Joe, that's exactly the problem - science does actually know what is needed and it's horrible and inhumane and unkind and all kinds of terrible horrible ugly nasty bad things, I completely agree, but it IS, unfortunately, what is needed.

It's not a question of enlightenment. It's a question of knowledge. I learned my science IN West Africa, it doesn't change the science.

They don't need masks, it's not airborne. They need gowns and gloves by the thousands daily, so they can take them off in an educated fashion and regown and reglove constantly, taking time and time and time they don't have, and handing them out by the thousands to all villagers and townspeople so that as soon as a child has a fever the CHILD can be wrapped in the gown to keep the sweat in and the parents can also gown and glove and not kiss and learn how to take the gowns off inside out properly and so on.

That would reduce one major source of transmission by a large proportion.

A more powerful source of transmission is the virus bomb that is a mammal body killed by ebola. They should be treated as the hazardous waste that they are, they really really really should, they ARE extremely hazardous and you don't need your body for the afterlife or after death in real life, you really really don't, and you can treat a corpse with all kinds of respect and still burn it instantly, have ceremony, weep and wail, yes your loved one has died and I have lost beloveds and weeping and wailing over the loss is absolutely appropriate and necessary but that doesn't detract from the medical necessity of getting rid of that hazardous material as if it were hazardous material, being instantly and without coming any closer to it than you must.

This is the real world where a horrible disease is being mollycoddled by the unwillingness of the educated to impose reality on the ignorant, and it will cost them both a mean, ugly, nasty and terrible price.