Fort Campbell Troops On Ebola Mission to West Africa Won’t Get Full Protective Gear

Nashville Public Radio ^ | 10/20/2014 | Blake Farmer

[ansel12]

Why would they be wearing the gear you wear when treating patients?

[piytar]

I am starting to believe we are sending military men and women to Africa in order to get them sick with ebola and bring more of it back here.

More specifically, to infect and thereby degrade the U.S. military...

[Daffynition]

Parents will be buying them for their soldiers, like they had to buy flack jacs.

[EEGator]

I have not heard of that, though you might be correct. I’ll look into it.

[TurboZamboni]

Bush and/or the government shutdown.

[pfflier]

After that they follow orders.

Lawful orders...

[Zenjitsuman]

We all know the troops risks, but I want to know what their mission is. They are not qualified doctors or nurses, they are soldiers.

[pfflier]

Totally inappropriate use of military, in a no win situation with questionable national interest and no exit strategy. Other than that, a great idea.

[momincombatboots]

Luke 11:46! Should be the theme for midterms. A rooftop in Benghazi.. An Ebola endemic zone. I guess they will golf and watch soldiers rot from the inside out.

[Eagles6]

Yeah. Considering that pRESIDENT Ebola probably isn't Constitutionally qualified for the office and if he is he is still a traitor and a criminal, his orders are not lawful.

Too bad many of the real Constitution loving, Christian officers have been purged, the ones that would tell him HELL NO!

[TurboZamboni]

Guinea pig soldiers decades later

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/02/health/gallery-army-test-subjects-before-after/index.html

not that our government would ever use our soldiers as unknowing test subjects...

[null and void]

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...

[caligatrux]

Considering that the guy the President appointed to be the ebola czar has identified “overpopulation” as the biggest threat to the world right now, I’m pretty damn sure this is about spreading ebola, not containing it.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

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

[GOPJ]

Maybe the CDC could go over with them and show them they have nothing to fear... we’ll give the CDC guys a bottle of hand sanitizer...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Smokin' Joe]

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!