U.S. to Commit Up to 3,000 Troops to Fight Ebola in Africa

NT Times ^ | SEPT. 15, 2014 | HELENE COOPER, MICHAEL D. SHEAR and DENISE GRADY

[LucianOfSamasota]

WASHINGTON — Under pressure to do more to confront the Ebola outbreak sweeping across West Africa, President Obama on Tuesday is to announce an expansion of military and medical resources to combat the spread of the deadly virus, administration officials said.

The president will go beyond the 25-bed portable hospital that Pentagon officials said they would establish in Liberia, one of the three West African countries ravaged by the disease, officials said. Mr. Obama will offer help to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia in the construction of as many as 17 Ebola treatment centers in the region, with about 1,700 treatment beds.

Senior administration officials said Monday night that the Department of Defense would open a joint command operation in Monrovia, Liberia, to coordinate the international effort to combat the disease. The military will also provide engineers to help construct the additional treatment facilities and will send enough people to train up to 500 health care workers a week to deal with the crisis.

[angryoldfatman]

One of the primary functions of this mission is logistics for medical staff, equipment, and supplies.

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If the numbers I’ve seen are accurate, this action is the equivalent of emptying the Great Lakes with a spoon.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Just how does one ‘fight’ a virus with military personnel?

Well, you could shoot anyone attempting to escape from a quarantined area. Then cook them up with a flame thrower.

[angryoldfatman]

We have false Messiahs, seemingly unending war, pestilence running towards our doorstep, and approaching economic disaster that may inflate food prices to the point of famine.

We were warned in a musty old book - a book that many who are driving us towards the precipice say is full of “fairy tales” - that this would come to pass.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+6&version=KJV

http://www.cogwriter.com/four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse.htm

[ronnie raygun]

Infect the troops who will infect more troops and then thier families at home.

[Popman]

For once I am in agreement with Obama....

This outbreak is nothing like the previous ones going back as far as possible...

This outbreak has the potential to become a pandemic...the likes we have never seen...

We are one person away from it coming to the US....via a plane ride...

Better to help contain it now in Africa than risk the unthinkable...

[JohnBovenmyer]

Don’t send the Marine Corps, send Americorps.

[ExCTCitizen]

Don’t insult dumb SOBs to Obama...

[xzins]

I’m assuming they’re all from the Chemical Corps or Medical Corps. (Chem Corps actually handles Nuclear, Biological, Chemical warfare safety). Anybody who has ever been fully suited up knows that a human can’t live that way 24/7.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...