Posted on 08/07/2014 1:07:40 PM PDT by chessplayer
I’ve been following this on Twitter for a few days. Lots and lots of comments about racism and the selfishness of America.
It’s been 38 years since the first outbreak of African Ebola in Africa. Why haven’t Africans gifted the rest of us with a cure for this African disease from Africa?
“WaPo wants to use Africans for drug research.”
Jujitsu master!
Yep, WaPo! Why do you hate poor black people?
Not just that but it was a white man who got it before the woman.
And if the experimental drug had been given to black Africans first, these same slimeballs would be asking: why is an unproven and potentially harmful new drug being tried on black people first?
Hey there Diana. You’re right in your post.
Do you still have the turtle?
Turtle? You must have the wrong Freeper. :)
The Gateway Pundit has completely mis-read the article, which explains exactly why it makes sense that two white Americans got the drug, and not the Africans.
This was NOT the WP playing the race card, it was a reasoned article answering those who played the race card.
The author wasn’t some left-wing moonbat.
Arthur L. Caplan is the director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center’s Department of Population Health.
He was explaining why the drug was given to the white missionary doctors. Not complaining or race-baiting.
If they had given the serum to the people in Africa the headline would be:
AFRICAN USED AS GUINEA PIGS BY BIG PHARMA!!!!!
5 points to the first poster who has actually read the real article, and not just the non-existent “excerpt” from the blog, or even the misleading blog entry.
With an untested drug, there is always a chance you will kill the first human subject who might otherwise have lived. And the two Americans who got it in Africa had been infected for more than a week, making its efficacy completely unknown. Still, because they are a small group in such a carefully controlled setting, they are better candidates for the drug than others might be.Looks to me like he is arguing that giving the drug to the two white Americans was the right thing to do. Why is everybody attacking him?
And because of the drug’s experimental nature, it’s unclear that it should go to anyone else. Even if the drug is cooled correctly, success in a few monkeys (less than 20) tells us little about what will happen in a lot of humans who’d had the infection for more than two days. No one knows how much drug to give, how often, what other pre-existing medical conditions might influence its efficacy or even what route is best, be it IV, pill, syrup, or even surgically right into the liver.Doesn't sound like he is saying what you claim he is saying.
Why did the editor of the WaPo have a great dinner tonight, when people are starving in Africa?
You’re not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you? lol
WaPo wants to use Africans for drug research.Which was exactly opposite what the article said:
And because of the drug’s experimental nature, it’s unclear that it should go to anyone else.See, "unclear that it should go to anyone else", is pretty much the other side of the argument from "we should give the drugs to Africans".
Maybe you thought my complaint was about your not understanding why one wouldn't want to use Africans for research -- but it was that you were wrong to think the article was calling for giving the drug to Africans.
Actually that’s all they are talking about on twitter.The African’s feel abandoned.#ebola
Yep, you completely missed it. Sounds like you still do.
I am now at a point where I no longer feel the need or desire to address the stupidity of the dumb masses.
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