The previous pieces in this series followed the money, the land, and the machine. This one follows the body. Because the same moral technology that was used to keep the base divided—the buffer, the tutelage, the protection racket dressed as providence—was also applied to the most intimate transaction of all, and the results are measurable.…
I. The Epidemiological Frame: A Door Closing on the Delayed Echo Every major Ebola outbreak leaves behind more than grief. It leaves behind a reservoir—a cohort of survivors who carry the virus in immunologically privileged sites for months or years, unaware that they remain infectious. The 2013–2016 West Africa epidemic, which produced over 28,000 cases,…