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.
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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
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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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No, they should volunteer for the trial treatment & extend the experiment on their immediate families
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Ba nyela.....They should Try it in their countries first....We are not experimental labs here
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Scandalous. Africa is not a laboratory and the African people are not laboratory rats.
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This normalisation of colonial attitudes is jarring in conversation, living in France, would notice some similar rhetorical ticks being used among a certain class towards perceived lesser nations and peoples....
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....that I'm familiar with being deployed by English discourse towards Ireland. Realise differing histories and differing contexts, but there are certainly ways of describing the world that seems rooted in post-colonial powers, seems to stick around in the intellectual waters
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Africa as a whole hasn't even reached 50 000 cases, but America in particular has surpassed more than 200 000 cases, yet they want to experiment the vaccine with Africa. It doesn't make sense!!pic.twitter.com/07Pnm6DahP
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Racism doesn’t make sense
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