Residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus, and 18 people suspected of infection left the facility, a local hospital director said Saturday. It was the second such attack in the region in a week.
Unidentified people arrived at the clinic in Mongbwalu on Friday night and set fire to a tent set up for suspected and confirmed Ebola cases by the Doctors Without Borders humanitarian group, Dr. Richard Lokudi, director of the Mongbwalu General Reference Hospital, told The Associated Press.
You missed the transition from “ebola in Africa” in the first part of the paragraph to a parallel distrustful reaction in the US during covid. If it helps, that transition point is the part of the sentence that reads, “Or if you’re in the US”.
I didn’t miss it. I just think that while the parallels in outcomes exist, the parallels in justifications are completely absent.
I very much appreciated your original comment though. It helped contextualize the pushback in African countries against Ebola aid. But the pushback against pandemic measures in the US don’t make any sense to me, even after reading your comment.
In both cases people actively worked against health authorities, because they believed some delusions about the governments motive
Yes, I get that. As I said…
I can be much more sympathetic to the people in Africa who don’t necessarily have the same access to information and education when compared to people in the US.
After reading the earlier comment, it makes sense (aka. I can understand the justification) why Ebola centres are being attacked, given the scope of what they experienced in prior epidemics.
What doesn’t make sense is how there are so many delusional Americans. They didn’t experience anything like half of their families being snatched from homes and never coming back even as a corpse.
Americans have a large percent of population that aren’t educated well, and gravitate toward consipracy theories and cult leader type followings.
Texas is a large state that publishes school materials, it is influenced by big oil (so they don’t want critical thinkers), and then other states save money by buying the premade curriculum from Texas. Also schools and teachers lack funding–by design