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>>11523416
It is meant to compare COVID-19 with an infectious disease that possess a significant threat to individual people. It is another way to say "Do not worry if you get COVID-19. Worry if you get Ebola". Of course, they have very different epidemiological characteristics.

>making it difficult to spread because you're ... you know, dead.
In the areas where Ebola is common, handing cadavers accounts for a big part of transmissions because of contagion during funeral rites. That is why one of the main measures to contain Ebola outbreaks is safe burials. They send teams of people in protective suites to bury the dead and burn or disinfect his belonging. The villagers usually get frightened and sometimes even antagonize the burial team.