Posted on 10/17/2014 3:53:20 PM PDT by Mariner
As Americans grow increasingly concerned about Ebola both here and around the world, I’ve been speaking with respected doctors who have spent most of their lives working for our government.
The concern they have about the Ebola threat to the American people is very real.
They have spent their lives making sure America has the right systems and technologies in place to prevent potentially catastrophic medical events, such as hemorrhagic fevers.
These doctors are not alarmists; they are patriots who have dedicated most of their lives to making sure that our nation was adequately prepared for an event such as this.
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1. To restore the confidence of the people
2. An explicit acknowledgement that the White Hut and it's cronies have totally screwed this up and are on the verge of allowing a US Ebola Epidemic.
I have to admit, I would trust a Military Surgeon General over ANY member of this administration or democrat party.
A completely stupid and cynical use of our military. But we all know that Obola HATES the military...even more than Clintoon.
We need to know that our military is competent, so far we have learned that no one in the civilian sector, from the government down to local hospitals has a clue, or seems to have ever had any interest in this stuff, or to have taken it seriously.
Contrary to what so many here seem to think, the military has always been deeply involved in this kind of thing and being able to survive and operate in the face of not only infectious disease, but even weaponized bio agents and carefully planned and delivered threats.
Here's the rub.
What if the civilian bureaucracy is so corrupt and incompetent they can't get the job done?
I guess we're going to find out!
While in many cases defense budgets have been cut far too much, there is no good reason to risk our military, who are intended to defend the country from foreign aggression, in such a manner. No good reason at all.
I did a couple years training and some time in a pathology lab in my college days and I'd be scared spitless to have to trade on that to survive in the Hot Zone. It isn't a place for amateurs, however courageous. And it isn't a place for political posturing, either. If 0bama wants "optics" in the field he should suit up and go there himself.
It is time for the Military to take over more than medicine.
They are trained and equipped to handle contaminants where one drop will kill and do it safely for large numbers of people in bad conditions.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
By using our troops to fight Ebola, Obama is waging Biological warfare on our troops.
This is Bull_Feces.
He couldn’t get away with what he does without a complicit “conservative” Congress.
The 700 people from the 101st are going there as the headquarters element, just like all of the military, they will be doing the jobs that they are trained to do.
The 101st will supply 700 soldiers to what will be 3 to 4 thousand, they are half of the first 1400, (the other 700 being mostly engineers).
“About 300 of the troops from the 101st Airborne will come from the division headquarters, and they will serve as the Joint Force Command for the mission.”
“A 101st Airborne press release issued Tuesday evening stated the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Headquarters, Fort Campbell, will deploy as the Joint Force Command for Operation United Assistance in Monrovia, Liberia.
“Operation United Assistance is a critical mission,” said Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky, commander of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). “We will coordinate all of the Department of Defense resources in Liberia to support USAID and the government of Liberia to contain the Ebola virus and ultimately save lives.”
You said Survive and operate...give an instance when the us military fought in a bio battle
This is what I posted, “”the military has always been deeply involved in this kind of thing and being able to survive and operate in the face of not only infectious disease, but even weaponized bio agents and carefully planned and delivered threats.
Being able to survive and operate in the face of infectious disease and bio threats is an ongoing concern for the military, they even have field manuals on such things.
Historically, the military has always lost more people to infections than to enemy action. Hence, the military has always been on the forefront of the fight against infectious diseases.
The hospital in Bethesda, Walter Reed, was named after an Army physician who determined that yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes, and instituted mosquito-control measures to protect soldiers from infections.
Maybe we will have a mutiny.
Then, a military coup with Nuremberg trials for 0bama and the neo-fascists.
They(congress) have not thought this through. The death toll among healthcare workers is approaching 300 in the west African outbreak. The historic fatality rate back to 1976 for all outbreaks until this current one is 67%. It is inevitable that if our troops begin direct one on one care there will be infections and deaths among our troops.
Our troops should not be sent and congress meeds to intervene.
The training they are getting in Africa is so they can perform the same mission here.
Congress think something through....
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