John Magufuli raises doubts about COVID vaccinations, suggests prayer, steam inhalation are solution

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/27/tanzania-president-denounces-covid-vaccines

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has claimed that vaccinations against COVID-19 are dangerous and instead urged Tanzanians to protect themselves from the deadly disease by using domestic measures including steam inhalation.

Magufuli has long downplayed the seriousness of COVID-19, which has killed more than 2.1 million people worldwide. He has previously questioned the efficacy of imported COVID tests and urged people to pray to protect themselves from the coronavirus.


“Vaccinations are dangerous. If white people were able to come up with vaccinations, a vaccination for AIDS would have been found, a vaccination for tuberculosis could have eliminated it by now; a Malaria vaccine would have been found; a vaccination for cancer would have been found by now,” Magufuli said in a speech on Wednesday in his hometown of Chato, northwest Tanzania.

He also urged the health ministry to be cautious with vaccines developed abroad.

The president offered no evidence to support his doubts about the safety of vaccinations, which are being administered across more than 50 countries, according to Our World in Data, after securing regulatory approval.

[Tender Branson]

This may sound absurd, but traditional medicine often helps wonders against flu-like diseases.

I often inhale camomile steam and hot salt water myself and you get rid of it more quickly.

On the other hand, much of Africa is extremely young with only 1% of the population older than 65 there, so Covid isn’t really a thing there ...

[CumbrianLefty]

Prayer has a great record in this sort of thing, obviously

[Kingpoleon]

This may sound absurd, but traditional medicine often helps wonders against flu-like diseases.

I often inhale camomile steam and hot salt water myself and you get rid of it more quickly.

On the other hand, much of Africa is extremely young with only 1% of the population older than 65 there, so Covid isn’t really a thing there ...

Have you considered using crystals to heal your chakras?

[It’s so Joever]

Steam inhalation does help with the symptoms, but it’s not some miracle cure.
Really the best way to fight Covid if you contract it is to get lots of sleep and maybe some sun (like through an open window)

Obviously vaccines are preferable and I would personally sell my pet cat to a wet market and cut off a finger for the vaccine doses.