Recent studies have reported greater severity and fatality associated with
COVID-19 among men as compared to women. This has been the case
across the globe, though the mechanisms for the sex-based differences in
infection severity are not yet clear. Nonetheless, all research observations thus
far made indicate that researchers must consider the patients’ sex as an
important variable for COVID-19 data interpretation.
This is surpassingly strange, as we all know that sex is just
a construct, not an immutable, irreversible biological fact. Right? So how does
the coronavirus differentiate between two constructs, between two things
that don’t even truly exist? Moreover, among all the hundreds of different
genders, why is it harder on the ones who identify as “men?” This is doubly
odd, as we know that everything else negative disproportionately
afflicts those who identify as women. (Or peoples of color and those in the
LGBTQ community, of course.)
There is an easy solution for “men” who don’t wish to fall
victim to COVID-19, however. So easy, they will kick themselves when they hear
it: just immediately identify as a female. Duh! Like, hello?
I would finish by saying we need more detailed study results.
My guess is that gay men and Black men are the most severely affected by COVID.
Gay Black men probably have it much worse than straight white men.
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