Whether it's Ebola, cholera and now COVID-19, Jesse Verschuere has witnessed"a pattern of stigma against others in every disease outbreak" he has responded to as part of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
The objects of prejudice have included health-care workers, minorities, immigrants, indeed any outsider or other who looks or acts different from those in the local community, says the Belgium-basedVillainizing an unknown other as guilty of spreading, causing or exploiting disease has a long, hate-filled history, says Debora MacKenzie, author of the new bookBack in 14th-century Europe, Jews were blamed — and thousands of them slaughtered — by Christian mobs who baselessly accused them of...
So perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that in the wake of COVID-19, the blame game is playing out once again.In the United States, where some leaders have used the racist term"Kung flu" to describe COVID-19, increased verbal and physical assaults against Asian Americans have been linked to the virus.
In Haiti, medical workers are often distrusted and ostracized. According to reports from Doctors Without Borders, one pervasive myth is that hospital patients who seek help for COVID-19 will instead receive a fatal injection. The more people who die, it's alleged, the more money the government will receive as part of a corrupt ploy to exploit unsuspecting citizens.
In Malaysia, authorities have used COVID-19 as a pretext to target — and exacerbate prejudice against — immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers and the Rohingya community, says Doctors Without Borders head of mission. Immigration raids purportedly aimed at stopping the spread of the disease by these groups coming from outside the country in fact ended up sparking new disease clusters in the overcrowded detention centers where the detainees were sent.
some people are scapegoated in advance of the corona virus 🦠 ☣️these time travelers
Because humans cannot grasp that there are competing organisms in Nature.
How to win friends and influence people Dale Carnegie 1932 read it! Stupid name for a great book!!! Why humans react
Now the truth revealed that out of 153,504 deaths from the pandemic, only 6% of that number actually died of just the virus. 94% of the deaths were people with comorbidity, Which means they were very sick to begin with. Too late now, you speak a lie long enough, it becomes fact
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There is a cause: Right-Wing avarice and science denial. It is pretty clear that COVID19 would have been like Avian Flu, had we taken appropriate steps front he get go.
An old plan..these are from 2009 n 2010..but its much older. Kissinger n Rockefeller made bizarre statements...years ago. Newspaper from 60's talked about it.
That's an awful lot of inches to say 'because people suck.'
Because we’re made in His image and He’s a dumb ass.
Because the leader is an idiot?
We know exactly where it originated and spread from thanks to modern science
Sorry, but that doesn't change the fact that this whole pandemic is Trump's fault.
Muh Racism!!!
I blame the Visigoths. We should put them all in a rocket to the moon.
And then the protests
As soon as a child can point or talk, we begin scapegoating. Most people never develop the character and accountability to grow out of it.
Okay, but *this* pandemic happened during an Age of Information and connectivity. We actually traced the responsible parties. Those who failed to put in the effort to mitigate the pandemic are a matter of record. We're not talking scapegoats anymore.
Poor fleas always get a bad rap