JohnnyChicago
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The Latest Disease to Fuel Mistrust, Fear, and Racism
"Importantly, discrimination, racism and scapegoating has been used to distract from the underlying economic, political and social decisions that produced vulnerability to disaster and disease in the first place"
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Powerful global players, including the United States, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, pushed various West African governments to adopt Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) to reduce deficits and make those states more attractive to investors and the global capital markets.
In order to achieve this, SAPs required spending cuts to the health-care systems of those states, ultimately increasing the vulnerability of those populations to outbreaks of diseases like Ebola.
As with the current outbreak of 2019-nCoV in China, scapegoating and racist fearmongering pointed the finger of blame at the Ebola victims themselves, not the underlying factors and decisions by the powerful that contributed to the crisis."
LINKS BELOW:
Coronavirus: The latest disease to fuel mistrust, fear and racism
The Conversation - Media Bias/Fact Check
The Racism Surrounding Coronavirus Has Political Consequences
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬-media/
"Importantly, discrimination, racism and scapegoating has been used to distract from the underlying economic, political and social decisions that produced vulnerability to disaster and disease in the first place"
"
Powerful global players, including the United States, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, pushed various West African governments to adopt Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) to reduce deficits and make those states more attractive to investors and the global capital markets.
In order to achieve this, SAPs required spending cuts to the health-care systems of those states, ultimately increasing the vulnerability of those populations to outbreaks of diseases like Ebola.
As with the current outbreak of 2019-nCoV in China, scapegoating and racist fearmongering pointed the finger of blame at the Ebola victims themselves, not the underlying factors and decisions by the powerful that contributed to the crisis."
LINKS BELOW:
Coronavirus: The latest disease to fuel mistrust, fear and racism
The Conversation - Media Bias/Fact Check
The Racism Surrounding Coronavirus Has Political Consequences
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬-media/