Norm, I hope you understand that I am in no way trying to minimize the danger to our troops or the seriousness of this outbreak. It is, at least, some comfort to know that none of the family members who lived in the same apartment with Duncan (the American index patient) contracted the virus.
I don’t think it is practical to wear a full ebola suit while building a hospital away from infected patients. I would hope, at least, that there were contingencies in place for a worst case scenario.
It isn’t practical. But they will die horribly if they don’t. Where they will be is ground zero. Their chances of infection are massively high. It is murder to send them into that unprotected.