The video originally appeared on Reuters, but seems to have been removed. Yahoo still has the video and article – at least for now:
Protesters tore down a makeshift COVID-19 hospital in Ivory Coast’s capital Abidjan on Sunday (April 6) night.
To the banging of pots and pans, and cries of “we don’t want it”, the angry residents of Yopougon dismantled the partially built structure.
The person filming the scene is saying they are opposed to the facility, for treating those with the new coronavirus, being built quote “right in the middle of the Ivorian population”.
Market stalls on a road leading to the structure were also set ablaze.
This goes hand in hand with my previous post. Watching the video, I don’t see civic responsibility, or concern for others. Law enforcement is nowhere to be seen. It’s only irrational fear that motivates these people. Some of them will fall ill with the CCPVirus. At that point, will they regret having burnt down the hospital?
