Black Lives Matter.  The suffering inflicted by COVID-19 falls disproportionately on black and brown people due to a much more sinister pandemic—the centuries long plague of systemic racism that killed Mr. Rayshard Brooks, Mr. George Floyd, Ms. Breonna Taylor, Mr. Ahmaud Arbery and millions of other black persons -- and inflicts indelible sorrow and persistent subjugation.  Born from, spread and sustained by privileged white society, there is no vaccine, no antigen for racism and privilege.  There is only acceptance of responsibility, active opposition and concession of ill-gotten power and resources by the perpetrators, beneficiaries, and complicit.  Read our full statement here.