface area (which determines vitamin D generation) to volume (which determines the bodily need for vitamin D), which may help to explain why kids tend to do well. Furthermore, pre-existing conditions like diabetes are also significant factors in COVID-19 outcomes, and it would be unscientific to pretend that the disparity in diabetes prevalence is entirely a result of food deserts, having nothing to do with demand. Henry, at a time when many people seem predisposed to blame race for everything, when things seem so obvious to some that asking for evidence seems almost offensive, we need our science educators to remind us that evidence-based reasoning is the only way to get to the truth. We don't need you to be woke -- we need you to be clear-headed in your messaging.

Hi Henry, I love your channel, and as you can see am a Patreon. But, our business transaction is such that you make scientific content and want to support your efforts. Please avert from pushing political agendas.

Can we /please/ abandon the use of auxillary text being flashed for half a second, requiring pausing to read? Now that I do most YouTube consuming on my phone or smart TV, actually pausing it to read it is much more difficult then in the past, as pausing and repositioning is much more difficult on these devices. This was previously very common on the Minute channels, and is becoming more and more frustrating. Can we do something different?