In a conference call with reporters, HHS administrator Tom Bowman said potential evacuees would come from among passengers now quarantined at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., or Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. He said that under the quarantine arrangement at those bases, evacuees couldn’t remain on site once they tested positive for the virus.
Kane said the evacuees will be housed in a CDP dormitory “to protect health, and at the same time, keep hospital beds open for people who actually need them,” such as people with serious cases of the flu.
A good, informative article.
Passengers from coronavirus-quarantined ship to be housed at Anniston FEMA center
So, they're bringing them from bases in California and Texas because those infected can't remain at those bases. Hmmm. And they'll be quarantined at the FEMA facility in a dormitory, probably one of the dorms normally used by people who are constantly coming and going at the facility for various sorts of training.
The more I learn, the weirder it sounds.
think of what’s going on in SoKorea, we may need the space at Travis, March ARB, and Lackland for high risk dependents and I guess the base out in Alabama has some specialized containment buildings.
If we do start airlifting, the former McClellan AFB in Sacramento has a great flight line and 15-30 min by chopper to the best hospitals. There are still some barracks, O Club, headquarters buildings, unit buildings, massive hangers, etc., that could be repurposed. And its own water treatment plant (same as Mather). There’s also the BX, Commissary and gas station. I think the county has (part?) ownership now, but it’d hold thousands of people comfortably with room to jog. And I don’t think the veterans who shop the C would mind having to put shopping off for two or three weeks as long as they could still fill-up across the street.
Mather Field, decommissioned, has another great flight line used by FedX I think maybe UPS - it has (had?) a nice little golf course; not sure about the buildings. Some of the barracks were used for low-income at one point. And I think the former base housing has turned into real estate. It’s home to the Veteran’s hospital, tho. More on the fringe of east Sac whereas McClellan is just north of downtown. There’s the old Army Depot too, but that’s pretty much smack in the middle of the low income area (or was LI - been a while). Twenty-nine stumps down south is gi-normous, but the heat will move in by next month or so, whereas Sacramento won’t get real heat until early May.