Cue the rage-o-matic: I’m of an age that I recall Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Rwanda, Uganda … and the list, unfortunately, goes on, and on. In every instance it was preventable, it’s always preventable — see hubris — but they weren’t prevented. So there you have it and here we are again.

Time is going to bear witness to humans being the ebola virus of the universe and that may be unfair to ebola — it can’t help what it is.