Burkina Faso says no to Bill Gates’ plan of creating modified species of mosquitoes

[u/lurker_bee]

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/burkina-faso-says-no-to-bill-gates-plan-of-creating-modified-species-of-mosquitoes/xyk7xm8

[u/sarvanderene]

BS, its the distrust of western corporations thinking they know best and then leaving locals to fend for themselves if shit hits the fan.

[u/atoolred → u/sarvanderene]

They were were definitely joking but your comment is correct

[u/harrumphstan → u/sarvanderene]

The proper response, mid-term, is to train up African PhDs to understand the science and have them evaluate the papers. Blanket refusal is just more avoidable death, at worst.

[u/trombolastic → u/sarvanderene]

Don’t lump the entire western world together, it’s distrust of the US.

Like they used a fake vaccine program to gather DNA, it didn’t matter the thousands of deaths and  long term harms caused by distrust in vaccines/healthcare, as long as they accomplished their mission of replacing the Taliban with the Taliban.

[u/Dungbunger → u/sarvanderene]

''hey fuck you guys for constantly trying to help us but not perfectly succeeding each time - just because of that we're keeping the mosquitoes out of spite''

^that is your take on the situation

It is not a clever take

[u/Reimiro → u/sarvanderene]

It’s really not.

[u/judokalinker → u/sarvanderene]

Lol yeah, sure, altruistic Traoré just trying to do the best for his people.