It’s 2022, we’re in the third year of the global Covid-19 Pandemic and Ebola has broken out in Uganda. Eight years ago in 2014, I wrote about the last wide-spread Ebola outbreak as it then unfolded. I spoke of Western racism and pandemic unpreparedness. I spoke of grave danger and existential health risk. What I didn’t realise until finding it in my archives the other day, was that it predicted the debacle that’s been the West’s response to Covid-19. A month ago in September, Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni took great pains to depict his country’s Ebola outbreak in Covid-19 terms. There’d be no lockdowns he said, “Ebola doesn’t spread like Covid which is airborne.” Ebola was “easier to manage” he said. He all but…