Uh Oh: Extreme Rain Causes E Coli In Marginalized Communities

Apparently, ‘climate change’ is so smart that it can send rain to certain communities and make only those people sick

Scientists uncover troubling health risks that can occur after rainfall: ‘This is a complicated issue’

Black and Latino communities are bearing the brunt of E. coli-contaminated waters due to extreme rainfall in Texas, according to a new study.

The University of Michigan-led research looked at Escherichia coli, climate, environmental, and socioeconomic data available for the state between 2001 and 2021 and used computational models to explore where extreme rainfall had the greatest impact on E. coli levels.

News Medical Life Sciences summarized the paper, explaining that the impact varied by season. For instance, communities in the northern and eastern parts of the state with greater percentages of Black residents had higher concentrations of E. coli entering their recreational waters due to extreme rain during the winter. Predominantly Latino communities in South and West Texas feel these effects in September.

Or, it could be that their computer models are designed to be super scary and entice minorities to join the doomsday cult. Along with getting all those rich white liberals to feel bad about those poor, downtrodden blacks and Latinos who cannot take care of themselves without the big hand of government, of which those rich white liberals think all blacks and Latinos are.

But E. coli is just one public health concern for communities of color across the United States. For instance, rising seas and frequent bouts of torrential rain are causing septic tanks across the South to fail, flooding streets and backyards with waste and putting communities at risk for gastrointestinal diseases and other health hazards. In Alabama’s majority-Black Lowndes County, where septic systems are becoming increasingly overwhelmed, at least a third of people have tested positive for hookworm, a disease normally found in developing countries.

Holy crap, do you know how bad that paragraph is? Besides the whole “climate doom is targeting black people”, Lowndes County is well inland. It is 153 miles from Hayneville, Alabama, the center of the county, to Pensacola, Florida. The lowest part of the county is still 47 (154 feet) meters above sea level.

Oh, hey, where’s that E. coli coming from? Are they saying that E. coli is worse in black and brown areas? Seems rather racist.

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