This is not the Ebola piece I expected to write, when asked. Originally, I had other ideas for an insightful, level-headed exposition on the threats of irrational fear bred by ignorance, racism, and selfishness. Yet, the stunning speed of American's flirtations with near tyranny and inhumanity around the pandemic startled even me, someone who spent twenty years as a journalist -- much in Africa, though not in the struggling countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea. Now, as the co-founder of an international non-profit, focused on ending sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls, I struggle mightily watching the disease sow immeasurable loss in the lives of distant,...
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