U.S. sending 1,000 more troops to fight Ebola

The Hill ^ | 10/3/2014 | Kristina Wong

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

The Pentagon is sending as many as 1,000 more troops to Africa to help fight the Ebola virus.

The troops are being sent on top of the 3,000 President Obama has already ordered to help efforts in West Africa.

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[Chgogal]

Oh goodie. Now back to Dallas, DC, Maryland......

[Resettozero]

Where the hell is our congress? Why isn’t anyone questioning the sanity of this?

They're powerless, as is the Presidential figurehead.

Question might be...

Just who IS running our country into catastrophes?

[steve86]

what are the odds of several novice soldiers from committing the same errors?

Odds are high against it when you consider they won't have anything to do with treating Ebola patients.

Not saying they should be there -- the "building hospitals" gig is more a PR show than anything substantive that will result in fewer resident fatalities. Now, if they had medical personnel and a targeted antiviral to go along with the facilities things might be different.

[CMB_polarization]

I’ve lost count of troop numbers. If you go by twitter, the count is over 345,000 sent to Liberia.

[unixfox]

For a disease that THEY claim is not likely to outbreak in the U.S. they sure are concerned about it.

If it is that hard to catch (as they say) then why all of the hazmat suits, the quarantined hospitals, etc,etc.

It’s what they AREN’T telling us that should scare the shit out of everybody.

These people are so out of their league it’s not even funny anymore.

[Marie]

Combat engineers are remarkable. Yes. They can handle the task.

But they should be setting up HERE.

[EarlyBird]

My prayers to the families of these service members.

The Ebola “stigma” will cause much distress when these men and women return home from the “hot zone”.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

This is effin’ BS. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever why they have to be there, but I guess it’s to be expected when we have an hardcore blatant enemy of the United states as President which Congress knows damn well but refuses to do anything about.

[Bobby_Taxpayer]

ANOTHER way Obama is going about decimating our country’s military ti ensure we will have no power against his fanatical Muslim brothers.

[kabar]

They can be sent by diktat. It is harder to force civilians to go to such places.

[a fool in paradise]

#RETURNOFTHELIVINGDEAD

[a fool in paradise]

President Obama doesn’t have any sons of his own to send.

[keats5]

Ironically, I think their mission will be some type of border security.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[onyx]

Idiocy.

[manc]

this has to be satire, not even Obama is this stupid, is he?

[Norm Lenhart]

Nah. Our ‘two’ parties just cannot kill’em off fast enough. think of it as reaching across the aisle to achieve a common goal.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

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...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Why not send the entire military over there? We’re hardly using it to fight ISIS, anyhow.

PING!