There's a furore going on at the moment about a French doctor and his comments on trialling a vaccination in Africa.
Screams of racism, colonial power syndrome and bigotry. Using the Africans as guinea pigs, treating them as animals etc. etc.
All in all the sort of thing that, if true, was really going to anger me.
But the only quote I can find, in this article or elsewhere, is this;
"Jean-Paul Mira, head of intensive care at Cochin hospital in Paris, then said: "If I can be provocative, shouldn't we be doing this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatments, no resuscitation?
"A bit like it is done elsewhere for some studies on Aids. In prostitutes, we try things because we know that they are highly exposed and that they do not protect themselves."
Which, unless I am desperately missing the point, is not racist, is not bigoted, is actually true and does make sense.
So first, put me right on this if I am missing the whole point.
But if I am not missing the point, this is the sort of carp that gives real racism and bigotry a bad time. It's just a world of people desperately seeking the opportunity to be offended on behalf of others and then to justify it.
I know that the term "Virtue Signalling" has fallen out of favour, but FFS if this isn't that then goodness knows what is.
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Sort of Coronavirus but not..... new
Sort of Coronavirus but not..... new