Residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus, and 18 people suspected of infection left the facility, a local hospital director said Saturday. It was the second such attack in the region in a week.
Unidentified people arrived at the clinic in Mongbwalu on Friday night and set fire to a tent set up for suspected and confirmed Ebola cases by the Doctors Without Borders humanitarian group, Dr. Richard Lokudi, director of the Mongbwalu General Reference Hospital, told The Associated Press.
I didn’t miss it. I just think that while the parallels in outcomes exist, the parallels in justifications are completely absent.
I very much appreciated your original comment though. It helped contextualize the pushback in African countries against Ebola aid. But the pushback against pandemic measures in the US don’t make any sense to me, even after reading your comment.