Posted on 10/20/2014 1:27:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Troops from the 101st Airborne Division leading the military response to Ebola in West Africa will only need gloves and masks to protect themselves from the deadly virus, so said Gen. David Rodriguez at a Pentagon briefing Wednesday.
“They don’t need the whole suit – as such – because they’re not going to be in contact with any of the people,” the commander of U.S. troops in Africa said.
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne will primarily be building hospitals, ultimately leading what could be a contingent of 4,000 American service members. They’ll be housed either in tent cities at military airfields or in Liberian Ministry of Defense facilities, Rodriguez said.
Soldiers’ health will be monitored through surveys and taking their temperature on their way in and out of camps. If a service member does get sick, Rodriguez said they will be flown home immediately for treatment.
Next week, the 101st Airborne will hold a traditional pre-deployment ceremony, known as a “color casing”, before departing for Liberia, though a handful of soldiers are already on the ground.
Why would they be wearing the gear you wear when treating patients?
More specifically, to infect and thereby degrade the U.S. military...
Parents will be buying them for their soldiers, like they had to buy flack jacs.
I have not heard of that, though you might be correct. I’ll look into it.
Bush and/or the government shutdown.
Lawful orders...
We all know the troops risks, but I want to know what their mission is. They are not qualified doctors or nurses, they are soldiers.
Totally inappropriate use of military, in a no win situation with questionable national interest and no exit strategy. Other than that, a great idea.
Luke 11:46! Should be the theme for midterms. A rooftop in Benghazi.. An Ebola endemic zone. I guess they will golf and watch soldiers rot from the inside out.
Too bad many of the real Constitution loving, Christian officers have been purged, the ones that would tell him HELL NO!
Guinea pig soldiers decades later
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/02/health/gallery-army-test-subjects-before-after/index.html
not that our government would ever use our soldiers as unknowing test subjects...
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Considering that the guy the President appointed to be the ebola czar has identified “overpopulation” as the biggest threat to the world right now, I’m pretty damn sure this is about spreading ebola, not containing it.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Maybe the CDC could go over with them and show them they have nothing to fear... we’ll give the CDC guys a bottle of hand sanitizer...
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