00:00For a lot of people, there is now a lot of mistrust about how like health crises like this are
00:05handled.
00:06And you are seeing that in Africa, you know, in the DRC, there are fears that some people wouldn't welcome
00:12the vaccines, even if they do become available.
00:15And that's to do with stigma and disinformation about the Ebola virus.
00:19And some of that is founded from stuff that happened before the COVID pandemic.
00:25So actually the first Belgian nuns to treat Ebola in the 1970s actually made the situation worse by reusing needles
00:32to inject vitamins, like pointless vitamins into people.
00:35But people remember that and they have a distrust of like Western medicine.
00:39Yeah. And I think there is also this tradition with dead bodies to give them burials and to kind of
00:47touch them and to wash them.
00:48And that is a super spreader, basically, like and there has been accounts of like violence and rioting of trying
00:54to take corpses away from medical centers and then burning medical centers to the ground.
01:00And so in some ways, you know, you kind of look at this story and I think it's very tempting
01:06to say, like, well, this isn't Africa.
01:07This is kind of like got nothing to do with us. It's awful.
01:09But actually, in some ways, it is a blueprint for how globally we handle, you know, pandemics, epidemics like this.
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