Mob Destroys Ebola Center In Liberia Two Days After It Opens

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7. Sure, by religious leaders

who see a path to money and power if they're the only game in town and prayer is what they're selling to people as a way to be saved by gawd rather than be treated by medicine.

Putting whole regions under quarantine is all they can possibly try to do, although people will tend to go cross country to run away from the virus rather than stick to the roads.

At least that will slow them down enough that the infected ones will die on the way, as heartless as that sounds, it's the only way to stop contagion from spreading as quickly as it has.

The behavior of the human race during historical plagues is the key to behavior now and it's not pretty. Ebola-Zaire shows up in your area, you pretty much have to shut down and stay on house arrest. When people must go out daily for food because there is no refrigeration and only communal water, this becomes unrealistic. Eliminating travel beyond hard hit regions is the only way to stop this thing and even then, it is likely to keep popping up here and there for some time.

Religious people are not helping. One thing the Black Death in Europe did was loosen the Vatican's stranglehold enough for the Reformation to happen, mostly because religion had been utterly ineffective for the sick and priests had run from praying over them.