Posted on 04/16/2020 6:06:55 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
Marine Corps Cpl. Devan K. Gowans
Former Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said the US fleet is facing an "acute problem" with the coronavirus pandemic and suggested it needed to make drastic measures.
"People do not have any way to social distance on any Navy ship, but particularly a carrier," Mabus said. "You've got almost 5,000 people here. And they literally are on top of each other."
"I think what they need to do is bring every ship in," Maybus said. "... Offload most of the crew ... leave a very skeletal force on board, sanitize the ship, quarantine people for two weeks, make sure nobody's got COVID."
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talking out his hat.
WOW...I don’t know what to think...
Mabus is Obutthead toady. Whatever he says do the opposite. He nearly singlehandedly ruined the Navy command structure with other political toadies.
Put the military on prophylactic hydroxychloroquine...call it a trial study
Most of the British army was on tonic ( quinine) for over a century
ANY appointee of The Greatest Fraud Ever is not to be listened-to. What an oaf.
[[[Put the military on prophylactic hydroxychloroquine...call it a trial study]]]
+1
I’m not sure when, but America needs to come to grips that we’ve been attacked (intentionally or inadvertently) by a weapons grade virus created in a lab in Wuhan, China. This isn’t the flu.
Now this is a tough one. I completely agree that a ship is extremely vulnerable. I don’t think you can “bring them all in”.
I’m glad I don’t have to make this call. It will be interesting to see how it is handled.
Why would you bring in a ship that has been out for over two weeks and no one has it?
Better yet ... bring the ships in and dont send them out again.
Welcome to a nation that is governed to meet the idiotic and irrational whims of suburban Karens.
Who cares what some Corporal says? The Corporal also says there is a 3 foot long cockroach on display at Headquarters that was killed by the OOD during the Geiger Chow Hall remodel.
WTF?????
if this a war instigated by the Chinese then they have won. My God help this country.
Shut your mouth Ray!!
Ray Mabus is not the current SECNAV nor does he have any authority.
Surrendering....
i think “social distancing” is the most faggot sounding term since “emppowerment” and as silly as islamaphobia and mysogany or however you spell that silly word
Why does every new term have to sound so gay?
Exactly. If the ship is COVID-19 free, keep them at sea. No port calls until the social distancing period is over. It would for sure suck for the sailors, but they would remain disease free and the ship combat ready.
If the crew members are on top of each other on an aircraft carrier imagine being a crew member of a submarine or an aircraft.
Once upon a time, there was this cockroach.
Then one day, he awoke and was the Secretary of the Navy...
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