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I agree with your idea of lets chill a moment and take a step back.

Having said that, what is the purpose of bring a third known Ebola case back to the US?

There is NO experimental drug available for immediate use. We used the last available dosages on the second doctor weeks ago. According to an article in The Telegraph (UK), also posted on Free Republic, ZMapp might not be available in limited quantities, “more than a few hundred treatment courses” until the Spring of 2015. That’s SEVEN MONTHS from today. What is the life expectancy of a confirmed Ebola patient?

My bottom line - returning this infected person to the US will do nothing for him. He is trading in a hospital bed in Monrovia for one in the US. While that, alone, is a significant improvement it means nothing in the near term future. It will, however, expose uninfected people in the US to Ebola thus creating potential infection chains that could (will actually) spread Ebola.

So why?

Upon review I think I now know why. Actually there will be 3,000, or more, whys. If you don’t establish in the minds of the American public that you can safely return infected people from Ebola “hot spots” opposition to the deployment of 3,000 American troops to help “fight” Ebola becomes based on medical facts not political theory.

Any troops deployed to help “fight” Ebola can not be safely returned to the CONUS until sometime late next summer. Any one who is infected by Ebola prior to June 2015 has effectively received a death sentence. “People lied and American soldiers died.” - sound familiar to anyone?

I don’t disagree with some of your hypothesis, but I do believe that being in a US hospital, even without ZMapp, with the ability to constantly monitor and provide supportive care (even IV fluids and replenishing lost nutrients) gives him a much better chance of survival.

That said, if US hospitals ever become overwhelmed in an outbreak, their supportive care ability would be substantially reduced.

If he is American then he would naturally come to America to be treated, like all the other Americans have been.

Why do you think that an American soldier must die if he gets infected? What is the death rate so far for Americans treated in America?

Any troops deployed to help “fight” Ebola can not be safely returned to the CONUS until sometime late next summer. Any one who is infected by Ebola prior to June 2015 has effectively received a death sentence.

Nonsense.

My bottom line - returning this infected person to the US will do nothing for him. He is trading in a hospital bed in Monrovia for one in the US.

Nonsense.