Biological systems are built ultimately on information, just as language is. The genome of a virus is information. Some viruses can remain dormant within cells for years, expressing their destructive life codes when circumstances permit. One would like to have some sort of vaccine against malicious memes, some way to strengthen moral defenses our common humanity even as vaccination bolsters one s innate immunologic defenses. That is a long-term problem for the educators and the psychologists.
Prevention is always preferable to treatment and cure, but it is too late now for prevention.
The infection is here. The epidemic can spread. Too bad we can t remove the human hard drive, reformat it, and reinstall the programs we want. Instead, we have to deal with biological processes the old-fashioned way. It was revolting, sickening, hideous.