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Started by Mermaid, August 17, 2014, 04:27:53 PM

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Mermaid

August 17, 2014, 04:27:53 PM
http://cir.ca/news/attack-on-liberia-ebola-center?utm_content=bufferba29c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

A mob of young men armed with clubs raided an Ebola clinic in Monrovia, stealing bedsheets and claiming that the virus is a government hoax is get money. Nurses and at least 17 of the clinic's 29 patients fled the quarantined area which had been set up in a high school.

This is what a culture of fear does to people. A similar thing occurred in West Africa during a polio vaccine campaign. A rumor that the vaccine was a government conspiracy to sterilize people stopped compliance dead in its tracks, and the virus eradication program fell.
A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities â€" all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. -TR

SGOS

#1
August 17, 2014, 04:30:15 PM
Reminds me of fluoride in drinking water when I was growing up.

aitm

#2
August 17, 2014, 04:33:50 PM
there is some validity to the suggestion that the eradication of stupidity is as simple as leaving them to their own devices.
A humans desire to live is exceeded only by their willingness to die for another. Even god cannot equal this magnificent sacrifice. No god has the right to judge them.-first tenant of the Panotheust

Mermaid

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August 17, 2014, 04:39:07 PM
Quote from: aitm on August 17, 2014, 04:33:50 PM
there is some validity to the suggestion that the eradication of stupidity is as simple as leaving them to their own devices.
We have tens of thousands of people right here in the USA who are pretty sure the government and Big Pharma are evil entities that only serve to experiment on us for a profit.
A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities â€" all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. -TR

The Skeletal Atheist

#4
August 17, 2014, 05:33:09 PM
Is it bad that I feel like physically harming some of these people? Like whenever I see sometime who is an antivaxxer or pro-homeopathy/"alternative" medicine I just want to punch them in the face and/or wherever pair of genitalia they happen to possess. I mean these people at least have an excuse from lack of education, but when you live in the first world and think that homeopathy is a viable alternative to modern medicine you are a fucking moron. Of course I restrain myself, but fucking hell humans are idiotic at times.
Some people need to be beaten with a smart stick.

Kein Mehrheit Fur Die Mitleid!

Kein Mitlied F�r Die Mehrheit!

Mermaid

#5
August 17, 2014, 06:27:37 PM
I feel the same, Skeletal. It's really frustrating. I think it's just more fun to believe conspiracy theories than it is to educate oneself.

The comments on Facebook about this event are some pretty square evidence that Americans are just as fear-oriented and ignorant as the people of Liberia.
A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities â€" all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. -TR

Munch

#6
August 18, 2014, 07:17:32 AM
Doesn't matter how far we come as a species, humans are still animals, and still react like animals to bad situations.
'Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners' - George Carlin

Berati

#7
August 18, 2014, 01:31:12 PM
The anti-vaccine movement in the U.S. is the first thing that came to mind when I read this. It's almost understandable when you get a bunch of illiterate and uneducated people still mired in superstition as they are in Liberia. What on earth are idiots like Jenny McCarthy thinking?

http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Anti-Vaccine_Body_Count/Home.html
Carl Sagan
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

The Skeletal Atheist

#8
August 18, 2014, 04:21:13 PM
They aren't.
Some people need to be beaten with a smart stick.

Kein Mehrheit Fur Die Mitleid!

Kein Mitlied F�r Die Mehrheit!

Mermaid

#9
August 18, 2014, 07:33:41 PM
EXACTLY!
And there are too fucking many of them.
A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities â€" all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. -TR

PickelledEggs

#10
August 18, 2014, 08:30:31 PM
Oh my fuck. The retards are getting violent....
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