"If I've told you people once, I've told you a thousand times...there is nothing to worry about. Put ice on it and move on, dammit..."
Posted on 10/08/2014 5:58:31 AM PDT by pabianice
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The head of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) warned an Ebola outbreak in Central America or the Caribbean could trigger a mass migration to the U.S. of people fleeing the disease and implied established Central American illegal trafficking networks could introduce the infected into the U.S., during remarks at a Tuesday panel on security issues in the Western Hemisphere at the National Defense University.
“If it comes to the Western Hemisphere, the countries that we’re talking about have almost no ability to deal with it — particularly in Haiti and Central America,” SOUTHCOM Commander, Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, said in response to a question of his near term concerns in the region.
“It will make the 68,000 unaccompanied minors look like a small problem.”
An Ebola outbreak could encourage the poor and increasingly desperate populations in Central American countries — like Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador — to leave in droves.
“I think you’ve seen this so many times in the past, when in doubt, take off,” he said.
Though an ocean away from Ebola hotspots in Africa, a growing numbers of West Africans are using the illicit trafficking routes through Central America to enter the U.S. illegally and could introduce the disease in the U.S.
Kelly stressed through out the panel session at NDU how effective the criminal transportation networks were at moving people and material into the U.S.
“We see a lot of West Africans moving in that network,” he said.
Kelly passed on a story from a border checkpoint in Costa Rica — told to him by an American embassy official — in which five or six men from Liberia were waiting to cross into Nicaragua.
The group had flown into Trinidad and then traveled to Costa Rica hoping to travel up the Central American isthmus and into the U.S.
Given the length of the journey, “they could have been in New York City well within the incubation period for Ebola,” Kelly said.
The realities of a potential outbreak caused Kelly to ask his staff to start thinking about the affects to the SOUTHCOM area of operations (AO) and pay attention to the response of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).
The U.S. has sent 4,000 troops to West Africa to assist countries in dealing with the Ebola outbreaks in the region.
“The five services of the U.S. military will get it done and be a large solution to this problem,” Kelly said.
In the meantime, SOUTHCOM is regular contact with AFRICOM in the event of the worst-case outcome.
“We’re watching what AFRICOM is doing and their plan will be our plan,” Kelly said. “The nightmare scenario, I think, is right around the corner.”
Which city will they be stuffed into?
Obama May C A T A P U L T More Bodies Into U.S.
Obama's coordinated assault targeting American people using lethal terminal human bodies, CATAPULT dying humans, may soon operate out of Central America
but we can't seal our own border. No, can't do that.
It may not even take an actual outbreak. Just the rumored threat of an outbreak could start an exodus.
This is a true crisis in the making. The only positive is that at least someone is starting to recognize the magnitude of this potential calamity.
He must be reading FR, several of us freepers have been saying for weeks that the worse case for the USA is Ebola south of the border. My worse case is Ebola in Mexico City.
"If I've told you people once, I've told you a thousand times...there is nothing to worry about. Put ice on it and move on, dammit..."
Yours and Mine!
I have been watching The Walking Dead reruns this week. Monday night was the episode involving the CDC. The lone doctor left there indicated that the zombie plague was “our extinction event.” Well, guess what? Thousands of Central Americans infected with Ebola coming into this country might be th3 beginning of our extinction event (at least as a nation). We have literally just two dozen beds in this country capable of handling Ebola patients. If we get hundreds of patient zeros, we are totally screwed.
Obama works for the Angel of Death.
Let them come nothing to fear. ‘Obola’ is next to impossible to get here in America. The FR ‘Obola’ experts will be along shortly to explain it to you.
Ping.
Is Obama, King Of All The Known World, air-dropping leaflets to them with a map, a CROSS-THE-BORDER-FREE pass and directions to the nearest welfare office?
Did Youngor Jallah get symptomatic yet? She is in day 9. Her step-daddy got it at day 10. Another couple of days and we will know. I hope she is healthy but if not, I hope she pukes all over Jesse Jackson.
And a voter registration form, with the (D) pre-selected.
Hurray
"I love it when a plan comes together."
We declare a protective zone extending 500 yards into Mexico. It is to be considered no-man's land. None cross.
When the Germans were approaching Moscow in '41 the Russians had every able bodied person working on fortifications to save the city. We do the same to protect our country.
This may sound harsh.
We're talking about the survival of the United States as a functioning entity at that point.
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
ALL of them.
What a coincidence.
IIRC, shortly after Obama got into the WH Hillary took a trip to Mexico and shazzam there was a flu outbreak, but not to worry, Hillary had received a vaccine for that very strain of flu.
Truly is amazing how circumstances keep repeating themselves when democrats are involved.
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