Guatemala: Anti-vaccine villagers attack and hold nurses with Covid jabs

[muriel_volestrangler]

Anti-vaccine residents in a village in rural Guatemala have attacked nurses who were trying to administer Covid-19 jabs, holding them for seven hours, officials say.

About 500 people blocked a road and vandalised the team's cars in Maguilá, in the northern Alta Verapaz province.

The 11 workers were released after police negotiated with the villagers, who destroyed about 50 vaccine doses.
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The nurses were "verbally and physically attacked" by the residents, who let the air out of the workers' tires and destroyed the cool boxes storing the doses, the health ministry said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58801096

World is going to shit.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Humans are still quite primitive.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. "Jabs is the preferred pejorative of the antivax right nutters

I don’t think we should embrace that language here.


ETA it is disappointing to see the BBC use it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Bullshit. Look it up. We've been through this before.

'Jab' is the standard British everyday term; though it derives from early 20th century American slang for (illegal) drug injections. It's been the normal term in Britain for over half a century.

It's ridiculous to say that, because a few nutters think that using a standard term is somehow pejorative, we should then meekly believe those idiots have a stranglehold on the language.

[cinematicdiversions]

4. Jabs is common in the educated portion of the english speaking world.

Can't speak for the mouth breathing portions....