Posted on 04/13/2020 6:39:55 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
People in Guam are used to a constant U.S. military presence on the strategic Pacific island, but some are nervous as hundreds of sailors from a coronavirus-stricken Navy aircraft carrier flood into hotels for quarantine. Officials insist they have enforced strict safety measures.
An outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt began in late March and has thrust the Navy into a leadership crisis after the ship’s commander distributed a letter urging faster action to protect his sailors. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly fired Capt. Brett E. Crozier and then assailed him during a speech on the ship in Guam, saying Crozier was either “too naive or too stupid” to be in charge of an aircraft carrier. Modly resigned Tuesday after facing blowback and after publicly apologizing for his comments about Crozier.
The carrier has been docked in the U.S. territory for more than a week as the 4,865-person crew is tested for the virus and moved ashore. More than 580 sailors have been confirmed infected. One was hospitalized Thursday in intensive care, said Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
More than 1,700 sailors who have tested negative are isolating in hotels, while the sick remain on base, Navy officials said.
“Our people are getting slapped in the face,” said Hope Cristobal, who worries officials are making promises about safety they won’t keep.
She lives less than a quarter-mile from hotels in Tumon, Guam’s version of Hawaii’s popular Waikiki neighborhood, saying, “We don’t know exactly where they’re being housed.”
Mary Rhodes, president of the Guam Hotel and Restaurant Association, declined to identify the hotels but said as many as 10 have been set aside to house up to 4,000 sailors. Seven of them had already stopped taking reservations and seen a dramatic drop in visitors as
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We are so stupid. Hey, China I our biggest threat, why not send ALL our necessary for survival manufacturing to China?
Trump should impose a 100% tariff on any U.S. based manufacturer that wants to ship things back to the U.S.
I thought maybe Guam had tipped over by now.
“We are so stupid.”
Not stupid, just corrupt, bought off, bribed, treasonous.
But ASAP, we need to boycott and quarantine the rogue ChiComs.
Modly bungled this bigtime.
Vietnamese officials deliberately infected the ship’s crew?
My guess is if they were infected during liberty in Vietnam, the likelihood is the country has a bigger coronavirus problem than the Vietnamese government is letting on.
How would it benefit the VNs? This was a ChiCom covert intel op, and a relatively simple one to pull off.
People think I’m crazy for recommending that we nuke the Chicoms. I think it’s the only way to be sure.
Actually, I’m getting the impression that maybe the Vietnamese government doesn’t even know how bad the problem is, and they’re scrambling to find out, in the wake of the revelation that the carrier has hundreds of infected.
[How would it benefit the VNs? This was a ChiCom covert intel op, and a relatively simple one to pull off.]
Pass out the Malaria Cocktail and use it as a test.
I wonder what is in the water on Chinese ships, military bases and cities that are not affected by the CCP flu?
btt
Probably both, and also via the vendors who would have brought fresh food to the ship.
An operation like this one, during a scheduled port visit, would merit a multi-prong attack to ensure success. Infected whores and bar girls, infecting some of the Vietnamese officers in the photo a week prior to the visit (unknowingly), even sending provisions smeared with Covid-19 out to the ship.
Taking a CVN out of operation in the Western Pacific is, to the Chinese, knocking their enemy’s queen off the chessboard in one move.
The US Navy had better up its game. The CCP is not playing softball. This was SO SO predictable!
One of the sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt died in Guam Monday, from COVID-19.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/04/13/sailor-carrier-theodore-roosevelt-dies-covid-19.html
But they kept allowing flights out of Wuhan to the rest of the world.
This was not happenstance, it was part of a biological warfare attack, calibrated to remain below a Pearl Harbor or 9-11 threshhold that would invite immediate massive retaliation.
But look at the results, including at least one CVN no longer mission-capable.
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