Cult is the correct word to use here. Even at a surface level the things trump is doing should be enough to dissuade anyone from supporting him. Yet 1/3 of the U.S. unironically would vote for him a 3rd time.

It was The Center Of Ebola! Now when the center is destroyed it will disperse, right?

It's not quite as easy as "stop kissing corpses" though. It's more like "don't go near your loved ones as they slowly die in terrible pain", which is very easy to say, but probably a LOT harder to do.

Ebola is endemic in the region (I think bats carry it). As a result, there will be contagion sometimes, specially more so with climate change and destruction of habitats. Until a cure is developed, we need to treat the sick and try to prevent spread. There is no easy solution to this problem, or MERS, or Hantavirus, or…. Well, you get the point.

I was in this region in the 90s at the height of HIV working with NIH and CDC.

None of this is surprising. There is a very common belief in witchcraft and a distrust of foreigners explaining viral transmission. People will avoid doctors and hospitals and seek churches first and local healers who claim to cure everything with herbs. It's where parts of US are heading.

For HIV, we did not anticipate that Africans in some regions have sex differently. In that culture, they practice vaginal drying prior to penetration, which led to a very high HIV transmission rate between men and women. Nothing we did to educate likely made any difference.

Portable irradiator?

I feel like the ideal world would be if there could be collaboration between healthcare workers and members of a community to find a compromise solution that would allow burial practices to be preserved as much as possible, whilst also minimising risk of transmission. I imagine this might look like healthcare workers being involved in the process, rather than simply handing the body over to the family members as would happen if someone died from something other than an infectious disease. It seems like something that should be possible, in theory.

Of course, the problem is that healthcare workers and services are already stretched thin enough as it is, and I don't imagine they'd have the capacity to even consider doing something like this. I was reading the other day that Trump's cuts to things like USAID has really impacted the ability to respond to this epidemic

I don't think that would stop the virus because I doubt the bleach would cleanse the inside. Organs, etc.

Uneducated people do what uneducated people do. Ignorant != Not knowing better.

Very dumb to believe you can just let the virus spread and it won’t reach new regions. And once it spreads to non-African nations, it may find new animal hosts and become endemic in those new continents.

How brave of you to suggest the world should once again turns their back on the African people. Ideas like that take true courage and wisdom. You are true a visionary speaking truth "just let 'em die". They are only Congolese, not like "others" that might have actual intrinsic value.

If you do that, you force people to sneak out to save their lives, and it will leak out without anyone knowing until it pops up somewhere else.