Posted on 03/13/2021 5:15:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
Dar es Salaam — Tanzanian President John Magufuli, Africa's most prominent Covid-19 denier, disappeared from public sight 17 days ago. Now, he is widely rumored to be seriously ill with the same virus that he has dismissed and downplayed over the past year.
Last May, Magufuli declared that "Tanzania has beaten coronavirus" after ordering three days of national prayer. The president abruptly stopped updating the number of cases, and assured foreign tourists that Tanzania's game parks and Indian Ocean resorts were open for business, leading to a wave of travel advisories cautioning travelers to avoid the country.
Since then, he has scoffed at wearing masks, criticized regional neighbours for imposing lockdowns, and rejected coronavirus vaccines until his government independently verifies them. In early January, Magufuli told the visiting Chinese foreign affairs minister, Wang Yi, that "there is no coronavirus in Tanzania."
Then, after appearing at an event in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Feb. 24, Magufuli disappeared from public view.
This week, the leading newspaper in neighboring Kenya, the Daily Nation, wrote: "The leader of an African country who has not appeared in public for nearly two weeks is admitted to Nairobi Hospital for Covid-19 treatment, even as his government remains mum on his whereabouts."
Within hours, speculation was rife that Magufuli had been secretly flown to Nairobi for emergency medical attention and later airlifted for treatment in India. Insider has not been able to confirm these reports.
"Latest update from Nairobi," Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu tweeted this week.
Contacted by Insider, Lissu repeated the claim but did not provide evidence.
"Over the past month, the country has lost university professors, army generals, doctors, lawyers, engineers and other professionals of high public standing," Lissu told Insider. "It is highly irresponsible, and
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Welcome to the Herman Cain club.
He likely just suffering from an imbalance of humors secondary to a toad or, possibly, a small dwarf living inside of him. Nothing a good blood letting at the barber shop won’t cure.
Covid’s going to do what it does regardless of who you are.
This is the same newspaper that said the US was founded in 1919.
I would be a bit skeptical.
Yeah—
The one we have on our hands seems to me to have been founded about 1913, though I’m tempted to blame Lincoln.
You can drop deuces all over the US healthcare system for all I care. I’ll readily agree that it’s among the worst healthcare systems in the world. My dogs get better healthcare at the vet clinic.
Heck my female Dr. just sits behind the computer plugging in what I’ve told her......Apparently waiting for a diagnosis to pop up and how to treat it with medication or what tests to run. If it hurts anywhere she just orders x-rays.
Gone are the days where Dr.s actually examine your body!
I think there may be a way to artificially create a cytokine storm. That is what I am worried about. Fake deaths through a non-Covid19 way.
I got screwed by my employer. First I get pretty badly injured at work and they force me to see their doctors and then they restructured and everybody ended up losing their PCPs so now I’m stuck in constant pain taking motrin which makes me shiite blood and tylenol that doesn’t do my liver any favors while their doctors jerk me around and do everything in their power to shield the employer from liability and I don’t even have a PCP to see when other issues arise. I swear, they’re hoping I just die before this all goes to court.
“COVID deniers”... Gee, is that sort of like a “climate change/globull warming deniers”?
“Business Insider”
Correct!!!! This article is a LIE!!!!!
Tanzania – The second Covid coup?
President John Magufuli’s disappearance makes him potentially the 2nd “Covid denier” head of state to lose power.
https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/12/tanzania-the-second-covid-coup/
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