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Ebola treatment centre set on fire in Congo amid anger over virus outbreak
(www.independent.co.uk)
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...can we please analyse the brain of who did this? Because....WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?!
It's right there in the article.
They didn't understand that the body couldn't be released because it was still contagious.
I know WHY they did it. I read the article, that does not explain WHY they did it. Why THAT was the path of tought they thought 'hm yes seems like an adequate and sensable thing to do'
Have you heard of such thing as "emotions"? It wasn't a logical and rational decision.
Emotions are not an excuse to act how ever you want
I did not claim otherwise. You can understand why someone did something inexcusable without feigning confusion and incomprehension. I'm sure a logical and rational person like yourself would not have any trouble understanding the minds of those emotional people, right?
I actually do have trouble understanding irrationality and non existance of logic or doing something without having a goal in mind be it subconcouse or concouse :)
Life is frustrating ^^
They do have a goal in mind by the sound of it, it’s to give their friend funerary rites to honor them.
Keep in mind that these people may not have the same educational background as you or me. I wouldn’t take it for granted that they have a firm understanding of germ theory. Doesn’t help that westerners have fucked with Africa for hundreds of years so distrust isn’t exactly unwarranted, either.
That same 'west' that would be blamed if they bowed to cultural conventions and allowed the release of the body and all those young men also died of ebola and spread it to other family members.
Well yeah, they clearly shouldn’t release the body. I’m just explaining why this incident shouldn’t be a surprise to people
What decision do you make lacks any emotional input? This is as stupid as it gets for claims. Emotions aren’t when you aren’t using logic.
It’s a combination of tradition and ignorance. IIRC their wake/funeral traditions include handling and washing the body, so it’s direct prolonged contact with a corpse that is still highly contagious. Combine that with a lack of health education. You can throw religion and/or superstition in there too I guess.
Don't you remember all the absolute idiocy and sociopathic actions of deniers during COVID?
Same shit, different butt. You get a bunch of selfish, arrogant, uneducated lead brained dipshits who don't understand the disease and don't want to, and they go fucking crazy and out of their way to find new ways of spreading it.
It's even a thing with HIV
No ebola patients treated means there is no ebola. 🤷
One of Ebola's symptoms is confusion