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user-inactivated  ·  3744 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Update on ebola

I am obviously aware of the cultural background and if anything am pushing for something like martial law. Sometimes culture has to be thrown out the window. Mutating diseases present a danger to the entire world.

    It's no mean feat to at once convince these people such things exist and these things are making them sick and they should expend with a lifetimes worth of learning about their religions and beliefs and burn bodies as well as convincing them that certain hygiene steps would help.

You're not gonna. Time to force them. It's sad, and shitty, but it should have happened the moment ebola hit urban areas.