[LeoWindhorse]

PLZ FREEP THIS PETITION

[Dilbert San Diego]

While I can understand a humanitarian impulse to help deal with this outbreak, its hard to figure how Obama decides the military should do the job.

[blackdog]

“Boots in the petri dish”

[Cementjungle]

I actually have mixed feelings about this.

We (the USA) should be doing something to insure that Ebola doesn't make it to our shores. We should be offering some sort of help to keep it contained where it is.

Since I don't know exactly what the troops are supposed to be doing over there, it's hard for me to criticize just yet. On the other hand, if anyone can screw up a situation, it's Obama.

[Personal Responsibility]

Of course they want to deploy troops to Ebola affected areas.

How else do you think they’ll get Ebola into the US?

[WayneS]

Please raise your hand if you think anyone in the white house gives a rat’s a$$ what we think about anything.

[Sacajaweau]

Send the Red Cross....

You know what this is about...using them for guinea pigs for these vaccines they're coming up with.

[Dallas59]

Doctors not BOOTS.

[LeoMcNeil]

Half a million people die every year in Africa of malaria. No one seems to care about that. However when a couple thousand people die of ebola, suddenly we’re sending troops and other humanitarian aid.

I understand wanting to do something to help. However, charity is the job of Christian missionaries and other private citizens. If the government is going to spend $1 billion it would be arguably better spent on studying ebola and coming up with either a vaccine or cure.

[plain talk]

It is independent of Ebola. The military fire bullets and break things. They are not a world health organization. This is way outside their scope and another Obama tactic to wussify the military.

[DannyTN]

If we don't stop Ebola in Africa now, we will be dealing with it in the U.S. and the cost will be astronomical.

There are things they can do.

• If they go in to set up medical facilities, they should be able to do that in isolation without coming in contact with many Africans.
• Delivering supplies. They wouldn't even have to go into a clinic or even near one. They just need to get the supplies to the vicinity and let the health care workers pick them up and take them into the treatment centers.
• Help enforce quarantines. As long as they shoot people trying to cross quarntine lines at a distance and are wearing protective gear to protect against any blood spray in the air. Then the greatest risk is disposing of the bodies. Mass grave and a bulldozer should limit the risk.

[BuffaloJack]

The only thing I could possibly come up with for a military reason to have troops in an Ebola area is to ensure that the thermal sterilization of the infected area and all of the hosts is carried out completely and properly. I certainly hope that these troops all get issued flame throwers.

[familyop]

Can mankind stop the wind? Mankind cannot stop Ebola.

[exit82]

www.house.gov

www.senate.gov

Call your reps and tell them not to fund this ridiculous adventure.

This is no job for the military—this is insanity.

If the social structure breaks down in Liberia, are they supposed to gun down the rioters?

The Army does not have enough personnel properly trained to be in a “hot” zone.

The negatives far outweigh the positives.

[3Fingas]

Maybe I am a bad person for saying it aloud, but isn’t this a possible way to bring this disease back to the U.S. It certainly is a risk.

[familyop]

Over 2 billion deaths by about this time next year.

Vanity - Ebola model projects future case based on Daily Transmission Rate
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3204322/posts

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

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

[NEMDF]

You have to think that there is an evil ulterior motive here, or 0bama would want to just send money.

[353FMG]

US Troops fighting an unseen enemy that is no direct threat to the homeland. That’s not what they were trained to do. Sticking our noses in other countries’ business again.

Why doesn’t he volunteer himself, Michelle and daughters if he is so concerned about West Africa?

They have more racial affinity to that continent.

[Gay State Conservative]

Doesn't sound like a good idea at all.Yes,ebola is bad...and likely to get worse.Yes,the West (including the US) can play an important role in fighting it.That role might involve sending in medical experts (VOLUNTEERS!) as well as funding local/regional authorities in their efforts to fight it.But sending US troops? No upside....breathtakingly huge downside.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...