Collective Darwin Award: Ivory Coast coronavirus testing centre destroyed by locals ...

[muriel_volestrangler]

... fearing it would pose contagion risk

Link to tweet

Residents in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, have destroyed a coronavirus testing centre over fears it would pose a contagion risk for the people living nearby.

Videos show the building, which was still under conduction[sic], being demolished by people shouting, "We don't want it".

An official from the health ministry said the site was never meant for the treatment of patients but only for testing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52178501

[underpants]

1. I won't be surprised to hear of something like that here

The Fox News crowd is afraid of science

[SheltieLover]

2. Yup they are!

[Hortensis]

3. So unfortunate. And of course that sort of thing could

happen here. Too many are naturally suited to medieval thinking, throwing off the age of reason and at minimum 12 years of public schooling to revert to a world of superstitions, signs and demons, occult forces, and of course suspicion and denial or denigration of modern science and expertise.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Mmm...after all the talk from Europe about using Africa for vaccine tests, this doesn't surprise me

at all.