Why pandemic? @VTadjo offers a humane, poetic view of the 2014 Ebola pandemic that feels more timely and more incisive than most COVID post-mortems. Sweeping but intimate, Tadjo hears the tree, the bat, the scientist, and the sufferer all speak. We do too. Here’s a doctor “in a spacesuit discovering a new universe”: “I refuse to let the virus win the day. I can’t let the disease take control, spread, and threaten my family. We must fight it. That’s the price we have to pay as long as we share the same patient.”