Posted on 09/21/2014 9:47:02 AM PDT by DannyTN
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“If the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people infected, with profound political and economic and security implications for all of us,” Obama said. “So this is an epidemic that is not just a threat to regional security...
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Broadly, however, the official said the Defense Department personnel involved are likely to include the following:
Medical personnel
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Engineers to construct “Ebola Treatment Units”
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Transportation personnel to support an “intermediate staging base”
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Administrators in Monrovia to oversee it all
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The US military has always been a key player in the fight against infectious disease. The military has other functions besides being the enforcement branch of diplomatic policy, and this is one of them.
The military is very good at planning. No doubt, a plan for isolating, evacuating, and treating any personnel who become ill is being written into the OPORD. Procedures for dealing with disease, case contacts, etc., were developed a long time ago.
I'm not worried about the asymptomatic cases, since they are not the ones shedding virus.
Pregnant women might be an exception, however. One woman who got Ebola from her recovered husband (virus was in the seminal fluid, of course) had a miscarriage, but no other symptoms. No doubt, the fetal remains were swimming with virus.
Thanks for the laugh!
I'm afraid it could get even more serious and affect coffee prices. That would be a disaster.
I think they're called "Infantry."
It's a liberal low IQ approach... it should not be used here.
Meaning I don’t have a clue. :)
I just know that politics will trump logic in almost any circumstance. It’s that same as the Middle East. Logic proves we have to work with bad guys in order to maintain peace, but choosing bad guys for political reasons hasn’t proven to work very well.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Please the Ebola thread for a while. This has nothing to do with race. It has nothing to do with being the white saviors.
You are being a fool and thinking way, way too small. It is a good thing you are not in charge, or millions would die.
Ebola has replaced AIDS as the most politically correct disease. Breast cancer with pink ribbons and races etc etc is still in second place
Post of the day!
Gays.
That is too vague for me, I don’t know what you are trying to say.
Thanks for the ping!
I realized something today, there isn’t any question that we are correct in sending the Army in to help in this international Ebola threat, zero question.
The conversations we have been having up to this moment, have missed the point of what the Army’s true mission is, almost entirely.
The United States Army is not only the world’s experts in Ebola and biological warfare and terrorist use of it as weapons and for intimidation, but for national defense it cannot elevate the terrorists weapons of Ebola, Sars, and Bio weapons to something that has never existed before, something that the American military is so terrified of, that it would be afraid to even show up on a continent if it is present.
We train to fight and defeat NBC weapons and we cannot retreat from that, we don’t have the luxury of running away from Africa, the Army has to show up and do what it is supposed to do.
The 10yr old boy listed in the MSF article on asymptomatic cases was indeed capable of shedding the virus. Why do you think they kept him in their quarantine facility until his blood tests were negative?
He had fully 3 blood tests that were positive all while having recovered and displaying no symptoms. In him ebola was a 1 or 2 day bad case of the flu. After which he recovered physically but remained positive for several weeks afterwards.
http://www.msf.org/article/liberia-boy-who-tricked-ebola
This boy was an asymptomatic case. He had ebola for a day or two, symptomatically and then his symptoms went away. But he still tested positive for several weeks. During which time he could indeed spread the virus. Unless you think MSF is into wasting precious bed space on those who can no longer spread the virus?
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
Glad to know that acronyms like SNAFU, FUBAR, BOHICA, etc..in describing mistakes made in the military are not deserved.
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