I’ve seen it around Africa. Usually related to where there’s a bunch of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It dovetails well with scattered cultural prohibitions on anything to do with messing with the blood. No blood donations, no transfusions. Likely related to decades of HIV/AIDS concerns.
Edit: it’s also why a lot of polio vaccines are oral in Africa. Less stigma.
So yeah, it is frustrating to see when they push against things like vaccines, but it’s entirely understandable given the history of what has been done to these people again and again.
Oh, for sure. The way the British came in and told everyone to put their boobs away because it’s immodest, and use formula made with well water to give your baby diarrhea early and maybe kill it, just breathtakingly idiotic.
I’ve seen it around Africa. Usually related to where there’s a bunch of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It dovetails well with scattered cultural prohibitions on anything to do with messing with the blood. No blood donations, no transfusions. Likely related to decades of HIV/AIDS concerns.
Edit: it’s also why a lot of polio vaccines are oral in Africa. Less stigma.
People in Africa have every reason to be suspicious of white men coming in and injecting them with shit.
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medicine-empires-and-ethics-colonial-africa/2016-07
https://news.uoregon.edu/content/medical-researchers-africa-must-learn-past-prof-finds
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/4/8/medical-colonialism-in-africa-is-not-new
So yeah, it is frustrating to see when they push against things like vaccines, but it’s entirely understandable given the history of what has been done to these people again and again.
Oh, for sure. The way the British came in and told everyone to put their boobs away because it’s immodest, and use formula made with well water to give your baby diarrhea early and maybe kill it, just breathtakingly idiotic.
So it’s USA again. Usual bullshit colonialism.
Oh no, it’s locals that are JWs. But there’s plenty of non-JW cultural reasons that push the idea of no injections.
Did you really just ignore the entire second half of the comment? The JW folks just have a more coherent “it says no in this book” logic.