I sincerely admit that disease is not a game or anything to take lightly for in all honesty, folks do really die, and as in this case in their hundreds of thousands. However, there was this sadistic morbid speculation by some western doctors, especially those from France. Suggesting Africans test a “repurposed” tuberculosis vaccine to help find a COVID-19 vaccine has triggered outrage. A French anti-racism group slammed the idea floated by two French doctors, one of whom has apologized.
Paris intensive care doctor Jean-Paul Mira apologized Friday for suggesting the testing in Africa of a “repurposed” tuberculosis vaccine as a COVID-19 beater during an expert chat with a colleague on television.
“Africa isn’t a testing lab,” replied retired Ivory Coast football star Didier Drogba, and a Moroccan lawyers’ collective had said it would sue Mira for racial defamation.
French group SOS Racisme said Africans aren’t guinea pigs and France’s CSA broadcast ethics watchdog said it had received a complaint.
Paris’ clinic network, including Mira as head of intensive care at its Cochin hospital, on Friday quoted him as saying: “I want to present all my apologies to those who were hurt, shocked and felt insulted by the remarks I clumsily expressed.”
On Wednesday, in a broadcast on the channel LCI, Mira discussed the rush to find anti-coronavirus vaccines with Camille Locht, research head at France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), based in Lille.
Their focus was BCG, a vaccine against tuberculosis used for decades to help shield health workers and reputed to reduce suffering from respiratory illnesses among children as well as mitigating asthma and autoimmune diseases.
Mira posed the question: “… shouldn’t we be doing this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatment, no intensive care, rather as was done with certain studies on AIDS, where things are tested on prostitutes because it’s known that they are highly exposed (to HIV)?”
Locht replied: “You’re right, we are thinking in parallel by the way about a study in Africa with the same kind of approach, (but) it doesn’t prevent us from being able to think about a study in Europe and Australia at the same time.”
She was referring to a BCG vaccine trial in Australia among some 4,000 health workers. One wonders why these two were not sued. for insulting an entire continent. The Bible says that from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, and our people say that what a man says or does while drunk is actually his reality intentions. This I am wont to say is the feeling of the French towards the Africans. That is why their colonies in Africa are slaves in perpetuity, still chained to their master’s apron and brainwashed to think they are French citizens, yet in bondage to the colonial master.
However, the question here is that if one cares to carry out a detailed research of the ratio of Covid 19 fatalities in the Western world as compared with Africa, it will be discovered that we will counting in the approximations of more than a hundred to one. The question therefore is how come that? Africa with its low or totally absent medical system, no welfare, low income, very low quality life is not visited by the incidence of this global pandemic the way her detractors had expected. In African, social distances is either casual, absent or treated with levity as the markets are in full swing, the houses of Faith and social gatherings are doing their things and in lots of places face masks seem to be considered optional, no matter how strongly the government tries to implement its usage. Hand sanitizers? Ehhmmmm!
Is it their Faith?
Their food?
Their weather?
Has their body become immune to certain kind of disease invasion because they have been fighting malaria all their lives and the drugs have now created anti bodies that can fight off invasion?
As the song goes There are more questions than answers. I guess as the Zambian minister suggested, Let the trained African physicians please go to work. The world desperately needs you now. They are now brandishing vaccines that are causing more panic than assurance. Now one knows which part of this night python that is lying across is the head.
