Posted on 10/31/2014 6:39:13 PM PDT by wtd
Italian governor calls for US servicemen to leave over Ebola virus
Call on US authorities to repatriate all those US military personnel who served in Liberia
After an Italian businessman ended up in court because of an unfortunate joke about the Ebola virus, it is worth pointing out that at least one Italian regional authority is most definitely not laughing about the disease.
Luca Zaia, governor of the northeastern Veneto region, this week called on US authorities to repatriate all those US military personnel who have served in Liberia rather than have them undergo quarantine on Italian soil.
Mr Zaia made his comments after 11 soldiers returned to the US base of Ederle in Vicenza this week after serving some weeks in Liberia, helping with the logistical preparations necessary to deal with the pandemic.
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It’s so good that those Sophisticated Democrats were able to re-set relations with America after that Incompetent Monkeyboy Chimpyface Crazy Cowboy Bush</sarc>
Soldier’s are infamous for carrying diseases from one country to another. Many an epidemic has been started because of this. The Spanish influenza outbreak of 1918, widely regarded as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history, is one such example. Mr. Zaia’s concerns are perfectly legitimate.
Active Duty ping.
Yeah everybody loves us now that we have Dear Leader.
Let me see. People think here that Samantha Powers is above the law and should not be quarantined. Is Samatha Powers going to go and try her luck in Italy too? I would like to see that.
At least let em go bowling and bikeriding
don’t blame Italy one iota.
What took the Italian government so long to protest the presence of quarantined US servicemen on their soil?
The US does not want them on their soils so they just dump them in Italy?
Obama’s arrogance is just incomprehensible. It is like doing a bowel movement on your neighbor’s doorstep.
In this case, it’s the regional state government that went into this hostile episode. The Italian federal government guys haven’t said much. I think the local Air-Traffic-Control mechanism alerted the regional folks that the plane was coming out of central Africa, and that got them into place. They will use it for political purposes to churn up votes in the regional elections.
What I find interesting is that anyone from DoD who goes into the ‘hot-zone’ is supposed to go into a three-week quarantine deal, as the Pentagon has directed. This general and his team weren’t going to play that game. We should also note, that the pilot, co-pilot and crew...should also be forced each time they go through the ‘hot-zone’ to return and spend three-weeks in some quarantine deal. Of course, this would wipe out the Air Force operational and available crew numbers in a short period of time.
IMHO — and it is only my opinion — our precious young men and women should not have been sent to fight Ebola in the first place.
And after their Ebola assignment was over, they should not have been sent to Italy.
I believe we owe an apology to Italy.
And an apology to our young men and women for sending them first to fight a virus and then sending them to an country where they are not wanted as they are quarantined.
For what it’s worth (and I admit is not worth much (-: ) I send my love and prayers to our young men and women in Italy and those still in Africa — and wherever they might be —on this cold winter’s night in flyover country.
Why didn’t we at least ask Italy? And if we did — what am I missing here?
How do troops fight a disease?
Are they providing protection for a group of doctors or preventing the migration of people?
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