“Black and African lives are seen as expendable and of a lower priority perhaps because disease is seen as ubiquitous there.” Opinion | AyoOlatunji8
During the Covid-19 pandemic mainstream media outlets resorted to sensationalism, using racist language while reporting on the health situation the world over. This was demonstrated by the racist cartoon published by the Spanish newspaper La Tribuna, which depicted Black South Africans as the Omicron Covid variant. Their bodies were drawn in the shape of the virus, and they were shown on a boat labelled Omicron, flying the South African flag.
In addition, there has been an obsession since the pandemic began of how and why the epicentres of the virus have been Europe and North America and not continents like Africa. There has been constant probing into the validity of death rates produced by African countries, which has prompted heated discussions, debates and headlines about why death rates across the continent are so low.
During the pandemic, the disciplines of genetics and public health have been crucial in paving the way forward. However, a missing historical link in that duo is the fact that eugenics and the foundations of modern genetics and public health are inextricably linked to this racist project. Eugenicists from all over the world shared ideas. They then spread those ideas and embedded them in policy, medicine and science that Black people were in danger of dirtying the white gene pool because they contained the aforementioned negative traits, therefore the white Western world must protect itself from this terrible threat.
Antibiotic treatments were withheld from Black people so syphilis could be allowed to aggressively develop to map out the disease's progression. From the experiment it was concluded that Black people were more susceptible to contracting syphilis and hence they were more infectious. It was said that a DNA defect in Black populations meant the disease took on a more harmful form in their bodies.
Earlier on in the year, Bill Gates refused to share patents for the vaccine, meaning that vaccine production for the African continent has been hindered.
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