WH: Army Ebola policy not needed for civilians

The Hill ^ | 28 Oct 14 | Justin Sink

[SkyPilot]

The Army's decision to quarantine soldiers returning from West Africa is related to logistical concerns, meaning that the same protocols would not be appropriate for civilian doctors traveling back to the United States from the region, the White House said Tuesday.

"The science would not back that up," press secretary Josh Earnest said. "In fact, implementing this military policy in a civilian context would only have the effect of hindering our Ebola response by dissuading civilian doctors and nurses from traveling to West Africa to stop the outbreak in its tracks."

On Monday, the Army announced that soldiers returning from West Africa would be held in Italy for three weeks before they would be allowed to travel to bases in the United States or other parts of the world.

That raised new questions about Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines also announced Monday, which suggest that "high risk" individuals who came into direct contact with the bodily fluids of an Ebola patient should isolate themselves in their homes and avoid public transit. But returning health officials who wore protective gear should only regularly monitor themselves for symptoms of the disease and could travel freely under the CDC guidelines.

That appeared to contrast sharply with the Army policies, which mandated the three-week quarantine, even for soldiers who do not come into contact with Ebola patients.

But Earnest intimated the decision was logistical, not based in differing opinions on the capacity of the disease to spread. The White House said it was possible to do a "personal risk assessment" of doctors returning back from West Africa because only a few dozen were entering the United States each week.

[SkyPilot]

The White House also rejected the idea that the unique military standards, combined with the patchwork of policies developed by state and local officials, was sowing confusion.

Unreal.

Just unreal.

The doctors and nurses who spent weeks in West Africa come back to the US, go bowling, go to restarurants, ride the subway in Manhattan, and go out to bars at night.

The nurse who hired a lawyer and was released from a quarantined tent, complete with showers and lavatory facilities, reportedly threw a "tantrum", and Obama pressured Cuomo and Christie to follow his lead.

The military is quarantined in Italy for weeks.

This administration should just put our military on chain gangs - that is how much they value them.

[Diogenesis]

”Your King has deemed Ebola as Vitamin E3
--- which will be mandatory for any city which does not already
have one dozen or more deaths by EV-68."

[Timber Rattler]

That makes no sense whatsoever.

[Mariner]

This is pretzel logic extended to extremes I have never before witnessed in my limited experience of 50+ years.

I've never seen any shit like this before.

Zap this post if you must, but I think the term is formally warranted.

[Vince Ferrer]

Per the Conservative Treehouse website, it is the European host countries that are imposing this on the US military. If it was entirely up to Obama, they would come home and go bowling, have sneezing contests, whatever.

[tophat9000]

beyond words...

and to use excuse “the science doesn't back it up”.

how is a soldier exposed to bola different than a doctor or nurse exposure to ebola?

oh that's right its logistical reasons the soldiers have to go into quarantine

And this logistical reason is different than any other deployments...how?

science is based on logic...and the logic or lack of logic in their arguments doesn't support their position in an rational way of thinking

[DuncanWaring]

Military members, who ostensibly had minimal or no contact with Ebola patients, must be quarantined.

Medical personnel, who actually deal with Ebola patients, need not be quarantined.

Somehow, that’s what I would expect from the regime.

[tophat9000]

Shit is way to small a word.... this is an Mount Everest size Bandini mountain of Bullshit... with a cluster fu-k topping

[kiryandil]

"The science would not back that up," press secretary Josh Earnest said.

When I want the opinion of Obamapunk's catamite Josh Earnest about "scientific matters", I'll beat it out of his lying mouth with a nail-studded baseball bat.

[kiryandil]

have sneezing contests

ROFLPIMP.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[melsec]

And I would pay good money to see you do it!

[melsec]

Wait until someone’s child dies because these irresponsible SOB’s havn’t enough in the way of testicles to issue legitimate risk management policies!

[TADSLOS]

“Halp US, Jon Kerry, we’re stuk in Obama’s Ebolaland.”

[Jet Jaguar]

LOL

[Ditto]

"In fact, implementing this military policy in a civilian context would only have the effect of hindering our Ebola response by dissuading civilian doctors and nurses from traveling to West Africa to stop the outbreak in its tracks."

The White House is a logic-free zone, as is the MSM for even tolerating this s*** coming out of their mouths.

The GIs who went to Liberia never interacted with people who had Ebolia. The Medical people who went there interacted with them daily.

The odds of a GI having contacted Ebola there are minuscule. The odds a health worker working with Ebola patients contacting the disease are orders of magnitude greater.

Yet,the military guys get quarantined, but they don't think it is necessary to quarantine people who actually came into close contact with Ebola infected people?

Even beyond that... these health workers, doctors and nurses, are willing to go there and risk their lives to help those poor people there, I say God bless them.

But if they are willing to risk their lives there what is the problem with spending 3 weeks in a comfortable isolation environment here when they return just to assure they don't spread that deadly infection to their own loved ones, let alone strangers?

Maybe I'm too damn logical, but that attitude makes no damn sense to me.

Politics is playing here somewhere, but I just don't understand it.

[morphing libertarian]

The hero of benghazi’s explanation today was unbelievable. His conclusion was contradicted by his explanation.

[kiryandil]

Our "leaders" are starkers. Or they're Sunni terrorists.

Or both...

[Flag_This]

This “policy” only makes sense if the intent is to spread obola in the U.S.

[b4its2late]

Idiocy to make it appear unintentional.