I think that's a great analogy, because yes, if you have a live sample of Ebola in a sealed glass jar then that will very much help you. (I would not recommend leaving the lid open by giving it SYS_ADMIN, but that doesn't mean that glass isn't a fine material for containing pathogens.)

Thinking further on the analogy, yeah it's better than nothing but I would _not_ recommend people leave Ebola in a glass jar in their kitchen. What if someone accidentally knocks it over, cutting themselves on a shard while doing so? What if someone, looking for cookies, fumbles around inside and gets it on their hands? Sure these are not "best practices" but the point is that it should be difficult to do the dangerous things, not easy and certainly not recommended by tutorials everywhere.

Perhaps not a good analogy, given Ebola is generally handled in a level 4 biosafety facility. Do you want to risk carrying it around in a glass jar?

Do "level 4 biosafety facility" not use glass vials? I imagine the security isn't provided by the choice of containers itself (plastic?), but rather the entire lab design.

Yes, my point was vials is not all they use. There are many layers of protection: biosuits, negative air pressure, decontamination procedures at the exits, etc.