Posted on 09/07/2014 11:21:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
U.S. President Barack Obama says the U.S. military would help in the fight against the Ebola virus in West Africa, which has killed more than 2,000 people.
Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Obama said U.S. military assets were needed to set up isolation units and equipment, and provide security for international health workers. He said he believed the United States needed to make dealing with the Ebola outbreak a national security priority.
He warned that it would still take months to control the epidemic and said that if efforts were not made now the outbreak could spread across Africa and around the world.
Meanwhile, authorities in Sierra Leone are ordering people to stay at home for three days this month as part of an effort to stop the spread of the Ebola virus, which has killed more than 2,000 people in West Africa.
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Exactly my first thought. He never touches the military without meaning to harm it in some way.
WHAT?!? How about putting the US military on the border to stop it and every other disease ridden vermin from coming over.
Wanna bet their deployment will be very short so they can potentially bring it back home quicker?
They were surrounding the Kearny Mesa Convair plant in the 80's demanding that we quit making Tomahawks and start making school busses.
Useless idiots.
“Anyone seen the Navy commercial ?” You mean the one that talks about the U.S. Navy being a “global force for good” and fighting injustice around the world? They make me want to throw up.
I would prefer an ad that goes something like this: “We’re the United States Navy and if you threaten our country, we’ll nuke your ass so fast, you won’t know what hit you.”
Again showing his complete lack of understanding and abject contempt for our military.
Yeah, US soldiers in MOPP4 gear, decontaminating Liberians. That’ll work...
This foul commie is hell bent to getting us all killled.
Beyond stupid.
The US military providing air transport of masks, gloves and protective suits for medical staff in the affected areas would help a lot. Civilian air transport is refusing to fly any cargoes into Liberia, etc.
The military, primarily the U.S.Army is involved, and always is with Ebola, but we don’t need to be sending line troops in to be exposed.
“Army Colonel James Cummings, a doctor and director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, said the battle against the virus since the outbreak began in West Africa in March focuses on trying to stop disease transmission.
“We had a large footprint in Africa,” Cummings said of the Defense Department’s response to the first Ebola cases reported in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. Since that time, the Defense Department has answered numerous calls for assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO), nongovernmental organizations and ministries of heath and defense, he said.”
This is a very bad idea.
I think he is on the right track just the wrong choice. He needs to send the Surgeon General and his army of CDC, NIH, USPHS, etc. personnel to Africa. As the Surgeon General, Boris should be in the first landing craft and lead the way. I hate to think as Surgeon General he would sit at home cringing in the face of an opportunity to excel!
Retiring just in time.
T-23 days.
Sure NASA is heling the muzzies feel good why not. And besides here is the best way of allowing the ebloa virus to infect our military leaving us ttaly defenceless
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
AFAIK, they aren't saying much. Will gladly be directed to more info.
Goodbye, USA...
That wouldn’t surprise me.
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