ugh

A glimpse into the behavior of MAGA and a few others if extremely stringent public health requirements are ever necessary again for an infectious agent in this country. Sigh... Darwin was right, but he didn't tell us how to deal with those whose ignorance would kill the rest of us.

It's a tragedy of being human. Some of us are capable of great insight and empathy. Others seem capable of nothing but cruelty. Most of us are part of the mob - whether we want to be or not - and the mob is easily fooled.

USAID will be a factor
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/ebola-outbreak-public-health

Some sects of various offshoots of the major religions and some tribal religions believe the body of the recently deceased is required to go through certain rituals or be collected for burial immediately or the family or community risks hauntings, curses, attracting bad spirits (other than the deceased) or general bad luck.
They consider it equally important that the body be handled properly as it is to keep a disease from rampaging through the community.
And you can't really convince them otherwise. Especially if they don't want to believe it's Ebola.

On edit - it seems the young man was a popular footballer who played on several regional teams for the national league.
The DRC National Football team is planning on participating in the World Cup. That's a significant risk.

To spread it far and wide.

I wonder if they brought ivermectin.

seduced by religion.

that delusional nonsense is passed down from generation to generation