REASONS WHY AFRICANS ARE AFRAID OF BEING VACCINATED

So recently a pseudo account on twitter by the name Tracy Zille blasted Africans for not wanting to take the Covid 19 vaccination.  She talked of how we depend on the West for medicine, processed foods, western Aid and so much more.

Ok Tracy, I got your point. Yes Africa does over depend on Europeans. But try and understand where we are coming from. Where does this mistrust stem from? I mean, the West colonized most of Africa. They stole our land. Exploited us for labour. Plundered our resources. The West offer Aid to African countries that is not actually aid because we pay it back. Look at ‘Great America’ build on the backs of slaves. If it was not for slaves, would America be great? I do not think so.

Pulmonary specialist, Dr. Emmanuel Taban is a South Sudanese saving Covid 19 patients in Johannesburg, South Africa. He performed a procedure not yet recorded in medical history that is revolutionary and ground breaking. This is a new discovery by Africans but not the only discovery we as Africans have made.

Anyway, enough of my rumbling. Let us look at the issue at hand. The Covid 19 vaccinations developed by the West.

HERE ARE THE REASONS WHY WE DO NOT WANT THE VACCINE.

Africans for decades have been used as guinea pigs by the medical fraternity in the West.

Let us take for example in 1951, specialists at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore –though segregated, one of the only leading hospitals to treat Black patients – harvested cells from Henrietta Lacks, a Black lady being treated for cancer, without her knowledge or consent. Despite the fact that such harvesting supposedly was standard at Hopkins paying little mind to race, Lacks’ cells were abnormally reproductive and widely shared, and her “HeLa” cells are still being used for research today.

What about the forced sterilization of poor black women and children in mid-1973 back in the United States. Two young ladies of the Relf family in Mississippi, considered mentally retarded at ages 12 and 14, and furthermore 18-year-old welfare recipient Nial Ruth Cox of North Carolina, were prominent instances of compulsory sterilization. This was covered by Jet magazine under the headline, ‘Genocide’

Or the most prominent case being the Tuskegee experiment. In the 1930’s the US health authority conducted research wherein syphilis was left untreated in Black men. Uneducated and impoverished blacks were lured by free clinical examinations, hot meals, minor wounds being treated for free, rides to and from the hospital and a burial stipend to be paid to their survivors. The study was not done in secret since a few African American health workers and educators associated with the Tuskegee Institute aided the study.

The research continued until the early 1970’s. After Penicillin was discovered to be an effective treatment for syphilis, the researchers still withheld treatment. At the beginning of the study there were around 600 Black men. 399 had phases of the sickness, and the 201 who didn’t filled in as a control group. The two groups were withheld from treatment of any kind for the 40 years that they were observed. They were subjected to painful invasive tests and experiments including spinal taps.

It was not until 1972 when a whistleblower exposed this story on national headlines. By this time, only 74 test subjects had been left. From the 399 who had contracted syphilis at the beginning of the experiment, 28 had passed because of syphilis, 100 others from related complications. About 40 of the men’s spouses had been infected with syphilis and around 19 of their children were born with congenital syphilis.

What about the incidences in South Africa during the apartheid where white doctors in the name of vaccination sterilized black women?

Are we also quick to forget the HIV/AIDS vaccine that is rumored to originate from labs from the West and purposefully introduced to curb gays and the African race? Look at us now, depending on the West for ARV’s.

Have we forgotten the careless remarks made by France doctors about doing Covid 19 vaccine trials on Africans back in 2020?

What if the vaccination they send is subsidized? I would not be shocked if it is discovered that the vaccine brought to Africa has been added lots and lots of water. Or it has a side effect like making us sterile. I mean, for ages the West has tried to control our population. Would it surprise you if young ladies injected with the vaccine 10 years from now cannot be pregnant? Or young men injected with the virus cannot impregnate women.

I mean, the West thought that when the virus got to Africa, Africans would be dying like rats. Shock on them. We are still thriving.

So excuse me Tracy Zille if I am not so keen to partake in the vaccine injections.

Personally am not for the vaccine. I will continue drinking my hot water with lemon, turmeric and garlic in it. And inhaling hot steam. And most importantly wearing a mask.

For those who are interested in the vaccine, here are some risks and benefits of getting injected the vaccine.

MILD SIDE EFFECTS TO BE XPECTED FROM THE VACCINATIONS

Fatigue

Headaches

Muscle pains

Temporarily swollen lymph nodes.

SEVERE RARE SIDE EFFECTS TO BE EXPECTED FROM THE VACCINATIONS

Transverse myelitis. – Rare neurological condition that causes inflammation of the spinal cord.

Bell’s palsy, a facial paralysis that is usually temporary.

Appendicitis.

Severe allergic reactions.

LONG TERM EFFECTS?

The vaccine is still new so no known long term effects.

BENEFITS OF THE VACCINE?

Hopefully stop the spread of the virus.

All in all. It all comes down to trust. People need to understand the whole process of how the vaccine is developed and used in order to get the short. To all intending to take the vaccine injection, all the best. Let us know in the next 10 years what the long term side effects to the virus are.

NOTE: THE VACCINE IS NOT 100% EFFECTIVE.

Written by Greise Soni