Posted on 09/28/2014 5:41:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On Saturday, a handful of troops from the Navy's 133rd Mobile Construction Battalion led a bulldozer through thigh-high grass outside Liberia's main airport, bottles of hand sanitizer dangling from their belt loops.
They had been digging a parking lot in the East African nation of Djibouti this month when they received a call to build the first of a dozen or more tent hospitals the U.S intends to construct in this region. The soldiers started by giving the land a downward slope for water runoff—"to keep out any unwanted reptiles," said Petty Officer Second Class Justin Holsinger.
While this team levels the earth, superiors hash out the still-uncertain details of the American intervention here.
The epidemic is showing signs of gaining speed—6,574 cases had been reported officially as of Sept. 23, with 3,091 deaths. Those fatalities are more than double the number of both a month ago. The actual number of cases is believed to be three or four times as high. Had no international aid come, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, the number of cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone might have soared to 1.4 million by mid-January.
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“battling ebola”
indeed
“battling the virus” - with hand sanitizer
ask the 375+ medical workers who have contracted ebola how hand sanitizer is working out for them
oh wait, 2/3 of them are dead
Ative Duty ping.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
I have a bad feeling that given the anarchy in Liberia, 3,000 is far.from enough, then there is the need to incinerate those killed and their treatment equipment to be sure that people don’t get infected by the corpse.
We will NEVER be told how many of our men catch this disease how many die from it. It will just be noted as a workplace accident or non-combat death.
I have to pray for forgiveness daily for my views on Obama.
The million + by the end of the year was on the evening news. obola just brought another patient to the US this afternoon. Diversity!
When the first servicemen contracts Ebola we should descend on the White House.
5,000 Patriots could end the BS.
The health officials have told us citizens that hand sanitizer becomes ineffective after about the first use. It takes real soap for minor bacterial germs and does nothing against the ebola VIRUS. hussein is using our troops are guinea pigs who will transport the virus back to the US to give to their families and eventually the rest of us. That’s an efficient way to destroy America. It’ll backfire on him when there’s an outbreak in D.C. with all those Africans he keeps inviting over.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzKycnighIE
Health/life BUMP!
We will never be told.
“They had been digging a parking lot in the East African nation of Djibouti this month “
Who the hell ordered that?
parking lot or mass grave?
He underestimates everything.
Heh!
Thought you were going to post this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ccYgm6ot3E (was in a choir years ago where we sang this)
Sweet sentiment — but not good for America.
Somehow, the juxtaposition of “Bulldozers” and “Ebola” in the same paragraph makes my flesh crawl.
Easily convert from one to the other.
And this is how zombie scenarios start out.
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