For years, to no avail, the people of the village have been protesting the runoff of noxious elements into their water supply. Fish are dying. Crops are failing. That means malnutrition, hunger.
That means chemical assault on their immune systems.
People are developing sores, lesions, fevers, respiratory problems, digestive problems, including diarrhea.
How easy is it to call this Ebola, in light of the current hysteria?
"Everyone knows" it's Ebola. But it isn't.
People are obsessed by the idea that a whole population, in far-off nation, under the gun, must all be suffering from One Thing -- in this case, a virus.
Splitting this apart into a number of different causes in different regions -- contaminated water, open sewage, severe malnutrition, decimating wars, toxic vaccine campaigns, the vast overuse of antibiotics, industrial pollution -- this doesn't have the compelling ring of: "It's a virus."
So people say, "Forget about all that. We don't want to know about it. We know it's a virus."
No they don't.
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