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This is horrific. Two French doctors on live television are discussing how a potential new treatment
This is horrific. Two French doctors on live television are discussing how a potential new treatment against #covid19 should be first tested in Africa, "where are no masks, no treatment, no reanimation", "the same way experimental treatment for AIDS was done on prostitutes".
It's 2020 in France &we still see people from Africa as subjects for experimentation.This is what normalized racism looks like.AFAIK,nobody jumped in to counter the arguments, both doctors agreed. Same, the way sex-workers are considered: like objects that can be used for tests.
Translation
Dr Mira: "If I can be provocative, shouldn't we do this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatment, no resuscitation, a bit like it has been done in some studies in AIDS, where among prostitutes, we try things, because they are exposed, and
...they don't protect themselves, what do you think?"
Dr Locht: "So you are right[...]we're thinking in parallel to a study in Africa precisely to make this same type of approach w/ BCG [vaccine]placebo,I think there is a call for tenders that was released or that will be released & I think we will indeed srsly think about that too"
It's 2020 in France &we still see people from Africa as subjects for experimentation.This is what normalized racism looks like.AFAIK,nobody jumped in to counter the arguments, both doctors agreed. Same, the way sex-workers are considered: like objects that can be used for tests.
Translation
Dr Mira: "If I can be provocative, shouldn't we do this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatment, no resuscitation, a bit like it has been done in some studies in AIDS, where among prostitutes, we try things, because they are exposed, and
...they don't protect themselves, what do you think?"
Dr Locht: "So you are right[...]we're thinking in parallel to a study in Africa precisely to make this same type of approach w/ BCG [vaccine]placebo,I think there is a call for tenders that was released or that will be released & I think we will indeed srsly think about that too"
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get upset and won't allow inoculations and vaccines to be delivered "for their safety" from Europe and the US and other "developed nations" so many shake their heads and wonder why. This is why. It would not be the first time such a thing was considered and actuated.
As with all that "relief" sent many years back included lots of milk to lactose intolerant populations because we had surplus. They thought we were trying to kill them with poison. In some places, it was used for paint on fences and houses because they couldn't use it for food.
