How to Actually Talk to Anti-Maskers
Posted on AllSides July 22nd, 2020
From The Left
OPINION
As the Ebola epidemic raged in 2014, some West Africans resisted public health guidance. Some hid their symptoms or continued practicing burial rituals — like washing the bodies of their dead loved ones — despite the risk of infection. Others spread conspiracies claiming the virus was sent by Westerners or suggested it was all a hoax. In Conakry, Guinea’s capital city, an imam was arrested for violating his quarantine, and residents protested by not letting health officials check for fevers.
So the World Health Organization sent Cheikh Niang, a Senegalese...
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