I have already done the military two different times, but sure, I would go again if I could.
You really think the Spanish nurses and our military should be running away in terror?
This is a slate clearing virus. Not an opponent that can be bluffed with bravado. Not a person who could be impressed with a show of force. An unthinking, unfeeling, virus.
Have you worked with such things before? Seen them? Understood them? The nurses in Spain were told by superiors that they would be safe. They followed orders, and now one of their own lies dying with her husband and four other coworkers locked in isolation. The hospital they are in does not have the controls to handle a virus like this. Even the UNMC in Omaha, which is now the go to destination for returning infected, is very concerned about this getting out.
I don't blame the nurses for deciding “I didn't sign up for this” and walking off. They have seen what happens to people who get this virus. They turn to blood gelatin.
And we are sending troops, most who have no training or experience in NBC warfare, to Liberia for what? To build a 35 bed hospital for the medical staff that catch this? What happens when (not if) some of those soldiers come down with Ebola? What happens when health care workers in the US catch.
We could have stopped this bug. Put up firebreaks and isolate the infection. But stark raving mad men like yourself who felt the need to.. honestly I am not sure what, decided to keep the borders open.
And for clarity, I am an engineer. I have worked and studied with people who work in the Level 4 rooms. They are not as lackadaisical about the ease of control as you are. They are very, very, worried that since this bug has become a political thing, the powers that be will refuse to do the one thing that can maybe stop this. Quarantine.
I also have extensive training in Hazmat. There are things I used to play with that would kill you a half dozen ways. Rule number one was this. In the event of a catastrophe, you contain. Even though that means people inside the event may die, you protect those outside, and outside the plant, first. You don't send first responders into the situation as a show of bravery, only to have more victims. Yet we seem determined to do just that.
So no, we don't run in fear. We admit that this is not something we can easily control and start trying to contain.
Now I know that in your rabid world that seems like cowardice. You would rather send wave after wave of health care workers and troops into a situation which they haven't trained for, and have no idea of how to respond. You, like many who have no idea of what this is, think that if enough PR and man power is thrown at it, it will all go away.
If you talk to the people who wear the suits and work this this thing. They say the opposite. They have little hope that some sort of magical thinking by our political betters can make a cure. There is no cure. There is no vaccine. If this goes pandemic (and it is following the statistics that it will), you and all of your fellow madmen will demand someone save them.
So sir, I suggest you honestly get some help. I suggest if you are so dang determined to have people go into this, you go yourself. Show your own bravery. Show us how it is done. By for God's sake stop trying to spread this virus by cheer leading your fellow mad men.