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Did you also believe Nagin when he said there were 10,000 dead in NO?

If he told me it was raining I'd look out the window. : )

..if you lived in a community were no one was ill, but the one next to you had a raging epidemic killing hundreds a day, wouldn't you want the military to keep them from coming into your healthy community and possibly making your family sick like them, and making the disease even more widespread?

I would accept the National Guard performing that duty, that is after all their core mission. If they are too "busy" elsewhere, then 'elsewhere' becomes a second priority and the guard is to be brought home.

Sending the "home guard" overseas, then using mercenaries, foreign troops (both of which happened in NO) and altering Posse Comitatus is the worst plan I can think of.

As bad as a pandemic could be, the proposed solution is worse. Military used at home is something free countries simply don't do. It's a defining characteristic of oppression.

There were plenty of NG at home, the problem was the Freakin governor never utilized her resources, so don't bother going with that crap that they were busy oversea's, because there is ZERO truth to that.

And they weren't using mercenaries, and foreign troops for any reason to do with shortage of manpower, they volunteered to come help. Turns out they didn't have much to do, and went home, because the ARMY came and put some order back in the place, which the local government FAILED to be able to do.

If he told me it was raining I'd look out the window. : )

You and me both. :-)

I don't see our military as a possible threat in a time of a medical catastrophe. I see them as possible angels in green uniforms helping their fellow citizens.