Residents burn an Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak

Just the other day I watched a documentary about the outbreak 10 years ago.

I was instantly reminded of the part where some crazy lady comes to a town square claiming she’s a nurse and Ebola is fake and a cover for cannibalism, triggering an attack against the local hospital:

https://youtu.be/WG1aY5OOR2o?si=ApY0ZH1d08-umYxS&t=1627

Social media may have made it bigger and worse, but humans have always and always be on average some really stupid creatures, specially when scared.

so uh wee just waiting for ebola to evolve to a more contagious but hopefully less lethal form or something?

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A older co-worker of mine used to be in the military and while working abroad locals thought the base was housing nuclear war heads, got in to the base and started attacking what they thought were nuclear weapons.

They weren’t, but what kinda knob head would attack nuclear weapons?

They didn’t burn down the hospital as some other articles have claimed. They burned down two tents.

> On the morning of May 21, the family of footballer Eli Munongo Wangu refused a safe burial for him, disputed that the virus had killed him, and demanded to take his body, the Reuters witnesses said. Mr Munongo had played for several local teams and was a well-known figure in his neighbourhood. He had been admitted to hospital days earlier. A doctor told Reuters he was a suspected Ebola case and the hospital had taken samples to run tests.

> His mother told Reuters she believed her son had died of typhoid fever, not Ebola. His family, friends and neighbours gathered outside the hospital to take his body and bury him themselves, against clear instructions that all bodies must be buried safely, said Mr Jean-Claude Mukendi, a senior police officer coordinating security for the response in Ituri.

> Soldiers tried to defuse the tension before police intervened, using tear gas and firing warning shots to disperse the crowd, the Reuters witnesses said. **The crowd then set fire to two tents fitted with eight beds** run by medical charity ALIMA, Mr Mukendi said, before army and police reinforcements arrived to bring the situation under control. The tents were completely burnt down, along with a body that was due to be buried that day. Six patients were receiving treatment in the tents and are currently being cared for at the hospital, ALIMA said in a statement.

Yah, its unfortunate we pulled out the money.

I’m no expert but that seems counterproductive