What is missing here is the total number of Covid-19 deaths in Boulder county, and as of today, July 30th, that is 74. So what are 13.8% and 17.4% of 74? 10.2 and 12.9. Since these are people, let’s assume these percentages came from the numbers 10 and 13. That is, based on the population distribution, we would expect 10 people to have died of Covid-19 in Boulder, but actually, 13 people died. Now, hopefully the author understands that in a random sample, we wouldn’t expect EXACTLY 10 Hispanic people to die. We expect it to be close to that number. Is this evidence of discrimination? I doubt anyone with any mathematical understanding would draw that conclusion.

My conclusion is that this article was accepted on the premise that the formula “X is discrimination” is pretty effective these days. No one even questions or examines the numbers. Surely there is some discrimination, but saying that everything is discrimination actually takes force away from the arguments in the cases where it does matter.

Finally, as for this statement: “There are a number of Latino-run businesses that work primarily with cash and they do not go through the officials banking structures,” my first thought was, well why do businesses decide to work primarily with cash? I think we all know the answer to that.