It's this kind of willful ignorance which makes me think,
why do we even bother trying to help any Africans at all? I'm all for providing aid and effort on the assumption that it will be accepted for what it is, but if our doctors get attacked by a bunch of stupid cavemen then we should stop and let evolution kick in.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 15:12, Reply)
we certainly never see people being willfully ignorant here in the west
we're all smart like that
(, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 15:19, Reply)
I also support telling ignorant westeners to go fuck themselves.
But the difference is, willful ignorance in the west results in very few consequences as we have enough people who know their arse from their elbow to keep things running.
In Africa it results in the deaths of thousands, and it could have been avoided if they had known some very basic information that we teach to the youngest of our children.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 15:21, Reply)
We fucked that place up good with out colonialism
And since then there's been no lack of multinational corporations or pill peddlers making a good profit from the poor, uneducated people in African countries. Plus they've got their own problems, Liberia was in a civil war just 10 years ago. It's really no surprise at all that there's a lack of trust to western healthcare workers over there.
Also, it's really stupid to think that the epidemic wouldn't find it's way in a major fashion to just about everywhere if the seemingly exponential rise in cases is stopped real fast at it's source.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 21:21, Reply)