African-Americans dealing with Coronavirus

(photo; Essence)

African Americans tend to go through fatal forms of mental health more than anyone else in the United States. They are often misunderstood on how to handle these kinds of situations. It is commonly portrayed as shaming and punishment in black communities. The awareness of anxiety and depression is not where it needs to be and needs to seek treatment and needs to be known. Some people are distraught or in belief that they have symptoms and most people are not willing to openly discuss certain topics. They normally choose to stay silent and not talk about it because it is very private to them. People have been grieving deaths throughout this pandemic and elderly people are absolutely frightened about going outside. They do not feel as the hospital is a safe place to go and mentally not comforting. However, it does reveal a person’s weakness through the midst of COVID-19 that challenges people to stay in the house until they say it’s okay to come out. Social distancing has played a huge role as well throughout this crisis as well mentally on African-Americans. For example, some workers are not able to receive pay while being off work and it has been stressful for many people across the country to receive income at this point. People have social workers within black communities and healthcare workers on the front line trying to see where to go if they could be trustworthy and also go to people with familiarity. However, if they do not want to get the treatment nor the prescription filled they will not do it due the false information that has been given due to quarantine. When all sports were announced that they cancelled for the rest of the season they made sure that the national emergency was going to go as planned. They didn’t want it to increase the rate of the virus so they postponed everything until it cleared up. People end up getting sick and unable to get paid while sick and it is quite upsetting to the people and could possibly infect others. They also do not have any benefits within the job policies either so they have to find different resources in order to obtain money. Lastly, they tend to go to people that are deeply rooted into the community making a better cause for other people in order to survive and help others in critical need.  

(photo; Washington Post)